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Their music makes me violent…ly ill.
“…Promoting guns in fashion could lead to gun violence ”
Sure. And promoting eating utensils in fashion could lead to obesity.
And promoting algebra in fashion could lead to advanced math degrees.
And promoting telescopes in fashion could lead to more astronomers.
These always crack me up. I can’t wait for the day a gun tattoo spurns a swat team invasion of a mall when a saggy pants wearing homie shows off his ink.
If you are going to do it, at least do it right. 5:30 with a proper cant for me.
Is that a Colt .45 Peacemaker? Nice! I’m going to get a tat of a Mac 10 with a supressor. That could look really bad ass on the Beach in Hampton, NH next summer. Or maybe a 1911, or a hand granade, or maybe a Stinger missile. Maybe a mash-up of all the real guns I can’t afford. Either way, ink is just that. Body art is NOT a real gun and to suggest otherwise is just stupid.
And why in the world are you bridging the receiver and handguard with those cheap rings? A quality quick release mount should be used only on the receiver so that a BUIS can be used. This is AR Building 101.
That’s going to look awesome in 40 years, perched between a beer gut and a love handle.
“It is a shame that anyone would think it makes you look cool if you get a gun tattoo. Promoting guns in fashion could lead to gun violence…”
What’s really impressive is that this dude managed to come up with a sentence I agree with, followed by one I disagree completely with.
As far as the singer goes, it’s his body. I don’t care what he does with or to it.
Time for a POLL REVOLT!
Refuse to participate in any poll (except the most important one on election day), rendering their already fatally flawed work even more useless.
The arrogance and attitude of this man is appalling. He thinks he is so courageous for limiting people’s Constitutional rights and insuring the government has a monopoly on violence to control the citizenry. I weep for Connecticut.
I will buy into that theory when 14 year old white girls start killing people in the inner city of Chicago.
I think Beavis & Butthead said it best, “What a Dumba$$, huh huh, huh huh.”
Tattoos of butts with tattoos of butts tattooed on them.
Ever notice how angry girlfriends and spouses seem to have a corrosive effect on gun owners?
A resentful woman will do everything she can do hurt the object of her resentment after a certain point.
Be careful who you shack up with gentlemen. Shit, be careful who you even go on a date with.
All your partner has to do is make something up that is remotely believable and you are screwed, potentially for life.
Great article and good luck to the author in his career. More thanks to the commenters on what works as thats the practical and useful gun truth I come here for too. I expect there are others from the ranks of former non-gun owners some of whom did not grow up with guns and now are at a place in life where they are reconsidering what they learned in school or heard from liberal friends and realize that is no longer “true”. So tyanks Nick for being both a good example as a shooter and sharing this space with this new instructor.
Who needs a tat when you got the real thing?
I’ll just tuck my S&W Governor in my pants.
ps Nick thru training w ipda instructor and navy seal trainer and some reading have settled on same holsters. the thigh rig is handy because it gets the holster out of the way of backpack hip pads but starts to rub leg sore after a couple miles. For longer hike where slower access Id rather stow in a pck pocket but that becomes a concealed carry violation. CA laws…
Interesting question: Has Zayn Malik ever even fired a gun? Maybe if he’s lucky he got to take some pheasants with an over-under once? I doubt even that.
I don’t mind his tattoo even if he is a poseur… The real problem that liberals have with this is that One Direction is a boy band with a 100% female audience. They don’t want young girls to think that firearms are “sexy” by associating them with their ideal fantasy boy toys.
Looks like my procrastination has been rewarded. Potentially…
And kudos to the winner of the first gun!
Great story… congrats on the win!
It never even occurred to me that he might still be alive. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, so said Ben Franklin, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Love or hate the man or his machine, how many of us can match the mission accomplished as Kalashnikov can?
It’s called “negligent discharge” for a reason – it is HUMAN negligence, not weapon malfunction that causes all of these “the gun just went off” events. A fool & his money!
We have turned into a nation of whiners!
I think this is a great idea. Everyone I know with a hammer fired pistol puts their thumb on the hammer when they reholster. There are huge amounts of stories of people shooting themselves in the leg when they reholster and the story always includes a striker fired gun. I wouldn’t use it while drawing though.
I actually like the concept, even if the execution is a little bit ugly. I don’t think the trigger finger is the be-all-end-all when it comes to AD/NDs in Glock/S&W/XD/Etc. type trigger systems.
It is not impossible for a foreign object, other than the index finger, to protrude into the trigger guard or depress the trigger when operating such firearms outside the sterile confines of a gun range. I myself have felt like something just wasn’t quite right when re-holstering a similar firearm, only to look down and see something foreign beginning to make it’s way into the trigger guard, e.g. a peice of my cover garment, etc. Gladly I noticed something was not right and reversed and restarted the process rather than forcing the firearm into the holster, but I can see how under stress or hurry such an occurrence could result in a discharge. I have even seen some accounts of worn out leather holsters getting floppy and having a tab of leather eventually protrude into the trigger guard causing a discharge upon re-holstering .
To mitigate the risk of that ever happening to me, I make sure I always actively concentrate on actually watching (with my eyes) my firearm go into the holster so that I am absolutely sure nothing is pressing the trigger as it is going into the holster. However, I know that I can’t control every variable in every possible situation, so I now favor a firearm with some type of active safety (e.g. Ruger SR9 series, which have a safety that is easy to reach and low profile enough to keep from accidentally disengaging like S&W M&P series safeties tend to do), or some additional passive safety like the long DA first trigger pull on Sig and Beretta pistols. That’s not to say that a safety like the Sure-Draw wouldn’t be better, in fact it might actually be, but I just haven’t ever used such a safety system.
But I know it would give me extra piece of mind knowing I could block the firearm from firing during the holstering process without compromising trigger consistency or having to worry about actually deactivating a safety after the draw in a defensive situation. I just hope that subsequent generations of this and similar devices are more stream lined and less obtrusive, as well as perhaps more ergonomic.
One thing is for sure in my mind, the idea of using that kind of safety on the draw is completely out. I’ll let someone else try and refine that technique.
The name is ridiculously misleading. This is used when holstering, not on the draw or any other time.
Would there be more of this stripe in the class room. Most do not teach critical thinking like this if at all.
Really interesting read. The kids are lucky to have you. I don’t remember how my teachers approached the topic of gun ownership. Of course, back then it wasn’t the hot potato it is now. Plus, I don’t remember a lot about my schooling for various reasons.
This cement my decision to enrol in a teaching program ( good on you for figuring out your career early)
Make ’em paint all the mannequins bright colors – like Airsoft guns.
Very bizarre set of photos, check out the ones from the house. I don’t know what to think of these, they raise more questions than they answer.
America needs answers from the boy’s father and brother. People who knew Adam. Why are these people silent? Why these photos and not something that can clearly show bullet impacts other than a broken window?