Jeff Pittman

Gunshot wounds (video). 2.16 mile shot. Bad technology. USMC plan. “Gun oil.”

25-Sep-2015 / 1 minute of reading

Gunshot Wounds And How To Treat Them, from Pascagoula, MS The main takeaway is don’t shoot at hard flat surfaces, like steel targets. Also, it’s good if you’re not all alone. 3800 yard (2.16 miles) shot. About 9 sec. flight time. There probably is such a th‌ing as “bad” technology: The federal government has been experimenting with using wireless Nano […]

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1,000 yard MS gun range and MSU deer hunting app

25-Sep-2015 / 1 minute of reading

MS gun range We have a report that a 1,000 yard firing range is under construction in Leake County, MS, near Ofahoma (west of Carthage). So far, a dozen protesters, apparently none of which took high school physics. Mississippi State University’s Deer Hunting App

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The “only ones” (with guns)?

25-Sep-2015 / 3 minutes of reading

Thomas Macri, the ranking police officer for the Borough of Bessemer, PA, reportedly accidentally killed himself last week while “cleaning his service pistol” at home. Police say he was home alone at the time, but was discovered a short while later by his girlfriend, and that foul play was not suspected. An autopsy revealed that Macri suffered a gunshot wound

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CCW safety

25-Sep-2015 / 1 minute of reading

An Oregon man was attacked in a WalMart bathroom and robbed of his weapon by a criminal who spotted the poorly concealed or unconcealed gun. The 25-year-old CCW-permit holder had a Springfield XD handgun in a holster in the back of his waistband, and his shirt “covered the weapon.” But a large man in his mid 30s apparently saw the

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DGUs in MS, MI, PA and CA

25-Sep-2015 / 1 minute of reading

A housebreaker was shot by a homeowner in Jackson, MS over the weekend. A 43-year-old bank robber at the Citizen’s Bank in Warren, Michigan pointed his gun at a 63-year-old (some reports say 60) CCW-enabled customer who didn’t appreciate that and shot at the bank robber seven times, hitting him three times (43%): once in the leg and once in

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Oasis Tabernacle Church shooting in East Selma, AL

25-Sep-2015 / 1 minute of reading

A man opened fire during the morning church service at Oasis Tabernacle Church in East Selma, AL last Sunday, shooting and wounding his girlfriend, his 1-month-old son and a pastor who tried to intervene. Apparently unarmed congregants disarmed the man, who then ran away and was later arrested and charged with three counts of attempted murder. I suggest that unarmed

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Gun free zones: headline and DSU update

25-Sep-2015 / 1 minute of reading

Headline of the week: “State Fair Bans Guns; State Fair Workers Robbed at Gun Point” Update on MS universities We noted last week that Mississippi’s Institutions of Higher Learning’s (which governs colleges and universities) anti-gun policy did not prevent the murder at Delta State University. List member Matt pointed out that although the IHL Board of Trustees has a gun-free

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Donald Trump, Chris Christie, John Boehner

25-Sep-2015 / 1 minute of reading

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has a spotted history on gun rights, has now released a position paper on guns which proposes re-legalization of machine guns, national CCW permit reciprocity, arming military troops on bases and recruiting centers, better (but not expanded) NICS checks, no gun or magazine bans, enforcement of existing gun laws, and adding ill-advised enhanced penalties

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