This is even more of a reaming than I thought. This is a federal judge

telling the Californicated AG he's full of shit:

The Attorney General names five additional states that enacted firing-capacity restrictions in the 1930s with capacity limits less than 10 rounds. But he is not entirely accurate. His first example is not an example, at all. For his first example, he says that, “[i]n 1933, South Dakota banned any ‘weapon from which more than five shots or bullets may be rapidly or automatically, or semi-automatically discharged from a magazine [by a single function of the firing device].’” Def’s Oppo. (4/9/18) at 4 (emphasis in original). Actually, this was not a ban. This was South Dakota’s definition of a machine gun

That is legalese for ” You got caught lying to a judge.”

The Attorney General’s second example of a longstanding firing-capacity prohibition is a Virginia ban enacted in 1934. However, like the first South Dakota example, the second example is not an example, at all. The Attorney General describes the law as a ban on firearms that discharge seven rounds rapidly. It is not ban. It also defines “machine gun.”

This one is: “You got caught lying to a judge again.”

The third cited example is like the first two. It is an Act passed by the South Carolina legislature in 1934 titled, An Act Regulating the Use and Possession of Machine Guns. Ex. E to Def.’s Request for Judicial Notice (filed 4/9/18). These three statutes are examples of machine gun bans that are prohibited because of their ability to continuously fire rounds with a single trigger pull, rather than their overall firing-capacity.

Third time is the charm.
"You either did not realize what you were quoting, or you lied about what it was." 

And on them claiming 'not in common use',
To the extent that magazines holding more than 10 rounds may be less common within California, it would likely be the result of the State long criminalizing the buying, selling, importing, and manufacturing of these magazines. Saying that large capacity magazines are uncommon because they have been banned for so long is something of a tautology. It cannot be used as constitutional support for further banning. See Friedman v. City of Highland Park, Illinois, 784 F.3d 406, 409 (7th Cir. 2015) (“Yet it would be absurd to say that the reason why a particular weapon can be banned is that there is a statute banning it, so that it isn’t commonly used. A law’s existence can’t be the source of its own constitutional validity.”

If Californicated doesn't try for the 9th Circuit, this is going to be used to whack on every state or city with such bans starting right away.  If they do go to the 9th,
9th agrees with CA, it goes to the Supremes.  Where they're likely to say "Benitez was right, deal with it."
or
9th agrees with Benitez, and Californicated and the other ban states are nailed right then.

This will be interesting.

Two more posts on the subject at GFZ here and here.

After that court declared Californicated's magazine ban unconstitutional

(in very blunt language), places like Palmetto are selling out.

I hope that knowledge is giving every gun bigot out there a fine case of hemorrhoids.

Crap like this is why 'hate crime' has come to mean

"What bullshit are we supposed to buy into now?"
One of the bits in this stew of crap:
...Andrew Lucht, a Portland resident who wrote a viral Facebook post releasing names and photos of accused attackers, told me he was not a witness to any attacks and did not know any of the victims. His post had accused the Proud Boys of being involved in murders.

“I’m surprised the post took off the way it did,” Lucht told me. “I heard all of this initially from a friend who was very upset.” That friend is neither a witness or victim, he said. “I believe I heard [about a] murder in one of their messages, but in hindsight, I could be wrong.” Lucht took down his viral post after one of the accused men threatened legal action for libel.
This kind of shit is going to get someone crippled or killed.  And the asshats who cause it are going to feel justified because 'feelings and Resistance!'

Throw in politicians and media who don't give a damn about facts and truth:
The Portland Mercury published multiple stories and printed a claim from a woman who alleged via email that she was the victim of a brutal gay bashing in downtown Portland. (The article does not cite any records and I could find no corroborating evidence that this happened as described.)

When I asked reporter Blair Stenvick what steps she took to independently verify that allegation, she said: “I’m not interested in discussing this with you.” Portland Mercury’s news editor, Alex Zielinski, also declined to comment on my inquiry. The paper’s reports were widely shared and used to legitimize the panic.
Professional Journalism, indeed.

And this kind of crap, children, is why, for so many people,
Wasn't reported to the police, or
The police find zero evidence,
No witnesses(Actual witnesses, not a friend of the 'victim'),
and
Threats and abuse directed toward anyone who asks questions
Equals "Probably fake, and I'm not believing this shit without evidence.  REAL evidence."

Tab clearing

Where Great Britain used to be: "Rights?  That's what we allow you when we feel like it.  Now turn out your pockets.  And then bend over."


What?  The gangs won't surrender their guns?  Wow, big surprise, right?

And I'll bet the cops are a lot less aggressive with them than they are with honest gun owners.


CNN: "We didn't get anything wrong in this!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


“Red Flag” laws are just another way for the vindictive and just plain evil to use the state to carry out harassment and abuse on their behalf.  And it does so to accomplish something which are already addressed by existing law if the state will just use them. 

Cold front came in;

you know what that means

Either the DA is an idiot, or

she's willing to say anything to get a conviction.  Whole group attacking him, they're armed, and she says it wasn't self-defense because
...he shot four of the five men he fought with, and the number of bullets he fired — eight to 10 — was too many to be self-defense.

Yeah, she's an idiot, or 'say anything', or both.  To decide "You weren't defending yourself because of the number of shots you fired" is...

Big civil rights win in Californicated

California's statute to confiscate all magazines over 10 rounds has been permanently enjoined by the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. The opinion was written by Judge Roger T. Benitez. 

Previously, Judge Benitez had issued a preliminary injunction against the confiscation law, and the preliminary injunction was upheld by the Ninth Circuit, as discussed in this post. Today's decision follows cross-motions for summary judgment, and makes the injunction permanent. The next step in Duncan v. Becerra will be an appeal to the Ninth Circuit by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
...
Under the various heightened scrutiny tests, the government bears the burden of proof. The opinion explains in depth why the evidence put forward by the California Attorney General does not come close to carrying that burden. The core problem is that the Attorney General's evidence, which relies heavily on expert declarations, is speculative, shoddy, or unrelated to the statute at issue.
There's more.  A LOT more.  The control freaks must be crapping their pants over this.

Friday is looking a big stormy, so

more reason than usual to stay in and look things over.

Mold came in, cast the first bullets

of the Lyman Postell design.  The mold is listed as 535 grains, of 15-1 these came out 520.*  Diameter is .459-.460.  I've heard that some people were getting undersize from this mold, either they got one made with a worn cherry or I got a good one.  Considering Lyman has been doing this a while, I'm betting worn cherry.

They're lubed and sized(the sizer being .459 it mostly makes sure it's the same all the way around and wipes off excess lube), now I need to figure a starting load and try them out.


* On the Lyman 330-grain hollowpoint, the ones I've cast came out 340 grains; depending on alloy/mold/brownies messing with things, you almost always get some variation

"But if you take this away from us, how will we control the commoners?

Especially the colored ones?"
From the People's Republic of New York effing City:
"The court recognizes that the District Attorney must have discretion to prosecute or not to prosecute criminal matters," Crotty wrote in his opinion and order. "The combination here, however, of a statute that does not specify how Cracco can identify a gravity knife and a a practice of prosecuting possession of gravity knives in an unclear and inconsistent manner provides police and prosecutors 'virtually unlimited' or 'unfettered' discretion to enforce the gravity knife statute. Under such circumstances, and with the lens of Cracco's past prosecution and intended future conduct, the gravity knife statute is unconstitutionally vague."
...
The law is applied almost exclusively in New York City and nowhere else in the state. A 2014 Village Voice investigation found that between 2003 and 2013, the NYPD made 60,000 arrests for alleged gravity knife possession. Eighty-six percent of those arrested were black or Hispanic.
But I'll bet people like Comrade Mayor didn't mind that part.  Because 'saving them from themselves' and 'public safety' and such.  Like the blatantly unconstitutional 'stop & frisk' that went on for years.

These people need therapy, and Nuke Swalwell is at the top of the list.

Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell does not want to talk about the Steele dossier, which he continues to take seriously despite an unverified salacious claim in it about President Donald Trump.
...
MacCallum responded, “So it doesn’t bother you that the Clinton campaign paid for a dossier to be put together by someone who had all kinds of ties to intelligence and put together something that was not necessarily factual. That kind of engagement…”

“What part of it was not proven factual?” Swalwell asked several times, until MacCallum mentioned the “salacious story of what happened in a hotel,” referencing the dossier’s claim of a “pee tape” recorded in a Moscow hotel during Trump’s stay there in 2013.
These assholes are going to keep claiming "It's all true!" no matter what.  Because the lies are all they have.

Short version from academia: "Free speech for the right people is fine,

so there is no problem!"

Of course, they don't have the balls to put it that bluntly.
Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities in Washington DC, called the order “plainly unnecessary” in a statement. “Public universities are already bound by the First Amendment and work each day to defend and honor it,” he said.
Wonder if he managed to put that out with a straight face?

The order is “a solution in search of a problem”, and seems designed to undermine trust in higher education and science, said Julie Schmid, executive director of the American Association of University Professors in Washington DC, in a statement.
Nobody has to do that, madam, you're doing quite well all by yourselves.

Why? Because they can get away with it,

 and that's the fault of both the corrupt asshats running the BATFEIEIO and Congress.
Incredibly, in the hands and the realm of the ATF, an effort to clamp down on the power of the administrative state has ended up making the administrative state more powerful than ever. There are excellent reasons not to want federal bureaucracies to circumvent the APA. But the alternative to preventing circumvention of the APA is not private letter rulings. It is law passed by Congress and administered by the federal government publicly, fairly, and in line with Congress’s intent.

Anyone who says that the firearms industry just hates the ATF because the ATF is reining in the cowboys by private letter is, frankly, ignorant. The firearms industry is already one of the most heavily-regulated in the United States. Anyone who works in this industry and doesn’t follow the rules can get in big trouble very quickly. What the firearms industry wants is for ATF policies and interpretations to be open and transparent so as to promote an even playing field.
Anyone who thinks the asshats  will be 'open and transparent' without the choice of that or being unemployed- and possible prosecuted- is dreaming.

Next stop for this pile of crap, the Senate

Under a successful amendment offered by Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), illegal aliens who fail background checks would have to be turned in to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

Given that most liberal Democrats want to abolish ICE, this threw the whole Democratic caucus into a tizzy.  As the clock ticked on the roll call vote, Democrats sat there — stunned — trying to figure out whether to alienate their gun control base or the illegal immigration advocates.
...
Democrats Show their True Colors by Failing to Protect Battered Women
Anti-gun Democrats also blocked Rep. Lesko from offering an amendment to protect a battered woman who needs a gun to protect herself against a violent stalker. Nancy Pelosi’s leadership team ruled the amendment out of order.
Apparently, battered women are of no concern to Democrats unless they serve their anti-gun narrative.

Democrats added a face-saving amendment on the floor yesterday, but it’s a joke. The amendment only allows a battered woman to be given a firearm right before she is about to be assaulted, but then she has to give it back as soon as the assault is over.

Nancy Pelosi’s iron grip blocked many possible improvements from ever being considered on the House floor — such as amendments to protect veterans, police officers, concealed carriers and more.

Well, he is a socialist, so it's a given he's not too smart

He's pushing for goverment-controlled medicine, and citing Finland, but there's a slight difficulty:
There's just one problem: the entire Finnish healthcare system is collapsing.

I'm not exaggerating. I'm not. The entire Finnish government literally resigned earlier this month as their attempts to reform their sinking healthcare system failed. Although idiotic leftists herald Finland's universal healthcare as enviable, multiple governments over the past dozen years have attempted and failed to reform the increasingly insolvent system.

I'm sure the response from him and the other idiots will be "This will be different, it will work with us running it!"
And if they get it they'll insist it IS working.  No matter how many bodies pile up.

How stupid has this 'I'm the wrong gender!' crap gotten?

This stupid:
Child molester gets caught again(and why the bastard wasn't in prison from the previous is a good question), decides "I'm a woman".  How?
... Ontario is one of several provinces in which no physical change is required for residents to transition sex; the applicant must simply get a note from a physician saying that they identify as different than their birth gender.
...
However, a born-male inmate no longer has to undergo surgery to be eligible to transfer to a women’s prison. Under a policy overhaul implemented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, inmates with male anatomy can be placed among women based solely on their gender identity.(just in case you needed more evidence what a bleeping idiot Trudeau is)
And- surprise!-
In 2014, right around the time Harks began living as a woman, the Parole Board of Canada dropped several conditions of her supervision designed to curb the risk of sexual recidivism, including psychiatric treatment.

“Given your progress, it is reasonable and necessary to facilitate your successful reintegration into the community,” reads the 2014 decision.
Amazing, the timing, isn't it?

So, not only does this molesting asshole get repeated releases, it appears he decided to announce his gender choice and got a change in parole conditions, and now- despite
...she was accused of lashing out violently at fellow inmates who were “childlike in appearance.”- this POS is released again. 

And you'll notice the National Post is very careful to refer to him as 'she'.  Would be hate speech or something not to.

This is effing insane.

Mueller report comes out: screaming began immediately

You've had journalists nearly in tears, Democrats about to crap their pants during interviews, "They got to Mueller!", the whole works.

Among the damage from this crap:
The media demonstrated, hugely, that they cannot be trusted.  At all.  Borrowing from Insty, We may someday need a press we can trust. But I hope not, because we certainly don’t have one.


The EffingBI and Do'J' have shown themselves untrustworthy and corrupt.  And unless they actually make a serious effort to clean house, they'll remain untrustworthy.

And unless that housecleaning involves people actually being charged and tried for their crimes, it'll mean nothing.

We warned the Fudds: they'll get to bolt-action rifles. They started years ago,

and they're pushing it now.  Because
Who the hell needs to hit something, anything, from over a mile away? I’ll tell you who: an Army or Marine sniper, that’s who. They’re selling military-grade rifles to the general public. That’s what this sniper rifle is, and that’s what all the various iterations of the AR-15 style assault rifles are. Military-grade killing machines.
You need to read it for the full, pants-crapping effect that people enjoying long-range shooting gives this clown.

Coming soon:

"My bill to interfere with doctors prescribing pain meds

is not intended to interfere with that."
These people truly suck.  Unfortunately, the chances of most journalists actually calling her on this and pinning her down is just about zero.


You're going to be interviewed by a leftist, record it.


Short version of Occasional-Cortex and Comrade Mayor: "Too many of the wrong minority are getting into this school.  And they're practically white anyway.  Standards must be lo- er, adjusted so more of the right people get in."


He now believes the center is “nothing more a than a hollow PR move by the University of California system to gain political cachet in DC.”
Considering the state of 'free speech' in Californicated, anyone surprised?

I present to you the progressive in full bloom:

stupid and evil together.  Personally I'm leaning toward 'evil' as the primary.
“His sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has,” Ms. Streisand told The Times, a British newspaper.

“You can say ‘molested,’ but those children, as you heard say, they were thrilled to be there. They both married and they both have children, so it didn’t kill them,” Ms. Streisand added, the outlet reported.
Coming, be int noted, from one of the people who made excuses for Polanski drugging and raping an underage girl.

And who, if said accused had been of conservative/libertarian bent, would've been howling for his blood as a molester.

I don't hate them, but oh, how I despise and loathe these people.

Saturday, been rainy,

new data, etc.

Speaking of people not to be trusted, I give you the major media

Friends in France tell me that the Yellow Jackets are mostly middle class and middle aged, people who never even joined in the perennial French sport of striking; people who have jobs, bills, families. My corroborative evidence for this is that the protests happen mostly on the weekend. These people are busy the rest of the time, and can’t afford to lose their jobs. 

And in my opinion, this is why the media is not reporting on them, if they can help it (note that I linked a British newspaper, and even those try not to report on these demonstrations if they can.) 

Because when Middle Class and Middle Aged people go rogue and take to the streets, it means that most people in the country are very, very, very pissed off. Bourgeois, which the Left has tried to make into an insult, but which are in fact the backbone of the west are the people who do things and keep our communities ticking. They have to get very, very mad before they risk family and job and a clean record. When they get to that point they are ten seconds from having nothing left to lose. Which is the point.
And most of our media are in love with the EUnuchs and the idea of government controlling everything(especially who actually gets to report on things, that part really gets them wet).

They’ve now reached the Shakespearean point of “Tempt not a desperate man.”  Or, in other words “Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.” They’re out of … er… copulations to give.  And they’re not going to take it anymore.

And that’s why our media isn’t reporting on this.  Because as the propaganda arm of the internationalist cabal, they aspire to what the internationalists of Europe have achieved.  They want it so bad they can taste it, and are willing to subvert everything to achieve it.

Part of the media problem is that, over time, they've blown so much of the trust people used to have in them.  And the last couple of years, with the constant "Trump Bad!" as their constant 'reporting', they've made it worse.  They've made themselves a version of the EffingBI and Do'J': "Why the hell would I trust you about anything?"  Which is not going to end well.

The answer is "Yes."

Are Unrecorded FBI Interviews a G-Man's License to Lie?

Let's remember that even Eric Holder ordered them to start recording interviews instead of doing this.  And they didn't.

Remember that in the trial of the Florida nightclub attacker's wife, big reason she was acquitted was the Feds didn't record the interview, and their notes didn't match up to what the jury was being told.  And when the agent in charge was asked why no recordings, "It never occurred to us to do that."

Even if they didn't deliberately lie, they're going by notes of an interview, NOT a transcript, and errors can creep in.  You're left thinking that the reason they don't record the interviews is because they don't want an exact transcript.   Now reflect on why that might be.

Why anyone would trust the FBI about anything anymore, I cannot understand.

Friday night,

the weather is fine, but it's getting late.  For me, anyway.  Therefore, data time.