Rainy Day Guns and Leather

Had fun shooting the pics last week and thought I would shoot a few more.  The 'models' in the photos are a S&W 635 625 Mountain Gun in 45 LC, a Savage 32 ACP (not as nice as Tam's but for a little over $100, I couldn't pass it up, maybe I will get it bead blasted or cerakoted.....), Colt 1908, Springfield MilSpec and a Colt Combat Elite.

All of the gun leather is from Dad. He had great taste in guns and accoutrements.  Hope you like the pics.  I tried using more natural light this time, less flash as John recommended.

Just realized that all the wood grips are Ahrends - I guess I like his stuff!  Smooth where it needs to be smooth and grippy where it needs to be grippy.

Three Babies, Three Weeks

For the third time in as many weeks, a parent being careless about how they secure their firearm has led to the wounding or death of a child.

It started with a horrible accident at a school in Bremerton: a 3^rd grader brings a gun to school because he is afraid of bullies, drops his backpack on the classroom table and seriously wounds a classmate.  She is still in the hospital and has gone through 5 surgeries so far to repair the wound from the .45 caliber pistol.  The 3^rd grader found the gun unsecured at his parents’ house.  The “parents” ( and I use that word hesitantly) are now being charged with 3^rd degree assault and face up to 5 years in prison.   The “parents” are also being charged with unlawful possession of a firearm because they are felons – banned from owning firearms.

The second horrible accident happened north of Seattle in Stanwood.  A 7 year old was shot and killed by her sibling.  The child got the gun out of the glove box of the minivan they were in while their parents – a Marysville police office and his wife – were outside the car.

The third one just happened Wednesday night.  Parents stopped at the filling station to get gas and the father leaves his pistol in the car while he fills the tank.  The father has a concealed weapons permit but apparently the gun is uncomfortable to wear, or it pinches his waist or who f’ing knows.  He stashes it under the seat of the car.  His 3 year old, one of two kids in the car, gets out of his car seat, pulls the gun out from under the seat and shoots himself in the head.  I know that there is more to this story but no one is talking about it yet.  Leaving a loaded, unsecured gun in a car is a crime here in Washington State. 

Parents  – SECURE YOUR F’ING GUNS.  If you don’t like the f’ing holster you are wearing, get one that is f’ing comfortable or don’t f’ing carry it.  If you need to leave your pistol in the car, pony up 20 or 30 bucks to get a secure locking box to put the f’ing pistol in.  Is your 3 year old worth $30?  Is having your child traumatized for the rest of their lives because they blew their sister’s f’ing head off worth $30? 

Don’t leave your f’ing guns laying around the house where your kids or their friends can get to them.  If you need to have guns in a couple rooms of your house – SECURE THE F’ING things so your kids don’t f’ing kill themselves or their friends.  Talk to your f’ing kids about guns and talk to them often about what to do if they see a gun at school, in the park, in a car, in a schoolmate’s backpack, at the mall or in the fast food bathroom.  As soon as you are able, drill, drill, drill the Daisy 10 Commandments of Firearm Safety into their heads, start them in the backyard with a BB gun and then once they are mature enough, get them out to the range to shoot pistols and rifles and out to the trap field to shoot some clay targets.

 

Teach them, show them how to be safe with guns and how to have fun with guns.  Teach by example.  Don’t be a jackass.

I cannot even begin to imagine what the parents of these children are going through.  It was and is avoidable.  Don’t be a f’ing jackass – secure your firearm when you are not in direct control of it. 

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