The Body Snatchers

Everyone who's anyone knows I prefer metal guns over plastic.
Everyone who's anyone knows I prefer .45ACP over 9mm.
Everyone who's anyone knows I prefer single action over double action/striker fired.
Everyone who's anyone knows I prefer on-body carry vs purse-carry.

That being said...
Here's my new concealing purse, housing my 9mm striker fired full sized M&P.

Keith Morgan's got it right.

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O'Reilly is WRONG

You can not purchase a Class III firearm without paperwork.
He's wrong, and arrogant about it.
Trust me, if there was no tax stamp and subsequent waiving of any warrant-searches, I'd be the first one in line for a full auto, a suppressor, and an SBR shotgun!!
Here's the fail, see for yourself;

10 Things you should know about licensed gun owners

1. We don't carry firearms so that we can ignore other basics of personal safety. Every permit holder that I know realizes that almost all dangerous situations can be avoided by vigilance, alertness and by simply making wise choices about where one goes and what one does. We don't walk down dark alleys. We lock our cars. We don't get intoxicated in public or hang out around people who do. We park our cars in well lighted spots and don't hang out in bad parts of town where we have no business. A gun is our last resort, not our first.

2. We don't think we are cops, spies, or superheroes. We aren't hoping that somebody tries to rob the convenience store while we are there so we can shoot a criminal. We don't take it upon ourselves to get involved in situations that are better handled by a 911 call or by simply standing by and being a good witness. We don't believe our guns give us any authority over our fellow citizens. We also aren't here to be your unpaid volunteer bodyguard. We'll be glad to tell you where we trained and point you to some good gun shops if you feel you want to take this kind of responsibility for your personal safety. Except for extraordinary circumstances your business is your business, don't expect us to help you out of situations you could have avoided.

3. We are LESS likely, not more likely, to be involved in fights or "rage" incidents than the general public. We recognize, better than many unarmed citizens, that we are responsible for our actions. We take the responsibility of carrying a firearm very seriously. We know that loss of temper, getting into fights or angrily confronting someone after a traffic incident could easily escalate into a dangerous situation. We are more likely to go out of our way to avoid these situations. We don't pull our guns to settle arguments or to attempt to threaten people into doing what we want.

4. We are responsible gun owners. We secure our firearms so that children and other unauthorized people cannot access them. Most of us have invested in safes, cases and lock boxes as well as other security measures to keep our firearms secure. Many of us belong to various organizations that promote firearms safety and ownership.

5. Guns are not unsafe or unpredictable. Modern firearms are well made precision instruments. Pieces do not simply break off causing them to fire. A hot day will not set them off. Most modern firearms will not discharge even if dropped. There is no reason to be afraid of a gun simply lying on a table or in a holster. It is not going to discharge on its own.

6. We do not believe in the concept of "accidental discharges". There are no accidental discharges only negligent discharges or intentional discharges. We take responsibility for our actions and have learned how to safely handle firearms. Any case you have ever heard of about a gun "going off" was the result of negligence on somebody's part. Our recognition of our responsibility and familiarity with firearms makes us among the safest firearms owners in America.

7. Permit holders do their best to keep our concealed weapons exactly that: concealed. However, there are times with an observant fellow citizen may spot our firearm or the print of our firearm under our clothes. We are very cognizant that concerns about terrorism and crime are in the forefront of the minds of most citizens. We also realize that our society does much to condition our fellow citizens to have sometimes irrational fears about firearms. We would encourage citizens who do happen to spot someone carrying a firearm to use good judgment and clear thinking if they feel to need to take action. Please recognize that it's very uncommon for a criminal to use a holster. However, if you feel the need to report having spotted a firearm we would ask that you please be specific and detailed in your call to the police or in your report to a store manager or private security. Please don't generalize or sensationalize what you observed. Comments like "there's a guy running around in the store with a gun" or even simply "I saw a man with a gun in the store" could possibly cause a misunderstanding as to the true nature of the incident.

8. The fact that we carry a firearm to any given place does not mean that we believe that place to be inherently unsafe. If we believe a place to be unsafe, most of us would avoid that place all together if possible. However, we recognize that trouble could occur at any place and at any time. Criminals do not observe "gun free zones". If trouble does come, we do not want the only armed persons to be perpetrators. Therefore, we don't usually make a determination about whether or not to carry at any given time based on "how safe" we think a location is.

9. Concealed weapon permit holders are an asset to the public in times of trouble. The fact that most permit holders have the good judgment to stay out of situations better handled by a 911 call or by simply being a careful and vigilant witness does not mean that we would fail to act in situations where the use of deadly force is appropriate to save lives. Review of high profile public shooting incidents shows that when killers are confronted by armed resistance they tend to either break off the attack and flee or choose to end their own life. Lives are saved when resistance engages a violent criminal. Lives are lost when the criminal can do as he pleases.

10. The fact that criminals know that some of the population may be armed at any given time helps to deter violence against all citizens. Permit holders don't believe that every person should necessarily be armed. We recognize that some people may not be temperamentally suited to carry a firearm or simply may wish not to for personal reasons. However we do encourage you to respect our right to arm ourselves. Even if you choose not to carry a firearm yourself please oppose measures to limit the ability of law abiding citizens to be armed. As mentioned before: criminals do not observe "gun free zones". Help by not supporting laws that require citizens to be unarmed victims.

They're Getting Someone Locked Up

Man, the media makes me mad.
Today, some new laws for my state go into effect, one being that not only can you carry a loaded handgun on your person on your own private property (like always) now you can ALSO carry a loaded handgun on private property belonging to someone else, as long as you have permission of the owner. In addition, you no longer need a license to transport a handgun (provided it's unloaded and enclosed in a non-easily accessed place).
Up until this point, if you bought a handgun you could transport it (unloaded and cased) from the place you purchased it to your home or to and from a place of repair. But that's it.
Many gun owners who live in places where they don't have land to go shooting on were forced to pay for a license just to transport to a shooting range or to an NRA class or training.
This law makes it possible for people to participate in safety classes or just go plinking without paying a fee to the local police and to the state.
However, the Media is spinning it all wrong!! I can't tell you how many people have come into where I work and said that now anybody can carry without a license...because they heard it on the news! NOT TRUE!
If you do not have a license, you MUST have the handgun UNLOADED, CASED, and NOT easily accessed. You may load it when you get to the range, or to someone's private property (with their permission), but when you get ready to head home...UNLOAD it. CASE it. Put it where it's not easily accessed!
News anchors, journalists, editors of papers, and a host of other media types are irresponsibly reporting FALSE information and the well meaning law abiding gun owners are going to suffer! I'm not one that cries "Sue! Sue!", but in the case of someone going to jail, losing their guns, and creating a hardship on their families, I hope it will be possible to play back the broadcasts and place blame where it's due.
Be safe, Hoosiers. Check it out for yourselves here.

Dress The Part

I'm not really a good "shopper". I like to help MiniMe pick stuff out for special occasions and I like to buy gifts for others...but to shop for myself - bleh.

I've found that the only "shopping" I really enjoy is when I'm in a gun store or attending a gun show. If it's related to that, it becomes fun. Otherwise, "meh".

However...the spousal unit took me shopping today to add things to my wardrobe that help me dress around my carry gun. AWESOME. I usually hate to try things on and when I have to, it's a flurry of "pull it on, check the mirror, peel it off and go". Things get tossed into a "get it" pile or a "put it back" pile. No such thing as a "maybe" pile. I either like it or don't at first glance. Usually, it's mostly "don't".

Today was different. I LIKED trying on different things and seeing how things draped over my carry gun to conceal it. I tried some things on twice, just because I wanted to see it again. Usually, I'll come home with *maybe* one thing...today, I ended up with over a dozen. YAY!

Christmas on Valentine's...almost

There were two things I asked for as Christmas gifts.
One was a real gun belt and one was a new holster.
The gun belt shipped sometime in early January.


The holster had a 4-6 week turnaround time.
At 7 weeks, I got antsy and contacted the company.
I waited and waited.
Then yesterday, I found something at my door...
a package of some sort;


Hmm...what could be in there?
Huh...just a bunch of paper??


Well, what do you know! It's a Texas Strong Side holster!
Straight from Kirkpatrick Leather in Laredo, Tx!


I like the belt slots because one is directly behind instead of
one being on each end (opposite each other).
The slant of one and the non-slant of the other creates great stability (and a cant).


It's really super tight and needs broken in with a few tricks,
like the plastic bag over your gun and into the holster one...
The belt slots were also WAY tight for trying to pass my gun belt through.
In fact, when I had to go pick up MiniMe from her boyfriend's house, I was running about ten minutes late.
I said to her; "How many girls get an extra ten minutes with their boyfriend because their mom is having new holster issues?" HA.

The Test Drive:

Daz fo'evah baybay!!

YESSS!!!
My lifetime permit just came in the mail today!
WOOT!!
I'm feelin' pink. :D
In case you don't know what they look like in this state
(except lifetime ones don't have an expiration date):

Now off to make a zillion copies or eight...sign them...and get those suckers laminated!
One in each vehicle, one for my wallet, one in the gun cabinet, one for the range bag, one in the fire safe...
I'm so stoked.
WOOT!!

I'm gonna need you to step over here...

Earlier tonight I went to the grocery store and the spousal unit decided to come along. While we were there, it started pouring down rain and was still raining when we were finished and ready to leave. We exited the store and were in a little foyer area that's the entrance/exit between two sets of double automatic doors. The mister said since it was raining, he'd go run out and get the van and bring it up to the door. Nice.
So while I'm waiting, a kindly older lady with a pink umbrella struck up a conversation with me and told me she was waiting for the rain to lighten up so she could "make a break for it" (which might have been worth sticking around to see...)
Anyhow...
I'm standing their making small talk with her and as always, I'm sort of conscious that my gun is on my hip and just give a tug on my cover shirt discreetly to make sure no fabric is hung up on the grip making me print.
She starts telling me that it always seems to rain on fair weekend (and today was the last day of our fair)...she stopped mid-sentence and got really wide eyed looking just past my shoulder.
That's when I heard: "I'm gonna need you to step over here..."
I froze for a second and fifty things went through my head in every direction.
Then I heard "Right now. Step over here, please" and a tap on my shoulder.
Holy Crap.
After reading conversations about people being put on the ground by cops until they're satisfied they've sorted out whatever problem they think they're encountering...I was worried!
I turned my head to see...and a rent-a-cop (who just bumped my shoulder) said "Sorry, Ma'am." and turned back to a group of 20-something-year-olds and said, "Gentlemen, right now, over there. Move."
That's when the hubster pulled up to the door and I couldn't stick around to find out what all the hub-bub was about...and kinda didn't really want to!
So anyhow...that was my mild coronary of the year.
Next coronary: MiniMe drives. :p

The WAIT is killin' me!!

Apply for lifetime permit. Check.
Get fingerprinted again. Check.
Give money to the local P.D. Check.
Send money to the state. Check.
Fill out two forms and sign/initial. Check.
Get lifetime permit in the mail...

I said, "Get lifetime permit in the mail"...

Anyone?... Anyone?...Bueller...?
Arrgh!!

Antis will "use it or lose it"

Last week in West Lafayette, a couple of guys who were drinking decided to "scare" a friend with a prank involving guns. I guess you can see where this is going...
The two guys pulled guns and of course, one of the "unloaded" pistols "went off". The victim of the prank was hit in the neck, and died later from the wound. Gun pranks are never "funny" and this one has not only devastated three families (the deceased's and the two families of the guys going to jail), it's also thrown gas on the fire for anti-gun advocates to keep self defense tools out of the hands of law abiding citizens in the name of "campus safety"...even though it did NOT happen on Purdue's campus and the two with guns were NOT students.
Here are a couple of direct quotes from the news article: "University police are using the shooting as evidence to keep guns off campus" and "This is just another example of why mixing guns on a college campus is just not a good idea." ...again, this did NOT happen on a college campus and the two men who were handling the firearms in an unsafe manner were NOT even students.
There ya go antis... a freebie.
Just remember:

Misinformation and Race Baiting

First the original video in which a semi-auto (AR 15) is called a "machine gun".
Folks, there's nothing fully automatic about an AR.
Let's also point out that the nomenclature "assault weapon" is completely wrong.
It's just like the word "racism"...it's tossed about, but no one accurately defines what it is.


Next, the wonderful job of editing out the black guy, making the event seem racially motivated (cutting to the picture of a white guy) and making the statement: "here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped on them."
Yeah...that's not race baiting, MSNBC. Losers.

William Kostric - Patriot

On the heels of this story comes the Hardball interview and the follow up YouTube interview. This guy is obviously not a public speaker, but he made his points well and held his own with the likes of Chris Matthews. Kudos to him for being a Patriot.

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"I'm not advocating violence, I'm advocating an informed society, an armed society, a polite society." ~Kostric

Senate Vote Today

Today there's a vote on the issue of letting people with permits carry their personal protection firearm into other states (with the stipulation of following the other state's laws). It is so unfairly presented to the public by the media, it makes me nauseous. No mention whatsoever about all the innocent lives saved everyday by permit holders, but you can bet they grandstanded the "at least seven police officers and 44 private citizens during a two-year period were killed by permit holders"!

I'm hesitant to even link the article from Yahoo News because the accompanying video is so full of misinformation it's not even funny.

At one point, there are a couple people quoted who are "sharing their pain" over having lost family members to gun violence. I don't begrudge them their grief, but I do think that two things are grossly misrepresented:
One being that they most likely lost their kids to ILLEGAL activity and criminals ILLEGALLY possessing guns.
The other being that the gun did not pull its own trigger nor aim its own muzzle at those people.

The man in the video states that "it can't be the right thing to do without people having a background check"...funny - I don't recall ANY state handing out permits without a background check!

The reporter then states that basically having this vote go in favor of carrying across state lines would only put more cops at risk!
She needs to talk to Allen County's sheriff, Ken Fries. He appeals to the public at large to seek training, pursue getting their license to carry, and to actively protect themselves since he knows cops can't be everywhere all the time. He also says that he believes trained/armed citizens are the cops' best defense line in a bad situation.

This New York senator (Chuck Schumer) has no realistic idea of what decent permit holders are like. He's making remarks about permit holders possibly coming into N.Y. with backpacks full of guns even if they are members of gangs like the Crypts or Bloods...and they are worried because alcohol abusers or people with misdemeanor convictions could carry guns there. I wonder if they know there are some of those people behind the wheel of potentially deadly vehicles when they might be walking across a street...

They also say that this carry law would make it easier for illegal gun traffickers to walk the streets. Uh...HOW?? Last time I checked, people who engage in "illegal gun activity" aren't really all that concerned about PERMITS. In fact, they aren't really concerned about laws in general!

I also found this quote funny: "Any city with MULTIPLE handguns in it is particularly problematic."
Wow...my house is particularly problematic then - For the BAD GUYS.

OK, enough of me kvetching...here's the link so you can judge for yourself.

Woot @ MT!!

UPDATED!
Today, Montana has signed into power a revolutionary law.
Montana now has a law defying the reach of the federal government pertaining to firearms!
If it’s manufactured in Montana for sale and use inside Montana, the federal laws have no applicability since they can only control commerce across state lines.
Our government fears an armed citizenry and will try every back door and loophole they can think of to confiscate every piece they can get their hands on.
Good job, Montana!! We’re on YOUR side!!
UPDATE:
Looks like Utah might follow suit to protect State's Rights.
Awesome.
UPDATE #2 Now Tennessee!

A Special Day For Americans

Yesterday, I searched for an appropriate way to mark the passing of an historic day. A day which brings us one step closer to the Socialism that my country has voted for and one step closer to banning the guns that I bitterly cling to.
I celebrated by going to the gun store and purchasing some boom bling for Ms.Kimber.
Mmm...her favorite: MagTech in 45ACP


If we've learned nothing else from the passing of the past several months, we've learned that if "some" is good, then "more" is better. Right?
Moar


Well that's all fine and dandy, but the day was all about accepting diversity, right?
I tossed in some Remington.


I still didn't feel that my idea was quite living up to the concept or intent of the day. I searched my mind for what it could be that I was leaving out...
I had already covered "more is better than some", and I threw "diversity" in there...but what was missing? What did the day end up really being about in the eyes of not just our country, but the world? Ah, yes! Color! I needed color.
Thank my friends from the Czech Republic, Sellier & Bellot.
Here's some:


You should have learned better than to leave it at that, by now. So here's MOAR!


God bless all you bitter clingers.
Hope you celebrated your day accordingly.
~Annie

Second Amendment

Shall not be infringed...

Backing Down

From the Indiana Gun Owners’ forum (linked on the left as “Hoosier Shooters”), member “Full-Auto” had this info to share and didn’t mind me replicating it here. Thanks, Full-Auto!

Within hours of obtaining the status of "President-Elect", this appeared on Obama's site:

Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.

The NRA news letter:

"Yes We Can . . . Ban Guns"--Obama Announces Gun Ban Agenda Before The Final Vote Count Is In

Friday, November 07, 2008

Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit." After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby--four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business:

"Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent." Perhaps no other firearm issue has been more dishonestly portrayed by gun prohibitionists. Notwithstanding their predictions that the ban's expiration in 2004 would bring about the end of civilization, for the last four years the nation's murder rate has been lower than anytime since the mid-1960s. Studies for Congress, the Congressional Research Service, the National Institute of Justice, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found no evidence that gun prohibition or gun control reduces crime. Guns that were affected by the ban are used in only a tiny fraction of violent crime-about 35 times as many people are murdered without any sort of firearm (knives, bare hands, etc.), as with "assault weapons." Obama says that "assault weapons" are machine guns that "belong on foreign battlefields," but that is a lie; the guns are only semi-automatic, and they are not used by a military force anywhere on the planet.

"Repeal the Tiahrt Amendment." The amendment--endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police--prohibits the release of federal firearm tracing information to anyone other than a law enforcement agency conducting a bona fide criminal investigation. Anti-gun activists oppose the restriction, because it prevents them from obtaining tracing information and using it in frivolous lawsuits against law-abiding firearm manufacturers. Their lawsuits seek to obtain huge financial judgments against firearm manufacturers when a criminal uses a gun to inflict harm, even though the manufacturers have complied with all applicable laws.

"Closing the gun show loophole." There is no "loophole." Under federal law, a firearm dealer must conduct a background check on anyone to whom he sells a gun, regardless of where the sale takes place. A person who is not a dealer may sell a gun from his personal collection without conducting a check. Gun prohibitionists claim that many criminals obtain guns from gun shows, though the most recent federal survey of convicted felons put the figure at only 0.7 percent. They also claim that non-dealers should be required to conduct checks when selling guns at shows, but the legislation they support goes far beyond imposing that lone requirement. In fact, anti-gun members of Congress voted against that limited measure, holding out for a broader bill intended to drive shows out of business.

"Making guns in this country childproof." "Childproof" is a codeword for a variety of schemes designed to prevent the sale of firearms by imposing impossible or highly expensive design requirements, such as biometric shooter-identification systems. While no one opposes keeping children safe, the fact is that accidental firearm-related deaths among children have decreased 86 percent since 1975, even as the numbers of children and guns have risen dramatically. Today, the chances of a child being killed in a firearm accident are less than one in a million.

Then Full-Auto observed the following page and captured a screen shot for us:


"NEWS FLASH: Obama's team has removed the entire page from their site. It would seem an NRA email alert was sent out roughly at the same time and pointed their members to the same page. In response, Obama's cronies removed the page.
That's honesty for you people... We're in some deeeeeeeep excrement." ~Full-Auto.

Election Day

We got up early this morning because the spousal unit had to vote before work since he wouldn't be back in town until after the polls closed.
We drove to the building being used for our district and arrived about 15 minutes after the doors opened. The parking lot was packed. Both sides of the street were lined with parked cars as far as we could see in the dark. We figured we'd have a solid two hours to wait, but the long lines moved a little faster than we thought.
It took just under an hour and the time passed quickly because we pretty much chatted it up with people we knew (it's a really small community).
There was a guy checking photo I.D.s in line making sure people weren't waiting the whole time just to be turned away for being in the wrong district or forgetting their I.D.. I enjoyed (very much) flipping my wallet open sharply in his face and announcing "FBI". No, I'm not FBI...
When I got as far as the table where you have to sign in, they were talking about the fact that the school used to be the polling place for our district and I recounted my first time voting there...there was a security camera RIGHT OVER THE VOTING MACHINE!! I was ticked. Apparently, the school officials said there was no way to turn off the cameras. That really peeved me. I was interviewed on the news about it and the whole nine yards. I wanted to say "Secret ballot, my butt", but I didn't. :p
So anyway...this year, I had completely made up my mind to NOT vote McCain or Obama. As far as my understanding, McCain is a socialist disguised as a republican and Obama is a Marxist disguised as a democrat. I could not in good conscience vote for either of them. I was, in fact, a Ron Paul supporter. But he's not on the ballot and I'm just not keen on Barr.
I came to the realization that voting for a third party or abstaining from voting would really not be in my best interests as far as my Second (and now First) Amendment rights are concerned. One candidate is vehemently opposed to my freedom and his running mate is even more rabid about it. The other candidate has voted on both sides of the fence, but his running mate is a staunch believer in individual rights and freedoms and that's about as close as I can get to someone on any ticket who represents my ideals. My vote was cast not so much in support of one...but more in opposition of the other. I am happy with how I've chosen to vote. It was a hard won decision and I hope in the end it matters. It mattered to me.
My voting place isn't at a school any longer, so I was within my legal right to carry while I voted. Which I did. Principle of the matter and symbolic of my personal stance and all that jazz.
Mz.Kimber1911 votes to stay on my hip!
I pushed the big red "Cast Ballot" button in favor of that.