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A recent comment went like this:

3″ with 00 buck has 15 pieces of ,30 cal pellets. Unless said ner do well is right on top of you, figure at least 4-5 pieces will miss the target.

That isn’t how shotguns work. Consider the picture below:

Contrary to popular press, shotguns are not “street sweepers” and yes, you have to aim them. As you can see in the picture, every pellet hits within a 7 inch circle at 20 feet. It isn’t that you can’t miss with a shotgun, or that the shot spreads out at household distances.

It’s true that at longer ranges with lighter pellets that the pattern is wide- that’s why they are great for shooting fowl. The pattern on a cylinder bore shotgun with lightweight shot like BB is wide, and makes striking a small moving target easier than a single projectile. Again- see the above photo. Small pellets disperse faster, while larger pellets tend not to spread out as quickly.

The fact that heavy shot doesn’t spread much at short distances is what makes a shotgun such a great house defense gun- at the ranges typically found inside of a home, every shotshell sees the target getting hit with an ounce or more of fast moving lead. A 3 inch 12 gauge of 00 buck has a shot mass of about 500 grains, and it leaves the muzzle at about 1300 feet per second. That works out to 2700 foot pounds of energy. That’s roughly equivalent to being hit by 4 JHPs from a .357 magnum. Simultaneously.

Nothing zeros out an attacker’s blood pressure like a 7 inch wide wound channel through the middle of their chest cavity. There is a lot of important stuff within 4 inches of the center of a person’s chest, and poking 15 holes in that area means a high probability of multiple hits to important things like great vessels and ventricles of the heart.

At ranges from 6 to 20 feet, there aren’t many weapons that hit as hard as a 12 gauge. My 870 Wingmaster has a cylinder bore and can hold 7 two and three quarter inch shells. I also have a Chiappa nickel plated 12 gauge with a 3 inch chamber. It holds 5 of the hard hitting 3 inch shells. That’s a lot of serious self defense power that will put a hurting on even a drugged up intruder.

As an added bonus, it doesn’t look as scary as an AR and doesn’t come with the “evil looking black gun” label attached to it. If it ever is shown to a jury, they won’t get the “scary looking” image that an AR or a tactical shotgun will have.

No song has ever done what this one has done. The song Rich Men North of Richmond has debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 1. Without a record label, an unknown artist, and country music, to boot. Tell me that the people in this country haven’t had enough.

Even if you don’t like country, the song strikes a chord (no pun intended) with many.

A family- husband, wife, small child- sitting on their back porch saw a shirtless man in their back yard. When they shouted a challenge, they had to flee inside after he attempted to enter the house. The wife managed to snap a picture:

Seminole County deputies are hoping that someone in the public will identify who this is. I only wonder why the homeowner didn’t mark him for future identification. “Hello police? A guy just broke into my house. Do I know who he is? No, but if you just search the area for the guy with the sucking chest wound, that will be your guy.”

Note that he is inside of the screened porch, and his is looking right at the person taking the photo. This guy entered an occupied home in full knowledge that the residents were there. He didn’t care that the people were home- meaning that there is a high probability that he is there to hurt the occupants. There are those who say that you have insurance, so there is nothing in your home worth someone’s life.

My family is in my home, and they are worth more to me than you. My most difficult decision at this point will be choosing between my ready weapons:

• 3 inch 12 gauge shotgun loaded with 00 Buck
• AR15
• 9mm M&P

You break into my house, and you just signed your death warrant. The arriving cops will need a piece of chalk, a shop vac, and a mop.

Open carry is illegal in Florida, with certain exceptions. Any ideas?

Let’s take a look at the sentences being handed out or sought for the J6 riots:

• Joe Biggs of Daytona: 33 years
• Enrique Tarrio, of Miami 33 years
• Zachary Rehl 30 years
• Ethan Nordean 27 years
• Dominic Pezzola, 20 years
• Elmer Stewart Rhodes, 18 years

If the government wants to argue, as they have here, that this is terrorism, then what about Antifa and BLM? Why aren’t THEY being charged with terrorism for their riots and attacks on Federal officials? Instead, actual sitting members of Congress are providing them with bail money and legal defense.

The biggest mistake that the J6 protesters made was in thinking that the same rules would apply to them as applied to the Antifa/BLM crowd. If they were serious, the J6 protesters should have brought weapons at the beginning. If they were serious, they would have known that their actions would result in the loss of their lives- either rotting for decades in a Supermax prison, or dead there in the Capitol. Knowing then what they know now, would they have not participated, or would they have gone armed?

This is a cautionary tale to others, and the biggest reason why many don’t take action now. You either go in expecting your life to end, or you wait for reinforcements.

It’s been a couple of months since someone came on here to call me stupid. I guess I was due for one.

There was a nice discussion going on between myself, some other commenters, and Canadian Jim F Massey. Now I have a rule here about personal attacks, and this guy came here spouting stupid shit about how the police shouldn’t have to follow the law or the Constitution, if the person they were engaging with was accused of doing something like being a drug dealer, human trafficker, serial rapist, a child molester, or if there was a crackhouse in your neighbourhood. Especially if “some corrupt or overworked judge saw no reason to investigate or do anything about it.”

My response was that I don’t care about the integrity of the accused or what crime he is accused of, everyone’s Constitutional rights are to be respected. He replied that he was concerned that things would get personal. I replied that it wasn’t personal.

This is his response:

“I don’t care whether or not the man’s integrity is questionable….”

So that is your moral high ground, is it? If the man HAD been running a crack house, or a child sex op, or in the middle of his 14th serial murder – all of that should go down in the name of The Constitution, and the victims would have died for the good of society. Gotcha. Coincidentally, that is the exact mindset of our friends in Great Britain and here in Canada, where blatant killers hide behind the law instead of living in fear of it or being justly dealt with by it.

When the lynchings and vigilante justice starts – the Revolution is just around the corner.

I will leave this here, DM. You’re a good guy, and no doubt a patriot… but you don’t have the smarts for the discussion. No need for a reply, I will not be back this way again.

So NOW that you have engaged in personal attacks by calling me stupid, it’s personal.

Listen here, you fuckwit. How are rights working out for you assholes up in Canada? If all it takes for the police to be able to ignore your rights, is for them to claim you were doing something on the naughty list, how long will it take before everyone gets accused of running a crack house, then they come in and ignore everyone’s rights?

If the cops can just arrest people with no regards for their legal and Constitutional rights, how is that any different than a lynching?

This is one of the reasons why you can’t even protest in Canada without your bank accounts being frozen.

Let me remind everyone that there are rules for commenting here. Rules 2 and 3 are as follows:

• Deliberately posting statements that are aimed at insulting the blog owner (me) will get your comment tossed in the trash. Feel free to disagree with me, just don’t call names or impugn my character. If I wanted someone to purposely insult me, I don’t need to pay for a blog server, I can just go to my ex-wife’s house for free.
• Don’t deliberately insult others. No personal attacks. Feel free to attack ideas. Heap scorn on silly or illogical opinions, just don’t make it personal.

For that reason, I am banning him.

I was a witness to one of the most fucked up things that I have ever heard of a cop doing. I was there and saw it with my own two eyes. My wife doesn’t want me to blog details, because she is afraid of what the cops will do to me if they find out I am talking.

There were four witnesses to what happened. I filed a complaint with the supervisor, and he told us “The officer says that isn’t what happened. You must have misunderstood what you think you saw. It’s your word against his, so that’s where things stand.”

I’m gonna give it a week or two to calm down, then I will tell the story.

The reason for this post today is this: My wife is afraid of what the cops will do. How bad have things gotten in this country that ordinary, law abiding citizens are afraid of the police? My wife doesn’t watch the news. She knows little of current events. She says it’s depressing to watch stories about things you can’t change. So how did we get to the point where ordinary people are afraid of the cops?

There have been a few questions about how palm scanners work, and how this affects reliability. Let’s take a look at the technology, its strengths, and its weaknesses.

If you’ve ever had a pulse ox on your finger, you know that it is a system that allows a machine to determine how much oxygen is in your blood. Have you ever asked yourself how it works?

Hemoglobin in the human body is responsible for transporting oxygen. Deoxidized hemoglobin absorbs infrared light differently than does oxidized hemoglobin. The pulse ox shines two different frequencies of near infrared light through your skin, and measures how much of the different wavelengths gets absorbed, and uses this to calculate the ratio of oxidized to deoxidized hemoglobin in your blood. Palm scanners use the same technology to determine your identity.

Veins transport deoxygenated blood to the heart. Therefore hemoglobin present in vein blood is deoxidized. When the near-infrared light from the palm scanner is directed on a person’s palm, hemoglobin absorbs its rays. The veins’ capacity to reflect the light is reduced, and they appear like a black pattern on the image taken by the system. Then the system processes the image and compares the results with the data from the database.

Since the pattern of veins in the palm is unique to each person, this image is a very accurate way of verifying that the person who was just scanned is the same person who has been scanned in the past. All you have to do is verify a person’s identity at the same time that you scan their palm and place the image in the database. Future scans verify that the person scanned in the future is the same person who was scanned and identified in the past.

Strengths:

• Given the possibilities of modern technology, many biometric identifiers, like face or voice patterns, can easily become subject to forgery. Palm vein patterns are hidden inside the human’s body and are more difficult to capture without a person’s knowledge.
• Unlike the face, which is visible to anyone in a public place, palm vein patterns cannot be scanned from a distance without a person’s consent.
• The palm vein pattern is significantly bigger in size than those of the finger or iris. Consequently, the scan from it contains more data, which increases the accuracy of the identification.
• Unlike many other biometric parameters (face, fingerprints), palm vein patterns are not likely to change due to some unexpected circumstances over the course of a person’s life.
• The technique of identifying a person by their fingerprints has a number of serious disadvantages. Fingerprints are easily affected by external factors, like aging, disease, or the state of the skin on the hands. Palm vein patterns usually remain the same throughout the person’s life.
• The results of the measurement are not affected by the state of the hand’s surface: dirt, grease, and oil don’t affect the image because IR passes through these substances easily.
• Unlike retina scans, the risk of passing infections is lower because the system doesn’t require physical contact.

Weaknesses:

• Some health factors, such as fevers, can affect the quality of the image
• Companies aren’t always great about information security when storing their database, but this is true of all identification technologies

Palm scanners have been in use by the medical field for identification purposes for over a decade. Banks in Japan have been using it for even longer.