…the next time my mom asks “where do you go that you think you’re going to need a gun?”
There was a drug deal that went bad that caused shots to be fired at the Sonic in the Bellevue area of Nashville. For those of you not familiar with the area, Bellevue is a fairly quiet middle income area. My dad had a house there when I was in high school, and my great aunt lives just down the road from where the shooting happened.
Link to the article here
Go forth and read!
Still waiting.
According to the nifty NFA Wait Time Calculator, I should be getting it within the next 10 weeks.
A bit back, my friends at the Hacker Consortium got themselves a laser engraver/cutter similar to this one
So I did what any rational person would do. I took several magazines to get the GCT Logo engraved on them!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDts9AWfwwE&w=420&h=315]
I did one M&P15-22 mag, a Glock Fun Stick, and a seriously used aluminium AR mag. Results were kind of “meh” because my expectations were high. Still pretty cool, though!
That is a vintage John Deere in the turn lane. Beats the hell out of 8 lanes of concrete and stop and go traffic.
Alternate title: Roll your own IFAK
Back in February, oddball and I took a “First Aid for Gun Toters” class put on by our local Zombie Squad chapter. It was, in my uneducated opinion, a pretty good class. My one complaint was that the guy wasn’t selling any of the products he was pimping. 😀
I hopped on Amazon a couple of weeks later and bought pretty much the minimum equipment required for a good gunshot wound kit. Actually, I bought two of each so I could keep one in my car and one in the wife’s car.
The C-A-T Combat Application Tourniquet
QuikClot Combat Gauze is basically your standard gauze, only it’s infused with QuikClot. The way you’re supposed to use this, and any other gauze in a gunshot wound, is to take your finger and stuff the wound. This has the new formulation of QuikClot that doesn’t produce heat. The original formulation would actually cause serious burns in the wound, so make sure you don’t get old stuff.
The HyFin Chest Seal
The famous Israeli Bandage
I wanted to get everything together before buying a bag, and it turns out that they fit perfectly in a quart-sized Zip-Lock bag:
That’s it. Those are the basics. I keep my kit in between the door sill and the driver’s seat in my Jeep, and the one in my wife’s car is just in her glove box. All medical equipment has an expiration date, so take note of what expires first in your kit. For me, the chest seals expire in about 18 months so I have set a reminder to buy more around that time. Prices on these items seem to fluctuate, so be sure to shop around.
I gotta tell ya, having the equipment and the knowledge to treat a GSW certainly makes me feel better.
Rapes on campus are only up 47% from last year.
Violent crimes in general are only up by 20% on college campuses.
So, I’m praying this actually exists. I love my Utilikilts, but they are a bit pricey. I own a mocker ($200) and a survival ($330). They’re great construction, and worth the money, but not cheap. 5.11 is showing these at $60 a pop? Yes, please.
Dear 5.11:
Please make these real, and I promise the sale of 2 42″ ones in black as fast as I can click the button.
It appears that the state of Tennessee has officially decided that I’m a responsible enough person to carry a firearm.
Or, at least, that’s what this little card I got in the mail says.
