Twenty-Six

No, the police report still has not been released.  So we do not know what weapons were actually used in the massacre, among many other things.

But one of the victims’ parents was given some as-yet-unreleased information about the tragedy by the police.

At least one of the guns that Adam Lanza was using jammed during his murderous rampage.

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Politics As Usual

A while back, Ruger sent out an communication that offered a way to email each of your federal, state and local representatives with a message urging them to reject new gun laws.  Just add your contact info and they did the rest.  I did it, and so did a lot of the people I met in Hartford for the public hearing a few weeks back.

Only one of my representatives has responded.

On Jan 28, I received this email from Sen. Chris Murphy (D – CT):

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Just a Bill…

(UPDATED) Well, it certainly didn’t take long for the left-wing gun-haters in the Connecticut legislature to trot out their proposals.  It’s almost like the proposals were already written, and they were just waiting for some dead bodies to stand on while they presented the Bills.  Well, Rahm Emmanuel always said to never let a crisis go to waste…

This post is a long one, so refill your glass.

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Shooters know that gun bans don’t work, and neither does gun registration.  But how do we communicate that message to the sheep who bleat their anti-gun lies?

With facts.

We need to keep the message short, powerful, and well-sourced.  And we need to target the typical arguments that an anti-gun-nut will use to convince fence-sitters.

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Magazine Math

Most shooters understand that the attempts to demonize magazines for the number of bullets they hold are a false-flag attack on our rights.  The rabid gun-haters are throwing everything they can think of at the wall in the hope that some of it will stick.  And their willing co-conspirators in the media are eagerly assisting them by deliberately confusing the public on the subject of guns to convince them to support more gun control.

How can the magazine originally designed to be standard equipment in 1935 to fit the Browning Hi-Power (13 round capacity) be legitimately described as “high capacity”?  That’s the standard capacity.

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