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Florida Dad Shoots At Room-Mate Who Slipped Into Teen Daughter’s Bed Naked
A person must face imminent death or great bodily injury at the hands of an attacker to use deadly force in most jurisdictions. However one Florida dad couldn’t think clearly after his teen daughter alerted him that one of their adult house-mates slipped into her bed, sans clothes. Dad, learning of the intoxicated house-mate’s shenanigans, fired through the room-mate’s door after threatening to kill him.
When police arrived shortly thereafter, they took dad into custody.
Optic Review: Primary Arms Classic Series 21mm Micro Reflex Sight
The number one review request I get is “budget optic reviews.” You’ll see the Primary Arms brand in a fairly high percentage of those reviews, as they consistently deliver quality above their price point.
The Primary Arms Classic Series 21mm Micro Reflex Sight is no different. For a very low price of entry, Primary Arms has delivered a reliable red dot pistol optic in a narrow format, perfect for use with popular firearms like the P365 and G43X MOS.
Australians Shut Down Airspace Before Test Firing a .50 Caliber Rifle
In a classic illustration of fear porn, the Royal Australian Air Force shut down airspace over an air force base to test fire a “high-powered” single-shot .50 caliber rifle. When it comes to firearms, it’s all about sensationalism in service to civilian disarmament to help convince the public to surrender guns that are seldom, if ever, used in crime.
Those of us living in the free states here in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave just giggle at such an absurd reaction to a discharging a single-shot rifle.
Making a Real Halo M90 Shotgun
I played a lot of Halo as a kid, with friends both locally and online. Throughout the series, I’ve always been a fan of the M90 shotgun. Over the years, it’s changed slightly, but it’s largely been a unique style of shotgun.
First, it’s an eight gauge, an admittedly a large and powerful option. Second, it feeds from the top, with the loading gate and magazine tube being placed above the barrel. It also features a set of iron sights, a heat shield, some form of a muzzle device, and a pistol grip.
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Ukrainian Welder Creates ‘Flowers of War’ From Rifles, Ammunition
From the AP . . .
A blacksmith in the Russian-controlled eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk is practically beating swords into ploughshares, and turning one man’s trash into treasures. Viktor Mikhalev takes weapons and ammunition and produces what he calls the flowers of war.
Mikhalev, who trained as a welder, lives and works in a house whose fence and door are decorated with forged flowers and grapes. In his workshop are piles of half-burnt machine guns and shells from the war’s front line.
Henry Repeating Arms Recalls Some .45-70 Lever Action Rifles
From Henry Repeating Arms . . .
Henry Repeating Arms recently discovered a safety issue affecting certain lever action .45-70 Gov’t rifles manufactured during the period from December 14, 2022, through January 11, 2023. Henry is voluntarily initiating a recall to protect the safety of its customers.
To prevent the possibility of death or serious personal injury, you should immediately stop using all Henry Repeating Arms lever action .45-70 rifles and not load or fire them until determining whether the rifle is subject to this recall.
Gun Meme of the Day: Dog Free Zone Edition
On second thought, maybe a “dog free zone” sign would keep the ATF away?
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Bartozzi: ‘Expansive’ Connecticut Gun Control Bills Would Do Nothing to Deter Criminals
NSSF’s President and CEO Joe Bartozzi had a few words for Connecticut lawmakers considering Gov. Ned Lamont’s gun control proposals. Bartozzi testified and used every second of his allotted time to explain how wrong the governor’s proposals are and how they would only severely penalize law-abiding residents in the Constitution State.
Bartozzi was joined by NSSF’s Jake McGuigan, Managing Director for Government Relations – State Affairs.
Lowest of the Low: ‘Obituary Burglar’ Shot Dead in Henderson, Nevada
A thug on parole after serving time for drugs, theft, and a dash of child abuse was found in the home of a recently deceased 93-year-old man in Henderson, Nevada. The homeowner’s son found Dylan Gall in the home at 2:00 a.m. and shots were fired. Gall tried to flee after being wounded, but just couldn’t make it past the kitchen before he succumbed to his wounds.
It’s just the latest case of “obituary burglars,” scumbags who comb the newspaper, then target the homes of the recently deceased, either hitting vacant homes following the death or striking while funeral services are underway.
Anatomy of an Anti-Gun Lie: Mass Shootings in America
[This article originally appeared at Handwaving Freakoutery and is reprinted here with permission. To subscribe to HWFO, click here.]
By BJ Campbell, Handwaving Freakoutery
Today we are going to pick apart this tweet:
…and its companion article to explain in clear terms the many layers of lies that the media and the antigun activists are telling, some unwittingly and some intentionally, so we can see how those layers interact.
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Opponents, Anti-Gunners Horrified as Constitutional Carry Looks Inevitable in Florida
By Lee Williams
Whether it’s called constitutional carry, permitless carry or unlicensed concealed carry — which is probably the most accurate — the fact that soon millions of Floridians will no longer need a permission slip from the government to defend themselves has critics frothing at the mouth.
It’s going to happen, and there’s nothing they can do about it – that’s the bottom line.
They’re powerless to stop the massive restoration of our civil rights, regardless of how hard they whine or how absurd their prognostications of impending doom become.
Gun Meme of the Day: Punny Guns Edition
If that’s a submachine gun, I wonder what a dommachine gun would look like.
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Gun Review: Vudoo Gun Works Möbius 1911
The Vudoo Gun Works website touts, “With methods common in the aerospace industry, Vudoo has been able to redefine the production of the 1911. This is accomplished by ensuring that all components are manufactured to very close tolerances…”
For my long-time readers, that promise sounds familiar, and foreboding. Whenever I hear “aerospace industry” and “very close tolerances” from a 1911 manufacturer, I prepare myself to be disappointed.
The Mobius did not disappoint.
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SilencerCo is Retooling for Success
Firearms technology is constantly evolving. Companies that ignore the adage “innovate or die,” rarely remain relevant, if they survive at all.
Suppressor companies, as a subset of the firearms industry, face the same challenge. As suppressors grow more popular, companies must stay on or near the leading edge to compete. On a recent visit to SilencerCo, we saw what that company is doing not only to stay on the edge, but to drive it forward.
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Young: The Founding Father’s Biggest Misfire Was the 2nd Amendment
America is a country-size arsenal. …
And the obscene ubiquity of firearms in the U.S. explains much about why the country is a killing field without parallel in the developed world. Anyone who has studied the matter arrives at a simple conclusion: More guns means more death.
“Most countries do not have a problem with fatal mass shootings,” Daniel Webster, the co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, told a Fox affiliate last year after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Gun Meme of the Day: Safety First Edition
The math checks out!
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DC Police Chief Floats an Idea for Reducing Violent Crime That’s So Radical It Just Might Work
As crime continues to skyrocket in the nation’s Capitol, Metropolitan Police Department Police Chief Robert Contee has come up with a truly radical idea for addressing the problem: stop releasing criminals back onto the streets and keep them behind bars.
“What we got to do, if we really want to see homicides go down, is keep bad guys with guns in jail. Because when they’re in jail, they can’t be in communities shooting people,” Contee told reporters during a press conference alongside Mayor Muriel Bowser, Fox News reported.
So a Naked Woman Walked Into a Virginia Man’s Home and Attacked Him With an Iron Skillet . . .
Virginia might be for lovers, but a Carroll County Virginia woman apparently didn’t get the memo. In a story that started off like a bad Penthouse Forum letter, an unclothed woman allegedly walked into a man’s home Austinville, Virginia last week.
That probably sounded interesting for the homeowner, but police say the naked Paula Michelle Locklear, 35, then picked up a cast iron frying pan and started beating the male homeowner about the head with it.