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What if Guns Were Mandatory

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Many of us see gun ownership as a rite of passage and a civic duty. When I turned six, I was given my first rifle and taught by my grandfather, a career military man, to shoot it properly. When I turned 15, I was given my first handgun (‘if you have a car, you need something for the glovebox’.) Firearm ownership is one of the inalienable rights guaranteed to citizens under the Bill of

Rights. Some think it’s such an important right that it should be mandatory.

Its already happened here before

Read the rest in my column at Firearms Talk

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Gun Control Buzzfeed

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All your pro-statism, anti-rights, morally sanctimonious hand wringing attempts to leverage the murder of children by persons with mental illness willing to kill their own parent to gain access to their legally obtained firearms for the political agenda of those who want you under their control … all in one spot.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tag/gun_control

The headlines are pretty stark.

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Coast Guard 87 Chief Killed by Drug Runners

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The USCG lost one of those rare NCOs that help hold everything together. Chief Horne, of the USCGC Halibut (WPB-87340), an 87-foot Marine Protector Class patrol boat  , lost his life when his small boat was rammed by a suspected drug runner off of the Southern California coast, suffering a TBI.

PORT OF HUENEME, Calif. (KABC) (story link with video)  —

Chief Horne (USCG photo, undated)

Chief Horne (USCG photo, undated)

Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III of Redondo Beach and three others were on an inflatable boat in pursuit of suspected drug smugglers in a panga. Investigators say that the panga was running dark with no lights on when it was spotted near Santa Cruz Island around 2 a.m. Sunday.

The Coast Guard cutter Halibut deployed its small boat, and the crew chased after the smugglers with its law enforcement lights on. Authorities say the suspects suddenly turned, and at a high rate of speed, hit the Coast Guard inflatable head-on, throwing two Coast Guard members into the water.

Horne, 34, sustained a traumatic head injury and was pronounced dead at the Port of Hueneme. The other Coast Guard member suffered minor injuries.

“I want to emphasize that our hearts go out to the family and the loved ones of Chief Petty Officer Horne,” said Coast Guard Capt. James Jenkins.

The two suspects have been arrested. Sources say they are Mexican nationals. The Department of Justice is investigating the deadly incident.

In Redondo Beach, family and friends have been filling his home and comforting his wife. Neighbors say that she is pregnant with their second child.

Authorities say drugs were recovered on the panga, and according to sources, it was a large amount of marijuana.

(Copyright ©2012 KABC-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)

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Rest in peace, Chief Horne.

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I’m With Stumpy

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Bravo Zulu, HM3 Ramos….you are a total bad ass.


U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Redmond Ramos, a corpsman, displays a tattoo that reads “I’m with Stumpy” showing his sense of humor Nov. 14, 2012, during the first Wounded Warrior Pacific Trials at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Honolulu, Hawaii. Ramos deployed with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, to Sangin, Afghanistan in 2011 where he stepped on an IED, resulting in the loss of his leg. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth)

Looter Repellent

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The recent hurricanes of this year, Isaac and Sandy, have brought to light that worse trait of post-storm recovery: looting.

Looting is the act of taking goods (stealing) during unusual circumstances such as the recent hurricanes, or other natural or manufactured disasters when police are unavailable or otherwise occupied. It’s simple: when the lights go out alarms don’t work. Damage to storefronts and homes left vacant by evacuating families often create access points through knocked-out windows, doors, and walls, that further invite people with sticky fingers. After Hurricane Sandy one eyewitness said, “”I saw this guy stealing televisions from a nursing home right on the boardwalk on Tuesday, and the workers were chasing him up the street….Every time I saw him he had a different TV.”

Simple, affordable, and effective is the key to a good anti-looter arsenal. Any firearm is preferable to nothing at all. In (legal) firearm-scare Queens, residents had to use “baseball bats, booby traps – even a bow and arrow – to defend themselves” from looters.
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Robert Hillbergs Liberator Shotgun

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Most people know what a shotgun is. Most people know what a derringer is. Few people know there was ever a shotgun derringer. Robert Hillberg for Winchester designed it and, in the spirit of its guns ultimate purpose, it was dubbed “The Liberator”.
The concept of an “insurgency weapon” first came about debatably in the Second World War. Freedom loving resistance fighters behind the Nazi lines in occupied Europe had lots of heart but few weapons and to solve this problem the FP-45 .45 ACP single shot pistol was invented. The concept was that thousands of inexpensive and extremely simple to use (just point and shoot) close range weapons could set the German rear on fire by disseminating them throughout the civilian populations via airdrops and other more covert methods, diverting enemy combat troops from the front line for a minimal investment.

Yeats later, the US found itself in a similar situation.  With firearm confiscation in Cuba after 1959, and a looming invasion by US-backed anti-Castro rebels landing at the Bay of Pigs, a simple and effective shotgun that could be dropped across the island to local resistance members was envisioned. Enter Robert Hillberg and the Liberator.

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Is Obama the Gunsalesman of the Decade?

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http://www.firearmstalk.com/entries/Is-Obama-Gun-salesman-of-the-Decade.html

 

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Ak-47 Armed Huey vs Two Biplanes

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In one of the oddest air combats in history, take a look at the below from the CIA’s art archive.

An Air Combat First
Keith Woodcock
Oil on Canvas, 2007
Donated by Marius Burke and Boyd D. Mesecher

Known as “Site 85,” the US radar facility perched atop a 5,800-foot mountain in northeast Laos was providing critical and otherwise unavailable all-weather guidance to American F-105 fighter-bombers flying strike missions against Communist facilities in North Vietnam. CIA proprietary Air America provided air support to the isolated site. Recognizing the threat posed by this facility, the People’s Army of Vietnam vowed to destroy it. On January 12, 1968, North Vietnamese AN-2 Colt biplanes—modified to drop “bombs” improvised from 122-mm mortars and 57-mm rockets—attacked the site. Coincidentally, Air America pilot Ted Moore was flying an ammunition-supply run to the site in his unarmed UH-1D “Huey” helicopter and took chase. Flight mechanic Glenn Woods pulled out his AK-47 rifle and began firing. The Colts suffered severe bullet damage and crashed as they attempted to escape. The painting captures one Colt fleeing and the other being pursued by the Air America Huey. This daring action—shooting down an enemy fixed-wing aircraft from a helicopter—represents a singular aerial victory in the entire history of the Vietnam War.

2013 Weapons Systems Handbook

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Looking for the free 313 page US Army Published 2013 Weapons Systems Handbook that covers every US

Army weapons system? Click Here

Congress Beating up Army over old M1s

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I normally steer away from CNN. But I used to work for GenDyn, and here is an *interesting* piece about how the Army wants to not spend $2.8Billion (with a B) in upgrading 2,000 1980s vintage M1s that are in long term storage but Congress is making them. I agree that keeping Lima open is cheaper than rebuilding the plant but hey….The military says it can save $3b by not upgrading a fleet of tanks, but Congress won’t listen.

Drew Griffin reports.

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