Tag: Guns and such

My favorite toy

Heads-Up

Advice

Just about every single thing written here is correct, especially:

Gun: A gun is to shoot your way to safety, not to save the day. You are not a one-man counter-terror team. This is a fast track to being killed either directly, by a second shooter, or by police who have no idea who you are. Even if the cops are wrong in the end, you’re still dead.

Absolutely.  Other than to protect yourself and your family, leave the gun in the holster and get the hell away from the situation.  Leave the hero bullshit to Hollywood or to the people paid to be heroes, i.e. law enforcement (unless you live in a place like Uvalde TX or some big Blue city, where the cops are cowards).

People often think that just because I’m always yapping about self defense that I’m one of those palookas who just can’t wait for a firefight.  Nothing could be further from the truth, which is that I’m a big fat coward right up until I can’t be one because then I’ll be a victim.

But to go looking for trouble?  The hell with that.

Jan 21 New Year’s Day Fun

The Gun Thing

A few people have written to me, wanting to participate in the Jan 21 Real New Year ‘s Day Shoot.  Here are the details:

Date / time:  Tuesday Jan 21 — 10am

Venue:  Texas Legends Gun Range (Allen TX)

Their only restriction is no aluminum cartridge casings (CCI Blazer, etc.).  Also, once a gun is uncased in a lane, it has to stay there and may not be passed around (a sensible rule, I think).

All “new” shooters need to sign in and fill out the waivers, so if you’ve never shot at Legends before, you may want to arrive a little before 10am to register.

As for guns: we should probably stick to handguns / pistol-caliber rifles / AR-AK types. (“Long” / high-power rifles will need to use the 2-lane 50-yard rifle range.)

If you’re over 60, the range fee before lunch time is $14 / half-hour or so + 1 free target (hence the proposed meeting time).  Excellent deal.

All interested parties are welcome, including girlfriends/wives/mistresses and adult children.  Depending on the response, I may go ahead and reserve a set of lanes for us, so please drop me a note if you’re interested in joining in on the fun.  I shouldn’t really have to remind anyone of this, but this is my “home” range, so best behavior and good shooting manners are required.

I myself will be bringing a couple of “interesting” guns, just for the general benefit, with “sufficient” ammo for their enjoyment.  Feel free to do the same.

Dept. Of Righteous Shootings

Righteous Shootings

Once again, Reader Mike L. comes to the rescue with this heads-up report:

A Florida man opened fire on two home intruders, killing one of them, on Thursday night, authorities said.

Given that this was in Florida, it hardly seems newsworthy.

“Why so, Kim?”

Because the local law enforcement has this attitude towards such fun ‘n games:

“This is the state of Florida. If you want to break into someone’s home, you should expect to be shot,” Sheriff Wells warned.

One would have thought that the Florida Crime Set would have figured this out by now, but then again, the corpus delicti  was a Mexican and the other an illegal immigrant from Chile, so maybe they just hadn’t got the news yet.

Whatever.

Speaking of the well-perforated choirboy:

Flores-Toledo had an active warrant for a parole violation and was considered by authorities to be armed and dangerous.  Back in 2023, he served four months in jail for residential burglary and was released on parole just last month.

Which to me is a sound argument against parole — release them and they’re gonna get killed — but once again, whatever.

All that said, maybe we should issue this t-shirt to parolees, both as aide-memoire  for them, and as an aid to homeowners:

Covering Old Ground

Gun/Ammo Tests

I was going to write a bit about this article (Is The .22 Mag Overrated?), but after just a little digging in the archives, I discovered that I’ve talked lots and lots about the thing and I wouldn’t want to get boring on the topic.

So y’all can just go and read what Will Brantley has to say.  It’s all good.

I like his rifle setup, by the way, even if it does have a plastic fantastic stock:

Bad Dads, BAD Dads

Anti-Gun Nannies

Apparently, CNN (who?  I dunno, never heard of them either) seems to have a problem with Dads buying their kids guns for Christmas:

CNN began the article with a story of an Oregon dad, Paul Kemp, who bought a hunting rifle for his son, Nathan, when he turned 16 years old. Nathan had been hunting with his dad since he was 7 years old.

CNN then stated, “Parents looking to purchase a firearm for their child for the holidays have to balance their hopes for the gift with the risks that come with such a purchase, such as an accidental shooting, suicide or the gun being used in a crime.”

In an attempt to bolster their position, CNN said, “For example, the teenage school shooting suspects in Oxford, Michigan, and Winder, Georgia, allegedly used firearms they had received as Christmas gifts from their parents, and those parents have faced criminal charges.”

I don’t want to get into dueling statistics here, but I just wonder how many deaths have been caused by teenagers getting into road accidents with cars given them by their parents?

Never mind;  giving guns to our kids for Christmas is a tradition that goes back generations, as these few ads prove:

Of course, as the Left hates the very concepts of both tradition and the family with a passion, these would be seen as pure evil.

Me, I just wish we could see more of them, updated for today’s market.

And I absolutely love this one:

…because as any fule kno, every man should have owned at least one Mauser in his lifetime.