My wife has decided once again that she wants a CCW pistol. Truth be told, I've been prodding her a bit.
And she has settled on the Urban Carry G3 holster.
AND she is now considering semiautos again. In the past, she was dead set on the .357 Ruger LCR.
So, here we go! Of course, this is all dependent on my wife's range (rental) sessions. But as a guy I feel compelled to be prepped for the chaos ;)
Is a standing army really allowed in the United States?
Is the goal of the Biden administration to create a standing army to suppress and control patriotic Americans?
Apparently, the Biden Administration is expanding the 1033 program that funnels "military grade" equipment to police according to The Free Thought Project.
Is the Biden Administration really giving more stuff to the police?
The 1033 Program
Standing Army: Biden Surpasses Trump on Flow of Military Weapons to Cops by Matt Agorist on TheFreeThoughtProject.com suggests that the Biden Administration is arming the police to make a stand against anti-government forces.
The 1033 program that gives military equipment to state and local police has been around since 1995. But it was an expansion of previous programs dating back to 1943. The most visible examples are the MRAPs (mine resistant ambush protected).
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According to The Free Thought Project, the Biden administration has matched in one quarter what the Trump administration did in the last two quarters of last year when it comes to giving military stuffs to police. So does that really amount to creating a single standing army, like The Free Thought Project "article" sort of claims.
Well for one thing, "Standing Army" is really an opinion piece. For another thing, there are not strings attached for the police departments to be federalized. And as the editorial explains, the Biden administration has taken a supposed backhanded approached to the further disorganized Black Lives Matter movement: ignore BLM and arm the police more.
Standing Arm[ies]
So back to this "standing army" thing. It's sort of a misnomer. But the further concentration of militaria in the hands of agents of the government is troubling - though it is decentralized among many government agencies. The founding fathers wanted the people to be armed on par with the military. The restriction of weapon types to government agents severely handicaps the sovereigns of our nation - the individuals.
Citizens are faced with growing armies on the state and local level. For example, the NYPD can mobilize 36,000 to quell an uprising or suppress other freedom activities. The NYPD is armed with service pistols, body armor, shotguns, select-fire Armalite-Rifle-based rifles, HK MP5 submachine guns, sniper rifles, helicopters, and MRAPs. For a population diminishing well below 8 million that still doesn't seem like much. But it is the ability to concentrate power that is oh so troubling.
On a more decentralized level, even with small police departments, they are able to call on surrounding small agencies, state police, and even the national and state guards. Again, the individual doesn't stand much of a chance, especially when you factor in the weight of statutory law in many states and localities.
[TO BE CONTINUED]
But he has fought more for the interests of the common man than all the knaves in Congress.
Rough day for Biden. He scaled back the volume of his YouTube videos, and viewers hate them more.
89% of "voters" disliked his videos for the day.
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Just for today's videos, Biden pulled down an impressive "dislike" rate on the YouTube White House channel of 82%.
Biden is consistently disliked on YouTube. For his White House channel, he is averaging a historic "approval rating" of about -83%!
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Biden's having a very rocky start on YouTube. His White House channel is the most disliked I've ever seen.
The average for his videos was 83% disliked on 1/22 and 81% on 1/23. Jumping forward to today, his 22 videos were disliked by an average of 84% by those who voted.
Noteworthy for today, Kamala Harris getting vaccinated was the most disliked video so far with 94% disliking it.
Michael Bane said on his podcast this week that Ruger has a big pre SHOT Show announcement. Of course, we are talking about one of Ruger's product introductions that always preceed SHOT Show. Well, it sounds like it will come a little earlier this year.
I'm intrigued. Maybe it will be a SIG Cross clone.
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And by the way, SHOT Show is cancelled.
I don't know why, but none of the posts and articles that I've seen have identified the source of the "online video in which a single Cross bolt-action rifle displayed a potential safety concern."
Maybe that is because all of the sites that have published the news about the recall have copied and pasted the notification and have, basically, release SIG's words as their own. Maybe, the writers don't like the outlet and/or person's that have produced the failure in the SIG Cross rifle.
So, let's dive in:
The Problem:
As stated by SIG on SigSauer.com:
"Sig Sauer has viewed an online video that presents a single CROSS Bolt-Action Rifle with a potential safety concern. This gun has been returned to Sig Sauer and upon evaluation it has been confirmed that the rifle exhibited a delayed discharge after the trigger was pulled. Sig Sauer has decided to issue a safety recall in order to implement a modification to the firing action to address this potential safety concern."The Reporting:
From TheTruthAboutGuns.com:
Who Deserves Credit:
It's the NutNFancy YouTube channel. I don't really know his "street cred," I think it is US Air Force or something - and that he actually has had a YouTube channel reviewing guns and gear for quite a while. You have to watch the video. It is telling - from minutes 26:00 to 31:00.
PREVIOUS in series: Revolvers Are Great (Part 1)
While skimming through my Facebook feed, I saw a post from the I'm with Roscoe group. The group member shared a picture that included this beauty:
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Well, we are in a holding pattern for my wife's pistol-purchase permit. And my wife doesn't want to hear a thing about guns - for her - until she can get her hands on some and buy one that day.
In the meantime, I had been convinced that she would end up with a single-stack 9mm or .380. Now I'm not so sure. She shoots revolvers well, and she likes how easy it is to see that they are loaded. Also, I'm getting intrigued by revolvers again. I haven't had one for a long time, and I might even consider getting one - or two - for myself.
Besides my wife's attraction, why the change of heart? I'm concerned about capacity, but single-stack guns don't have much anyway. So then I was considering a Ruger Security-9 Compact, which is pretty thin for a double-stack gun and doesn't weigh too much. But more weight is more weight.
Also, on a totally frivolous note. I like the idea of a derringer back up to a .38 revolver.
Back to what my wife wants.
She really liked the .357 Magnum Ruger LCR. But it's a little pricey. She shot the J frame lightweight S&W and thought it was okay. I was not all that impressed with the Taurus revolvers. They all seemed to weigh too much, but I kept seeing ads for this thing:
The Taurus 856 Ultra-Lite.
And I was at a gun store and handled the polymer Taurus Public Defender. And the trigger was - good!
And my wife wants a gun with some color - if possible. So more wheels started turning. Though some semiautos have a pallette of colors.
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