This morning, at around 6am, an “older man” was shot and killed in the parking lot of a local High School.
Guess the shooter didn’t see the giant “NO FIREARMS ALLOWED” signs at the entrance.
Author: wizardpc
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Gun Porn: “Is that a UMP?” Edition
Another one from the Bidet Shoot:
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While other folks are talking about gunshot wound treatment classes…
I’d like to point out that the Hyfin Chest Seals I bought as part of my roll your own IFAK post expire this month.
So, if you bought some back then, check them. They may be expired.
I’m glad to see that Joe and Ry took a class similar to the one oddball and I took a while back. Their class looks much more in-depth than the one we took. I really wish this were more readily available to more people.
I’ve been tossing around the idea of getting with a local EMT, ER Nurse, or some other trauma specialist to to a video series on this stuff. I may even try to get an in-person class together for the NRA Convention here in Nashville in 2015.
Unfortunately, I suspect the reason these classes aren’t more widely available is because the market isn’t asking for them. A local training facility recently stopped offering “tactical medicine” (God how I hate that term) classes due to lack of interest.
If you have the opportunity, please take it.
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Scary robbery
I was clicking through the headlines this weekend and came across this story:
Employees were cleaning up Wednesday night at Jet’s Pizza on Fort Campbell Boulevard when two men and a woman, all wearing masks, came in through the back door. […]
One employee, who preferred not to be identified, said he had a decision to make.
“Should I grab the machete next to me?” the employee said he wondered.
It was a big pizza knife, but he decided against it, knowing at least one of the guns wasn’t a toy.
“He had a .38 revolver, and I knew that was real, because it was about this far from my face, and I could see the bullets in the cylinder,” the employee said.
Now, all three robbers were armed with handguns (and none were legally allowed to own them, so there’s that), so that employee was absolutely right to not counterattack with a kitchen knife. I’m glad no one was seriously injured (the manager was pistol whipped) and the cops have caught at least one of the perpetrators.
However, this picture that accompanied the story scares the hell out of me:
I’ve mentioned before that the reason I’m a “gun guy” is that a serial killer named Paul Dennis Reid killed two acquaintances of mine in 1997 in separate fast food robberies. He executed his victims by making them lie on the floor face down, having the manager give him the money….and then shooting everyone in the back of the head. So when I saw that picture, I immediately had a flash back.
If Jet’s Pizza rings a bell, it may be because I mentioned that a local franchisee encourages his employees to get their carry permits and protect themselves as needed a couple of years ago. No word on whether or not the owner of this store has a similar policy.
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Embracing My Inner Cynic
I’m sure the closing of our embassies and the beefing up of security here for a “very specific threat” that has no specific time or target has everything to do with the president’s national security priorities and nothing to do with not wanting his birthday golf party interrupted by an inconveniently timed attack.
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Gun Porn: “Are those rounds in backwards?” Edition
H&K P7:
From the Bidet Shoot.
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Range Report: Review of the Nikon P-223 and other stuff
This past Friday, my friend James took me to a members-only range just north of town. I’d heard of the club before but never been.
I didn’t know until the night before that it had 100, 200 and 300 yard berms, with steel gongs at 200 and 300. The last time I was able to shoot at any distance greater than 100 yards was when I was in Basic Training 15 years ago, so I was pretty excited at the prospect.
I had several goals for the day:
- Further troubleshoot the accuracy problems I’ve been having with my M&P15-22.
- Sight in the Nikon P-223 I recently purchased
- Experiment with POI/POA shifts on my Rock River AR that I use the YHM Phantom on occasionally.
- Get some trigger time on my M&P9
There’s a new-ish Toyota 4Runner up there at the 300 It was a great day. Like 75 Degrees, in July, with a slight breeze and clear skies. There were a couple of other groups of shooters, but since we went during the week there was plenty of room. This particular range doesn’t have target stands; you have to bring your own. Luckily, I brought the ones oddball and I built a couple of years ago. The bright pink posterboard in the middle of the picture above is held up by one of those stands.
Note to self: When you bring the target stands, bring a staple gun.
Zeroing the Sweet .22 scope on the M&P15-22
I started off with trying to get the M&P15-22 zeroed. Again. For like the third time. I thought I had written about this before, but I can’t find any old posts on it so I must’ve just dreamed that. The short version is that I bought this scope
and these rings
and have been chasing accuracy problems ever since. I’ve blamed the shooter, the rings, and the ammo, and eliminated all those variables in my testing.
It’s been maddeningly frustrating to get within two MOA of zero–with groups of three fitting under a nickel at 50 yards–only to have the next group be off by 6-8 inches. I finally think I may have found the problem. While troubleshooting, James came over to check if my scope (now mounted in a PEPR
) was mounted securely.
And the upper receiver flexed under light pressure. The plastic picatinny rail moved left and right a few degrees. That ended the range time with that particular weapon 😀
Apparently I am not the only person to experience this. There also seem to be significant variations in POI based on temperature.
So I’ll be buying a 10/22 for Appleseed, and a red dot for the M&P15-22
Sighting in the Nikon P-223
The ghost image I talked about in my earlier post is still an issue for me. It’s not insurmountable, but it’s not going to stop me from looking for an alternative. I sighted in at 50 yards, knowing that an AR zeroed at 50 will be accurate at 200. With that knowledge and Nikon’s SpotOn iPhone app (that James had previously installed) I was banging the 300 yard gong pretty quickly.
Man, I love steel targets.
Other Stuff
James is going to be a bad influence on me. That’s a Remington 700 AAC-SD in .308. It’s basically the exact rifle I’ve been trying to talk myself into buying since they came out. The good news is that the trigger isn’t as good as I expected, so I can put that off some more.
The bad news is that he brought several lowers, each of which had a Geissele SSA-E
. Now I have to buy one, especially after going from my rifle, to his, then back to mine. You don’t realize how bad a stock AR trigger is until you do that.
And in other news, you can, in fact, hit steel at 200 yards with a revolver. It took me three tries, and the revolver was in 45-70, but I’ll take it.
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Embody. Again.
All you need is the headline to know who it is.
Now, according to the article he wasn’t arrested for openly carrying. He was arrested for illegal possession of a suppressor.
“But, wizard! Doesn’t Embody legally own some suppressors?”
Yes, yes he does. But if you read the article closely…
Due to his inability to prove that his weapon was legal and having a firearm silencer attached, Embody was placed into custody.
Tennessee code 39-17-1302 prohibits firearm silencers, devices used to muffle the report of a firearm.
…and you understand that the reporter probably doesn’t understand the intricacies of firearms laws, you’ll likely come to the same conclusion as me.
He was arrested for refusing to produce the tax stamp for his suppressor when asked. It is illegal to own a suppressor in Tennessee…unless you can show you’ve paid the federal tax.
The case will be dismissed when he decides to do that.
This is just another example of him intentionally being an asshole. This time he got the law wrong.
It is my opinion that his goal is to get open carry
repealedbanned.
