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I picked up Red October in an airport bookstore on my way back to college. Couldn’t put it down. RedStorm Rising was as good.
RIP Sir. Thank you for all of the great stories and countless hours of reading enjoyment.
Jack Ryan for President!
R.I.P. Mr. Clancy.
Terrific author. I think I have most of his books.
As much as I may agree with the sentiment expressed, raw absolute numbers don’t always tell the whole story. We always bemoan the GC side for using absolutes when percentages show a different story, as such, we shouldn’t ignore percentages when they don’t favour our arguments.
The grabbers misrepresent and lie about everything else concerning guns for the low information seeple to absorb; why should skyrocketing gun sales and ownership be any different?
See if you can find a first edition of “Red October” printed by the United States Naval Institute Press. No other publisher would have it, but Clancy had friends at USNI. That’s the true first edition. Reagan read it and plugged it, and the rest is history.
Mint in dust jacket the USNI first edition costs over a grand. Talk about Crazy Ivan!
I’m not sure I’d want to own a book which has a tendency to turn 180 degrees and attack me. Even a Clancy first edition.
After the 2nd Amendment, he first gun laws be inflicted on the American public were the Jim Crow Laws. These laws were designed to disarm the victims of the KKK.
So the strongest gun laws now are found in the States and Cities where Unions are the strongest. What does that tell you????
Can you say “SEIU Union Thugs”?
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What rocket scientist decided they needed a disclaimer that the FOID card “does not permit the bearer to UNLAWFULLY carry or use firearms”? That amounts to saying “this card allows you to do only what you’re allowed to do”. If something is permitted, that means it isn’t unlawful.
I think it was a rocket surgeon or inflight missile repairman.
Got to try me some of that. Maybe I can so some local next year if I can get some time.
There’s more of my musing on this in other posts but in just that last month or so I’ve seen so many non-traditional people tooling up for the first time that even I’m shocked.
A friend who is a CCW permit training and firearms instructor has an association with an LGS. He invited me to one of their Friday Night Madness Parties. They stay open till 1:00AM, serve pizza and sodas free of charge, and sell guns at an astounding rate. Many are first time buyers, or buying a concealment handgun for the first time. Very many if not most of the first time buyers are women. Most sign up on the spot for CCW permit classes and range time with firearms instruction.
Yesterday I went to the LGS’s range with my friend. All day we received first time owners/shooters, most fresh from his last CCW class. These are people so new to guns that one must begin with a safety refresher then move on to how to load the pistol they’ve purchased. My friend reports that most, when they return for their second range instruction will be carrying their pistols on them rather than in the box it came it like they did for their first session.
Further more, these new shooters, just now learning how to load and fire their weapons, are clamoring for tactical/practical training even though they have yet to even get a toe-hold on the fundamentals. Yesterday it was two middle aged non-descript women, a senior male and a 21 year with his first gun ever.
The women paid in advance for their next range/instruction session and though I was only there helping out, one attempted to hire me privately to teach her advance courses in the tactical use of a pistol because the RSO/Instructor declined until she had MUCH more work with fundamentals. I also declined but here are two, apparently typical middle aged women shelling out hundreds, even thousands of dollars and putting in the time and effort to become competent shooters. They’re buying hundreds of rounds of ammo for a range session and constantly asking concealment questions, buying up multiple holsters to cover every conceivable outfit they own.
Not only does it seem from my experience that first time gun owners are on the increase, shockingly, at least to me, they seem very serious about getting the gear and training they need to rapidly achieve competency.
I think the media/disarmament campaigns are having the exact opposite effect they were intended to have.
My take away line of the day was when one of the women said she couldn’t wait to bring the ladies auxiliary from her church to the range and asked about a group discount!
These are interesting times for the POTG.
Wow: holsters for every conceivable outfit they own. Time to buy stock in holster companies. This could be bigger than ladies shoes.
Based on the questions brought up here as whether that was a proportional increase:
Year — Population — FOIDs — Percent
2010 –12,843,200 — 1,316,508 — 10.2506229
2011 –12,869,300 — 1,395,114 — 10.84063624
2012 –12,875,300 — 1,476,408 — 11.46697941
2013 –12,897,625 — 1,633,039 — 12.66154815
Excellent work Julian….
So what you are saying is that the real story is the exact polar opposite of what being reported by the media. I’m sure they will publish a correction on the front page above the fold as soon as they catch their error.
Hope you had a good time Nick. As a member at Peacemaker, I love seeing the coverage of the FNH match.
At the very least, his star seems to be dimming, and that’s inarguably a good thing.
God I hope so. F*ck that lime. Maybe after he gets fired he’ll treat us all to some irony and massage his gums with an AR-15 barrel.
seeing as it would end up in an evidence locker for awhile, I will offer up a brand 9mm highpoint if he wishes to man up and complete the task, so to speak.
“most likely something outside of prime time and likely in the late night hours.”
Do they need a night time janitor?
Just replace him with Jeremy Clarkson. I’d watch that.
I love Jeeza. There, I said it.
This was the man who gave us RAINBOW SIX I love the first PC game RIP Clancy.
I have owned a ab10. I got rid of it because it was a jam-o-matic. Now I just picked up a TEC9 and it is just as bad. Time to get rid of it.
Just once I’d like to see someone who advocates an Assault Weapons Ban explain, in detail, how eliminating pistol grips and barrel shrouds makes a gun less deadly.
My Wife, A Pre School Teacher, just completed this training @ our local small town Iowa school:
ALICE Training and Similar Programs Generate Controversy and Debate
The debate grows as a number of current and former self-defense trainers, individuals with military background, and some School Resource Officers and others in law enforcement advocate for this approach. This is often referred to as ALICE Training, where ALICE stands for Alert-Lockdown-Inform-Counter-Evacuate. ALICE and other similar programs offer little-to-nothing new with alerts and lockdowns, and schools are already being trained to have evacuation plans, and the idea of “inform” questionably assumes that someone in the school will be able to visually monitor all of the suspects while simultaneously “informing” or communicating their whereabouts to everyone in the building.
The controversial issues rise over the Counter component to the approach which advocates training children to try to “distract” and “confuse” armed suspects by throwing items and attacking the armed intruder. Many educators, law enforcement officers, parents and school safety specialists do not support this proposed approach for “training” students in preK-12 school settings.
She politely informed our School Resource Officer, who is a Deputy Sheriff, that in the event of such an emergency, she will be calling me first @ my Gun Store and I will be there well ahead of any LEO.
He said no problem, just to let them know that I will be on sight and carrying whatever I determine is necessary. My store is 3 blocks from the School and County Sheriff is 24 miles away. And the Wife packs a pistol in her car next to her building. She thinks ALICE is a “feel good” program at best. I think she is right.
“Carrying a gun comes with an implicit threat. Police officers can, at any moment, kill the people around them, and college campuses cannot remain centers of free inquiry and exchange if students and faculty are faced daily with the threat of violent death. In our view, the only place for a gun on a college campus is in the holsters of students.”
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The Imperial Superintendent has rendered a decision and it is wise. Let us all genuflect before the brilliance that is Michael Christensen.
What a crock. He decided that the shirt was okay? Really? Who the fvck is he to decide what the Constitution has already determined.
After seeing the biker vid (I have been riding since 1965 and have a HD in my garage), I sure am happy to have a KelTec PMR 30 in the safe with 3 30 round mags. It will be with me on my yearly trip down south. Of course I will have my CCW 9mm at my side. I can’t wait for Bloomberg to tell us why we don’t need these.