Sentence In Unusual Shooting: A Tohono O'odham man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting a fellow tribal member in a dispute over who was the better medicine man. Tohono O'odham is one of nine of Arizona's 21 reservations that informed me that they honor the Arizona CWP but only 0.18% of Arizona's CWP holders identify themselves as Indian. http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/metro/89039.php --- Logic In A Gun Magazine? Handguns magazine let's Michael Bane challenge IDPA's emphasis on tactical reloads. My former teaching partner used to say, "You're gonna run out of time before you run out of ammo." Personally, my first and second reloads would consist of drawing another gun. http://www.handgunsmag.com/tactics_training/treload_061604/ --- County Supervisors Compromise On Noise Ordinance: The supervisors of Nelson County VA were racing to enact a noise ordinance before a state law would have precluded their ability to regulate noise from shooting ranges. Following protests, their ordinance now provides an exception for firearms discharged at commercial ranges. (I find it hard to see what the supervisors have actually accomplished.) http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784463915&path=!news&s=1045855934842 --- When Guns Are Outlawed...: Article from Texas contends that restrictive firearm laws in Mexico have only created a black market in firearms. http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=66588_0_10_0_M --- If Firearms Are Only for Hobby...: The mayor of Toronto (the one in Canada) is calling for all privately held firearms to be stored in one central location. "It would just put all the firearms in one place so they could all be stolen at one time," said Eric Greer of the Ontario Arms Collectors Association. "That would be a wonderful thing." http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=6bd4b477-9334-4132-8181-e5bafead1b47 --- Nuclear Plant Guards Need More Training: Article draws mostly from a GAO report - the protection forces at nuclear plants need to evolve in to a special-forces model. (See blog entry for August 17.) http://jimkouri.mensnewsdaily.com/blog/kouri/ --- From John Farnam: 15 Aug 05 Info on training, from a friend and student who is a guard at a nuclear plant: "We had three weeks of firearms training in pistol and rifle. It could have easily been condensed into four days, but bureaucratic clog stretches it out, ad nauseam. Our instructors were competent, but they, like everyone else in this industry, are hamstrung by corporate grasseaters. 'Clearing barrels' populate the landscape like horsecrap! We are forever unloading. We are trusted to carry weapons on property, but nowhere else, and we're not trusted to clean them. Rifles are shared, and have (you'll love this term) a 'general' zero, supposedly at 100m, but we never get a chance to verify that. They value us only so far as we fulfill some bureaucratic requirement, but they hate us as people and consider our lives and health utterly inconsequential. No effort is made to conceal that sentiment. Glocks all worked fine. Rifles are a mixture of Colts and Bushmasters. Colts ran fine. Bushmasters didn't." Comment: Several weeks ago we had two, active Secret Service Agents in an Urban Rifle Course at a military base in VA. Both were assigned to the personal protection detail of a high-profile politician. Both had, of course, received training, but both expressed the sentiment that all their instruction was designed to prepare them to competently protect someone else. The nuclear industry is obviously not much different. Little was said, and there was apparently little concern, about them personally or their good health. So, they had decided to come to us in order to learn how to competently protect themselves! /John -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .