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We’re Living in a Different World Now – Let’s Talk About Situational Awareness
By Gideon Joubert
Situational awareness is perhaps the single most important component of personal security. Yet it is also perhaps the fundamentally most misunderstood and malpracticed one.
Thousands of people become crime victims every day because they aren’t situationally aware. They unplug themselves from their environment, and don’t pay attention to what’s going on around them. And criminals, both opportunistic and otherwise, take full advantage of this situation.
Criminals aren’t Invisible, Victims are Oblivious
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New Mexico Carry Ban Lawsuits: Grisham Has Neither the Law or Local Support on Her Side
By LKB
So far, two lawsuits have been filed challenging New Mexico Governor Grisham’s wacky executive order suspending the Second Amendment in parts of the state, and I strongly suspect more will be filed today. The complaints and motions for TRO/preliminary injunction (linked in this post) are very short and self explanatory, and I encourage people to read them.
Executive summary of both: Under the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, categorical bans on public carry are clearly verboten.
Grisham Gave Challengers All the Ammunition They Need to Tear Down Her Unconstitutional Carry Ban
If Defendants’ contempt for the Constitution was not clear on the face of the [executive order] and [public health order], Governor Lujan Grisham’s further comments provide all the confirmation this Court needs. At the press conference announcing the Governor’s suspension of the Second Amendment and her usurpation of queenlike powers, she stated, “if there’s an emergency, and I’ve declared an emergency for a temporary amount of time, I can invoke additional powers. No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute.
The Failed Strategy of the Defensive Mindset
Never throw the first punch and Fire only if fired upon are two pieces of pseudo-tactical advice that are thrown out so often that most people now parrot the phrases without ever thinking about what they really mean. When examined at the most basic level, the advice is often given by those who will not actually be involved in the anticipated conflict. Parents tell their kids, “never throw the first punch” and military officers issue orders for their troops to “fire only if fired upon.”
In both of those examples — the parent or the military officer — neither party is likely to be in actual physical jeopardy when their advice is applied.
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Gun Meme of the Day: Helen Keller Edition
Welcome to my TED Talk.
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Federal Register Publishes DOJ’s New Stealth Universal Background Check Rule for Public Comment
The Biden Department of Justice, under cover provided by John Cornyn’s disastrous Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, has moved to vastly expand the definition of people who are considered by ATF to be “engaged in the business” of selling guns. It’s a not-so-stealthy move toward backdoor “universal” background checks and closing the alleged “gun show loophole.”
The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register today, which officially opens the requisite 90-day public comment period.
SIG SAUER Issues Safety Bulletin About the P320 and Certain Light-Bearing Holsters
SIG SAUER is reminding consumers about the risks associated with the use of light-bearing holsters, which have been involved in a number of alleged unintentional discharge incidents. Due to the large openings in these holster designs around the trigger (necessary for accommodating the bezels of attached weapon lights), fingers or foreign objects may be able to enter these holsters and contact the trigger. This vulnerability may be exacerbated by the use of a light-bearing holster without a compatible weapon light attached.
FN Announces Their New FN Catch 22 Ti Titanium Hybrid Rimfire Suppressor
Back in December, FN announced their first suppressor, the FN Rush 9Ti. Jeremy currently has it and is working up a full review. Today FN’s announced their new FN Catch 22 Ti rimfire suppressor. It should make a perfect companion for their excellent FN 502 Tactical rimfire pistol, one of the best .22 semi-autos on the market. Here’s FN’s press release . . .
FN America, LLC is pleased to announce the release of the FN Catch 22 Ti, the company’s first rimfire suppressor and second installment in its suppressor lineup following the FN Rush 9Ti released in 2022.
Oklahoma Sheriff Opens an Investigation Into ATF SWAT Raid on FFL’s Home
By Lee Williams
Oklahoma’s Pushmataha County Sheriff’s Office has opened an investigation into the ATF for their recent SWAT raid of one of their county’s most respected residents, Russell Fincher, PCSO Undersheriff Dustin Bray said Tuesday.
No one at the ATF warned the Sheriff’s Office in advance that highly armed federal agents would be conducting the SWAT raid, the Undersheriff said.
We weren’t apprised of anything,” Bray said. “We are a Second Amendment County and we are going to protect our citizens here.
After Sweetheart Deal Collapses, Fed Will Indict Hunter Biden on Illegal Gun Possession Charges
Federal prosecutors will seek an indictment of Hunter Biden for illegally possessing a gun as a drug user by Sept. 29, according to a new court filing on Wednesday.
Biden is expected to be charged in Delaware with felony counts related to his purchase of a gun in October of 2018. At the time, he has said he was regularly using crack cocaine. Prosecutors said last month that they also plan to charge the president’s son with tax crimes in California or Washington, D.C.
OK Rep. JJ Humphrey Says He Knows How to Stop ATF Crimes, Thuggery, and Civil Abuses
By Lee Williams
Nowadays, the ATF operates above the law, and it’s become clear that despite their frequent high crimes and civil rights abuses, no one in the federal government is going to hold the agency accountable as long as Joe Biden occupies the White House.
But one Oklahoma state representative isn’t satisfied with waiting for the feds or anyone else to intervene. He’s got a plan to stop ATF’s illegal abuses right now, and unlike other loftier elected officials, he’s taking action, personally.
GOSAFE Introduces Their New Mobile Mag and Mobile Safe Firearm Storage Solutions
We first ran across GOSAFE’s lockable magazines at SHOT earlier this year. GOSAFE makes two products, a magazine and a “mobile safe.” The GOSAFE Mobile Mag is a 10-round lockable magazine for GLOCK 17, 19 and 34 pistols (more models to come in the future). The Mobile Safe looks like the Mobile Mag, but is a solid piece of plastic for the same guns that doesn’t load rounds, but locks and prevents a pistol from being used.
The Media Will Go to Any Lengths to Smear American Firearm Makers While Carrying Water for the Gun Control Industry
There’s peril when media sets out to confirm a narrative instead of reporting facts. Whether it’s criminal violence in America perpetrated by a deranged lunatic, or by violent drug cartels in countries beyond our borders, some media outlets will find the flawed logic to argue it is American companies that should be punished.
This results in a disservice to readers and erodes public trust not just in their subjects but also in the Fourth Estate.
Logis: We Are Awash in Guns, a Nation Held Hostage by ‘Trauma Entrepreneurs’
Was a nation awash in guns what the framers of the Constitution intended? I am loath to speak for them, but if those who constructed our Constitution and Bill of Rights were alive today, I doubt they’d ratify the Second Amendment. If they did, they would surely seek to modernize it.
If they chose not to strengthen our current federal gun laws, then we would know they were not the sagacious, prescient, august and erudite intellects we’ve been taught to believe in.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation: AR-15 Rifle Builder Edition
I retired from full-time law enforcement two years ago, and I took a job as a part-time school police officer at a local school district. That means I now have summers off for the first time since I graduated high school. Last year I got a long-awaited shoulder replacement so that put a crimp on my first free summer, but this year I was pretty much free to do whatever.
How did I use all of that free time?
Gun-Free Zones Kill: Data Shows Armed Citizens Stop Mass Killers Most of the Time
By Rob Morse
We live in a media-driven culture. We also have government agencies putting out biased reports that serve their political masters. And it’s rare that the media even question those agencies’ reports.
That wouldn’t matter, but many of us tend to confuse media headlines with facts. I’ve seen people on Facebook say that there were hundreds of “mass shootings” this year and that our children aren’t safe in school any longer.