Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
A good attorney (In case you were wondering if there is such a thing.) Davenport, IA attorney Eric Puryear of Puryear Law P.C. is offering his employees a $50 monthly bonus if they carry a concealed gun into work. Puryear said, “I would hate to have something happen to any employee and think, ‘Gee, if I’d told them about gun […]
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The “Only Ones” Austin, TX police officer Arturo Canizales will be suspended from duty for one day because he had an unintentional discharge with his assigned patrol unit shotgun into the passenger side of the marked car. There were no injuries. Apparently he was checking the load status of the shotgun, and it was loaded. Presidio County, TX deputy sheriff
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The Rules apply to cannons too. A firearms instructor and collector was unloading a 40mm cannon from his SUV when it accidentally discharged and fatally struck him at his home in New Zealand. Rule 1: ALL guns are ALWAYS loaded. Rule 2: NEVER let the muzzle cover anything which you are not willing to destroy. A power outage affecting approximately
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What it looks like to not be able to defend against a spree killer, and why you shouldn’t automatically listen to police advice. Sometimes the police tell you to be defenseless, and get dead. But the cops work for us, not the other way around. We get to tell them how it’s going to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMf8SksLqkk
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We had another case last week of a toddler finding a gun in his mother’s purse and shooting her and his father with it. Off-body carry/insecure storage of a primary defensive gun is usually a bad idea.
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Get checked for injuries AND call an ambulance after any gun or knife fight. Fatal internal bleeding is possible. There are other benefits to getting checked out immediately.
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This week’s “Smart Gun Symposium” had to make do without one of the key speakers — Rick Patterson, executive director of SAAMI — who missed the meeting due to weather. Apparently Patterson then was unable to participate in the conference via a Skype connection, ironically because, as he explained it, “the technology is too unreliable,” and to top that off,
A Cambridge, MA, fire captain was hospitalized this week and is now on sick leave after he accidentally shot himself in a fire station. The captain was in a stairwell of the fire station when he was removing a personal firearm and holster from his jacket pocket in an attempt to attach it to his belt when it fired, hitting
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