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A little gun news of interest. First up, here in the Land of Oz (that's Kansas for you Ozzie/Kiwi visitors who might be a touch confused), House Bill 2528 would prevent cities and counties from adopting any ordinance, resolution, and regulation that would contradict state firearm legislation. HB 2528 would also prohibit a public or private entity from prohibiting a licensed Right-to-Carry customer, employee, or invitee from possessing a firearm, when locked inside a private motor vehicle in a publicly accessible parking lot.
HB 2528 will put a stop to the “patchwork” city firearm regulations and ordinances that have been popping up all over Kansas in the last year. Law-abiding citizens will no longer have to worry about breaking any city or county laws while traveling through Kansas.
Call or drop Governor Sebelius and respectfully urge her to sign HB 2528 into law. Governor Sebelius can be reached at 1-877-579-6757 or via email at by clicking here.
Across the river, our Missouri readers should have an interest in these two bills. Contact your State Senator at (573)-751-3824 and encourage him or her to support and vote for House Bill 462, which repeals Missouri's outdated and redundant statute that requires a "permit to obtain" a handgun. Also, please contact your State Representative at (573)-751-3659 and urge them to support and vote for Senate Bill 62, a bill which establishes that law-abiding Missourians do not have a duty to retreat from a criminal attack and may stand their ground while defending themselves and their loved ones. [H/t, NRA-ILA]
Since I didn't do an H&I yesterday, a little catch-up. T'was a busy weekend in history:
1861 Ft Sumter surrenders
1865 The Stars and Stripes are again hoisted over Ft Sumter. 4 years (and circa 620,000 deaths) to the day of Fort Sumter's surrender.
1912 RMS Titanic sinks at c. 0225. A re-enactment is available here.
1942 George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta, T'was a different Royal Navy boarding party there.
1945 British Army liberates Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
1945 Burma: helicopter makes first rescue of a downed pilot.
1947 Former 2nd Lt Jackie Robinson begins playing for Brooklyn, integrating modern Major League Baseball
1952 First test flight of a B-52 prototype. Still serving. Even longer than Bill.
1986 US a/c raid terrorist bases in Libya, following Berlin disco bombing. Operation El Dorado Canyon has been mentioned in this space several times of late, usually in regard to Iran.
Moving along.
Heidi's Mom on Supporting the Three.
Nice pic of Hinds in flight. Hopefully, in the hands of the Afghan government, they'll do better than they did in the hands of the Soviet government.
CAPT H sent this along (Warning, if today is a mellow day, don't follow this link.). It's not so much the video, as it is the comments to the post, that are illustrative.
I'll close this bit with Jules Crittenden, and his Good News, Bad News. -the Armorer
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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires.
Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute.
*Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is*
The UAVs (oops, can't call 'em UAVs anymore - they're now Unmanned Aerial Systems... some Colonel got his Legion of Merit for that change...), er, um UAS's we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now.
I call the post that because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to. It's also an open trackback, so if (Don Surber uses it this way a lot) someone has a post they're proud of, but it really isn't either Castle kind of stuff, or topical to a particular post, I've basically given blanket permission to use that post for that purpose. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone".
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