In case you hadn't heard, Mexico lost their case against S&W

in a unanimous ruling by the Supremes.  So that's good.

Speaking of gun and ammo,

I'd hoped to have shot a bunch more at the outdoor range over the past couple of months.  Demands on time had eased, but then the weather decided to play games.  We've had a lot of rain, some heavy, some just enough to keep things from drying out.  And slogging through mud to set targets isn't a lot of  fun.

Throw in yard stuff.  There's a tree I need to prune back, but I'm afraid it's going to involve calling someone, because it needs to be done up in the tree, and I don't have the safety gear for that.*  So I've been lopping off what I can with a pruning pole, and I'm about at the edge of what I can safely do there with a ladder.

So I'm still behind time-wise.  And trying to keep the house cleaned up takes time as well, even doing a bit at a time.

And, oh look, it's rained a little more this morning.  The forecast last night was cloudy but dry until tonight, now it's a fair chance of rain today 'then mostly cloudy'.  Fat damn chance.  Well, maybe I can fit in some loading for stuff to shoot when it does dry a bit.**

*I have fallen out of a tree once as an adult; it wasn't fun.  Paying someone is a lot cheaper, too.

** Which will make it humid as hell until some of this moisture finally goes away.

About that new Army rifle & ammo,

I've been reading a bit, and hearing some things.  It's heavier- rifle & ammo both- and, while the round is effective, you can carry less of it for the weight/space.  Also a factor.  Ammoland's latest piece on it is here.  An earlier video here.

One of my questions is how long will the barrels last, especially on machine guns?  You're talking really high pressures, about 20K psi higher than 5.56 and 7.62, and that's going to wear on things.  There are people with a lot more knowledge than I arguing this out, and we'll see what comes of it.

All I can say is I hope this thing works out for the guys on the sharp end.

'Bout covers it

If these targeted attacks had occurred against any other minority group, there would have been a national reckoning, an urgent clamor to examine the factors driving the hate. Not so this time.

These stories quickly vanished from the headlines. And, sickeningly, there's another story – even more chilling – that you likely never heard about.
(No, I had not heard about this one)

On October 26, 2024, Sidi Mohammad Abdallahi, 22, a native of Mauritania in West Africa, shot a 39-year-old Orthodox Jewish man in the back as he was walking to synagogue in the neighborhood of West Ridge, Chicago.

...
What will it take to convince the Left that the existential threat to the American way of life that they keep predicting is already here?

Free Palestine is now the slogan for the global terrorist project. Period.
Yes, it is.


And with idiots like this on city councils, it'll get worse.

And the left will make excuses for- well, anything.

Terror attack in Colorado

With this (thank you, Biden) Egyptian illegal alien yelling 'Free Palestine' and 'End Israel' while setting people on fire, there's no "We cannot understand a motive" bullshit.

Not sure if the usual apologists have started as yet.  And I wonder if Denver being the "Don't you peasants dare carry a gun!" place it is, this was a gun-free zone.  Wouldn't surprise me, such assholes really don't want to worry about one of the intended victims ventilating them.

Democrat admits why they really want to not only keep the suppressor tax, but increase it:

Money and control, what else?

And yes, with the Hearing Protection Act and others in the Senate now, I've been yelling at my Senators.  Haven't you?

The Brit cops are trying to deal with that "People don't trust us anymore!" situation.