Wednesday - May 15, 2013

Cuomo’s Idiot Law Takes First Victim

NY: Busted For 2 Extra Bullets

NEW LEBANON [NY]— An upstate man was arrested under the state’s new gun law when troopers found him with a legally registered pistol that had a magazine that held nine bullets – two more than the new statute allows, state police said.

Troopers from the New Lebanon barracks in Columbia County stopped a car driven by Gregory D. Dean Jr., 31, of Hopewell Junction, around 9:45 p.m. Sunday on Route 22 because the vehicle’s license-plate lamp was not working.

While interviewing Dean, troopers noticed a handgun on the front seat, partially covered by a sweatshirt.

The troopers determined the gun, a .40-caliber pistol, was legally registered and possessed. However, when the troopers inspected the pistol, its magazine contained the nine bullets – New York’s Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act only allows seven bullets per magazine.

Police charged Dean with unlawful possession of certain ammunition feeding devices, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation,both misdemeanors, plus vehicle infractions, police said.

• I’m pretty sure there’s something in the Constitution about no ex post facto laws. How can a magazine that was legal last year be illegal today? (God asks, “Hey, I made marijuana 98 million years ago. What’s up with that?")
• “Aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree” is lawyer-speak for “driving with a suspended license”. It’s a $200 fine in NY.
• By what right or reason did the officer require to inspect this guy’s gun? And why did the guy hand it over for inspection? Duh, to avoid the cop from shooting him when he got all uppity upon denial, obviously. But such “inspection” seems wrong to me.
• The arresting office was probably carrying a pistol with 17 rounds in the magazine, and another 2 17 round magazines on his utility belt. While the Albany Genius has said a magazine capacity exemption for LEOS and military will be made, such legislation has not yet been written or passed.
• Some may think that Mr. Dean was foolish for transporting his gun in this manner. Pretty certain that general NY law requires it to be locked in a box in the trunk, unloaded. HOWEVER, until Cuomo’s Safe Act law was rammed through in January, which co-opted all the County’s “home rule” permit provisions, Dutchess County (where Mr. Dean lives) was a Shall Issue Unrestricted county. In other words, a pistol permit there IS a CCW, and it’s valid in every other county in the state other than NYC and the Five Boroughs, even if those other counties don’t themselves issue CCW-style permits. Go figure. So having a loaded gun next to him was more than likely not illegal.
• I do not know if the new, state-wide permitting system has been put in place yet, nor do I know what it’s rules are. But it’s going to be one ugly boiling kettle of rotting fish if tens of thousands of previously lifetime CCW residents find themselves suddenly downgraded to NYC-type rules.

“Broken tail light” is the oldest cop excuse in the world for pulling you over. In between rain showers this week I’ve been repairing the old landscaping lights we have here along the sidewalk. They run on good old GE 1156 bulbs, the ubiquitous run-forever 27W automotive tail lamp, brake light, and license plate illuminating light bulb for older cars. There now exist LED replacement bulbs that fit right into the socket and produce just as much light, yet only draw 4 Watts or less, depending on how bright a light you want. They cost around $30, but they run tens of thousands of hours and do not break. Unless clobbered by a big hammer. And some of them still run with several of the LEDs broken. So for a pile of money you could eliminate that excuse from any officer seeking to pull you over. Or you could keep a few bulbs, some De-Oxit, and a screwdriver handy, and do a walk-around at least once a week before driving, to make sure all the bulbs work. 

   Monday - May 13, 2013

You Say You Want A Revolution

Well, you know ...

Missouri Legislature Nullifies All Federal Gun Control Measures by a Veto-Proof Majority

Jefferson City, Mo (May 8, 2013) – Tonight, the Missouri State House voted to send Governor Jay Nixon what could arguably be the strongest defense against federal gun control measures in American history. The vote was 116-38.

HB436, introduced by Representative Doug Funderburk in February, was initially passed by the House in April by a vote of 115-42.  Last week, the State Senate approved the bill with an amendment which did not change any of its nullification aspects. The vote there was 26-6.  The bill then needed one final vote in the house which happened just before 10pm local time this evening.

The votes in both the House and Senate are by a strong veto-proof majority.  Local activist Matt Radcliffe acknowledged as much when he said, “Governor Nixon can do nothing and it will automatically become law July 1st.  Or he can sign it into law. Or he can veto it then his veto will be overridden in the house and it will become law anyway!”

As law, HB436 would nullify virtually every federal gun control measure on the books – or planned for the future.

selected quotes from the bill that will brings tears to your eyes:

1.320. 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Second Amendment Preservation Act”.

2. The general assembly finds and declares that:

(1) The general assembly of the state of Missouri is firmly resolved to support and defend the United States Constitution against every aggression, either foreign or domestic, and the general assembly is duty bound to watch over and oppose every infraction of those principles which constitute the basis of the Union of the States, because only a faithful observance of those principles can secure the nation’s existence and the public happiness;

(2) Acting through the United States Constitution, the people of the several states created the federal government to be their agent in the exercise of a few defined powers, while reserving to the state governments the power to legislate on matters which concern the lives, liberties, and properties of citizens in the ordinary course of affairs;

(3) The limitation of the federal government’s power is affirmed under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people of the several states to the federal government, and all power not delegated to the federal government in the Constitution of the United States is reserved to the states respectively, or to the people themselves;

(4) Whenever the federal government assumes powers that the people did not grant it in the Constitution, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force;
(5) The several states of the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their federal government.

3. (1) All federal acts, laws, orders, rules, and regulations, whether past, present, or future, which infringe on the people’s right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 23 of the Missouri Constitution shall be invalid in this state, shall not be recognized by this state, shall be specifically rejected by this state, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this state.

(2) Such federal acts, laws, orders, rules, and regulations include, but are not limited to:

(a) The provisions of the federal Gun Control Act of 1934;

(b) The provisions of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968;

(c) Any tax, levy, fee, or stamp imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition not common to all other goods and services which could have a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;

(d) Any registering or tracking of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition which could have a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;

(e) Any registering or tracking of the owners of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition which could have a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;

(f) Any act forbidding the possession, ownership, or use or transfer of any type of firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition by law-abiding citizens; and

(g) Any act ordering the confiscation of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition from law-abiding citizens.

[3.2] (d) In the absence of any reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal activity, no person carrying a concealed or unconcealed handgun shall be disarmed or physically restrained by a law enforcement officer unless under arrest; and

(e) Any person who violates this subdivision shall be subject to the penalty provided in section 571.121.

160.665. [6.] 1. Any school district within the state may designate one or more elementary or secondary school teachers or administrators as a school protection officer. The responsibilities and duties of a school protection officer are voluntary and shall be in addition to the normal responsibilities and duties of the teacher or administrator. Any compensation for additional duties relating to service as a school protection officer shall be funded by the local school district, with no state funds used for such purpose.

2. Any person designated by a school district as a school protection officer shall be authorized to carry concealed firearms in any school in the district and shall be required to keep such firearm on his or her person at all times while on school property. Any school protection officer who violates this subsection shall be removed immediately from the classroom and subject to employment termination proceedings.

3. Any person designated as a school protection officer may detain, on view, any person the officer sees violating or who such officer has reasonable grounds to believe has violated any law of this state, including a misdemeanor or infraction, or any policy of the school.

And no, it isn’t the “Wild West”. The bill sets out a fair number of use regulations, age limitations, and so forth (looks like switchblades are still illegal in MO), as is within the power of the state. But there is nothing in there that bans automatic weapons, semi-automatic weapons, firearms above a certain caliber, below a certain length (open carry is limited to firearms 16” long or shorter). No magazine capacity limits, no rules about certain types or calibers of ammunition being illegal, and so forth.

I do not know if this bill nulls out any other gun laws in that state. Mostly it reaffirms that Federal Power is limited, federal arm twisting by denying money is illegal, federal limitations on the Second Amendment are illegal, and if a town wants to have “Skool Kops” they can go right ahead and have them, on their own dime, and those people can be armed if otherwise qualified and trained. It even gives them limited powers of detention. All in all I’d say it was one fine piece of legislation.


You say you’ll just ignore the Constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s your institution
Well, you know
We’d better free our land instead


I don’t know about sleeping giants awakening, but in Missouri I think somebody large has an eye open and is looking for some coffee.

   Friday - May 10, 2013

‘Most crooks don’t have licences but still keep guns

He’s in the news again and his name is Tony Martin.  He is the farmer who some years ago, went to jail after shooting and deleting a young burglar.  That was a good deed.  Except of course back then, Mr. Martin went to jail and also lost his permit to own a shotgun.  People here were outraged that the law would come down so heavily on Martin, who was protecting his property.  Impossible for us Americans to understand the mindset that appear so heavily in favor of the bad guys. 

Well, Mr. Martin chased off another bad guy and this time no shooting. But he says it isn’t the first time there have been intruders on the property.  The story reads like he does have a weapon handy, but he is now afraid of using such due to what happened to him before.  He might become a victim 2wice.  Once at the hands of a thief and again at the hand of asinine laws that bleed tears for the bad guys. 

A week or two ago, a judge decided that 17 year olds MUST be treated as children under the law if arrested. 

Meanwhile ….  this week two teens, age 15, were sent to jail for 6 years for the mugging and killing of an 85 year old woman.  They were totally unconcerned about her death. The black bastards will be out just in time to enjoy the rest of their undeserved youth.  The rest of us can only hope we won’t be one of their future victims.  And lets be clear about this.  It won’t be their fault vermin tho they are. That’s what they do. Innit? I mean to say, scum are only doing their job.  It’s the system that isn’t doing its job.

‘I wished I’d fought him off’: Farmer Tony Martin who was jailed for shooting a teenage burglar confronts thieves for the second time

· Claims he chased thief yelling: ‘Come back again and I’ll sort you my way’

· 67-year-old shot dead Fred Barras and injured Brendan Fearon in 1999
· Given a life sentence before crime was reduced to manslaughter
· After stress of yesterday’s incident he’s been taken to hospital for treatment
· ’I don’t understand myself or recognise myself. I don’t feel safe,’ he said

‘Most crooks don’t have licences but still keep guns so the law’s hugely unbalanced in their favour.

The farmer was checking out houses and barns when he confronted the intruder.
He said, ‘He ran away but I’m convinced he’ll be back in my barn and then he’ll wish he wasn’t,’ admitted Mr Martin, who does not hold a shotgun licence any more.
‘But you know what,’ he said. ‘Most crooks don’t have licences but still keep guns so the law’s hugely unbalanced in their favour.
‘While it’s 13 years since the last incident happened, I don’t think we’re any safer than we were then. I still feel vulnerable and am unable to properly protect myself.
‘It’s not the value of the goods that upsets me; its just that people seem to be able to come and take from others as they please and the police and politicians never seem to do anything about it.
‘Who’ll pay for the smashed battery? It’s irrelevant to the thief and I don’t expect the police to find him through checking the fingerprints.’

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A 3D PLASTIC GUN … AND IT WORKS. firing pin is a common nail we are told.

This appeared in yesterday’s Daily Mail, which we get delivered 7 days a week. I must have been asleep to not have acted and posted but then again, I figured all of you had already seen it multiple times back home. Although the article mentions Shummer, another paper today also adds Cong. Steve Israel to the list of opponents.  I’m sure there will be lots more.

I must give credit where due and H/T Doc Jeff cos he reminded me of this ignored or forgotten or slept thru article.

Blueprints for 3D-plastic gun downloaded 100,000 times in 2 days before the State Department orders the site to take down the weapon designs

Defense Distributed posted video on Sunday of founder shooting all-plastic gun made on an $8,000 3-D printer
Pistol uses only one metal piece - a small nail for the firing pin
Blueprints for the weapons were downloaded 100,000 times in two days
Most downloaded in Spain, then the U.S., Brazil, Germany, and the U.K.
The State Department has demanded the site take down the blueprints

By Daily Mail Reporter

ALL OTHER DETAILS ARE HERE

   Thursday - May 09, 2013

Today’s Big Read

If you haven’t seen links to this essay somewhere else, let me point out to you a great bit of “required reading” on the gun control issue.

Barry Snell hits a grand slam, right out of the park, with his 5 page essay. Go and read it, you’ll love it. And it helps the rest of us review and line up our talking points. Well done.

I’ve come to realize after the Sandy Hook shooting that the reason we can’t have a rational gun debate is because the anti-gun side pre-supposes that their pro-gun opponents must first accept that guns are bad in order to have a discussion about guns in the first place. Before we even start the conversation, we’re the bad guys and we have to admit it. Without accepting that guns are bad and supplicating themselves to the anti-gunner, the pro-gunner can’t get a word in edgewise, and is quickly reduced to being called a murderer, or a low, immoral and horrible human being.

Gun people don’t trust anti-gun people because they keep saying they “respect the Second Amendment” and go on about how they respect the hunting traditions of America. We don’t trust you because you have to be a complete idiot to think the Second Amendment is about hunting. I wish people weren’t so stupid that I have to say this: The Second Amendment is about checking government tyranny. Period. End of story. The founders probably couldn’t have cared less about hunting since, you know, they just got done with that little tiff with England called the Revolutionary War right before they wrote that “little book” called the Constitution.

Gun people don’t trust anti-gun people because they lie to us. President Obama directly says he won’t tamper with guns or the Second Amendment, then turns around and pushes Congress to do just that. We don’t trust anti-gunners because they appoint one of the most lying and rabidly (and moronically) anti-gun people in America, Vice President Biden, to head up a “task force” to “solve” the so-called “gun problem,” who in turn talks with anti-gun special interest groups instead of us to complete his task.

Oh, yummy with extra fudge sauce. Love it.

   Wednesday - May 08, 2013

Won’t be a virgin much longer

I’ve got an appoinment with my NRA certified high school buddy for Saturday. We’re going to the Miami Valley Shooting Grounds. $12/person and we can shoot all day. Indoors or outdoors. They only ask if we shoot indoors we use full-metal jacket ammo. Fortunately, I bought 200 rounds of full-metal jacket 9mm. My new Sig-Sauer P-226 will not be a virgin after Saturday. And yes Drew, my friend agreed with your advice on proper barrel break-in procedures.

   Monday - May 06, 2013

hi-cap: helping it go viral

Real life can make for some rough situations. This video models one: what if your home is invaded by several thugs at a time? This isn’t at all outlandish; you can find these things on the news all the time, when 3, 4, 5, 6 bad guys break in together? Hello, gang activity. Magazine restrictions could cost you your life, or the life of your family. Push back. Call, write, or email your elected weasels today.

h/t to Doc

   Saturday - May 04, 2013

Checkmate!

This from the The Tenth Amendment Center

Who are the Militia?

Many Americans might be surprised to learn that they are, were, or will be a member of the militia under both state and federal law. For purposes of federal law, the composition and classes of the militia are defined in Title 10 of the United States Code, Section 311:

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.

(b) The classes of the militia are-

(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and

(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

Since the militia could be called upon to provide their own weapons, it behooves you to own firearms, and learn to use them. Sgt. York from WWI is the example.

   Thursday - May 02, 2013

Must Blame Bush. Or Global Warming.

Just Another Night In Utopia: 20 Shot In Chicago

At least three people were killed and 17 wounded in shootings across Chicago overnight as the city saw its warmest weather in seven months.

In one of the fatal shootings, three men were shot in a parking lot across the street from the headquarters of the UIC Police Department, police said. The shooting happened around 10:40 p.m. in the 1000 block of West Maxwell Street, Police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said.

All three men were taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County. The conditions of two of them, 19 and 21, were stabilized at the hospital, Greer said. The third man, 19-year-old Tytrell Jackson, of the 1300 block of West Hastings Avenue, was pronounced dead at 11:13 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

About 12:10 a.m., a 27-year-old man was shot in the chest in the 6800 block of South Cornell Avenue, in the South Shore neighborhood, police said.

The man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:53 a.m. The medical examiner’s office identified him as Darrin Rodgers, of the 6800 block of South Cornell.

About 1:20 a.m., gunfire claimed another life, this time in the Lawndale neighborhood.

Police responding to the scene found a 23-year-old man lying in an alley near the 1900 block of South Drake Avenue, bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds, authorities said.

Gosh, maybe if Chicago had some gun control this kind of mindless violence wouldn’t happen all the time. Oh wait, they do! Chicago has some of the toughest gun laws in the country; the odds are overwhelming that every single one of these shootings was done with an illegal firearm, except maybe the shotgun one. Maybe.

Chicago, where even the high school sports games get cancelled out of fear of gang drive-bys. Chicago, where having “only” 94 murders since January, instead of the usual 100 or more (for 50 years!!) is seen as something to brag about.

The spike of violence occurred as temperatures climbed into the 80s and the city basked in the warmest weather yet this year.

It also comes after Chicago police reported that the number of murders in April (24) was the lowest in about 50 years, WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports. During the first four months of the year, Chicago reported a total of 94 murders. It’s the first time since 1963 that the city had fewer than 100 murders between January and April.

“We are looking at progress,” Police Supt. Garry McCarthy told the CBS 2 morning news, but he acknowledged that “we are going to have good days and bad days,” like Tuesday night.

Such progress.

   Monday - April 29, 2013

Mother Nature Is Not Helping

Another 2 week old news story I just learned about today.

Massive Landslide Closes Bingham Canyon Mine



Outside Salt Lake City, Utah. The Bingham Canyon Mine is an open pit mine, the largest in the world. It is more than 3 miles across and nearly a mile deep.

The landslide went off at about 9:30 in the evening on Wednesday, April 11. It was expected: like most modern mines, Bingham has redundant sensor systems (radar, laser, seismic, GPS) that measure ground movement down to the millimeter and give plenty of warning when a collapse is imminent. The mine was evacuated about 12 hours before the landslide, and nobody was hurt.

But the scale of the landslide was a surprise. Approximately 165 million tons of rock shifted, causing a highly localized earthquake measuring 5.1 Richter. It damaged or destroyed roads, power lines, and other infrastructure, and a number of the giant shovels and dump trucks that move ore and waste rock out of the pit.

[April 13] BINGHAM CANYON — Limited mining activity has resumed at Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Mine, three days after a massive landslide.

But company officials say the activity is in an area that wasn’t effected by the slide, called “the cornerstone,” and has nothing to do with the actual mining of ore.

Rio Tinto’s Kenecott Utah Copper spokesman Justin Jones said mining of “waste rock” resumed about 1 a.m. Saturday in the southeastern part of the mine. This is rock that is cleared that has no value, to get to the ground that contains ore, he said. It marks the first activity in the mine since the slide Wednesday night.

The massive slide registered as a magnitude 2.4 shake at the University of Utah seismograph station. Pictures taken from KSL Chopper 5 have amazed viewers and readers. But the slide’s exact dimensions had not yet been determined.

On Saturday, Jones said crews still were not allowed to get to the mine floor. The Mine Safety and Health Administration has ordered work in that area stopped until further notice. Jones hoped that crews would be able to get to bottom of the pit by next week.

No further movement of the mine had been recorded as of Saturday.

“It is essential for us to get back to work and get up and running as soon as possible,” Jones said.

Some slope movement had been detected two weeks earlier, enough to cancel the visitor’s season.

The good news, which may or may not last, is that the price of copper has not spiked.

165 million tons of rockfall. The biggest dumptrucks there can carry 400 tons. It’s going to take a long, long time to get this mine cleaned up and back to full operational capacity. Maybe they’ll just start a new pit altogether ... although it’s my understanding that the ore vein is way down at the bottom. This one mine supplies 17% of all the copper in the whole country.

more pics:
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=24748916&nid=460#1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/riotinto-kennecottutahcopper/sets/72157633216160914/with/8637646879/

more coverage:
http://www.kutv.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_4525.shtml
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/14/rio-utah-slide-idUSL2N0D10HM20130414
http://fox13now.com/2013/04/23/residents-concerned-about-bingham-mine-access-road/

Freedom In The Heartland

This ought to give the leftwing bedwetters nightmares. Loving it.

Indiana House Passes Switchblade and Silencer Bill



[Drew, late to the party again. But it’s a big ol’ world, and I bet you hadn’t heard this one either. Come to think of it, it’s pretty hard to find news stories on it at all for some reason.]
HB1563 passed the Indiana House in February this year, and passed their Senate 77-20 on April 1, but went back for a little re-work. Now it has passed unanimously. It’s a little hodge-podge of a “natural resource” bill, covering a number of issues from precisely defining what a minnow is, to proper boat loading for recreational water skiers to well pump installer licensing to penalties for hunting on somebody else’s land without permission.

But two aspects of the bill are really eye-popping in this day and age.

The first part allows hunters to hunt using sound suppressors on their guns. While this is quite common in Europe, and is even required by law in several Scandinavian countries, the use and possession of the dreaded “silencer” is an iteration of abject fear in almost the entire United States. And it’s also something that is covered directly by the federal Gun Control Act of 1934. Yes, the same federal Act that made machines guns hard to come by, outlawed short barreled shotguns, cane guns, and firearms hidden in everyday devices like pocket watches also made “cans” a big old no-no. Unless you had the expensive Class III stamp and could jump through N+1 rings of fire to get approval for it. I do not think that the Indiana Bill makes such permitting unnecessary, but it does allow their use specifically, and that is a small miracle. One that just makes sense anyway; all a “silencer” will do for a hunting rifle using standard ammunition is to moderate the bang just enough so that you don’t need hearing protection. That’s smart legislation: who wants the woods to be full of armed hunters walking around wearing ear plugs??

The second eye-popper is that the bill removes the stigma of illegality from spring actuated and gravity actuated knives. Known to the rest of the nation as switchblades, this kind of pocket knife has had generations of irrational fears wrapped around it. In this day and age, when several other entire design classes of pocket knives exist that can be opened with one hand, and just as fast, there is no real point in keeping switchblades illegal.

Bravo Indiana. Now let’s get the governor to sign this into law. ( Given the huge majority in the State Legislature, I don’t think this is going to be a problem. [fingers crossed])

After two years of effort by Knife Rights and our sponsors, the Indiana legislature has repealed the state’s irrational ban on switchblade knives.

Senator Jim Tomes and Senator Johnny Nugent have worked tirelessly with Knife Rights to pass this repeal.

Initially passed unanimously by the Indiana Senate, passage of the bill has been thwarted two years in a row by a single House committee chairman who refused to hear the bill. Senators Tomes and Nugent were able to bypass the obstinate chairman by adding the repeal language to a Conference Committee Report on HB1563 dealing with related matters. This Report was passed by the Indiana House 78-19 on Wednesday and the Indiana Senate 50-0 today.

HB1563 with the included Switchblade Ban Repeal language now goes to Governor Mike Pence. Please contact Governor Pence and ask him to sign HB1563.

Knife Rights. We tend to forget about them because there aren’t all that many restrictions and because the guns get so much more coverage, but these are “arms” too, and they’ve got at least one group of their own working on their behalf. Well done.

   Friday - April 26, 2013

AN ANTI GUN DUMB AMERICANS RANT BY A LEFT WINGER THAT RUINED MY BREAKFAST

F***!

So I was stupidly reading this left wing paper this morning as I was finishing breakfast.  I take meds for bad gut and I guess it’s well I have to, or else I’d bust a gut in anger.  Why do I let these asswipes get to me this way?  Sorry. No. I can never seem to take things in stride when I see this shit.  I just get pissed off and blow up.

I have heard this guy on the radio and he has been very funny.  It’s only recently I discovered he wrote a column and realized what he was fully. So decided to ignore. Which mostly I have. Until this morning.  Well hell, it was the headline that caught my eye. Of course I should have known better. Nobody to blame but myself.

So since misery loves company so much I thought I should share this crap with my net friends here at bmews. And I think you can if you want to, leave a comment at the site. Not here necessarily.  On the column by a fellow named Mark Steel.

By the way ... here is how the paper would like their readers to see all Americans. I guess even the women. Whatever. Does not make my day.
Just a further example of our unknowing critics being experts and passing judgments on our ways and people. Fuck em all. 
Maybe if the damned German foreign office had smarter people back in 1917 working for them instead of loose cannons like Zimmerman, we could have stayed the hell out of WW1 and allowed the Germans to win or draw at the least.

IF EVERYONE HAD A GUN THEY’D BE SAFE. RIGHT?

By Mark Steel

The National Rifle Association in America will be preparing its statement. Each time a nutcase goes berserk with a gun, the NRA insists that this proves everyone should have a gun, so in a couple of days it’ll announce that the only way to respond to events in Boston is for every citizen to have a nail bomb.

In particular, marathon runners, instead of taking a bottle of water and a sponge at each stage of the race, which are useless in the fight against international terrorism, should be handed a grenade and a flamethrower.

The logic of the lobby that last week defeated the attempt to introduce gun controls must be that this is the only way to keep marathons safe. It might be trickier with sprint races, as the starting gun would go off and every runner would instinctively shoot at the poor sod who fired it, which might make race-starting a difficult post to fill. But the right to carry a nail bomb is surely a constitutional right of every US citizen.

People such as the pro-gun campaigners exhibit a special sort of genius. At a time such as last weekend, when you wouldn’t think you could feel anything but sympathy for Americans, they manage to make you think: “Mind you, quite a few of them are bloody creepy.”

For example, on the night that the surviving bomber was captured, you might expect a mood of sombre relief. But CNN showed cheering crowds, and the reporter described the atmosphere as “ elated, excited and jubilant”. Then we saw them chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A”, and some of them let off fireworks.

Maybe the anxiety had disturbed them and caused them to get the capture of a lunatic mixed up with New Year’s Eve.

“We got ’em, we GOT ’EM,” roared a series of men, waving flags into cameras as if they’d won an Olympic medal. And once the story wasn’t so much a human tragedy as a triumph for the USA, I couldn’t help thinking “Oh, you ARE masterful aren’t you, managing with no more resources than the army, SWAT teams, marines, an assortment of helicopters, the FBI and the entire population of Boston to track down a lunatic covered in blood who’d been shot through the neck and was wriggling about in a boat in someone’s garden. I wonder who you’ll meet in the SECOND round of the World Hide and Seek championships.”

The strangest part is that this excitement doesn’t usually happen on the occasions that a madman in America gets captured after going on the rampage in a school or shopping centre with the machine-guns he’s constitutionally entitled to carry. For example, there were no joyous celebrations when James Holmes was captured after blasting 12 people dead in a cinema in Denver. I suppose that, unlike in Boston, the people of Denver just aren’t party-going types.

Or it could be that there’s a rule that the capture of a dangerous criminal is only a victory for America if the criminal can be portrayed as not American. Because if you’re going to go on a killing spree in America, you should at least have the decency to be American. There must be some people saying: “It’s a disgrace. These Chechen lunatics are coming over here taking our lunatics’ jobs.”

The above was all there was in the hard copy edition.
Below is what was added to the on line version.

When it was known the bombers were nice and foreign, the fun could start. Bob Beckel, a reporter on Fox News, informed viewers this was the time to “cut off Muslim students from coming into the country”. The New America Foundation in Washington, which influences the government, declared that the problem was whether Muslims see themselves as “Americans first or Muslims first”. New York Senator Steve King was one of many who concluded: “We must increase surveillance amongst Muslims.”

But Adam Lanza, who went nuts in December with a gun in a school in Connecticut, was said to be from a “good Christian family”. So, at some point presumably, the government will be told that Christians have to decide whether they’re “Americans first or Christians first”. Maybe it will be acceptable if they’re from a bad Christian family, but good Christians are clearly lethal.

And James Holmes was a committed Presbyterian. So Fox News will demand that Protestants aren’t allowed into America as students. Anyone working too hard will be monitored as a potential terrorist, Senator Steve King will demand increased surveillance among people who sing along to Songs of Praise, and reporters will scream that the country’s become so soft that it lets prisoners at Guantanamo Bay wear orange, which is exactly what they want, the Protestant crackpots. “I suppose we’ll give them all a flute next,” they’ll gasp.

There is another America, in which thousands of Boston people gave blood to help victims of the bomb, and tens of thousands have already registered for next year’s marathon. But these acts can end up submerged, beneath the more important need to let off fireworks and yell about Muslims.

And if it turns out that these particular Muslims have responded to the war in Chechnya by concluding that if armies come into your area with bombs then the only sensible way to behave is to make sure you’ve got bombs of your own, they ought to be offered a free year’s membership to the National Rifle Association.

MARK STEEL, ANTI GUN/AMERICAN RANT

Drew’s response:
(feel free to disagree in whole or in part, or to add the bits that I’ve missed. Plenty of room in the comments section, so have at it.)


Splendid sarcasm, I should think. Second round of Hide and Seek. Marvelous.

What? No, he’s serious? Well then, that’s whores of a different “colour” altogether.

There are now plenty of articles around the Right Wing blogosphere and what little Right Wing press we have (aka the VRWC), including the Day By Day comic right here on the right sidebar that are decrying the whole approach to the Boston bombing. Easy to find the video, shot by some scared shitless homeowner peeking out his window, of the Tsarnaev brothers standing right across the street from him, in the headlights of their stolen SUV, shooting at the cops. And the response to that video is generally “Where was your gun? If you had the nerve to stand there and take pictures, why the hell didn’t you shoot these bastards yourself?” Plenty more have written how the swarm of LEOs rampaging across the town, kicking in doors and dragging people from their homes, searching houses without a warrant when NO state of martial law had been declared ... was the worst constitutional abuse seen in generations. And all to naught: almost the minute that the fuzz declared an “all clear” that homeowner went outside all by himself and found the kid hiding in his boat. Given that info, hundreds of cops swarmed the guy’s yard, and opened fire on the unarmed suspect - which is tantamount to attempted murder, plain and simple, even if Dzokhar had been shooting at them earlier. Plenty of words written about that abuse of power too. Plenty more about the seeming cowardice of the “shelter in place” edict. The entire older part of the nation, raised on the historic meme of “Boston = freedom fighters” woke to find out that those folks are just as cowed, and just as dependent, on Big Bother as any other urban group.

So this Mark Steel of yours is not alone in noting that the post-capture celebration seemed a bit out of place. But to be fair, the entire city of Denver was not put into lockdown and turned into a war zone by an entire ARMY of police and “guys in military uniforms” (my quotes, not Steel’s) whether those were Guardsmen, or Special Ops cops or feds or whatever. “All the weapons of war” which our own President had declared just a week or two before that “don’t belong on our streets” were visible, in use by the powers of government. Right down to the “up armored” Humvees with the .50 BMGs mounted on the roofs. Golly, why, was there some need to perhaps shoot down airliners? Even when the airspace above Boston was shut down?? So if the folks of Boston needed to vent their relief, let them. It was only slightly embarrassing to the rest of us, but the rest of us didn’t have bullets shooting through our homes all day long as they did. So in the balance, it’s OK.

I’m not sure if Steel is saying this between the lines, but if not I will say it for him: the people of Boston were more terrorized by the government than they were by these two man-child terrorists.

As to the “dirty wog immigrant camel-fucker muslims” reaction, our own media and any number of our elected reps went apeshit pointing fingers over those other shootings; don’t you know it was the Tea Party, or Sarah Palin, or “some white guy” aligned with some “far right” group that was responsible for the last 3, 4, 5 of these events? That was the MSM message. But an underlying truth is that our borders are not secure and the government is going out of their way to keep them that way. And nobody can understand State Dept’s view on student visas or the numbskull immigration policies that we have. So there will be public outrage over that, and the Boston event was another channel for it.

When it was found out that some of those previous mass shooters were genuine crazy people, a huge debate about better screening for the mentally ill ensued, but was almost lost in the mist of the big anti-gun push of our Tyrant In Chief and his “we are above the law” minions. And because those provisions were wrapped up in a BS bill to strip normal Americans of more rights, they too went down to defeat in our Legislature.

Furthermore, regardless of what the Fellating PC Pansies In Power (FPCPIP)™ try daily to make us believe, the VAST majority of thinking Americans understand that the muslim world is at war with us. That effectively makes us at war with them, government denials notwithstanding. We know that Fort Hood was terrorism. And while Jesus said “love your enemy” I don’t think he meant it to apply when they were actually attacking you. So yeah, we hate those who hate us, especially when we find out that extraordinary largess has been freely granted to some of them with no avail. We gave them solace, we gave them bread, we gave them shelter, we covered them with love and acceptance. And they answered that with random mass murder. Well fuck that, in spades. The carrot has failed, bring out the stick.

As a final By The Way, the Second Amendment says “arms”. It does NOT say “guns”. “All the fearsome tools of the soldier” (or words to that effect) is what “arms” means. And if that includes mines or bombs, so be it. (compare a pressure cooker IED to a military Claymore anti-personnel mine; the Claymore is much more effective). Does this mean I can now renew my subscription to American Rifleman and send Steel the bill?

   Thursday - April 25, 2013

Even The Cops

Saw this on Fox today, even though the story is a couple weeks old. Another armed minority type in serious need of anger management and patience classes. OTOH, IMHO nobody in their right mind should ever go near an urban Micky D’s.

Georgia detective allegedly pulls gun in McDonald’s drive-thru

“allegedly” because that’s him in the picture right there

A metro Atlanta police sergeant accused of pulling a gun on a customer in a McDonalds drive-thru has been arrested.

Forsyth County sheriff’s spokesman Courtney Spriggs Wednesday said DeKalb County police Sgt. Scott Biumi has been charged with aggravated assault after authorities say he pointed a gun at a man during an argument on April 9.

Sheriff’s officials say surveillance footage from inside the restaurant shows the 48-year-old sergeant step between the man’s car and the drive-thru window. Authorities say he pointed the weapon into the car as he leaned into the driver’s side window.

Authorities say the April 9 incident was caught on surveillance video, MyFoxAtlanta.com reported.

The station identified the alleged victim as 18-year-old Ryan Mash.

“I’m just like, ‘I don’t want to die.  I’m sorry, sir.  I didn’t mean for any of this to happen,’” Mash recalled.

Mash told MyFoxAtlanta.com that he was waiting for his food, and he said he told Biumi that’s the only reason he was still sitting in the line. 

My guess is that the McNugget Ho was taking too long with the car ahead of him in line.

   Wednesday - April 24, 2013

A Note To Christopher

The process of breaking in a new gun barrel can be shortened considerably by lapping. Lapping is a friction process that uses jeweler’s rouge or rubbing compound to polish out the rough spots in a gun barrel.

I’ve used the formal fire lapping process and the excellent kit sold by NECO. While it does produce an excellent finish, it will lengthen the throat a little bit. And it is one major pain in the bee-hind trying to impregnate lapping compound into jacketed rifle bullets. Doing the job with cast lead bullets takes twice of forever, so forget that approach.

A better process can be found here that is easier, faster, and less expensive. Plug the chamber with a dummy round and swab the barrel two dozen strokes with J-B paste, then fire it once or twice. Use low power ammo if you can get it. Clean, repeat 3-5 times. Repeat process with J-B Bore Shine (the fine grit stuff).

I would enhance the method just a tiny bit by stuffing a patch or a couple cotton balls through the chamber ahead of the dummy round, just to make sure the throat is protected. And I’d make up a dummy round with either a round nose bullet or a blunt ended wadcutter, seated out to just contact the rifling. But I do all my own reloading, so that option may not be available to you. So use a Snap Cap. Don’t ever use a live round. And I would absolutely insist on heavily swabbing the bore with TSI-301 ahead of time, to fill in all the micro-pores in the steel, to ensure that no grit got stuck in them.

Looks to me that the whole job, shooting included, can be done at the range in less than an hour, and for under $25. And you’ll have enough J-B left over to do every gun you’ll ever own. That’s hard to beat.

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