Janet Napolitano played down the idea of migrating to an Israeli type security screening at airports here in the United States despite the back lash from the sexual assaults intrusive patdowns and screenings.
What Janet really means by that statement is, “Currently we are actually violating the law, should we stop we might loose control over some of the sheep we have trained.” By violating the 4th Amendment you have already shown the fact that you completely disregard the law, including the most important ones.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Why should an officer be allowed to search a phone incident to arrest. I understand searches for the officers safety. In this case however the only possible thing to be gained is private information, or possible other “crimes”. I would suggest getting phones that support remote wipe and to regularly lock it. The idea of me being arrest and thus allowing the police to search my email, including the secure communications is BS. This whole thing further supports my idea that the sole goal is to make everyone a criminal, and thus a slave.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
In August a family friend got a pistol for her birthday. The only thing was though she had never learned to shoot. Her father is by no means opposed to firearms, however her mother hates them with a passion.
I immediately got back to her, she was extremely busy with work for the next couple weekends but she could make it out to my place for dinner one night. She came over brought her new pistol. Went over the four rules, dos and don’ts, as well how to operate her particular weapon as well as a slew of others.
She finally had a day off so we could take her out. I prefer to avoid ranges I’m unfamiliar with when I have a new shooter. I don’t like having to pay attention to other people around me possibly being unsafe while also watching a new shooter.
After talking to Laurel, Corina, and Dan I found a place that would work really well. Only trick would be finding it, I knew approximately where it was. Rolled in as the sun was getting lower in the sky, perfect photography lighting, nice and warm.
We started her off with the 22 single action revolver. After a few shots and she was getting comfortable since she had never shot before, and hadn’t ever handled a weapon except at my house a week earlier I wanted to make sure it was enjoyable as opposed to painful.
After the 22 Revolver I pulled out the High Standard. It has more mass and is semi automatic.
I spent some more time going over it’s operation again, how to load and release the magazine. How to verify the weapon is clear, as well as how to unload it. She did quite well for her first time shooting.
After this I fired some rounds out of her new pistol. The question of the day is since it’s a small 9mm, very light, how would the recoil feel. For me it was manageable, however thanks to it be double action only the trigger pull is extremely heavy and makes it uncomfortable. We put about about 50 rounds through it, we discovered it was causing her to flinch, we spent time working on that as well as spent some time on her stance. I’ve noticed a lot of new shooters have a tendency to lean back.
Even though that little thing packs a punch for the shooter, she absolutely enjoyed it and had a total blast. After we finished up with the pistol we pulled out my AR and went through some rifle fundamentals. I normally start with the rifle to teach with then move to pistol but I made an exception in this case.
I spent some time covering basics of position and breathing. After which she ripped up the hillside 100 yards away. Accurately I might add. Normally I would have run down and put up targets but we were chasing daylight and we had to get back out of BFE. Someone had left some targets up and she just shot those.
I must say though, the above picture says it all. A big smile, obviously having fun, and enjoying herself. I yet again must ask the question, WTF does VPC or the Brady Campaign have to offer?
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
We did numerous different tests trying to get different information. While we learned a lot, we also discovered that many ideas we had to try and learn the information weren’t going to work as expected. We learned things we weren’t setting out to learn
Here’s the full test video along with pictures and different things we learned.
There were numerous video cameras and stills take by Ry. I had only my single video camera and SLR with me, so I’m sure a video will probably be coming soon from Ry correcting everything I messed up in my video.
Joe was doing all the shooting, for those of you familiar with the area, we were actually shooting from the road into the side of the berm. The snow was too deep to easily do the tests in the field. Ry was out there the day before and got the van momentarily detained for 20 minutes.
We attempted to launch softballs to measure time of flight to estimate launch velocity, however the ball was thrashed beyond maintaining a reasonably consistency for experiments. We attempted to add a buffer to lessen the shock, and initially we thought it worked, till we saw that it was just in a slightly larger piece than before.
We then instead decided to attempt to launch a golf ball. The ones we were using were bright pink. However we think we placed them into LEO to never be seen again. The last launch we did with 3 golf balls was quite impressive with the resulting smoke ring.
We learned a lot yesterday and the three of us had a long discussion trying to figure out what we learned, as well as how to deal with the newest piece of information we discovered. While searching for the initial golf ball Ry saw a small hole that looked as if it was from the golf ball. He reaches in, has to punch through snow to get it and then pulls it out. While I did not get a picture of that exact extraction, I did get pictures of a extraction Joe did to a similar hole.
Initially that chalk was a powder when placed on the dispenser. The explosion however compacted it back into a block, and you can even make out the grooves from the plastic baggie. When Joe first picked the piece up there was still plastic embedded in it, but it fell off.
The compaction of the chalk results in there not being as much color, further all you get is raining chunks. I ended up staying over at his place chatting… MUCH longer than initially expected, however the wife did have an idea to add to the conversation worth experimenting with. Instead of chalk, what about colored glitter? As Joe said, that’s only something a Woman would think of.
Another interesting discovery is the fact that each time we would set of the target, it would pound the stakes about another 3/4 of an inch to an inch into the ground. When we noticed this and measured the target top to the ground below the snow.
In this picture the top of the target is about 32 inches off the ground, note this is when we first started measuring, we have already set off a couple boomers. At the end of the day this is what it was at:
The chalk dispenser appeared to survive this test with nothing more than flaking paint. Between the design changes and operating only using 100 grams of Boomerite (half charge relative to the previous test) it appeared to function quite well. Also with the addition of the 1/4 in AR500 on the front Ry is reasonably sure the front plate can be made thinner which would help shed some weight. For more details on the AR500 testing see here, here and here.
Overall though it was an absolutely beautiful day out there yesterday.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
I have been meaning for a while to put up this post but never had the time to get around to it until today. Instead of cleaning the shop I wasted my time editing pictures, writing this post and working on some others, and chatting on GBC.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
I’ve already seen that the TSA is worse than Russia in 1989. However with the tactics and the rate that they’re expanding, I’m seriously beginning to wonder when people are going to start “disappearing” in the night to never be seen or heard from again.
Update: Some coworkers and I were talking and trying to figure out why they would want to screen malls. Then it dawned on us, the number of teenage girls at malls is through the roof. Coupled with their soccer mom escorts, it’s a sexual predators wet dream.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Mr. Aitken know this, I do not think there is a single gun owner who is not behind you. Those that aren’t, if any, don’t understand how easily it could have been them.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
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