Tag: security

  • iPhone footage outside Las Vegas courthouse shootout

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7HiFbJyrzk[/youtube] A gunman walked into a Las Vegas federal courthouse Monday morning and opened fire, killing a court security officer and wounding a deputy U.S. marshal. Seven employees of the U.S. Marshals Service chased the shooter out of the building and returned fire, according to authorities. He died after collapsing across the street from the courthouse from multiple gunshot wounds, said Ramon Denby,…

  • Joining U.S. Customs And Border Protection

    A man is seeking to join the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs And Border Protection The agent conducting the interview says: “Your qualifications all look good, but there is an attitude suitability test that you must take before you can be accepted.” Then, sliding a pistol across the desk, he says: “Take this pistol…

  • Guns and airport checkpoints

    The Transportation Security Administration says that so far this year 793 firearms have been discovered at U.S. airport checkpoints — and we’ve still got two major league holidays to go: Thanksgiving and Christmas. Last year, in total, there were 902 firearms found. Full story – HERE Hat Tip: SnowflakesInHell Blog

  • OPSEC – A term often used frivolously on the internet

    The National Security Agency (NSA) defines OPSEC as: OPSEC – Operations Security – The process of denying potential adversaries any information about capabilities and/or intentions by identifying, controlling, and protecting generally unclassified evidence of the planning and execution of sensitive activities. – Source People on internet forums love acronyms, and this one takes the cake. …

  • A well regulated militia

    By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia’, the ‘security’ of the nation, and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms’, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever…