Well, I'm sort-of back;

Getting home has me kind of washed-out; that much time in a bed/hospital room takes it out of you.  I need to mow, among other things, but that's going to be done as can.  Last thing I want is to call family and say "Ah, I may have overdone things, help."

So I will, as can, be back to bitching about appropriate things.  Which will, if they mess it up, include raising hell with/at the congresscritters if they lose the SHORT and HPA from the budget deal.

One personal things, one gunny thing

The personal is I spent a few days in a local hospital, dealing with a problem I didn't  expect.  I'm out, but will be out of circulation for a few days more before resuming some blogging.

The gunny was an article at The Firearm Blog on an old weapon called the Welrod.  Which I cannot get to come up.  If you can find it, take a look.

And now I'm of to continue recovery.

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.

Not enough time for a real post,

So this is what you get

Be it noted that Blogger is apparently run by clowns

who get upset at something, won't tell you exactly what- or what cartoon on a page upset them- and then bitch at you for violating their 'standards'.

I need to clear some stuff

Michael Williamson has a recurring post on why people hate leftists*,

things like this have to be at the top of the list:
A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden admitted that White House staff felt justified doing “undemocratic things” during his term in office because they believed President Donald Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy.

The revelation came during an appearance by Axios reporter Alex Thompson on “Fox News Sunday” with Shannon Bream, where he discussed insider accounts from his reporting on the Biden administration. Thompson described a mindset inside the White House — one in which unelected aides saw themselves as the real decision makers while shielding Biden from scrutiny and managing the presidency behind the scenes.

“If you believe — and I think a lot of these people do sincerely believe — that Donald Trump was and is an existential threat to democracy, you can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing undemocratic things,” Thompson said.
'Undemocratic things', you ask?
Thompson also cited a quote from his reporting in which a longtime Biden aide openly admitted the president “just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years.”

“He’d only have to show proof of life every once in a while,” the aide reportedly told Thompson. “His aides could pick up the slack.”
Translation:
"We use him as a front, and WE run the country!"  

Can you say 'Hang the bastards'?  I knew you could.

*His term for them is cleaned up a bit

Before I try to get some things done, some political stuff

Starting with, the Mayor of Seattle should be either charged with or sued for his violation of 1st Amendment rights.  He's a piece of garbage.


Left-wing 'fact check'.  

'Bout covers it

Right now, both on politics and 'journalism', is watching journalists who took orders to cover up Biden's condition, for years, now whining that Biden's staff lied to them and wouldn't let them know anything.  And don't ask why they didn't investigate any of the stuff they'd seen and heard, because they say so, and give us money for not having done our job then.
Oh, and respect us because our job is hard!

Every one of the bastards should be fired, except their editors and bosses are just as complicit and won't do it.

Some gunny stuff on a rainy day

Wirecutter linked to this collection of kabooms.  That last being a demonstration of why you give a misfire some time before you screw with things.


History of the NFA from The Firearm Blog.

Keep in mind that the current state of those parts of the current budget deal have changed, and might still change, we'll see what happens.  Be sure to let your congresscritter know you're watching them.

Ammoland has a review of one of PSA's new rifles.

There used to be a joke about the New York Times, if they got word the world would end

tomorrow their headline would be "World Ending; Women and Minorities Hardest Hit."

Their favorite terrorist supporters and Jew haters have a new hero, who murdered two people because they're Jews*, and the big worry by the NYeffingTimes is "How will this hurt all the people calling for dead Jews but who haven't committed any attacks yet?"

As has been said, they would be ashamed of themselves, if they had any shame.

Remember what I said the other day about 'Carry, whenever and wherever you can'?

The left and the terrorist supporters(as if there's much difference any more) is making it plain they think these murders are to be taken as examples.

ANY murder of someone who's a Disapproved Person.
Note this shithead is backing off of her outright praise.  Which makes her a chickenshit as well.

Another.

Lots of this out there, from those open about it and those who couch it in what they figure to be deniable terms.

Wherever/whenever you can, carry.  Because there's no we to know when the next one will do his 'Praise me, I'm a martyr!' crap.

Oh yes, things are picking up

Asshat murdered two Israeli embassy people, said asshat being a member of Party for Socialism and Liberation.  Rather an interesting racist past too.  

This caused a man to remind us of something:

Yeah, an awful lot of leftists cheering on murder.

Speaking of, a roundup of some of this noise, which is getting louder.

Folks, my personal opinion is that if you normally carry for self-defense, good; if you don't, you'd better consider carrying everywhere and when you legally can.  Probably with a reload or two.  Because some of this crap is going to get worse, probably in a lot of places.

Just put it that the UN is on the enemy side,

the more bloody-handed the enemy, the better.

With their Prime Minister Two-Tier leading the surrender

Britain pressed to give away fishing grounds permanently in return for the right to accept EU laws and courts permanently. 
 You couldn't make it up.

You might remember this little two-faced socialist as recently acting as if he were going to reduce migration into Britain; now he'll probably say something like "I did try, but my masters in the EU told me to do this instead."  


Mr. Steyn has several of the current marks of surrender by European countries, such as
There Mr Galloway is at odds with the rest of the Internet, which seems to have concluded unanimously that he's the latter. In the legacy media, one is struck by the all the Fleet Street dogs not barking. After all, two properties and one former motor vehicle of the PM have just been rather seriously firebombed, allegedly by a twenty-one-year-old Ukrainian "male model" with minimal English-language skills. At the very least, surely, this raises security questions, no?

On the face of it, yes. It was "counter-terrorism" officers who took down a second suspect at Luton Airport attempting to leave the country. This chap is twenty-six. That's all we've been told. Another "male model"?

It's beginning to feel a bit like the initial reports, two years ago, about a certain BBC presenter being harassed over some lad he'd been corresponding with - in which the alert listener had the vague feeling every media grandee knew what was really going on but they had all agreed not to tell anyone. ...


Once upon a time, leftie women would have agreed with Eva. My opponent at the Munk Debate in Toronto, Louise Arbour, was the first UN commissioner to prosecute rape as a war crime. But that was then, and this is now. And all across the west the political class has accepted that a certain number of our most vulnerable women and children have to be sacrificed to the volcano gods of diversity. On the Continent Eva is one of a very few to speak out against this disgusting indifference - which increasingly wipes out whatever moral claims we might make to the superiority of our "values".


And, from the Germany working its way back to proper "Shut up, villagers" territory,
Yet the most significant development from the Remigration Summit was not on stage. En route to Milan, eight German attendees were prevented by police from boarding their flights - on the grounds that, to permit these six men and two women to exit the Fourth Reich and pass through the New & Improved Berlin Wall to the world beyond, would create a "significant risk of damage to the reputation of the Federal Republic".

Ain't it just freakin' wonderful?

I do have to wonder what Starmer's payoff for tossing all those commoners to the rabid EU is?

My, isn't this all interesting timing?

Here's the whole post.

God, this is such a damn mess.  We've got crooked politicians, crooked journalists, then the release of the Hur recordings showing just how bad Biden's interview was, and now this.

Biden was supposed to be reelected, then have to resign because of health and make Harris President?  Or maybe they hoped they- staff, Pelosi, Schumer & Co.- could keep using the autopen to do things a pretend the 'President' did them as long as possible before he had to withdraw?

Whatever the hell they actually had in mind, they knew their tame little journalists would carry water for them.

Said journalists being the ones who did it, and now are desperately trying to 

A: Pretend they knew NOTHING(insert Sgt. Schulz picture here) about Biden's condition to try to save what reputation they have, and
B: Try real hard to make money from their confession that they're either incompetent or completely corrupt.

And let's not forget a HUGE thing: WHO the hell was using the autopen to sign things illegally, and on how many things?  Probably from Day 1.

This is one of those 'There are people who belong in prison for this, but we'll never get the information to do it' things.