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"Smart" Taser
2008-05-07 10:59:00
If this works as advertised it would mean that if an officer looses control of his taser some smart-gun wizardry would disable the weapon. The article is skimpy on details about how this works.
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"Smart" Taser
2008-05-07 10:59:00
If this works as advertised it would mean that if an officer looses control of his taser some smart-gun wizardry would disable the weapon. The article is skimpy on details about how this works.
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Racism in drug arrests.
2008-05-07 10:26:00
While the study wants to point to some racial motive, isn't it possible that more police resources are dedicated to higher crime/lower income areas? Could it be that the disparity is caused by income rather than skin color?
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Racism in drug arrests.
2008-05-07 10:26:00
While the study wants to point to some racial motive, isn't it possible that more police resources are dedicated to higher crime/lower income areas? Could it be that the disparity is caused by income rather than skin color?
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Racism in drug arrests.
2008-05-07 10:26:00
While the study wants to point to some racial motive, isn't it possible that more police resources are dedicated to higher crime/lower income areas? Could it be that the disparity is caused by income rather than skin color?
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Proud to be a shooting family
2008-05-07 00:46:00
This is pretty good idea, using shooting as a reward for good behaviour. It sounds like this guy is going to raise a pretty responsible son if he is learning all of this a 8 years old. Pretty cool.
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CCTV Doesn't stop crime.
2008-05-07 00:05:00
Of course it doesn't. It might 'solve' a crime but CCTV's only value in preventing a crime is one of deterence. I guess if a criminal is confident he can defeat CCTV or he doesn't care it won't make much difference.
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Another anti-taser rant
2008-05-07 00:02:00
A medical examiner that writes a cause of death that has never before been recorded, that is contrary to all of the existing research is going out on a limb. 'Electrical pulse stimulation by taser' doesn't explain how that is fatal in my mind.
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Another anti-taser rant
2008-05-07 00:02:00
A medical examiner that writes a cause of death that has never before been recorded, that is contrary to all of the existing research is going out on a limb. 'Electrical pulse stimulation by taser' doesn't explain how that is fatal in my mind.
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Helmke spouts off again
2008-05-05 23:34:00
Out of 3000 teenagers and kids killed by guns only 1000 of them were under 17. This is because gangsters fall in to the 20-year-old-child demographic that Helmke wants you to pity. Banning pools would save more kids than banning guns.

Mass Casulaty Triage
2008-05-05 23:20:00
There is always a triage phase in any kind of mass casualty event. It is one of the things that has made such circumstances more survivable. I doubt that threatening the medics is going to be a plausible option, triage happens after scene security.
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Anti-Gun rant from campus paper
2008-05-05 23:17:00
The author believes that we need to tighten gun control not loosen it (as in allowing CCW on campuses.) Too bad the only guns effected by legal controls are not the ones causing the problems.
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Alumagrips
2008-05-05 23:03:00
If you were looking for some expensive 1911 grips these are it. I will say that the customization options are pretty cool. It's not easy to find thing grips, let alone engraved.

Columnist's NRA gun instruction continues
2008-05-05 22:57:00
Amazing. So you go shooting and nothing horrible happens - kind of like every range session. It is nice to see this word getting out. Take a friend to the range, take two if they write for the MSM.
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Money Tactics
2008-05-02 11:43:00
People have a number of tricks for hanging on to their cash, ranging from the conventional wisdom of carrying only small amounts, hiding it on your person, and carrying false wallets. It is worth analyzing all of these gimmicks and looking at what makes sense and what doesn't. Any cash hiding strategy will simply limit the amount of loss in the best case scenario. If the armed mugger demands your wallet and you keep all of your large bills in your sock then hopefully the mugger is satisfied with the contents of the wallet and goes away. If the mugger is frustrated at the amount in the wallet or isn't convinced that you don't have any more money you are still in the middle of an armed robbery. read more
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Updating the blog roll
2008-05-01 22:25:00
As I look at my blog roll I notice that it is hopelessly out of sync with I am reading. If you have related blog, I would be happy to add you. Simply respond in the comments to this post and I will hook you up.
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One Shot Stops
2008-04-30 17:29:00
After my Handgun Ballistics post yesterday what do I find today: ?One Shot Stop? Handgun statistics, and why they?re a load of crap It's funny and pretty much spot on. I don't know that anyone is citing Marshall and Sanow anymore, but it is a pretty good summary as to why they shouldn't.
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Back online
2008-04-30 15:10:00
Nothing like having a wet string connection to the internet and need to do a site update. The theme change was not really intentional.
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Handgun Ballistics
2008-04-29 15:02:00
I know that I wrote a bit about Stopping here, but I didn't really discuss ballistics too much. I am too much of pragmatist to really care to much about the science, since the science really isn't very good. You can shoot gelatin, pig carcasses, or whatever 'human body simulator' you like but there are simply too many variables in real world encounters to get accurate data. read more
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Liability of taking strangers to shoot
2008-04-29 11:51:00
Hell In A Handbasket has a post up about taking people to shoot Unseen Shoals and what the risks are. I think there is some exposure, but not as much as James believes. Please go read it.
More About: Commentary , Gun rights , Taking , Shoot , Strangers

The whole self-defense package
2008-04-28 19:10:00
People tend to approach self-defense from the angle of what they can do. They look at what they believe to be their capabilities and try to leverage that as self-defense. Even the term "self-defense" points to a "I am the center of the universe" sort of thinking, so I suppose it is understandable that there are many people who believe that they can defend themselves because they have a tool. read more
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Things should be returning to normal
2008-04-26 22:55:00
Travel, work and 3rd world internet connectivity have been conspiring to keep me from getting some new posts up. Hopefully this situation will settle down in the next day or so.
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On the Road again
2008-04-22 11:48:00
Sorry for the light posting, I am traveling again so it will be a few days before I can resume regular posting.
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Long Range Self-Defense
2008-04-17 04:53:00
From Hell In A Handbasket: Reaching Out The maximum engagement distance for a handgun is the greatest distance at which you can still get good hits reliably. It might be that a self-defense encounter beyond 50 feet is pretty rare, but I would argue that if you are getting shot at from 60 feet you still have a problem. Rare doesn't mean it doesn't happen, and statistics don't apply to the individual. For many of the victims of Charles Whitman, 100% of their lethal force self-defense situations occurred (and ended) at distances greater than 50 feet. read more
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Law and Policy
2008-04-17 02:07:00
The previous post about Wal-Marts decision to support Bloomberg's gun control agenda leads me back to the subject of law and policy. Wal-Mart as a private entity can do or disclose any information it feels like disclosing to anyone it feels like disclosing it too, so long as that information isn't protected by law. Free and easy disclosure of all of this personal information is totally harmless as long the recipients are completely benevolent. Corruption anywhere along the way makes these disclosures dangerous. At some level you have an employee with your purchasing habits. If they think you are dangerous they can inform the government, if they think you are immoral they can inform their fringe activist friends. What is to prevent an employee from red-flagging a customer? read more
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Wal Mart Gun Control
2008-04-15 02:11:00
Call Me Ahab has a post about Wal-Mart and Bloomberg Essentially Wal-Mart has volunteered to step into an enforcement role. They will gather, warehouse, and furnish information to to the police about firearms purchases, as well as red flagging any purchaser and calling the police on what amounts to a request from law enforcement. This is an awful lot of discretionary power in the hands of the middle managers of a retail store. read more
More About: Commentary , Gun Control , Control

Field Wallet/Organizer*
2008-04-14 04:27:00
These are available from a number of different manufacturers of varying quality. The cheap ones seem to be fine. I use these for all sorts of general organization when I travel. read more
More About: Organizer , Equipment , Survival , Field , Wallet

The Militia Riflemen
2008-04-14 01:11:00
Riflemen (H/T:War on Guns) If you are worried about running out of ammunition then load more magazines. Stripper clips are faster than loading loose rounds, but are still a bit fiddly. You wouldn't want to be loading magazine under fire either way. Skip the stipper clips and use the savings to buy more magazines. I would argue that a double basic load of magazines (12) is probably sufficient for most purposes. 336+ rounds should either solve your problem or give you an opportunity for resupply or battlefield recovery. A private citizen or law enforcement officer would be hard pressed to need to need to reload a rifle more than once for anything short of a zombie invasion. read more
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Teaching People to Shoot
2008-04-12 13:13:00
Rachel Lucas talks a bit about going to the gun range, and all of the commentary about women being taught to shoot by husbands, boyfriends, etc. reminded me how bad this usually works out. Men do not have some kind of monopoly on knowing how to use firearms - nor are they born with some innate ability. The evolutionary processes around shooting are pretty diluted, so nobody is really a born shooter. All of the people that are really good got that way from practice and training despite any genetic advantages they might have had. read more
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Gun Control Protests
2008-04-12 12:07:00
The ProtestEasyGuns offshoot of the Brady Campaign is taking a page from the far-left activist protesters by staging die ins. Is simple, civil and peaceful. Each protest includes 32 individuals symbolizing the 32 students and teachers murdered at Virginia Tech, and the 32 Americans murdered by guns EVERY DAY in the United States. If you should happen to see one of these I would suggest commenting: "You are lying down when you should be fighting back."
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