24Aug06

XCR Variants, from Alex Robinson:

"In certain jurisdictions, our XCR's folding stock creates p roblems. For example, in MI the XCR is just fine for general ownership, but, amazingly, is classified as a 'pistol!' For places like that, we've now d esigned a fixed/tube stock. It looks and feels just like our standard, folding stock but there is no knuckle. It cannot be folded. For now, that adequately addres ses the issue, at least in MI."

Comment: Most gun laws, as written, are incomprehensible, confusing, and self-contradictory, I'm persuaded deliberately so, in order to facilitate arbitrary enforcement when craven politicians want to punish a segment of th e population that doesn't support them.

A folding stock is convenient, particularly for low-profile transport. In a "car gun," for example, it is a wonderful feature. For tho se of us who have no interest in politics or politicians, and who have decided we need military rifles in our lives, and for manufacturers, like Robinson Arms, wh o make them for us, we need to continuously make adjustments as they become necessary. We have to stay one step ahead of them!

/John

24Aug06

Cross-Gender Fighting, an important skill! This from a friend who bounces at a gentlemen's club in TX:

"Tuesday evening, I was summoned to a 'disturbance-in-progre ss' on the second floor. I found a female patron, obviously intoxicated, verbally challenging several of our male 'regulars' to a fight! This woman, who did not know any of them, had walked over to one of them and briskly swept the tip he ha d just left onto the floor, simultaneously berating him for being a cheapskat e. Before he could respond, she kicked him in the shin, doubling him over. She then announced in a loud and clear voice that she was a marital arts ex pert and would handily 'kick their asses.' I arrived just as she comple ted her sentence.

I approached her, announcing my office. The woman, slim, attractive, and skimpily clad, assumed an exaggerated fighting stance and repeated that she was a 'third-degree black belt' and that I needed to back off. At this time, her date arrived, back from a trip to the restroom, and demanded to know wh at was going on. The four guys, including the one who had just been kicked, were now on their feet, announcing that he and the woman were about to get hurt.

My Partner and I split up. He started herding the men in one direction, an d I started herding the woman and her date in the opposite direction. I steered them toward the stairs. The boyfriend began apologizing, asking if they could stay. Not answering his equations, I said repeatedly, 'This way, folks. Move this way.'

The woman would have none of it! She stopped, once more assuming a ridiculous stance (staggering slightly), and assured me that she was about t o 'kick my ass!' As she then clumsily attempted a kick, I struck her with a palm heel in the chest. I aimed for the center of her chest, but she moved, and my blow struck her in the middle of her left breast, most of which was hanging out of her low-cut dress anyway. Her breast fell out the rest of the way, as she reeled backward, gagging and coughing. When she partially regained her

balance, I grabbed her arm and said to her, 'I bet that really hurt , huh? Don't try kicking me again, dear!'

I then grabbed her waist, whirled her around, and continued to firmly shove

her toward the door. Still coughing, she humbly decided she didn't want to

fight any more. He boyfriend, now silent, tagged along meekly. They were both promptly out the door. Another incident finished!

My experience is, like males, females can be combative and dangerous, all the more dangerous when one naively gives them more of an edge than circumstances indicate, simply because they are female. I promise you, fem ales will invariably take full advantage of all such 'special treatment. =99

Those who, in public, declare themselves to be 'trained fighters =99 are nearly always bumbling buffoons who couldn't beat their way out of a paper bag. However, combative females need to be treated just like any other VCA. VCA s are VCAs! They come in all sizes, ages, sexes, races, sexual orientations, and creeds! In order to get any VCA under control, one must continually evaluate, move, counter, seize the agenda, and ultimately destroy their wil l to fight. If there is another way, I'd like to see it!"

Comment: Most of us think females naturally represent less of a threat than

do males. In this day and age, that is not true! Effective, successful fighters make decisions based upon suspect capabilities, not suspect =9Cintent."

/John