Articles by Herschel Smith

Seems to be a comprehensive analysis.

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.