Why You Shouldn’t Engage an Active Shooter And What to Do If You Do
I learned a great deal about police procedure at the SIG SAUER Active Shooter Instructor's Course. If there's one key piece of information that an armed citizen facing a gun-wielding madman in a public...
New York City’s Finest Not So Finest Now, Eh Mr. Bond?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pAxswiw8Ks
As my range date heads out to the new James Bond movie I'd bet dollars to donuts (and lots of 'em) that Daniel Craig got more firearms training time for Skyfall than your average...
HSLD Post of the Day: FBI 1947 Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSeUBB90tuA
Ah the good old days. When an FBI Agent could shoot a machine gun from the hip without ear protection. My how times have changed. Unless your name is FPS Russia.
The Secret Joys of Police Militarization
Behold! The Johnston, Rhode Island SWAT team and their gear. According to providencejournal.com, taxpayer largesse has equipped Johnston's paramilitary-style police with two Freightliner tractor-trailers, twelve Humvees; 30 M-16 rifles and conversion parts to transform them into...
Bed-Stuy DA Gun Buyback Black Market: $200 for a Handgun. No Questions Asked.
"Saturday, December 15, from 10:00am - 4:00pm, the Kings County District Attorney’s office will hold a “Cash for Guns” event at Mt Ollie Baptist Church and St. Peters Lutheran Church in Brooklyn," bed-stuy.patch.com reports. "Citizens...
“There has never been a documented case of a dog killing a police officer”...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3M_upONUhc
"The same can't be said for police killing dogs," seattletimes.com opines. "According to the National Canine Research Council, up to half of the intentional shootings by police involve dogs. Sometimes, the animals have been injured and...
Quote of the Day: Police Militarization Continues Apace Edition
"I don't think Oklahomans as a whole are going to relish the day when their neighborhood is full of official police-package insurance department police cars as they're executing an arrest on a guy who...
Why Every State Should Recognize Open Carry
I recently conducted a brief experiment with open carry in the Ocean State. During the week my hip held a Glock 19 in a retention holster . . . nothing. No comments. No police...
The Stupidest Gun Buyback in the History of Stupid Gun Buybacks
Regular readers will recall that I recently took the Haverhill Mass police department to task for holding a gun buyback. It was a generic sort of post; I used the PD's "no questions asked"...
What Sauce for a Hi-Point?
When two doods strolled into the Diamante Restaurant in Lost Wages Sunday night, they were met there by Obdulio Gudiel. Seems Gudiel had sold three cars to one of the two, Victor Larios, who's...
This is How Gun Control Advocates Think About Gun Buybacks
Gun buybacks are a particularly stupid idea. They have no appreciable (i.e., quantifiable) impact on crime. They waste tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money. The "no questions asked" aspect eliminates the possibility...
Passively Constructed Negligent Discharge Story of the Day: Baltimore PD Edition
"A Baltimore police officer was injured at police headquarters on Sunday after a gun the officer was handling during an evening roll call meeting fired," The Baltimore Sun reports. "Emergency responders were...