It wasn’t one of the sources I originally contacted, but still, debunking is debunking (and still a great and credible source for it).
Guns
New grips for my 442
My Smith & Wesson 442 snub nose revolver is a gun designed for concealed carry. It’s small, it’s lightweight, and everything about it is designed to help minimize its profile. To further this end, the 442 comes with very small grips. I didn’t like the grips so I went looking for a replacement set. This is what I found…. with pictures!!
I’m speechless
Reading this posting from Linoge… I’m speechless. Well almost speechless.
Not at Linoge, but the crime he discusses. I don’t even know where to begin… but what Linoge writes is a good start.
Rules FAIL
Police say the accidental shooting happened as the group was planning to go to the gun range. One of the adults raised concern about the 25-year-old man handling the firearm because of the infant being in the room, according to a police press release. The adult also was concerned that the rifle was loaded.
“The man joked that there was one way to find out if it was loaded and, at that point, he reportedly put the rifle in his mouth and pulled the trigger,” according to the release.
This isn’t accidental, this is negligent.
If you want to find out if a gun is loaded or not, you point it in a safe direction (i.e. a direction where if a bullet is discharged the bullet will come to rest without causing unwanted damage), you unload the gun (e.g. remove the magazine, open the floor plate, open the cylinder, whatever is proper for that particular firearm), you then peek into the chamber and perhaps even put a finger in there: visually and tactilely verify it’s unloaded — that there are no rounds in the gun in any place or any where. All the while, you follow The Rules; this guy violated just about all of them.
This also points out that small calibers (it was a .22) can be dangerous. It also demonstrates that shot placement greatly affects lethality.
Neither alcohol nor drugs appear to have played a role in the incident, police reported.
But apparently a lot of stupidity.
Ammo rotation
Funny this comes up now. Sebastian just wrote about ammo rotation and SayUncle commented upon it.
You see, yesterday while working the deer lease it eventually started to rain pretty hard. We were at the back of the property, too far from camp (and my rain coat) and so we just kept working. I was soaked to the bone. I did remember to leave my iPhone in a dry place and I also left my spare magazine there. However, given the amount of water I took on, on the drive home I made the decision to rotate out all of my carry ammo, even tho I just did it a few weeks ago (the normal 6 month rotation). My wallet sighs, but I’d rather have the assurance of “known good” ammo. Yes I’m pretty sure the ammo that was in the gun will still go bang, but my life is worth the assurance. I’m even going to change the rounds in the spare magazine because while they didn’t get the soaking, they probably took on some rain during the course of the day. I’ll shoot the “wet” ammo next time I go to the range to practice.
Sebastian hit upon the key thing:
Ammo does last a long time, on the shelf. But carry ammo is not ammo that’s sitting in a safe or a foot locker, in its factory container, often sealed. You’re carrying it around with you. You sweat, you extrude oils, salts and various proteins, which get on the ammo when you handle it, and are on the dust particles your skin and clothes give off and end up in your gun. Every time you chamber and unload, you’re putting stress on the ammunition components.
So, to rotate or not? Everyone has their take on it. I do rotate my carry ammo on a regular basis (about every 6 months) because I’d rather be safe than sorry. The ammo loaded in a home-defense gun? Not so much, because it’s sitting in my nice, climate controlled house; eventually it will be rotated, but I don’t feel the need to do it as often.
New Shooter Report
After a few false starts (Oldest learning about achieving goals and being task focused, failing a few times but finally succeeding, thus here we are), I was able to take Oldest out to the Austin Rifle Club. Due to circumstances, Youngest had to come too, which was cool. I’ll speak about each in turn.
Where’s Howard when you need him?
So there’s some new study out saying that you’re just asking for trouble if you carry a gun.
I want Howard Nemerov to get a hold of this and look at it. Howard’s great with numbers. I’m going to drop him a line. Come to think of it, I’ll mention it to Tom Givens as well.
2A incorporation
SCOTUS will hear if 2A applies to the states. Lots of stories online about it like here, and then background reading here.
Don’t see why it wouldn’t apply, given how just about everything else has been incorporated. It’s difficult to see how it couldn’t, but it will all come down to the details of the cases and how they are presented to the court.
But I don’t want to speculate on the outcome nor put the cart before the horse and figure what the outcome will mean. The devil will be in the details and we just have to wait.
Do church CHL bans violate the First Amendment?
David Kopel has an interesting legal analysis of church (or other place of worship) bans on concealed carry. And this isn’t talking about “free speech”…. remember there’s other things in 1A too.
Moreover, the CHL ban also violates the Establishment clause because it favors some denominations over others. In effect, the statute privileges pacifist denominations over non-pacifist ones, by forcing the non-pacifist religions to obey pacifist standards of conduct in their own houses of worship. This is not only a Free Exercise violation, it is an Establishment clause violation, because it plainly creates the message that the pacifist way of being is the only way of being which the state will allow in any church, anywhere in the boundaries of the state.
It seems in so many ways we create problems because we poke at things too much. Consider the large structuring of laws that got us to even have to consider the above. If those laws were stripped away, we wouldn’t be having this discussion and all involved groups would be able to freely practice whatever it is they believe.
When are we going to learn to sometimes leave things alone?
KR Training September 2009 Newsletter
The KR Training September 2009 Newsletter is now online.
Contains a list of upcoming classes, various bits of news, hunting accident statistics, updates on Texas laws, upcoming events, some items for sale. Lots of good things in this newsletter.
Stuff From Hsoi 