Yet Another Woman With Her Finger On The Trigger...

...at an apparently inappropriate time. Once again, I post this image here only for firearms safety educational purposes because you should never put your finger on the trigger until ready to shoot (or so they say even though there are obvious exceptions but is this one of them).

Anyway, why else would I put a photo like this in a blog-post except for educational purposes. I surely cannot imagine any other reason!

All the best,
Glenn B

Affirmative Action And Race Baiting Hiring At Their Best...

...or should I say at the ultimate predicted outcome! Imagine, a firefighter to afraid to fight fires who refuse to do so and who has even disappeared during a three alarm blaze. No, he apparently did not vanish because he was engulfed in flames or under the debris of a collapsed building but allegedly because he essentially was to much of a sluggard to do the job and had gone AWOL. Such are the reported alleged claims against a NYFD rookie who has been nicknamed Tragic Johnson.

Members of the FDNY are reportedly afraid to get rid of him, according to the NY Post, because:

"But department members are afraid to openly complain or criticize Johnson, who is black, because he was hired under a court order to increase minority hiring in the FDNY."

In addition, it has been reported that it took him three tries to get through the firefighter's academy! And he still is supposedly not doing his job. If he was white, Asian, Hispanic or any other possible combination, I believe that the chances are he would have been fired at the end of the first academy try if it is true he flunked it.

More here.

All the best,
GB

He May Not Call Himself A Hero...

...but I would bet the guy he pulled out of the car thinks he is one. See the story here with video.

All the best,
Glenn B

 

The Mystery of The Man Under The Mattress...

...is currently being investigated by NYPD detectives and is being handled as a homicide. If indeed the man was murdered, I doubt the killer smart enough to get away with murder if only because he hid the body in a place where it was sure to be found. Hilton hotels just do not have mattresses as lumpy as that one must have been. More here but not much more because apparently police either have few clues or are keeping mum.

All the best,
GB
 

Scum...

...usually floats atop the surface of a pond, this type though has sunk lower than the low and is mired deep down in the much at the bottom of the cesspool. To solicit money as donations toward the fight against cancer, especially in the name of cancer that afflicts children, and then to give only a tiny fraction of the amount you collected, is about as low as you can go when it comes to con games in my opinion. See this.

All the best,
Glenn B

Wishful Thinking?

Keep On Wishing!

All the best,
GB

Tofu Recipe

I prefer red meat, heck any kind of meat, to that non-sebaceous pseudo-smegma.

All the best,
Glenn B

My Blogging Over The Next Few Work Weeks...

...will be limited to that which I can do in the evenings. I'll be working full time hours for at least a few weeks until my employer can replace someone who opted out of the job so to speak. So, that means  will not have any time for blogging during the days, except on weekends.

All the best,
Glenn B

Enough To Drive An Arse Man Nuts

The form is exceptional but the moving pattern could just about blind you to the near perfection of the form.



Photo source: http://thermonuclear-ramses.tumblr.com/post/27888594419

All the best,
GB

U.S. Law Enforcement Probably Has Enough Military Equipment To Last About 25-50 Years...

...so I have no clue as to what good President Obama's curbing military equipment being issued to  law enforcement (source) is going to do except maybe gain him some political points. Don't get me wrong, it is a small step in the right direction, I just truly believe that law enforcers, in general, need to be stripped of most every bit of military gear and equipment they have been issued with the exception of most of their personal protective body armor. They do not need machine guns (note I did not say submachine guns) , they do not need armored personnel carriers or armored assault vehicles, they do not need tracked vehicles that can destroy a house by knocking it down with an attached ram, they do not need 50 caliber rifles, they do not need drones, they do not need 90-95% of the militarized gear and equipment they now have. Military gear and equipment should be reserved solely for the military and steps should be taken to strip LE of what they have of it already and to turn them back into law enforcers, who serve and protect us and our Constitution, instead of becoming the right hand of tyrannical government.

All the best,
Glenn B 

Was Bob A Burglar Or Maybe A Confused Drunk...

...who walked into the wrong apartment through an unlocked door. It's been reported that a woman in New Haven, CT, called the police about someone who had broken into her apartment. She reportedly asked that someone who was in her hallway and received the reply "Bob" from the alleged burglar whom the police are now seeking. Bob then reportedly fled through a backdoor. The thing is, nothing was reported stolen. (Source.) 

It almost sounds to me as if a confused drunk, or maybe just an overly tired and confused person, walked into the wrong apartment through the open front door and then left hurriedly though the back door when he realized something to the effect of "hey, that wasn't my wife's voice"! Who knows, maybe he was a wannabe rapist, a cat burglar or a pyscho or maybe he was just dazed and confused and in the wrong place after a long night partying.

All the best,
Glenn B

ISIS Threatens Obama And Worshippers Of The Cross...

ISIS has specifically targeted Christians and the president of the United States for death at their hands(source.) While I think Obama the absolute worst president in my lifetime (close to or maybe the worst of them of all time) I would defend, with my life, the president of the United States of America if the need arose for me to do so. 

A miserable death to all ISIS goat fuckers could come none too soon as far as I am concerned.

All the best,
GB

I Was Never A Law Enforcement Buff...

...and throughout my 32 year plus LE career I did not collect all that much memorabilia. Yet, when I was going through a box in my garage today, I did find some patches and a few pins. They almost all bring back some good memories.  found a total of 8 LE patches and 9 pins. Four of the pins were given to me to commemorate my years of service in either the Customs Service or the federal government. I have 10, 20, 25 and 30 year pins. They are probably worth all of about $1.79 apiece (at most) monetarily but do have a small bit of meaning for me. The other four pins were all given to me by LEOs, from other agencies, with whom I worked on cases. I have one from DEA, another from the Secret Service (for a SS protective detail), another from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and the last one is from Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Investigation Division (I'll be damned if I can remember what case that was regarding). My favorite pin is the one I got along with a Commissioner's Unit Citation for my part in a major investigation in Texas.

The few patches I have are imaged below.

The Border Patrol patch is now over 32 years old and
may be as old as 36 depending on what year I got
 it between 1979 and 1983 when I was in the BP.

 

 

Once upon a time, I also had a Haitian Immigration patch but I have no idea what has become of it. After spending 30 days in Haiti and giving away numerous U.S. Customs patches and other memorabilia I was given a single patch that an Immigration officer had pinned to his uniform shirt. Had I been a collector, I imagine I would have traded instead of giving things away.

 

I also found a photo album of some photos from my days in the Border Patrol. Only a couple of shots of me and some of the borderline, some Mexican yutes I dealt with back then and some illegals. Oh yeah, there were a couple or few shots of the cattle feed lots near town. I sent that album to my great-grandfather who loved it.

 

I do have some other mementos from my service, a raid jacket or two from the Customs Service (I think I still have the one I wore the night and next day that I helped on the dig at the WTC), an expired official passport, an identity card from Haiti that ID's me as basically untouchable by Haitian LE while I was working there, and a plastic jar full of burned off and soot covered melted ammo from the Customs Range at 6 WTC (that was recovered right after 9/11). Then there are my certificates of achievement, firearms instructor certifications, award plaques and letters of commendation and such. All worthless, I guess except to me. I suppose someday, I'll pass them all to my son - he can use them as targets, burn them or cherish them as he chooses; I would hope for the latter.

 

There are some I never got that I would like to have gotten. I tried to get my cancelled credentials from my time flying as a Federal Air Marshal right after 9/11. They did not even give us volunteers a letter of appreciation (what a scumbag administration they had - at least at the time); I did get a letter of commendation, in fact two, for my service with the FAMs but those letters came from the Assistant Commissioner of Customs (I was a Customs Special Agent at the time). Out of the hundreds of agents in my office, I was the only one either stupid enough or crazy enough (or both) to volunteer for that duty. Never saw even a single terrorist on any of the flights I flew, and I flew on literally hundreds of flights, but I was ready for them even if scared shitless at the prospects of facing them down and taking them out.

 

About the only other tings I have, that come to mind, (and I may yet have a few more than this) are a U.S. Customs wall plaque, a toy bucket and shovel from a tiki bar in Clearwater Beach, FL (some great zombies came with that bucket and sure got me drunk while on a SS detail - on my free time), my retired credentials from DHS and my cancelled creds from Customs when we converted to DHS. I imagine most others I worked with have larger collections of collectible mementos than me, as I said I was never much of a collector of LE memorabilia and never was a buff.

 

Oh yeah, there are a few other items that have come through my career with me, like my Beretta 92SB and two Beretta 92FS pistols and my Glock 26 as well as my Remington 870 Express shotgun. I carried them all on official duty at one time or another. If my son likes or does not like my other memorabilia, I know for sure he likes those firearms! Of anything I saved throughout my career, those are certainly my favorite mementos.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

 

Camel Toes...

...or are they back tits or maybe I should call them backsicles cause they sure don't look like breasts to me and do look more like something else!

 Allegedly a photo of a Walmart shopper (source).

All the best,
GB

Booze, Whores & Free Housing...

...what could be a better life than that for an older man in his 70s? I guess it was only as good as long as it lasted now that one old geezer reportedly has lost his housing subsidy after it was discovered that he had a whore hiding under his bed and had been paying for hookers with money he made by running booze to other elderly folks in his assisted living compound (source). Way to go gramps!

All the best,
Glenn B

Today In History - A Nickel For Your Thoughts

Ever wonder how long we have had used the nickel as part of our coinage. I never did but I found out today anyway, or at least I found out the day that the nickel coin was authorized by the Congress. That day was May 16 way back in 1866 (source, you may have to specifically search for May 16th once there).

More information on the U.S. nickel can be found here.

All the best,
Glenn B

Yet Another Woman With Her Finger On The Trigger?

Strictly for firearms safety education, I am displaying another photo of a woman with her finger apparently on the trigger at an apparent inappropriate moment. I note that I just said apparently as one can not be certain in this instance but the angle sure looks right to me, don't you think the angle is right too.

Anyway, make sure if you carry like this, in the front of your pants above your groin, that you absolutely never draw your handgun with your finger on the trigger, it could be messy.

By the way, except for firearms safety education, why else would I post these images here!

All the best,
Glenn  B

The Torture Has Begun...

...tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock....and man is that clock ticking and tocking slowly!

I am gritting my teeth anticipating at least 6 hours of it. I just signed up for the NY Safety Council's driver safety course so I can reduce my basic collision and liability auto insurance premiums by 10%. I've done this twice before in the past 6 years, once at a live class and this one and the time prior to this one online. I swore I would never take it online again, it is the most tedious thing, by far, that I have ever done but I could not stand the morons in the class when I took it live - so here I am doing it online again. I have to say, I cannot believe they gave licenses to some of the morons with whom I took that first course.  

I am taking the course as I type up this post to keep it from boring me to death. You see, a screen pops up with written course material to read. They give you an allotted amount of time to read it but the catch is, you have to use all of that allotment before moving on to the next page. So, if they give 1 minute and 30 seconds to read it, and you read it in 30 seconds, you have to wait an additional minute until the whole 1:30 has elapsed before advancing. I suppose that is because, by law, the course is 6 hours long. Oh well, it will save me a substantial sum over the next three years until when I will have to take the course over once again. Not a bad deal at $19.95, they wanted $24.95 but I found a coupon code for $5 off.

I don't remember if it is new or not but this time they offered audio for $4.95 additional. I would have sworn the course had audio last time I took it and I sure did not pay an extra penny for that. I guess the deep pockets approach, to sucker folks out of more money, is the new thing by charging for audio now. Regardless, I am not buying it and must say will enjoy some Grateful Dead, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Hot Tuna and others to help me out while going through the drudgery of the course.

All the best,
Glenn B

Whoever It Was - He Was Right When He Said...

 

It's certainly not clear enough to the leftists.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

New Speedway Boogie - The Grateful Dead

All the best,
GB

I'm Not A Fan Of Small Of Back Carry...

...but I have to say I kind of like it here:

All the best,
GB

If You Pocket Carry A Pistol...

... why in Heaven's name would you place anything else in the pocket along with the pistol unless it was a pocket holster? When I pocket carry, and I sometimes do so for various reasons even if rarely, the pistol is the only thing in the pocket. I make sure not to have loose change, pens, pocket knives, lint or anything else in the pocket that could plug the muzzle, in some other way interfere with the operation of the pistol, or that accidentally could activate the trigger. Keeping something else inside you pocket with your handgun would be like buying an oversized holster and placing other items into it along with the pistol. I'm pretty sure no one does that yet plenty of folks seem to place other things into pockets in which they are carrying a firearm when the firearm is not also contained within a pocket holster. Think about that and hopefully you will realize just how dangerous and ridiculous it would be to do so.

One guy has possibly learned his lesson or will learn when and it soon if prosecuted and sued, and I suspect he will be subjected to both. It has been reported that a man, inside of a hotel lobby, reached or his wallet which was in the same pocket as his Glock 9mm pistol and when he fished around for, or pulled out, the wallet the gun went boom. He reportedly injured himself and allegedly injured four others, including two young children, probably with splatter from the shot or from floor tiles that were hit by the bullet. (Source.)

Hell, just sitting down and the corner of the wallet accidentally pressing against the trigger might have discharged a Glock (or other various pistols)  carried like that. How frigging clueless someone can be as to firearms safety relative to their particular method of carry for their particular gun, especially when pocket carrying, is beyond me.

All the best,
Glenn B

He And Society Would Have Been Better Off...

...had he been given a longer sentence, one running through every day of the week for the time frame to which he was sentenced and that also included a mandatory drug rehab program. Yet, the man who reportedly plead guilty to attempted grand larceny for allegedly having stolen 454 bronze grave markers and flag holders from the graves of veterans in eight cemeteries, and then selling them as scrap, reportedly has been sentenced only to spending his weekends in jail over a four month period and to financial restitution (source). Maybe, had he been forced to undergo drug rehab, and stay incarcerated until straight, he would have been sober enough when released from jail to go out and find a job. That way there might actually have been a snowball's chance in hell that he would be able earn enough to pay back for those grave markers after his release. As usual though, it once again appears as if NY has played softball with a lowlife junkie who resorted to slimeball crimes o feed his habit. Thus, I imagine, there is a good chance this guy will not change due to his weekend imprisonment and likely will commit more crimes upon his release.

All the best,
GB

A Gun Toting Model Without Her Finger On The Trigger

Once again, completely for educational purposes relative to firearms, I post a photo of a woman holding a gun. As can be seen in this photo, this gal is demonstrating a safe manner by which to hold a rifle while keeping her finger off of the trigger. Note that she is holding the pistol grip with all of the fingers wrapped around it which is the alternative safe method to the one in which the trigger finger rests above and outside of the trigger guard along the receiver.

I am a married man and thus will not comment on her shooting attire.

All the best,
Glenn B

I Keep Thinking I Want To Sell A Gun Or Three...

...to put the money toward a new pistol. The thing is, for the life of me, I can't figure out what I'd be willing to part with and then not regret it later. If you have been into firearms for a decent amount of time, you probably know exactly what I mean. You sell a gun you are certain that you are willing to part with and that you surely will not miss and then boom, six months or a year or so down the road, you regret ever having sold it. Then maybe, a year or three later you sell another gun and you wind up regretting getting rid of that one even though the money you got from the sale went to buy another really nice piece.

I first sold a couple of my guns, in separate sales, when I was in the Border Patrol. No big deal then because I wound up buying the same exact ones again, they were Beretta Jetfires in .25ACP. There had been condition issues with the ones I sold - like getting rusty from sitting in my sweaty pocket all day long when I was chasing down illegals, through salt cedars, in 100 degree plus heat. That can ruin a gun really quickly even if you oiled it the night before as I had done. I also sold a few other guns in the early years of my marriage when we were strapped for cash. Bad move because I wasn't able to buy even one new gun with the cash I made off of those sales. Then, several years later, I started selling a gun here, a gun there, luckily not a gun everywhere. I regretted selling each and every gun I sold when I was strapped for cash and almost any of the others I have sold now and then after that. Every time I think of some of the ones I have sold before, I just about kick myself in mine arse and believe me, if I actually did it, it would be a hard one at that! 

So, that's were I am right now. I can't make up my mind on what to sell to help fund buying the new one(s) I want. I have been going over the list of what I have though and have come up with a few possibilities. Some of the ones that come to mind as a possible for sale guns are my:

Winchester Model 37 Shotgun: This is a 12 gauge, single barrel shotgun. It's in good shape cosmetically with wear and light rust over most of it. Cleaned up fairly well once I bought it. In very good to excellent mechanically. The bore is shiny. The only downside of selling this shotgun (other than seller's remorse) would be that the sale will not fetch much, I am guessing $100 or less. I suppose there might be some opposition from the peanut gallery if I try to sell it as my son kind of likes it.

New England Firearms Pardner Shotgun: This is a single shot, 12 gauge, shotgun. It has surface rust with minor some truly pitting that takes only from the gun's appearance on blued and case hardened surfaces;  although, it cleaned up fairly well after I purchased it. The bore is bright and shiny. It is in excellent mechanical condition. I figure I should be able to get $75 for it.

Iver Johnson Hercules Grade SXS Shotgun: This is also a 12 gauge shotgun but a double barrels, side by side. It is in poor condition and shame on me for not paying more attention when I bought this at an auction. I bid on the wrong one - here were two of them offered up for bids and I missed my opportunity on the other one and wasted my money on this one. I may be able to sell it for parts or I could use it as a wall hanger. I am guessing that, if lucky, I might be able to pull in $50 - $75 for the parts that are useable but this gun was so butchered by a previous owner as to maybe not be worth the effort of stripping it.

Polish WZ-48 Training Rifle: A military surplus training rifle, in the style of a Mosin Nagant. It's a single shot, in 22LR. It is in very good to excellent condition. I might get around $250 - $350 for it. I have had it for a couple to few years now and have not fired it even once so I don't suppose I would miss it much.

High Standard M-101 Duramatic Pistol: This is chambered in 22LR. It is in excellent condition cosmetically and mechanically. I imagine it would bring in a tidy sum, probably around $325 - $350. In addition to the shorter barrel that was standard, this one has an additional longer barrel. I might consider selling that separately from the pistol. If I sell it with the pistol, I am figuring on adding at least another $75 - $100 to the asking price and if I sell it alone I would probably ask for $100.

Smith & Wesson 22a-1: It's a semi-auto pistol in 22LR. I am sure it would sell quickly but am none to sure I want to sell it even though I don't like it much. It functions alright and shoots just fine and cosmetically it looks new but I do not like how it takes down nor the overly cheap feel of it. I am not saying it is cheap but that is certainly how it feels to me (probably not a good selling point ). I have been debating buying an additional magazine or two for it or selling it; so it will either become a $35 - $75 liability (if I buy the mag[s]) or maybe a $200 - 250 money grabber.

Taurus PT145 Millennium Pro: Another semi-auto pistol I am debating with myself as to whether or not I should sell it. It is in excellent condition both cosmetically and mechanically and is only one of two pistols I have chambered in 45ACP. It shoots just fine, in fact better than I had expected since I had sort of a prejudice against Taurus after hearing stories from others. Note I said "had" in that previous sentence; I really like almost everything about this pistol. About the only things that I do not like are the fact that it is equipped with an internal lock and the trigger pull. The trigger travel is extensive and it feels mushy to me (and to my son for that matter). I guess, if I could get used to the trigger, I would love I instead of just liking it. Yet' I doubt I'd ever carry it except as a backup because of the internal lock. I would hate for that to somehow lock up on its own while I was shooting the gun in a defensive situation. I don't even know if that is possible but I believe strongly in Murphy's Law. I am figuring I could get $250 - $300 for this one easily but like I said, it is one of only two 45s that I own.

I can easily sell the rifles and shotguns but am not too sure about how easy it would be to sell my pistols here in NY unless I sell them to a dealer. I'd like to avoid selling them to a dealer because they virtually always try to lowball anyone selling to them. If I sell them to an individual, I believe I still have to go through a dealer for two things - a NICS check and an FFL transfer (required I think by NYS law) even though a private sale. If I sell them to someone out of state, I have to go through not only an FFL on the buyer's end but I am pretty sure on my end too (again, I believe, because it is a pistol, that to be NYS law but I could be wrong and need to check on that). As for the rifles, even in a private sale, I have to go through a dealer for a NICS check on the buyer and some (as in most) of those dealers will not do that unless they also do an FFL transfer and charge for that too. Anything to do with guns and ammo, in the apparently less than constitutionally abiding totalitarian regime of Cuomoistan, is a major pain in the arse .

I am considering picking up a Henry Small Game Rifle lever action rifle in 22WMR and a Glock 19. Thus the reason I am considering selling at least some of those listed above. Of course, if lucky, I'll be able to save some money or hit the lottery and not need to sell anything.

All the best,
Glenn B