Tactical Blog

People look to vending to as an added benefit to their employees.  Vending can provide both snacks and drink selections according to the desires of the customers.  Sometimes, a commission can be negotiated for the owner of the location; however, that should not take away from the true purpose of having a vending machine on premises.

For quality vending service, in the New Orleans Metropolitan area, please contact Greater New Orleans Vending Service.

If you were a) jacked up, b) held at gunpoint, or c) politely asked to hand over your firearm as you a) left town, b) went about your business or c) tried to help your neighbors in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, you might be eligible to get your illegally confiscated gun back if you follow the rules established by the court. According to the terms of the permanent injunction against the city, issued in October 2008, the city has to “make an aggressive attempt to return any and all firearms which may have been confiscated during the period August 29 to December 31, 2005.”

Expect the city’s attempt to return unlawfully confiscated firearms to consist of aggressive foot dragging and obfuscation.

College students in Colorado and across the nation yesterday strapped on empty holsters to protest campus policies banning concealed carry on campus.  It’s no coincidence that so many shootings occur on college campuses.  That’s because they are “No Gun Zones.”

Here’s a little test to ask yourself.

1. How many times can you think of where shooters went to no gun zones and started shooting?

2. How many times can you think of where shooters went to police stations and started shooting?

A much higher number for question 1 that question 2?  Could that be because virtually everyone at police stations have guns strapped to their hips and at schools virtually no one is armed?

Just a thought.

On March 2, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Chicago must respect the Second Amendment “right of the people to keep and bear arms.”
Mayor Richard M. Daley argues that it does not apply there, and that in “an urban landscape, the Second Amendment becomes the enemy of ordered liberty, not its guarantor.”
Ignoring those citizens who may need guns to protect their families in their own homes, Daley conjures a parade of horrors, such as “criminal street gangs with the right to carry guns” using violence “to control the drug trade.”

Gov. Rick Perry said Friday that Texans should not be subject to more government intervention and security measures after a gunman opened fire at an entry to the Texas Capitol and that the state’s “enlightened” approach to gun rights helps to keep citizens safe.
“In Texas, criminals have to think twice before they draw a gun because there’s a good chance they’re going to be outnumbered,” Perry said, as he accepted the campaign endorsement of the Texas State Rifle Association and the National Rifle Association. “The fact of the matter is, that keeps us all safer.”

The well-funded Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is up to its old tricks again. With the potential help of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, HSUS is once again attacking Indiana’s hunters by attempting to shutdown dog training and field trialing across the State!

Thanks to the massive opposition and outcry against this extreme anti-gun bill, the sponsor has elected to withdraw the legislation. Senate Bill 516 would have prohibited the possession, transfer or receipt of these firearms by law-abiding Maryland residents.

Late last year, the Rankin County Mississippi Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting the discharge of firearms within 500 yards (more then a quarter mile) of a platted subdivision, or hunting with a bow within 100 yards of a platted subdivision. The ordinance was passed with little notice or opportunity for affected landowners and sportsmen to express their opposition to it.

Willows High School acted as if this was another Columbine in the making, but it was just a young adult going hunting before school.
Willows High School became the focus of national attention this month, and unfortunately few people from out of the area understood what makes Willows unique.  The firearm wasn’t even located on school property.

The Indiana Senate voted 41 9 to approve a bill that would make it illegal for employers in Indiana to adopt prohibit workers from keeping firearms in their locked vehicles on company property.
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Johnny Nugent, R Lawrenceburg, told his colleagues on the Senate floor that people should be able to keep legally permitted firearms in their vehicles so they can go hunting before or after work, or defend themselves if needed on the way to or from their jobs. It would not prevent employers from banning guns inside the workplace.  This is once-again common sense legislation.

Trijicon ACOG

Word got out today that references to verses from the Holy Bible are being imprinted on Trijicon ACOGs and there seems to be a few people whose panties are getting in a wad over it.  First, the military has a right to pick and choose which hardware they use.  They may specify what is imprinted on that hardware but specifications come at a cost.

The problem is that a Trijicon ACOG, short for Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight, is a superb optic and it would be a shame if the military stopped using them over political correctness.

The first time I ever picked one up I was in awe.  The optics are crisp and light transmission is very good.  They are lightweight, compact, and durable.  If you’ve ever watched Fox News, they always use stock footage of Marines in Afghanistan using Trijicon ACOGS.  They use them for a reason.

The argument against them now is the so-called separation of church and state.  To be clear, the First Amendment states that “Congress shall not….”  A reference to Bible verse on a Rifle Scope is not Congress.  Additional arguments are that Bible verses will offend Muslim sensitivities.  My best response to that is, “too bad.”  The wadded panty people are afraid that it reaffirms the “Crusader” image. Too bad.

This is an issue for the military to work out with Trijicon.  For the sake of our troops, lets hope they don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

Recent news reports about an individual carrying a legal but uncommon looking handgun into Radnor Lake State Park raises questions about whether Tennessee’s handgun permit laws need to restrict handgun permit holders from carrying certain handguns based on their appearance.

The question of appearance is important because that is what the so-called assault weapon ban is based upon.  What is considered an assault weapon is based primarily upon aesthetics and not on function.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg knows a lot, and what he knows has helped bring him success on many levels. But when it comes to federal firearm laws and the Second Amendment, Bloomberg is either uninformed or intentionally deceptive.

The Georgetown County School Board will have major issues to consider when it meets next including the district’s concealed weapons ban.
The school district has attracted state’s Attorney General Henry McMaster’s attention regarding its ban of concealed weapons on all school property, which is more stringent than state law.
McMaster released an opinion in December that the district’s policy supersedes state law, which allows a concealed permit holder to have guns in a car while dropping off kids at school, or in a locked compartment in their vehicle in a school parking lot.

In general, Schools need to revisit their concealed weapons policies.  It’s no coincidence that shooters seek schools to spread their havoc.  It’s schools are gun free zones.  When was the last time a nutcase shot up a police station?  They know the they’d get a few shots off before they’d be shot themselves.   If you think we need more gun free zones, then consider putting a gun free zone placard on your front door.

The Second Amendment faces a decisive year in 2010. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has called for new semi automatic gun bans despite their decade long record of fraud and failure, and despite his own Justice Department’s failure to fully or even half heartedly prosecute federal firearm felonies.
Mr. Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have demonstrated their willingness to use cooked statistics to blame Mexico’s violent drug war on Americans and their Second Amendment rights.
Anti gun leaders in Congress have introduced bills to ban guns, license gun owners, register guns, tax bullets, serialize ammunition, shut down gun shows and a hundred other schemes. They’re still there, proposing every nonsensical gun law they can imagine that only affect law abiding citizens, while criminals go about their evil business unfettered.
Meanwhile at the United Nations, global citizen disarmament nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and freedom fearing dictatorships worldwide maneuver to impose their will on you through international treaties. But it is a new year.
And, in a very crucial way, 2010 may be a year unlike any other in American history when the Second Amendment could, finally and truly, be recognized as a right for all Americans.

So if you feel you have the right to defend yourself, then you have to defend your right.

It’s been dubbed the “make my day” bill, after the oft quoted line from a Clint Eastwood movie.
State Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial prefers to talk about the “castle doctrine” and about Nebraskans being able to defend themselves without fear of prosecution or lawsuits.
If someone is breaking into your home, he argues, you shouldn’t have to wonder whether the law thinks you are justified in shooting that person.

We might add that not only are you justified in shooting that person, you have an obligation to your fellow citizens to stop that person one way or the other.  Not stopping the person puts yourself and other in future danger from that very same criminal.

Sportsmen and women from all across New York state want to start the new year by sending a message to Albany, and they are going to deliver it themselves. They plan to descend on Albany on Jan. 12, where they will try to get the attention of the New York State Legislature. The message: They are willing to fight for their right to keep and bear arms as provided under the Second Amendment.

Georgia lawmakers will soon debate major changes to the state’s firearm laws. One proposal would allow licensed gun owners to carry their weapons almost anywhere including school zones, college campuses, churches, and parts of airports.
Supporters say that more gun owners licensed to carry concealed weapons would lower the crime rate.

A Roanoke man is suing city police over an altercation with officers that he said began as an argument about his permit to carry a concealed firearm.
Aaron A. Stevenson filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke alleging that his constitutional rights were violated during a May 6 traffic stop. He named two officers, Chief Joe Gaskins and the city as defendants.

A former commander in the Tennessee State Guard has lost an appeal to overturn his conviction for trying to provide his soldiers with homemade machine guns for possible use in defending the state.
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati threw the case out of court.
“Whatever the individual right to keep and bear arms might entail, it does not authorize an unlicensed individual to possess unregistered machine guns for personal use,” said the three-judge panel of the Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals.

While other industries have suffered massive losses during recession ravaged 2009, the firearms business seems to have had one of its best years in recent memory.
Concerns about personal safety in a crippled economy and worries that Washington, D.C. democrats would limit firearms sales prompted a gun buying frenzy this year, local and national industry insiders say.

With just two days left in the year, according to preliminary numbers from the police department, the District has had 138 homicides compared with 184 at the same time last year, setting up the city to record the lowest number of homicides since 1964, when 132 were reported killed.

A state legislator from Norman says Oklahomans should be able to buy guns a few days each year without paying taxes on them.
State Sen. John Sparks, a Democrat, is proposing legislation that he says would set up a “Second Amendment Weekend.” If fellow lawmakers approve the measure and becomes law, all rifles, handguns and shotguns would be tax free on a few days a year.

Georgia lawmakers could consider vast changes to the state’s firearm laws, including a push to allow gun owners with permits to carry their concealed weapons at a range of new areas, from churches to school zones to college campuses.

California regulators have approved far fewer semi automatic pistols for sale in the wake of a state law that required new safety devices in 2006 and 2007.
Now, with a new bullet stamping law scheduled to take effect in 2010, the gun industry predicts it will introduce even fewer new models in California rather than install a device necessary to trace individual casings to a statewide database.