PLANS 'OVER-RUN' BY LACK OF TIME...
I was planning on going to the Fun-Show today down in Indy, but yesterday's snow storm and a number of other events (like packing for a week on the road) more or less 'over-whelmed' my plans like an enemy force over-running a remote outpost on a military expedition.
(My wife found it strange anyway, I was planning on going to a gun-show when the next day I am flying out to a week long stay at the Shot Show!?! What can I say, but that I'm 'Gunny'?)
Speaking of guns, I read on the BBC website here that someone found a bunch of AK47's in crates sold for firewood in the former Soviet Union. What I found 'enlightening' is the fact the guy who found them turned them in to the local police. I'll bet if that happened here in the states the chances are 50/50 some of those guns would have found their way to a flea-market or a neighborhood bar before the cops got wind of the situation.
Americans are criticized by many as being 'gun-crazy', but it's my belief that the ability and the means to own any efficient technology for self-defense is a human desire that ranks just below the basic need for food, shelter and health-care.
Granted, my international travels have been limited pretty much to northern Europe (an area consistent with my own racial background) and parts of the Caribbean, but I believe most people share a common interest in personal defense weapons, the big difference is: Here in the United States the possession of personal defense firearms is recognized as a basic right of our citizenship while elsewhere in the world that ain't the case.
I believe that gun control only truly works in completely totalitarian regimes and they have to be ruthlessly totalitarian states; ones that do not practice any form of mercy or or any form of justice in order for their prohibitions to be effective.
Still it doesn't change the fact that most human beings will seek to have some form of self-defense tool in their possession when their personal safety is threatened in any way. It may be a machete, a club, an iron bar, a bucket of lye sitting behind the front door, a home made firearm (manufactured from black iron pipe and black powder) or it could be an illegal AK or semi-auto pistol. It doesn't matter, only a fool relies upon their own physical strength and bare hands as their sole means of self-defense.
I've met enough people from other lands to recognize 'Gunnies' (those who just enjoy guns for what they are), regardless of the native language, as opposed to those who simply want to remain alive and well when others threaten them. (A condition that a majority of Americans don't believe could affect them.) The group concerned with their own welfare could care less about the specific technology, they just want something that's efficient and practical for their situation.
Fortunately, for most Americans, because of our rights and the firearms industry, it's not a big problem...
All The Best,
Frank W. James
POSTSCRIPT: I can't verify the veracity of the following, but yesterday I received a mass emailing from a good friend explaining how street gangs are 'tagging' cars in parking lots at gun stores, shooting ranges and gun shows. Then when the automobile, after tagging, is driven to another part of the area and left empty it is broken into and the weapons and gear stolen.
Supposedly, a number of expensive shotguns were stolen from vehicles this past summer at an event held near San Antonio, Texas and law enforcement feels this was the technique that identified the vehicles in each case. It also appears the same technique was used recently in Denver, Colorado.
A small adhesive dot is place on the bumper or the license plate to 'mark' the vehicle, when empty, as a target for thieves specializing in weapons theft.
So be aware and watch for anything 'strange' being put on your vehicle whenever you leave a 'Fun-Show' or shooting range...
(My wife found it strange anyway, I was planning on going to a gun-show when the next day I am flying out to a week long stay at the Shot Show!?! What can I say, but that I'm 'Gunny'?)
Speaking of guns, I read on the BBC website here that someone found a bunch of AK47's in crates sold for firewood in the former Soviet Union. What I found 'enlightening' is the fact the guy who found them turned them in to the local police. I'll bet if that happened here in the states the chances are 50/50 some of those guns would have found their way to a flea-market or a neighborhood bar before the cops got wind of the situation.
Americans are criticized by many as being 'gun-crazy', but it's my belief that the ability and the means to own any efficient technology for self-defense is a human desire that ranks just below the basic need for food, shelter and health-care.
Granted, my international travels have been limited pretty much to northern Europe (an area consistent with my own racial background) and parts of the Caribbean, but I believe most people share a common interest in personal defense weapons, the big difference is: Here in the United States the possession of personal defense firearms is recognized as a basic right of our citizenship while elsewhere in the world that ain't the case.
I believe that gun control only truly works in completely totalitarian regimes and they have to be ruthlessly totalitarian states; ones that do not practice any form of mercy or or any form of justice in order for their prohibitions to be effective.
Still it doesn't change the fact that most human beings will seek to have some form of self-defense tool in their possession when their personal safety is threatened in any way. It may be a machete, a club, an iron bar, a bucket of lye sitting behind the front door, a home made firearm (manufactured from black iron pipe and black powder) or it could be an illegal AK or semi-auto pistol. It doesn't matter, only a fool relies upon their own physical strength and bare hands as their sole means of self-defense.
I've met enough people from other lands to recognize 'Gunnies' (those who just enjoy guns for what they are), regardless of the native language, as opposed to those who simply want to remain alive and well when others threaten them. (A condition that a majority of Americans don't believe could affect them.) The group concerned with their own welfare could care less about the specific technology, they just want something that's efficient and practical for their situation.
Fortunately, for most Americans, because of our rights and the firearms industry, it's not a big problem...
All The Best,
Frank W. James
POSTSCRIPT: I can't verify the veracity of the following, but yesterday I received a mass emailing from a good friend explaining how street gangs are 'tagging' cars in parking lots at gun stores, shooting ranges and gun shows. Then when the automobile, after tagging, is driven to another part of the area and left empty it is broken into and the weapons and gear stolen.
Supposedly, a number of expensive shotguns were stolen from vehicles this past summer at an event held near San Antonio, Texas and law enforcement feels this was the technique that identified the vehicles in each case. It also appears the same technique was used recently in Denver, Colorado.
A small adhesive dot is place on the bumper or the license plate to 'mark' the vehicle, when empty, as a target for thieves specializing in weapons theft.
So be aware and watch for anything 'strange' being put on your vehicle whenever you leave a 'Fun-Show' or shooting range...
Labels: Current Events, Guns, Personal Philsophy, Politics
5 Comments:
After "Fast and Furious", and asking the courts to OK GPS tracking without a warrant, a real conspiracy nut might ponder how much of the taggging/theft ties back to political or gun control aspirations. Stealing one's guns is a very quick way to reduce the number of guns on the street. But none of us are conspiracy nuts, and our government wouldn't cooperate with less-than-legal people to create gun situations that support administration policies. .
At the SHOT show, you might check to see if anyone is making gun safes for vehicles.
Have a safe trip, and blessed be.
Google "Console Vault"
RE: "tagging" - couple of years back there was a rash of armed robberies where the victims were patrons of a couple of local Orlando shooting ranges. The bad guys would wander inside the store, scoping out who was shooting what through the glass. When the intended victims were observed leaving with their guns secured in cases the BGs followed, accosting them at gunpoint upon entering their driveways. Guns, wallets, and on one occasion, a car, were liberated. There was some indication that the BGs were using one vehicle to follow and another to assist with the actual heist, with the follower close by for potential assistance.
Much publicity ensued, and on-air interviews included several mentions by yet-to-be-victims that they had no intention of transporting their projectile expellers in cases and unloaded, a couple of ranges added cameras to the front door and the exterior to capture license numbers and the combined effort eliminated the problem.
Or shoot at a secure range.
I don't doubt the criminals are showing this kind of organization. I would hazarxd a guess that some lonely ATF guy might be doing there thinking for them.
Another plan...
Bring a few guns to the range to shoot...
Leave one holstered or in your pocket that you don't.
I used to go to a range in a "not nice" part of town. I always had at least one carry gun that I wasn't planning on shooting. I asked the range officer if that was cool and his response was "If its not being shot here today, I don't care about it"
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