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First, let me say Taco Bell is entirely uninvolved. They were the stage Jason Scott Williams used to close out his life. The police are blameless. They did their jobs as best as they could. Megan Keleman did nothing to deserve this. In fact, some small amount of tragedy must be draped around Jason, the killer. Some blame belongs to the judges and DAs who kept allowing Williams to walk out of custody. They are the ones who need to be identified and charged with failing to protect the public. They should be made into an example. This is the Taco Bell at Graham Road and Hudson Drive but not on August 14th 2024. Graham is not visible, but at the bottom while Hudson is to the right. You can see the cars backed up at the order speaker. Your order is picked up around the corner. The grayish green lawns seem flat. They are not. Thanks to Google Images Short recap from the Akron Beacon Journal. Wednesday, August 14th, 2024, Megan pulled into a Taco Bell at t

Drilling Down

I recently shot the 5X5 drill with my Glock 17. You might guess from the drill name that fives are going to be involved. You would be right. I would call this a pass. 1/100 of a seconds is meaningless. The drill requires firing 5 rounds in 5 seconds into a 5 inch circle at 5 yards from the low ready. It a pass or fail test. You either accomplish this or you don’t. What is the difference between a drill and an exercise? Exercises usually focus on a specific activity. Ball and dummy, in which a live round in mixed with non-firing dummies, to practice not anticipating recoil. Reloading exercises like shoot two and reload two, teach magazine/speed loader/moon clip reloads. I’m sure you can find a host of pistol and rifle exercises. These can be thought of as basic skills. Drills usually have parameters. For example, a 2-2-2 drill has you fire two rounds into a two-inch circle located two yards away, move two yards sideways, fire two more rounds in to the same target

More Tales Of The Damned

The Akron police responded on Jan. 30, 2021, to a call of shots fired from the 800 block of Thornton Street. They found Lacey Claxton, dead from a gunshot wound, lying in his driveway. Work-up of the body indicated he was shot under his left armpit from 3 to 5 feet. The police determined that Princess Fitzgerald was a person of interest and that Lacey's car had also been stolen. On Feb. 5, the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Princess in Columbus, OH, and recovered Lacey's car. Princess was transported to the Summit County Jail and charged with murder, having weapons under disability, motor vehicle theft, and tampering with evidence. That’s the fact picture and start of our lesson plan. All this information can be found online at the Akron Beacon Journal and other media sources. It's important to note that there are facts and inferences we will never have due to the nature of journalism. Princess’s original story claimed a masked stranger entered the home

Lever Action

I recently bought a 10-round .357 magnum lever action rifle from Henry. .357 Mag/.38 spl lever action rifle I had an old BSA dot laying around and the rifle’s receiver was already tapped for a scope mount, so I prevailed on my friend and master air gun mechanic, Derrick, to cut and drill a Picatinny-style rail to fit my gun. After a few minutes of “You want a what on a what?” he took a look at it and told me it’s a piece of strudel cake. I’m happy to report he did a nice job on it. I’m very pleased with it. After blue loctite-ing the rail’s screws in place and mounting the scope on it, I took it out to the range. I zeroed the rifle at 25 yards. I’m not sure I’ll leave it there, but it’s a good start. Sighting in the rifle is just the begining process of owning the rifle Two things I don’t like about the gun. One: no mechanical safety. I usually carry it hammer down with an empty chamber. Two: lack of a loading gate. It’s fed from a t

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