“I don’t think this has anything to do with the second amendment rights when you have the right to carry a weapon off your property. An automobile is not a part of your home. It’s a part of the public property when you get out on it.” That’s from Bobby Timmons (right above), Executive Director of the Alabama Sheriff’s Association, speaking out against a bill that would allow the carry of loaded handguns in vehicles without needing a concealed carry permit. This bill follows on the heels of one passed last year that allows unloaded handguns to be carried in cars without a permit. There are no restrictions on loaded long guns. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Scott Beason (left above), says that the castle doctrine should extend to your car, and that the current law doesn’t make sense. “It doesn’t do you any good if it’s unloaded, out of reach, out of the way,” said Beason. The senate committee will vote on this bill next Wednesday. Read on . . .
Your Lockdown of the Day™ is brought to you from Brevard County Florida, where Viera Charter and Viera High were in lockdown for most of the school day Friday due to a man with a gun outside the nearby Viera courthouse. The man arrived sometime before 10:30 and was waving a gun in front of the courthouse, alternately pacing and sitting on the curb, while occasionally yelling at police. As the day progressed, the story developed that he had previously made threats against the courthouse and judges. Police spent the next several hours attempting to negotiate with him, unsuccessfully. During this period police received a call from a relative telling them “he was on the way to the courthouse and he was coming here to do harm and that this was going to be it.” Shortly before 1 p.m., during a period when the man had the gun tucked into his waistband, BCSO SWAT moved in and attempted to subdue him using nonlethal means (apparently Tasing him at least twice), but “he responded to that in an aggressive fashion. Our team responded with lethal fire and he is deceased at the scene,” according to Sheriff Wayne Ivey. Viera High’s lockdown was lifted at 2 p.m., while Viera Charter, which is directly across the street from the courthouse, remained on lockdown for a while longer.
A small section of I-80 in Nebraska was closed for a few hours Thursday morning after a security forces team out of F.E. Warren Air Force Base lost some ammunition. The security forces team lost “a small amount of 40 mm ammunition from the back of a humvee” as it was traveling through the F.E. Warren missile field. The rounds are not expected to cause any damage, and Nebraska DOT and Highway Patrol are working with F.E. Warren personnel to look for remaining pieces. [Yes, I included this story just so I could link to the map I made a few years ago when I got fascinated by these things. I also did one for Malmstrom AFB in Montana and Minot AFB in North Dakota. Days were lost.]
It’s been said before, but a good belt might even be more important than a good holster in a carry rig. A quality belt can make even a crappy holster acceptable, while a crappy belt can make it uncomfortable to wear the best holster in the world.
Washington state senators voted a bill out of committee Friday that would, according to King5.com, “restrict gun rights without a felony conviction for the first time in state history.” ESHB 1840 would require anyone named in a protective order, who was also in a separate proceeding deemed a “credible” threat of “bodily injury or death”, to surrender their firearms. To fall under the purview of the bill, a victim under a protective order would have to prove they’re likely to be harmed again, and a judge would have to file a second ruling, separate from the protective order, finding the person in question a credible threat. The bill passed the House unanimously, and now will go back to the Senate floor for a second reading.
Some folks were less-than-impressed with Jerry Miculek’s long-range pistol shots (revolver upside down at 200 yards and GLOCK 41 at 215 yards), so he amps it up a few more notches by backing off to 400 meters (~435 yards) with his 3-gun setup S&W M&P 9 mm.
I’ve run out of superlatives for this guy.
How do they do in 454 socom
So far this is getting about 1/10,000th of the Sandy Hook coverage. This will be massively ignored by the US gun grabbers because there are no evil AR-15s and “high capacity clips.” Another tragic loss, and it’s not possible to eliminate edge weapons, even in prisons. The same thing could happen here, but hopefully a good CCW carrier could step in.
“I don’t think this has anything to do with the second amendment rights when you have the right to carry a weapon off your property. An automobile is not a part of your home. It’s a part of the public property when you get out on it.”
Cool. There’s a Tesla that sometimes parks near me at work. I don’t want to own one, and certainly can’t afford to buy one, but since it is public property, I guess it is OK if I just use it for a while. You know, like a park bench is public property…..
You don’t make this stuff up, do you?
+1 on the genuine gunbelt Matt. I have a quality special purpose belt with a Galco Fletch & this anchors my all stainless 45.
“The security forces team lost “a small amount of 40 mm ammunition from the back of a humvee”
Must have been ammo for one of those 40mm Glocks.
Thank god they didn’t lose any .9mm….
I know, they have a chance of finding 40mm… but .9mm? It’s almost dust in the wind…
Yea, that stuff is hard to find.
probably 40mm Bofors no?
I think we only use 40mm on the AC130s, being that it’s the airforce that lost em id guess they were transporting 40mm Bofors for a AC
Possibly linked 40mm for the MK19.
1. In CA it is neither against the law to carry in a bar nor while drinking. Technically not even while intoxicated…yet the standard DOJ application for CCW says it is prohibited in both of those cases. This is actually nonsense. The Sheriff can add restrictions to a license, not the DOJ. I think by inserting a non-law as if it were a law into the standard app, they effectively make a new law without legislation!
2. All those whose main worry is, but it will hurt my claim of self-defense! I have a beer or even several. Head to bed and a man breaks into my daughter’s room, and attempts to rape her. Oh well, I had a few beers, cannot take action! That is nonsense. And in clear cases, the DA can go screw himself for even trying that tactic.
3. My rule would be the same as with driving. For me, that means a couple of beers is fine, depending on strength, size, if I am eating with it. If I am going to drink more than that, it will be at a social gathering (wedding e.g.), and I would not carry then (though I doubt anything bad would result, aside from legal issues if spotted). But then that is a calculated risk. I don’t not drink that much except at social events because of the carrying issue, but because such drinking alone is dangerous in its own way. Conviviality is my rule.
I love my state (Alabama), but we’ve got some doozies living here for sure.
My degree is in Poli Sci, and AL has one of the weirdest political breakdowns in the country. Very conservative on national issues, but many of the most rural counties have exclusively Democrat officials. It’s mostly a holdover from the old Democratic Party, and this carries true to many Associtions as well. As recently as 2010 the Alabama Education Association basically ran state politics, with the 2010 election cycle serving as a crusade of sorts against them. 2010 was the first time in 100 years the Alabama legislature was controlled by the Republican Party.
Pretty amazing for a Deep South state. Almost as amazing as the ignorance displayed by Bobby Timmons.
The Smith 640 (old standard version) is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful handguns in the world. The reviewer was correct on many points in his review. However, for the money, style, class, and true value, the 642 is not any kind of an alternative to the 640. There is no comparison. You will not have the same gun unless you are completely out of your mind or just plain stupid. If the later is the case, save up your money until you can get the Real McCoy. PS: .357 Gold Dot 135 grain and Golden Saber magnum is the correct ammo for J Frame magnums; they leave the palate clean and eager for more.
I have minium 400 round for each gun my m1911a1 cz po9 m9 m4 and 870 pump
Do both,
Finishing up my ak, bright red furniture , i am starting to polish the heck out of the steel before i pak it.
Dan, you may be joking about “knife control”, but the UK already has knife control:
https://www.gov.uk/find-out-if-i-can-buy-or-carry-a-knife
“Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.”
-Luke 22:36
Looks like The Man Upstairs is comfortable with concealed carry. Seems like the minister isn’t in compliance with “Company Policy”…..
Let’s face it, the unconstitutional anti-AR laws in NY and CT should have been slapped with injunctions by the judiciary already while the lawsuits against them proceed through the system to the SCOTUS.
Unfortunately, the state and federal judges in the northeast are left-wing activists. Any blood shed in NY or CT over these laws will be on them as much as it is on the legislators that approved the laws and the LEOs that carry them out.
The antis don’t care if the bloodshed comes they want it so they can say they where right about the gun owning public being blood thirsty and crazy. This would give them the WE told you so moment.
I remember the Boston citizenry applauding the tacticool vehicles and the military er uh police after they raided and evacuated multiple homeowners in search of the two marathon bombers.
The New England area has brought this on itself, as patriots and conservative types have become the minority. We’ll see how far the .gov wants to shove the citizens that are giving them the one finger salute. The .gov better remember that we can shove back too.
What did King Leonidus tell the Persians?
always envied you your constitution and the protection it gave you from Government, not much point in you having one is there
Let’s see-citizen who has never committed a crime legally buys a rifle with a 30 round magazine.Scumbag gun grabber Malloy and his anti freedom minions decide citizen is a felon if he doesn’t register his legally purchased firearm/magazine.Down the road citizen calls in to police that his car has been vandalized-police respond with a SWAT team and a firefight ensues.How does the media get to spin that,especially if it happens to more than one person?The reason I mentioned car vandalism is that it isn’t the kind of call where police should be going in ready to rumble as opposed,say to a call that the citizen is threatening and/or shooting at neighbors with a firearm,which would be a legit reason for a SWAT response.
I still can’t believe that so many people seem completely oblivious to the fact that just because something is illegal doesn’t mean people don’t do it. She seems to be under the impression that there is not a single firearm being carried on campus anywhere in the state because, you know, it’s illegal, and everyone knows it’s physically impossible to violate laws….
And you sent it back to the manufacturer twice, why??
Ah, good old sheet metal firearms…
Selling 80% lowers on Amazon strikes me as pushing the limits of their tolerance for selling gun stuff. Not unlike the recent Starbucks kerfuffle where people were open-carrying AT other people to provoke a reaction, though with a mercantile rather than political motivation.
Sure hope the “sell 80% lowers on Amazon” crowd doesn’t screw up the marketplace one can find there today for virtually everything else gun-related.