10 June 2012 Episode
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At the risk of being insensitive…”Hey Y’all! Hold my beer and watch this!”
Drunken teen killed by own ricocheted gunshot in southern Texas
Published June 13, 2012/NewsCore
MCALLEN, Texas – A drunk 17-year-old died in southern Texas after a bullet he shot at a butane tank ricocheted back and hit him in the head.
Israel Torres fired the shot with a semi-automatic handgun in the backyard of a home near McAllen, Texas, shortly before 11:30pm Monday night, The Monitor reported.
“It was just an accident under the influence of alcohol,” Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino said Tuesday.
Trevino said deputies found Torres’ father and his two sons had been drinking heavily prior to the incident.
“All three are pretty drunk when someone pulls a .380-caliber, semi-automatic [handgun] and shoots it into the backyard,” Trevino said. “The 17-year-old gets it and tells his girlfriend, ‘Here, look, pull the trigger.'”
When the teen’s girlfriend refused to handle the gun, Torres pulled out the gun’s clip and turned to a butane tank, the Monitor reported.
“He fires one time and shoots himself in the head,” Trevino said, adding that Torres’ family was living in the U.S. illegally.
Deputies are investigating whether the father bore any criminal responsibility in the death of his son.
McAllen is located 250 miles south of San Antonio, near the Mexican border.
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Army reverses ban on P-Mags
I guess the Army is actually listening to the troops for once. No Mags are perfect, but P-Mags are far better that most of the mags out there.
From Military.com…
“The Pentagon has clarified the Army’s stance on a recent safety message that effectively banned a certain high-performance, commercial M4 magazine, which means soldiers can keep using their PMAGs.
The confusion began when Army officials from the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command issued a message in April, declaring that the only government-issued aluminum magazines were authorized for use in the M4 and M16 rifles.”
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Intro to Defensive Shooting at Shiloh
For those of you who might have missed the announcement. Jason Berry and I will be holding a defensive shooting “intro” class this Tuesday at Shiloh. The fee for the class is only $40. This is not a basic “how to shoot” course. Shooters are expected to already know the core concepts of shooting so that we can concentrate on shooting under duress.
Specifically, we’re going to put you in a near worst case scenario and see your shooting is as up to par as you think it is. It’s amazing how hard it can be to hit something when you’ve already been in a fight before you could get to your gun. To make it easy, we won’t even use moving targets this time. Call Shiloh Shooting Center for details or to sign up at 281-444-8930.
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Guns Over Texas Radio Joins Texas Gun Talk!!!
We’ve got our very own section over there for fans to post and discuss all things that go bang. If you haven’t seen Texas Gun Talk before, please, check it out! Our section, appropriately enough, is called Guns Over Texas Radio Show.
-Gary