{"id":3408,"date":"2015-12-10T22:06:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T02:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2015-12-10T22:06:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T02:06:22","slug":"enjoying-freedom-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/enjoying-freedom-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"ENJOYING FREEDOM IN AMERICA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fun class.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Remember a little while back in this blog, when I said I was about to teach my last class of the year, and because it was an advanced class it was gonna be like training with my buddies? Well, I\u2019m in the middle of that now and so, far, it\u2019s been proven correct.<\/p>\n

At midweek we had the fully automatic weapons segment.\u00a0 I put this into the third level class years ago because smart folks recognized even then that terrorism was on the horizon, and a good person might find himself or herself square in the middle of an atrocity in a gun free zone <\/span>hunting preserve for psychopathic murderers, where the only gun they might be able to pick up might be the MP5 of a fallen protector or the fully automatic weapon of one of the murderous fanatics committing the atrocity.\u00a0 Admittedly, by this time the students have spent way over 80 hours learning grim things from me and my staff\u2026shooting full auto can be fun\u2026<\/em>and dammit, I owe them some fun back by now, too.<\/p>\n

Most of the public doesn\u2019t realize that in most of our country, fully automatic weaponry is absolutely legal once you\u2019ve been thoroughly checked out by the Federal government. In a time when more than ever in recent memory it\u2019s important to be a \u201ccertified, card-carrying good guy or gal,\u201d no such card is better than one which says BATFE has investigated you for six months or so and determined you to be cool to have a machine gun, a silencer, a short-barreled rifle or \u201csawed-off shotgun,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re 80% through the class now and every single student has already passed a triple-speed (stuff like 6 pistol shots from the holster, one hand only including reaction time, in two and two-thirds seconds) police-type qualification, and double and triple speed police shotgun qualification.<\/p>\n

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Lydia, 7, gets her first shots through a 9mm Glock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At one point our students took some people in a broad age spectrum, most of whom had never touched a gun, from \u201cthis is the firing pin, this is the trigger\u201d to sustained fire including reloads, in a very short time frame.<\/p>\n

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This ten-year-old mostly center-punched her target with S&W M&P .45.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Watching a 10-year-old girl with a Smith & Wesson Military & Police loaded with 230 grain .45 hardball keep most of her shots in the center 10\/X rings, and a seven year old girl with a 9mm Glock do the same, I for one came away happy.<\/p>\n

Have I ever mentioned that I love my work\u2026?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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