From yesterday’s Indiana Senate Hearings on Senate Bill 25, Senator Wyss (an anti-gun Senator) said he was voting against the bill (one of the few) and that he figured he’d be hearing from NRA on it.
Senator Johnny Nugent, an NRA board member and author of SB 25 got up and said “You won’t be hearing from NRA, because NRA has already written you off.”
ZING!
Do you have a self defense plan? If you’re walking with your spouse/significant other and you’re accosted, do you have a plan for what to do? If you don’t, I’ll share my plan with you. It’s pretty simple, and easily adapted to multiple situations. One caveat is that this particular plan assumes I’m with my wife and not out by myself.
This is my favorite option. “You always win the fight that never happens”. But what if running away isn’t an option? What if there are multiple attackers and one of them is blocking your retreat?
Any time the situation turns to violence, we’ve reached “undesireable options”. However, sometimes violence is inescapable, so it’s best to have a plan on when and how you plan on resorting to force. Of course, sometimes you can’t retreat at all, which leaves us to option 3.
Needless to say, that’s probably our least favorite option, because it doesn’t leave a whole lot of positive opportunities.
The point of all of this though isn’t so much to talk about my plan though, as it is to help people realize that “having a plan” doesn’t necessarily mean having a detailed, written out “I’ll do X, Y, and Z in the event of a deadly assault’. In fact, I personally prefer to keep my plan a bit more fluid specifically because a dynamic threat is just that – dynamic. Just as no two assaults are the same, your plan needs to be flexible enough to adapt to a situation that may not be exactly what you thought would happen.
If you’re even in a situation where you need to use your concealed firearm, your day has taken a pretty statistically unlikely turn – better to have some kind of a plan than nothing.
As I drove to the office today, the news guy was talking about El Presidente was convening some sort of “middle class crisis council” or some such to address how the “assualt on the middle class”.
I suppose that no one is more qualified than the President to address how to stop said assault…because he’s friggin’ responsible for it. You want to stop the erosion of the American dream? STOP TAKING SO MUCH OF MY MONEY.
The bill that would allow employees to store firearms in their personal vehicles has passed the Indiana Senate by a count of 41-9 votes!
We’re now off to the House, then (hopefully) My Man Mitch’s desk!
ToddG of Pistol Training.Com is coming to Indy to bring his excellent Aim Fast, Hit Fast class to Eagle Creek. Class is limited to 12 participants, and I know for a fact that it’s down at least to 11 slots…since I jumped on it with both feet when I saw it.
Todd recently appeared on the SHOT SHOW 2010 episode of Gun Nuts Radio, where he was kind enough to give us an insider’s look at the new guns from Smith & Wesson, HK, and Sig Sauer. If you get a chance to take a class from Todd regardless of where you are, I strongly encourage you to so do. Come October, I’ll have a front row seat and a report on the Aim Fast, Hit Fast Indianapolis class.
I picked up the pair of Smiths on Friday from my boys at Beech Grove Firearms. I have not yet had a chance to get these guns out to the range, and I’m saving most of my stuff about the Model 60 Pro Series for later. However, I wanted to give a first impression of the 686 SSR. This is a 6 shot L-frame with a 4 inch “slab sided” barrel. As part of Smith & Wesson’s Pro Series of guns, the 686 SSR comes from the factory with a number of enhancements not seen on standard 686 guns, including chamfered charge holes, trigger overtravel stop, interchangeable front sight, and probably best of all are the “Pro Series” grips.
I’m very glad that the front sight is interchangeable; I’ve never been a fan of the “red/orange ramp” style of front sight, and if I decided to keep this gun the first thing I’d do would be change it out for a patridge gold bead or a Cylinder & Slide fiber optic front. That’s not a criticism of the sight itself, it’s just a matter of my personal preference in sighting systems. The other features of the gun are pretty nice; especially the trigger. Out of the box, the trigger pull was smooth with only a bit of hesitation as the gun locked up fully. I’m not kidding when I say that this gun had a better factory trigger than the Performance Center 646 no-lock gun that I had.
Of course, this is just a first impression. I haven’t pulled the trigger over a live round yet, and that’s what will make all the difference. I’m very hopeful though – the grips which encourage a high hand hold and the decent factory trigger seem like they’ll combine to make this a very shootable gun. To wring it out I’m going to run myself through a couple iterations of the IDPA Classifier match. The 686 SSR was basically built from the ground up to compete in IDPA’s Stock Service Revolver division (hence SSR). The IDPA classifier gives opportunites to test the gun at shot range speed shooting, mid range shooting, and all the way out to long range (20 yard) shots.
Of course, it’s going to have to stop snowing first.
Seriously, it should be illegal for semis to pass each other when I’ve got places to be. I was driving back from L’ville in the rain yesterday, and while the Lexus was handling things quite nicely, the worst was when I’d have to come off the cruise control because some genius in a tractor trailer thought it’d be a good idea to pass some other genius in a tractor trailer at about 0.05 mph faster.
If you’re here for gun stuff, hold on for a second because I’m going to talk about sports for a second.
1. Go Colts. Fantastic game. Indianapolis showed again that they’re not just a classy team, but that they can beat the best defense in the NFL. And even sweeter that it was against a team that I loathe in the Jets.
2. Go Saints! Fellow Boilermaker and all around good guy Drew Brees finally gets to play on the biggest stage in pro sports.
I honestly don’t know which team I’m going to root for. If Peyton wins a second Super Bowl, he legitmately deserves to be in the coversation for the greatest QB of all time – possibly better than my childhood hero Joe Montana.
On the flip side, I’d love to see Drew Brees and the Saints win a Super Bowl. All the work that he and Shaun Peyton have put into that team is finally paying off.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled gun blogging.
Picked up the Model 60 Pro Series and the 686SSR Pro Series yesterday. The Model 60 is going to get written up for US Concealed Carry Magazine, part of that means it’s going to be my everyday carry gun for a while as the article gets written.
The 686SSR is also going to get written up here and there, but you’ll see that gun on Tuesday night’s episode of Gun Nuts Radio. I’ll grab some pictures of both guns this weekend, because I know that’s what you really want.