He’s right.

Something to think about, if and when.

What are you gonna bring to the party? ‘Cause the one at my house, if and when, is gonna be a BYOB sort of thing….

The government began to be open about it’s intent to dominate the citizens, and to ignore the Constitution, and hold it’s minions to no accountability.

They had been doing for a while, but it was HERE that they chose to bring their tactics out into the open.

People who, by any measure, murdered the accused, are running around free in your country, with the excuse that they were “just following orders“.

Interesting how the Germans Nazis were treated vs the FBI/ATF folks, innit?

There should have been murder trials, and death sentences handed down for those folks who killed the Weavers.

Never forget, never forgive. Never trust any agent of the Government. His/her motivation is likely not yours.

The shame is that we, as a nation, let them get away with this atrocity. That we paid for the overwhelming response to what was, at best, a $200 tax issue (in reality, it was for defying an agent of the ATF). Millions of dollars wasted spent to apprehend a guy who was accused of selling a firearm that was 3/8 of an inch too short. Millions of our dollars which were, essentially, used to cover some foolish agent’s (and their superiors) butt. To make the accused the demon rather than the actual agents criminals.

And we are still paying these people’s salary (or retirement) today, rather than for their detention.

Pass it on.

It’ll be amusing to half the population.

The other half has no sense of humor anyway…

Since I had to say goodbye.

And while it has been rough, it has been survivable.

I appreciate all the folks who took the time to write, call, email, text, comment etc., your words were a comfort to us.

But I swear, if one more person asks me “Are ya gonna get another dog???” I’m gonna hit him (or her) in the knees with a ball peen hammer. Twice.

I know they mean well, but really,……

So I finally make it to the range after 3 weeks. (life has been less than conducive to range time lately).

I arrive with the two Para 3″ pistols (one daily carry, and one being evaluated for daily carry) and 150+ reloads in .45 ACP. ( I had some ammo that was going stale and I needed to burn up my 6 month old carry ammo anyway)

I settle in at the bowling pin bench and load a few mags. Step up to the bench and begin.

I am killing pins fairly well, running 43 for 50. I then switch to some empty/failure drills, just to keep in practice. Randomly loading different numbers of cartridges in each mag, and with a few snap caps thrown in just for fun, just to keep my malf skills sharp too. My reloads are going well, and I am clearing the snap caps easily and quickly when the hammer drops on them. I’m running the mags clear in about 3 seconds.

I go 30 rounds (running 28 for 30, if I can brag a bit), and am regaining some speed with my drills, when I squeeze off a shot and the hammer drops. *Click*. Nothing else.

Nothing. No big deal. Practice is what I am here for. Must be a snap cap.

I run the slide and still, only the click of the hammer dropping.

Now I know that I didn’t put two snap caps in consecutively, therefore the mag must be dry, and assume that the slide didn’t lock back for some reason….., so I hit the mag release, grab a reload and put it in the magwell.

Except it wouldn’t go. I tried twice. The mag just wouldn’t enter the frame. WTF?

Color me confused.

I  check that the weapon is clear, lock the slide back, and take a look. There appears to be a mag in the firearm, as I can see the top of it, but no follower, only air, and light showing through the mag body. Hmmm?

The baseplate for the mag (older welded factory Para 6 round) has left the mag, along with the spring and follower. Apparently, without the baseplate to hold things square, the mag is just distorted enough that it won’t drop free from the pistol.

I push the mag free from the top, and all is well.

Not sure what to do as a drill for that type of failure though.

I then went to the dueling tree for some hip shooting practice and went 38 for 50 there, but my composure was blown, my concentration wasn’t what it should be.

The new Para Carry ran flawlessly (for once). I think that after two trips to the factory for the extractor issue it is finally fixed….We shall see. More range time will tell.

Still not sure how to do a drill for this or how to deal with this sort of malf quickly.

It’s not one that I practice for, and to be honest, I didn’t recognize what was going on. How do you prepare for this sort of failure?

Other than new magazines (this was an older one, used only at the range) anyone got any suggestions?

And yes, I pounded the remains flat before disposing of it.

But we sure as hell destroyed it.

Gonna happen to a lot of places, if BHO gets hisself re-elected.

Good thing I am not homicidal (and that the law makes it hard to mount twin 20mm cannon on my truck)….

There were an alarmingly large number of incompetent/uncaring/rude/asshole drivers on the roads this fine Saturday morning.

Enough that I chose to go home rather than grow more angry at the plethora of near misses and such that I encountered today.

I feel bad because I allowed the bad drivers to chase me off the roads.

I let them win…

Even if for only a little while.

The USS Constitution is SAILING under its own power, not just being pulled out for display.

I think it is cool that the oldest US warship (in fact, IIRC, the oldest warship ever) is still a workable sailing vessel.