How the 2nd Amendment Will Come In Handy

An Israeli is surrounded by a hostile Muslim mob. He is attacked and when trying to drive away he is cut off by an ambulance. At about 1:20 you see the crowd move away from him. That is because he just shot and killed one of the idiots and wounded a few more.

The way the leftists are threatening the peace and civility of our country, I can see this scenario playing out in many communities.

H/T iOTW

It's Unfair To Shoot An Armed Robber?

Last November Michael Grace was shot in the head by a Pizza Hut employee as he used a handgun to rob the store (Charlotte, NC), His mother feels that this is unfair.

Ripped from the depths of the interwebs:

The parents of a dead armed robber are very angry over his death, and are demanding to know why his innocent victim was allowed to be armed.

It’s been a difficult week for parents Temia Hairston and Michael Grace Sr. Their son, Michael Grace Jr., was shot and killed during an attempted robbery early Sunday morning.

Police said Grace Jr. and two other people tried to rob a Pizza Hut in the 3200 block of Freedom Drive. During the incident, an employee fired his own handgun and killed Grace Jr.

Hairston said she learned of her son’s death on social media, and only got confirmation from police after contacting them first. The grieving mother said she has been left with dozens of questions about the situation that have thus far gone unanswered.

“If there was to be a death, it was not the place of the employee at Pizza Hut. That is the place of law enforcement,” said Hairston

Wow, what a surprise, the kid was bla

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H/T Irish

Sam Colt Is Spinning In His Grave

One of the Better Colts

Back around 1975 I bought a Colt Government Series 80 .45 pistol for off duty.
It was a piece of crap and I got rid of it.

Fast forward thirty some odd years and I was again looking for a mod 1911 and was in Gander Mountain browsing their wares. I espied a stainless Colt .45; right next to it was a stainless Kimber Custom. I placed the two side by side and was amazed at the difference. Whoever did the finish work on the Colt had to be intoxicated. It was a mess. The Kimber was flawless and the action nice and tight.
They were the same price.
I bought the Kimber. Still enjoy shooting it.

So it is not without an "I was waiting for this" attitude that I read this today.

The American firm with the iconic name of Colt has declared bankruptcy. As Tiffany Kary of Bloomberg reports:

… the 179-year-old gunmaker that supplies M4 carbines and M16 rifles for the U.S. and foreign militaries, filed for bankruptcy amid delayed government sales and declining demand. The West Hartford, Connecticut-based firearms maker listed assets of as much as $500 million and debt of as much as $500 million in a Chapter 11 filing late Sunday in bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware. Wilmington Trust Company is listed as the biggest unsecured creditor with a $261 million claim.

It's not that I hated Colts, I really liked their revolvers. I always regretted never owning a Python.

When I joined the department I was issued a Colt Trooper Mk. III. I liked the gun and shot extremely well with it but we had too many problems with the Colts. My wing-man was attacked by a steel pipe wielding idiot and drew down on him. All he got was a *click* out of the Trooper. So he beat the guy over the head with the Colt. It worked fine then.

Shortly thereafter we transitioned to the S&W Mod. 10 (with the bull barrel).
I didn't care much for this handgun. I still shot well, I did not like the trigger pull.

In the early 90's we finally went to a semiautomatic handgun, the S&W 4506 in 45 caliber. It wasn't bad, but I just don't care for S&W semiautomatics.

In the late 70's I also had a semi-auto 9mm S&W mod. 59; I traded it in after only a few months.

Why Guns?

"And indeed, gentlemen, there exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right."

Cicero, Pro Milone, 53 BC