Cops are lured to a location for an ambush. We are supposed to pretend that the shooter’s name doesn’t matter. Salman Mohamed, indeed.
Guns
Shield Plus
Walked into the local gun store today, and look what followed me home.
Yes, a Performance Center Shield Plus, complete with Crimson Trace microdot sight. I bought it because this gun is VERY difficult to find. So, I get to type a new gun review.
If you don’t want to read this entire post, just know this: Smith and Wesson hit a home run with this handgun. It may very well be the ultimate concealed carry handgun.
A size comparison between the Shield (bottom), the Shield Plus (middle), and the M&P9c (top) shows you that the Plus is the same length as the 9c, and the same height as the Shield. They are all roughly the same thickness. (picture edited to cover serial numbers. Also note that the cover is on the microdot in this picture)
The Shield plus comes with 2 magazines: A 13 round extended one, and a flush fitting 10 round magazine. Note that the Plus also has the flat face trigger, which is smooth and has a nice, crisp break. It is comparable to the Apex trigger that I installed on the 9c.
This particular model came with a ported barrel and slide:
The slide is also cut for the microdot sight (which the gunsmith at the LGS installed for me before I left the store) and comes with dual color fiber optic sights. (sorry camera on phone won’t focus on front, rear, and red dot at the same time.)
I took it to the range in the store, and got the red dot dialed in. Then I put a mag through the ten ring as quick as I could line up the red dot on the target. The fact that this small handgun is ported seemed to make the muzzle flip easier to control and get the sights back on target.
The standard Shield Plus was in the store for $550. They had another Performance Center Shield Plus in the store for $845, but that one didn’t have the ported slide, and this one was $925. That $925 included the handgun, 2 magazines, a cleaning kit, and all of the other little fiddly bits like Allen wrenches for adjusting the sight, mounting screws, the gun lock, etc.
The only negative thing that I have to say about this handgun is that the magazines are not compatible with any other M&P magazines, and extra magazines are impossible to find anywhere. The LGS didn’t have any, Gunmagwarehouse doesn’t have any, nor does Brownell’s. Even Smith and Wesson’s website doesn’t list any magazines for this handgun.
In fact, the list of places that DON’T have the magazines for this pistol is extensive. The two that come with the pistol are all you will have for the foreseeable future. I would advise against buying one of these until magazine availability improves, because with a possible standard capacity magazine ban on the horizon, you may be stuck with an expensive paperweight in the near future. Buying one at this time represents a risk.
Silence the opposition
Silence opposing opinions
Last week, I posted that a local TV station was censoring my comments. Here are some more of my comments that were censored in the past few days, with the station claiming that my comments violated community standards:
On people being required to wear masks, even after being vaccinated:
If you still need to wear a mask after being vaccinated, the vaccine is useless.
On businesses who can’t get employees because people would rather collect unemployment:
Community standards seem to include any opinion that doesn’t conform to the Democrat party line.
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Some of you can’t take a hint
I tried to send a hint to my readers yesterday, but some of you apparently can’t take a hint. At least one person who has been commenting on this blog has an IP address that comes back to a law enforcement agency. Another comes back to a prosecutor’s office. At least one of them has been attempting to incite others into saying something stupid.
Don’t get yourself into trouble. Remember that there are plenty of agents out there who would love to make a name for themselves. Watch what you say.
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Not at all suspicious
The Swiss have been the go between for US/Iran talks for decades. A senior staffer for the Swiss embassy is found dead of cement poisoning after falling from her high rise apartment.
I wonder if she was the Chief of Station for the Swiss version of the CIA. The shit show that has been taking place since 2019 sounds like someone trying to write Tom Clancy novel fanfic with a shitty, unbelievable plot.
Seriously- Chinese bio weapons, Communists demanding that the police be eliminated, a rigged election, rockets crashing out of space, and now “diplomats” being killed in the midst of intrigue involving Iran getting nuclear weapons. What next?
Guns
Why are they buying?
Americans continue their record pace of firearm buying. In April, sales of firearms were up even though handgun sales were down. This means that the difference was long guns. The exact guns Biden is claiming he wants to ban.
I am sure that every one of the 2 million firearms sold last month will be turned in once a ban goes into effect.
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Of course
It turns out that a juror in the Chauvin case attended a BLM protest while wearing a shirt reading “Get your knees off our necks”
The MSM says this had no effect on the verdict, or his suitability for being on the jury.
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How to spot the FBI informant
Q: “How do you spot the FBI informant?”
A: “He’s the one encouraging the group to do something illegal.”
Be careful.
Me
Obligation
My 20 year old nephew, who I have written about in the past, still lives with his parents. He talked my brother into letting his 17 year old girlfriend (who is still attending high school) live in the house with them. She announced last month that she is pregnant. They have no plans on getting married, but do intend to continue living with my brother.
My nephew has no job, his pregnant girlfriend is still in high school, and is living in my brother’s house.
They had themselves a gender reveal party. Her family was there, and I got to meet them for the first time. A hint to what kind of people they are was to be found in front of my brother’s house. This is a picture of the rear window of one of their cars.
Yes, the girlfriend’s brother is a full on Antifa member. They all have “medical marijuana” cards (nephew, and pregnant girlfriend’s family) and retreated to the back yard to smoke up.
Let’s just say that I did not exactly enjoy the afternoon.
Duty, Honor, Sacrifice
Patience
Skeptic comments on my last post:
Oh, spare me all the guns bullshit. Guns are worthless without the will to fire them, and if anything has been proven in the last year it’s that those vaunted gun owners don’t have the will to fire. We already have tyranny and nary a shot has been fired. They will usher the rest of the cattle cars before getting on themselves.
I read the best explanation on what that is, just this morning. It came from a comment to this article, and reads like this:
The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone.’ They try, so very hard to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know the moment they fight back, the lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’ are forced to fight back, it is a small form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be.
Perhaps the Declaration of Independence said it even better:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Remember that the founders of this nation endured the abuses of the King for decades.
- 1763: The Grenville Acts (taxation without representation) were passed
- 1765: The Stamp Act, the Virginia Resolution, and the Quartering Act were all passed.
- 1766: Parliament rescinds the Stamp Act, but then passes the Declaratory Act, and subsequently disbands the New York Legislature.
and so on. This went on until 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed. It took 14 years of increasing hostilities, ever more despotic action, and escalating violence for the war to start.
The reason it took so long was as stated above: As soon as a revolution begins, the way of life that existed before is over. No matter what happens, all that you knew before is over. People aren’t ready to throw all of that away lightly.
This is where patience and perseverance are important. There is a time to let things play out, and this is it.