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Shooting the Bull 410 has released the video from his second phase of testing on the new G2 Research R.I.P. round, touted in the media as some new end-all, be-all self-defense round.

We wrote about the initial phase of testing here, and here’s the video from the second round.

Here’s the write up.  Thanks to The Truth About Guns.

If you’re a Cliff’s Notes kind-of-guy, then here’s the scoop:

It does okay though barriers, but in the end, it offers – at best – the same stopping power as a good .380 Auto hollow point.  Is it the last round you’ll ever need?  Shooting the Bull 410 says it’s probably the last round he would ever want.

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al jazeera, the international symbol and beacon of freedom, tolerance and understanding now has a branch in America.  It shouldn’t be surprising that al jazeera America (capitalization intentional) is just as active promoting freedom, tolerance and understanding here in the good old US of A as the rest of that so-called news agency is in the rest of the world.

(That would be sarcasm, for the sarcastically-challenged.)

Given their love of freedom, liberty and diversity, it’s probably not surprising that they are offering their network as a platform for fringe moonbats to promote racist, classist and sexist gun control proposals.

Just today, Marda Dunsky, a so-called journalist teaching at the Medill School of Journalism at Illinois’ Northwestern University was published, asking “Will we come to our senses on gun control in 2014?”

Dave Clark, left and Shawn Light of X-Ring Guns show off the trophies awarded to the top coyote hunters as part of their not-so-PeTA-approved “Coyote Competition”.

Dave Clark from X-Ring Guns in the metropolis of Toledo (Illinois, that is) has been busy.

He’s got himself a new website, organized a very successful third annual coyote hunting competition (story in the local paper) and in his spare time, has been teaching Illinois concealed carry classes in the state’s leading county in per-capita application rates (

Everyone always watches the Super Bowl commercials to find “the best one”.

This year, it wasn’t even close.

Budweiser scored a grand slam.  Probably the best Super Bowl commercial for years, in fact.

“A Hero’s Welcome”

See it yourself.

Bill Mahar struggles to remain relevant with another bigoted swipe against mainstream America.

Friday, on his HBO program watched by 187 people world-wide, Mahar quipped, “Now that liberals have forwarded their agenda by inserting a mass gay wedding into the Grammys, conservatives must match them tit-for-tat by having a mass shooting at the Country Music Awards.”

Bill Mahar:  A classic…

Here’s a more entertaining idea, Bill:  How about you try to suck start a shotgun.

Leave it up to County County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez and her cadre of gun-hating, self-defense eschewing underlings to charge a Chicago man on crutches following a home invasion where the homeowner used his gun to thwart a pair of gang-banger home intruders.

Two thugs broke in, but only one broke out.  The one that got away was yelling gang slogans.  The homeowner, on crutches, and his 18-year-old daughter were unharmed.

Police declined to arrest the man, but charges were later brought by prosecutors after the investigation determined the man’s FOID card had expired.

From the Chicago Tribune:

A 44-year-old man on crutches fatally shot one of two intruders who came charging at him Friday morning in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood, according to poli

This billboard along the I-55 Stevenson Expressway in Chicago is causing apoplexy among Moms Demand Action’s agitators.

The Chicago Tribune is just the latest mainstream media outlet to report on the manufactured kerfuffle over a billboard along the I-55 Stevenson Expressway in Chicago.

The billboard, pictured above, featured the suggestion:  baseball, apple pie and an AR-15 are “Pure American” – and they are!  Baseball is America’s favorite pastime, apple pie is America’s favorite pie and the AR-15 is America’s favorite rifle – outselling all other rifles by a wide margin.

There’s an entire niche industry in the gun world that revolves around products to customize the AR-15 rifle, including the “Slidefire” stock advertised on the billboard.

Great story profiling Gerald Vernon’s work in the heart of the Chicago, educating inner-city residents on the proven benefits of firearm ownership.

He’s doing yeoman’s work there among Chicago’s working class residents, debunking myths of gun ownership perpetuated by the mainstream media, Chicago’s Democratic Machine politicians and community agitating clergymen like so-called Father “Snuffy” Pfleger.

It’s title says it all.

And when anti-gunners read it, it’s probably going to cause their blood pressure to go up and the urine to run down their legs.  It’s the stuff that makes Mayor Bloomberg wet his bed at night.

Gerald Vernon. Photos by Chicago Reader.

Dismantling the stigma of guns
Gerald Vernon believes conceal-and-carry laws

G2 Research’s new “Radically Invasive Projectile”.

What a farce.

In short:  When you can duplicate the G2 RIP’s performance with a half-assed .22 long rifle round meant for prairie dogs and squirrels, you’re going to be in for a world of hurt if you think this projectile is going to save the day for you in a self-defense shooting.

If you’re going to shoot small watermelons and water balloons, then great.  Have at it.

If you’re going to shoot bad men with evil in their hearts and weapons in their hands, that’s another story entirely.

Shooting the Bull 41o has gotten his hands on this stuff and tested it in ballistic gelatin.  Here are his findings.  They are golden:

And now we’ve conducted the world’s first independent review of the ammo’s actual performance. That means that you, dear reader, are about to find out what really happens when you fire G2 R.I.P.

HCTC CEO Tim Murray, right, with Richard Hettinger who was the first shooter on the range.

We didn’t venture out much today with the freezing rain and general nastiness out in the world, but we did see where High Caliber Training Center and Indoor Range finally staged a partial opening to the public.

Partial opening in terms of the range only.

We say finally because there have been countless setbacks, as we’ve been told.  The latest:  waterlines that froze and broke back in January (probably when we had that first Polar Vortex or whatever they called it).

In any event, congratulations to Tim Murray and the rest of the investors who made this indoor range in Champaign-Urbana possible and a reality.  It’s long overdue!

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Diane Sawyer is on the case of the “epidemic” of accident gun deaths among children in the Friday, January 31 episode of 20/20.

According to the CDC, there were 28 deaths involving firearms accidents in 2010.

28.

And because of that, Diane Sawyer is trying to gin up support for parents to ask the families of kids where their children play if they have guns in their homes.

Why do gun control proponents always

Instead of trying to manipulate people like Diane Sawyer is trying to do in her hatchet job report, why not try to educate people with the truth?  We should all want people to understand the truth so we will all be better, smarter citizens.

If 28 children under 10 years old dying in firearm accidents is an “epidemic”, then what is the 602 children under 10 who died by drowning that same year.

Should parents instead ask if their kids’ playmates have a pool at home instead of a gun?

262 kids died in fires and almost a thousand died in car wrecks.

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An armed citizen in Chicago – a rarity but becoming much less so thanks to Illinois loosening gun restrictions – defending his life and his home from a 31-year-old thug Friday.

He was declared dead right there about ten minutes later after police and paramedics arrived.

(Chicago Tribune) – A man who was breaking into a home was shot to death by a property owner in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood this morning, authorities said.

Mario Viramontes, 31, was declared dead on the scene in 2000 block of West 21st Street at 9:22 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Police were called to the scene about 9:10 a.m. for a burglary, and when they arrived, they found that a “male offender” who had been trying to commit a burglary had

Law enforcement agencies may object to individual applicants who they believe are a danger to themselves or others in the community.

Applicants have all passed the background check for a FOID card.

You can check and see where your county/city is at on this map from the Chicago Sun-Times.

From Central Illinois:

Hoopeston PD has objected to three applications.  Hoopeston.  Population 5,200.

Bloomington PD has objected to 12.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot in both cases.  They seem a little over-the-top to say the least.

We hope there isn’t an institutional bias against concealed carry in these objections at these agencies.

Here’s the link:

http://sun-times.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Compare/storytelling_compare/index.html?appid=a459a118722440c393d7d220f638b12a

A great story of what happens at TSA at O’Hare.

My pained relationship with government security had started three years earlier. I had just returned to Chicago to finish my bachelor’s degree after a two-year stint in Florida. I needed a job to help pay my way through school, and the TSA’s call-back was the first one I received. It was just a temporary thing, I told myself—side income for a year or two as I worked toward a degree in creative writing. It wasn’t like a recession would come along and lock me into the job or anything.

It was May 2007. I was living with a bohemian set on Chicago’s north side, a crowd ranging from Foucault-fixated college kids to middle-aged Bukowski-bred alcoholics. We drank and talked politics on the balcony in the evenings, pausing only to sneer at hipsters strumming back-porch Beatles sing-a-longs. By nigh

By Prof. Nicholas Johnson, guest-blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy
now at the Washington Post

Surveying the landscape in the summer of 1892, Ida B. Wells advised, that “the Winchester rifle deserved a place of honor in every Black home.” This was no empty rhetorical jab. She was advancing a considered personal security policy and specifically referencing two recent episodes where armed Blacks saved their neighbors from lynch mobs.

Twice within one month, lynch mobs formed, one in Paducah, Kentucky, another in Jacksonville, Florida. Square in their sights were hapless Negroes who were on track to the same fate as many others before them. But in both cases, the mobs were thwarted by armed Blacks, though the record demands some speculation about how many of their guns were actually Winchester rifle

Sounds like Monique is under-promising hoping to over-deliver.

We’ve heard nothing directly contradictory to this from anyone we trust, but it seemed as though ISP would begin mailing permits out in the next two- to three-weeks at most, not mid-March as Monique Bond was quoted as saying in this story.

Also, we know they have “approved” a whole slew of early applicants, but are holding issuance of licenses until they “feel” as though cops in IL have had a chance to watch a new Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board video on interacting with CCW holders.

As though that’s a difficult quantum physics problem to solve.

(Daily Herald) – The first applicants seeking to carry concealed handguns in public could have their permits by mid-March, Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said Thursday.

“We’re probably looking

Illinois’ new concealed carry law was approved last summer.

Since then, the Illinois State Police have been making all sorts of regulatory decisions and rule-making.

You almost need a program to keep track of the changes, and they carry the force of law, so it’s important to understand them.

CCW instructors in particular need to be particularly mindful and do their best to keep up with these changes.

We, too, are learning the ropes about regulatory rule-making.

IN the end, we’re posting the latest rules and regulations which took effect on December 31, 2013 as now-published in the Illinois Review.

Here they are:  FCCARulesDec3113

We’ve distilled them out of the big issue

How embarrassing.  A Massachusetts low-information legislator is now appearing at the Bay State’s capitol building in handcuffs to testify at hearings.

Who is this Democrat state representative and why is he in cuffs?

His name is Carlos Henriquez.

He’s in cuffs following his conviction for beating the snot out of his then-girlfriend in July 2012.

Democrat inmate lawmaker Rep. Carlos Henriquez is steadfastly refusing to resign his seat, and he is doggedly holding onto his job, trying to execute it from his jail cell while he serves a 6-month jail term – for beating the snot out of that former girlfriend.

The sweet irony here is that Democrat inmate lawmaker Rep. Carlos Henriquez

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Mark Wahlberg, star of the current hit movie Lone Survivor, has a checkered past.

In fact, as a 16-year-old, Walberg pled guilty in 1988 to two counts of criminal contempt after beating a Vietnamese man badly enough that the victim of the attack lost an eye and was sentenced to two years in prison.  The original charge was attempted murder.

(Model Minority) – At approximately 9:00 p.m. on April 8, 1988 Thanh Lam, a Vietnamese adult male who resides in Dorchester, traveled by car to 998 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, Massachusetts.  At 998 Dorchester Avenue, Thanh Lam left his car carrying two cases of beer.  As he crossed the sidewalk