Gun & Prepping News #105

 Some links that may be of interest: 

• "CMP Sets January 2027 for M14 Rifle Sales"--Shooting Sports USA. Price hasn't been set, but the article indicates it will be less than $2,000. Additionally, purchasers will be initially limited to a maximum of two per year. 
• "Self-Defense Against Multiple Attackers"--US Concealed Carry.  The article discusses the dangers posed by a group assault and the importance of situational awareness, but here is probably the meat of the article:

 Key Strategies for Handling Group Assault Scenarios:

1.     Move Constantly: Do not let yourself get surrounded. Keep shifting your position to prevent being boxed in. Side-stepping, circling around obstacles and staying unpredictable in your movements make it harder for attackers to corner you.
2.     Attack and Escape: Target the most aggressive attacker with a decisive blow and then move toward an escape route. Disabling one assailant quickly can create a gap for you to flee before the others react.
3.     Use the Environment: Walls, cars, poles and obstacles can prevent attackers from reaching you all at once. If possible, position yourself in a doorway or narrow space where only one attacker can engage you at a time.
4.     Strike Smartly: Aim for vulnerable areas like the eyes, throat, groin and knees to disable attackers quickly. A well-placed eye gouge or knee strike can incapacitate an attacker long enough to escape.
5.     Stay on Your Feet: Falling makes you more vulnerable. If you do fall, protect your head and attempt to get back up quickly. If trapped on the ground, use your legs to kick attackers away and create space.
6.     Use Improvised Weapons: Items like keys, pens, bags or even dirt can be used as weapons to fend off attackers. A flashlight can be used to blind them momentarily, and a backpack can serve as a shield against incoming strikes.
7.     Identify the Leader and Neutralize the Threat: Many group attackers follow the actions of a dominant leader. If possible, targeting the leader can disrupt the group dynamic and lower morale.
8.     Control Your Breathing and Stay Focused: Panic can lead to exhaustion and poor decision-making. Control your breathing, stay focused and act decisively to break free from the attack.

The article also discusses de-escalation techniques, and training. 

• More:  "How to Defend Against Multiple Attackers"--Mindful Defense. 

• Interesting: "The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier: What Guns Do The Sentinels Carry? Part 1: Pistols"--The Truth About Guns. Before getting to the topic of the title, the author gives background on the creation of the Tomb and the history of the sentinels, their training and selection, and more. But in answer to the handgun, the current ones are highly stylized and engraved version of the SIG Sauer P320 M17. 
• "The Mini-14 On Duty"--GAT Daily. A look at the military, paramilitary, and police units that adopted variants of the Mini-14 as duty rifles, including, but not limited to, the French National Police, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and the Royal Bermuda Regiment.
• "Myths & Misunderstandings About the 'Modern Fighting 1911'."--American Rifleman. The author argues:

 If we are to look at a pistol purely as a self-defense defense tool and not as a status symbol or a more elegant arm from a bygone age, the 1911 begins to struggle. Weight, magazine capacity, magazine reliability, overall reliability, manual of arms and a certain peculiarity of bullet-profile preference all serve to hamper the 1911 in a modern setting.

The problem with 1911s is that there are so many manufacturers that quality and function can vary widely for both handguns and magazines. But a well made 1911 with decent sights can still serve quite well.   

• "Cowboy Action Shooting On A Budget"--Athlon Outdoors. An excerpt:

    Yes, you need guns. Four of them, to be exact. Two handguns, one rifle, and a shotgun. These will be the largest investment. But it would behoove a new shooter to attend an event or two before buying guns.
    
    All CAS events are governed by a stringent set of rules involving firearms. In short, all must be authentic pre-1899 firearms (with some category-based exceptions) or a modern replica thereof.

    At most any event, you will see the breadth and depth of what is allowed for firearms. Some hold steadfastly to the .45 Colt cartridge as the “only cowboy loading,” while others continue to win with .38 Special.

• "Fudd Friday: The State Of The Lever-Action Union"--The Firearm Blog. A look at the ups and downs of the lever action rifle. The author begins:

America is a land of four distinct firearm archetypes: Big-bore handguns, pump-action shotguns, AR-pattern rifles and lever-action rifles. But out of all those Big Four, lever-actions might be the most American of all, due to their association with a generation of Wild West frontier life and then another three generations of sporting use. Far from the decline that we observed over the 1990s and early 2000s, lever-actions are back, in a big way. And while there are good reasons for that to happen, a true revival of this segment to its dominance does seem to be as distant as ever.

The author discusses why the lever action went into decline, the reasons for the resurgent interest,  and a risk for the American manufacturers:

    They’re only just beginning to show up, but pretty soon, you’re going to see Turkish lever-action rifles everywhere; they’re already flooding the Canadian market, which has been buying them to cope with the loss of their ARs. Some shooters might sneer at the idea of a Turkish-built lever gun, but remember that Americans have already been buying lever-action rifles made in Brazil, Japan and Italy, and it has been that way for decades. For now, the Turks appear to mostly be copying the Model 1892 design, but it won’t be long until they’ve blueprinted and reproduced everything else they think they can make a buck off.

    The biggest question is, what happens after they do that? Will they be able to undercut American manufacturers to the point that we see a second massive die-off in lever-action production Stateside? I doubt it; I imagine you’d see tariffs before that happened. But who knows the future for sure? 

• "Start ’Em with Squirrels—The Perfect Hunt for Junior Woodsmen"--American Hunter. Short take:

Let’s be dead honest. Unless you’ve got a junior shooter who is reared on outdoor tales and champing at the bit to get into the woods, it can be a challenge getting kids started with deer hunting. Long sits, low temps and enforced quiet can make even the least energetic child wonder what all the fuss is about, and why he can’t move his foot like that. Not so with squirrel hunting. On a squirrel hunt, the action never stops as you scour the canopy looking for squirrels, and stalking is near mandatory. 

• Related: "Hunting Small Game: An Overview"--American Hunter. Moving beyond the .22 squirrel gun to .17 HMR rifles and shotguns.
• "Winchester Drops New Big Game Ammo 101 Video Series"--The Truth About Guns.  

Winchester Ammunition has launched a seven-part video series called Big Game Ammo 101, aimed at hunters trying to match the right load to the right animal. The first episode, “The Complete Lineup Tested,” is live now on the Winchester Ammunition YouTube channel, with six more installments to follow. 

• "Ballistic Eye Protection for Helmet Setups: Glasses vs Goggles"--Chase Tactical.  An excerpt:

Goggles should sit flat against the face with the strap running around the back of the helmet, not under it. Some helmets have goggle clips or bungees on the rear to hold the strap in place. If the helmet sits too low on the brow, the goggle frame gets pushed down onto the nose, so adjust the helmet harness first. Our guide to NIJ helmet ratings covers how the shell itself is rated. 

• "Best MREs for Overlanding and Outdoor Adventures"--Skill Set Magazine. Unfortunately, the author doesn't seem to understand the concept of an MRE which is that it is ready to eat without having to boil water to reconstitute it. Thus, there is a mix of genuine MRE style meals and freeze dried products. That aside, the author does look at various options from different companies and is worth checking out for that reason. 
• "Survival Tips Every Outdoorsman Should Know"--Athlon Untamed. The tips cover the following categories or topics: 

1. Know your terrain;
2. Staying warm;
3. Food and water;
4. Basic first aid;
5. Signalling and communication; and
6. A list of items to make sure you have in your day pack.  

•  "Winter Gear Picks for Canadian Law Enforcement"--Joint Force Tactical. This article is intended to push the site's products, but it does give an idea of the type of products and clothing you would want for operating in cold weather. 
• On a related note, I tried to find an article on good shooting gloves for cold weather, but surprisingly could not find anything but this article: "10 Top Winter Shooting Gloves for Women"--NRA Women. I'm sure that the brands and products are also available for men as well. Of the 10 recommendations, it was interesting to me that three of them were different styles of the PIG FDT (Patrol Incident Gear, Full Dexterity Tactical) glove line. Orvis and Hatch brands also took two positions each. 
• Related: "11 Best Hunting Gloves for Cold Weather, Bowhunting, Waterfowl & More"--North American Outdoorsman.
• "Here’s How to Pull Out a Rotten Tooth at Home"--Modern Survival Online. The author discusses the medical dangers posed by a rotten tooth. He continues:

 Forget about what you have seen in various forms of media; if you are even considering attempting emergency extraction of a rotten tooth on your own, having the correct tools is a must. Gather the following, or on go on and add them to your stash now:

He then lists the tools, which I won't reproduce here, before going through the various steps and instructions, including sterilization of the tools, disinfecting and rinsing the mouth, gloving/masking up, applying pain killers, detaching ligaments from the tooth, the actual extraction, and inspecting the tooth, finishing up, and after care.  

• "The Lovebugs Say it’s Time to Do These 7 Fall Gardening Tasks"--The Survival Gardner. This article is from September--and the author lives in Florida--so it is probably too late for certain of the tasks. But there is probably still time to mulch the garden beds and use fallen leaves for compost.
• "Be Ready-ish" by James Lileks, National Review.  The author begins by discussing the sudden advice from around the world--from the UK to Japan--warning their citizens to have 72-hours of food and water; and the U.S. military suddenly realizing that its bases need to be self-sufficient for up to 90 days (with Lileks suggesting this is based on a sudden realization that Biden let in lots of hostile peoples that will target infrastructure). But the author then injects some moderation into all of this:

    To all this ambient nervousness [over Russian or Chinese military threats], add to this two strains of modern discourse: The left believes Trump and Musk are going to steal the election by using ICE and Starlink, and the right is poring over plans by vaguely named NGOs to do a Color Revolution Thing and have governors suspend the Constitution. More or less.

    My personal belief is that none of this is going to happen. All of these tremulous motifs in the zeitgeist will trail off into nothingness, replaced by ones that are similar but different. It’s possible the government told everyone to have three days’ food on hand because 37 percent of the younger generation has nothing but ketchup and a brick of ramen on hand, and if there’s a momentary hiccup in the way things work, people will be staring at their phones, stabbing the DoorDash app and wondering why nothing’s loading, and because they have Anxiety, it is ableist to expect them to boil water. 

Happy Halloween - A Couple Classic Cartoons

 Happy Halloween! 

 VIDEO: "Trick or Treat (1956)"
Kalle Anka & C:o (8 min.) 

 

 VIDEO: "Lonesome Ghosts | Mickey Mouse and Friends: Classic Shorts | ‪@disneykids‬"
Disney Kids (9 min.)

RPG Saturday: The Sinister Secret of Salt Marsh

    The Sinister Secret of Salt Marsh was the first of a series of three interconnected adventure modules for first edition AD&D--the other two adventures being Danger at Dunwater and The Final Enemy. The Sinister Secret of Salt Marsh was first published by TSR's UK division in 1981.  It was resurrected for 5th Edition D&D, together with Danger at Dunwater and The Final Enemy, and collected together with some additional adventures in a volume entitled Ghosts of Salt Marsh. 

    I probably purchased The Sinister Secret of Salt Marsh back in 1981 shortly after it was released. The primary appeal to me was the idea of exploring a haunted house--something very different from the standard delve into abandoned crypts, orc lairs, or fighting giants. In fact, the general setting seems more appropriate for something set in the past few hundred years rather than a Medieval setting.

Adventure Summary 

     The general scenario begins with the character party coming across the sleepy harbor town of Salt Marsh where they hear stories of a haunted mansion atop a seaside cliff outside the town. Either on their own, or with encouragement from the town leaders, the characters will then journey out to the haunted house to explore the house to drive out whatever evil is lurking there.  

  

    In true Scooby-Doo fashion, the mansion is not truly haunted--at least not in the sense that the town folk believe--but is being used by a gang of smugglers who are taking advantage of secret caverns beneath the house that lead to the bottom of the cliff. A ship is used to smuggle goods to just off the coast from the house, and then moved into the caverns by boat before being further distributed and sold off. 

    The characters are intended to explore the house. Unlike a Scooby-Doo mystery, however, there actually are dangerous creatures in and around the house. There is a poisonous snake in a well outside the home, and giant centipedes and large spiders can be encountered in the house; a group of small creatures called stirges lurk in the attic; some animated skeletons are locked in a crypt underneath the house; and, of course, there are the smugglers themselves. And there is the chance of randomly encountering giant rats, goblins, or a few other creatures in addition to those attached to specific locations. Additionally, there is a "prisoner" tied up in one of the bedrooms who actually is an assassin, hired by a merchant who works with the smugglers to infiltrate the adventurer's group to take appropriate action to prevent them from ever escaping the house. 

    And below the house, hidden behind a secret door in the celler, are the tunnels and caverns used by the smugglers, including members of the smuggling gang that are living in the caverns. 

    Whether from prisoners or clues found throughout the house, the characters will learn of the smuggling and the system to signal between the house and the smuggler's ship. This gives the characters the opportunity to then attempt to sneak onto the smuggler's ship and apprehend the leader of the gang and capture the ship and collect a generous reward from a grateful town council (or abscond with the ship and its cargo). 

     Aboard the ship, however, the characters will learn that the gang has not just been smuggling goods to bypass tariffs and taxes, but have been selling weapons to a colony of lizard men that have recently moved into the area. The adventure is continued in the next adventure, Danger at Dunwater. 

Influence

     The general scenario--the haunted house atop a cliff, hidden caverns down to the sea, and smugglers--may see familiar to those of you who were fans of the Hardy Boys mysteries as it is the basic premise used in the second Hardy Boys' adventure, The House On The Cliff. This was particularly apparent to me when I read the original 1927 edition of the book which emphasized the aspect of the house being haunted and decrepit, and I used some of the descriptions from the book when I last ran the D&D adventure. 

Additional Thoughts 

     This is a great adventure for low level characters (levels 1-3) and one of my favorites to run as a Dungeon Master. It is not too long and has a mixture of mystery and action. It also splits neatly into two parts (the house and the ship) so that it can be easily played over multiple evenings. The town can be used as a base of operations for additional adventures--something that naturally results if you use all three adventures in the original trilogy or use the adventures in the Ghosts of Salt Marsh book.

    I will note that the adventure as published in the Ghosts of Salt Marsh is not too different from the original 1981 adventure. The basic scenario is the same, although some of the monsters have been changed and few new surprises have been added. 

    When I purchased The Sinister Secret of Salt Marsh in the 1980s, I did not get the follow up adventures. It may have been because I never saw them or lack of cash--I don't remember. The result is that the follow up adventure created by my friends was much different than that envisioned by the authors. The adventurers, as noted above, will discover on the ship that the smugglers have been selling weapons to the lizard men. If you continue with Danger at Dunwater, you will discover that the lizard men are mostly peaceful, but are under threat from yet a third group of creatures; which is why they need the weapons. Thus, in the final of the trilogy of adventures, The Final Enemy, the characters, the townsfolk and the lizard men all unite to fight this common enemy. 

    But my friends and I didn't know any of that. So we created our own follow up adventure where the lizard men were the enemy, gaining strength in order to attack the settlement at Salt Marsh, and it was up to our characters to stop it.  

    The original adventure booklet can still be found for sale here and there for exorbitant prices. If you don't need an original, you can purchase a PDF copy and/or a print-on-demand copy from DriveThru RPG. Internet Archive also has a PDF of it that you can download.

     If you are playing 5th Edition, you will probably want to track down a copy of the Ghosts of Saltmarsh book (which is apparently out of print, although it is available to purchase in electronic form if you subscribe to D&D Beyond).  

    Additional resources--maps and suggestions for running the adventure--are available from the DM's Guild.

VIDEO: The Future Holds No Place For Ordinary People

Ben Shapiro's video discusses how horses were replaced by tractors, cars, trucks and various engines and motors; and suggests that the coming AI (and robotics) revolution will make most people irrelevant. The horses that remain primarily are used for recreation, which begs the question of whether that will be the fate of humanity absent divine intervention. The host suggest that the difference between the horse and people are that people can have an ownership interest (shares) in the new technology, but in reality what proportion of the population will be in that position? Or will the only "ordinary people" that are allowed to remain be only those for the amusement and recreation of the elites?

We seem headed toward a society similar to that predicted by Isaac Asimov in his novel, The Naked Sun--a world where AI and robotics have replaced all but a small number of elites.  The question is whether the top elites let the population naturally reduce itself, or work to speed up the process. 

 VIDEO: "You Are The Next Horse"
David Shapiro (11 min.)

What's Going On In The World's Oldest Black Republic

In a move that threatens Leftist cash flows, El Salvador has deployed thousands of troops to Haiti. Ostensibly, the operation is to rescue four El Salvadorian air force technicians believed to have been captured by Haiti's criminal gangs (assuming that the gangs haven't killed and eaten them), the host of this video sees it as part of a greater strategy of allying with Latin American governments to confront the drug cartels.   

VIDEO: "Haiti's Gangs Just Made a Huge Mistake"
Cappy Army (20 min.)

Diversity + Proximity: "South African farmer shot, had ears hacked off and almost castrated by barbaric robbers"

The New York Post reports that Donovan Marx, a white South African farmer, "had his ears hacked off by 'exceptionally brutal' robbers who had already shot and stabbed him — and even planned to castrate him, according to reports." Except, as you read the article, there is no indication that it was a robbery, but appears to simply have been pure terrorism:

    Two barbarians stormed into one of his barns soon after his wife, Louise, left, shooting Marx in the back and stabbing him in the leg to stop him from fleeing.

    As he collapsed in a pool of blood, they held him down and hacked off his ears — chopping them into pieces to make it harder for them to be sewn back on later, according to a neighbor and friend.

    “They also tried to cut off [Donovan’s] genitals but luckily a worker showed up and the [robbers] then made their getaway taking Donovan’s farm pick-up to escape,” the neighbor wrote online.

    The torturous duo fled the scene without taking any of the farmer’s possessions in what the leader of South Africa’s right-wing Freedom Front Plus party called an “exceptionally brutal” attack. 

The article notes that "[a]uthorities have not made any arrests and have not suggested race as a motive."

The Great Conformity

Echoing thoughts expressed byAngelo Codevilla’s seminal 2010 essay America's Ruling Class—And the Perils of Revolution, the video below discusses how society has fallen under the sway of a parasitic class of elites. From the description:

    Unelected networks of bureaucrats, corporate executives, think tanks, NGOs, and central bankers now shape policy with minimal public oversight, while Western institutions replace meritocracy with ideological conformity. 

    This is why our society feels like it’s run by an HR department: a bureaucratic priesthood of manipulators endlessly managing perception and emotion while producing nothing of substance.  

 VIDEO: "The West Has Become One Giant HR Department"
Liam Out Loud (12 min.)

Weekend Reading #78

Some longer or more involved reading:

•  First up is the latest Weekend Knowledge Dump from Greg Ellifritz at Active Response Training. Lots of good links, but here are a handful that caught my attention in particular:
• The Concealed Carry's article on Halloween safety which I linked to yesterday--my thoughts haven't changed overnight.
• You've probably read that you are legally responsible for every bullet you send downrange, and Greg includes a sad example of a man who was found justified to shoot an attacker in his doorway, but then convicted of discharging a firearm into a habitation because a couple of shots struck a couple of houses across the street, earning the man prison time. Unfortunately, his conviction was probably because his attorney failed to raise the issue of transferred self-defense in the trial and didn't request a jury instruction on that issue.
•  An article from Massad Ayoob with tips on shooting micro pistols make a correlation I hadn't thought of before:

    I associate with a lot of genuine gun experts, and don’t know a single one who carries an optic-sighted pistol in their pocket. This is not to say that you can’t effectively carry such a gun concealed; it simply means that pocket carry and to some degree ankle carry are contra-indicated.

    It is not a coincidence that the increase in carry optics and the increased popularity of appendix inside the waistband (AIWB) carry occurred at the same time. When the gun is made higher top-to-butt with an optical sight, the broad expanse of the abdomen is a logical place to carry it, since there is more fabric draping down from the wearer’s chest.

•  On a related topic, Greg linked to an article on an article entitled "Carry at the Office," which begins with the author noting: "There are many options for concealed carry in everyday 'street' clothes, but the work environment limits the options for concealed carry in the office." After discussing how concealed carry entails trade-offs, the author makes another important point:

Active-shooter incidences are extremely rare, so that scenario should not be your primary concern. Rather, consider more common (but still potentially deadly) crimes like the armed mugger in the parking lot or an angry customer who chooses to commit life-threatening violence. 

•  An article discussing the five worst defensive rounds on the market. One of the rounds he mentions is full metal jacket (FMJ) pistol rounds. I would note a caveat with this which is that with certain low power pistols such as the .32 ACP, you can have either expansion but shallow penetration, or penetration but little or no expansion; and if the latter is your choice, you might as well used FMJ.
• The Tactical Professor discusses "Failing The Interview" with the interview being the evaluation that professional criminals make in picking a victim. 
• Greg has linked to the "James Bond Night School Reading List" which contains books to help you learn to be a "competent man" of action. I have to sadly admit that I've only read a handful of the listed books (but I consider each of them to be among the best on their particular craft or skill, which bodes well for the remainder of the books on the list).
• Greg links to a post entitled "A Glaring Evidence Gap" of which he warns: "Only click on this link if you are prepared to dig deep (170 pages deep) into the current prevailing conflicts regarding how best to teach the skill of gunfighting." It appears to address neurological based training systems for teaching shooting, which brings back thoughts of the system that Marcus Wynn (who sadly passed way several years ago) developed. 
• Another piece from this past week from Greg: "A Brief Encounter with Evil." An excerpt:

    He brought his eyes up to meet mine and grinned with a facial expression that exuded pure evil.

    I was a cop for 25 years.  I arrested murderers, rapists, psychopaths, armed robbers, and child molesters.  I encountered my share of evil in my former career.  Few of the seriously bad men I arrested in my police career had a countenance that was even remotely close to that of the young man I encountered on the trail this afternoon.

    His smile was so shockingly hateful that I actually caught myself recoiling slightly away from him.  That wasn’t the reaction I wanted to portray, so I stopped, narrowed my gaze, and gave him stronger eye contact without the normal friendly smile. 

•  For a change of pace, don't forget to check out John Wilder's latest: "It Came From . . . Halloween." John explains:

    Movies are our modern campfire tales.  Yeah, I know, not as good as real campfire tales, but here we are.  Given that, one of the things that humanity has shared around the fire since we first discovered fire was scary stories.  Sure, we heard about the events of the day, but the stories, the old stories that were passed down of tragedy and the supernatural were the ones that the kids really listened to.

    We’re not so different in 2026, we just lack the campfire and are distracted by the shiny objects that get put in front of us, like movies.  Since tomorrow is Halloween, based on publishing date, I thought I’d just run through a list of some of the Halloween movies that I thought were especially good.  As far as rules, I have once big one:  no more than one from a particular creator, otherwise my list would mainly be John Carpenter movies and Alien. 

As a general rule, I don't like horror movies, so I was surprised to see that I'd actually seen the majority of the movies on John's list. And to be clear, some of them are more fun than scary, such as the original Ghostbusters, The Addams Family, and Fright Night.

•  From the New York Post: "The AI jobs bloodbath is grabbing headlines — but there’s a hidden boom unfolding." The author reminds us that while AI is bringing downsides, there is a less discussed upside as well. An excerpt:

    That leaves two possible futures, and both are already underway.

    In one, AI helps established players like Amazon, Walmart and Google do more with fewer people.

    Productivity soars, profits accumulate among the richest, and the rest of us become better-equipped employees. Or we are laid off and hope for a basic income grant of some kind.

    In the other future, AI lowers the cost of expertise so far that one person with an idea can do what used to take a design firm, a factory relationship, a marketing agency and a warehouse to achieve. 

• "The Spy Who Exposed the Secrets of the Black Chamber, One of America’s First Code-Breaking Organizations"--The Smithsonian. The article notes: "In 1931, Herbert O. Yardley published a tell-all book about his experiences leading a covert government agency called the Cipher Bureau."

Long before the creation of the National Security Agency in 1952, the United States opened a top-secret Cipher Bureau known in government circles as the Black Chamber. Founded in 1919, the covert organization spied on American citizens and foreign nations alike. Its employees held no civil service status and were paid in cash from secret payroll accounts. Officially, the Black Chamber didn’t exist until 1931, when its founder, Yardley—bitter after an abrupt dismissal—decided to expose it to the world in a tell-all book titled The American Black Chamber. Eighty-two years before the infamous 2013 security leak by government contractor Edward Snowden, the U.S. was on the precipice of one of its first major intelligence scandals. 

 The surveillance state has existed for a long time. 

Oh, Look--Harvard Admitting More Indian Students

The Washington Free Beacon reports: "Asian-Americans in Harvard’s Incoming Class More Than Double, to 43.2 Percent." Seems part and parcel with the topic of the video below:

VIDEO: "Ben Shapiro Urges Republicans To Dump Young White Men and Focus on Immigrants"
Mark Dice (19 min.)

More Trans Violence

At least it wasn't a killing this time. From Campus Reform: "Trans student cited for assault after saying Republicans ‘should be shot’ at University of Utah." 

    A University of Utah College Republicans member was assaulted while tabling on campus after a trans student said Republicans “should be shot in the street,” video of the Oct. 27 confrontation shows.

    University police identified the student and issued two Class B misdemeanor citations for simple assault and property damage.

    The confrontation began at 12:52 p.m. on Marriott Plaza, where College Republicans were operating a table at the university’s Salt Lake City campus.

    The University of Utah said the individual wiped a College Republicans whiteboard with their hand before arguing with a club member about gender and free speech.

    “The visiting student then assaulted the tabling student, knocking them to the ground and tearing their shirt,” the university stated.

The attacker's name was not mentioned in the article.