More military surplus rifle info and a review of my Glock 34. In segment one, a listener from Finland weighs in via email with more information about Finnish Mosin Nagants. In addition to that, I review my Glock 34 9mm. Then in segments 2 and 3 I’ll talk about the court of public opinion and why we have a lot of work to do to win over some people in the general public who are simply ignorant about gun owners.
Highlights:
Finnish Mosin Nagant history and technical details.
Swedish Mausers.
Ammo quality and it’s effect on accuracy.
Once gun friendly Finland, now turned anti-gun.
Glock 34 review, IDPA related and self defense related.
I recently completed an IDPA Shoot with a listener, James and this espisode starts with an interview about our experience last Thursday night at Cross Timbers IDPA match in Fort Worth. Also, some listener feedback and a key question, are you a warrior or a victim?
Highlights:
What it’s like to start out in IDPA
Perspective of a listener after just 3 matches
Testing your gun, holster, sights and magazines in IDPA
Are guns good investments? This question seems to be kicked around the internet a lot and it’s surprising what I see. Sometimes they are and sometimes they are not. So in this episode I’ll give you both sides as I see it and let you decide. Some of the highlights include old guns, collectibles, limited edition guns, becoming a dealer and the regulatory side of gun re selling.
Also tune in to hear my experience on Wednesday when I attended a luncheon sponsored by the OK2A and GOA. It was disappointing, tune in and I’ll tell you the story. Don’t forget about the Freedom Raffle.
Grip angle is talked about so much I couldn’t ignore it so here’s a show about my thoughts on whether your pistol’s grip angle makes a difference in your shooting. Obviously when grip angle is discussed, 99% of the time people compare Glocks to 1911’s. So tune in for my thoughts on that.
Also…are video games firearms trainers? Tune in, the answer may surprise you.
Highlights:
Are there 15 different styles of skillsaw handles?
Training your mind will help you be more effective to defend yourself with your bullets. This is another episode on mindset. The fighting mindset and according to Gabe Suarez, the silly things gun schools teach that could get you killed.
Highlights:
4 key points to maintain safety for you and your family.
Liberals should love the 2nd amendment. But do they? Look, this show is not about politics, it’s about guns and gun rights. But tune in, because I analyze a very well written article in The Daily Kos by Kaili Joy Gray. Most of you probably don’t read that blog, but this was sent to me in an email and the more I read it, the more I liked it, so I felt obliged to talk about it. That’s segment 1, then in segment 2, I launch The Freedom Raffle. I’m giving away some really good stuff, get a ticket!
Highlights:
What exactly does “The People” mean?
Why do Liberals ignore “The People” in the 2nd amendment, but not other amendments?
What exactly did the writers of The Constitution mean by a Militia?
Is the 2nd Amendment about Revolution?
Exposing why guns is a political issue for Liberals, not a rights issue.
Military Surplus Guns are sometimes a pretty good buy if you are staying on a tight budget and need a good handgun or rifle. Some are junk, but some are very good. In this episode I spend segment #1 talking about Military Surplus Guns, some popular models and the ammo they shoot. In segment #2 I do a review of my new Comp-Tac M Tac holster for my Glock 19.
“Shoot him to the ground” is probably what most civilians will be concerned about when defending themselves with a handgun. Tune in for information from Matthew Temkin on vertical indexing and an actual 911 call. I also expand and add to the subject from the Personal Armament Podcast regarding defensive accuracy. I’ll put in my 2 cents.
Highlights:
News from Utah regarding gun rights.
Listener feedback.
Shoot Him to The Ground Defensive accuracy skills.
Strategic storage of handguns and placing them in areas of your home that are not inviting to thieves but easily accessible to you. Keep in mind your children and gun proofing your kids rather than kid proofing your guns. But if you’ve ever wondered how to store handguns so that you and only you know where they are then tune in. In segment one I cover some listener feedback and a brief review of my new M-Tac neutral cant holster by Comp-Tac. Segment number 2 is all about strategic placement of your handguns.
I recently saw a poll that said 1 out of 5 American’s don’t know who the United States Declared their Independence from…in 1776! Can you believe that? So since this subject is rarely taught in schools anymore, I thought it would be fitting to post the Declaration of Independence and it’s meaning. Have you ever read it? If not, please take a few moments to read it. I think you’ll find yourself feeling like Jefferson, Madison, Hancock, Adams and Franklin did.
The Declaration of Independence
The first sentence of the Declaration asserts as a matter of Natural law the ability of a people to assume political independence, and acknowledges that the grounds for such independence must be reasonable, and therefore explicable, and ought to be explained.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
The next section, the famous preamble, includes the ideas and ideals that were principles of the Declaration. It is also an assertion of what is known as the “right of revolution“: that is, people have certain rights, and when a government violates these rights, the people have the right to “alter or abolish” that government.[70]
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,[71] that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The next section is a list of charges against King George which aim to demonstrate that he has violated the colonists’ rights and is therefore unfit to be their ruler:
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such disolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Many Americans still felt a kinship with the people of Great Britain, and had appealed in vain to the prominent among them, as well as to Parliament, to convince the King to relax his more objectionable policies toward the colonies. The next section represents disappointment that these attempts had been unsuccessful.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
In the final section, the signers assert that there exist conditions under which people must change their government, that the British have produced such conditions, and by necessity the colonies must throw off political ties with the British Crown and become independent states. The conclusion incorporates language from Lee’s resolution of independence that had been passed on July 2.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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