Dean Weingarten has a good find at Ammoland.
Judge Eduardo Ramos, the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, has issued an Opinion & Order that a ban on stun guns is constitutional. A New York State law prohibits the private possession of stun guns and tasers; a New York City law prohibits the possession and selling of stun guns. Judge Ramos has ruled these laws do not infringe on rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being by Him; and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.”
John 1:1-4
“In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. The Father is of none, neither begotten, nor proceeding: the Son is eternally begotten of the Father: the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son.”
No Walmart employee was scared, for if they were, they would have been running for cover. The man was a customer seeking a part, not a mass shooter. He carried the gun in that he had previously purchased from Walmart.
To be sure, he could have cased the firearm, and I probably would have, but there was still no law violated. Just a “Karen Call” to the police. In defense of the 911 operator, he tried to ask the right questions, and also simply recommended that the manager go talk to him and ask him to leave.
No one ever did that – not Walmart employees, not the police. Like the civil rights lawyer said, “If there’s going to be drama, it’s going to be in Walmart.” I do not go to Walmart. The sell cheap Chinese crap, and their employees are awful.
Watch until the end. While the 911 operator tried to settle things down, the cops barged in carrying a patrol rifle and tased him, having to figure out what the charges were after the fact, charges beaten in court. Still, he lost his job because Walmart, and Karens.
Finally, look at the screen shot of the local news. Be reminded again just how awful, inaccurate, terrible, dishonest, underhanded, perfidious, and untrustworthy the media is. They … are … just .. atrocious. To find the truth, go anywhere but the legacy media. Literally, whatever they say is false. This is a good rule of thumb.
Neighbors in the Dupuyer area had warned him about the dangers of grizzly bears in the area. He had taken their advice and was carrying a Smith & Wesson 629 stainless steel .44 magnum revolver. The revolver was loaded with 305 grain HSM cartridges. He had a can of bear spray.
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As the bear knocked him down and twisted him, he managed to free the revolver from the windbreaker, release the thumb break, and draw the revolver.
He could see the back of the bear, but not it’s head. He shot the bear in the back, into the shoulder/chest, with the muzzle of the revolver just inches from it. Ken said, maybe he should have shot her in the head, but he did not want to shoot his own leg.
Ken says the first shot worked. It hurt the bear. The bear immediately let him go and retreated. As the bear turned and presented its side, he shot again at its chest. As the bear staggered away and paused, Ken emptied the revolver at it.
Then Ken attempted to reload with an HKS speed loader. The HKS is a handy way to carry spare ammunition. It seemed to take a long time to reload. He attributed the lack of speed to a lack of experience.
The bear staggered away. Ken finished reloading, assessed the damage, and limped back to his truck. He was able to drive to the hospital in Conrad. It took him four months to heal.
Dean has the rest of the story. This speaks well of the practice of carrying a large bore handgun with you.
A large bore long gun, of course, would be better in certain circumstances, but I’ll willing to bet that a shotgun or rifle would have been knocked out of his hands during the initial assault, and that a handgun was much easier to turn and wield.
Finally, there is the added advantage that a handgun is on your person at all times – or at least it should be.
DTG was a WordPress blog, and he was taken down. I had seen screen shots for a few days over reddit/firearms but didn’t want to jump until I was sure.
David Codrea links another troubling bill. According to Mom-at-Arms.
Going after those that teach gun safety now. In short, if someone teaches a firearm safety class in the safe handling of weapons and a student later goes out and commits a crime or “domestic terrorism” during a time of a civil disorder, the instructor will be held liable.
David has some thoughts as well. This sort of training is needful, and while making the prediction that they will go after such training, I’ll also make this prediction. This training will happen whether official and formal or recognized by any specific entity.
Where there is a need, there will be a product or service to fill that need.
“I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all, in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now. For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 1:3-6
The wonderful thing about God having chosen His saints is that they will assuredly end up at the destiny which God has ordained. His saints are eternally secure. Chastised at times to be sure, as a loving father disciplines His children, but still His.
When the deputy arrived at the young family’s location, he exited the vehicle with a Colt AR15 style rifle in .223 caliber.
The mountain lion was not deterred, even after the deputy arrived. The deputy tried shouting at the animal. It stopped pacing back and forth and started advancing toward the deputy.
The deputy fired a warning round in front of the big cat. It continued to advance.
The deputy fired at the front of the cat, below the head. At the shot, the cat started charging the deputy. The first shot was from 25-30 yards out.
The deputy continued to fire, hitting the cat three or four times out of four or five shots. The last shot was into the side of the cat as it turned. It dropped to the ground about 10 yards from the deputy.
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When mountain lions were routinely hunted with dogs, it was common for even a small dog to tree a mountain lion.
Today, thirty years after regular lion hunting was banned in California, mountain lions routinely kill and eat pet dogs.
That’s closer than I want to be to an advancing mountain lion. As I’ve said before, there aren’t any animals in North America that will stand and take on a pack of dogs. Flight is their first instinct. For large predators it needs to be a large pack.
“And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”
“And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.”
Col 1:17, Heb 1:3
For the Christian, our ontology and cosmology sees the universe as utterly dependent upon the Son of God, who could bring something into or out of existence with a thought.
