54 55 of Colorado’s 62 elected county sheriffs filed a lawsuit in federal court against  the state Friday in an effort to overturn two new gun control bills that are set  to go into effect on July 1.

Read more at Daily Caller.

Hat Tip to the Sipsey Street Irregulars

As a gun owner and an 11-year UPS driver, I get a lot of questions from people regarding the safest way to ship and insure firearms through UPS. Theft of firearms and other items by UPS employees, ‘though rare, unfortunately does occur, but there are a lot of surprisingly simple and inexpensive ways to virtually guarantee that you won’t be a victim. Please pass this information along to anyone who may benefit from it.

There are two things that cause thefts from UPS – pilfering and over-labeling. Pilferers are mostly thieves of opportunity. Handguns, jewelry, cameras, and prescription narcotics are their favorite targets because they are easily identifiable and can quickly be shoved into a pocket or inside of a shirt, due to the SMALL SIZE of the packages they come in.

The red and black “adult signature required” (ASR) labels that are legally required to be placed on these packages are often a dead giveaway. These labels are also called “steal-me sticker,” because thieves look for them. Most UPS facilities are fenced, and employees’ belongings are subject to searched exiting, so the size of the item is critical.

The BEST way to protect your handgun is to simply put it in a big box. One gunsmith on my route “disguises” his handguns by putting them in used Amway boxes! This works VERY well. Look at the box you are shipping your handgun in. If you can stick it inside your pants or under your shirt easily, it is vulnerable. As far as the ASR labels, you are required by law to have them on firearms shipments. What many customers don’t know, however, is that they can get a more discreet ASR label that is incorporated into the UPS tracking label. These are better because the words “adult signature required” are very small and unnoticeable. More importantly, this barcode will electronically “prompt” the driver at the other end to get a signature. In case he accidently tries to “release” the package on the customer’s porch without getting a signature. He will be unable to do so because the DIAD (that electronic clipboard that you sign) will read the barcode and will force him to get a signature in order to complete the delivery. You can order these special tracking labels through your Customer Service rep, or you can print them yourself with the UPS shipping software.

Another more sophisticated method of theft is “over-labeling.” This involves several conspirators who plan ahead and may get jobs at UPS for that very purpose. What they do is to print up a bunch of fake labels, with generic barcodes and phony return addresses, that are all addressed to a storage unit or apartment that they have rented in advance. One or more employees who are sorting and processing these packages will then slap the phony label over the authentic one, and the package will then proceed along its merry way to the “destination,” where an unsuspecting driver will deliver it to another accomplice who signs for it using a fake name. This will go on for a week or so until the thieves move on to another address to avoid suspicion. Since the original barcode is covered up, it is impossible to even trace these packages and they simply “vanish.”

The thieves who do this will also target handguns and jewelry but, since they are not trying to sneak it past a guard, they have the freedom to target larger packages, such as rifles, TVs, and computers. How do you avoid this?

It’s simple. You put an address label on ALL SIX SIDES of the box. A package so labeled will be passed up by a prospective thief, since he must now try to cover up six labels instead of only one. This is too risky, since the areas where these packages are sorted are often under electronic surveillance. If you are a gunsmith or store owner who ships UPS, and the package you are shipping is worth over $1000, inform the driver who picks it up and have him initial the pickup record. These “high value” packages are audited and are segregated from other packages. They are not sorted or run over conveyor belts, and they are subject to a chain-of-custody type of procedure that will prevent their being stolen. I feel 100% safe in saying that a handgun that is shipped in a larger-than-normal box of good quality, with a discreet ASR barcode, and with address labels on all six sides will NEVER get stolen or lost.

It’s unfortunate that a few of the 16 million pieces a day that we ship are in danger of being stolen but, if you take these simple precautions, you won’t be a victim.

Posted at Western Shooting Journal March 1st, 2013

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h/t to Armed and Safe

No results found for “fun with soda ash”.
 
Update:  Until now!

Since The Media Is Now Paying Attention-Will They Investigate These 20 OTHER OBAMA SCANDALS?

See Yid With a Lid for the full list.

The Borderline Sociopathic Blog for Boys has this neat video!

When I travel, I peek into gunshops.

I look at their stock; their arrangements; their people.  Occasionally, I am treated to an exceptionally good place to do business.

Today was one of those days.

Allow me to present:

Midwest Gun Exchange
3415 Grape Road
Mishawaka, IN

Gun Shop of the Year (so far) Nominee:

Midwest Gun Exchange

Tidy!

Knowledgeable!

Great Arrangement!

Great Selection!

Ammo!

AR-15 Raffle Tickets – $10 – only 75 to be sold! (Good Pricing)

Class III SOT!

Nice Folks!!!

Traction Control‘s Rating for Midwest Gun Exchange:  A-1+

An all-to-rare political post from Steven Den Beste:

“See no Evil”

So you and me, imagine that we’re good little liberals, members of the press. All our friends are liberals, and all our co-workers, and the people we work for, and everyone whose opinions we respect, all liberals. Yeah, out there somewhere are those people, those damned conservatives, but they don’t matter. They are an obstruction, buncha racists, stupid, venal, and the sooner they’re sidelined and ignored, the better. In the mean time, good little liberals like us have to work to advance the program, right? Breitbart et al need not apply.

And after a long hard struggle we’ve managed to get a black man into the Presidency. Imagine that! We never thought we’d live to see it, did we? And yet, here we are and there he is. It’s a tremendous achievement. We managed to convince the country to try it out with a president who isn’t a white male, and we should all feel proud of ourselves!

But will it open doors, or slam them shut? Obama can’t be president forever.(There’s that damned 22nd Amendment, and there’s no way we’re going to get it repealed in time.) Once it’s over, when the voting public looks back on it, will they think it was a success? The next time someone who isn’t a white male runs for President, will people say, “Yes, maybe she’ll be another Obama!”or will they say, “Hell no! She might be another Obama!”

The fact of him getting elected is only half the job. The other half is making sure his legacy is strong. Which is why we good little liberal press folk are doing our damndest to try to present him in the most positive light we can, loudly trumpeting his achievements (few though they’ve been — hey, did you hear that he bagged Bin Laden?) and ignoring his failures, as common as they have been. (Fast and Furious? What’s that? Trillion dollar deficits? Never heard of them.)

Remember Bob Woodward? He has Nixon’s head hanging on his wall. And until just recently Bob Woodward was something of a living saint among good little liberal press folk for that achievement. Spoken of in whispers, respected and idolized, he’s one of the Gods of liberal pressdom. It’s been the dream of other liberal press folk to do the same thing, ever since, and have they ever tried. It was obvious during Reagan’s presidency and it approached a fevered pitch during the Presidency of George W. Bush.

But no one wants to hang Obama’s head on their wall. Any good little liberal press person who does that will be scorned for the rest of their lives by all the people they know whose opinions they value. You! You’re the one who ruined it all! It’ll be a hundred years until we can get another non-white-male elected, and it’s all your fault!

No one wants to be the one who breaks the spell, even though the Emperor truly does not have any clothes. Everyone is thinking the same thing: You know, Obama really isn’t a very good president. Truth to tell, he’s been terrible. People voted for him because he was black. He’s the first Affirmative Action President.

They’re all thinking that, but it’s, you know, racist and if anyone says it, they could start the process of ruining everything. Whichever good little liberal press person comes out and says that, and starts the preference cascade, will probably be fired, and won’t be able to find another job with anyone more reputable than The National Enquirer. And they’ll spend their lives knowing that instead of the Obama Presidency being a solid step in the right liberal direction, that instead it was a huge leap backwards because it convinced the American public to not trust anyone like Obama ever again!

So even though we’re increasingly uncomfortable acting as a shill for the government instead of as an opposing force, the way we always thought the press was supposed to be, we’ll keep doing it because the consequences for ourselves(and the country) if we tell the truth would be unconscionable.

Now if Breitbart was still alive, he’d gleefully be revealing everything and screaming about it. And the people carrying on for him are trying their best. Obviously none of the above applies to them. But despite their best efforts they are still marginalized and few hear them. It is still the mainstream, where good little liberals dominate, where all this is happening. Their power to control the national agenda has been declining for the last fifteen years but it isn’t yet gone, and I think this is the main reason why they continue to protect Obama.

This week’s dam burst of negative news may make an end to it. It’s just too big. They can’t ignore it, and despite their best attempts they can’t tamp it down. Will this be the end of the protective press?

Probably not, but it may be too big for them to fight, even though I expect they still will try. Obama’s legacy is now toast, and when Obamacare implementation gets botched it’s only going to get worse.

Sometimes air travel has its disruptions – even on a bright and sunny day. My flight connection yesterday afternoon was to link through New York’s Kennedy airport, but as soon as our plane left the gate, the pilot shut down the engines and announced that JFK had a ground hold in effect while a ‘certain individual’ arrived for a New York fund-raiser aboard Air Force One.

What was to be a one-hour flight then turned into 4-1/2 hours trapped on the tarmac aboard a small plane where tempers increased with the temperatures on board.

Once we returned to the Terminal for refueling, it was too late to make any of the alternative connecting flights through either Kennedy or LaGuardia. My next move was to get off the plane and book a new flight via Dallas to my original destination.

Easy, peasy! A mere 23 hours after I boarded by original flight, I touched down.

America may have lost a full day of productivity from all its Eastern Seaboard traveling workers, but hey. Fundraisers are more important than the economy, right?

Right?

On your 18th birthday.

I pray that I taught you to vote wisely.

Live discreetly.

And support freedom relentlessly.

I’ve heard of near beer In Colorado, but I never heard about “Ear Beer” before today:

See Ed’s post

h/t Powerline

h/t Sondrakistan who added, “The dramatic term “unlikely source” must be a bit of a newsy license. It’s like they don’t know what responsible citizen or militia mean, or why citizens stock ammo.”

Bring a gun. Bring two guns. Bring all your friends with guns. Bring ammo for your friends.

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Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace.

Early model (DC-9-32) Air Force One up for bids.

$50K Bid Deposit required.

GSA Auctions

h/t The Daily Caller

1st person aviation videos – above, below, and through the Golden Gate bridge,

from Popular Mechanics h/t Glenn Reynolds

Dana Loesch has an interview with Congresswoman Ann Wagner.
 

 
The office?

The President of the United States.

Because I’m a giver.

h/t to Harvey at IMAO

There is a 1991 Ferrari Testarossa with 17,020 miles on it for sale on Cars.com for just under $55K.

That would make a sweet addition to the Casa Traction Control’s fleet. Just sayin’.

Donations would cheerfully accepted.

So, which was worse? Watergate or Benghazi? This is a topic to which I intend to return in a series of posts; we will know more about the answer, of course, in the coming weeks. But let’s start at the beginning, with the crime…

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from the Daily Mail:

“A firearms collector has been accused (by a Gun Control Group, naturally) of making ‘gun porn’ after posting almost daily photographs of his 115 weapons online.”

Then, the article goes on to repost 10 of their ‘favorites’.  Sweet.

FTR, I think the correct term is “Gun Pr0n“.

h/t Weasel Zippers

Full Story at FoxNews.com

Many sites are also reminding folks that she repeated the ‘it was because of a video’ lie while standing beside Amb. Steven’s flag-draped coffin.

Disgusting.

Aerosmith drops Indonesia show over security fears

Do Not Participate in the July 4th “Armed March on DC” organized by Radio Host Adam Kokesh.

His “Open Carry March on Washington” looks like a false flag ruse to get good people killed for no good purpose.

From an Obama spokesman.

“At this point, what difference does it make?” – Hillary Clinton on the death of Libya’s Ambassador and three defenders.

Feckless.

Blameless.

Shameless.

National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor told CBS News the CSG was not needed. “… key responders were ready to deploy, but were not called upon to help.”

via Gateway Pundit

Obama’s responded by going to bed before a Las Vegas Fund Raiser the next day. Is this the Tough. Smart. Leadership. You Voted For?

Eight months after the Benghazi attacks, one senior U.S. diplomat raises new questions about a possible cover-up by saying he and most others in the mission “thought it was a terrorist attack from the get-go.” David Martin reports.

Official: We knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack “from the get-go”

“Are you now, or have you ever been, a Member of the National Rifle Association?”

If the answer is “No”, I hang up the phone.

Let their database algorithms chew on that a while!

“Will someone take responsibility?”

“We will not be the generation that lost mankind’s freedom.”

A powerful speech. Listen to it all.

Thanks Glenn.

h/t American Digest – gerardvanderleun

 
New 30 Round Magazines from Brownells are available for immediate shipment to free States. (Check your local regulations before ordering.)

Via RealClearPolitics.com

Quote from Obama today in Mexico:

“Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States,” President Obama said during a speech at Mexico’s Anthropology Museum. “I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms. And as president, I swore an oath to uphold that right, and I always will.”

“But at the same time, as I’ve said in the United States, I will continue to do everything in my power to pass common-sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. That can save lives here in Mexico and back home in the United States. It’s the right thing to do,” Obama added.

The irony is rich and deep with this story as US Gun owners blame Obama (and Eric Holder) for their Fast & Furious fiasco that led to hundreds of murders in Mexico.

Have you no shame, Mr. Obama?

 

I don’t think so.

The kiosks for the US Customs and Border Protection’s Global Entry program went dark today.

The agent manning international border checkpoint at the DFW Airport claimed the outage was nationwide.

Seems like anything the Federal Government can control fails to work under the sequester plan. Solution? Let’s find less things that the Federal Government can control.

Million.

Arizona Law Bars Destroying Guns from Buybacks

Jan Brewer, the Governor of Arizona signed a new law today requiring that guns acquired through State buyback programs, seizures, or surrenders are to be sold to qualified citizens rather than be destroyed.

Good move!

Thanks, Jan.

h/t Breitbart

The shooting world lost a great man today. Shooting Star Tom Knapp passed away this afternoon. Tom reinvented exhibition shooting

Tom Knapp. RIP

George Jones. RIP

Arsenal Inc (ARI) SLR106UR with Muzzle Brake, 223 Rem, 8.5″ Threaded Barrel, Matte Black Finish, Black Polymer Pistol Grip, Adjustable Sights, One 5 Round and One 20 Round Magazine

Manufacturer: Arsenal Inc
Model #: SLR106UR with Muzzle Brake
Type: Semi-Automatic Pistol
Finish: Black Matte
Stock: Black Polymer Pistol Grip
Sights: FT:Post RR: Adjustable
Barrel Length: 8.5″ Threaded
Overall Length: 20″
Weight: 88 oz
Caliber: 223 Rem
Capacity: 20+1 & 5+1
Action: Single Action
# of Mags: 2 (1-5 Round & 1-20 Round)
Receiver: Black, Stamped
Muzzle: Threaded Muzzle Brake / Compensator
Features: Chrome Lined Hammer Forged Barrel, Black Polymer Furniture, Side Scope Rail

Hmm … Maybe I ‘need’ another pistol.

Did you hear the story last week where the student was ARRESTED for wearing an NRA shirt to school?

His father vowed to fight the school and now this:

From Right Wing News:

“Over the long haul, this may turn out to be a good thing. Jared Marcum learned the importance of standing up for himself, 100 students stepped up to the plate to support the 1st and 2nd Amendment and the bullies at Logan County Schools got an education in the importance of the First and Second Amendment that they apparently needed very badly. Freedom wins, political correctness loses. That’s just how it’s supposed to be.”

When we fight, they lose.

Stand Up!

Protein Wisdom has the Quote of the Day, as called by Ricketyclick:

“The conversation is over. Now it’s all about choosing sides.”

… The left, part of the right, the mainstream press, et al., can try to pressure us into surrendering individual liberty to their hearts’ content. But the truth is, there are a great number of us who will resist such attempts.

The conversation is over.  Now it’s all about choosing sides.

Bloomberg reports Richie Havens died today at the age of 72 of a heart attack in his home in New Jersey.

RIP

h/t Sipsey Street Irregulars