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2015-01-31 -Land of the Free
This Week In Guns, January 31st, 2015
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Posted by badanov 2015-01-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 Texas Governor declares Chris Kyle day. (Link)
Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared February 2nd to be “Chris Kyle Day” to honor the Texan who became known the most lethal sniper in American history. Kyle was also recently immortalized in the blockbuster film “American Sniper.”

Kyle was credited with 150 sniper kills during his four tours of duty in Iraq as a Navy Seal. He was tragically shot and killed on February 2, 2013, while trying to help a fellow veteran who was allegedly suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Taya Kyle, the widow of Chris Kyle, was recently honored by the organization AmericanSnipers.org with a donation of $62,000. According to a Breitbart News article by AWR Hawkins, the group raised the money by raffling a McMillan .338 Lapua sniper rifle. She also recently made news by shooting an antelope on a hunting trip taken to honor her late husband.

After his death, Kyle was honored with a memorial service in the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The service along with the miles-long funeral procession were also featured in the movie honoring Kyle.

During that service, then Governor Rick Perry said, “Chris Kyle was the public face of an anonymous breed of American warrior who are handed the hardest missions and assume the largest risks,” Former Governor Rick Perry said. “Chris was among the very best at what he did, and he saved countless American lives in the process. Our state and our nation suffered a profound loss with his passing. I am honored to have known Chris and to have called him my friend. Anita and I send our deepest condolences to his wife, Taya, his children and the thousands of service members that were his extended family.”
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-01-31 05:45||   2015-01-31 05:45|| Front Page Top

#2 .38 Special Wadcutters at 100 yards.
Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-31 11:48||   2015-01-31 11:48|| Front Page Top

#3 From the link;

The collectivist media has been very successful in serving their masters by deliberately ignoring the armed civil disobedience movement.

The liberal media loves to portray open-carry activists as the dangerous extension of traditional Second Amendment groups. The folks that publicly carry their guns simply as a statement risk the credibility of all that are concerned with the infringement of liberties. With that said, I’ll defend your right to lawfully display your guns in public. As long as you defend my right to call you attention seeking A-Holes. Deal?
Posted by DepotGuy 2015-01-31 12:56||   2015-01-31 12:56|| Front Page Top

#4 You know, if Texas really wants to honk off the Feds, declare that machineguns manufactured in Texas for use only in Texas is not interstate commerce and let the fur fly!
Posted by Silentbrick 2015-01-31 17:18||   2015-01-31 17:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Apparently there is a bill in committee proposing to ban > or = Type III body armor.

I read an article some time ago about firstt hand accounts on survival basics when law and order breaks down. First thing he suggested was purchasing body armor, mainly as a defense against stabbing.

Personally, I tend to lean towards DepotGuy's opinion, especially when it is a bunch of tacticools chomping down on burritos. I do get the point of the Washington protests. Here's the thing - the media has proven it will just make shit up if there no subject with the right narrative traction. Its how we came up with the term White-Hispanic. Its what Mrs. Peeinsocks did when she wrote up he fainting attack about the fellow who ended up have a heart monitor. I'd think if the Washington protesters were doing it right, the mag is out and the bolt is open making it less dangerous and slower to deploy than a hammer, not that it would matter to narrators who see tanks in every F-150, who use pre-format stories to report gun incidents which is where we got our famous AR-15 shotgun.

*I will note that the survival basics story suggested having a pistol in 9mm because everyone (police and security, etc) uses 9mm. As an observation, the ammo everyone uses was to first sold out and last to re-appear, namely 22, 9mm, .223, with stories of people driving 3 hours to clean out Mom and Pop stores.
Posted by swksvolFF 2015-01-31 19:27||   2015-01-31 19:27|| Front Page Top

#6 There are areas along the border of Mexico where open carry is a necessity, especially when it is 110 degrees outside and wearing a coat to cover the Colt is not an option. I suggest our troops who are now under an active Fatwa also be allowed to open carry even in civilian clothes until we get a border again and a formal immigration process to insure ISIS, Al Qaeda, Huthis, Boko Haram, Sinaola, the Juarez Cartel, the Knights Templar, the Gulf Cartel are no longer sleeper cells in the US who want to attack our High rises and even threaten our elementary schools.

I suggest open carry for any police officer in civilian clothes after the Obama admin actively took the side of notorious strong arm bandit Michael Brown resulting in the execution of two NYC Police officers. Since the New Black Panther Party can open carry in East Texas I suggest so can everyone else until we get a United States of America Justice Department who openly no longer refuses to honor the laws of our Constitution and any other law it chooses not to enforce that protects our citizens.
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-01-31 19:33||   2015-01-31 19:33|| Front Page Top

#7 In CT if someone bought an AR-15 or any other firearm from a FFL, then the state already has a pretty good idea who has one. In addition to the Federal form, you have to fill out state forms that go to the police department the purchaser lives in.
Posted by Chantry 2015-01-31 20:30||   2015-01-31 20:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh and the legislator that proposed the bill has eebn a very strong 2nd Amendment supporter.
Posted by Chantry 2015-01-31 20:41||   2015-01-31 20:41|| Front Page Top

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