Friday night

"Can't stop the signal, Mal."

Very, very true.
After the hearing, NCA deputy director for investigations Chris Farrimond said: "It is the first time that a fully-functioning firearms factory creating firearms from scratch has been discovered, to our knowledge, in the UK.

"It was producing handguns, copies of a Browning pistol, from absolute scratch - from the nuts and bolts and producing fully functioning lethal firearms at the other end of it, with the bullets to go with it."
No way of telling whether they were actually manufacturing ammo, or reloading cases, but either is possible.

I'll bet there are others.  I've read that during WWII Sten subguns were produced in bicycle shops in the UK, so making something similar now wouldn't be difficult.  But they still think they can make them go away...

There's a site called Impro Guns that tracks information about such, the post links notes
that this guy did manufacture the ammo for at least one of the guns he made.

The blood dancers are getting some pushback

Survivors of a Colorado school shooting walked out of a vigil for their slain classmate Wednesday night in protest of politicians and other groups using it as a platform for gun control, a local report said.
Short version: the Brady clowns set this up and, from the sound of it, said it was just a memorial, then had a bunch of anti-rights clowns show up and start lecturing.  Which didn't go over well.

Further, from this post, the Brady clowns 'apologizing':

I'm calling bullshit; they knew EXACTLY what they were doing, especially with this bitch invited:
Moms Demand Action's Laura Reeves heavily politicizes the STEM School Highlands Ranch vigil:

-Blames NRA
-Demonizes pro-gun politicians
-Advocates working to elect Democrats
-Tells students to register voters, stage walkouts, raise $$$, & use social media to promote gun control
'We're sorry' my ass; the only thing they're sorry about is that a bunch of students didn't put up with it and put their bullshit in the public eye.

These people are both idiots, and dangerous

This crap showed up on Fecesbook

A: Show me ANYTHING indicating that ever happened outside someone's fevered imagination.

B: Know what happens to a troop of baboons if all the alpha males die?  Most of the troop dies, because they're the ones in the front line to defend the troop when the predators approach.

C: Assuming it ever happened, and some of the infant males reach teenage years, what happens?  Millions of years of hard-wired instinct causes them to start acting like males, except here they wouldn't have the teaching of the adult males to make sure they don't screw up.  That's not going to end well.

I'll throw in that this is a fine demonstration of progressive idiocy: instinct doesn't really exist, EVERYTHING is due to being socialized that way, and if you just socialize them 'properly' they can be made more perfect and Society Will Change To Happiness.

That anyone can actually believe this shit is amazing, but they do.  And some of them are like trasy, who seems to like the idea of wiping out adult males so they can properly mold the kids.  Which is one more reason to, if you haven't, take up the practice of arms.


Added: I am informed by someone with experience that the morons involved have no idea what female baboons are like.  But that wouldn't fit the narrative, so they'd ignore it.

"Women don't lie about rape!"

Unfortunately, some do.  And they do a lot of damage.  Therefore, harsh punishment is needed.

Crap like this is why assuming someone is guilty because they were accused is idiotic.

The food police might be wrong(again)?

One more time.

Few years back, when the FP had another reversal on something, I did some reading.  Then did some more.  Came to the conclusion that they were full of crap, and went back to using butter, and saving bacon grease for cooking, and stopped worrying about eating meat.

Couple of years after that my doctor insisting I should get a full physical, and when the results came back he'd written on the bottom "Whatever you're doing, keep doing it".  So I have.

I suggest as a start, if you're interested, the book mentioned in the post, The Big Fat Surprise.  That's one of those I ran across, and it has a real good look at the history of the nutrition research* that got us into this mess.
Added: here's another one

*Some of which is a disgrace to the name.

"Yes, we did, but we don't like to call it 'spying',

so we call it 'surveillance'."
“I was very concerned by his [Bill Barr’s] use of the word spying, which I think is a loaded word,” Shaheen said. “When FBI agents conduct investigations against alleged mobsters, suspected terrorists, other criminals, do you believe they’re engaging in spying when they’re following FBI investigative policies and procedures?”

“Well, that’s not the term I would use,” said Wray.
Assholes.

This is the FBI Director who said 'No, I don't think anything in this reflects badly on the Bureau' when asked about Comey and Sztrok and others breaking laws and rules and procedures.  After all, the Prime Directive is "Protect the Sacred Bureau".

The other day some retired agent said Wray is dedicated to cleaning the place up.  I have my doubts.

How do you know someone's a communist?

This level of asshole really helps

"Ungrateful prole, go back and serve the State!"  Bleep.

Well, I'm now a ladle believer

In casting big bullets.

I've mentioned before that I have a Lee bottom-pour melter for casting.  Generally it works great, but when casting the big(.45 caliber), heavy(500 grains and more) bullets I was getting a lot of rejects: the lube grooves wouldn't fill out completely, or the base wouldn't be right*.  Did some research and a lot of people mentioned they'd not had good results on those bullets with a melter like this, that a ladle worked better.  I'd read that before, but this was at the point of "I'm sick of throwing them back in the pot", so last time I cast I found my old ladle and tried it.  Short trial, but seemed to work.

So I invested in a small Lee melter designed for ladle use, and today was able to give it a try with the Lyman 535-grain mold.  And holy crap, the difference!  Once the mold was up to heat, very few bullets with defects.  The ladle is slower, and the pot's only four-pound capacity, but that works out: between the ladle use and adding metal to the pot, the mold didn't get so hot it needed to cool more**, and with the low reject rate it's better this way. 

I also tried it with another mold, a Lee that throws a 405-grain hollowbase bullet.  Reject rate a lot lower with this one as well.

So ladle it is for these from now on.


* In case you're not familiar with this, a defect on the base- not filled out, a crease, whatever- is worse than a defect elsewhere; that's the last place airflow can affect the bullet, and can really affect accuracy.

**A mold gets too hot, the bullets come out with a frosted appearance, and in some molds can actually have a somewhat rough(very slightly, but there) surface.

Short version: if you trust the Southern Poverty Lies Center

about anything, you're either a fool or a bigot.
Last week, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a non-profit journalism and research organization, published a list of 500 unreliable new websites. But the list, which included many conservative news and think tank websites, was itself unreliable, and Poynter has since retracted it.
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Golding's LinkedIn account lists him as a freelance podcast producer for the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC did not respond to my questions about whether other SPLC staff had any influence or involvement over the list. Golding did not immediately respond to my request for comment, either. According to his Twitter feed, he works with the SPLC's "Teaching Tolerance" project. He was formerly a research fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and a producer for NPR.

"Nice weather the next few days!" Right

About twelve hours later it's "Storms the next few days, some severe!", etc.

If it doesn't dry out enough to mow this afternoon, it will be shortgrass prairie, and I may need to borrow a scythe from someone.

Some understand this; some insist it's a fantasy

 Considering history, I'll go with "You want to ban arms?  Screw you."
“Venezuelans didn’t care enough about it. The idea of having the means to protect your home was seen as only needed out in the fields. People never would have believed they needed to defend themselves against the government,” Vanegas explained. “Venezuelans evolved to always hope that our government would be non-tyrannical, non-violator of human rights, and would always have a good enough control of criminality.”

He said it didn’t take long for such a wide-eyed public perception to fall apart. “If guns had been a stronger part of our culture, if there had been a sense of duty for one to protect their individual rights, and as a show of force against a government power – and had legal carry been a common thing – it would have made a huge difference,” he lamented.
Also, ever noticed that most of the clowns who hate the private citizen having arms are very fond of communism/socialism?

Not surprising; it's a lot harder to say "Do this or else" to people who can shoot back.

This. Is. CNN.

CNN covered the January controversy surrounding Nick Sandmann and his fellow Covington Catholic School students 23 times, yet thus far hasn’t covered footage of children at a Philadelphia Islamic center reading poetry about chopping off heads. 

Video from last month of kids at the Philadelphia Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center showed them reading about chopping off heads and subjecting the enemies of Allah to “eternal torture.”
What, anyone actually thinks CNN is a news bureau or something?

It's Saturday, and no excuse needed

for checking out the new data

The bastards have talked about this before,

so no surprise.  Neither is this:
'The use of poisons of chemical and biological weapons against population centers is allowed and strongly recommended due to the effect on the enemy,' explained al-Awlaki. 

Two things:
One is that PC-brained idiots, when these are attempted, will try to turn it into "Muslims in fear of backlash!"

Two is that a lot of media would do anything possible to downplay the chance of terrorism in any fires they do set(see 'PC-brained' above).

Just some fun stuff

Ever become so tied up in testing things

that you realize you haven't been doing it for fun?

Shooting is fun.  But I've been getting so tied up in "I need to test this load" stuff that I haven't done much just for fun for a while.  I need to work on that.

And get out shooting more often.

That time again

Be a Rooftop Korean

Some duties of citizen should never be outsourced. If you are an able-bodied adult, it’s your duty to know how to stop the bleeding and give CPR until the pros who do it for a living arrive. And it’s your duty (and right) to defend yourself, your family, your community and your Constitution. With guns – effective guns, which sometimes means your concealed pistol and sometimes means the guns that those who want you defenseless call “assault weapons.”

Ban them? We should insist non-felon adult, able-bodied citizens own them and become proficient with them because all that law and order you see around you can disappear in a heartbeat. I watched it happen up close and personal, in one of America’s biggest cities. And as the Rooftop Koreans recognized, groups of citizens with (preferably) semi-auto rifles with 30-rounds mag is the only thing that is going to keep a mob in check.

The mower made it through the wet

well enough to cut some of the worst of the back yard, and the grass catcher worked.  Which means after the rain they're expecting later today, by Monday it'll only be a minor level of shortgrass* prairie.  And hopefully dry enough to mow the whole place.

With all this wet it gave me excuse to clean the house the last few days.  Still some stuff to do, but better than it was(cleaning up the mess being a never-ending task).


*Grass only two-three feet high instead of five-six

It appears the Portland PD has reached peak useless

Unless you're a communist demonstrator, then they're your friends.

If you don't want to mess with Twatter, Portland PD claimed May Day was peaceful.  Actual reporter says

Are you kidding me? Do you not arrest violent people so then you can claim that it was peaceful? There was a riot outside the Cider Riot. I was attacked point blank with pepper spray. A student journalist from Oregon State had his camera smashed & destroyed. Where are you?

They're protecting the violent demonstrators.  Because Portland is run by leftist assholes.

Sooner or later they're going to kill or maim someone, and this whole mess is going to blow up on the Mayor and Chief's faces.  Which won't do the deceased/crippled any good.

Pretty soon the Brits will be arresting gardeners

for having cutting tools with them as they go to work.

Seriously, how effing stupid can a country ge- wait, don't answer that, it's too depressing.

But this doesn't happen! All the leftists insist!

A Jordanian national pleaded guilty to conspiring to bring illegal Yemeni immigrants into the United States through the Mexican border, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
Makes you wonder how many others haven't been caught.  And what some of them might be up to.

When you send the cops into a particular neighborhood,

to target the people who live in that neighborhood, it’s a little disingenuous to complain that the cops did as directed. 
A prosecutor who did it, then complained about the 'racist' actions/results of the cops doing what she told them to.

About Biden's 'scandal-free' Obama administration,

politicians and bureaucrats who need hanging.
Operation Choke Point was a plot by President Obama’s Department of Justice, the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and other government agencies to cut off banking and financial services for small businesses and industries that they deemed to be political enemies or otherwise undesirable.
...
Government documents were just unsealed providing evidence of just how far reaching and destructive Operation Choke Point really was to small businesses.

In this specific case, the documents show how the FDIC engaged in a targeted campaign against lawful and legally operating businesses, cutting them off from banking services without due process or other legal recourse. While most thought the program began around 2013 — at least that was when evidence of the program first began to surface — a senior official with the FDIC was pushing regulators to cut off banking for lawful small dollar lenders at least three years before that. The official told regulators: “… if a bank was found to be involved in payday lending, someone was going to be fired.” Brought to light by the unsealed documents, additional instruction was given to regulators that “if an institution in their region was facilitating payday lending, the regional director should require the institution to submit a plan for exiting the business.”

Any business deemed to be a political enemy would be considered “high-risk,” and as the legal filing that unsealed these new incriminating documents notes, it was made clear “that banks servicing high risk customers through payment processors would incur additional regulatory compliance burdens.” In another incident, available now through the deposition of a bank chairman, said the chairman was threatened with criminal referral to the Department of Justice if a business relationship with a small dollar lender was not ended.
Lots of lampposts and cherry trees in DC.  Just sayin'.

It's raining again,

this weather is making my knees ache, and I really need to spend a chunk of the day cleaning house.

Hard to work up enthusiasm with a schedule like that.

"Guns have the power to magically change you!"

...Yet when neighbors relayed how the deaths happened, they offered explanations involving a different kind of occult transformation: the supernatural potency of the .38 to change people into unethical agents. With each subsequent death, lore intensified around the gun, with people surmising that "touching" this gun could portend death. "Ever since they touched the gun, those poor young boys were not the same," said one community member. Residents spoke about the gun as if it were an amulet that could change otherwise good people and what they did in the world.

It would be shortsighted to dismiss these claims as the misguided logic of a "superstitious people." That racially inflected trope, long used to marginalize and demonize Haitians, among others, blinds observers to the way in which guns do exhibit a power akin to magic: the power to create a change in someone's state of mind.
I haven't finished this; it's late, and I don't need the annoyance,

but I'm sure he'll get around to the AR family being super-powerful magical objects.

This is pretty big and serious

The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office says it will pull back all staff responding to calls for services within the City of Portland, citing “unnecessary personal and professional risk”.
...
“As sheriff, your safety and the safety of the Clackamas County residents remain my top priorities,” his email reads. “Our work is dangerous enough without adding unnecessary risk when responding to calls for services in the city of Portland.”
Sounds like "The Portland PD and city government won't back us up, and we're sick of it.  Screw 'em."

Vancouver police have said they are considering doing the same as well.

I would bet that watching Portland PD stand around while antifa clowns take over streets and attack people, and the mayor approving, has a lot to do with this.