Random Nuclear Strikes

At SHOT Show I tried out a set of 5.11 Tactical’s “covert” dress shirts with the “concealed carry” pockets, and loved ’em. No, I didn’t carry a firearm. Instead of a gun, I had spare contact lenses, backup glasses, second wallet, etc. comfortably and unnoticeably ensconced about my torso each day on the SHOT Show floor. Beats stuffing pants pockets, or wearing web gear, all to hell.

As for weapons, I’m a short guy (5’8″), but even on me either of the new S&W Bodyguard guns are pretty much undetectable in this shirt, and any other handgun as lightweight and small (or smaller) just doesn’t print. The Packing Rat witnessed me storing my 940 J-frame in the shirt while in the privacy of my hotel room and the result was barely noticeable if you looked — and that only because the 940 is steel and weighs about 30 ounces loaded; it pulled the shirt down on that side. If balanced with similar weight in the other pocket it wouldn’t be a problem. I’d think a taller person could even carry a lightweight full-sized pistol in this shirt without detection, as shown in the video below:

(video had to be removed due to its horrible HTML code. I’ll try to fix it and get it up later. It should show up below the fold if you want to try that – Phil)

I’ve learned the hard way now several times that if you see something you like in this life, you’d best get it sooner rather than later, because if you wait, when you finally get around to buying it, it’s gone, and you’re in for years of searching on auction sites and craigslist to fill the void.

Of course 5.11 discontinued the covert dress shirt a couple of weeks ago . Why am I telling you about this now? Because I needed to be sure the batches I ordered from a couple different sources ended up in my hot little hands first. I hadn’t bought a new dress shirt in 20 years and was in the process of donating/tossing all the old ones anyway; I now have sufficient covert dress shirts to fill my wardrobe needs for the next 20 years, at which point I should be retired and into Hawaiian shirts anyway. I’m serious — I like these shirts so much that I’m not wearing anything else for the rest of my professional career.

LA Police Gear has ’em for under $18, quite the savings from the $59 list price. Snicker about “tactical” office wear all you like. I say get ’em while you can; they’re a great product.

Yes I’m an attorney. No, I am not your attorney, and nothing in this post constitutes legal advice or opinion.
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Luckily, it’s easy to combat this effect with a simple technique called “Parenting”.

Communist totalitarianism’s scars run deep. Michael Totten writes a great article. The photo of the gigantic carbuncle of a parliament building is one of the better visual representations of collectivist statist architecture. Go read.

“Communism changed our mentality,” said Daniel Apostol, editor in chief of Romania’s Money Channel. “We are still fighting now to come back to what we were. We lost the culture of private property. We lost this sense of privacy and respecting each other’s time and respecting people as individuals, as human beings. That was the worst thing that happened to us. This is why we are struggling so much now to get back to the capitalist society, to the free market, which can run only if there is respect for private property.”

“You had to learn these concepts as an adult?” I said.

“Yeah,” he said. “We didn’t have it before. And we are still learning it. We cannot just one day say, ‘Ok, we get it.'”

Yes I’m an attorney. No, I am not your attorney, and nothing in this post constitutes legal advice or opinion.

And a stark reminder as to why it is so important to fight for gun rights.

…like a superstar. Kaya did great under the knife and is in recovery mode. Very relieved that she survived the surgery; now we just await the biopsy results.

In the meantime, we’re celebrating. Kaya’s got herself some nice Tramodol, so she’s celebrating in her own groggy way.

Yes I’m an attorney. No, I am not your attorney, and nothing in this post constitutes legal advice or opinion.

The history of it, what works (and why), what doesn’t (and why).  Gives you a real good feel for why such a system could never work on a national scale in this country (a state might be able to pull it off, if conditions were right, but never the country as a whole).

H/T Reason