2A News: December 2, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman
FL: More on CCW Permit Holder Saving Police Officer
Active Shooter Response: A Different Look at Run, Hide, Fight
Read this:
- Active Shooter Response: A Different Look at Run, Hide, Fight
- “Run, Hide, Fight?”- Not Always the Best Active Killer Response
- Why ‘Run, Hide, Fight’ is flawed
Related:
Ohio State University Police Officer Alan Horujko, 28, was praised by authorities for his quick actions after he fatally shot a Somali Muslim terrorist OSU student with legal resident status who drove a car into a group of pedestrians before getting out and cutting multiple victims with a butcher knife on campus this week. Authorities said that Horujko, who just happened to be in the area investigating a reported gas leak, shot and killed the attacker less than one minute after the attack began. So…. guns are good, according to OSU authorities, who prohibit guns on campus.
Officials have stated that the attack was clearly deliberate and may have been planned in advance. Witness reports indicate that a group of students had assembled outside an Ohio State building in response to a fire alarm, which I presume the attacker probably triggered. The Islamic State claimed responsibility a day after the attack, calling the perpetrator a “soldier” of the terrorist group, and the FBI agrees that the perp may have been following ISIL’s instructions.
A few notes:
- As nearly always happens, the attack was stopped by a good guy with a gun.
- The school apparently sent out a text warning stating “Active Shooter on campus. Run Hide Fight,” but there was no shooter. Minutes after news broke that there was an “active shooter,” TWITters, including demanding mommy Shannon Watts and liberal VP nominee Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), called for stronger gun control and blamed the attack on weak gun control laws.
- The campus is apparently a gun free zone, so no victims had the chance to shoot the attacker.
- A one-minute response time is outstanding, but cannot be expected or depended on.
- Reports indicated that approximately 11 people were injured and 9 victims were hospitalized. 1 minute. 9 victims.
First Aid
We have a report of a new federal initiative to train staff at schools and other public places how to treat gunshots, lacerations and other injuries until EMTs can get to the scene. A program offered by Stony Brook University Hospital’s trauma center is looking to expand as part of a federal Department of Homeland Security initiative to other schools, colleges and police departments across the country.
Note that the better gun schools already offer trauma medicine courses.
Election
Elect Trump; end federal gun-free zones. Even before he takes office.
- The “Trump-Effect” Ends Gun Free Zones Before He Even Takes Office
- DoD Releases Plan to Allow Personnel to Carry Firearms on Base
Missouri’s Governor Elect Eric Greitens is a former Navy Seal. Cool.
Can you talk to the gunless? By Alan Korwin
http://americanhandgunner.com/can-you-talk-to-the-gunless/
More criminals granted clemency
President Obama announced he would free 79 more drug offenders from federal prison last week, making the total number of commutations granted under his tenure over 1,000. Mr. Obama has now granted more commutations than the past 11 presidents combined.
Deputy US Attorney General Sally Yates said that her office is committed to processing another 6,300 drug sentence commutation petitions and getting them to the president’s desk before he leaves office Jan. 20.
“He leaves office.” I love saying that.
Litigation
At 16, a boy, not an adult, was committed to a mental facility because he was thought to be suicidal. At the age of 21, he went to buy a gun. He was denied and charged with lying on the form to purchase. He wants his gun rights restored and is suing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in federal court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, on grounds that the state’s Firearms Disqualification Statute is unconstitutional.
There is no question that the National Firearms Act is unconstitutional. And there is little question that the federal government doesn’t see it that way. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the content of the law, the fact remains that there is no constitutional authority for it.
- This Lawsuit Could Shatter ALL Federal Gun Control Laws
- Using Amnesty to Roll Back Second Amendment Infringements
City of New Orleans being sued over stun gun ban
The Only Ones
The Secret Service has secret guns. So secret even they can’t find them.
Sgt. Alvin Adams of the Wood County, Ohio Sheriff’s Office died Saturday morning after his apparent negligent discharge of a personal weapon at home.
Aliquippa, PA, police officer Joshua Thomas Gonzalez, 24, has been charged with aggravated assault after he shot an unidentified 29-year-old Allegheny County jail guard allegedly in self-defense after a bar fight.
Raleigh, NC Police Officer C.N. Chandler was hit by friendly fire when he, Officer R.D. VanHouten and Officer T.A. Dunford encountered a suspect armed with a knife. We don’t yet know which of the officers shot Chandler.
Religions
Connecticut Episcopalians from parishes around the state met last month in Hartford for their 233rd annual convention, where they considered a resolution that would ask all parishes in the state to declare themselves as gun-free zones.
Also last month was the Faith and Guns Forum in Washington, D.C., organized by the United Methodist Board of Church and Society, which is one of the originators of the American gun control movement. The forum was a political gun control seminar for church leaders, and was followed by their lobbying of US Senators and Representatives in Washington.
No word on whether any of these people consulted the Bible to guide them, and if so, what passages support gun control laws.
About those white racist Southern Baptists…. (“2 Mississippi Churches Transcend Racial Barriers After Arson“)
Enemies
Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Chip Bergh has posted an open letter to customers, asking them to refrain from legally bringing their concealed carry firearms into Levi Strauss stores, because, he says, it’s safer, and that “You don’t need a gun to try on a pair of jeans.” He allows an exception for law enforcement.
He’s lying. First, it’s not safer, second, you DO need a gun to try on jeans if you normally carry a gun in your jeans, and third, law enforcement aren’t some special class of citizens. The Second Amendment applies to the people, not to government agents.
But I will honor his request and not enter any Levi stores or purchase them anywhere else.
Legendary songwriter Ed Bruce long ago took the reference to “old faded Levis” out of his song, “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys,” and replaced it with “Wranglers” due to Levi’s left-leaning politics, with which Bruce disagrees.
Harvard’s liberal gun-ban contingent says that Americans who own between 8 and 140 guns each are “gun super-owners,” and that this 3% of Americans own 50% of the guns. But consider the source. Most everyone I know falls in that range.
The PETA bunch has another moronic ad campaign featuring naked “celebrities” who are now protesting…. wool. That’s right. Apparently giving a sheep a harmless haircut is mean or something. They say they’d rather be naked than wear sheep wool.
Fine with me.
Some Ole Miss students want the university (but not themselves at home, apparently) to harbor fugitives.
Friends
The Second Amendment Foundation wants President-elect Donald Trump to “make the Second Amendment great again” by appointing a special Department of Justice prosecutor to go after cities and states that violate gun owners’ rights.
Long overdue….
Miss Ohio USA 2014 is my kinda girl…. (“After Terrorist Attack, OSU Students Want The Right to Carry Firearms on Campus, Including ‘Miss Ohio’“)
Bedwetter alert
Student government leaders at Loyola University Maryland came under pressure from the university administration to change the theme of a senior class party held Nov. 18 because, the administrators said, it was “very alienating, divisive and harmful” and against the university’s “core values.” The theme, “America,” was based upon a survey of Loyola seniors taken last summer.
Guilty administrators include the university’s Executive Vice President Susan Donovan, and Dean of Students Sheilah Horton.
Quiet Riot
Military.com reports that units from 2nd Marine Division will be silencing every element of an infantry battalion — M4 carbines to 50 caliber machine guns — in a series of experiments. The cost is expected to be $700,000 for a ~1,000-man infantry battalion.
An entire suppressed unit also sounds like pretty effective psyops to me.
Gun Talk Media is now posting Season 4 of its First Person Defender series.
New videos daily until Sunday.
Hiding guns
Military ammo
The Fiscal 2017 National Defense Appropriations Act includes a provision requiring the secretary of defense to submit a report to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees explaining why the Army and Marine Corps are using different types of 5.56 mm ammunition for their M16A4 and M4 rifles. The bill also says that if the SecDef does not determine that an “emergency” requires the Army and Marine Corps to use the two different types of rifle ammo, they must begin using one standard kind within a year after the bill is passed.
The Marine Corps uses the M855 5.56 mm round, while the Army uses the M855A1. The Army determined that the M855A1 steel-and-copper round performed better, while the Marine Corps stayed with the M855 for the time being because it has a different trajectory.
But the real reason for the difference is that the two services each choose their own ammo. The SecDef apparently has not so far dictated ammo choices across the board.
Warning about the Chase Bank mobile banking app
MSU deer study
Shopping
If you were gonna buy a gun before Hillary took office and took them away, go on and do it anyway.
This year’s Black Friday set a single-day record for the (unadjusted) number of FBI firearms background checks. The NICS processed 185,713 transactions, surpassing the previous single-day record of 185,345 checks set on Black Friday 2015. That’s enough to arm the US Marine Corps. Apparently the sales surge was due to purchases by previously unarmed liberal minorities and sexual deviants, apparently somehow thinking they were more at risk after gun-banner Hillary Clinton was defeated in the election. So after voting for Clinton they went out and bought the guns Clinton was trying to ban.
Products
- Henry Repeating Arms is now offering several of its Big Boy model rifles in .327 Federal Magnum/.32 H&R.
- If you’re not familiar with the .327, check it out — it’s an impressive little cartridge
- Apparently Marlin (Remington) is no longer offering rifles in .450 Marlin. Go figure.
- Les Baer says he will be offering a 1911 in 10mm with a 6″ slide/barrel and based on his Premier II. 44.2 oz. $2,940.
- Ruger now offers a stripped AR lower receiver that is CNC-machined from forged 7075-T6 aluminum, Type III hard-coat anodized. $129.
- For SHOT Show 2017, new gunmaker Hudson Mfg. of Temple, TX will reportedly introduce its H9, an innovative new pistol that combines a striker fired system with a 1911 style single axis trigger.
- Real Avid’s new 1911 Smart Wrench. Coolness for only $9.99.
- The Pelican 7600 is a 944 lumen, dual-fuel rechargeable, tri-color (white/red/blue or white/red/green) tactical light. ~$70.
- The Meprolight FT Bullseye illuminated pistol sight moves the front sight to the rear with the rear sight, and puts it in a “tube” so you get a correct sight picture only by looking straight into the tube. Red or green. Glock or Springfield only. $200.
- LaserLyte has grip laser sights for the NAA mini revolvers. Grip colors blue/green (teal), pink, black or white. Laser is red. $130.
- RST Ltd. manufactures high end shotgun shells offering the widest range of loadings for classic and older guns for shooters seeking low pressure, high performance, with reduced recoil. Light loads from .410 bore to 10 ga. Also 2″ & 2.5″ 12 ga. shells, #9 & #10 shot, paper shells, and bismuth loads from BB to #7.5. They come in cool vintage looking boxes.
