The ""Perfect" CCW for Wife AND Me

 Okay, okay! You caught me. I can't stop thinking about myself, when I am researching guns. My wife is looking for a CCW handgun, but I am the guide, because I know more about guns than she does. So I look for her, and I of course think about what would be best for me.

While stopping by a gun store, my wife said that she wants to get the smallest gun possible. The salesperson said that people don't look for guns anymore, because of - cellphones. So, his opinion was the largest and controllable is ideal. Well, all around food for thought.

We have gone from the .357 Ruger LCR as the probable choice a year or so ago back to thin autoloaders. But taking a step back, we were leaning toward thin 9mm autoloaders for a couple of reasons: (1) they are thin and (2a) 9mm is the most available cartridge right now, and (2b) I've got some at home.

When my wife - let's call her Marie - was looking at the guns in the case and handling some, she was drawn toward the Ruger LCP II in .380 ACP. At the time, the gun store/range had no .380 ammo. She said fine; let's get something in 9mm that's really small.

 I went in a second time by myself, and I found out that their 50-count boxes of .380 are going for $100.  I reported back to Marie, and she was definitely on board with 9mm. On that second trip, I asked to look at the Kahr CM9. My wife doesn't have problems with racking slides, but I had heard that Kahr's were notorious for having hard-to-rack slides. She had no problem with the CW9 at our last range session (actually she had less problem with me racking the slide through the "locking-breach bum"), but I was convinced that the CM9 would be far worse. I was pleasantly surprised that the gun-handling operations were so easy. It is left to be seen if my wife feels the same way.

credit: Kahr.com

So, for this exercise that hopefully will end in an actual purchase, and I am taking that the Kahr CM9 has the idea.

credit: Kahr.com

The micro doublestack 9mms sort of put a wrench in the works, because they appear to be so "perfect," but we will see.

Wife's CCW Gun

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 ;)

Standing Army (Part 1)

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).

credit: Omaha World Herald

The Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO) is a division of DLA Disposition Services, a subordinate command of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). It administers the 1033 program(1). They also hand out grenade launchers and full-auto firearms.

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]

(1) "Law Enforcement Support Office," Wikipedia.com

Trump Is No Friggin Saint

 

Trump is no friggin saint.

But he has fought more for the interests of the common man than all the knaves in Congress.

Biden's Approval Rating (YouTube Edition) 1/28/21

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.

Biden's Approval Rating (YouTube Edition) 1/27/21

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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%!

Biden's Approval Rating (YouTube Edition)

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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.

Ruger's Big Announcement

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.

Credit: SportsmansFinest.com

And by the way, SHOT Show is cancelled.

SIG Cross Recall: Credit Where Credit's Due

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:

Actually it is a direct  quote. So nothing nefarious going on here.

From AmericanRifleman.com:

"This safety recall comes after SIG Sauer viewed an online video in which a CROSS rifle exhibited a potential safety concern with a delayed discharge. The rifle in question was sent back to SIG Sauer, where it was confirmed through evaluation that the issue was related to the rifle and not ammunition. The CROSS rifle in question exhibited a mechanical issue in which the striker had a delayed release after the trigger was pulled."

That looks like a paraphrase with maybe some knowledge of the actual video. So, American Rifleman might have been avoiding the source of the malfunction alert.

So, not to go into sharing tons of quotes and paraphrases, it looks like there is some just running press releases, some sloth, and maybe not trying to give some love to a media competitor.

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.

Revolvers Are Great: Interlude (Part 2)

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:

Credit: Sportsman's Warehouse (Taurus 692 "Essential")

It looked so cool that I thought this Taurus 692 with additional cylinder and crane was photoshopped. Nope, it's real. While looking up information, I discovered an article on Personal Defense World about taking the Gunsite Academy revolver course with the Taurus 692 ported edition.

Credit: Personal Defense World

Bell only made one modification to the gun - a Hogue Monogrip ...

Credit: Amazon.com

and he used Black Hills .357 Cowboy Action Shooting cartridges.

Yes, the article is about the revolver, but William Bell's write up about the course includes how the course covers "Cooper's Color Code" and "interrupting the 'OODA Loop' of an attacker." Being reminded of Col. Cooper's Color Code and being introduced concept of effecting someone else's OODA Loop as a tactic is really intriguing.

Resources for further study:

Wikipedia article on "OODA Loop"

Col. Jeff Cooper's Color Code