13 Politically Incorrect Rules For Gun Owners

1. Guns have only 2 enemies: rust and politicians.

2. It’s always better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

3. Cops carry guns to protect themselves, not you.

4. Never let someone or something that is a threat within arm’s length.

5. Never say “I’ve got a gun!” If deadly force is necessary, the first sound they hear should be the safety clicking off. Assuming, of course, that your gun has a safety (many don’t) and that you carry with the safety engaged (many don’t).

6. The average response time to a 911 call is 23 minutes; the average response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second.

7. The most important rule in a gunfight is “Always win. Cheat if necessary.”

8. Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. You may get killed with your own gun, but he’ll have to beat you to death with it, because it’ll be empty.

9. If you’re in a gunfight:

- If you’re not shooting, you should be loading.

-  If you’re not loading, you should be moving.

-  If you’re not moving, you’re dead.

10. In a life or death situation, do something. It may be wrong, but do something.

11. Some people say if you carry a gun you must be paranoid. Nonsense! If you carry a gun, you have nothing to be paranoid about.

12. You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or any other word, but a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much a universal language.

13. You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family.

I don’t know the author, but here’s the source:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/16/13-politically-incorrect-gun-rules/

Marine Corps Anniversary

Happy Birthday to my brother Marines! Semper Fi!

Uh-oh

Computer virus infects U.S. drone fleet.

Photo by Bryan William Jones

In a post at wired.com’s Danger Room, Noah Shachtman reports that America’s fleet of Predator and Reaper drones has become infected with a virus that apparently logs each and every operator keystroke.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

“The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.”

“’We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,’ says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. ‘We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.’”

Read more here if you’re interested. And, um, why wouldn’t you be?

Update: check out this post at Hot Air. The comments are very interesting. And another, at the Blaze. Again, very interesting comments.

Who could possibly be behind this disturbing development? My own opinion: we need look no further than the People’s Republic of China. Or the Democrats.

ATF’s Gunrunning Operation “Designed to Promote Gun Control.”~Townhall blogger Katie Pavlich

Townhall Magazine reporter Katie Pavlich writes skeptically of the motives behind the recent ATF cockup known as “Operation Fast and Furious.”

“Operation Fast and Furious is looking more and more like a set up from the beginning to push Obama and Holder’s radical anti-Second Amendment agenda as they used law abiding gun shop owners to enable government officals to break the law, then turned around and blamed the very same gun shops for illegal gun trafficking, despite those shops being forced by ATF to help ATF agents carry out Operation Fast and Furious, and now, those shops are being punished through new Justice Department gun control measures. Obama and Holder both have long records of being outspoken opponents of gunrights and both support the reinstatement of the “assault” rifle ban, better described as a ban on semi-automatic rifles.“

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“…Rep. Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley continue their investigation of Operation Fast and Furious and have requested detailed communications records, including emails, memos, briefing papers and handwritten notes from and between senior DOJ officials in two letters sent to Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday. Records referring to large firearms trafficking within the Phoenix ATF office have also been requested.”

Issa and Grassley have turned the lights on and the cockroaches are scrambling for cover.

Read more here and here.

Update: Now evidence is surfacing that the Department of Justice may have been tampering with witnesses.

“[T]he DOJ was either trying to make sure witness stories are consistent with DOJ talking points, or they were going through the back door to make sure everyone who was testifying was on the same page. Either would likely get the average citizen slapped with an obstruction or witness tampering charge in a state or federal court.”

Apparently the people at the DOJ consider themselves above the law.

Chris Muir’s Take on the ATF “Gunwalker” Story

My favorite political cartoonist, Chris Muir, has another scathing strip that excoriates the Obama administration’s handling of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ felonious stupidity that resulted directly in the violent deaths of 150 Mexican drug and law enforcement officers/agents.

Day by Day cartoon by Chris Muir

Marlin Model 60 Bolt Tutorial

Hi-Point 9mm Carbine Magazine

How to disassemble the Hi-Point 9mm Carbine (995TS) Magazine.

You’ll need a tool, such as this cable sheath knife, or a thin flat screwdriver. Incidentally, I number my magazines to aid me in keeping track of any that give me trouble. 

First, insert the blade between the body of the magazine and the plastic magazine bottom.

Pry down and out.

Rock the blade forward to disengage the tab in the magazine bottom from the slot in the magazine body.

Tip the bottom off the magazine. Notice the retention slot on the magazine. There’s one on the other side, too.

Release the spring tension carefully. Note the orientation of all the components, since they will need to be reassembled in the same way.

It’s a very simple magazine, consisting of the body, follower, spring and bottom.

After cleaning and maintenance, reassemble, then replace the bottom by rocking it back into place.

Reassembly complete.

Slideshow

Day by Day

by Chris Muir

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/

On Achieving Room Temperature

In 2001 President George W. Bush vowed to hunt down Osama bin Ladin and bring him to justice, no matter how long and no matter what it took. As I remember, the Wild West theme “Wanted, Dead or Alive” was a prominent headline in the media. For years afterwards libtards whined relentlessly about our President and his “Cowboy diplomacy.” Prominent among the whiners: one Barack Hussein Obama. In 2008 Obama campaigned incessantly about how he would close the detention center at Gitmo, end the war in Iraq, and transform our nation into a place where peace could find a home and the world would love us once again. But the dictates of reality force President Obama to keep Gitmo open and to adopt many of his predecessor’s policies in regard to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When the mission to take down bin Ladin was launched, they were not ordered to capture him if they could. They wanted him dead, period.

When Obama received his party’s nomination for the presidency, his wife said for the first time in her adult life she was proud to be an American. When I listened to President Obama’s announcement last night, I thought to myself “Wow, for the first time in my adult life, I’m pround of President Obama.” I know I’m not the first to say it, but that’s what I thought.

Also, among the many comments I’ve seen on various blogs celebrating OBL’s demise, this: “There’s nothing as peaceful as a dead troublemaker.” As they say, Heh.

Bill Whittle’s “The Enigma Part I”