Notice there’s one option missing here . . . How active shooters are changing school security in the US
Through training programs like ALICE — Alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate — Rounds and other teachers are learning how to barricade doors with desks and chairs, run away from gunfire and throw everything from pencils to staplers at a potential shooter.
“It’s not really defense techniques, it’s not martial arts of any kind. It basically just gives them options,” Jeffrey Fritz, the Indiana school’s superintendent told CNN affiliate WTHI.
“You might alert, you might lock down, you might try to escape, it just depends on the situation,” he added.
It’s almost as if New York’s SAFE Act isn’t working at all . . . The Latest: Bystander drove car into gunman during shooting
Police say the man who fired multiple rounds at a store near Buffalo had hundreds of bullets and a second rifle in his vehicle.
Police in the town of (cheek-tuh-WAH’-guh), New York, say 29-year-old Travis Green used a pump-action AR-15-style rifle to shoot out the glass door and windows at a Dollar General store Tuesday afternoon.
Police say they found 850 rounds and what appears to be a semi-automatic rifle with ammunition magazines in his car.
How exactly are these racist? . . . ‘Racist’ gun range billboards in South Jersey should come down, activists say. The range’s owner disagrees.
A gun range in Camden County is resisting calls to take down two billboards that activists say aggravate racial tensions and mock NFL players who take a knee during the national anthem.
“It has absolutely nothing to do with race,” said Wesley Aducat, owner of the South Jersey Shooting Club in Winslow Township, which put up one of the billboards several weeks ago near Route 73 in Voorhees Township. The second appears on a digital sign near Routes 73 and 130 in Pennsauken. “It’s just support for our veterans.”
The signs say: “The only time we take a knee…” and show the silhouette of a person shooting a rifle, with the website of the club at the bottom.
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Cops typically aren’t gun guys; example No. 5,873 . . . Chicago PD Offers Its Nominee For Most Gun Ignorant Post Ever
People expect the police to understand firearms. After all, they use firearms on a regular basis, right? They carry them on their hips every day and usually have access to something larger in their vehicles. They should know guns.
The reality, however, is that many police officers have little interest in guns. They carry them and, if they’re diligent, practice with them. However, many just don’t know a whole lot about firearms.
For example, take this post from the Chicago Police Department where they brag about taking a deadly weapon off the street . . .
It’s almost as if even the most stringent gun control laws don’t work at all on criminals or crazies . . . The Tehama County shootings: Why did this guy have guns?
So what about that California law banning certain weapons from certain people who’ve had run-ins with authorities?
It’s called APPS for short, or the Armed and Prohibited Persons System, and it’s designed to allow California law-enforcement officials to automatically track firearm owners and proactively disarm convicted criminals, people with certain mental illnesses, and others deemed dangerous.
But as my colleague Robert Salonga and I wrote recently in this newspaper, APPS is far from a perfect remedy to get crazy people to give up their guns.
Out-Front AR-15: New SAINT Edge from Springfield Armory
The latest, just-released SAINT Edge carries an armload of proprietary features that make it the most advanced SAINT yet: lightweight, with a slick billet machined lower receiver with Accu-tite™ tension system, patent-pending full-length free float handguard, modular trigger system, unique mid-sized charging handle – even the new SA-Lite™ muzzle brake is a special Springfield Armory design. …
The lower receiver is machined, rather than forged, from aircraft grade 7075 T6 billet aluminum. It is equipped with Springfield Armory’s proprietary adjustable Accu-Tite™ tension system, designed to eliminate receiver play, and features two QD mounting points. The flat-top, optics-ready upper receiver is Type lll hard-coat anodized 7075 T6 aluminum, with forward assist and M4 feed ramps. The MPT enhanced M16 bolt carrier group is finished with super-hard Melonite® and carries a premium 9310 steel bolt, superior to Mil-Spec. The charging handle is Springfield Armory’s exclusive mid-size design for effortless operation.
Your feel-good story of the day . . . Armed Louisville homeowner holds off suspect with gun and 150-pound Great Dane named ‘Tank’
The sign at Derek Thomas’ house says, “Nevermind the dog. Beware of the owner.” It shows a gun. But that didn’t keep the stranger away from Thomas’ driveway Saturday night.
“Yeah, he was up to no good, definitely,” Thomas said.
That night, Thomas was locking up after watching a late-night football game, when he noticed a shadow lurking outside his home on Pendleton Road.
“I saw him come from here,” Thomas said, pointing to where he said the shadow was standing by his truck. “He grabbed this door handle, and that door handle.”
Thomas’ wife and three children of ages 3, 7 and 9, were all asleep inside, so he went outside, barefoot.
“As I pulled my gun on him, I said, ‘What the hell are you doing in my truck? Get out of my truck!’ and he crawled back out and basically tried to crawl around the back,” Thomas said. “He did stand up, but when I shot the gun two times, he went back to the ground and stayed good.”
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Did I just read “pump action style AR-15”?!?!??
Same reaction here! How does the gas system work? 8>)
To be fair, there’s something going on with that rifle. Folding stock = no buffer system, so it’s probably a straight-pull deal.
It kind of reminds of the straight pull versions of the AR-15’s that are available in Britain.
Also, while I view those straight pull AR’s as hideous abominations I also kind of want one simply because they look neat. :-\
The pump AR is basically a manual piston gun, with the op rod/action bar in the usual place, and slots in the handguard to connect to a pump grip. They’re made for states that ban even one ‘feature’ now on semiauto rifles, like NY.
Fog horn what kind of accracy did you get from sign super target and what yardage
How does one clean the Traitorline™ off of the new Springfield SAINT Edge after unboxing?
Rmw still has the best .45 ar on the market.
“[NB: It’s the same logic that leads to the conclusion that external safeties are a bad idea for a combat gun. Hence the reason they don’t have them.]”
Methinks you know less than you think you do. All the combat firearms I’ve encountered have had an external safety: M16A3, M4A1, M9, M240B, M249, M2 Browning (a US Army modification to the original design), even the M203 and the AT4! Those are just the ones I’ve personally handled, and all but the AT4 I’ve personally fired (though only plastic shells for the M2 and dummy rounds for the M203).
Just a word from an old hand. Back in the mid-nineties, I worked full-time as an LEO for the state of Connecticut (barf). A state basically built on the back of the firearms and military weapons industry. The state government began turning their back on the firearms industry way back in the 80’s. Anyhow, there had been talk back then of banning so-called “assault weapons”, and the mere possession thereof. A statewide ban was instituted at a point, but it did not ban “mere possession”. I spoke with many of my brothers in the L.E. community at that time, both pro and con Second Amendment (yes, there are cops who are not pro 2nd), and the consensus was that none of us wanted to confiscate weapons from civilians, and all of us knew that the manpower was not in place to accomplish such a dastardly deed. I am not saying it could never happen, but total confiscation would probably not be practical or attainable. Didn’t they try that in California? I haven’t heard much about that for years. I do not think that effort was very successful. Don’t get me wrong, I am totally against anyone messing with any of our Second Amendment rights. I only offer this as an example of the prevailing attitude in the L.E. community at that time, in what has been an ultra-liberal state for many, many years now. By the way, I escaped that now financially insolvent liberal utopia many years ago due to many injuries incurred on that job, dealing with many of the liberal, law breaking, residents (among them many immigrants both legal and illegal) of that once fine state. The South has risen again!
Personally, I’d like to see these data, also – because I have a hunch that the data will demonstrate exactly how futile efforts to track/trace crime tools are in solving crime (much less, in actually preventing crime).
He’s dead and gone now but the ones in office are still on the lose and still just as dangerous, if not more, given their overall extending reach. Much more so than any bullet, knife or fist can travel.
Keep fighting and bickering among yourself and that keeps your focus off where the true problem lies.
” Either way the Democrats have a track record of clutching defeat out of the jaws of victory.”
I’m so glad someone brought this up because I was going nuts during that scene.
My favorite is always when an actor cocks back the hammer on a GLOCK.
So this is the “Fix the NICS” legislation that the NSSF has been pushing for a few years now. It is very much industry drafted legislation, Cornyn’s office, or any other office holder for that matter, didn’t write any of it. I remember talking about in at an NSSF meeting back in 2013, and this language appears to be an exact copy of that.
It doesn’t just make illegal activity more illegalerer, and it doesn’t just “do nothing”. The NICS legislation is vague, with language that includes things like “pertinent records” allowing states to decide what is pertinent. This legislation identifies specific and additional records each state has to submit to NICS, with a heavy emphasis on mental health records. That’s where much of the NICS falls apart. The legislation also provides grants to states in order to give them the funding to gather and input that data mental health and criminal record data into NICS, cause ain’t nothin for free.
“Senate Bill Strengthening Background Checks Moves Closer to Reality”
This make zero sense…the system works as designed…
Guns are ALWAYS going to be available on the black market, and anyone who wants a gun, legal or not, can get one…
Instead of polishing the NICS turd, get rid of it. Criminals don’t care anyways and decent folks shouldn’t be considered guilty until proven innocent.
I did contact my Senator and Congressman on behest of NRA, asking them to oppose any and all gun control bills. Unfortunately both Tammy Duckworth and Raja Krishnamoorthi (both D) anwered something like: “Thank you for your request, but in order to stop gunviolence epidemy I will keep pushing our commonsense nonsense. But don’t hesitate to contact me if you ever need anything.” Illinois sucks.
I only have 14, 12 rifles and 2 pistols. I would be considered “gun poor” if I lived in Texas.
Why Wasn’t The Brand/Power Of The Optic Used In This Review Ever Given Any Detail?
FINALLY, someone’s making a shoulder holster for those things. Better buy the XXXXXXXXL
It doesn’t matter, the Board has no power what so ever, just the illusion that it does. Just like the illusion that the NRA supports the 2nd Amendment…it does not. They only support the gun business.
Colion Noir. Done.
Getting a psychologist to say yes or no to someone’s competence to own a firearm is NOT the problem.
Politicizing mental health and Constitutional Rights is the problem.
Imagine needing to prove mental health to buy a firearm under, say, Obama:
You will very quickly find yourself labeled as “mentally sick”, because you want a gun so badly.
Especially if you didn’t vote for him.
Right now, in China, you can be diagnosed by the government with things like “political mania”, a symptom of which is a pressing desire to take part in the political process (voting)!
When the government decides your mental health, and the Rights this allows/forbids, you will very quickly see the government use B.S. illnesses to disarm and silence people.
That is why the “just taking a psych test” for a gun purchase must never be allowed.
Indoor ranges suck.
“These are weapons of war…”
Like bolt-actions used to be.
An interesting discussion is worth comment. I think that you need
to publish more on this subject matter, it may not be a taboo
matter but generally folks don’t discuss these topics.
To the next! Many thanks!!
To all the haters. You hate on SA and RRA, why not Walmart, Cabela’s, and so on. They all got the same carve out in the (thankfully failed) bill. Who got them added? Hate on all of them or STFU instead of being a hypocrite.
As for me, I will continue to buy SA’s excellent made firearms.
“First, gun control does save lives. In 2016, the Epidemiologic Review undertook a meta-analysis that looked at data from 130 gun control studies. It didn’t look at single kinds of restriction but at a variety of measures, including licensing and buyback programs. Its findings were clear: “The simultaneous implementation of laws targeting multiple firearms restrictions is associated with a reduction in firearms deaths.” Fewer people, then, will die if we restrict guns.”
– No, Mr. Luther, the study only found a correlation suggesting that fewer people would die from gunshots; not at all the same as conclusively finding that fewer people would die.
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To chips in the head
Quote———Nope; no contradiction – not even with minor inter-state differences in definitions of “prohibited” (or “proper”) persons. ——————— quote
quote—-Even with reciprocity, I will be limited to a ten-round magazine in New York state, and prohibited from carrying hollow point rounds in New Jersey. ———–quote——————-
I do not even have to try and make a fool out of you your so arrogant you succeeded in making a complete jack ass out of your self without me having to do anything. Your response actually proved what I previously said about the reciprocity law never working because of the myriad of State Laws which would make it impossible for anyone to travel through one state after another on vacation. Even if you aware of all the thousands of laws you would spend more time stopping the car at each border and going through gymnastics trying to stay out of jail than the trip would be worth taking with a gun. Even a Moron would realize that without Federal Law trumping all the myriad of State laws the Reciprocity would be a joke and totally unworkable.
Congratulations you just got the “fool of the year of the award” back to back with the “ignoramuses award of the year” as you proved you understand nothing as to how unworkable such a law would be without Federal Law being dominate over State Laws and their are thousands of them. Now what part of this do you not understand? If you want I could send Tarzans Cheetah the monkey over to explain it all too you but I think your such a nut case even Cheetah would pull his hair out.