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Poll - Gun Ban For L.A. County?: The Los Angeles CBS station is asking
if you support a "gun ban" for L.A. County. (Never mind that the state
has pre-empted the regulation of deadly weapons and that such a ban,
like San Francisco's, would be illegal.)
http://www.cbs2.com/
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New Rifle Ammunition: A Danish firm is marketing a GPS microchip that is
implanted by being fired from a sniper rifle. It is intended to be used
by law enforcement to track suspects.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060222&articleId=2034
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From John Farnam:
24 Feb 06
Ammunition info from a friend in SA:
"My students were all shooting Glocks. Ammunition was factory-reloaded
9mm, made by a local, domestic manufacturer. Bullets are not
'jacketed,' but rather are 'copper washed.' The copper layer is
extremely thin. They use a Berdan primer that is sealed in place via
blue paint. Power charge is wimpy, and it barely cycles the pistols.
Yes, I know it is trash, by your standards, but it is all we can get here.
By day two, stoppages were rampant. When we pulled the Glocks apart, we
found the insides coated with dirty, copper residue. Accumulations were
so think, it looked like someone had squirted copper-based lubricant
into the pistols. Blue primer sealant had also transferred onto the
guns. Breach faces were all solid 'blue.'
With constant cleaning, we could keep guns running, but excessive
maintenance, of course, cuts into training time. Amazingly, this is the
best ammunition we're been able to use for some time. Up until now,
we've only had lead reloads, which are even worse!"
Comment: Copper-washed bullets are bad news! They are little better
than lead straight-bullets. Well-made, authoritative, clean ammunition,
with jacketed bullets saves valuable training time. Wasted time and
ruined guns is a severe penalty for saving a paltry few bucks on
ammunition. I know good ammunition is expensive, but time is even more
expensive. We don't know how good we have it here!
/John
(I don't know if there is a difference between "copper washed" and
"copper plated" but it's worth noting that Speer's Gold Dot bullets are
made with a copper-plating process and, to my knowledge, have never had
any reliability issues stemming from that.)
25 Feb 06
I am here in Memphis, TN at Tom Given's wonderful, annual POLITE SOCIETY
event. I shoot the course tomorrow, but there are classes on retention
and disarms, as well as Airsoft exercises, into all of which I will
fully immerse myself tomorrow.
Today, I attended lectures. The first was mine, where I attempted to
tie together the Fetterman Massacre (1866, near Sheridan, WY), the
Little Big Horn Battle (1876), Isandhlwana (1879, South Africa) and
Balangiga (Island of Samar, Philippines, 1901), suggesting that the real
culprits, in all four disasters, were character flaws: arrogance and
personal vanity.
Skip Gochenour talked with us about cases of self-defense in which he
has been personally involved. Some important points:
"True" vindicators, like the ever-popular SODDI ("Some Other Dude Did
it") or the TODDI ("That Other Dude Did it") defense are seldom
involved, as facts are usually not in dispute.
Once you suggest that you shot someone by accident, thereafter
"justification" will be unavailable to you, as you've already admitted
justification is irrelevant.
In fact, once you're charged with a crime, the first casualty is the
truth. Truth becomes irrelevant. Prosecutors care only about
convictions. Thus, anything you can do to delay the decision to charge
you is usually in your best interest. The truth will usually not set
you free, but a lie will definitely lock you up!
"Mandatory Retreat" laws are designed to punish all who would take a
stand, or "sustain engagement." Fortunately, public sentiment and
policy is currently going the other way on this issue, in most states.
Character witnesses are important. Be a good person, so you'll always
have plenty!
Home invaders are particularly dangerous. Don't let them get control.
Especially, don't let them tie you up. The time to take a stand is when
you still have options.
What is sometimes incorrectly labeled as "excessive force" is often
simply "excessively repeated applications of less-than-adequate force."
Force, when applied, must be designed and intended to end the fight
quickly with a single application, or there is no point.
John Hearn presented his excellent synopsis of the famous Newhall
Shooting that took place in California in 1970. Four CA State Troopers
were murdered in the same event, all within a few minutes. Many
tactical errors were identified, but the real point is that neither the
four officers involved, nor the entire CHP for that matter, were in any
way prepared for a serious fight. They learned the hard way!
Claude Werner, who teaches with Bill Rogers, reminded us that John
Boyd's OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) Loop has been replaced in
many government agencies, and even some military circles, with the
TWIIBAR (Think Wishfully, Ignore Intelligence, Blunder Ahead, Repeat) Loop!
We were also reminded that, with individual gun maintenance, use more
solvent, less oil. Many light primer hits with the M9, and other
pistols, are directly traceable to firing-pin channels clogged with
oily, greasy, grit. Firing-pin channels need to be clean and dry!
More tomorrow!
/John
--
Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
