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Irrelevancies at Fort Hood: … Next Pennington notes that Hasan qualified for a Virginia concealed carry permit in 1996, since at that point he had a clean record. I'm not sure what that's supposed to prove. Is Pennington suggesting that the lack of a permit deters mass murderers from carrying their weapons in public? The general problem with legal restrictions on gun possession (as I'm sure Pennington has heard) is that criminals do not obey them, while their law-abiding victims do. Pennington reiterates that Hasan used 20-round magazines, meaning that he had to reload less often than if he'd used 10-round magazines. True enough, but as I said in the column, the extra few seconds did not matter much until Hasan was confronted by people who also had guns. Sgt. Mark Todd shot Hasan while he was reloading. Not surprisingly, none of his unarmed victims tried to rush him during the two seconds it takes to change magazines, although given the number of rounds he fired they would have had four or five opportunities to do so. Pennington also reiterates that Hasan used a pistol capable of firing armor-piercing rounds, although "the ammunition type that the Fort Hood killer used has not yet been reported." I'm still not getting why this matters, since the special capability Hasan's ammunition may or may not have had apparently played no role in his crime…
http://reason.com/blog/2009/11/13/hasan-had-a-carry-permit-and-o?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29
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The Beat Goes On: Barack Obama campaigned on hope and change, but he also might have delivered on something else: the urge to buy handguns. Obama's presidential run - and fears he will clamp down on gun sales - seems to have triggered a larger surge in Morris County [NJ] handgun permit applications than in the months following Sept. 11, 2001. "The firearms industry has seen a jump in sales since the election, and the assumption is that the Democratic party could attempt to resurrect old, stricter gun control policies," Parsippany Police Sgt. Yvonne Christiano said. Between 2001 and 2002, the year following the Sept. 11 attacks, issued permits increased almost 9 percent, from 1,779 to 1,936. By comparison, issued permits jumped 48 percent, from 1,842 to 2,740, between 2007 and the presidential campaign year of 2008. Although derived more from anecdotal evidence than scientific fact, the conclusions show how outside forces can affect Morris County's perception of a threat, either to individual safety or the right to bear arms… New Jersey gun buyers need only a firearms identification card to purchase as many long guns - such as rifles and shotguns - as they want. Handgun buyers need a firearms ID card plus a separate handgun permit for each pistol… Chatham Police Officer Scott Davis saw noticeable jumps in requests for gun licensing earlier after Sept. 11 and again during the presidential campaign. Davis, the department's supervising firearms instructor and range master, has overseen the issuance of firearms documents for nearly two decades…
http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200991114018
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Tactical Medicine Resource: A 2007 US Army Ranger medical manual is available for download. It took me a couple of days before I was able to complete the download, apparently due to high demand. It might be best to wait a day or two, so as not to exceed the capacity of the server.
http://www.ocdsterling.com/rangermedichandbook2007.pdf
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http://reason.com/blog/2009/11/13/hasan-had-a-carry-permit-and-o?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29
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The Beat Goes On: Barack Obama campaigned on hope and change, but he also might have delivered on something else: the urge to buy handguns. Obama's presidential run - and fears he will clamp down on gun sales - seems to have triggered a larger surge in Morris County [NJ] handgun permit applications than in the months following Sept. 11, 2001. "The firearms industry has seen a jump in sales since the election, and the assumption is that the Democratic party could attempt to resurrect old, stricter gun control policies," Parsippany Police Sgt. Yvonne Christiano said. Between 2001 and 2002, the year following the Sept. 11 attacks, issued permits increased almost 9 percent, from 1,779 to 1,936. By comparison, issued permits jumped 48 percent, from 1,842 to 2,740, between 2007 and the presidential campaign year of 2008. Although derived more from anecdotal evidence than scientific fact, the conclusions show how outside forces can affect Morris County's perception of a threat, either to individual safety or the right to bear arms… New Jersey gun buyers need only a firearms identification card to purchase as many long guns - such as rifles and shotguns - as they want. Handgun buyers need a firearms ID card plus a separate handgun permit for each pistol… Chatham Police Officer Scott Davis saw noticeable jumps in requests for gun licensing earlier after Sept. 11 and again during the presidential campaign. Davis, the department's supervising firearms instructor and range master, has overseen the issuance of firearms documents for nearly two decades…
http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200991114018
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Tactical Medicine Resource: A 2007 US Army Ranger medical manual is available for download. It took me a couple of days before I was able to complete the download, apparently due to high demand. It might be best to wait a day or two, so as not to exceed the capacity of the server.
http://www.ocdsterling.com/rangermedichandbook2007.pdf
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