Liberal GUN HANDLING: This Is Why We CAN’T Have NICE THINGS! | Real Lawyer Reacts

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A Democrat with purported “Gun Expertise”  hosts a range day and doesn’t just get a reporter injured, he nearly explodes everyone invited!!  I’ll explain on this episode of The Law of Self Defense.

A Democrat running to replace a Republican Senator in Missouri decided it would be a good day to do a photo-op day at a gun range to polish up his manly-man credentials to the heavily Red state.

The predictable result: Reckless gun handling and blood—though thankfully there was no death or maiming.

Let’s take a light-hearted look at some photos from this event that illustrate nicely why incompetence and gun handling are a bad combination.

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A Democrat with purported gun expertise. Hosts a range day and doesn’t just get a reporter injured, he nearly explodes everyone invited. I’ll explain on this episode of the law of self defense. So Democrat Lucas Kuntz is running to unseat current Republican Senator Josh Hawley in Missouri, a retired US congressman, Adam Kinzinger, nominally a Republican who effectively fled the GOP in disgrace offered to participate in the coons range day.

By the end of the day, they were applying bandages to the bloody arm of reporter Ryan Gamboa who was struck by gunfire, debris coming off a very close plate rack that was being shot at using rifles. Now, before I jump in, I do want to remind all of you watching this on youtube, do us a favor and hit that subscribe button and the thumbs like button as well. They’re both free.

So Senate candidate Lucas Kountz who hosted this comic disaster of Arranged Day likes to talk up his service as a US marine and claims gun expertise as a consequence of that service. Now, I’ve seen it reported that Koontz was a jag officer, meaning a military lawyer and never served in combat, but nevertheless, I thank him for his service. In any case, I didn’t see any particular their gun handling or safety expertise by coons on display at his range day. And before I move on to the range day, I should note that Adam Kinzinger who was also at the range day served as a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard. A pilot flew both the KC 135 Strato tanker and the RC 26 surveillance aircraft in local such as Iraq and Afghanistan. But if anything, Kinzinger, gun handling was even worse and less safe than that. Coons, Josh Hawley followed a non-military path in life, graduating from Yale law school and clerking for us Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts.

Afterwards later he was Attorney General of Missouri and is currently a US Senator for Missouri. And of course, the person that Lucas Kountz is looking to unseat, hence the Lucas Kountz photo op at the gun range. It seems it’s become a requirement for Democrat politicians with no actual history of interest in guns, gun handling or shooting of any sort to suddenly portray themselves as being gun guys when they’re running for election. Barack Obama was photographed at the White House firing a shotgun in 2013. To my knowledge, the only time he’s ever been known to have handled the firearm just about a week ago. Democrat candidate for Vice President, Tim Walls, participated in a photo op of a game bird hunt in which he can be seen badly fumbling the unloading of a shotgun in a manner that suggests very little familiarity with the firearm.

That’s my theory and it never fits quite right. It never fits quite right. Just not quite right. How do you give it back, Governor? What kind of gun is it? This is a Beretta, a 400 I brought, I bought it when I was shooting a lot of, uh trap because it has a kind of their patented thing. A kick off. So when you get old, it doesn’t hurt your shoulders much. It’s weird that walls would be so fumble fingered with a not very complicated firearm when he claims that he bought the shotgun quote, when I was shooting a lot of trap close quote, color me skeptical, I guess.

And now we have the Lucas Koontz Range Day. So what went wrong with this range day that ended up with a bleeding reporter? First of all, they were shooting at steel plates that were way too close for the 5.56 rifles being used like the rifle scene here in the hands of Adam Kinzinger. Most ranges in my experience and I’ve shot up many, many steel plate racks on many, many ranges. In my decades of competitive shooting require a minimum of 10 yards distance from steel plate from the shooter. And that’s when you’re shooting a pistol. The reason a minimum distance is required is because when a bullet strikes a steel plate, the bullet breaks apart. Sometimes the copper jacket comes flying off and those can be pretty much razor sharp.

Sometimes the lead fragments and chunks of lead come back at the shooter. The closer you get to the plate, the more of that ejected stuff you get hit with and the more energy it has when it hits you shooting, say a nine millimeter pistol at a steel plate rack at 10 yards will still likely get you hit with some splatter and maybe a copper jacket. And that’s why we wear eye protection. Well, that’s why we’re supposed to wear eye protection more on that in a moment. Still, when shooting a pistol at steel plate, if you’re at least 10 yards away, you’re highly unlikely to suffer injury by anything that comes back because it will have lost most of its energy at that distance.

Again, that’s when shooting a pistol, a rifle caliber like 5.56 has enormously more energy than does a nine millimeter pistol round. Indeed, you should expect 5.56 to badly dimple steel plate unless care has been made to purchase exceptionally hardened plate, which in my experience is not common. In fact, where the recommended safe standoff distance from plate when shooting nine millimeters 10 yards, the recommended safe standoff distance from plate when shooting 5.56 is 100 yards, a tenfold increase. And clearly, you can tell from this photo that these gentlemen are nowhere near 10 yards from this plate rack, certainly nowhere near 100 yards and experienced shooters of plates would know that it is highly likely that 5.56 rounds fired at these plates at this distance will result in a lot of ejected material and jacket.

Coming back at the shooters and bystanders and coming back with more than enough energy to cause bleeding injury. Indeed, it would come back with more than enough injury to permanently damage an unprotected eyeball. And that gets us back to the issue of eye protection. Anybody shooting at a range today or for decades in the past is required to wear both eye protection, safety glasses and ear protection, muff style or ear plug style. Whatever the hearing protection is obviously intended to protect your hearing from the loud sounds made by guns when they fire even a single gunshot at close distance can cause some permanent hearing loss. The eye protection is required because eyes are obviously exceptionally vulnerable to damage from flying particles.

And there tends to be a lot of flying particles when guns are being discharged. And that’s when the guns are firing properly. If a gun were to discharge catastrophically, tons of flying stuff can be moving through the air. And when you’re firing 5.56 at a steel plate rack, that’s perhaps only 10 yards away, you should fully expect a ton of lead and copper jacket and other stuff to be flying back at you and at your delicate eyeballs as a result. Now, in this closer shot of the prior photo with Lucas Koontz holding a rifle in his hand and Adam Kinzinger aiming an air style rifle at the plate rack. It’s very obvious that Adam Kinzinger has no eye protection in place. Indeed, his safety glasses are rocked up onto his head.

Now, if I were being clever, I suppose I could argue that the scope on Kinzinger s rifle provided that particular eye behind it with some protection. And by the way, we’ll be coming back to the scope in a moment. But first, I don’t believe that Kinzinger popped his glasses up on his head just while using the scope that would not normally be done by anyone familiar with eye and ear protective gear.

Second, the scope only protects from stuff coming directly back at the scope, but on the gun range with multiple shooters and multiple targets, stuff can be flying at you from most any direction down range and even from other shooters beside you. Now, back to the scope, folks, that’s a sizable scope. I expect it’s excellent at allowing clarity of vision at great distances.

If you’re shooting at a target, 100 or 200 yards away, that may well be the scope for you. But a scope that’s well suited to longer distances is inherently poorly suited to closer distances. No one in their right mind with any familiarity with firearms, rifles, scopes, targets, distances or anything else related would be using a scope like this on a rifle like this to shoot at steel plates a mere 10 yards from the shooter. But wait, it gets even worse.

You see those orange containers on the shooting bench. That’s a product called tannerite. Tannerite is a low order explosive intended to detonate when it’s struck by a high velocity object like a bullet or like ejected debris coming off a close steel target being shot at by something like a rifle.

Now, I call tannerite a low order explosive to distinguish it from a high order explosive like TNT. That doesn’t mean tannerite is not dangerous. Here’s a video of a man shooting at a refrigerator containing tannerite. Holy if those containers of tannerite on the range bench of the Lucas Coons range day positioned by the way between the shooters and their targets had either taken around sent down range or been hit by high velocity debris coming back up range from the nearby plates. That would have been a bad, bad day. Lastly, I’d like to touch on the first aid provided to the poor guy who received a bloody injury as a result of these unsafe gun handling practices. Reporter Ryan Gamboa fortunately the injury while a little bloody doesn’t appear serious and and that’s a good thing, but take a look at this photo of his treated injury.

Now, there’s nothing correct about how this injury was treated, frankly. A little disinfectant and a bandage would probably have been sufficient. But what’s that black strap around his lower bicep? You might think it’s a tourniquet, but first, it’s not any widely accepted tourniquet. I’ve seen a cat or soft or even a rat’s tourniquet. Each have a distinctive appearance and a much more robust appearance than whatever that thing is.

Second, if it is a tourniquet, it’s not properly placed. A tourniquet is properly placed as far up on the limb as you can get it right against the groin for a bleeding leg and right up against the armpit on a bleeding arm. It’s never placed just above the elbow no matter where the arm may be bleeding. Third, a tourniquet is not used to hold the piece of gauze or anything else in place as we can see here. Indeed. Anything you place between a tourniquet and the patient’s body would tend to diminish the effectiveness of the tourniquet.

Second, if a piece of gauze needs to be held in place, just wrap some more gauze or, or use tape, not the tremendous pressure that attorney gets intended to apply. And I’ll close with this little anecdote. So you may recall that a few years ago, Mark and Patricia mccloskey, two lawyers in Saint Louis stood out on their front lawn with guns in hand to face down.

A mob of Black Lives Matters protesters and then were aggressively targeted for prosecution by the local George Soros funded prosecutor. Ultimately, the mccloskey’s were pardoned by the governor. So everything worked out fine for them. I bring it up because after that event, none other than Lucas Kunz himself posted a tweet offering free quote, marine led weapon safety training to the mccloskey’s. I presume they declined the offer.

And now we can see from Lucas Koon’s own range, they, that marine or not, he’s not sufficiently competent in weapon safety to be training anybody. Anyway, this is why I don’t really like being on hot ranges ranges where all the guns are loaded with. Folks. I don’t really know, have rock solid gun handling.

I’ve shot around thousands of people in my competitive career almost always on cold ranges on a hot range where guns are all loaded and being operated at each person’s discretion. All it takes is one dunce to endanger everyone or like in this case at the coons photo op gun range day, several dances. Ok.

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