This guy was at the range with some friends of his. He’d apparently shot a pistol once in his life before this day. They thought it was a good idea to hand him a Smith and Wesson .500.
Kid was a good sport. Later on in the day I gave him a little mini-lesson in proper grip and stance 😀
DWH became a daddy. Cute kid, notwithstanding 😀
Fall is apparently here now. It was 45 degrees Saturday morning.
Speaking of Fall, my new house has trees. Lots of them. With leaves. That are coming off. This is a new and frightening experience for me, because it might mean manual labor.
Protip: When ordering an M1 Sling
I don’t think I’ve mentioned this here before, but I’m in the process of building some wood furniture for the new house. I’m using the wood from the staircases that we had redone. I’ve learned some valuable lessons, like “don’t use reclaimed wood if you don’t have to.” I finally got all the individual panels for this entertainment center built, and they’re in the garage for priming, painting, and final assembly. I GET TO USE A NAILGUN!
I’ve gone full circle with my M&P15-22. It went from “Carbine Trainer” to “Appleseed rifle” and is now back to “Carbine Trainer.” I ordered a cheapie red/green dot reflex sight
Work is being more….demanding lately. Not much free time on my hands and I’ve been spending it doing stuff rather than writing about doing stuff. Sorry bout that.
It’s topped with a Weaver Target T-36X40 1/8 Riflescope
Because you never know if the receptionist is having a spat with her convicted-murderer baby-daddy.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. –
A gunman shot two people inside a Rivergate vision center Wednesday afternoon before turning the gun on himself.Metro police said Henry Talley, 30, entered the Visionworks located at 1701 Gallatin Pike around 2:15 p.m. and opened fired on his estranged girlfriend, Ronkeisha Briley, an employee at the store, after a brief confrontation.
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According to authorities, Talley was arrested for domestic assault in July after he punched Briley in the face. The couple is said to have a child together.
Talley was also arrested in 2002 for voluntary manslaughter. He received a 15-year sentence, which was served, in part, in a community corrections program.
Authorities said Talley has previous domestic assault convictions, too, as well as convictions for cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
But I’m sure that this could’ve been prevented if we banned private firearm sales, right?
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
TN Police Departments Get Tank-Like Military Vehicles:
GALLATIN, Tenn. – It could have been a part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, but now a 21-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, or MRAP, is on the streets of Gallatin.
“It’s like waking up on Christmas morning and having the best present you ever had,” said Asst. Chief William Sorrells.
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When you compare it to the customized 1980s military ambulance they have now with ballistic blankets only one side the MRAP is 360-degrees of reinforced protection.
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“It’s so much better just knowing that there’s all this protection in between us and somebody trying to hurt us,” McFadden said while taking us on a ride along Friday.
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So far only Gallatin, Hendersonville, Murfreesboro and Lewisburg* have the vehicle.
A couple of things…
It’s not a $#%(ing Christmas present. It’s a piece of military equipment that you have absolutely no need for. We in the gunnie community often say “what’s need got to do with it” in regards to firearms, but the huge difference here is that we won’t be using our evil assault-style clips to knock down people’s houses for fun and profit.
Gallatin has about 30,000 residents. They have 15 SWAT raids a year. How many times last year did one of those raids involve “somebody trying to hurt [Gallatin SWAT]”? Of those, how many involved the suspect actually shooting at officers? Of those, how many involved the suspect shooting at the bullet-resistant vehicle they already have? And finally, out of those incidents where suspects who were intent on hurting Gallatin SWAT and actually opened fire and actually hit the armored vehicle they already have do so with a weapon capable of penetrating that vehicle?
None?
Okay, how about we expand that to the last ten years? Twenty?
Has there ever been an incident where this $700,000 vehicle would have made any difference whatsoever?
How many times are the Gallatin PD running into IEDs? Do I need to stop going up there to visit? Is it so dangerous up there that businesses should relocate to a safer area?
This is the same police department that acted so egregiously I found myself on the side of Leonard Embody in a dispute.
I feel safer. Don’t you?
*Gallatin: Pop 30,000, who’s PD mascot is, hilariously, Taser the Cat.
Hendersonville: Pop 52,000
Murfreesboro: Pop 112,000
Lewisburg: Pop 11,000 <--srsly wtf?
Freiheit shooting one of the M16s we had on hand. It had a 5.45 upper on it at the time (I know this because the 5.45 upper had the red zip-tie on it)
And is it going to kill me?
There are probably a dozen of them hanging off my house right now.
It’s September 1st, which means it’s time for Kilted to Kick Cancer (link to my donation page). Unfortunately, I’m too busy being at Dragoncon to do a proper post. For the time being, I’ll just link to a YouTube vid of what should be the theme song:
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If you guys donate enough money, I may post a picture of Wizard in a kilt. Yes, it will be silly (and yes, Wizard can probably guess which picture it is). No, I haven’t discussed this with him yet.
By the way, here’s the initial post from last year. It should work until I have time to upload new photos/have brain cells.
I present to you two buddies being silly:
I know I keep promising actual content and failing to deliver. Wizard will probably lock me out of this thing soon if I keep this up. Sadly, I’m going to this little convention called Dragoncon tomorrow, won’t be back until Tuesday, and then I’m heading to Outsidecon that Friday. So… new content from me probably won’t be coming soon.
I have a coworker who recently asked me to give her some range instruction. She’d shot before, but she wasn’t familiar enough with how her new Ruger LCP operates to be comfortable. Naturally, I obliged.
This was our second session, so it was still pretty much the basic. Grip. Trigger control. Understanding the Four Rules. Sight picture.
She was loading four rounds per relay, and in one of them she got a nice “CLICK!” on the third round. She was shooting Blazer aluminium cased ammunition, so I figured it was primer-related. I talked her through clearing the malfunction and she fired the last round in the magazine with no problem.
I wanted to use this as a teachable moment about cheap practice ammo. “It’s not bad, but things like this are going to happen so just keep that in mind. Malfunctions like this happen all the time, and it’s not your gun.”
We loaded the same round in the top of the next magazine (Tam, I can hear you screaming from here) because I wanted to show her that bad primers will often fire on the second strike.
But I got a failure to feed. It seemed strange to me, too, the way it was hanging up on the feed ramp. I had to drop the magazine to clear it.
Now, I don’t have a .380 anymore, but that looked like the bullet was set back a bit. I pulled out another round from the box and sure enough it was a couple thousandths difference. I’m pretty sure that setback happened as a result of the failure to feed, but it’s possible it was preexisting and caused the FTF.
But then….something else didn’t look right, either:
Now, if you’re slow like me, you probably don’t see it. Here’s a 9mm round for reference:
Yeah. The rim is missing!
So this round had probably two, and possibly three, factory defects. We’re actually pretty lucky the primer was bad (although it could be that the case is slightly shorter than the chamber, so the firing pin didn’t hit deep enough) because extractors don’t work so well without something to grab on to.
The rest of the box was fine.