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June 12th, 2009
Dear Friend,
If you read last week’s issue of the Armed American Report, you already know that we are republishing some articles and features from past issues of Concealed Carry Magazine for you right here. If you are already a USCCA member, the articles and features may be something you missed, or might be one of your favorite pieces from the catalog of past issues. If you aren’t already a member and reader of Concealed Carry Magazine, these articles and features will let you know what you are missing.
The article and cover photo for this week is from January of 2007. The cover photo is of Steve Henigson who is probably already familiar to USCCA members who are on the member-forums. No other community is quite as tight-knit as the concealed carry community as the United States Concealed Carry Association is.
Before we begin- make sure you are able to catch Armed American Radio this Sunday at 8pm EST. If you can’t catch the show, just buzz over to the site on Monday and download the podcast- or listen to it from right there.
Mark Walters (TheOrdinaryGuy on the USCCA forums) is doing a bang-up job with the show. Here’s the site: http://armedamericanradio.org/
Oh- one more thing. Have you heard of a guy named Matt Canovi? In case you haven’t, he’s a superb trainer, and has about a half-mile of credentials, including being a FBI Certified Firearms Instructor.
Well, he’s got a spectacular DVD training system that every Armed Citizen aught to have on their shelf, and he’s just agreed to offer it to USCCA members (and Armed American Report Readers alike) for no shipping costs- not a bad deal at all.
Anyway, here’s a tiny bit of info about the DVD set in case you’re interested:
The “R.E.A.L. Defensive Shooting System” 5 DVD set from FBI/NRA certified firearms instructor as well as international certified police trainer and host of “The Gun Show” radio program, Matt Canovi.
Practical REAL LIFE STREET SURVIVAL handgun techniques:
-Simple to understand/use techniques
-Developed from real world shooting situations and interviews
Interested? If so, go here: Special introductory offer for USCCA members; free shipping/handling ($10 value)
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“Street Tactics: Reality Based
Gun & Knife Fighting:
Preventing Mass Murders
in School And Elsewhere “
“…Guns were specifically not allowed on the
premises by official policy or by law….”
by Gabriel Suarez;
Reprinted From:
Concealed Carry Magazine- Introductory Issue
Law says you can’t (carry a gun)? . . .I’ll point out some dead people who would love to be living outlaws.
Some people will be shocked at the tone of this article. They should be.
February 2, 1996 - Moses Lake, Washington: Two students and one teacher killed, and one wounded when 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis opened fire on his algebra class.
March 13, 1996 - Dunblane, Scotland: 16 children and one teacher killed at Dunblane Primary School by Thomas Hamilton, who then killed himself. 10 others were wounded in the attack.
February 19, 1997 - Bethel, Alaska: Principal and one student killed, and two others wounded by Evan Ramsey, 16.
October 1, 1997 - Pearl, Mississippi: Two students killed and seven wounded by Luke Woodham, 16, who was also accused of killing his mother. He and his friends were said to be outcasts who worshiped Satan.
December 1, 1997 - West Paducah, Kentucky: Three students killed, and five wounded by Michael Carneal, 14, as they participated in a prayer circle at Heath High School.
There you are with a gun held to your neck. Do you have the skills to save yourself?
March 24, 1998 - Jonesboro, Arkansas: Four students and one teacher killed, ten others wounded outside, as Westside Middle School emptied during a false fire alarm. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shot at their classmates and teachers from the woods.
May 21, 1998 - Springfield, Oregon: Two students killed, and 22 others wounded in the cafeteria at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel. Kinkel had been arrested and released a day earlier for bringing a gun to school. His parents were later found dead at home.
June 15, 1998 - Richmond, Virginia: One teacher and one guidance counselor wounded by a 14-year-old boy in the school hallway.
April 20, 1999 - Littleton, Colorado: 14 students (including killers) and one teacher killed, and 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in the nation’s deadliest school shooting. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up their school. At the end of their hour-long rampage, they turned their guns on themselves.
April 28, 1999 - Taber, Alberta, Canada: One student killed, and one wounded at W. R. Myers High School, in first fatal high school shooting in Canada in 20 years. The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, had dropped out of school after he was severely ostracized by his classmates.
May 20, 1999 - Conyers, Georgia: Six students injured at Heritage High School by Thomas Solomon, 15, who was reportedly depressed after breaking up with his girlfriend.
November 19, 1999 - Deming, New Mexico: Victor Cordova Jr., 12, shot and killed Araceli Tena, 13, in the lobby of Deming Middle School.
December 6, 1999 - Fort Gibson, Oklahoma: Four students wounded by Seth Trickey, 13, at Fort Gibson Middle School. May 26, 2000 - Lake Worth, Florida: One teacher, Barry Grunow, shot and killed at Lake Worth Middle School by Nate Brazill, 13, with .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol on the last day of classes.
March 5, 2001 - Santee, California: Two killed and 13 wounded by Charles Andrew Williams, 15, firing from a bathroom at Santana High School.
March 22, 2001 - Granite Hills, California: One teacher and three students wounded by Jason Hoffman, 18, at Granite Hills High School. A policeman shot and wounded Hoffman.
March 30, 2001 - Gary, Indiana: One student killed by Donald R. Burt, Jr., a 17-year-old student who had been expelled from Lew Wallace High School.
November 12, 2001 - Caro, Michigan: Chris Buschbacher, 17, took two hostages at the Caro Learning Center before killing himself.
February 19, 2002 - Freising, Germany: Two killed in Eching by a man at the factory from which he had been fired. He then traveled to Freising and killed the headmaster of the technical school from which he had been expelled. He also wounded another teacher before killing himself.
April 26, 2002 - Erfurt, Germany: 13 teachers, two students, and one policeman killed, and ten wounded by Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, at the Johann Gutenberg secondary school. Steinhaeuser then killed himself.
April 24, 2003 - Red Lion, Pennsylvania: James Sheets, 14, killed principal, Eugene Segro, of Red Lion Area Junior High School before killing himself.
September 24, 2003 - Cold Spring, Minnesota: Two students killed at Rocori High School by John Jason McLaughlin, 15.
March 21, 2005 - Red Lake, Minnesota: Jeff Weise, 16, killed grandfather and companion, then arrived at school where he killed a teacher, a security guard, 5 students, and finally himself, leaving a total of 10 dead.
November 8, 2005 - Jacksboro, Tennessee: One 15-year-old shot and killed an assistant principal at Campbell County High School and seriously wounded two other administrators.
August 24, 2006 - Essex, Vermont: Christopher Williams, 27, looking for his ex-girlfriend at Essex Elementary School, shot two teachers, killing one and wounding another. Before going to the school, he killed the ex-girlfriend’s mother.
September 13, 2006 - Montreal, Canada: Kimveer Gill, 25, opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon at Dawson College.
Anastasia De Sousa, 18, died and more than a dozen students and faculty were wounded before Gill killed himself.
September 26, 2006 - Bailey, Colorado: Adult male held six students hostage at Platte Canyon High School and then shot and killed Emily Keyes, 16, and himself.
September 29, 2006 - Cazenovia, Wisconsin: A 15-year-old student shot and killed Weston School principal, John Klang.
October 3, 2006 - Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania: 32-year-old Carl Charles Roberts IV entered the one-room West Nickel Mines Amish School and shot 10 schoolgirls, ranging in age from 6 to 13 years old, and then himself. Five of the girls and Roberts died.
Quite a list, isn’t it? Four school shootings in the last couple of months. Add to that the Islamic terrorist in Seattle. We can only speculate why these events happened. We cannot fathom what goes on in the mind of evil. And make no mistake my friends. There is in fact evil out there. But let’s see if we can solve this problem of evil men targeting the weak.
What did these places and events all have in common?
1. Guns were specifically not allowed on the premises by official policy or by law. Some locations have specific legal prohibitions, while others rely only on “company policy.” Murderers will ignore signs telling them that something is prohibited. Clearly, if the state prohibits guns on campus, the good people will obey and leave their guns at home. But quite clearly, these signs did not dissuade the killers. Think about it. The only people obeying the law and the signs were the good people…the victims.
Skills with weapons of opportunity, and edged/pointed weapons are essential in our days of restricted environments and soft targets.
What is the reason behind the “no guns” policies? Many in authority seek control above all else. They want to control things, and people walking about armed cannot be controlled as easily. Obviously, they lose control when the sign-ignoring, armed killers come.
2. Those inside were unarmed and totally helpless. The terrorist would call these gun-free places “soft targets.” Notice how none of these terrorists ever pick a gun store, a police station, or even a shooting course?
3. The police were called to each one of these events. But unless the police happen to be exactly there when the shots are fired, and have the mental perspective and courage to run to the sound of the guns for the sole purpose of locating and killing the gunman outright, the delay in response will be several minutes in the best case scenario. And once there, even with the extensive “active shooter” training in police circles, the overriding goal is to control and capture, rather than to locate and kill the gunman, which is the only real way to prevent the death of innocents.
4. The events were eventually resolved by the police presence, but not without some victim deaths. Repeatedly, we see that in the majority of these events, the killing is done fairly quickly in the beginning moments of the event.
5. There has been some discussion about arming teachers. As my good friend, the late, great Col. Jeff Cooper said, “One is no more armed because he possesses a pistol than he is a musician because he owns a piano.” In such events, teachers and principals will be useless unless they have self-selected themselves to cultivate the very opposite of what their job is. How many teachers or principals have the internal strength to pull a trigger on one of their students? How many would do the things that we would do? I’m sure there are some, but they are certainly not the majority.
How can we prevent the next one? (And there will be a next one.)
1. Understand that your safety is your own responsibility. Carry a weapon… everywhere. Company policy says you can’t? Hide your gun better. Law says you can’t? Tough choice, isn’t it? But I’ll point out some dead people who would love to be living outlaws.
Can’t have a gun under your circumstances? Then carry a knife and learn how to use it offensively. Spend money and get trained with your knife. Buying another competition .45 will do you no good if you cannot carry it with you 24/7/365. Are there metal detectors? Carry something deniable as a weapon but easy to stab with. You need to be armed. If the rules prevent you from doing so, find a way around them. Think like a criminal. A knife may not be equal to a shotgun, but you have a choice. You can die on your knees defenseless, asking yourself why you obeyed the sign, or you can die killing the crazy gunman. You might even prevail against him.
2. Make those who pass these stupid “no gun” laws responsible for their decisions. The parents and family members of the victims should sue the pants off of the institutions that support such stupid policies. Sue the Jewish Center. Sue the school. Sue the principal of the school, the board of education, the police chief, the mayor, the governor, everyone. I’m certain that there are plenty of pro-gun attorneys here. Put your skills to use. If these people do not understand morality and the Constitution, perhaps they will understand poverty.
3. If teachers and principals aren’t interested in CCW, push for an armed cop at the school during all school hours. If this takes some extra tax money, consider it cheap insurance. In police circles, the job of a “school resource officer” has always been characterized as a cushy job suitable only for those who don’t want to work on the streets. This needs to change, and it needs to change right now.
If the city has money to fly the mayor around, and work incessantly on perfectly good streets, they can put a police officer on duty at every school during school hours. And by the way, we need an armed and trained officer who will run to sound of the guns, not some fat, donut-eating slob who is three weeks away from retirement. You pay the tax that employs them and the customer is always right. Take a page from the liberals. MAKE NOISE!
4. Many of the kids were actually corralled by the school officials into rooms ready for the gunmen. This lock-down concept is again the product of “controllers.” A locked door will not dissuade anyone who really wants to get in. As your kids get older, teach them that rules are relative. My kids are told to ignore orders if the orders seem stupid. How easy is it to break down a door and kill a classroom in lock-down? Their standing orders are to run like hell if they hear shots in a school. I have promised them that they will not get in trouble. Teachers would also be better served by telling the kids to run. One teacher mentioned that they cannot “lose control of the classroom like that.” I told her that when the bad guy kicks the door in and begins shooting, she will have already lost control. Teach kids about cover, and how to RUN!
Also, as they get older, teach them about ferocity and how to put an attacker down for good with what they have. Teach them how to bludgeon his head with a chair or a sack of quarters. Teach them how to stab a pencil into the gunman’s eye. Their safety is eventually their own responsibility, as well as yours.
Gabriel Suarez is an internationally recognized trainer and lecturer in the field of civilian personal defense. He has written over a dozen books and taught courses in several countries.
www.suarezinternational.com
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Suarez International, Inc.
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(Office) 928-776-4492
This column appeared in the January 2007 Issue of CCM. Members, use the links below the cover to download the entire magazine! Not a member? Click on this link for more information: Become a Member of the USCCA.
Cover Photo Story:
Steve Henigson
Although my daily-carry pistol is now a pocket-size Semmerling LM-4, I still frequently use one of the two full-size Government Model .45s made for me by the late Chuck Ries. Here is one of them in the belt-carry rig I made for them a long time ago.
Although the pistol looks stock-from-the-box, Chuck made many modifications to it. Its long and square trigger lets off at a crisp 3 1/2 pounds, its grip safety has been disabled, both front- and back straps have been neatly checkered, its grip-panels are smooth buffalo horn, the front of its trigger guard is squared and checkered for my weak-hand forefinger, it has an ambidextrous thumb safety, its ejection port has been enlarged, its sights are oversize and coarse, and every bit of it has been hard chromed. It is absolutely reliable.
I made the holster, my version of the “Askins Avenger” style, from two layers of stiffened cowhide, with a reinforcement at the top to make replacing the pistol easy. I sewed-in a full-length front-sight rail. The leather is wet-formed to the gun and finished with beeswax and carnauba. The inside of the holster has been coated with KG-9, a Teflon treatment that helps my pistol come out almost as if it were spring propelled. The belt is merely one layer of skirting leather, nicely dyed.
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Review of The Stainless Steel Kelly Kettle
written by Cody S. Alderson
USCCA GEAR REVIEW
I bumped products I have had in the lineup for months to bring you this review. The reason is, I just received my new stainless Kelly Kettle about a week ago and had to tell everyone about it. What does it have to do with concealed carry? It has to do with the mindset of preparedness that we concealed carry folks have toward all aspects of life. We not only work to be prepared to defend ourselves against an attack from a predator, we work to be prepared for whatever disaster that man or nature can bring.
The Kelly Kettle is by far my most favorite piece of kit that serves both recreational and survival use. This time, I’m reviewing one made of stainless steel instead of aluminum. The Kelly Kettle has a rich history of tradition along the shores of Loch Conn in sunny Ireland. It is still being made by the Kelly family. Patrick and Seamus Kelly are fourth generation manufacturers, and they make the best product I have ever had the pleasure of reviewing.
I strongly urge everyone who reads this article to get one of these wonderful Kettles. Whether you are living in an apartment in Manhattan or on your own in the wilderness of some wonderful faraway land accessing this newsletter by a solar powered satellite com system, you should own at least one of these Kettles. Just because someone might be stuck in a Manhattan apartment doesn’t mean they don’t get away on the weekends, nor does it mean that the apartment dweller is immune to disaster situations.
Using the Kelly Kettle is the easiest and best way I have found for boiling water off-grid with just about any combustible material as the fuel source. From cold water to boiling water in a couple of minutes. Even in the rain! If the wind is blowing a bit too much for that fancy liquid or propane fuel burning stove, that much wind would just make the Kelly Kettle get hotter faster.
The Kelly Kettle is also known as the Volcano Kettle by some and has been a constant companion to fishermen, campers, hikers, and other outdoor enthusiasts for about 120 years. The design is perfect for completing the task of what it is supposed to do—boil water. And that design hasn’t changed much in over a century of Kettles being made.
The Kettle is a dual-walled container that is made to hold and boil water over a small fire that burns in its metal fire base. The outer wall of the Kettle is a cylinder that tapers slightly from bottom to top. The three pint Kettle pictured in this review is the stainless steel model and is only available in this size. The aluminum Kettle is available in three sizes—2.5 pint, 1.75 pint, and 1 pint. This one measures 19 5/8 inches in circumference around the bottom, and tapers down to 18 1/8 inches at the top just before the steep angle up to the chimney. The length of this Kettle is 12 ½ inches, and the chimney opening measures 2 ½ inches across.
At the very top, in the center, is the top of the chimney. On the outer wall of the Kettle, just off to the side from the chimney, is the fill and pour spout for the Kettle. A cork on a chain is provided to plug the spout for purposes of carrying water from the source only, and for keeping debris out of the water holding area of the Kettle while in transport or being stored. The cork must NEVER be in the spout when the Kettle is on the fire base or while it is hot.
The inner wall of the Kettle is cone shaped to channel heat from the small fire in the fire base up and out the chimney at the top. The large surface area of the inner wall gets exposed directly to the heat of the fire and boils the liquid in the Kettle in a very short time. You can use everything from paper to leaves to wood to even camel dung (as mentioned at the Kelly Kettle website) as the fuel source for the fire.
Here’s how easy it is to run this piece of equipment. The first thing I need is some water. Use whatever source you are comfortable with using, whether it be bottled water, tap water in a canteen, or even water from a source used during a survival situation. It sure is a good thing that the Kelly kettle will boil the water from questionable sources.
After filling the Kettle I just put it aside for a moment while I add some burnable materials to the fire base. Here I have some newspaper scraps, a few bits of leaves, and some dry twigs in the fire base. I could just have easily used dry grasses, or even some camel dung. I checked my backyard and couldn’t find a camel. I did find the dry leaves and twigs that I used in the fire base.
You can be as creative as you need to be for the fuel. Camel dung is quite creative, if you ask me. I think I might prefer something such as tree bark over the poop, but in a pinch I’d use the dried poop of an herbivore to get a fire going in my Kettle. A Kettle is great for fishing along the lakes, streams, rivers, and ponds where I live. On a chilly night-fishing outing, I can make some tea, soup, or cowboy coffee in just a few minutes without having to have a full size campfire.
I don’t have to bring fuel with me. I just use whatever I find where I happen to be when I want to boil some water for coffee, soup, or just needing to boil the water to make it safer to drink. The fire base is designed to store inverted in the bottom of the Kettle (as seen in the photo at the beginning of this article).
After the water is in the Kettle and fuel is in the fire base, place the Kettle on top of the fire base as shown. Just be absolutely certain to NOT have the cork in place when the Kettle is on the fire or hot.
The next thing to do is to light the tinder in the fire base through the draught hole in the fire base. It couldn’t be easier. The shape adds to the Kettle’s ability to pull fresh air into the fire base to make starting the fire about as easy as it could possibly get. Aiming the hole in the base toward the wind actually helps instead of hinders the fire making process.
Raining? Doesn’t matter. The Kettle on the base protects the fuel source from the rain. Try getting an open fire going in the rain. It’s not happening unless the fuel source is protected from the water dropping from the sky.
Within a couple of minutes of getting the fire going in the fire base, I have boiling water. Pay close attention to the proper way of removing the Kettle from the fire base for pouring. The wire bale with the wooden handle needs to be grasped with both hands, and held out to the side of the Kettle as shown in the following photo. Just grabbing the handle and lifting the Kettle off of the fire base as one would lift a bucket will cause at a minimum some burnt knuckles. The heat coming from the chimney will cause a bad burn.
Now all that I need to do is pour out my hot water into my cup or other container that I will be using. After the Kettle is away from the fire and heat coming from the fire base, the bale can be held in one hand over the chimney while using the chain to assist in pouring as shown in the following photo.
If you hunt, fish, backpack, hike, camp, kayak, canoe, picnic, or are into such things as Scouting, four-wheeling, motorcycling, or maybe just like to have friends over to the backyard in the evening, the Kelly Kettle will be a product that will get used. It also is a top-notch piece of survival kit.
There is a cookset accessory kit available too for cooking small amounts of food. I have the cookset with my aluminum model. The cookset is made of aluminum. The Kettle can get beat up, knocked around, dented, scratched, and otherwise abused and still function perfectly. And now the Kelly Kettle is available in stainless steel.
Yes it is a bit heavier than the aluminum model, and may concern the gram counting backpacking crowd. But for the rest of us, it probably isn’t an issue since the Kettle, even in stainless steel, is still a lightweight piece of durable gear.
Some of the readers of the review I did about the aluminum model of the Kelly Kettle told me by email that they do not cook with or eat or drink from aluminum. I’ve been asked if a stainless steel version would ever be available. Well, here it is! Now there is no excuse not to own one even if you have to save some pennies to get one.
The price of the Kelly Kettle at the time of this writing for the three pint stainless steel is $75.60. The aluminum models are just as good as the new stainless steel model and are $60.50 for the 2.5 pint, $58.34 for the 1.75 pint, and $54.40 for the 1 pint. The Kettle is one of those pieces of gear that can be passed down to the next generation. It has been made in a stainless version because that’s what customers wanted.
The stainless version will naturally be able to take the knock-around use of the outdoors a bit better than aluminum before showing a mark or dent, but marks and dents don’t matter on the Kelly Kettle anyway. I would look at each mark and dent as a reminder of adventures past as travel stickers on a piece of luggage used to be. “Oh I remember that dent was when I slipped down that muddy hillside the year I went on a kayaking adventure in Alaska.”
If you are ever in a survival situation, you will want hot water. In many situations you will need hot water. The Kelly Kettle is a portable water heater that you can take anywhere in the outdoors, and use just about any burnable material as the fuel source to get the water to boil. It’s a simple and highly efficient design that has already proven itself as timeless. It’s still number one for me as a product that absolutely meets its suitability of purpose for its intended use (it does exactly what the Kelly’s says it does).
The Kelly’s are also now making a double-walled stainless steel camping mug with a carabineer handle. Just clip it to your pack, belt, or wherever else you might like to stow it. It holds 200ml (6.8 ounces). I don’t have one yet, but it has to be good since Patrick and Seamus Kelly make them.
For more information visit www.kellykettle.com.
Here is the link to the Armed American Report Video Supplemental made of the first Kelly Kettle I reviewed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4aeXFn6GHE
Addendum To Last Week’s Wheeler Screwdriver Set Review:
I’ve been asked by email if the specialty bits for the Wheeler Engineering Professional Gunsmithing Screwdriver Kit can be purchased as an upgrade for those who purchased the screwdriver kit without the specialty bits. The answer is yes. Just click HERE to be taken to the order page at Wheeler Engineering’s website.
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Dear Tim,
I am not writing to ask a question, I am writing to say thanks for the Beat the Ban. I thought I was ahead of the curve, but only realized I had been putting off buying what I may need and what I really wanted before the Obamanation takes place. I wanted to beat the ban.
I was going to joke and say your Beat the Ban cost more than 17.00 dollars, hell I bought a Saiga 12 Shotgun overpaid but got it anyway and to 2 RRA AR15s at retail cost due to having a gunsmith relationship. I also bought some fantastic 5.56 ammo and over 2k rounds of practice ammo.
My next purchase will probably be an SKS or AR47. I have read a great deal more about my rights to arm myself and to protect my country from a threat.
Thanks for placing me ahead of the curve and your book only cost me over 2800.00 dollars in guns and ammo. Well lets just say it was a good investment in my family’s future! Best to you and your family and may you continue with success and great health.
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We have been having trouble with varmints eating and killing our flowers. We were riding our bicycles last evening, for exercise, and upon returning we found 3 of them in our yard. I previously checked with TWRA and they said either trap or eliminate the varmints causing the problems.
I pulled my revolver and proceeded to kill one of the varmints before they ran away. I did not have any ear protection. After I fired the report of the 38 Spl caused big pain and ringing in my left ear. I arose this morning and still have some pain and am experiencing vertigo (dizziness).
I have never experienced this before but it has been a long time since shooting without ear protection. I can’t imagine what one would experience after firing a gun inside of a hallway or house without ear protection.
I am posting this because I sure would not want to deal with Police questioning, this morning, had I been involved in a self defense altercation. This sure would be a problem in dealing with the aftermath of a defensive shooting.
It just came to me that one would need a good attorney to be able to keep the Police away until you could be of sober and clear minded before answering their questions.
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From what I can gather on the boards most of the .380 carriers load a clip, rack the slide to load the chamber and then put another round in the clip.
Because the P3AT and the LCP don’t have an external hammer they are carried concealed and all you have to do is draw and pull the trigger.
Owning both I know the trigger pull is pretty stiff so it would take a serious set of circumstances to accidentally fire the weapon.
Do any of you girls carry this way?
Why or why not?
Pax, I’m especially interested in your response.
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Hello,
I recently saw on Fox News a commercial for Henry Repeating Arms. They manufacture rifles made in America and seem to have some nice firearms.
I just received their catalog in the mail today and was wondering if any of you are familiar with Henry Rifles. If so, any good/bad news? It seems that some of their rifles might be good to have in my collection (though very small at the moment).
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USCCA VIDEO OF THE WEEK
== “Tim-spiration” of the Week ==
USCCA PHOTO OF THE WEEK
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USCCA QUOTE OF THE WEEK
- Sometimes a good quote will inspire or motivate you. Sometimes, they’ll just put a smile on your face! Here is the quote for this week…
“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”
-Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1785.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors.
Obviously, Mr. Boone never tasted a Mocha Latte…
Self Defense Story OF THE WEEK
- Every day, thousands of Armed Americans use their firearms to preserve human life. Let this section of my newsletter serve as a record of this fact!
- Nothing like a spouse who does a civilian version of a battlefield pickup of a combatants weapon and is ready to go in backing up her husband. What makes it better is that this couple are both senior citizens!
From the June 3, 2009 Houston Chronicle:
June 3, 2009 Galveston County, Texas - A 77-year-old man was within his rights when he shot a robber during a holdup of a game room in unincorporated Galveston County, Texas City police officials said Tuesday. “He is truly a victim whose back was against the wall,” said Texas City police Capt. Brian Goetschius, referring to Robert Hays.
Hays was among about a dozen patrons inside Players Paradise about 12:45 a.m. Monday when a pair of armed men stormed the club at 4801 State Highway 146, officials said. Hays said he was “peacefully minding my own business” when the armed robbers forced their way inside. “The next thing I knew, I was essentially flying through the air backwards and slammed down on the floor,” said Hays, a Korean War veteran.
Hays, now lying on the floor, handed the robber his wallet. “He looked through it and threw it back down on me,” he said. He watched as the robbers worked their way through the game room, taking the wallets and purses from their other victims.
A snub-nose .38 caliber revolver in his hands, Hays was ready in case the robbers came at him. “There were only two ways he could get at me,” Hays said. “I positioned myself on the floor where I could see him if he came either way.” Hays pulled the revolver from under his shirt and fired a single shot, striking one of the masked robbers, Goetschius said.
“It’s not an easy thing to pull a trigger on a human being,” Hays said. “But, when that man stood over me and said, ‘Give me all your money,’ my blood just boiled.” The robber fell to the ground and dropped his gun, Goetschius said. “One of his shoes came off and he ran out the back door with the other suspect.”
Hays said he shot the man to protect himself and the other patrons at the game room, especially Sharon, his wife of 39 years. “When that first man dropped his pistol and went down, she got up and grabbed (it) and was ready to back me up,” Hays said.
Closing Thoughts
| I have a feeling we helped a LOT of people last week, let’s try this again:
I’m going to pose a question from an Armed American Report reader, and I would like for you all who are interested in lending a helping hand to respond to the question. Then, on Monday, I will share all the responses with you via a nice web-page inside an email! Here’s the question: Dear Tim, I’d like to get into reloading, but I know NOTHING about reloading center-fire ammunition. I have watched someone reload shotgun shells before, but that’s about it. Could you kindly ask your members for a good “where to start” link, or just point me in the right direction? I am not sure if such a web ‘crash-course’ exists or not, but even if someone wanted to take some time to draft some basic information, instructions, or warnings, I’d greatly appreciate it. Thank you and your membership very much, Ron V., S.D. NOTE: Normally, I’d ask you to use the “ask Tim” form below to give me your thoughts, but I imagine some replies to this question could get pretty lengthy, and the ‘ask Tim’ form actually has a text-length limit. So, please send your opinions and advice to this email address instead! Do you have a pressing concern? Use the ‘Ask Tim’ contact form found at this page to let me hear your advice. Just use the graphic below!
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Founder - U.S. Concealed Carry
http://www.usconcealedcarry.com
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