Ex-Girlfriend shoots intruder dead; investigation ongoing

TULSA, OKLA. (KTUL) — Tulsa Police are investigating a deadly shooting that happened early Tuesday morning near 124th Terrace and Kingston Avenue.

Officers were called to the scene around 2:45 a.m., where they found 27-year-old Sean Six suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest.

He was transported to a local hospital but later died from his injuries.

According to homicide detectives, the investigation indicates Six forced his way into a home where his former girlfriend was staying with a friend.

Investigators say he initially attempted to enter through a window before kicking in the front door.

Police say the woman’s friend fired a shot after Six came inside the residence.

The individual who discharged the weapon was interviewed by detectives and later released as the investigation continues.

On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

On his travels through Israel and Gaza, #1 International Bestselling author Douglas Murray has seen the best and the worst humanity has to offer, and he has no trouble choosing a side.

Murray is not Jewish and before October 7, he had never lived in Israel. However, he objects to being lied to, and Israel has been on the receiving end of the biggest, deepest, longest lies in history.

Israel’s commitment to fundamental Western values—capitalism, individual rights, democracy, and reason—has made it a beacon of progress in a region dominated by authoritarianism and extremism. Israel’s principles vividly contrast with the ideology of Hamas, which openly proclaims its love of death over life. With incisive moral clarity, On Democracies and Death Cults exposes how the campus left and international establishment confuse this conflict by:

  • Calling on Israel for restraint and proportionality, while Hamas commits genocide.
  • Slandering Israelis as white colonialists, while only a third of Israelis are Jews of European ancestry.
  • Framing the conflict as oppressor vs. oppressed, when it is really between a thriving multi-ethnic democracy and a death cult bent on its annihilation.

Drawing from intensive on-the-ground reporting in Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon, Douglas Murray places the latest violence in its proper historical context. He takes readers on a harrowing journey through the aftermath of the October 7 massacre, piecing together the exclusive accounts from victims, survivors, and even the terrorists responsible for the atrocities. If left unchecked, misplaced sympathy could embolden forces that seek to undermine not only Israel, but all of Western civilization.

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Please don’t shoot me Bro!

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[President of Iran Masoud] Pezeshkian disavows any responsibilities and says he is “without authority, completely cut off from the leadership structures, and there is no justification for targeting him.”

A political advisor in a Gulf state confirmed that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian informed a number of his counterparts in the Arab Gulf and other countries, including Russia and Turkey, that “in light of the collapse of the constitutional leadership structure in the country and his disconnection from communicating with its components, he absolves himself of responsibility and emphasizes that there is no justification for targeting him.”

Iran Proves Value of our Second Amendment

It is estimated that Iranian police, military and paramilitary forces have murdered more than 36,000 unarmed citizens in the past few months. No one will know the actual number until after the current regime falls.

Some of the victims were simply protesting. Others were murdered because they were caught outside, so their killings were convenient for the government’s henchmen.

Not a single member of the Iranian police, military or paramilitary forces has been arrested much less charged for even one of the 36,000 killings—not a single one.

The current Iranian regime has said very little about the thousands of deaths, but everyone knows the reason. Thirty-six thousand Iranians were murdered simply to make a sick point: Obey the current government or you’ll be shot in the street like a dog.

Iran has no real constitution, much less anything even close to our Second Amendment, so the victims had no chance of fighting back. Personal firearms were seized by the government decades ago.

As a result, the Iranian people became unarmed sheep up against the government’s heavily armed wolves. They stood no chance despite their valor and the righteousness of their cause.

These reprehensible killings can be difficult for many Americans to understand, especially those who don’t fully understand the protections brought by our Second Amendment.

As it stands now in free states, the government cannot order you to turn in your guns and trust that nothing bad will ever happen. This would never happen in Florida, Texas, Mississippi or any other free state, right?

Unfortunately, an anti-gun cancer is spreading across the country, especially in states that were never thought susceptible.

Virginia Democrats just sent a massive collection of anti-gun bills to their governor, but the authors exempted themselves from any legal issues.

“The provisions of this section shall not apply to any member of the General Assembly,” they wrote, ensuring that Democratic lawmakers don’t lose their Second Amendment rights.

Other bright-blue states are following suit. Look at their unconstitutional bills. Almost every single one bans the one weapon and its accessories that gives its owner a fighting chance to defend themselves and their family—the ArmaLite Rifle or AR.

The left’s leadership is solely responsible for all of these unconstitutional bills. They want us spending time and money fighting against legislation that was clearly unconstitutional when it was written, much less signed into law. It’s better that, they believe, than proposing our own pro-gun bills. They don’t care that millions of law-abiding gun owners will become criminals—in some states even felons—once the bills become law.

Our Second Amendment protections have been in place for more than 238 years, but anti-gun politicians simply do not care. It remains the only amendment treated with such blatant disrespect by elected officials who took an oath to support and defend the entire Constitution.

I cannot help but wonder what just one of the 36,000 Iranians would say about our current saga, if one of them were still alive. I am pretty confident they would support an individual’s right to keep and bear arms regardless of their political beliefs, because it provides the ability to defend oneself against tyranny in any form, especially from illegitimate politicians who would knowingly arrest or endanger their own constituents if that’s what their political party tells them to do.

Judge Denies DOJ Request to Limit Injunction on Post Office Carry Ban

In June, 2024 the Firearms Policy Coalition and Second Amendment Foundation filed a lawsuit challenging the federal ban on firearms in U.S. postal facilities. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled in favor of the plaintiffs last September, but the DOJ has tried to keep that ruling on hold while it appeals to the Fifth Circuit.

The appellate court denied the DOJ’s request back in January, but at that point the DOJ had also settled on a secondary strategy; asking O’Connor to limit the scope of the injunction so that it would only cover those who were FPC and SAF members at the time the lawsuit was filed. Since late October, the two sides have been filing back-and-forth briefs on the DOJ’s request, and today O’Connor handed down his decision.

O’Connor’s decision covers present and future members of Second Amendment Foundation as well. From today’s order:

The Government asserts that the Court’s injunctive relief should be limited only to individuals who were members of Firearms Policy Coalition (“FPC”) and the Second Amendment Foundation (“SAF”) as of June 18, 2024—the date Plaintiffs filed their complaint—because FPC and SAF “did not have standing to represent and obtain relief for members who did not yet exist.”

The Government argues that to obtain relief for members who join after June 18, 2024, Plaintiffs should have sought class certification. Otherwise, the Government argues, nearly any organization could evade the Supreme Court’s prohibition of nationwide injunctions in Trump v.CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. 831, 861 (2025) by using associational standing as a “backdoor way” to grant universal injunctions.

But despite its arguments, the Government has not provided, and the Court has not found, a case limiting injunctive relief to only those members of an association at the time a lawsuit is filed. And while Plaintiffs could have sought class certification, they apparently also relied instead on associational standing—which the Government seemingly agrees they have in some form.

The DOJ’s attempt to limit the scope of the injunction has less to do with the 2A issues involved in the case and much more to do with its concern about nationwide injunctions in non-2A cases dealing with, say, immigration efforts. The DOJ can’t really argue that some broad injunctions are okay but others are not, so this is at least a consistent position on the part of the Trump administration.

Of course, there’s nothing requiring DOJ to continue to defend the carry ban in postal facilities either. The administration could simply drop its appeal and let O’Connor’s decision stand. It could also voluntarily rescind the ban of its own accord… and I’d argue that’s exactly what the Trump administration should do now.

So what are the real world implications here? It sounds to me like all current FPC and SAF members are covered by the injunction, which means that they should be allowed to carry in postal facilities (as customers, not as employees). I would suggest having something identifying you as a member if you do so, though, and be prepared to explain the contours of the lawsuit and Judge O’Connor’s decisions to those public-facing employees who have no idea that the injunction is in place.

Backup Plan: When The Quickest Reload Is A Second Gun

Back in the day, cops called it a “New York Reload,” a term dating back to the era when New York City stake-out detectives carried two snob-nose revolvers so they could, according to longtime pal and former cop-turned-private investigator Paul Huebl, “instantly switch guns in a gunfight to avoid slow reloads.

“In those days,” he recalled, “semi-autos were too unreliable.”

How’d you like to be the dumb crook who suddenly finds himself suffering from a case of .38-caliber double-vision?

Lots of people carry revolvers, and some carry two; their primary sidearm and a backup. The logic of this made sense the first time I heard about it. Rather than duck for cover and try to reload under stress, just draw the backup and stay in the fight.

Author Workman has found a good combination of wheelguns for those occasions when he “doubles down.”

Probably the guy who perfected the New York Reload was the late Jim Cirillo, a legendary NYPD detective who spent several years on the stakeout unit and, according to various published stories, was involved in seventeen gunfights. He carried a pair of Smith & Wesson .38 Special revolvers along with a 12-gauge Ithaca shotgun, and he is sometimes remembered as the “last of the real gunfighters in America.”

I never met Cirillo. Wish I had, because the stories he shared were educational as well as entertaining. He put a lot of them in a book titled “Guns, Bullets, and Gunfights,” published 30 years ago and it is still available on Amazon. A second book, “Jim Cirillo’s Tales of the Stakeout Squad,” authored by Paul Kirchner, is also loaded with Cirillo lore, and can also be found on Amazon.

Sadly, Cirillo died in a traffic accident in 2007. However, his habit of packing two revolvers was a stroke of genius which is still practiced by a surprising number of folks today, rather than a semi-auto with more firepower in a single magazine than a pair of wheelguns. The downside to the single gun strategy is that if something goes wrong, you might as well have a brick. With a second gun, you’re still in the game.

I’m guilty of occasionally carrying two at a time, and I’ve known police and sheriff’s deputies who have carried backup guns in ankle holsters or in deep-cover chest holsters inside their shirts. Others have carried 5-shot Smith & Wesson Chief’s Special snub guns in coat pockets, on the opposite side from their duty sidearm. It might be impossible to accurately estimate the number of lives saved by the presence of a backup gun, but if you’re a revolver afficionado, packing double is certainly worthy of consideration.

Better to have something and not need it than to need something and not have it, eh?Thanks to the light weight of a small alloy-framed S&W revolver, Dave has found that carrying such a revolver in the pocket of a sport jacket or nylon vest is unobtrusive and immediately accessible. Speed loaders go in the opposite pocket.

In Self-Defense

What brought this to mind is that March 13 is the tenth anniversary of an incident involving a guy I slightly knew—and interviewed one week after the fact (the only working journalist he would speak with)—who fatally shot a hatchet-wielding assailant after the man entered a 7-Eleven in a suburb south of Seattle. The hatchet man took a swing at him, barely missing what could have been a fatal head wound, and then turned his attention toward the clerk. The good guy was simply drinking coffee and had never seen this nut before.

I watched the store security video at least a dozen times. It was a textbook example of justifiable self-defense, at least under Washington state’s use-of-force statute; what is generically called a “clean shoot” within the parameters of the “reasonable person doctrine.” The armed citizen shot the attacker three times at virtually point blank range with a J-frame Smith & Wesson chambered in .357 Magnum, an act determined by investigators and prosecutors to have been what any reasonable person would have done in a similar situation. The attacker died at the scene, ending an incident which unfolded over the course of only about 30 seconds. Violence frequently happens without warning, it is so fast one may not have time to really think, just act.

As it turned out, the five-shot revolver was one of two such handguns he was carrying at the time, one in each pocket of his jacket. He remained at the scene, was interviewed by sheriff’s detectives who reviewed the security video, and released. They even let him keep his second gun, since it had not been fired.

Six months later, the county prosecutor’s office announced no charges would be filed. The incident has faded into history, my pal eventually got his gun back, and so far as I know, he went on with his life.

The classic lightweight Colt Cobra is another good choice for either a primary carry piece or a backup gun,. It offers six shots worth of attitude adjustment, and such revolvers can often be found
used in gun shops or at gun shows for very reasonable prices.

Wheelgun Magic

What’s the best way to carry double? There is no one-size-fits-all formula. When I carry a backup revolver, it’s often in a pocket holster stuffed inside of my cover vest’s cargo pocket. My lightweight S&W snubbie can also be carried in a jacket pocket without the holster. It doesn’t print, and I can carry a couple of HKS speedloaders in the opposite pocket. Otherwise, it might be in a Mitch Rosen ankle rig.

Others will used the aforementioned ankle holster for their second gun, or an IWB rig on the opposite/weak side, or even front or rear, depending upon one’s cover garments. It is a very fast way to stay in the fight, should the circumstances require, and by the time your ten, eleven or a dozen rounds have been fired, you will have made a lasting impression.

Remora offers a handy pocket holster with a surface which keeps it in the pocket when the gun is drawn, via friction.

Years ago, I worked with a guy who carried a small S&W .38 Special in his pants pocket, as he typically wore neatly-pressed cargo pants. Nobody could tell he had that gun. He also had, close at hand, a Colt .45 Commander.

What handguns would I recommend? Here’s where it gets fun. There are so many great revolvers for this practice from S&W, Colt, Ruger, Taurus, Charter Arms and Kimber; new or used, you can find some very good deals on revolvers since they’re not as popular as semi-autos. The carry combinations are virtually endless. One might obtain a pair of S&W Model 10 snub guns, or a Colt Detective Special backed up by a Colt Cobra.

Personally, I have carried a Colt Diamondback and a J-frame Model 442 Smith, both in .38 Special, or a .357 Magnum Model 19 S&W with a 2 ½-inch barrel, backed up by a .38 Special at times. One might opt for a pair of J-frame five-shooters, as my acquaintance mentioned above.

Thanks to collaborations between S&W and Lipsey’s, there are new wheelguns in .44 Special and .38 Special available, and they do not have the internal locking mechanism. I suspect the majority of two-gun packers carry .357s or .38s, either with hammers or hammerless, and having one or two of these little shooters beats the heck out of having no gun at all!

There’s no trick to carrying two revolvers, outside of practice and the right choice of holsters and carry positions. You’ll burn up a lot of ammunition, with the ultimate goal of speed and accuracy. Of course you should practice shooting with both hands.

Packing a backup gun is a sign of preparedness, not paranoia, and carrying revolvers doesn’t limit anything. Instead—as in my case—it has broadened my perspective, and given me plenty of time to think about all the various carry options.

Carry with confidence and do it discreetly.

Rock Chartrand –
That isn’t a right to life. It’s an entitlement to enslave.
A right to life means no one may kill you. It doesn’t mean others can be forced to feed, house, or sustain you.
The moment survival becomes a claim on someone else’s labor, you haven’t created a right.
You’ve created an obligation imposed on others by force.