Triangle Tactical

The Palmer vs. DC case has been the giant news piece from the past week, and the decision only came out on Saturday. Ben and I dive deep into the decision and talk about what lead up to it, what it all means (We’re not lawyers though…) and where we think the decision will take us in the future. As mentioned in the episode, you should follow @EmilyMiller on twitter, and Alan Gura’s blog where he’s posting updates as well.

According to the Gastonia Gazette, Gastonia, NC has set aside $150,000 to use in acquiring land for building a “shooting park” that would contain skeet fields, and could host tournaments.

From Emily Miller on Twitter:

STUNNING DEVELOPMENT: DC Police Chief Lanier just told force not to arrest a person who can legally carry a gun in DC or any state.

— Emily Miller (@EmilyMiller) July 28, 2014

More — DC police chief using guidance from AG — grants full reciprocity for all open and concealed carry from others states.

— Emily Miller (@EmilyMiller) July 28, 2014

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I would expect that if the doctor we’re going to immediately lose his job the hospital would be praising his actions on their Facebook page. Bravo.

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Here’s the deal: I failed Constitutional law the first time around in college and had to take it again, so take everything in this post as my opinion, and don’t drive up to DC and start carrying concealed tomorrow based on my opinion.

This. Is. Amazing.

From the federal circuit court judge ruling on Palmer vs. DC:

In light of Heller, McDonald, and their progeny, there is no longer any basis on which this Court can conclude that the District of Columbia’s total ban on the public carrying of ready-to-use handguns outside the home is constitutional under any level of scrutiny. Therefore, the Court finds that the District of Columbia’s complete ban on the carrying of handguns in public is unconstitutional…

Read more from Alan Gura about this, and the other cases that paved the way for this decision.

Let freedom ring!

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Reports are coming out this afternoon that Remington will not be killing the R51 like many others have reported, but instead will be retooling, and replacing all of the problem pistols.

Interestingly, this comes after big green announced they are closing their Pineville, NC Para plant where the R51 was being manufactured. I suspect these new R51s will be manufactured at the new Remington super facility in Alabama, hopefully with much better quality control.

Unfortunately, I think the damage has been done. I was pretty excited about the R51 before I got my paws on one, but after shooting it, I wouldn’t be interested trying one out again…

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It was not clear why Silverman, a doctor for nearly 25 years, was armed at the office. Bernice Ho, a spokeswoman for Mercy Fitzgerald, said Thursday it was against hospital policy for anyone other than security guards to carry weapons.

I think we know why he was carrying.

When I was quite young I remember my dad telling me that there’s a difference between being right, and being dead right, meaning that sometimes you have to do what you have to do to stay alive. For this Doc in Pennsylvania, that paid off.

Carry on Doc.

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A couple months back John Zaczek from the Zombie Shooters Association collared me at a USPSA match, and asked for my help getting word out about a benefit match that he’s putting on for Operation 300, a charity group that works with kids who have lost their fathers in war.

The Triangle Business Journal did a piece on the new import sanctions for Russian AK-47s and the effect that it has been having on local Triangle area gun stores. They interviewed Barry Perry of Perry’s Gun Store in Wendell, and Jim McComas from Carolina Gunrunners in Raleigh.

Ben and I discuss several funny things that have happened on the shooting range over the years.

• A Glock that went full auto after a “trigger job”
• A 1911 Recoil Spring Plug that got shot into a creek
• A Pearce magazine extension flying off and nearly breaking my face
• Rounds detonating in a fire
• Shooting an AR-15 with a giant compensator through a barrel
• A .45 ACP bullet stopping halfway through a cardboard target

We also cover a bunch of news, and all the other podcast stuff we usually do. You’ll like it.

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Whenever folks on the anti-gun side of things are engaged in argument, they always go to the argument of “Nobody wants to take your guns!”

TTAG is reporting that Daniel Defense is set to introduce financing on their rifles.

I like Daniel Defense. I like their rifles, and I like their politics. I have to say though, I don’t like this.

I’ve done a lot of stupid things with money in my time, but I’ve never even thought of financing a rifle (I did finance a mountain bike once though…). If you are even considering doing this, do me a favor and buy this first.

Much like shooting, managing your finances requires a large amount of responsibility. Please don’t go into debt for a rifle. If you can’t pay for it, you can’t afford it.

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An amendment was added by Rep. Massie (R – KY) to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act of 2015 today that would allow for concealed carry, and repeal the “assault weapon” ban in Washington, DC. The amendment was successfully added to the bill, and the bill passed out of the US House, and is on it’s way to the Senate.

Ben has been busting his tail with his shooting, and with video editing over the past couple months. Below is his latest USPSA match video where he spent much of the match working on shooting while moving.

He’s also written two posts about shooting while moving recently, and I think you should check them out if you haven’t already:

• Part 1
• Part 2

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NPR has an interesting interview up with Charles Cobb, the author of “This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed”. In the interview he talks about the role that guns played in the south during the Civil rights movement. The interview is just over 12 minutes in length, and offers several anecdotes about guns being used to protect people in the non-violent movement during the fight for civil rights.

I’m as guilty of walking around with my face in my phone as the next guy. I’ll catch myself walking through the store writing blog posts, skimming articles, pasting links into the shownotes for the podcast, or even watching YouTube videos.

From time to time I hear someone complain about how hard it is to remove Glock magazine baseplates. Several places sell special tools for this, and it’s all unnecessary. All you need is a 1/8″ punch to stick in the bottom of the magazine, and then you can just pop the baseplate right off.

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A customer at the WalMart in York, NC found a surprise when he went to use the restroom: a S&W 642 loaded with what appears to be 5 rounds of Federal Hydra-Shok .38+P.