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A photo from a white supremacist website showing Dylann Roof, the suspect in the Charleston church shooting, with his gun, flag and potted plants.

An Australian police official inspecting a pile of about 4,500 prohibited firearms turned in under the Australian government’s buyback in Sydney in 1997. (Photo credit: David Gray/Reuters)

New York Democrat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is seeking to make the transfer of two or more guns to someone not legally able to bear them a felony. (Photo: New York Daily News)

Some residents feel the signs at the front of the store are offensive. (Photo: Geoff Gorres/Pioneer Press)

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has agreed to put the state’s planned ammo background check database on ice, for now. (Photo: Mike Groll/AP)

Here are seven things that as a cop, I wish more people knew and understood.

Smith and Wesson Model 66 revolver in .357 Magnum. (Photo: Francis Borek)

The Yankee Marshal goes through his scale of 1 to 100 in figuring out the factors that make a handgun the best carry gun you can have when the chips are down.

This week Maine adopted constitutional carry as a rule, the seventh such state to do so, which means that a lot more Mainers will be able to carry that concealed handgun once the law kicks in. Add to this the 45 states that allow for open carry, and the 50 that (theoretically) allow concealed carry with a permit, and this means millions of Americans are legally able to pack hardware if desired.

And the YM does a pretty good job in detailing his reasoning in cutting through the options available out there for you.

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Nick over at Ranger Up weighs in on the recent death of man among men, British actor and warrior poet Christopher Lee, and some of the bad asses he hung out with in WWII.

In July 1940, Great Britain was on the ropes and stood alone against the might of Hitler and Mussolini in Europe. With the entry of the Soviet Union and the U.S. still more than a year down the line, Winston Churchill came up with a plan for a number of commando units to pull off hit and run attacks in occupied Europe to help keep the Axis off balance.

These guys trained to go in hard and fast and leave bodies, confusion and smoking ruins behind them by the time the enemy got around to sending in reinforcements.

It was all rather, well, ungentlemanly. But hey, as noted by Nick above as he makes an Old Fashioned, sometimes you have to take the gloves off.

Cheers.

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Gov. Abbott Meets With National Commission on the Future of the Army on Friday, July 10, 2015. (Photo: Texas Office of the Governor)

Police lead suspected shooter Dylann Roof into the courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina, June 18, 2015. (Photo: Reuters/Jason Miczek)

While Tarneshia Harris was lying on the lawn suffering from a gunshot wound, the older brother asked why she broke into the house, to which she replied she was “trying to protect the kids,” but the family or authorities do not know what she meant. (Photo: Chase Stephens/Las Vegas Journal-Review)

A man was arrested and accused of pulling a gun on protesters following an altercation at an abortion clinic in Bristol, Tennessee, Wednesday morning.

A gathering of friends at one man’s Chicago home over the weekend turned deadly for one man after he was warned repeatedly not to touch his friend’s Cadillac and failed to do so.

Kirsten Joy Weiss sets her tricks aside for an informative – yet still fun – video looking at whether technology can actually help improve shooting skills. After testing out the SCATT MX 02, which hooks up directly to your firearm and relays tons of information into a computer program, Weiss shared her thoughts.

“Think of it as a little coach that’s able to watch and record your every move,” she explained in the video, liking the MX 02 to a gun-loving cousin of R2-D2.

Weiss said she has tried high-tech devices in the past to help improve her skills, but nothing she found – until now – has been satisfactory. However, the simplicity and ease of use she got from the SCATT MX 02 hits the mark in her book.

[Kirsten Joy Weiss]

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