Friday night...

tired... data to assemble... work, work, work.

There's an idiot politician named Mallard

who decided to signal her virtue and caring(like some other idiots) by cutting up a AR-15.  Creating an illegal SBR in the process.  And when various people pointed out the violation of federal law, she called them 'NRA trolls' and "No, I didn't, and I turned it over to the police, so there!"

Except she did.  And the follow-on effects are likely to be interesting.
And if ATF doesn't follow up, then they've helped weaken the NFA. Thanks. That's actually a good thing. Every video of someone violating the NFA and not getting punished is an affirmative defense down the road. Of course, sawing off, rather than milling or turning a short barrel, is usually a criminal trick. So you've helped all their legal defenses, but then, no one ever claimed you were smart.  I know, I'm "gunsplaining" again.
If the BATFEces do follow up, the chopper is going to jail. Also a good thing.
Yep.  Interesting quandary for the BATFEIEIO: if they do prosecute, all their usual supporters will have fits because "No intent!  Artistic expression!" and such; if they don't, then anybody they've screwed with for accidentally being a fraction of an inch below the legal minimum is going to have their lawyer beating on the door of a judge.

This could get real interesting.

Note she has the usual slanderous crap to throw out(“Why are you more outraged about me taking a gun out of circulation than about our children being murdered in our schools?”) when the problem is her breaking federal law without a second thought.

Socialism, Comrades!

An 18-year-old woman rubbed her swollen belly after fleeing with her infant daughter when the wounds from her C-section began to ooze pus. A young man whose femur had torn through his skin in a motorcycle crash needed antibiotics for an infection. An elderly retiree with a swollen foot arrived after taking a 20-hour bus ride from Caracas because doctors there told his family the only treatment they could offer was amputation — without anesthesia or antibiotics.

"If you want to sign, sign. But we are not responsible for the life of your father," Teresa Tobar, 36, quoted the doctors in Venezuela as telling her when they handed over the papers to authorize her father's surgery.

And you've still got idiots saying "We should give socialism a try."  The subtext being "Maybe it'll work this time."

No, it won't, you idiots.

Due to still recovering

and lack of thought, another tab clearing.

Comrade Mayor & wife took a leaf from the Clinton book: remember the 'co-Presidency'?


Mohammed bin Salman better have REAL good security; he's stayed alive this long, and it's going to take work to keep him breathing.

The islamists have to be crapping their loincloths over him.


Sheriff Asshole and a bunch of other agencies REALLY don't want the commoners to see those videos, for some reason.


Obamacare working as planned: killing off more of the non-contributors to the collective.


I strongly suspect that if this chickenshit actually thought NRA members were terrorists, he'd be a lot more careful in his words.


Speaking of actual terrorists: THEM  a lot of the media has a real soft spot for.


Meanwhile, in Australia, a boomstick might be real handy.  Assuming the lords would let the commoners have them.


Not news: this time of year, it gets warm, then cold, then warmer, cold(sometimes colder) again.  Right now it's decent, and I'd really like to get some stuff done in the back yard, but if I'm in the wind too much it starts the damned cough again.  I may try it anyway, this crap has to get done sometime.

But the right is all racist and stuff...

Progressives who have never quite cut the cord with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan despite his anti-Semitic rants are suddenly paying the price, starting with the Women’s March leaders.


But if you’re of the left, and happen to be a Democratic Party politician, you can get away with making excuses for notorious anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

And when those excuses are made, the left is largely silent.
You could throw in Sharpton as well: hates Jews hates whites, hates gays, but 'He's a leader of the African-American community!'  Etc.


Well, this isn't a good thing.
Brazil is fighting to stay ahead of one of its worst epidemics of yellow fever, a sometimes-fatal virus transmitted by Haemagogus and Sabethes mosquitoes and named for the yellowing of the skin and eyes of those infected.

Though the surge has largely been in rural areas, there is increasing concern that if people don't get the vaccine, the virus could spread into the country's biggest cities.

VA really needs to elect this guy.

Freitas continued: "Then after that, it will be semiautomatic rifles, after that, it will be semiautomatic handguns, then it'll be revolvers, shotguns. Because when the policies fail to produce the results you are promising to your constituents, you'll be back with more reasons on why we've gotta infringe on Second Amendment rights."

Another reason why it's difficult to have an honest and open debate on gun policy, Freitas argued, is because Democrats are always comparing Republicans to Nazis and segregationists.

This is where Freitas really unleashed.

"I just want to remind everyone very quickly, it was not our [Republican] party that supported slavery, that fought women’s suffrage, that rounded up tens of thousands of Asian-Americans and put them in concentration camps, that supported Jim Crow, that supported segregation, or supported mass resistance. That wasn’t our party, that was the Democrat party!" he said.

And a bunch of the Democrats had fits, and got triggered, and "I have seen many of my colleagues emotionally shaken and bothered by either a lack of concern for facts. Or just simply playing to the cameras."  Yeah, actually getting slapped with facts would do that to them.

There is no middle ground with people who call you a crack whore

and an unfit mother because you own a gun to protect herself.
...
There is no middle ground with people who call the NRA terrorists or say we are like ISIS. Especially if they downplay the Pulse Shooting as an anti-gay hate crime and not an act of actual ISIS inspired terrorism. Or accepted Obama calling the San Bernardino shooting or Ft. Hood shooting “workplace violence.”

These people may be a loud minority but they are driving the pop culture. We saw with Dick’s, REI, Detla, WalMart, etc, that they are willing to put politics over profits. Which should come as no surprise as the NFL and Hollywood has been doing that for over a year. Hitting them in the wallet won’t shift them anymore.

We shouldn’t have to negotiate for our rights from a bunch of people who see us as less than them. That’s the very reason the Bill of Rights exists, to protect our rights from angry mob rule.
And there you have a big part of why so much of the left hates the BoR.

Do it.

Reopen it.  And serious investigations into all the OTHER gunrunning schemes ATF and DoJ had going.

And have the invitations to testify, if they refuse, lead to subpoenas.  And throw their asses in jail if they refuse to show up, same way private citizens would be treated.

Short version of this crap:

"Who cares if we don't know what we're talking about?  Your gunsplaining is just trying to shut down discourse!"

Yes, not allowing idiots to change terms and words and their meanings at will is 'gunsplaining'.  And you don't do it to correct errors, oh no, it's because you're EVIL!!  Etc.

Idiots talk about 'gas-powered receivers' and 'full-semi-automatic military-grade guns', but we're supposed to ignore it.  Apparently because they care.

Same kinds of idiots who keep insisting "We need a discussion!" when what they actually mean is "You shut up while I insult, demean and threaten you for not believing as I think you should!  And if you respond we'll call you a hater and block you and delete your words!"

Gave up and went to a doc yesterday

Either my thermometer is a liar, or the fever turned out to be coming and going.

Strep test, neg.
Flu test, neg.
Pneumonia test, neg.
Short version: they couldn't tell what the hell I'd got.

Sometimes being unique is a Good Thing; this isn't one of them. 

Whether it's the meds given, or the thing running its course I don't know, but I'm a lot better today than I was yesterday.  So there's hope.*






*I refuse to say 'light at the end of the tunnel' because that so often turns out to be either a train or the ignition flash.

Jeez, if this is indeed accurate,

then next time someone whines about many of the public not trusting the police, they should be slapped with a copy of this.  Because this is such bullshit...

Picking one,
Back at the precinct, as Deluca was being taken out of the car, Marrero struck him with his police baton, opening up a gash on the top of his head. Another officer said there was so much blood, they had to clean it up with a mop. It took 12 staples at the hospital to close the wound.

In a deposition, Deluca said Marrero told him “You can’t disrespect us in the street like that.” Deluca received a $398,000 settlement, of which Marrero was ordered to pay $4,000.

A year after Deluca’s arrest, Marrero and his partner held a handcuffed prisoner down while another officer stomped on the person’s head. During an internal affairs investigation, Marrero falsely denied that any officer used physical force.

All told, by 2014, the city had paid about $900,000 to settle accusations against officer Marrero.

Publicly, neither he nor the city admitted any wrongdoing.

But in secret, after an investigation into Deluca’s arrest and the stomping incident a year later, Marrero pleaded guilty to multiple department charges, including striking an individual with “no legitimate police purpose,” “making unnecessary physical contact,” and “providing inaccurate, incomplete misleading answers” to department investigators, according to the files BuzzFeed News obtained.

Yet the NYPD commissioner at the time, Ray Kelly, decided that wasn’t a reason to fire him. Instead he was put on dismissal probation and he forfeited 45 vacation days.

Marrero remains on the force today, earning almost $120,000 last year. He continues to patrol the streets, making dozens of arrests since he was found guilty by the department.

Assaults, lying under oath, tampering with evidence, with witnesses...
And getting away with it. 

One more big find by an amateur

Finally, on a summer day in 2012, a self-taught fossil hunter named Ray Stanford noticed the unmistakable shape of the nodosaur’s track as he drove out of a parking lot at what is now NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.


Reportedly, Frances McDormand, in the speech that followed her award as best actress, endorsed the use of “inclusion riders.” Apparently, these are clauses that highly sought-after actors stick into their contracts. They demand “diversity” in the hiring of other employees.

The need for such riders, if need there be, implies that Hollywood — leftist, self-righteous, preachy Hollywood — isn’t controlled just by sexual predators. It is also controlled by racists.

Say it ain’t so.

Expanded tab clearing

because I'm somewhat better but still don't want to do much.

"I actually want to ban all guns, but if only rich people can afford them I'll go with that."
Fucking Democrat asshole.


The Florida legislature has managed to completely screw the armed teacher program.
Because they think dead kids are far preferable to living ones that were saved by a teach with an icky gun.


Not only is (formerly Great)Britain playing "Ban all the dangerous things!", but
Knife crimes are rising across the country – but police forces are prosecuting fewer cases, according to new data.

Freedom of Information responses from 30 out of 43 police forces across England and Wales, obtained by BBC News, found that the number of knife crimes that led to perpetrators being charged or taken to court has fallen by 8 per cent from 2015 to 2016.
Apparently blaming objects instead of the people doing things wasn't sensitive enough, or something.

Britain is screwed.


The Spoiled Brats of Parkland; that covers them nicely.


"But if we do that we won't get our progressive bennies  from the Democrats!"


And I'm done.

'Getting out of control'? Guy, you went past being in control

a looong time ago.


Ruger makes a version of their Precision Rifle in .22lr. And Shannon Watts is all pissed-off that someone 18 or over can buy it. Because "EVIL BLACK RIFLE!", etc., and took to Twitter* over it.

In the comments(I know, but I couldn't help myself) one of her Twidiots named Paul Wu has a fit because people dared point out that this is just a bolt-action .22:
'And stop it with your ammosexual pedantry as a desperate ploy to muddy the waters. You know exactly what gun control advocates mean when we say assault style weapons - semi-automatic, pistol grip, threaded barrel that accepts intermediate-power cartridges. '
Thus informing is that
'Pedantry' is now defined as 'pointing out facts that he doesn't approve of',
And that Paul is an ignorant fool. Or tool. Both, actually.

Note that according to this, a threaded barrel apparently turns a bolt-action rifle into an 'assault style weapon'. If, again, you're an ignorant fool.


I think he could've used a pocket pistol.  The piece of crap who did this earned ventilation.


From NPR, mind you, accurate information on violent crimes involving firearms.  Though this is a bit of nonsense:
"Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49 percent lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation's population grew," according to the Pew study. "The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75 percent lower in 2011 than in 1993."

All of that is good news — but many Americans don't seem to be aware of it. In a survey, the Pew Research Center found that only 12 percent of Americans believe the gun crime rate is lower today than it was in 1993; 56 percent believe it's higher.
They probably don't know it because, led by a bunch of talking heads(including some of yours, NPR) who constantly scream about 'the epidemic of gun violence!', they don't hear these facts.


It seems that some of the teenagers being used(abused?) by the media and left(but I repeat myself) to demand "Listen to the children, ban guns!" are now comparing themselves to the Founders of this country.  Because "They were young too, but you don't tell people to ignore them."

Oh, you poor little twits.  You have accomplishments like theirs, maybe I'll listen to your "Do what I want!" demands.  Doubt it, but at least you'd have actually DONE SOMETHING other than be a media puppet.



*Go look if you want.  Some people actually do point out she's having a fit over a bolt-action .22, but her twidiots are still crapping.

Only in Californicated or someplace similar

could something so easy to solve become such a damned mess.

As coworker said "Wild cattle hunting license; how many could you sell?"

I don't think this is the European model they want us to follow

... Sellers in Bosnia and Serbia have networks in Sweden’s diaspora and are so eager to unload excess grenades, often rusted from decades in storage, that they throw them in free with the purchase of AK-47s, Mr. Appelgren said. In Sweden the street price of a hand grenade is 100 kroner, or $12.50.

And this is a fine piece of "Let's not talk about the real reasons this is happening":
Police officials are more likely to attribute gang violence to a failure of integration, citing a recent study of a Swedish street gang that found 24 percent of its members were ethnic Swedes, and 42 percent had been born in Sweden.
Whyever would there be failures to integrate in- oh, hell, I can't keep doing this.  We know the reason, THEY know it, they just still don't want to admit it outright.

I forgot the other data dump yesterday;

put it down to sick and tired.  But here 'tis

“Peace Officers” vs. “Law Enforcement Officers”

Oh yes.  Go read this, preferably now.  And pay real attention to this:
A former sergeant once called me into his office to order me to write more traffic tickets.  While he was telling me about my numeric deficiencies, he made this statement:

“I need you to write more tickets.  It will make both of us look better.  Besides that, it gives you the chance to fuck with people.  All cops like to fuck with people.”

The sergeant certainly liked to fuck with people, but I don’t.  I have better things to do.  Thinking back on that moment caused me to realize that I might have found the ultimate litmus test between “peace officer” and “law enforcement officer.”

Is the majority of your day spent fucking with people and generating inconsequential “stats?”  If so, you aren’t a peace officer.  You are a revenue generating cog in a political machine.  Your conduct will further undermine the public trust in our profession.  Stop it.

Part of the problem in trying to argue with gun bigots and hoplophobes

and general control freaks is that so many are so horrendously ignorant of what they're screaming about.  We have McCarthy wanting to ban barrel shrouds


We have DeGette, who doesn't even know that magazines can be reloaded...

(you can skip ahead to 2:55 to get to that one)
and other such stupidities.  They don't know squat, and I'm convinced that most of them do not WANT to know;  all they care about is "These things are icky and dangerous, and I don't want them around!"

Yeah, that's gonna happen.

Connected to the 'magazines go away when they're empty' idea is "They'll all wear out soon, so if there aren't any new ones, they'll all be gone!"

Ok, let's play:
On the actual number of firearms in the US, the number that gets thrown around a lot is somewhere between 250-350,000,000, some go to 400m.  And that's probably way low; borrowing from Chris,
It is completely impossible to ban firearms in the United States

There are reportedly 350 million firearms in the U.S. according to FBI estimates. Actually the number is likely far higher... I'd guess it may be double that. Guns are durable. I personally own and shoot guns that are over 100 years old, and which are just as good today as they were when they were first manufactured. If they're properly stored, or properly maintained, guns don't "go bad", or even wear out.

...And we make and sell somewhere between 10 and 20 million guns a year, EVERY YEAR, in the U.S. (the number varies significantly year to year).

You could not possibly seize and destroy them all, or even a significant percentage of them. And if you tried, you'd end up with a lot of dead cops, and possibly a populace, and a military, in revolt against the government.

... and even if "successful" you wouldn't get most of the guns, because people would just hide them.

... and it wouldn't be allowed anyway, because it's against the constitution; and the supreme court has recently reaffirmed this several times.

They can't even effectively ban guns in the UK or Japan which have had strict gun control for many years, AND ARE ISLANDS.

Thank you, Chris.

That 1917 I fired the other day?  It's 99 years old, and shoots well enough to put some new stuff to shame.  I've fired a Trapdoor Springfield that was made in 1884-1885; all original, and it still works flawlessly.  Friend collects antique firearms; he's got stuff from the last 1800's that still work quite well*.  I've had, or tried out, firearms near or well over a century old that still had all their original parts, and still worked.  To get rid of all guns by seizure(which ain't gonna happen) and attrition, well, you're looking at a loooong time.  And that would be IF you could prevent people from making them(or just replacement parts) and smuggling them.  Which won't work(see Britain and Japan, among others).  To even attempt to make such work would destroy any vestige of the US as a free country.  For a bunch of the Democrats and progressive Republicans(damn both of them) who like the idea of "We just need to control the common people a bit more" it might seem worth it; the full-out socialists and communists would love it.  Until they start being the targets of that 4th Generation Warfare that the Dutchman kept warning people about.  And if it hits that point, I don't know how well the US could come back from that.

Throw in the flat-out haters: the people who insist "We need to have a conversation about guns in America!" but all they actually want to do is demand, and insult, and threaten.  And then accuse the people they attack of 'being angry' and such.  They either don't realize that that crap is NOT going to get the result they want, or they don't care; after all, if you don't agree with them you're a accessory to the murder of kids/uncaring bastard/racist/etc., so your opinion- and in the end, your life- doesn't matter.

So we've got a real fight on our hands to hold off the cake thieves,  which isn't easy when so much of the(I started to write 'our media', but it definitely isn't) media is in their pocket.**  But I think we can do it.  Sooner or later, things like the abuse of traumatized teenagers for political purposes does tend to backfire, for one; for another having a bunch of 'progressives' abusing and threatening tends to blow up in their faces also.  We'll see how it goes.


*only reason he doesn't shoot some of them is oddball ammunition.  And if you really wanted to shoot them, that problem can be dealt with.
** see, for instance, places like HuffPo insisting 'Fewer people own guns!', despite the fastest growing groups of first-time gun owners being minorities and women.

One last thing before i collapse for the night:

data is in

Short range report,

because I feel fairly awful.

Shot two groups using the Lee 405-grain hollowbase bullet over 26.0 grains of A5744 powder.  No wad between powder and bullet, two five-shot groups.  Target one,

Target two

Let's say I'm very happy with these.  Recoil is mild, and this kind of accuracy is great.  I'm going to make up some more of these.

Second, here's the 1917 I was able to fire

I suspect the owner did a bit of polishing on the trigger, as the second stage was light and clean.  Between the sights, trigger, and it being so comfortable to fire with M2 ball, it was a real pleasure to shoot.


And now, if you'll excuse me, I have to do some dishes while I can still move.

More easy stuff

Because so many journalists are Democrat operatives with bylines.


On the mess in South Africa from someone who lived there.


Damn right the videos should be released.


In EffingBI/Do'J' speak, 'misled investigators' means "lied his ass off".

Couple of notes on the range

pictures later, because I'm beat.

How beat?

If a mostly-naked Sandra Bullock walked in the door and whispered "Make me a women", I'd have trouble getting up much enthusiasm.  Or anything else.  I hate being sick.

Anyway, I had a chance to shoot something interesting today: a Eddystone 1917.  If you're not familiar, short history:
The Brits didn't have enough rifles at the start of WWI, and had a couple of companies in the US making P14s for them: five-shot, aperture rear sight, ear-protected front, in .303.  Then they got production up on #1Mk3 Enfields.  About that time, the US got into the war, and it was discovered that Springfield Armory didn't have enough tooling and gauges to make enough 1903 Springfields for US troops.  Someone had a bright idea, checked, and found that if you modified the bolt face to handle the rimless .30-06 cartridge, and bored & rifled the barrel for it, it worked quite well, and had better sights than the 1903.  It became the 1917.

Anyway, besides being an interesting piece of history, this thing- firing standard 150-grain ball, yet- is downright pleasant to shoot.  Much more so than I remember the 1903 bring.

Assuming I can, tomorrow I'll try to set up the pictures I took before the fever started and post them.

Tab clearing, because it requires little thought

Brought to you by the only people who should be allowed to have guns.


After ten minutes of CNN’s town hall “debate” I had already searched for gun safes, the closest firearms dealer near me, classes on gun safety, and an NRA membership. Whether that’s a sign the event was a rousing success or terrible failure depends on who you ask. But whenever the left talks about gun control, significant numbers of people who see value in the Second Amendment run out and purchase a gun. 

Normally, that wouldn’t include me. But this time was different. Here’s why.


Lots of sheriff's are saying "Screw you, I'm not enforcing this anti-gun-ownership law."


Looks like Palmetto State deserves our business.


That would be my response to Mexico bitching about a wall: "Why don't you try making your country less of a shithole, so people don't think walking across a desert or putting their kids on a train to get to the US is better than staying home?"


No shit.


No, those teenagers didn't put all that together by themselves.  Yes, they're being used.


They Don’t Hate The NRA. They Hate You.


And that's all I'm good for tonight.

I went to the range today

and it may have been a mistake; what I thought was allergies the last day or two may be some form of plague.

I may post more later.  If I'm coherent and/or alive.

I'm sure someone will bitch that she didn't give away

the right kind of books.
Parton is the founder of Imagination Library, a nonprofit that started out donating books in Sevier County, Tenn., and grew into a million-book-a-month operation. Families who sign up receive a book per month from birth to kindergarten. The singer donated her organization’s 100 millionth book to the nation’s library on Tuesday.

He's back

Might be a different mockingbird, but I think the same one from the last few years.

So, Dick's Sporting Goods doesn't just stop selling 'assault-style rifles',

they won't sell standard magazines.  And those evil bump-stocks they never carried anyway.

But that's not enough, oh no:

Screw this place.  I'd bought a few things there in the past, but never again; they don't want to sell something, that's their choice; they decide to make themselves part of the enemy, then they should expect to be treated as such.

I'll take "Bureaucrats who need clubbing" for $1000, Alex.

A London woman who survived breast cancer isn’t faring so well against city bylaw officers who fined her $2,260 for providing a service to patients that medical staff say is invaluable.
Had cancer.  Found that a lot of people had trouble getting rides for tests or treatment.  Started driving people, charging ten bucks to cover costs.  But "You do not have permission from the State to do this, peasant."

Asshats.  Every bastard involved.


A note on why so many students are such idiots
I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors before I even passed out the attendance sheet the first day or the syllabus. I gave them a 10-question American history quiz and we started - even though I'm an English professor not an American historian - just to see where they are. And this has been true for seven consecutive years - the vast majority of my students, I'm talking like nine out of ten in every single class, 28, 29 out of 30 kids - they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. And I've got Christian kids, I've got Jewish kids. Moses, Pharoh, none of that. They have none of it. They are a hundred percent convinced that slavery is a uniquely American  invention and that with the Emancipation Proclamation slavery ended worldwide. They're convinced of this. How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that's what they think of their own country? That America invented slavery and and the whole Black Lives Matter movement, which is taught as absolute history in English classes and philosophy classes, in sociology classes and biology classes and race identity classes, that's the new narrative, right?  That even though slavery ended in America it's still with us in the way we oppressed minorities and so that's all they know. They know nothing else.

The Gun Control Debate Isn’t Really About Guns. It’s About Human Rights

Exactly.
Liberals seem to think we care because “it’s our right” or merely “because of the Second Amendment,” but this isn't the primary driver behind our thinking. If it were, liberals might reasonably conclude that we don’t care, and rightly feel they hold the moral high ground. Their position is that safe schools should be valued over my gun. But this isn’t just about my right to "keep and bear arms," whatever you may think that phrase written into the Constitution in 1791 means in 2018.

Fundamentally, this is about the government's responsibility to prove I have committed a crime before taking away my rights. Let me explain.

tab clearing

No, schools are not more dangerous and mass-shootings more common.


Another type 80% receiver kit.


If this stuff is correct... hangings are in order.


"The school board refused comment because they're to chickenshit to defend this."


For some reason Obama wanted no public reporting on this talk.  Which included this horseshit:
"We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us," he said. The former president admitted that his team made mistakes, but no massive screw-ups.
So, that comfortable lying, or deluded?


Probably because they can whore out teenagers better than adults who can't be counted on to speak the Approved Narrative.


Speaking of whoring out teenagers,
Policy proposals aren’t the real aim of the anti-gun crowd. What they’re thinking is: We must strike a blow against gun culture. We must punish gun owners in general by doing something that annoys them. This is the Democratic obverse of Trumpian bully culture: It’s public policy reduced to public shaming. It’s insult theater. The politics of id. Is America really going to be made safer by shaming the First National Bank of Omaha into no longer issuing an NRA-branded Visa card? How is forcing through an increase of from 2 to 10 percent on the price NRA members pay for a United or Delta flight to the group’s annual convention supposed to decrease gun deaths?

These petty slights are all meant to redefine the NRA as outside the mainstream, activists say on Twitter. It seems more likely that NRA members, and gun owners in general, are going to perceive a concerted attack on gun culture and vote accordingly. Progressives don’t have a plan for stopping mass shootings. So they’re falling back on venting at gun owners, and they’re using the children of Parkland to do it.


"Bake my NRA cake, or I'll sue your ass off."


Leftists vs. the People

The more that comes out, the worse this agency looks

On Monday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham revealed in an exclusive that Broward County Sheriff's Deputies were supposedly told not to enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School unless they had body cameras on, which they did not have.
Have you ever read such bullshit? 

Let's say they didn't have cameras: they all decided "Screw kids dying, we can't go in with no cameras" and sat out there 'holding a perimeter'?  We're supposed to believe all this crap?

And this...
Ingraham also revealed that police "lost radio transmissions" during the shooting, which also happened at the mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale airport shooting last year, which is also in Broward County.
They really need to start putting people under oath and seizing evidence.  Before this 'sheriff' makes more disappear than he already has.

As the protesters neared the exit,

a woman suddenly lunged for the audio equipment, pulled leads out indiscriminately, and knocked some of the equipment to the floor. The microphones stopped working. Another protester shoved a student volunteer into the door.

What caused this extreme reaction?
A bunch of farging idiots who think disagreeing with them is violence and shouldn't be allowed.  Aided and abetted by idiot journalists
...After the incident, however, the disruption and violent misconduct were downplayed. Willamette Week, a left-wing alternative newspaper, was dismissive: “[The Freethinkers] expected controversy. They warned of violence. None arrived.” Perhaps not the kind of violence that had been threatened, but there was intentional “criminal mischief,” hundreds of dollars in property damage, and unnecessary disruption lasting just over four minutes (not the 30 seconds the Willamette Week incorrectly reported).
who are sorry excuses for reporters.  As Insty has noted, 'Consider them Democrat operatives with bylines'.

"How would you like to be

…a black teacher with a CCW after a school shooting.”
Yes, someone actually made that argument as a reason for not allowing teachers who are licensed to carry to do so at schools.

So, let me get this straight.  Since the police are late (requiring the armed teacher to intervene in the first place), incompetent (incapable of doing threat assessment and differentiating between an armed intruder attacking students and an armed teacher defending them–hint:  as a starter, look which way the gun is pointed) and racist (else why mention “black”?) then the teachers should not be armed.

Well, they might have a point with those arguments but far from being an argument for keeping the teachers disarmed, it’s more one for disarming the late, incompetent, racists.
There's more.  Lots more.

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“I’d bite off the Beatles, or anybody else. It’s all one world, one planet and one groove. You’re supposed to learn from each other, blend from each other, and it moves around like that,” the Grammy-winner said.
...
“You see that rocket ship leave yesterday? We can maybe leave this planet. We gonna be dealing with aliens. You think black and white gonna be a problem? Wait till you start running into motherfuckers with three or four dicks! Bug-eyed motherfuckers!” the 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee said. “They could be ready to party, or they could be ready to eat us. We don’t know, but we’ve got to get over this shit of not getting along with each other.”
THAT attitude needs to get around more.

Oil test, followup

Back in December I tried using a new cleaner, Metcor 57 Bore Cleaner, and followed that up with Bore Shield, which is supposed to protect rust.  To try that out I took an old knife blade, sanded it a bit to brighten it up, gave it a light coat of the Shield and left it out under the carport.

Brought it in this morning after more than two months outside.

There's not a speck of rust on the treated surfaces.  So I'd have to say this actually works for the purpose.

The hell 'nobody wants to take your guns'

House Democrats have introduced a bill banning semi-automatic firearms in the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.
Note that this is virtually ALL semi-auto firearms.

Attention Cicilline: Fuck you.  No.

A bit of artillery history

Rodman's Great Guns
Including some innovation on gunpowder:
Perhaps even more important than his casting procedure was Rodman's development of progressive-burning powder. When any gun fires, of course, the volume of the bore behind the projectile increases as the projectile travels toward the muzzle. The normal black powder grain, however, irregular in shape, burns from the outside, so that its burning surface area continually decreases. Thus, in a normal black-powder piece, initial breech pressure is the highest obtained; the forward traveling projectile increases bore volume as the powder burns at a decreasing rate. Both occurrences reduce interior bore pressure.

Rodman proposed powder pressed into hexagonal grains perforated with several longitudinal holes so that as individual grains burned both inside and out, albeit almost instantaneously, the burning surface of each grain actually would increase. Rodman's powder didn't increase pressures--it simply maintained a higher bore pressure than normal powder could, as the projectile traveled forward. The result, logically, was an increased muzzle velocity of the projectile.

From Lawdog

Do read the whole thing, here's the heart:
If you come to me -- or your boss -- on a quiet afternoon and say, "I've thought about it, and I don't think I can do the needful to save kids" then all honour to you, and I wish you peace and happiness in another profession.
But if you wait until the bangs and the stinks and the screams are in progress to decide that you just can't do it ... you, sir, are a useless oath-breaking bucket of squid chum, who is parasitising a position, a uniform, and a salary that could be held by someone who can do the needful.
And -- quite frankly -- if you wear a badge, and you hide behind a car while children under your protection are getting killed, you should have the common [deleted] decency to take your sidearm, find a quiet country road somewhere, and Do The Proper Thing.
Nothing but the back of my hand to you -- all of you.

Under the heading of "Can't stop the signal, Mal",

screw-together AR lower plans.

Can you say 'Chickenshit excuse for a peace officer'?

I knew you could.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel just admitted on Jake Tapper State of the Union that he knew of reports Deputy didn’t enter school at time of CNN town hall forum in which he mocked and berated the NRA and Dana Loesch.

Israel said he didn’t mention it during the forum because he was waiting for investigators to confirm the reports.
Translation: "I wanted to keep this covered up as long as possible."

Also,

That twit wanting executions in the streets for owning guns?

This guy saved it, if you're on Fecesbook you can read it there.

This mess in Florida is even more dirty than thought

There were FOUR RSOs at the school, none of whom did anything except hide, 'set up a perimeter' and wait.

The failure by the school and RSOs to actually do anything about this little bastard- and others- was planned and intentional.
That 30-minute delay in the surveillance video?
♦ Secondly, the 27-minute tape-delay in the CCTV system is not an "accident", "flaw" or "mistake". It is entirely by design.

As a standard Broward and Miami-Dade practice, when school law enforcement need to cover-up or hide behavior, they need time (when that behavior happens) to delete the evidence trail. As such, the school policy – as carried out in practice – is more efficient with a 30-minute tape delay affording the school officer enough time to deal with the situation, then erase the possibility of a recording of the unlawful activity surfacing.

Building in a 30-minute delay on the CCTV system was one of those pesky add-on items that happened a few years ago when the School and Law Enforcement officials established the policy of intentionally not arresting students.

With modern technology it's tough to hide criminal behavior, especially the violent stuff, when it is being recorded. Duh. Ergo the tape-delay was the best-practice workaround.
Throw in the EffingBI being too busy with important matters like chasing problems in college sports, and we get a bunch of dead kids.

'Missed warning signs' my ass, they were deliberately ignored.  Including by that chickenshit sheriff who knew about all this, and then went posturing on 'the NRA
's fault!' on tv.  Bastards.  Disgusting bastards, all of them.