Today was a good range day. I took my son out to our local county range for a bit of firearms drill.  It has been colder than usual this winter, and today was no exception: sunny and about 50 degrees, windy enough to bring tears to your eyes.  I figured today would be a good day to introduce my 13 year old son to shooting in less than ideal conditions than he was used to experiencing. Since we live in Central Florida, yes, 50 degrees is chilly.  Wind chill must have pushed the ‘feels like’ down to at most 48.  (Sorry to all you Northerners who might be jealous.)

My son was going to get in some practice with our simple .22: loading drills, point of aim return, shot grouping, etc.  Meanwhile, I was there to try out a new ammo I just received in the mail from BulkAmmo.com:  Federal Premium Low Recoil ammo in .380 shot through my Beretta 84BB. This is a 90 gr ammo just like the cheap range rounds I usually use for practice, but these are hydra-shok rounds.  The entry hole was so much more crisp on the paper that the flat-nose rounds would make.

I even went so far as to load one magazine half and half with the new-to-me Federals and half the cheap junk I use for practice.  Each round leaving the pistol felt the same. When I say that, I mean that just because it says ‘low recoil’ on the box, I had always been wary of using it, thinking it somehow was a wussy of a round, that it wouldn’t cycle the chamber correctly or stovepipe or some other disaster would occur to me or my pistol.  I LOVE this pistol. If it got damaged from bad ammo I seriously think I would grieve.  So I was worried.

My normal carry round is obviously also a hyda-shok, but full power.  Since my health isn’t the best due to nerve damage, I would rarely actually shoot the regular power load at the range.  So I figured to be fair, to give it a fair test, I should shoot a mag of the good stuff too.  I was surprised at the results.  The groups were of a size, but the time required to come back on target was MUCH faster with the low power load.  And really, from 7-10 feet away, there isn’t going to be any appreciable difference to a goblin in the hit.  But it could make a BIG difference how fast I could get off that SECOND accurate shot.

Overall, I’m very pleased with the ammo and am going to switch it for my regular ammo.  I never would have believed it, but if no other reason than the recovery speed, I am now a convert to low recoil.

“He can do a lot of things through the form of government they have.”

Yes, Pruney Prunerton, we know very well you think your ilk should have absolute power.  2nd Amendment FTW!

Apparently emboldened by the mass thievery going on at the national level, I see our Florida legislature has taken the policies of our Dear Leader to heart and started grabbing for cash with both greedy little hands.  I am referring, of course, to SB 2600 in which $6 million dollars from the Division of Licensing Concealed Weapons and Firearm Trust Fund has been raided in a move that would make Vikings, Mongols and Tuskens quite proud. 

I am the kind of voter who insists on research, and ordinarily I would quadruple-check anything disseminated by the NRA, however, I am most irritatingly required to rely on the their report of this misappropriation due to the myfloridahouse.gov website’s pitiful coding, which prompts me to download the ASP file that should instead be displaying the full text of the bill. 

I sincerely hope this isn’t by design.  That’s the sort of thing that could cause people to start filing lawsuits.

As a Citizen of this country, as a CCW holder in the state of Florida, I urge you to put an end to this foolishness.  Line-item veto this misappropriation, line-item veto the threat to our state’s education budget if their trust fund theft is circumvented, and shine the light of publicity on the cockroaches that conceived the entire scheme.  Prove to us that you’re different, that you’re not the typical politician, that you deserve your Governorship and a future Senate seat.

However.  

All these gun-related incidents this year seem designed to stir up irrational fears in the sheeple out there, so as to perhaps make it easier for those fucking thieves in D.C. to move ahead with registration and/or an outright ban.  

It’s enough to make a girl get out the metal file, I tell you.

A professor in Connecticut reported one of her students to the police after he gave a class presentation on why students and teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. Now, free speech activists say the professor’s actions are what really need to be investigated.

Last October, John Wahlberg and two classmates at Central Connecticut State University gave an oral presentation for a communications class taught by Professor Paula Anderson. The assignment was to discuss a “relevant issue in the media,” and the students presented their view that the death toll in the April 2007 Virginia Tech shooting massacre would have been lower if professors and students had been carrying guns.

That night, police called Wahlberg, a 23-year-old senior, and asked him to come to the station. When he arrived, they they read off a list of firearms that were registered in his name and asked where he kept them. Guns are strictly prohibited on the CCSU campus and residence halls, but Wahlberg says he lives 20 miles off-campus and keeps his gun collection locked up in a safe. No further action was taken by police or administrators.

Makes you just want to catch her in a dark hallway and yell BOO, doesn’t it.  Stupid cow.

“Upon arrival, Fort Bend County deputies found an unidentified male lying in the street, the victim of an apparent fatal gunshot wound.”

The sheriff’s office didn’t name the homeowner or reveal details of the shooting incident.

But the law enforcement source familiar with the investigation said the dead man and one or more companions had approached the homeowner’s house and tried to enter, because one of his children was having a party there.

But the dead man and his companions were told to leave, and initially did so, the law enforcement source said. But then they came back.

“One of them approached the man” who owned the house “and threatened him.”

Both the homeowner and the alleged gang member were armed with handguns, the source said. At least one shot was fired, and the man who tried to crash the party was killed.

…the average sleazebag who will accost you, or kick in your front door, doesn’t spend a lot of time at the range.

Here’s some fucking perspective for you.

Hugs and Really Wet Tongue Kisses,

LG

(Via Maggie’s Farm)

Amazing video of an attempted home invasion in Tucson. Investigators say the victim fought back by shooting at a group of armed men trying to break into his house. This all happened Thursday afternoon near Cardinal and Irvington on the southwest side.

The is video from a surveillance system overlooking the driveway of the victim’s home. It shows the suspects pull up in a car and jump out. One of the would-be home invaders fires a shot as he runs into the garage. Within seconds several more shots ring out. Investigators say those came from the man inside the home.

Let’s see if we can get the video to embed…

Click here to view the embedded video.

All I have to say is “nice grouping.”

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., is hoping to pass a firearm-licensing bill that will significantly rewrite gun-ownership laws in America.

Among the more controversial provisions of the bill are requirements that all handgun owners submit to the federal government a photo, thumb print and mental heath records. Further, the bill would order the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer and owner’s address in America.

Um, no.  Not just “no” but “come to my house and try and make me.”  

The bill claims its purpose is “to protect the public against the unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with the unrecorded sale or transfer of firearms to criminals and youth.”

Are you seriously that naive?  Or just criminally fucking stupid?  

Oh wait, I’m asking that of an Elected Official, so the correct answer is C: All of the above.