I just got an email from a fellow in Kalifornia in search of a concealed firearm permit from my wonderful state of Utah.  Thanks!  For those that are interested, I live in the Salt Lake City area and I am a Concealed Firearm Permit Instructor for the state of Utah.  Our permit is recognized in 32 other states because every single day our entire database of permit holders is ran against the FBI’s NICs check system for wants/warrants.

I charge $50 for the class if you are near to Utah or if it is taught in my home.

I charge $75 if you are more than 30 minutes away and I come to you.

I charge $80 if it’s “I have 4 hours TONIGHT RIGHT NOW and I want you to teach me, so be here ASAP.” and if you live within close proximity to myself or if it is taught in my home.

I charge $100 if you are outside of that radius and want it immediately.

If you schedule it ahead of time and are within an hour, I will gladly drive to your home for the class or teach the class in my home.  The charge is $50 or $75 depending on proximity to me (see above).

Please email me if you have any questions.

If you will be attending Boomershoot, email me and we can set something up there.

I’m still hesitant to call it Constitutional Carry because the law still prevents you from carrying loaded until you have your permit or are not on a public street, but this does qualify under the criteria on permitless concealment.

We do still offer a Concealed Firearm Permit, of which I’m an instructor, but it now gets you loaded carry and avoidance of school zones.

The governor still has to sign the bill, but if he refuses to sign it, it merely goes back for a final reading.

Come on, Brady Bunch!  We want our scorecards!

Ben shows himself to be a Fudd (of sorts) as well as an ‘only one’.  See, he’s a former Marine.  He’s one of those that’s been ‘properly trained’ but Sumdood isn’t.  I say he’s only ‘soft of’ a Fudd in that he wants HIS daughter protected by removing the tools I use to protect MY children.  Because he doesn’t like them, I shouldn’t have them.

This is my reply, saved for posterity because we know how that pesky memory hole is!:

You can’t say I ‘just don’t get it’ because what I’m seeing and what you’re seeing are two different things. I very much get it.

When you remove the tools that could potentially kill kids, you are removing tools that are used EVERY DAY to defend those same kids.

It’s estimated there are somewhere in the area of 11,000 deaths due to firearms each year. This also includes JUSTIFIABLE homicides where a meth head takes one to the grape during a home invasion by a dad protecting his daughter. It ALSO includes suicide. What does the method of death matter when it’s a suicide? 1 single projectile is used in those. If I remember correctly, Curt Cobain killed himself using a break action shotgun.

There are estimated to be 2,500,000 defensive gun uses every year nationwide. This is a metric that’s incredibly difficult to measure because simply beginning to draw a handgun can call off a violent felony. There are no statistics that say “The burglar ran away after he saw my rifle” yet that’s very clearly a gun that was used to defend an entire family.

So let’s say magazines were limited to 10 rounds. It’s a nice round number. It’s what was used in the ’94-’04 Assault Weapons Ban. Would it have stopped the Sandy Hook shooting or slowed it down?

No. Connecticut already has a strict AWB in place and the rifle was fully compliant with it. He obtained the rifle by murdering his own mother in her bed with it.

The murderer killed his mother, stole a gun, drove it loaded to the school, shot out the front window, murdered the office personnel, went to his mother’s classroom, killed the kids there… and you think he would have been stopped because a law says he should not use specific types of weapons?

So while you want to have ‘feel good’ legislation that would strip the rights from everybody, you would be doing absolutely NOTHING that would have stopped what happened. Not only that, but having legitimate means of self defense stripped from households everywhere, you are putting the very lives at risk that you wish to protect.

Self-defense against 2-legged critters is only HALF of what the Second Amendment is about. It is there to preserve liberty from an oppressive, tyrannical government. I don’t think it’s tyrannical, yet, but it’s definitely going there.

Habeas Corpus surrendered. “Papers please” by VIPR teams on our own highways. Non-officers telling people to “FREEZE!” even though they’re doing nothing illegal and the people have no choice but to do so under penalty of law. Parents watching their kids get touched in EVERY PLACE where the sun don’t shine and not even the freedom to comfort their child. Warrantless Wiretapping by the police. Assassinations on American citizens by our government. NYC allowing Stop-and-frisk because it’s “for your own safety” even though there’s no RAS or PC. No-fly lists where you are punished through no fault of your own with no way to appeal WHY you’re on that list. An entire town in Missourri under martial law.

What about when the government defines a nationwide curfew because of rampant violence and threats against the politicians? What about when Posse Comitatus is tossed aside? What about the first public execution? Right now, the police officers violate laws with impunity. The ONLY case that’s gone in the favor of the people were the Danziger Bridge Shootings from Katrina where the officers opened fire on unarmed civilians.

And it only gets worse… and when our rights are restricted to nothing, are your grandkids going to take your six-shot revolver and stop a run-away government?

Nobody will stop a monster hell-bent on causing the destruction of lives. You can prevent it by being prepared. Teach your childrens’ teachers how to defend themselves. Your children are with them 8 hours a day. Do you trust those teachers with your childrens lives? You are. Why not give them the best tools available should they show the initiative and heart to get their concealed firearm permit (or whatever it is called in your state)?

They are raising our kids and protecting them. Give them the tools to protect them.

So make this their last Huzzah!  Drive Gun Control into the sewers….  after all, Alan Gura can’t take them all on.

Update: It was a semi-auto shotgun Remington Model 11 20ga.

Obviously, the world wants to prevent this.  I think that’s a wonderful idea.

Let’s look at what happened.  Someone who appears to have had no criminal background went nuts.  I haven’t seen tales of mental history, yet so I’m going with the assumption that he had a clean bill of health upstairs.  It should be illegal to take a gun onto school grounds.  Oh, it is in most cases.  It should be illegal to kill people.  Check.

So, it’s illegal to do what he did, but it didn’t stop him.  Already the cries for more gun control are deafening.  The idea is that if you make it more illegaler, it can’t possibly happen.  I think that’s wonderful.  Let’s make meth illegal, then nobody can smoke it.

No.  You protect your children.  It’s what you do.  Step up to the damned plate and take some responsibility for your charge(s).  You will not prevent a tragedy by telling him he’s not allowed to use a specific implement.  You prevent a tragedy of this magnitude by TRUSTING your teachers.

Teachers already go through background checks.  In fact, it’s the same FBI background check that firearms purchasers go through.  Train them.  Teach them viable tactics.  If they so desire, ARM THEM!  Teach them to be teachers and not just people that repeat a text book.  Give them the freedom to raise your child.  Your child already spends over 6 hours a day with this person.  You are trusting your child’s life with them.  That’s a HUGE responsibility!  If you are going to trust them, TRUST THEM.

It may not have stopped this tragedy, but it sure as hell would not have hurt to put the odds against the gun man.

When you need a firearm repaired, you are legally able to ship it to the manufacturer and they manufacturer can legally ship it back without involving an intermediary FFL.  One of the guys over on UtahConcealedCarry.com utilized Fedex’s services to send and receive their firearm so Taurus could repair it.

I am extremely upset at the moment. I sent my Taurus 94 revolver in for a repair. The barrel needed to be replaced, and Taurus said to send it in and they’d fix it.
I never received any contact from Taurus, but was tracking the status online. A week or so ago I checked up on it and it was marked as “shipped”. Having not had it arrive yet (or receive a tracking number) I decided to call them today…..

Turns out the gun was delivered by Fedex on Nov. 23 and LEFT ON MY DOORSTEP. The guy from Taurus said that they ship everything signature required and does not know how it got left like that. Taurus said they will file a complaint with Fedex, and try to track it down, but beyond that I’m not sure what they will do. I was too upset to ask.

The way I see it either a Fedex employee decided he wanted a new gun, or they really did leave it on my front door and one of my neighbors walked away with it.

(Emphasis mine)

Obviously he must have screwed up.  He’s just someone that probably shouldn’t be able to ship guns, being an average Joe.  Right?

Utah CFP instructor ~ NRA Pistol Instructor

So he’s a RESPONSIBLE average Joe.

So who screwed up?  I dunno…  you tell me.

So FedEx says they delivered it to the front door.  Taurus specifically demanded an adult signature be required.  According to the tracking receipt, either the FedEx driver was cutting corners to save time and changed the delivery type to not require a signature, as indicated by the top most annotation, or FedEx as a whole cut corners to save the driver some time.  It looks to me that a person named “Signature not required” signed for this and was written in by the driver.  Thoughts?

There’s one thing that seems odd with this, though.  The section that says “Hold at FedEx Location service is not available for this shipment.” seems odd.  There should be a colon in here.  Either it should say “Hold at FedEx Location: service is not available for this shipment” or “Hold at FedEx: Location service not available for this shipment.”

Now, if I had to ship some firearms, Id think very carefully which service I’d use.

Graduated HS, never tangled with the law.
Became a United States Marine where I served 7 years in Topographic Intelligence (I made fancy maps).
Held Top Secret/SCI clearance.
Worked retail jobs and went to Ohio State.
Boy Scout Leader
Cub Scout Leader (Webelos)
CPR Qualified on Adults
CPR Qualified on Infants
NRA Range Safety Officer Certified
NRA Basic Pistol Shooting Instructor Certified
I make it my duty to practice with my guns whenever I possibly can.

This is just the start.  In two weeks, I am getting NRA Basic Rifle Shooting Instructor qualified.  Yet… no matter how much experience I have, no matter how many guns I shoot and work to better myself with…  I should absolutely not be able to carry my own personal handgun in public according to the Progressive Left.  Nobody has the training to have that right and those that DO get the training are obviously far too paranoid to be trusted with guns.

“The police are the ONLY ONES capable of being responsible with firearms.”  Have you heard that used before? (paraphrased)
From CNN Breaking News Alerts:

New York authorities say the gunman who opened fire Friday outside the Empire State Building had been fired from his job a year ago. The person the gunman shot and killed was a former colleague.

 Police who killed the gunman may have hit several of the eight people wounded, Mayor Michael Bloomberg says. All those wounded are expected to recover.

(Emphasis mine.)

Remember…   they’re the only ones responsible enough.  Isn’t that what the antis always say?  I’m surprised Bloomberg even admitted this.  Will there be charges against the cops who shot innocent bystanders?  Never.  What would happened had a civilian shot innocent bystanders?  Come to think of it, has anybody heard of ANY instances where a civilian has shot innocent bystanders while acting in a good Samaritan capacity?