How can you remove the barrel of a rifle and still retain your zero?

I’ve been telling people about Bob Reynolds of Templar, and his proprietary FastRail system for a while. I did a post on it showing how you could remove your AR-15 barrel clean the chamber, and replace the barrel in about 10 minutes total. My only concern has been, how well does it retain its zero?

At the Greenville blogmeet we finally got to run a test. This is the rifle we used, though we had a scope for the shooting test.

We put a target out at 200 yards and shot a three round group at it.

The odd bullet hole at the bottom was shot at a different point of aim than the three round group.

Then we removed the barrel, reinstalled it, and shot another three round group.

As you can see, the difference in point of impact is minimal.

I know it’s hard to judge scale on things like this, so here’s a photo that will make it pretty obvious how well the rifle retains its zero.

Not bad at all for 200 yards through a semi-auto fighting rifle.

Bob doesn’t sell his rails retail, so he is allowing me to be a dealer for him. You can get your own FastRail on my FastRail page.

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I want this rifle

You are looking here at my next rifle.

This rifle is the personal rifle of Bob Reynolds, of Templar. He built it last week and brought it along to the Blogmeet in Greenville. I got to shoot it and I want one. I think that the only think I might change is the stock.

This particular onehas a 16 inch barrel and is chambered in .223 Wilde (a hybrid 223 Remington/5.56 NATO) that will shoot basically every normal 223 and 5.56 ammo available. The rail is Bob’s proprietary FastRail system. This particular one is 14.5” long. It allows you to remove the barrel in about 2 minutes, and replace it just as fast. If you have spare barrels, you can change calibers, barrel lengths, or both. I will do a later post about how well it shoots, but suffice it to say that it is far more accurate than I am.

If you want your own rifle, ask Bob. He’ll build it just the way you want it. If you already have a rifle, and just want to have this really nice rail, you can buy one here.

UPDATE: Accuracy test with barrel remove/reinstall.

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Blogmeet after action report

Friday I was invited by ASM826 of the blog “Random Acts of Patriotism” to his blogmeet and shoot near Greenville, NC. Along with ASM and me, Borepatch showed up and Knightbane showed up. We had various friends along.

The rifle I am holding is a full auto short barreled rifle chambered in .50 Beowulf. Here’s an action shot of me shooting it. I count 3 pieces of brass in the air, and one being ejected.

Let me assure you that the photo makes me look a whole lot more in control of the rifle than I felt.

Cartman looked worried in this photo. He had good reason.

Hopefully one of the other bloggers got a photo of Cartman after the shoot.

Thanks to ASM826 for coordinating this fantastic range trip/blogmeet.

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All the murders in Raleigh, 2010 edition

In a followup post, here are all the murders/non-negligent homicides that happened in Raleigh, NC during 2010. The reported number was 14, but I only have data on 13. I am hoping to receive the last one next week. If I do, this post will be updated.

The format will be simple. I have a policy of not naming either criminals or known criminal victims on my blog. This prevents criminals or their friends from Google searching their own name and finding me. I will post the date, a bit of a story in a local newspaper or TV station, the suspect’s Department of Corrections records, and if available, the victim’s.

15 February –

A North Raleigh man has been charged with murder after police say he shot another man shortly after 11 p.m. Monday.

(Suspect), 29, was taken to the Wake County jail. (Suspect) is accused of shooting (Victim), 23, who was taken to WakeMed and later died, according to Raleigh police.

Suspect – Suspect had no prior criminal convictions

Victim had no apparent criminal convictions

Method - Gun

6 March –

Raleigh police think the slaying of State Board of Education member Kathy Taft was "a random act of violence," Police Chief Harry Dolan said this afternoon.

(Suspect), 30, of 2812 Wayland Drive, Apt. D, was charged Friday with rape and murder in connection with Taft's death.

Suspect – The DOC shows a felony conviction, but the charge is listed as a misdemeanor. The newspaper has this to say about him.

Williford has been in trouble with the law before, amassing an arrest record that includes several burglary and drug-related charges.

According to court records, he was convicted in 2001 of breaking and entering, a misdemeanor charge that brought him a suspended sentence and three years of probation.

The victim, of course, was a member of the State Board of Education and had no prior criminal convictions.

Method – The police stated that Ms. Taft was killed by blunt force trauma to the head.

14 March –

(Victim) and (Suspect), 33, of Henderson, had been asked by nightclub security guard Shontavius Levon Brown, 35, to leave the premises, Sughrue said.

(Victim) and (Suspect) got into a vehicle, and Alston drove to the front of Pericos. (Suspect) got out of the vehicle and exchanged gunfire with Brown on the street in front of the nightclub, Sughrue said.

This is a strange one. In this case, the suspect and victim were friends, and were thrown out of the nightclub. When one shot at the bouncer, he shot back, killing the other. In this case, it appears to be a case a lawful self defense. Like in any crime, if someone is killed, the perpetrators are charged with the murder.

Suspect – The DOC does not show a felony criminal conviction, but the suspect was charged with possession of a firearm by a felon, so draw your own conclusion.

Police on Sunday charged (Suspect) with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill for his role in the gunfire exchange. He was also charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Victim – The victim had a felony conviction for Assault With a Deadly Weapon Inflicting Serious Injury plus a few misdemeanor convictions.

Method – Gun

17 April –

Raleigh police responded to a shooting call Saturday night and found (Victim), 19, shot inside a vehicle in an apartment complex parking lot in the 6500 block of Suburban Drive.

Suspect – while only 17 at the time, the suspect had already been convicted of felony drug possession just  4 days prior to the murder. He received probation, but that was revoked. He was also charged with possession of a firearm by a felon.

Victim – the victim had several felony convictions for breaking and entering and possessing stolen goods, along with a speeding to elude conviction.

Method – gun

9 May –

Police say a man who was gunned down Sunday afternoon in the streets of Southeast Raleigh "clearly knew" several of the five men who were charged with his death Thursday.

Investigators would not disclose a motive for the fatal shooting that left Reginald Alton Dunn, 32, of Raleigh, crumpled dead near Melvid Court and Peyton Street.

Nor would police say whether the arrests of five young men, none over the age of 21, indicated the homicide was gang-related.

Although 5 people were arrested for the murder, only one person was convicted of the killing. The others were convicted of Robbery with a dangerous weapon.

Suspect – The killer had previous felony convictions for breaking and entering and robbery.

Victim – The victim had a whole string of convictions, the most serious for drugs and receiving stolen vehicles

Method – Gun

16 June –

Raleigh police upgraded the charges Thursday against a man accused of beating a neighbor after the victim died.

Suspect – The suspect had a felony conviction for speeding to elude, a drug paraphernalia conviction, and various misdemeanor drunk driving convictions. He was ultimately convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter.

Victim – The victim had no apparent criminal record

Method - Beating

30 June –

Police arrested a 30-year-old Raleigh man early this morning in Wednesday's fatal stabbing at a North Raleigh nightclub.

Suspect – Has a previous felony conviction for drugs

Victim – Felony convictions for possession of stolen goods, and then for having drugs in the county jail.

Method – knife

17 July –

Raleigh police on Wednesday announced that they had arrested and charged two Durham men in connection with the murder of Durham's (Victim) early Saturday morning outside a Brier Creek area restaurant.

Suspect  – the one charged with murder, had a previous felony conviction for speeding to elude, and had quite a few misdemeanor convictions for various drug and resisting arrest type of crimes

Victim – Had a felony conviction for assault inflicting serious bodily injury.

Method – gun

19 July –

Raleigh police arrested four men Monday in connection with the early-morning beating death of a Knightdale man at an apartment complex off Capital Boulevard.

Victim – I was unable to find a criminal record for this victim. I will be visiting the courthouse to determine if he had any criminal background.

Suspect 1 – I was unable to find any criminal convictions for this suspect, but the story makes clear that he was arrested numerous times before.

Court records indicate (Suspect 1) has been arrested several times in Raleigh, including a charge of assault and battery on July 15, shoplifting and larceny on July 7 and larceny on Feb. 16.

In November 2007, he was also charged with simple assault, and in March 2008, he was arrested on charges of simple assault and communicating threats.

Either this suspect was not convicted of anything, including this crime, or the name is spelled incorrectly in the story and that’s why I was unable to find him. He’s another person that requires a trip to the county courthouse.

Suspect 2 – I could not find any record of this suspect, either for this crime or any other. I will be going to the courthouse to find info on this suspect.

Suspect 3 – Had no criminal record in North Carolina. Was convicted of manslaughter in this crime.

Suspect 4 – Had no criminal record in North Carolina. Was convicted of manslaughter in this crime.

Method – Beating

3 August –  

A double shooting outside a Raleigh home Tuesday night left one man dead and another wounded, police spokesman Jim Sughrue said.

Sughrue said that (Murder Victim), 30, and (Injured Victim), 30, were sitting on the porch of a home at 609 Hay Lane around 10 p.m.

"Someone walked up to the house and just started shooting,” police Capt. Chris Bertram said. Neighbors said they heard a series of gunshots.

Suspect – No one has been arrested for this crime. Police are still looking for a suspect.

Victim – The murder victim had a prior misdemeanor conviction for drug paraphernalia

The injured victim had felony criminal convictions for larceny and breaking & entering.

Method - Gun

9 August –

Wilkins, 38, of Raleigh said her husband was getting ready to cut her brother's hair when McKenzie, a regular customer, came into the shop. She said her husband talked for a bit with McKenzie, then went into the back for a moment. He told his wife that when he returned, McKenzie had a gun in his hand and a blank look on his face.

Victim – The victim had no criminal record.

Suspect – The suspect had no criminal record, nor did he have a concealed handgun permit.

Method - Gun

29 October –

Officers found (Victim) dead outside a home in the 200 block of Colleton Road last Friday morning.  Police have not commented on the cause of Blossom's death or a possible motive in the case.

Victim – The victim had several felony drug convictions along with two assault on a female convictions. He had been convicted of possession with intent to sell, schedule II, 6 months prior, but received a suspended sentence. Perhaps if he had gone to jail he wouldn’t have been murdered.

Suspect – The suspect had quite a few felony drug convictions.

Method – Undisclosed

12 November –

A woman charged with murder refused to face a judge Monday because of TV cameras.

(Suspect) is charged the stabbing death of 46-year-old Bernice Cobb of Raleigh.

Raleigh police and relatives of Cobb confirm she was killed at her apartment on Sardis Drive late Friday night.

(Suspect), 33, was detained at the scene, and eventually charged with murder.

Victim – The victim had no apparent criminal record

Suspect – The suspect had a felony conviction for Cheat – Property/Services, and one for obtaining property with false coins or tokens. She also had misdemeanor convictions for receiving stolen goods, and several for driving with a revoked driver’s license.

Method – Knife

Conclusions – So there it is. This is the best case information for the gun grabbers. There are likely one or two suspects or victims that had criminal records that I was unable to find, but you can see for yourself that the large majority of the killings were committed by criminals, and the majority of victims were themselves criminals.

Keep this in mind when the gun grabbers insult us as being one step away from murder. They point to the number of the dead, but never to the circumstances that lead to the deaths. The absolutely NEVER refer to the past criminal behavior of the vast majority of the killers. To recognize that murder and non-negligent homicide is the province of the criminal class is to recognize that gun control is not the solution. To control crime, we must control the criminals. Controlling the guns merely disarms the honest, those most unlikely to murder.

 

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Who gets murdered, who does the killing?

I stopped in at the Raleigh Police Department and spoke with a very nice lady in their Public Information office on Thursday. When I inquired about the total number of murders and non-negligent homicides in Raleigh in 2010 and 2011, Ms. Hourigan was kind enough to go through all of the press releases for 2010 and send them to me. I thought I would share a few conclusions with you.

First, some background. North Carolina’s Department of Corrections maintains an “Offender Lookup” feature on their website. By using this feature, you can type in the names of the people on these press releases and compare the dead and the arrested suspects against the list of people convicted of a crime in North Carolina. This DOC database is not perfect. Due to variations in spelling, you will sometimes not find someone who is actually there. This means that it is possible that some of the people I thought had no criminal record actually do have a criminal record.

The reported figure for murder and non-negligent homicide in Raleigh in 2010 is 14. I have the press releases for 13. I have asked Ms. Hourigan to check and see if she has the last one. I have not yet gone to the courthouse to ask for the arrest records and other criminal info, but here is my preliminary info.

Total victims – 13

Victims with no apparent criminal conviction – 6 (46%)

Victims with a misdemeanor criminal conviction – 1 (8%)

Victims with a felony criminal conviction – 6 (46%)

Conclusion – In 2010, more than half of all people murdered had criminal convictions, almost all of which were felony convictions.

Total Suspects – This is slightly more complicated. In one case there are no suspects. In 11 cases, there was only one suspect in the killing. And in 1 case there were multiple suspects. In that case, it was a group beatdown, and of the 4 suspects, I could only find two, who were both convicted. I suspect that at least one of the other two is in the database, but I couldn’t find either of them. Neither of the other two had a criminal conviction prior to the killing.

Total incidents – 12 (excluding the one that has no suspects)

Total incidents where no suspect had a criminal conviction – 3 (comprising 6 suspects) (25%)

Incidents where a suspect had a misdemeanor criminal conviction – 1 (8.3%)

Incidents where a suspect had a felony conviction – 8 (67%)

Conclusion – in 2010, 75% of all murder and non-negligent homicides were committed by a person or persons with a prior criminal conviction, two-thirds with prior felony convictions

Since so many of the gun grabbers are concerned only with “Gun Deaths™” here’s the statistics for just the killings with a gun.

Total gun killings – 7

Victims in gun killings with a criminal conviction – 5 (4 felonies, 1 misdemeanor) 71%

Suspects in gun killings with a criminal conviction – 4 (4 felonies) 57% One firearm killing has no suspects

Conclusion – in 2010, almost 3/4ths of all firearm related murders and non-negligent homicides were committed against and committed by persons with prior criminal records.

So it’s all just as I have said in the past. For the most part, murder is not a crime that people start with. No matter what the gun grabbers tell you, ordinary decent citizens do not suddenly wake up one day and decide to kill someone. Ordinary decent citizens don’t suddenly lose their cool and murder someone.

Leopards don’t change their spots. Criminals keep acting like criminals, honest citizens keep acting like honest citizens.

I will write another post detailing each murder/non-negligent homicide so you can look at all the info yourself. That’s another thing that is different between us and the gun grabbers. We’ll link to the actual info and let you draw your own conclusions. When you traffic in the truth, you don’t have to hide anything.

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The Town (My The Town) Police nab a criminal

Here’s one close to home. The Garner PD caught themselves a chicken restaurant thief.

(SUSPECT) was observed by a Garner Police officer early on 12/27 on Waterville Street in Garner.  The officer attempted to stop him when he abruptly left the empty cul-de-sac suspiciously.  (SUSPECT) refused to stop, and the officer pursued him until he was apprehended on Holland Church Rd.

Once stopped, officers discovered a stolen cash register inside the vehicle.  The register has been traced to a burglary that had just occurred at Smithfield’s Chicken and Barbecue on Fayetteville Rd.  Based on surveillance video and other evidence, investigators have charged (SUSPECT) with the burglary of Smithfield’s Chicken.

And who is our criminal mastermind? That daring thief who is so stupid that he carries the evidence of his crime around in the car, waiting for a cop to act suspiciously in front of?

Suspect

This guy’s got more convictions than I have socks. In fact, good police procedure would be to simply follow this guy around and wait until he inevitably broke the law. When they used to say “round up the usual suspects” they were talking about this guy.

Garner Police are sharing information with other agencies to determine if (SUSPECT) may have been involved in additional crimes before being arrested.  Wake County Sheriff's investigators have charged (SUSPECT) with a December 25th burglary at The Six Forks Grocery at 11716 Six Forks Rd in Raleigh.

He’s a one man crime wave. Perhaps another 20 years in jail? The 15 or so he’s already spent there don’t seem to have taught him a lesson.

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Meanwhile in Sarah Brady Paradise: Is That a Real Gun? edition

In a country where even BB guns are tightly controlled items, you would think that gun crime would be minimal.

A boy of 16 has been arrested after two teenagers were threatened at gunpoint in Manchester.

The teenagers were approached in Plymouth Grove, near Swinton Grove Park, at about 22:30 GMT on Wednesday.

One of the teenagers, 17, had a firearm thrust in her face. She handed over two mobile phones and the robber fled towards the park.

It turns out that this was a BB gun, but do you blame the victims for treating it like it was a real gun? Even 17 year old girls in (Formerly Great) Britain know that gun control has failed. They know that guns are so common that it is perfectly likely that the thing stuck in your face is likely to be a real gun, so best not to argue about it.

When even the children of a country aren’t stupid enough to trust their lives to the government’s ability to ban an item, you know that gun control is a joke.

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It’s the same old song

Guy gets shot in the head.

Although Chapel Hill police have charged one man with the murder of (Victim), they continue to investigate whether anyone else was involved in the deadly shooting.

They arrest a suspect

Suspect

Why? No one knows, but they do know something about the victim

Although Chapel Hill police have charged one man with the murder of (Victim), they continue to investigate whether anyone else was involved in the deadly shooting.

Though he was never convicted of a drug offense

Victim

People who kill are very likely to be criminals before they kill. Their victims also tend to be criminals. That’s because most normal people don’t settle their differences by murder.

 

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Meanwhile in Sarah Brady Paradise: Double Shooting Inquiry edition

They aren’t sure that they are connected, but they might be.

POLICE are investigating two separate shootings in the west of Scotland as they continue inquiries into the murder of a man in an apparently motiveless attack.

Officers said they could not rule out a connection between the shooting of a 23-year-old in Bishopbriggs and that of a 36-year-old man in Springburn on Christmas Eve.

They are concerned that the two shootings might be connected, since there have only been 4 murders with a gun in the last 2 years in Scotland.

Most homicides north of the Border are caused by a knife or sharp instrument, such as a broken bottle.

I am sure that is of great comfort to the dead people.

There were 13 attempted murders involving a firearm and just one murder in Strathclyde involving a gun in 2010/11.

Oh, so it isn’t that they aren’t trying to kill anyone, it’s just that they are terrible shots.

In the end, dead is dead. It doesn’t matter to anyone whether dead by gun or by knife. What does matter is that by disarming to honest citizens, you leave them unable to defend themselves against those who would do them harm. Obviously disarming the good people doesn’t stop the bad ones from committing murder, with a gun or without.

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So was it a totally random shooting?

I am sure he was minding his own business, rights?

(Victim) was shot was standing near his car in the 1000 block of Devereaux Street, police said. Stray bullets also struck a home occupied by a woman and her 17-year-old daughter, but they weren't injured.

Who gets shot most often?

Victim

It’s amazing how often both the perpetrators and victims are members of the criminal class.

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Meanwhile in Rebecca Peters Paradise: Narrowly Escaped edition

It’s a good thing that guns are so hard to get in Australia. If they were easy to get, homeowners might be able to defend themselves. We can’t have that, now can we? (Video at link)

Police say two masked gunmen burst into a home in Reservoir around 3am (AEDT) on Sunday and confronted the homeowners.

A bullet was then fired from just inside the front door.

"The projectile penetrated one of the walls, passing through the bedroom which contained two young children who were sleeping, narrowly missing one,"

I maintain that this is exactly what both the criminals and the government want. The criminals don’t want to have to worry about getting shot, and the government wants helpless dependents instead of independent citizens.

So we have the people, the government, and the criminals. Two out of three ain’t bad.

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Grass Roots North Carolina responds to the NY Times hit piece on concealed carry in North Carolina

Grass Roots North Carolina responds to the NY Times hit piece on concealed carry in North Carolina

Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC) is the state gun rights organization that basically wrote the Shall Issue concealed carry law in North Carolina. I am just going to post their latest Alert. They make their point pretty well without my help.

Mike Luo's crusade

Following an extensive interview between GRNC president Paul Valone and New York Times reporter Mike Luo, the Times is now trying to depict North Carolina's population of concealed handgun permit-holders as rife with felons. To support his claims, Luo relies on flawed methodology, misuse of anecdotal data, and selectively ignored facts he learned during the interview. The current piece is at least the third time Luo has written biased and misleading articles on gun ownership.

Figures lie...

Although Luo claims to have done data-matching between criminal databases and permit-holders, he admitted confirming only a dozen matches with the NC State Bureau of Investigation.

Data matching between large databases is subject to high rates of "false positives" depending on the number and type of parameters matched. To quote one data mining whiz: "The problem is that if you're trying to search a couple of large data sets for something that occurs infrequently, the number of true hits (if any) is likely to be far less than the number of false positives."

...and liars figure

When asked whether Luo would confirm all matches with the SBI, or whether he would do statistical analysis of his data, determining what percentage of North Carolina permit-holders commit crimes, or whether he would simply provide misleading anecdotal examples as he did on a November 13, 2011 piece on restoration of gun rights for felons, Luo refused to answer.

How Luo creates a false impression

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data": By pulling a small number of anecdotes rather than verifying all of the data, Luo hopes to paint a false portrait of NC concealed handgun permit-holders as criminals.

Selective data: Luo has a reputation among researchers for cherry-picking research to support his assertions, and for failing to disclose the gun-related leanings of researchers he cites.

The Charlotte Observer fell over itself to propagate Luo's deceptive story

The Charlotte Observer ran this insult to their gun-owning readership as front page news!

GRNC president Paul Valone responds

"What The New York Times recently published is a biased 'hit piece' designed to undermine the unerringly successful expansion of concealed carry laws. By cherry-picking anecdotes from error-prone data matching, reporter Michael Luo creates a false impression of widespread abuse by concealed handgun permit-holders. Luo admits not bothering to confirm more than a handful of the matches found, so given the small data set used, the number of "false positives" may well exceed the number of accurate matches.

"Even Luo's claim of 2,400 crimes by permit-holders - which includes DUI convictions and relatively minor misdemeanors - represents only a tiny fraction (0.6%) of the 395,251 concealed handgun permits approved since 1995. Moreover, data from other states reveals that few permit revocations result from misuse of firearms.

"As Luo was told during the interview (but chose to ignore), when Grass Roots North Carolina helped draft the state's concealed handgun law in 1995, we gave law enforcement officials the tools for permit revocations by attaching concealed handgun permit information to the state drivers' license database. Any concealed handgun permit-holder arrested for a crime would be immediately identified as such.

"Furthermore, nothing in the law prevents the North Carolina Department of Justice from doing checks on permit-holders to ensure they remain in compliance with the law, nor would we oppose such an effort. If the state fails to avail themselves of those tools, the problem lies not within the concealed handgun law, but instead within its enforcement."

These are some pretty damning accusations. The biggest is that the author of the “study” didn’t bother to confirm his “matches” for more than about 15 of the 2,400. I do this every day. Every single day I peruse the newspapers and TV stations of North Carolina, looking for crime stories and trying to match those names to the DOC database. It’s hard work. Common names and lack of basic data make it difficult to be sure about many of the people that I’d like to tell you about. But until I have a reasonable belief that they are the same people, I don’t write a post about them. I look at the name, the age, and the County that they are supposed to be from. If I have the info (and strangely, a lot of time I don’t) I check to make sure that the race is correct. John Smith a 28 year old white guy from Wake County is most certainly not John Smith a 28 year old black guy from Buncombe. Until I get a match, I don’t post, and I am dealing with people that almost certainly have a criminal record of some kind. I’m not posting stories of misdemeanor trespass, I’m posting murder, armed robbery, and rape. These are not “starter” crimes.

Unfortunately, the author of this hit piece has decided not to bother with verification, nor did he bother to listen to Paul Valone of GRNC. He spun his story the way he wanted it spun, and damn the facts. I think that since he basically says the Sheriffs and the SBI are incompetent, those Sheriffs and the SBI ought to demand his data so that they can look at it themselves. Let’s face it, the author is alleging ongoing criminal activity, prohibited persons in possession of firearms and concealed carry permits. The author got the info from public sources of data, so he can’t claim that he’s “protecting his sources.”

Time to cough up the data, Mr. Luo.

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Union County Sheriff responds to NYT hit piece on Concealed Carry

The Union County (Near Charlotte, NC) Sheriff responded to the NY Times’ hit piece on North Carolina’s CHP system. He thinks there should be some sort of statewide CHP notification system.

Currently, if a CCW permit holder from Union County is arrested for a crime in a different county, there is no formal notification system that would cause the permit to be revoked as a result of that arrest.

The sheriff said the state needs to implement an information-sharing system between police agencies from different counties, and from neighboring states.

"We're a border county, so if a resident in Union County gets in trouble in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, we won't know about that, unless it's by accident," he said.

I have some sad news for him. There is already a system in place where the CHPs are centrally maintained. It’s called the SBI. The State Bureau of Investigation maintains the CHP database. That database is visible on the computer of every police officer. All the cop has to do is punch in your driver’s license number and you come up. On your little data screen, it shows whether or not you have a CHP. It wouldn’t be hard to notify a Sheriff if a person has been arrested.

Alternatively, we could just dump the whole system off onto the SBI. Let the SBI maintain the entire system, just like the Utah Department of Public Safety does. Or perhaps like the Florida Department of Agriculture does in Florida. Then any time someone gets arrested, the system could be flagged and the CHP suspended until trial in accordance with the law.

I am not personally in favor of the Sheriff’s doing the CHP issue anyway. I think that 100 different Sheriffs running 100 different Permit desks lead to 100 different outcomes. It leads to things like Philly rejecting people for parking tickets. It also leads to higher CHP fees. Let’s make everyone happy and get the Sheriff out of the loop entirely.

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Domestic violence leads to shooting

If a cop tells you that you to drop the knife, you should drop the knife. Even if you are stabbing your husband at the time.

Brunswick County deputies responded to a reported assault with a deadly weapon at 377 Lansan Lane near Leland, where (Suspect), 43, was attempting to stab her husband, (Victim), 48, according to the release. Officers told her to drop her weapon, and when she wouldn't, Sgt. Brian Tully fired two shots. (Suspect) was hit in the abdomen, and (Victim) was hit in the upper right leg. (Victim) also had a stab wound on his back.

None of the injuries were life-threatening, the release said.

We all know how the victim disarmament lobby likes to tout “Domestic Violence” as proof that people can’t be trusted with guns. They never seem to look into the backgrounds of some of these people

Suspect

Victim

So we have one felon stabbing another. Don’t worry, the gun grabbers will ignore the fact that they were felons, and that the only gun involved was the one in the hands of the Deputy. In the end, we’ll get the blame no matter what the circumstances.

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Meanwhile in Sarah Brady Paradise: Unprovoked Attack edition

From Bubblehead Les, via Weer’d Beard,

You would think that in (Formerly Great) Britain, where handguns are totally banned, criminals might have a bit of trouble getting a handgun.

A teenager has been arrested in connection with the shooting of a 23-year-old student from India in an "unprovoked attack" in Salford.

The suspect, 17, is being held after Anuj Bidve was shot at close range in the early hours of Monday.

Mr Bidve was with nine students, all Indians, when they were approached by two men in Ordsall Lane.

Following a "very short" conversation, one of the men pulled out a handgun and shot the Lancaster University student.

The criminals were outnumbered 9 to 2, but still they murdered their victim. This is the power of gun control. It makes sure that the victim is totally unable to defend himself against the criminals who ignore the law. In (Formerly Great) Britain it’s even a crime to carry a knife or a baton or even pepper spray.

But don’t worry, they are planning on doing utterly pointless things in response.

A Facebook tribute page set up by fellow Lancaster student Sonakshi Saran said there were plans for a "peace march".

The victim wasn’t murdered due to a lack of “peace” he was murdered because he had no effective way to defend himself.

Any guesses as to what they will call for at the “peace” march? My bet is stronger gun control. How much do you think that their overlords love that? Their slaves will demand for stronger chains.

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NY Times fails basic criminal law

Here’s another glaring error in the NY Times hitpiece on Concealed Handgun Permits in NC. Apparently the NY Times thinks that the only person who can assault a female is that person’s significant other

Besides felons like Mr. Dowdle, The Times also found scores of people who kept their permits after convictions for violent misdemeanors. They included more than half of the roughly 40 permit holders convicted in the last five years of assault by pointing gun and nearly two-thirds of the more than 70 convicted of a common domestic violence charge, assault on a female.

What they fail to understand is that Assault on a Female is defined in law as

… any person who commits any assault, assault and battery, or affray is guilty of a Class A1 misdemeanor if, in the course of the assault, assault and battery, or affray, he or she:

 (2)        Assaults a female, he being a male person at least 18 years of age;

So in the most sexist law in North Carolina, you can only be guilty of assaulting a female if 1) you are male, and 2) you are 18 or older.

Nowhere in that definition does it describe any relationship between those two people. While it is common to charge a man who beats his wife with Assault on a Female, getting convicted of Assault on a Female is not necessarily a domestic violence charge.

“All Labradors are dogs” is a valid statement. The NY Times wants us to believe that all dogs are Labradors.

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