Sigh…Guess we’re just bound and determined to keep this country as polarized possible. Two articles, both chock full of people sticking their feet down their throats. Sorry for the language but, to all you motherfuckers who hate this country so much, please…GET THE FUCK OUT!!!! -Gary
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Just wanted to take quick second to wish all our fellow Americans, even the liberal ones, a happy 4th of July and thank all our veterans past and present for the sacrifices they and their families have made for this nation.
-Gary
During Sunday’s show (July 1), we mentioned an article by the Houston Chronicle discussing an apparent increase in the number of justified homicides in Texas. That article can be found here (http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Killings-deemed-justified-are-on-the-rise-in-Texas-3676412.php).
As is typical of the media, they sensationalize the facts and the “expert” opinions they cite are themselves, biased to the left. Here’s the real deal, in plain English. The Texas Legislature did not and never has intended to give anyone carte blanche to kill at will. The only person in Texas at any given time who has the “right” to kill another person is an executioner acting on a signed death warrant from the court. Everyone else had better be prepared to have their actions reviewed. If you read the law, it consistently requires that one’s actions be “reasonable.” Believe it or not; you, as the actor in any given case, don’t get to decide what is and isn’t reasonable. What is reasonable is decided, at the very least, by a local magistrate or grand jury based on evidence reported to them by the investigating officers. If you are true billed and formally indicted, a jury of your peers will be tasked with deciding if your actions are reasonable.
As we’ve recently seen in the Raul Rodriguez case, “Stand Your Ground” is NOT an automatic get out of jail free card to shoot anyone, anywhere you see fit. It’s true, you no longer have a “duty to retreat” but, that change assumes you didn’t go looking for a conflict or otherwise end up in a situation of your own making. The intent was to clarify one’s right to defend himself if he happened to find himself being attacked away from home. For example, how does one “safely” retreat if you’re at your office or place of business rather than your home when faced with a deadly threat? Or if you’re simply out making that late evening, ice cream and pickles, run for a mother to be when you’re accosted in the parking lot? A lot of folks will say run back to the store but, running isn’t necessarily an option for an elderly person or anyone with a disability let alone those of us lacking a “successful lifestyle body” (i.e. fat boys).
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Magazines, not clips, let’s get that straight here and now. Clips don’t typically have springs in them and more often than not, are used to feed the cylinders and magazines of revolvers and some rifles like the M1 Garand. Magazines for the purposes of this post are box-type feeding devices that are readily detachable from the gun.
We’ve recently been asked whether or not it’s harmful to keep magazines fully charged for extended periods of time. The short answer is generally no, it’s not harmful to the magazine or spring. That said, it’s not unheard of, over time, for a magazine spring to take a “set” such that it no longer forces the rounds up for feeding with the same authority as it might when new. Eventually, this happens slowly enough that it can and does interrupt the feeding cycle. There’s no set time limit or time period in which one can expect this to occur but when it does, it’s time to either replace the magazine spring or replace the magazine entirely.
As rule, pistol and rifle magazines are expendable items. They are meant to be used and eventually discarded. Smart shooters will individually mark their magazines so that problem units can be readily identified and segregated from those that are functioning properly. Feed lips and magazine bodies can get bent such that the magazine no longer falls freely from the gun when ejected or don’t positively hold and feed the top round. Some will choose to “fix” this by bending or pressing on the body and lips to restore function but, I’d rather relegate those magazines to my “training” group or discard them altogether.
Opinions on whether to discard or repair will vary but, under no circumstances should a problem magazine remain in frontline service while its function is in question. Replace it with a new magazine immediately if it’s a gun used for defense or duty. If your personal defense or duty gun has magazines that are so expensive that you can’t possibly consider divorcing yourself from one when it fails to function, you need to review your priorities and equipment choices. $120 magazines are just one reason that few if any serious shooters carry STI widebody pistols for defense or duty guns. We may play with them on weekends but, they aren’t typically carried on the street.
