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Rule 5

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

If it saves just one life: Do not try to catch a dropped gun. That guy, he’s pretty smart. In other news, if you use the word penis, an editor will change it to rather sensitive area.

The rules

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Seems the various discussions of the rules take everyone all the way around their butt to get to their elbows. Where they ultimately agree but aren’t happy about it. It’s what gunnies do. Meanwhile, I’d like to pass along my fifth rule because, maybe, someone will read it one day and it may save their […]

Don’t go off half-cocked

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

And, repeat after me, do not try to catch a dropped gun.

It bears repeating

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Do not try to catch a dropped gun.

I make a motion

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

I think the four rules of firearm safety should be amended and we should add Rule 5: Never try to catch a dropped gun. Ask Plaxico Burres as well. Sure, it’s covered by rule three but if you’re quickly trying to stop gravity from working, your booger-hook could end up on the bang-switch. So, the […]

Good advice

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

PDB: Do not attempt to catch a dropped gun. Let it fall! I don’t know that it’s worth adding a fifth rule to the four rules since rule three (keep your boogr-hook off the bang-switch) seems to address that.

Because narrative

Wednesday, November 20th, 2019

Why the US Media dropped the OK Walmart Shooting

They both surrendered?

Monday, November 11th, 2019

The NRA has dropped its lawsuit against San Fran for calling it a terrorist organization.

ATF: Making it up as they go

Tuesday, October 15th, 2019

ATF has revised a ruling on AR-15 lower receivers as guns. Now, they are not. Odd since millions and millions around the country have that part serialized. Looking at the original piece by CNN, it seems that the feds dropped the case because they knew it would undermine gun control efforts. And prove that ATF […]

Alienating your customers hurts business? Who knew?

Thursday, November 29th, 2018

Apparently, Dick’s didn’t: Sales at Dick’s Sporting Goods dropped in the past three months amid backlash against tighter gun-sale restrictions following a mass killing early this year at a Florida high school. Revenue dipped 4.5 percent to $1.86 billion amid challenges in the company’s hunting business during the quarter through Nov. 3. Sales at stores […]

Journalism

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018

Opening of the article implies FedEx dropped the NRA due to a mass shooting. Then, paragraph 3: The change of tack comes just days after a gunman killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. The $56 billion logistics company says the closure of its NRA discount program from Nov. 4 has no connection to that […]

Use a holster

Thursday, May 31st, 2018

A man was shot when he dropped a bag containing a gun. Use a holster, people.

The Yeti situation

Wednesday, April 25th, 2018

Yeti reportedly pulled their relationship with the NRA. Yeti says it was an outdated program and they support the second amendment. A former NRA president says that Yeti demanded the NRA cease using the cooler companys logo after the Parkland school shooting. Naturally, a lot of people are posting videos of them destroying their Yeti […]

Because he can?

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018

CNN reporter upset that the Navy Secretary carrying a gun. He is a civilian and all. I’m more interested in why he’s carrying it in dropped leg holster without an apparent need.

The banned played on

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

Justice and ATF are looking to ban bump stocks: Possessing firearm parts that are used exclusively in converting a weapon into a machine gun is illegal, except for certain limited circumstances, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said in a joint statement. Today we begin the […]

Excellent

Monday, December 4th, 2017

There will be a floor vote on National Reciprocity. But: However, as predicted by Rep. Tom Massie (R-KY) the Fixed NICS bill has been merged with concealed carry reciprocity. It is now Title II of HR 38. Massie goes on to say that when the bill hits the Senate, carry reciprocity will be dropped and […]

More Sig P320 drop firing stuff

Monday, August 7th, 2017

I mentioned it before I took an expanded break from the interweb. And I said I was skeptical. Tactical Life has come out and said that it is not true: Tactical-Life.com has confirmed that the Dallas Police Departments suspension of use of the Sig Sauer P320 was based on a miscommunication of a non-existent defect. […]

Getting Siggy Wit It

Thursday, August 3rd, 2017

Dallas has stopped issuing Sig P320s after one supposedly fired when dropped. I’m skeptical.

Happy ending

Wednesday, June 21st, 2017

A burglar shot by his partner in crime: Young was trying to carry out a big screen TV and dropped it when the woman yelled at the men and they started to run. The other man fired a gun back toward the house and hit Young, Davis said.

Enforcing the laws on the books

Tuesday, October 25th, 2016

Not in Baltimore: Arrests in Baltimore for illegal guns often lead to dropped charges or little jail time Calling for gun control is easier than, you know, doing something.

In NJ

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

Looking to loosen gun laws. Probably because they make the news regularly for arresting someone passing through. Speaking of, charges were dropped against the most recent person to leave America for NJ.

Brady Drops the suit

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015

They dropped the appeal in their frivolous lawsuit that exploited a tragedy. I guess they didn’t want to donate anymore money to gun rights groups.

Bryco/Jennings Lawsuit Update

Wednesday, November 19th, 2014

A jury has awarded someone who dropped a gun “on a glass dining room” $6M because that’s what people not smart enough to get out of jury duty do: Hardware paid $89.95 for a new Bryco/Jennings pistol that Bell said Richardson had bought “in bulk” a year earlier. According to testimony, a few weeks after […]

Enforcing the laws on the books

Tuesday, October 7th, 2014

In Indy, not so much: Why wasn’t Beasley in prison that day? And what about others like him? Twice, Beasley had been charged with possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, an offense specifically designed to reduce the murder rate. The crime carried a 20-year prison sentence. Yet — twice — prosecutors dropped […]

More like this

Sunday, February 9th, 2014

So, the police went and did a no knock warrant on a guy growing marijuana. The man thought them to be burglars and shot and killed an officer. Ordinarily, this would be straight to prison and first degree murder. But not this time: A Central Texas man who shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy entering […]

Just Popcorn

Monday, January 20th, 2014

The movie shooting kind of dropped off my radar. But a good point is that we don’t what happened and the press usually gets these things wrong.

Shocking

Monday, December 9th, 2013

Girlfriend wants charges against Zimmerman dropped. Also, she says the police intimidated her: Scheibe’s new affidavit taken Dec. 6 stated, “When I was being questioned by police I felt very intimidated…I believe that the police misinterpreted me and that I may have misspoken about certain facts in my statement to police.” Scheibe wrote that Zimmerman […]

The market speaks

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

And it says “don’t piss off your customers“: Following the Newtown shooting spree, Dick’s Sporting Goods changed their policy and stopped selling AR-pattern and other semi-automatic, magazine-fed rifles, even the guns they had already sold. … At a time where the only thing a company has to do to sell firearms, ammo and accessories is […]

Because people finally calmed down

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

The WaPo laments how quickly gun control dropped out of the public and congressional eye.

Cheaper Than Dirt recants

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

They had a hiccup with demand being so and suspended sales, likely because the were taking payments for guns that might not ship for a long time. They’ve now resumed gun sales. Good for them. Also, they’ve dropped their magazine prices back down to reasonable levels, which, of course, means they are out of stock.