From the NY Post:
When Grant grabbed for it, he accidentally pulled the trigger, firing a bullet right through his penis.
Dumbass. Still, there’s an upside: while details are scant, it looks like the chances of this precious little snowflake actually reproducing his braindead genes look to be slim. We don;t need copies of someone who can’t be bothered with a proper holster.
America has problems. *LOTS* of problems. And crap like this just ain’t helping.
According to police and court records, Zeilinski came in wearing a mask and carrying a knife that he put to the throats of several employees, threatening to kill them before stealing cigarettes and cash. As he was leaving–reportedly still making threats–one of the young clerks grabbed a gun and shot him in the arm and back. Zeilinski’s lawyer says his client is asking in excess of $125,000 for pain and suffering and emotional distress.
With luck, the lawsuit will get thrown out. And if we lived in a rational society, Zeilinski’s lawyer would be disbarred, fined the court costs and legal costs of the defendants and put in stocks in the town square for a day or two for children to mock and throw rotten veggies at.
There is an important lesson here: If you are going to shoot a robber, aim for the head and center of mass. Dead criminals rarely hire lawyers to sue their victims. Dead criminals also cost society a hell of a lot less to incarcerate. Think it’s harsh to suggest killing this man? I don’t. He chose of his own volition to threaten death upon the innocent, a threat that he seemed capable of carrying out. Had he escaped without harm, there’s no reason to think he would not have done it again, but with lethal consequences for some other poor clerk.
One of the problems is that he was shot in the back. From a legal standpoint, this could be a problem… according to our degraded legal system, once the threat is over, lethal force is not to be employed. And the flawed assumption somehow is that if the criminal has turned his back on you, the threat is over.
Well, there’s another legal line of thought: SSS. Triple S. However you want to call it, it boils down to:
Shoot.
Shovel.
Shut up.
Dead criminals buried in shallow graves far off the beaten path also don’t hire lawyers to sue their victims.
Remember… friend shelp you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
A movie I saw long ago:
A) Cowboy shoots another cowboy in the back
B) Witness, a cityboy enamoured of “the code of the west” and similar mythical hero rubbish, is shocked. “You shot him in the back!”
C) Cowboy: “It was to me.”
When you’re a first-generation operational jet bomber at the end of your service life, watching those upstart B-47’s blast past you, showing off their shiny swept wings and scoring all the chicks, there’s nothing left for it but to go and crash yourself into an enemy target. At least that seems to be the message of this 1950 North American Aviation concept for a “B-45C Airplane Missile.”
Continuing the Rock Island Arsenal Museum photos.
On the right are variants of the Thompson submachine gun, while on the left are numerous assault weapon prototypes. #5823 near the bottom is one of the SPIW prototypes, which was to fire a combo of 40mm grenades and saboted flechette rounds. One of the things that killed the project was that the sabots were made out of fiberglass (why???), which were somewhat shredded after firing… and some of the glass shards would make their way back into the eyes of the shooter. *STOOOOPID.* There must’ve been *something* better than fiberglass.
Some more oddball prototypes.
I’d never heard of this “Arthur Frommer” guy before today. Apparently he’s a “travel critic,” someone paid to tell people where to and not to visit on vacation. He just unloaded this steaming pile of starship fuel onto his blog:
I am not yet certain whether I would advocate a travel boycott by others of the state of Arizona; I want to learn more about Arizona’s gun laws and how they compare with those of other states. But I am shocked beyond measure by reports that earlier this week, nearly a dozen persons, including one with an assault rifle strapped about his shoulders and others with pistols in their hands or holsters, were openly congregating outside a hall at which President Obama was speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
For myself, without yet suggesting that others follow me in an open boycott, I will not personally travel in a state where civilians carry loaded weapons onto the sidewalks and as a means of political protest. I not only believe such practices are a threat to the future of our democracy, but I am firmly convinced that they would also endanger my own personal safety there. And therefore I will cancel any plans to vacation or otherwise visit in Arizona until I learn more. And I will begin thinking about whether tourists should safeguard themselves by avoiding stays in Arizona.
In my opinion, the man is a blithering dumbass. Anyone who has ever considered paying any attention to him should give serious consideration to ignoring him from here on out. Open carry laws are hardly a secret… any “travel critic” who was so monumantally pig ignorant as to not only not know about common gun laws, but also the Consititution of the US, seems unlikely to be a man who actually knows the first damned thing about travel. Who would pay attention to a “travel critic” who suggested taking his AK-47 to Jolly Olde England for a fox hunting expedition?
I suggest boycotting Frommer and his works, since he has just come out and declared himself kinda stupid.
Note to Frommer: stay the hell away from Utah. We regularly carry loaded weapons onto sidewalks. I did so for many hours just today. You would crap yourself in fear if you knew that you might be in a restaurant where one or more patrons might actually be so barbaric as to have a concealed weapon. And we really don’t need you stinking up the joint.
Part Two of the Rock Island Arsenal collection.
Grenade launchers:
Old school rifles:
Subguns and shotguns:
Submachineguns and assault rifles:
Part 1:
The Rock Island Arsenal museum (Rock Island, Illinois) has an impressive collection of firearms dating from Way Back When on up to, approximately, the 1970’s. Included are the old standards… and a lot of unusual prototypes. Here are a few.
Submachineguns: 
Assault rifles and grenade launchers:
More grenade launchers:
There’s almost no part of this story that doesn’t drip with awesomeness.
From the New York Daily News:
A shotgun-wielding owner of a Harlem restaurant-supply company blasted two robbers to death and wounded two others on Thursday when he caught them pistol-whipping his employee, police said…
This is the one bit that’s wholly questionable:
Augusto told cops he bought his shotgun after a robbery nearly 30 years ago. Browne said it was unclear Thursday night if Augusto has a license for the weapon.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure he has a license for the weapon. It’s right here:
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Up and runnign at last. Not the longest issue, with 113 pages… but the biggest in terms of filesize, at over 50 meg. LOTS of illustrations… detailed diagrams, artwork, mockup photos, etc.
http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/ev2n4.htm
Includes:
Bell BoMi part 3: with Convair RoBo, Super Hustler, Fish and Dyna Soar; Boeing RoBo concepts; Martin RoBo; Bell Dyna Soar CTV
Bell D188A Mach 2 VTOL fighter part 2: scads of diagrams and photos
Convair postwar seaplane bomber studies, by Robert Bradley
Ames Mach 10 demonstrator, by Dennis R. Jenkins
Convair Manned Reconnaissance Glide Vehicle
Boeing Model 767-730 nuclear-powered transport
Again, see here:
Here’s a sign along the side of the road near the Golden Spike National Historic Site near Promontory, Utah. There’s good news, and there’s bad news.
First question: what are all the little bright spots visible on the sign? From the back, the source becomes clear:
This sign has sustained hundreds of hits from pistols, rifles and buckshot, and thousands of hits from birdshot.
OK, the bad news: there’s a bit of brainless lawlessness involved in blasting away at road signs.
The good news: around here firearms are so common that people go blasting away at road signs and nobody seems to much notice. Around here, private property is *not* blasted all to hell and gone, and neither are livestock or *people.* So the local hooligans take it as far as taking potshots at The Government, but not at The People.
Freakin’ awesome.
