Category: Carrying / Self-Defense

Because otherwise Coyotes will eat your children.

Thanks to The Real Gun Guys for pointing to this very informative article on ballistics from the point of view of a coroner.

This one hits close to home, since I live in this area.  Always a good idea to carry where you are legally able to.  This is one of the reasons why.  Robberies are a tough situation.  In most cases, the best course of action is to let it go down, and make sure to get a good description for the police, if the robbers are content to take the cash from the till and go. But robberies can go south quickly, so it’s wise to be prepared.  So far the places that have been robbed:

• State Liquor Store
• Subway sandwich shop
• Pizza shop
• Rite Aid pharmacy
• Hair Salon
• Dollar Store
• Auto Zone

This guy seems prone to tying people up.  Never a good idea to let the robber control the situation.  If he’s not content to get the cash and get out, draw and fire, because that guy is dangerous, and will kill you as soon as look at you.  Most of the places on this list are easy targets, but mom and pop pizza joints in this area are generally packing heat.  Someone willing to rob family businesses is someone willing to risk taking a bullet, and not someone to give the benefit of doubt.

Looks like there’s a movement to spread open carry in Delaware.  Looking over the site, it would appear people are successfully doing it.  A few years ago, before Delaware passed reciprocity, I had looked into whether you could get away with this, and conventional wisdom was you probably could in Kent (excepting Dover) and Sussex County, but were probably going to get nailed for disorderly if you did it in New Castle County.  I never tried it.  I’m glad to see that people are proving it can be done.

Now I carry in Delaware on my Florida license concealed, so it’s a bit of a moot point to me at this point.  I support the open carry movement, but I do not open carry myself.

I’m with Uncle on this one, but for me it’s no biggie.  Pizza Hut pizza just plain sucks.  It’s easy to boycott that which I wouldn’t eat anyway.

From this incident in California:

The officer was struck with the bat as he walked out of his office and fell backward in a daze, Dyer said.

As the officer tried to draw his firearm, the weapon’s magazine clattered to the floor, Dyer said.

The student with the bat approached the officer again, the chief said, prompting the officer to reach for a second firearm attached to his ankle.

Magazine disconnect safeties do not belong on guns which you carry to use in self-defense.  If the magazine drops during a scuffle, you want a gun that will go boom when the trigger is pulled.  Absent that, not much beats the old New York reload.

Hat Tip to Dave Hardy.

After being called a gun clinging, Jesus loving xenophobe by Barack Obama, I can’t take too much exception to being called a yahoo, but speaking as someone who comes from a state that has no restrictions on carrying in restaurants, or even in bars, I don’t see what the issue is here.  Pennsylvania generally has few problems in this area, regardless.

It’s also a little disingenuous to link Uncle’s support of a local gun shop, which had to restrict carriage on the range because of “cold range” rules mandated by insurance requirements, to a government restriction which could land violaters in jail.

If you’re opposed to concealed carry, then oppose concealed carry.  But if it’s going to be allowed, it’s in society’s interest that there be as few restrictions on time and place as can be afforded.  The result of many restrictions is firearms left in vehicles, which is an invitation to thieves.  Tennessee’s law disallows a concealed carry holder from consuming alcohol wile carrying, which I think is reasonble.  The onus should be on those opposing it for why the restriction is justified.  Most reasonable people would agree that drinking and driving do not mix, yet we do not restrict people with car keys from entering eating establishments because they might have too much to drink.  A free and confident society trusts its citizens to do the right thing, and I don’t think we have too much evidence that permit holders are the kinds of people who won’t.

Ahab would be pleased to hear this story:

Prendergast carried the revolver with the first two chambers unloaded as a safety measure, and as a backup also had a small 0.22 caliber automatic pistol hidden inside his flight suit. When a rescue helicopter and support aircraft showed up, strafing drove off all the North Vietnamese except the guards, who felt safer staying with Prendergast than running for cover.

This proved a fatal mistake. While the two North Vietnamese were distracted by the noise and confusion, Prendergast pulled out the little automatic, cocked it, and shot the militiaman with the rifle in the head. The other militiaman tried to shoot Prendergast with the revolver, only to find that the hammer fell on an empty cylinder, and was shot himself an instant later. Prendergast swam out to the rescue helicopter and was retrieved.

It’s all about shot placement.

That pilots should be allowed to have firearms in the cockpit of the planes they capatain shouldn’t even be controversial, but in addition to our federal government not being able to get their act together in this regard by applying dangerous and stupid regulation on the act, we have pants shitters like this:

Not everyone is comfortable with pilots wearing guns. Kate Hanni, executive director for the Coalition for an Airline Passenger Bill of Rights, said she opposes having a gun in the cockpit. If there must be one, she said, it shouldn’t be on the pilot’s body during flight, but rather within reach in case of a threat.

“The pilots have so much to focus on to keep the plane in the air,” she said.

Maybe I’ve completely lost my mind here, but I’m pretty sure that shooting terrorists attempting to hijack a plane is directly related to keep their plane in the air.  If you’re going to disarm ordinary people for the duration of the flight, I feel a lot better knowing my flight crew is packing.

Hat tip to Professor Kerr for pointing out this interesting photo montage of the things people carry around with them.  There is a Glock among the pictures.  I have to wonder how many of these people who are carrying around half the contents of a Radio Shack around with them every day would suggest that we were all stark raving mad for thinking carrying a firearm for self-defense is really no big deal.

As I’ve told people, if they made little pocket sized fire extinguishers that could put out even a large raging fire, I’d probably have one in my book bag.  I already keep a conventional fire extinguisher in my vehicle.  It just makes sense to be prepared.

UPDATE: Countertop shows his entry.  John Moses Browning would be proud.