Bob Owens of Bearing Arms

Monday, Bob Owens a very visible 2A writer and supporter died in an apparent suicide. [LINK]

I first read about it Tuesday evening over at Kenny's, and it blew my mind.  I literally couldn't, COULD NOT accept it.

And then at midnight, I turned 49.

That is why I was basically shut down for a day.

I simply had my mind overloaded and I couldn't process or accept any new information.

I'm still having issues with the whole situation.

However, Bob died, whether it was a suicide or not, he still has a wife and 2 children who need OUR support and our prayers.

If you can afford to kick a little bit of cash to help Bob's family please click on the following link.  [LINK]

Media Narrative FAIL!!!

I haven't said much about the Mass Murder event in Orlando because it sickens me and we don't have all of the FACTS as of yet.

However, that doesn't stop the Lame Stream Media from pushing their INCORRECT Narrative and Agenda.

From Bob Owens at Bearing Arms:


"The anti-gun politimedia wasted no time at all demonizing the most common rifle in the United States as being the real villain of the Islamic terrorist attack on Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

Newsweek screamed, “ORLANDO SHOOTING PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON AR-15 RIFLE.”

Judd Legume of Think Progress squeaked, “The NRA’s Love Affair With The AR-15, Weapon Of Choice For Mass Murderers, In 22 Tweets.”

Always wrong Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post whined, “The gun used in the Orlando shooting is becoming mass shooters’ weapon of choice.”

Here’s the thing.

The rifle used by the Islamist terrorist in Orlando was not an AR-15."

Click on the above link to RTWT.

Here is the thing though.  The media and the Anti-gunner DON'T CARE.

They don't care if what they saying is wrong.  They are going to keep screaming and yelling to drown out anyone who even TRIES to get the truth out there.

They will conveniently IGNORE the fact that the FBI screwed up.  they will IGNORE the fact that this murderer's own co workers reported him and were brushed off as being "Racist".  they don't CARE that he was evidently either a Gay or Bi-sexual Muslim.  It was the GUN and the NRA's fault, the FBI didn't do due diligence in their investigation.  It was the Gun and the NRA's fault this guy was able to pass a NICS check not once but TWICE.  It's the GUN and the NRA's fault, that this murderer had a clearance obtained through a background check performed by the FBI.  It is the GUN and the NRA's fault that the murderer had over 30 MINUTES to kill people before the police even responded. 

You see the TRUTH is the first victim.

H/t Kenny aka Wirecutter

Victim Disarmament

or a Thug goes to Congress to protect other Thugs.

Tracy Martin visits Congress, proposes victims disarmament act

Another EXCELLENT Reason to get training - UPDATED

UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST

If you have recently purchased a firearm due to the rush toward further Firearm Bans, I HIGHLY recommend you get training from a COMPETENT Instructor.

Bob Owens has an additional reason why training is Soooooo important.


"One thing we talk about at Appleseed (and just about any other reputable shooting course, for that matter), is the possibility of squibs and hangfires, and why you should take those very seriously.

Folks get the rough concept, but seeing it in practice is always a better reminder than just hearing or reading about it."

Squib-loads or Pop-No-Kick as it was called when I went through Army Basic Training is where the primer is set off, usually forcing the bullet down the bore of the weapon, not always but usually.  If you don't know through lack of training what that means you may just operate the action and load another round and try to fire again.

!!!!BAD!!!BAD!!!BAD!!! IDEA!!!

The first video shows a squib load in a handgun that was caught by the RSO, and kept from becoming a catastrophic failure with possible injury.  The second video show what happens when the squib load WASN'T detected.  A Major Catastrophic Failure that could have lead to serious injury, not just to the shooter but anyone within the danger radius.  The third video shows what is called a Hang Fire, where the primer is struck but takes awhile to fully ignite.  There are a number of factors that can cause that, from damp or old primers or powder to a mechanical reason with the firearm itself.

Those are further reasons you NEED TRAINING.

If you pull the trigger on a firearm and it doesn't go off.  Wait a bit.  Make sure you don't have a hang fire.  It could take upto 90 seconds for the round to finally go off.  I know that from experience using very old Surplus Berdan Primed .303 British that used cordite.  I was getting ready to turn the bolt when the round finally went off slamming the rifle back into me splitting my chin open on the rear sight.  I still have the scar to this day from that.  And it didn't do my shoulder any good either.  That was a Hang Fire.  If you are shooting older ammunition where you don't know how it was stored or it's age you want to be careful shooting it.  The .303 British I had been firing had come from a gunshow and the boxes were marked 1938.  The dealer told me it "Should" be good, and the hang fire I had was on the 12th round out of the box.  The recoil wasn't as stout with the Remington Factory Ammo I had been shooting, and the rounds weren't anywhere near as loud as the factory ammo either.  After bandaging my chin and checking out my rifle and cleaning all the blood off of it, I gave the rest of that ammo to a collector on the condition he NEVER fired any of it.  A few months later I sold off that Mk4 No1 to buy the Taurus Model 82 I needed to work for the Housing Authority.

Personally I have a 5 gallon bucket for rounds that don't fire.  I put a cup of salt in it and fill it with water.  If I pull the trigger and the round doesn't fire I call out "MISFIRE" 3 times real loud.and wait 90 seconds.  If the round still hasn't gone of I'll wait another minute.  Keeping the muzzle pointed DOWNRANGE the entire time.  Then if I'm shooting a pistol or a bolt action rifle I'll recock, on  revolver I'll open the cylinder and index it so that round comes under the hammer again, then I'll try to fire it a second time.  If it still doesn't shoot I'll wait my 2 and half minutes then dump that round in to my bucket.  On semi auto rifles, I'll wait 2 minutes then just eject the round in to the bucket and put the lid back on it.

For a Squib or Pop-No-Kick, the procedure is almost the same.  Hollar MISFIRE, and keep it pointed downrange. You could still have a hangfire, you don't know yet.  After you have ejected the round though however you need to check the bore for obstructions, especially if the shell you ejected DOESN'T have a bullet in it.  If your bullet is still in your bore, you need to tear down your firearm and get a good steel rod to hammer the bullet out of the bore.

This post is in NO WAY enough information for you to think you can forgo proper training with a qualified RSO/Instructor.  It is a small primer on letting you know you need MORE training.

So please, if you have purchased a firearm in the last year or so and have NEVER fired it, please get some training specific to that firearm in addition to general firearm training before you go shooting.  The training isn't that expensive, and if it saves your firearm, your body, someone elses body and lives - GET TRAINING!

UPDATE:

Sean Sorrentino at NCGunBlog had a BAD experience with an instructor.  Please click the link and go RTWT


It is really hard to walk away

Obama Administration Censorship

One of Bob Owens readers sent him that screenshot.  Evidently certain .GOV networks are blocking access to his blog for their users.

To read the rest click below.


No longer government approved

Bob has a video you need to see - 7 round magazine laws

Because homeowners only need seven rounds to defend the lives of their families. Right, New York?

You really should go watch that video.  It shows just who magazine restriction laws actually help and hurt.

Three at Bob Owens

Schumer-Toomey-Manchin gun bill allows the creation of federal gun registry

Latest mall shooter learned to shoot from police 

46 U.S. Senators voted to forfeit the Constitution to foreign powers on March 23. The mainstream media covered it up.

Sen. Diane Feinstein equates Firearms to Child Pornography

"Her eventual answer? “Assault weapons” are kind of like child pornography. She argued that although we have a First Amendment right to free speech, that doesn’t mean child pornography is protected by the Constitution. Likewise, she continued, so-called “assault weapons” can be legally banned."

That link takes you over to Bob Owens.  You really need to click that.  That shows the mindset of the gun banners.  It shows just how warped their belief structure is.

You should be afraid, very afraid.

Bob Owens has some for you

Improvised weapons in modern combat 

Wages of reciprocity 

Email confirms attempt by Chris Brown Administration to make sequesteration cuts hurt Americans as much as possible

Is the single most effective step in dramatically reducing gun violence in America disarming cops?

Stripping our rights - Bob Owens

"Let’s skip the crap: Democrats have zero chance of passing Dianne Feinstein’s fantasy ban on semi-automatic rifles through the Senate, much less the House of Representatives.

It isn’t even their real goal. It’s a tactical diversion. For now, at least."

Click that above link.  Go read what Bob has written, then call and write your Senators and Representatives.

Bob Owens has a few

In addition to hosing cops, NY’s rushed gun law penalizes Olympic athletes

In dangerous times 

Oops. Were there not LEO magazine exemptions in the rushed NY SAFE Act?

Congresswoman Ellmers not pleased by Obama’s attacks on the Second Amendment

It is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.

Of alarms, militia, and destiny

Over at Bob Owens, you need to read it.  And try to answer the questions he brings up.

Of alarms, militias, and destiny

The Rebellion against the Imperial's

"Perhaps 50-100 million firearms currently owned by law-abiding citizens will become contraband with the stoke of a pen. Citizens will either register or turn in their firearms with agents of the federal government, or become criminals themselves. Faced with this choice, millions will indeed register their arms. Perhaps as many will claim they’ve sold them, or had them stolen. Suppose that as many as 200-250 million weapons of other types will go unregistered.

Tens of millions of Americans will refuse to comply with an order that is clearly a violation of the explicit intent of the Second Amendment. Among the most ardent opposing these measures will be military veterans, active duty servicepersons, and local law enforcement officers. Many of these individuals will refuse to carry out what they view as Constitutionally illegal orders. Perhaps 40-50 million citizens will view such a law as literal treason. Perhaps ten percent of those, 4-5 million, would support a rebellion in some way, and maybe 40,000-100,000 Americans will form small independently-functioning active resistance cells, or become lone-wolves."

Fake hate crime in Louisiana is fake it's

a hate crime against whites.  And the perpetrator will never be charged for it.

"As the story festered, hundreds of blacks took to social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter and added completely unsupported rumors that Moffitt was wearing an Obama tee shirt, asserting that the attack was not just racial, but political in nature. Others went even further, claiming that Moffitt was even raped as a result of wearing an Obama tee shirt before she was set on fire.

But it wasn’t true.

Sharmeka Moffitt was not raped.

Sharmeka Moffitt was not wearing an Obama tee shirt.

Sharmeka Moffitt was not approached by anyone, her car was not vandalized by anyone else.

Sharmeka Moffitt wrote the slurs on her car in toothpaste, then she set herself on fire:"

Small Ball Campaigning

explained by Bob Owens.

"Small ball is a strategy used by baseball managers in an attempt to generate offense when they don’t have any heavy hitters in their lineup (notice how the analogy is coming together nicely already). Instead of relying on players that can knock the ball out of the park and hoping to generate a lot of runs, small ball managers encourage players to get on base by any means necessary, including taking a walk, a balk, or getting hit by a pitch. Once the team gets a player on based, they advance him any way they can, including hit-and-run, bunting, or stealing. The objective is to methodically move men around the bases, hope that over the course of a game, you can get one or two of them home. It will never produce a lot of runs, but it can generate enough if the other team can’t put runs on the board."

Click the above to RTWT

Global warming is dead Long Live Global Warming

Thank to Bob Owens, I was directed to the following news story in the UK's Daily Mail.

"The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week.

The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.

This means that the ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996. Before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years."


Why is it ONLY the UK News which reports this information?  Because it doesn't fit the US Media's "Narrative".  And Narrative is all that matters to them.

Bob Owens - An Examination of Islam

Bob has a brief examination of Islam.  You might wish to read it.

"I’m deferential to Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jews, Hindus, Taoists, Unitarians, Wiccans, and just about any other faith on the planet that believes itself to be “the way.” I may not agree with their faiths, and may flat find some of their beliefs to be strange or even moderately upsetting, but I respect the rights of the faithful of these religions, as they are generally tolerant of others.


I cannot say that about Muslims"

Bob Owens has 2 interesting things over on his blog

One of them I'm going to swipe. for use here on my blog. First what I'm swiping.....

King Putt

I saw that and had to swipe it.

Now for the rest:


" Never forget the real enemy:
Media attacks Romney in attempt to cover for the failure of Obama’s leadership."