News from the land of geniuses.

Penfield, N.Y./Perinton, N.Y. — An investigation is underway following an incident Wednesday that reportedly began after a New York State Police trooper’s personal vehicle was rear-ended in Penfield.

According to State Police, a sergeant was reportedly driving to work in his personal vehicle around 8:15 p.m. when the vehicle was struck while stopped at a traffic light on Penfield Road at State Route 441.

They allege the driver of the other vehicle fled the scene.

That vehicle was reportedly followed to the Pines of Perinton, where troopers say the vehicle became stuck.

State Police say the trooper approached the vehicle, identified himself as a member of the State Police and told the driver to exit the vehicle. Investigators say the driver didn’t comply.

At that point, State Police say the sergeant hit the side passenger window with his personally-owned handgun in order to break it open. As this happened, they say one round was accidentally discharged. The bullet reportedly lodged in a door frame. No one was hurt.

Troopers say the suspect was treated for minor injuries at the scene. The sergeant was taken to the hospital for minor hand injuries.

So a guy jumps out of an unmarked vehicle and starts making demands of somebody.  I wouldn’t roll the window down either, and most assuredly wouldn’t get out of the car if he was displaying a firearm.

Then be beats the window in with his pistol, causing a discharge.  I guess cops are the “only ones beating enough.”

Listen.  A gun is not a hammer.  Do not use it that way.  I had to say the same thing when I saw a complaint about the stock of an AR-15 breaking when somebody used it to bang in tent pegs.  The complaint was that it must not have been a Milspec part.

Good Lord.  Like the design engineers considered use of the AR for banging in tent pegs.

Don’t do that.  Your AR is not a hammer.  Your pistol is not a hammer.  Do not beat things with firearms.  No design engineer can undo the second law of thermodynamics.

This cop is fortunate he didn’t do that somewhere in N.C. or S.C. where people carry guns.  He might have been shot.

Via WRSA, this piece at SOFREP is presented.

But the paper is just about the so-called “rifleman’s rule.”  In other words, multiply the inclined distance by the Cosine of the angle to get the horizontal distance, and adjust your holdover to the horizontal distance.  Cos(θ) × Hypotenuse = Adjacent.

Simple enough.  But it doesn’t work for large angles of inclination or declination.  It doesn’t matter what sniper wherever he is has told you to do that.  It’s wrong according to physics.  Here is a pretty good layman’s explanation (but somewhat pedestrian).

The recommendation is to multiple Cos(θ) × Holdovers for a better approximation.

Gravity doesn’t act perpendicular to the bullet when it’s travelling at an angle.

Via Ken.

1/2 – The FDA's official YouTube channel posted a livestream hours ago where a panel member admits COVID vaccines are killing more people than they're saving, effectively declaring them ineffective & HIGHLY dangerous. pic.twitter.com/peSRHtmLPa

— RESISTING THE RESET (@PressResetEarth) September 18, 2021

No. I’m not kidding.  And the thing is, it’s for real.  It always is.  That’s what I love about Ken.

A close cousin to the Beretta we recently reviewed.

Via WRSA, genocide requires unarmed victims.

There is always a precursor to tyranny.  Armed men are citizens.  Unarmed men are slaves.

Fred had a question the other day that was never fully answered.  Exactly who’s funding this?  Soros?  Who else would be on the list of culprits?

Someone I talked to a few days ago had the same question.  What are Haitians doing at the Southern border, and how did they get there?  Travel and food isn’t cheap.

PosoCheck: Florida is not in Haiti https://t.co/w7KYphafHG

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 22, 2021

Let’s see how I do.

This is a group of guys who knew they could never learn calculus or mechanics and so could never be engineers, and knew they shouldn’t try Operations Management (the hardest course in business school but still very easy, at least to me), but who still didn’t want to be pipe fitters or welders because that involves work.

So they got a position with FedGov as snitches.  They all get haircuts at the same women’s boutique.

How’d I do?

Beretta has worked hard to deliver pistols to the U.S. military, but it has come to an end.

The first week of September closed a chapter on small arms for the United States military. Beretta USA marked the occasion with a simple note on its Facebook page with little fanfare, no press release scheduled and characteristic modesty when asked for more details.

“Last week marked an end of an era for Beretta USA,” the company posted on Sept. 7. “The Beretta USA team in Gallatin, TN, packed and shipped the last Beretta M9 pistol for the U.S. Armed Forces contract. Thank you to every Beretta USA team member who, over the last 36 years, has proudly manufactured the M9, and especially to all our brave servicewomen and men who have carried the M9 in their service to the United States of America.”

Unlike some manufacturers, rather than continuing to seek DoD contracts, Beretta has repackaged the M9 into the M9A4.

Beretta USA has announced the new M9A4, the latest model in the M9 series of pistols. As such, the M9A4 boasts new features such as a red-dot ready slide, an enhanced short reset Xtreme Trigger System, along with a higher capacity magazine.

Says Beretta: “Built to exceed the standards of even the most demanding tactical shooters, the M9A4 blends the proven design of the M9 with modern features such as a red-dot optic compatible slide and dovetailed tritium night sights for optimal sight options, an enhanced short reset Xtreme Trigger System, an 18-round magazine, and a Beretta Vertec frame with included aggressively textured Vertec-style thin grips that ensure a more natural fit for all shooters.”

The red-dot ready M9A4 includes integral slide cuts to allow for the mounting of different optic plate styles. Beretta will provide a free optic plate when buyers register their purchased firearms, or they can purchase an aftermarket one. Shipping with blanking covers, there are five different plates available for the M9A4 to mount the most popular optics.

The M9A4 also sports a removable front sight for shooters with distinct preferences in terms of sight picture. In addition, a variety of accessory options are possible thanks to the Picatinny rail located in front of the trigger guard.

As for magazines, the M9A4 has ones with 10- and 15-round capacities, plus a new 18-round magazine.

MSRP is $1,099. Built in the U.S., the Beretta M9A4 available for purchase now in a wear-resistant FDE finish.

It has a nice look and a decent price point.  It appears to be the companion of what Langdon Tactical does to this firearm (without a few features).  The slide looks like it has been lightened (no doubt to compensate for the weight of the optic), it is optics ready, and they apparently are selling this in FDE.  I think Ernest Langdon partnered with them on this.

But then, I like hammer fired guns and classic safeties.

In the land down under, there is a lot going on, mostly led by the hard core workers.  Truck drivers started this, and I want to know if they’ve hit the roads again and if so, why?  Why aren’t truckers refusing to drive to deliver logistics to the tyrants?  John Guandolo observes:

In 1996, Australia passed significant laws which severely restricted an Australian’s ability to purchase and keep effective firearms.

Now, Stalinesque police and military personnel in Australia – some of whom openly say they disagree with the lockdowns, but are “just doing their job” reminiscent of nazi gate guards – are the oppressors ushering in an the era of slavery in Australia.

Who is behind all this?

It is worth noting the significant Chinese business ventures in Australia, and the Chinese population in Australia – almost 8% of the overall population in a nation of only 25.8 million people.

With the proximity of China, it is not a hard stretch to see Australia may be in China’s sites.

For citizens, the answer in Australia is the same it is in Europe and the United States.

Citizens must resist tyranny and defend liberty at all costs.

Yes, citizens must resist at all costs.  And yes, the Chinese control over Australia is one big reason I am opposed to sharing nuclear and defense technology with them.  But let’s get to that big point he made about the cops.

… some of whom openly say they disagree with the lockdowns, but are “just doing their job.”

That’s like saying I am an engineer and professionally opposed to designing building and bridges that will fall and kill people, and violating rules of ethics, but I’m just doing my job when management tells me to cut corners.

No, and a thousand times no.  No, no, no, no, no.  I will not listen to that, and I wish I could be there when a cop said something like that – or has ever said “I’m opposed to gun confiscations in America, but if the order comes, I’ll just do my job.”

Go ahead.  You’ve made your choice, and the decision is to do something immoral for money.  You’re no different from a whore.  If you’re a cop, listen to me.  If you would violate the second amendment for your job or retirement, you’re a whore, and a relatively cheap one at that.

It shows that not only does the person have no scruples, but the lack of scruples shows that the person does not honor the Lordship of Christ, and thus doesn’t have the savior.

As it will be with all American cops who violate their oaths, it will be for Australian cops who forcibly kidnap people or their children to be sent off to camps or forcibly jabbed.  You do not have authority over a man and woman’s child.  God has given that to the family, not the state.

You will pay for your 30 pieces of silver with your soul.  You will be in eternal torment for your choice.