Saturday, March 30, 2019

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, March 29, 2019

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.

Thursday, March 28, 2019

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.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

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.









Tuesday, March 26, 2019

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.

Monday, March 25, 2019

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.

Sunday, March 24, 2019

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, March 23, 2019

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, March 22, 2019

Friday night,

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

































Was able to hit the range the other day,

and had an interesting target(I'm skipping the other stuff, at least for now).

This is .45-70, using the Lyman 340-grain hollowpoint* cast of 20-1, over 29.5 grains of A5744 propellant.  Used the sizing die to iron out the mouth flare and crimp it.  100 yards.
What makes it real interesting is that on two shots, looking through the scope, I thought I'd somehow missed the whole target, which didn't make sense: I've had good results with this combination(different crimp) before, and the shots felt right.  Then I got the target and saw that those two holes on the left are a bit larger, a touch oval-shaped, than they should be... Holy crap.

I need to reshoot these, two groups: one with this crimp, one with standard crimp, because this is the tightest group I've ever had with this bullet, and I need to see if I just had a real good day, or if that one difference makes that much difference.


*Lyman says 330 grain, out of this and 15-1 I'm getting 340

You could almost think the NZ authorities are happily using this horror

to extend control over what people are allowed to hear and see.
In the wake of the attacks, the prime minister promised to keep the murderer “nameless,” and the internet promptly obliged by flushing the perpetrator’s identity down the memory hole. New Zealanders’ access to online material about him was blocked. In what has become standing operating procedure after mass attacks, social media accounts connected to the perpetrator disappeared. Internet service providers in New Zealand blocked access to sites like 4chan, 8chan, LiveLeak, and the file-sharing site Mega if the sites did not take down material related to the shooting.

Ardern then announced that the government would consider further policing social media, saying, “We will look at the role that social media played and what steps we can take, including on the international stage and in unison with our partners.”
And places like Fecesbook and Twatter couldn't wait to fall into line.  For the public good, of course.

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Tab clearing

Ancient Egyptian sunken ship.


Evidence of a battle that stopped the Spanish moving eastward into the plains.


What leftists should know about Trump voters.
Good piece.  And "Us flyover-country people just loves Trump!" isn't on there.


Hey, ignoring the piles of bodies Socialism! piles up is what socialists do best.


Some people REALLY don't want these Epstein documents unsealed.
And there's a serious list of the people who could be the 'anonymous' here.


The CDC has been lying about this for a long time.  It's why they got a boot in the ass about 'gun research' a few years ago.

So of all those "I've turned in my gun!" posts,

there were actually very few.  Surprised?

Considering the media, I'm not.

Let's also consider this from Mr. Williamson:
which will probably cause the authorities in New Zealand to want him arrested for hate speech or something.


Wednesday, March 20, 2019

History, being messy again

No, they weren't female-only mass graves.

New Zealand sounds like they've been taking Stalin lessons

New Zealand authorities have reminded citizens that they face up to 10 years in prison for “knowingly” possessing a copy of the New Zealand mosque shooting video – and up to 14 years in prison for sharing it. Corporations (such as web hosts) face an additional $200,000 ($137,000 US) fine under the same law.
So just for HAVING A COPY of it, they'll put you in prison...

Screw that place.  I once wanted to visit there, but no more.

Monday, March 18, 2019

Tab clearing (link on #2 fixed)

Not actually genocide, but mass-murder by the Revolutionaries, you bet.


For the author to accuse “rightists” of fantasizing about civil war, they sure do seem to be spending a lot of time in this article and comments fantasizing about civil war on “rightists.” 

So what can one pistol do against an evil regime? Watch this video to find out.


"No, New Zealand, I will not take orders from you.  And don't you have more important things to worry about than trying to censor the 'net?"


Wonder how the left will try to blame Trump and the NRA for this?


In the days approaching former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould‘s testimony to the House of Commons’ Justice Committee on February 27, at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s behest, Karina Gould, the Minister of Democratic Institutions, reached out to social media giant Google to pressure the firm to curtail political criticism of the Trudeau government on its platform.


Yeah, yeah, you're all upset.  Yet I bet most of you will keep voting Democrat, no matter what they say and defend.

There are good reasons he made this post

Reuters reported late on Friday night that their reporter who broke the story about Democrat Beto O'Rourke belonging to a hacker group had the story for two years and agreed to sit on it until after O'Rourke's Senate race against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
"But you can trust us to tell you the news!  Really!"