When the police are an hour away, if you're lucky, you're the only hope you've got.
North Carolina has a number of legal restraints on firearm usage compared to many Red states, though. For example: if you are the aggressor in an encounter, you can't claim self-defense until and unless you can show that you attempted to retreat from the fight and were stopped or pursued; there's no 'citizens arrest' option like there was in Georgia. I would say it's at best the third-most gun-friendly state I've lived in, after Georgia and Virginia (at that time: obviously not now!).
Still, Ruger has probably made a wise move. They're my favorite handgun manufacturer; of the handguns I own, the clear majority are Rugers. When I shoot those poker cards, I'm usually shooting a Ruger Single Six -- the fixed-sight cowboy version. When I'm not shooting poker cards, I keep it loaded with snake shot in case of a close encounter with our Timber rattlers. They've bitten my wife and my dog since we moved up here, and they don't rattle any more like the earlier generations. The ones who rattled got shot, I guess: evolution in action. Now, the Timber rattlers just try to kill you straight off.
UPDATE: The article is off on one point, I notice: we do have permitless OPEN carry in North Carolina. We don't have permitless CONCEALED carry. There are the usual restrictions about carrying to schools, etc. The legislature has approved full-scale Constitutional carry, but the governor vetoed it and the Senate has yet to act on the veto override (most likely because, like establishment Republicans generally, they prefer to fail to change things the way their voters want, they just like to fundraise off of the issues they don't fix).
18 comments:
I like Ruger -- love their 10/22s.
Texas has recently become a mostly Constitutional carry (as I understand the term). We still have to have a concealed carry license to carry on school property.
The other utility of a concealed carry license in Texas is to facilitate carrying in States with reciprocity agreements with Texas.
Ruger would have been welcome here, too. They're North Carolina's gain.
We don't get many poisonous snakes inside Plano, but the coyotes that frequent the green belts tend to be quite aggressive.
Eric Hines
Bought one a LONG time ago, added a rubberized stock/forend, jeweled trigger, and Clerke bull-barrel. With THAT I look like a shooter....
With THAT I look like a shooter....
I have a Taurus .44 Magnum revolver with an 8 3/8" barrel, nestled in a low, tie-down holster with a notched top front. THAT's a shooter.
Eric Hines
I'm having a vision of gents with their firearms a la peacocks displaying their tails. ;)
Yes, before you ask, it has been a long and strange week out here.
LittleRed1
...gents with their firearms a la peacocks displaying their tails.
Well, us gents have a variety of peacock feathers to strut.
Eric Hines
Sounds pretty sweet. I'll bet you get some nice shot groups.
Well, LR1, the 10/22 is only a .22 rifle. It's nothing fancy, by itself. And, the .44 is just 2x.22, right Eric?
Two .22 rounds would just rattle around in the .44 barrel and neutralize each other, leaving your ratio in a divide-by-zero error state.
Eric Hines
Is that math? That doesn't seem like math to me.
But here's my favorite song about a man with a .44:
https://youtu.be/ZRWdxqixKIY?si=tbMtt9jNp0I6m8Yy
the .44 is just 2x.22
That is your arithmetic....
This is my favorite, a standard, because of course his big iron was a .44....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuX79Ud8zI
Eric Hines
Little Red: I suspect you are using 'pheasant tails' as a ladylike euphemism....
That was the second song I thought of. What a great album!
You can see the delight they taken in them, though.
No, it was not intended to be a euphemism. I was thinking of what we call BBQ Guns, revolvers or customized semiautomatics with ornately tooled holsters and belts that gents wear to social events, church, and so on. Like peacocks and their tails, but not quite as colorful. Most of the time.
LittleRed1
The classic description of the BBQ Gun was from The Lawdog Files, one of the original bloggers. He's been gone a while, and the blog is offline. However, the post is captured in this forum discussion the subject, appropriately for this post a Ruger form.
https://www.rugerforum.com/threads/bbq-vs-court-guns-lets-see-em.259206/
Mr. Dog paid a great deal of money for permanent hosting of his blog, and when a new company took over the original that he’d worked with, they refused to honor the contract. Rather than put up with paying more for what he’d already paid for (among other things), he went to Substack. Too, his business, Raconteur Press, is eating a great deal of his time.
His blog was the first one that I’d ever read, starting with “Squeaks the Mongoose."
LittleRed1
Is he not dead then? I had thought that he was; no shame, since that fate has attended many greats. Perhaps he was only in Nebraska.
https://youtu.be/KRMa7YX4fxo?si=ieFRmfv54_RIreZp
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