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    National Parks bill moving to Senate - Perhaps tomorrow

    Just signed by the President so it's a done deal, but not until February 2010 when provisions of the entire bill become law.
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    Holsters for women.

    Useful references: www.womensholsters.com/page2/page2.html www.corneredcat.com
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    Who are you?

    58; married w/ girl 9 and boy 6; retired CA LEO, past 8 years firearms and tactics instructor for SO, and state LE Academy in OR.
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    Women authors on self-defence

    "Effective Defense" by Gila Hayes, from the Firearms Academy of Seattle web site.
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    racking your pump hollywood style

    In the 1986 FBI Miami-Platt/Mattix shootout SA Ed Mireles functioned and fired his Rem870 4 times using only his one uninjured hand. In his situation he improvised, adapted and overcame. Since then it has become an instructed emergency/disabled action technique for professionals, much like...
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    flashbangs in home defense?

    Flashbangs (noise flash diversion devices) are classified as explosive devices by ATF which strictly regulates their legitimate sale only to law enforcement agencies and the military. Your alternative is to attempt to modify railroad torpedoes, M-80s (cherry bombs), or military grenade...
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    Fallen soldiers shipped home as freight.

    The parents, both Army vets and the father is a former Screaming Eagle as well, were interviewed on CNN (12/13 AM). Their only son, a medic with the 101st, was killed by IED 7 weeks after his arrival in Iraq. Their objection was that their son was being transported by commercial air and they...
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    Legality of shooting someone in someone elses home? (friend/girlfriend/relative)

    OR "Castle Doctrine" case law If you have an OR CHL the instructor for your class should have at least touched on the foundation case about the castle doctrine in our state, State v Gibson (1903). Essentially the court ruled that if you are on your own premises or in a place where you have a...
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    Why no state or regional section on THR? Who's from Portland?

    Try signing on at www.oregonconcealedcarry.com, a couple hundred Oregonians are there.
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    Murder? (&Shooting in Portland, OR) merged

    If the media accounts are accurate, Stemle's action was clearly out of compliance with Oregon statute law, ORS 161.219, with regards to justification for the use of deadly physical force defined in ORS 161.015(3). Oregon case law requires that the danger of death or serious bodily injury must be...
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    Question about flying with a flashlight.

    As long as your light doesn't have one of those bezels with the crown points you should be OK.
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    What is your CCW Status?

    Resident state, OR, and non-resident permits in AZ, FL, UT and WA, as well as my CA retired LEO credential. I obtained my 18 USC 926C (d) (2) (B) credential shortly after 'W' signed HR218 so I won't have to renew any of them and will now be good in HI where I was born.
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    Olympic Security Live Fire Training ???

    Confidence Drills Used by highly disciplined, experienced and skilled LE and Mil units before the advent of Simunitions. My team did them, as did others, with the team commander/trainers/leaders/assistant team leaders standing in very close proximity to targets. Simunitions really eliminated...
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    So How do YOU draw your Weapon?

    Whenever possible both hands move simultaneously, the support hand thumb up with palm down flat against the the upper abdomen and toward the master hand side. The bladed master hand with fingers pointed down moves across the abdomen to clear the open front garment (jacket). For a closed front...
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    Loaded question, who do you protect?

    proven, My apologies for not being clear in my point which had nothing to do with how much that clerk earns. To re-state: compare the attachment, the dependence, the love and the obligation I have to the mother of my children versus someone whom I've never met, have no attachment to or...
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    Loaded question, who do you protect?

    "I couldn't live with myself if I let someone die knowing I could have done something to stop it." How much worse might one feel if in doing something your rounds miss and kill the clerk? Do you think the next of kin will be filing suit against the BG or their family? Your explanation to them...
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    Loaded question, who do you protect?

    clipse, I don't think the answer is easy. The description of you and your wife's position is "on the other side of the store and very well hidden from the robber/murderer". Your quandry is do you engage to defend the life of another (the clerk). Only you can make that decision and it will...
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    Commercial Air Flight with Gun

    Ya know, I hate to be the stick in the mud about this but I live in Oregon and fly out of PDX a lot. I have gone through the same process many, many times. When they asked for the locks to my case which had been in my presence and under my direct observation throughout I gave them to the TSA...
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    Post office question

    Call your US Attorney's Office For anyone who wants to know the real answer, call your US Attorney's Office and ask. I did and the AUSA I spoke to said that if arrested in a postal facility for carrying a firearm, prosecution will follow. Make the call and if you're told anything different, get...
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    HK USP carry when cocked and locked.

    Both my USP45C and USP40F are carried in Condition 1. The former is in either a Sparks VM2 (IWB) or a Blade-Tech OWB. The latter is in a canted OWB Blade-Tech also or, when instructing, in a Safariland 6004 thigh rig. I've nerver experienced an unintentional disengagement in the holster of the...
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