Guns

Design by artist Gil Shuler of Mount Pleasant.

Workers from Vault Fine Art Services prepare to remove the Jefferson Davis statue from the Main Mall on Sunday morning. The work crew also removed the statue of Woodrow Wilson. (Photo: Charlotte Carpenter / The Daily Texan)

Tacoma Police Chief Don Ramsdell and others are campaigning for an anonymous drop box for unwanted guns in the city. (Photo: Brian Cox/City of Tacoma)

Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth with his wife and two children. (Photo: ABC 13)

An astronomy session Monday night in Fargo went bad fast. (Photo: Grand Forks Herald)

Gov. Abbott presented Taya Kyle with her late husband’s Texas Medal of Honor this week. (Photo: gov.texas.gov)

Initial reports were that authorities confiscated upwards of 1,000 weapons, but that number was later cut in less than half, with the ATF still in possession of about 475. (Photo: Waco Tribune-Herald)

Several years ago I attended an armorer course taught by a police officer who told me about an interesting story. He said he was called to an unsecured door in a warehouse on a graveyard shift. All the lights were off in the building. This officer decided to search the building without keeping his flashlight on the whole time, or if I remember correctly, he may have used the light only sporadically (e.g. shine the light, turn it off, then move).

Kally works with his partner, Lance Cpl. Sam Enriquez, during a night training operation on Sept. 24, 2012, Okinawa, Japan. (Photo: U.S.M.C. Cpl. Aaron Diamant)

Inside Weaver’s Deluxe Gunsmith Tool Kit. (Photo: Kristin Alberts)

McQueen took a break from working on LeMans to make sure his CCW didn’t run out, which is what you do when you’ve been marked for death. (Photo: Rex)

On Wednesday (26 August 2015), an apparently disgruntled former employee killed two of his former co-workers, reporter Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward of WDBJ, and wounded a third person they were interviewing before fleeing the scene, being chased by police, and turning the gun on himself.  He later died in hospital.  The shooter filmed himself committing this heinous act.  I’ve seen the video, but I won’t link to it here.  The words I’ve used in describing the event are clinical, and that may be enough for many readers.