Gun YouTube Alternatives (UPDATE 11/18/20)

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Boatswains: Trader Joe's Cheap Double IPA

I keep buying this beer, and lord, I want to like it.

"Boatswain Double I.P.A. Indian Pale Ale Twin Screwsteamer"

I like the the alcohol content: 8.4%. That's great! But the aftertaste lingers for hours. It's got a good head, though.

This beer is fine, as in OK, and it is nothing to write home about. At $4.99 a six pack or $9.98 a 12 pack or $0.84 a beer or $0.84 for 1 oz of alcohol it's fine - just fine.

So fine, OK, I really do like it. It's not great, but it is "serviceable."

Stats:

Gravity: 8.4% Alcohol/Volume or 17.15

IBU: 75

Appearance: Amber

Style: Double IPA

Violence Is, Well, Violent

 It seems that, once attacked or threatened, most people are too shocked by the affront to immediately mount an effective defense.

Like Michael Bane often suggests and blatantly states, you need a plan for actions against assaults before you are actually in a defensive situation.

In addition to that sage advice, I think you need to curate the mindset needed to deal with a situation that might maim or kill you. Many of us could develop very quickly the rage necessary to prosecute blood-thirsty revenge, if someone harms us or a loved one. But could we instantly fight off an assault, when we are attacked?

"... when it's time to fight, you fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp to Noah's Ark… and brother, it's startin' to rain."

- Christopher Woods, Rash'Tor'R

Fire Acting Director Regina Lombardo for conspiring against a civil right.

 https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-acting-director-regina-lombardo-conspiring-against-civil-right

Acting Director Regina Lombardo accepted contact from candidate Joe Biden, or representatives of Biden, and has signalled her intention to further violate the civil right of U.S. citizens and other legal residents of the U.S. that is expressly protected by the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and is a natural right.

Specifically, Lombardo intends to further regulate or make illegal by fiat pistol braces and 80% lowers.

It is our belief that: (1) Lombardo is practicing creeping incrementalism, (2) does not support the 2nd Amendment, and (2) is violating her oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Thin Double-Stack Sub-Compacts: Down The Rabbit Hole,

 My wife wants to get a handgun for CCW. In the past she was dead set on the Ruger LCR. Now she is open to a semiauto and likes the Urban Carry holster.

Well, I was thinking about going gun commonality with her. Whatever she gets I'll eventually get. No problem. 

But then the wheels started turning. I set on the Kahr CW9 as a benchmark for some reason - for my wife. Thin, full-length grip, light.

So, the Kahr CW9:

credit: Kahr.com

Height: 4.5"

Width: .9" 

Length: 5.9"

Capacity: 7+1 (Compatible with 8+1)

Weight: 17.7 oz

But then that gun commonality thing in the family went by the wayside. Or did it? Could I steer her to a thin doublestack? 

Ruger Security-9 Compact

I became really intrigued by this gun, when I compared it to the Kahr CW9.

Ruger Security-9 Compact:

credit: Ruger.com

Height: 4.35"

Width: 1.02"

Length: 6.52"

Capacity: 10+1 (compatible with 15+1)

Weight: 21.9 oz

So, it is bigger in a couple dimensions -but not much bigger.

Possibilities.

Trump Is Still Your President

 

It's 11/10/2020, and Trump is still your president.

Oh, and Biden is NOT "president elect," even though he paid too much for a backdrop that said so.

Next Biden's going to claim: "I'm emperor of my toes. See! They do what I say ... Where's my pudding!?!"

Constitution Party

 A coworker asked me what the Constitution Party is, since he saw a candidate for president on his ballet.

So here goes.:

Wikipedia Constitution Party article

Political Junk Mail

 

Background Photo Credit: SFWeekly

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." - Pericles

Local Wal-Mart Ammo Sales Suspended

UPDATE: An Answer. See Below

UPDATE 2: See Below

Went into Wal-Mart today. Checked out the ammo aisle.

I asked an employee if they had stopped selling ammo. She said, "All I know is they just locked it all down."

Possibilities

1. The local store actually stopped selling ammo.

2. The current Tropical Storm Zeta incursion has caused a "lockdown."

3. Wal-Mart is anticipating unrest around election day.

Well, apparently Wal-Mart doesn't want their guns and ammo to get looted as a reaction to the election. So Wal-Mart pulled the merchandise company wide.

Wal-Mart Yanks Guns amd Ammo - The Truth About Guns

Apparently, you can still get guns and ammo Wal-Mart. You just have to ask.

Western Journal

"Lightweight" Commanders: Love of the .45 and The .45 Deception!

LAST POST: "Lightweight" Commanders: A Little Personal History

Back when I devoured printed gun magazines and annuals religiously, the .45 ACP cartridge was king. It seemed like all the gun experts - which in my experience they were actually gun writers - thought that round was what everyone needed to use.

To their credit, handgun bullet technology gave the win to .45 ACP at the time - if you ignored revolvers and the .357 magnum cartridge. But that was the time that autoloaders had really hit their stride, and the police world was following the FBI down the .40 Short & Week road.

An Examples

Let's start of with an actual expert. Clint Smith, cofounder of Thunder Ranch, wrote an article in 2007. He covered his aversion but respect for polymer guns. He appreciated the handgun reviewed, and you would see him using one in training sessions for years to come - festooned with fighting-tiger "nose" art. I really wish I could find a picture of that Springfield XD.

Credit: Ichiro Nagata, AmericanHandgunner

Here's his take on caliber in the article:

"I don't care where or what handguns are made of, or even how they look. Any handgun takes a big step up on my ladder or judgement if the thing will simply function, and do it all of the time. So the plastic I could start to live with, sort of, but the caliber - sorry. Anything with a "4" and only an "0" after it ain't for this boy."

So nowadays, Smith would say that is just his personal preference, yadidadida. And now he carries a very nice 1911 - in .45 ACP.

Oh, The Great Betrayal!

I wish I could find the article, but it was a while ago - let's call it a decade - and the author revealed a dirty little secret of the gun industry - or at least gun writers. He said that, though the writers held .45 ACP up on a pedestal, that they all fell back on J-frames for daily carry. 

Credit: Wikipedia.org

The implication was that carrying a big .45 was a pain, it should be done, but a J-frame was easy to always carry or to at least to fall back on. 

So what's a gun buyer to do? Back to Clint Smith:

"Carrying a gun is not supposed to be comfortable; it's supposed to be comforting.”

NEXT: "Lightweight" Commanders: Choices