âProtectedâ Guns?
8 Jan 13 The small UT town of Spring City is currently discussing a resolution that all households must have at least one unspecified âgunâ therein and, at some point, residents thereof must participate in some kind of gun training. The whole thing is mostly symbolic, of course, and other municipalities that have passed similar […]
Scenario-Based Training
7 Jan 13 Many have asked about scenario-based training (Airsoft). We do several such programs each year. All of our others are live-fire. Our first Scenario-Based Program this year is in Boulder, CO on the weekend of 2-3 Feb 13. We use a commercial building and Airsoft guns. Our local contact is Diane Nicholl at […]
Industry update
5 Jan 13 ââLearningâ is but a foil to common sense, a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as âspectaclesâ to look at nature, than as âblindsâ to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions.â William Hazlitt Today, I visited several local gun […]
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4 Jan 13 âSocial engineers never get past statistics. Stalin said, âOne manâs death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statisticâ They invariably think the way Stalin did. J Wolf They do indeed, and, when it comes to the usual, weary anti-gun drivel, theyâre pretty sloppy with the truth! Figures anti-gun liberals endlessly […]
Really?
3 Jan 13 âSheep donât trust sheepdogs, any more than they trust wolves!â G Hamilton In the small, downstate Illinois town of Belleville, IL, the manager of the local Dennyâs Restaurant, on 1 Jan 13, demanded that a female detective with the local PD, sitting at the same table with four of her police colleagues, […]
Still worse!
1 Jan 13 From a friend with the ISP (Illinois State Police): âThere is another reckoning, which we watch closely here. It is a listing that is often overlooked when calculating crime data, nor is it normally used as an indicator of the level of violent crime, and that is the rate of âaggravated assaults.â […]
Record murders in Chicago? Worse than it looks!
31 Dec 12 These sage and sobering comments from my friend and colleague, Dave Grossman: âChicagoâs murder-rate is actually much, much worse than it looks! We must constantly keep in mind the fact that the murder/death rate is being held down by medical technology! A major University of Massachusetts/Harvard study told us, if we still […]
Dubious Distinction!
30 Dec 12 The City of Chicago now has the dubious distinction of exceeding the previous record for most homicides in a single year. Memphis and Newark are jealous! This, in a city where there are no longer any legitimate gun retailers, and where individual gun-ownership, of any kind, is all but completely prohibited. The […]
Aimpoint T1/H1 and railed (Picatinny) military rifles
29 Dec 12 The last Quip has generated many responses with questions about mounting Aimpoints on serious rifles. Iâm no-doubt a fan of red-dots on rifles intended for serious purposes. All are surely serviceable, but the Aimpoint T1/H1 heads the List! As my friend and colleague, Manny Kapelsohn, points out: ââSight-alignmentâ (front sight correctly aligned […]
Trohlogucca
29 Dec 12 Comp-Tacâs new Trojan-Horse Long-gun Concealment Case, âTrohlogucca,â for short, (sounds Italian!) With the current feeding-frenzy among American gun-buyers, mostly involving military rifles and accouterments, gun-owners, police and otherwise, are wondering how to keep and transport their military rifles in a low-profile manner, but in âtransport-modeâ (hammer down, manual-safety “off,” magazine inserted) or […]
Trigger technique for serious rifles in serious circumstances
27 Dec 12 This question from a friend: âIs there a stable way of aiming a rifle while standing? Yesterday, friends and I were engaged in cold-weather rifle drills. I used my AR, equipped with an EoTech optic. Standing and shooting at multiple, steel targets (7″x12″). Several consecutive hits, then movement. We started at 40m, […]
True enlightenment, from another psychologist
26 Dec 12 True enlightenment, from another psychologist: âPredicting gratuitous violence at any particular place and time, and on the part of a particular individual, is impossible and represents a perfect example of what we call âThe Base-Rate Dilemmaâ Violence is extremely rare among our general population, especially mass violence of the Newtown/Aurora/Columbine kind. That […]
More on mental health:
23 Dec 12 This from a practicing psychologist: âFor twenty-five years, I have been asked to assess individuals who, for whatever reason, are suspected of being ânot-quite-right.â In the process, I have met murderers, child-molesters, thieves, and plenty of other dangerous characters. I am routinely asked to predict who is about to âcrack-upâ and who […]
Editorial response
23 Dec 12 Of course, no self-respecting liberal can possibly agree with anything the NRA has to say, so liberal newspapers have been currently spewing-out their requiem hatred toward the NRA and all American gun-owners. They always do! One AZ newspaperâs Sunday editorial suggested â… identifying the mentally-ill, instead of posting armed guards at schoolsâ […]
RA/XCR-M
22 Dec 12 Robinson Armament, of North Salt Lake City, UT, was founded in 1996 and is run by my friend and colleague, Alex Robinson. I’ve known Alex from the beginning, and I have copies of his celebrated XCR Rifles in 5.56×45 (223 Rem), 6.8mm, 7.62×39 (30 Soviet), and now 7.62×51 (308 Win). I know […]
Unintended Consequences?
20 Dec 12 Comments from a friend in the Federal System: âOh, John, you donât give Slick Willy nearly enough credit! His 1994 âassault weaponâ ban effectively caused the price of police equipment to rise so high that average police officers couldn’t afford to purchase necessary gear. For example, practically overnight normal-capacity Glock magazines went […]
Buying Frenzy!
20 Dec 12 The current buying frenzy of guns, magazines, and ammunition far surpasses what we witnessed in 1994, under WJC, and in 2008 when BHO was first elected, and earlier this year when he was re-elected. Weâve never seen anything close to this! I was at a large gun retailer yesterday and discovered our […]
More on .223 ammunition
20 Dec 12 Just got a call from friends at Cor-Bon. They currently have a good supply of 223 hardball too, once again, at least for now. Get it while you still can! CorBon 605 347 4544 www.corbon.com /John
223 ammunition!
20 Dec 12 Right now, most retail stocks of 223 ammunition are sold-out. For those of us who need some, call Jodi at International Cartridge. They have a good supply, at least for now! International Cartridge PO Bx 200864 Pittsburgh, PA 15251 814 938 6820 jodi@iccammo.com /John
More fallout
18 Dec 12 Never ones to let a tragedy go to waste, senate Democrats (who else?) are currently firing the first salvo of anti-gun legislation, in the wake of last weekâs incident in CT. They now want to ban from possession, on the part of any of us peons, virtually all the common military rifles […]
