Some Firearm Articles

 

VIDEO: "Massad Ayoob: Castle Doctrine, The McCloskeys & Why You Should Remain Inside. Critical Mas EP51"--Wilson Combat (15 min.)

• First up, Jon Low has a new Defensive Pistolcraft post collecting links to articles and videos on firearms and self-defense related topics, and a few other things of note as well. For instance, he includes a good tip for those running pistols with red dot sights:

     William Hayes finds his red dot by pushing his pistol to the target with muzzle high, and then bringing the muzzle down onto the target / red dot down into the center of the window.  He never has to search for it, because he knows where it is, even if he can't see it in the window.  He knows that it is above the window and that lowering the muzzle will bring the red dot into the window.  

     He also uses a light gathering front sight attached to the front of the slide to aid in aligning his pistol to the target.  So he is never searching for his red dot.  

And, on the same issue of red dots, way down, under the "Gear" heading, Jon includes advice from  Gabe Suarez for those with an astigmatism and trying to use red dot sights on a pistol (and one of his pieces of advice is to switch to a green dot). Also, be sure to scroll down until you find the "Education" header and read the stuff Jon has about active shooter events and how to stop them. Finally, something I had never considered before although it makes a lot of sense: 

A neighbor in my apartment complex was complaining to me about how the realty company that owns our apartment complex was raising the rents.  I explained to her that they were doing it to stay ahead of what the welfare recipients could afford.  That's the only legal way they can keep the welfare recipients out.  Statistically speaking, all the crime, drug use, drug dealing, vandalism, theft, etc. is due to the multi-generational welfare recipients.  Everyone knows it.  It's just politically incorrect or racists to say it.  If they didn't raise the rents, we would have a lot of home invasions in our apartment complex.  

About a half mile from where I live are several apartment complexes one of which used to be almost exclusively Section 8 housing. When my wife and I first moved in, it was a nightly occurrence to see three or more police cars, lights flashing, parked at or just outside those apartment complexes. Several years later, the Section 8 apartment complex closed for remodeling, kicked out all the residents, gutted the buildings and then reopened, I presume to higher rents. After that, it has been rare to see the police there.

• It's Friday, which means a new Weekend Knowledge Dump from Active Response Training. A few of the items he mentions I've previously linked to, so I won't cover those. But a few links/article that I would recommend in particular are: (i) why diagnostic pistol targets are a waste of time; (ii) a good article on cover; (iii) an article looking at what first aid skills--"street medicine"--we should know; (iv) and a doctor talking about the seriousness of empty hand attacks.
• "5 Hot New Airguns For 2023"--American Rifleman. I have a nephew that has a couple high power airguns, including some large caliber, and I was surprised at their performance.
• And less Gold Dot for the civilian shooter: "French Police Select Speer Ammunition"--Shooting Illustrated.
• "The Gas Pedal Drill"--Shooting Illustrated. The author describes the purpose of this drill:

Our drill this month trains you to put your mental foot down on that proverbial “go-fast” pedal to develop greater control in both acceleration and downshifting for those precise hits.

It uses three paper targets and two steel "A-Box" targets, though, so it may require more equipment than many people own. 

• "Maine Urban Rifle Qualification Course: Lobsters and Blasters"--The Mag Life. This sounds like a pretty good test for the typical gun owner: it requires a magazine loaded rifle (although the author believes it could easily be modified for using a lever-action) and only 36 rounds of ammunition. It starts at 100 yards and moves correspondingly closer through different stages to 15 yards.
• "The Hotheaded Hitman Preferred a Wheelgun!"--Guns America. A look at an Australian contract killer named Andrew "Benji" Veniamin. His career doesn't seem to have been affected in one whit by Australia's 1996 gun ban. As for the revolver part, the article relates that "Benji Veniamin was by now [early 2000s] a seasoned shooter. He told friends that he favored revolvers to autoloaders for wet work for their innate reliability." The weapon on him when he was finally gunned down was a four-inch barreled Smith & Wesson Model 10-5 in .38 (I presume .38 Special, although the article isn't clear about this). 
• "Feral Hogs in Canada (and the Northern U.S.)"--The Captain's Journal. Although most people probably think of this as being a problem limited to southern states, the animals are spreading in Canada and may even cross the border into northern U.S. states that haven't seen them before.
• More: "The Northwest is Bracing for a Hog Invasion"--The Captain's Journal. 
• Back to the standard Democrat response to a heinous crime--make the victims even more helpless: "Gavin Newsom Responds to Mass Shootings by Limiting Concealed Carry"--Breitbart. 
• "Fifth Circuit Holds People Can't Be Disarmed Just Based on Civil Restraining Order"--The Volokh Conspiracy. This is a long read, but probably fun for the legal nerds. Volokh's succinct summary, though: "The court rejected the view that, under Heller and Bruen, legislatures can disarm anyone who isn't a 'law-abiding, responsible citizen[]'." The statute in question is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) which requires the forfeiture of a weapon after a civil proceeding "in which a court enters a protective order based on a finding of a 'credible threat' to another specific person ... in order to protect that person from 'domestic gun abuse.'"