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10 January 2016
Don't Need
I do not need another AR.
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Especially not a GWACS Cav Mk.2 AR in zombie green.
I do not need another AR.
I do not need another AR.
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Especially not a GWACS Cav Mk.2 AR in zombie green.
The Shine Didn't Last Long
Despite its record box office...
I notice that Star Wars has kind of dropped off the radar of people that I expected to be chattering about the minutia until Easter.
The good news is they'll still bitch about Episode 1 if you give them even a hint.
The not talking about Ep7 means it was solidly good, but not really super great.
At this point we've become so Stockholm'd we're grateful for good.
PS: You'll note that Star Wars does not get a Science Fiction label. I maintain to this day that neither Star Wars or Star Trek really meet the bar for Science Fiction. Yes, I am a snob about it.
I notice that Star Wars has kind of dropped off the radar of people that I expected to be chattering about the minutia until Easter.
The good news is they'll still bitch about Episode 1 if you give them even a hint.
The not talking about Ep7 means it was solidly good, but not really super great.
At this point we've become so Stockholm'd we're grateful for good.
PS: You'll note that Star Wars does not get a Science Fiction label. I maintain to this day that neither Star Wars or Star Trek really meet the bar for Science Fiction. Yes, I am a snob about it.
09 January 2016
What Goes WIth A Yugo SKS
A Yugo MG.42!
I'm just $6,945 short, so if you could hit that donate button like an appropriate metaphor...
It's for the kids! We'll be getting that gun off the streets!
I'm just $6,945 short, so if you could hit that donate button like an appropriate metaphor...
It's for the kids! We'll be getting that gun off the streets!
Loophole
As everyone knows, a loophole in a law is a way to do something that's otherwise banned by that law and still be legal about it.
The language of calling private sales at a gunshow a loophole is a clue to the thought process of the anti-gunners to be sure.
I am starting to suspect that NICS is back-door registration they way they keep insisting that all sales be subject to it. At least they see it as a means to bar people from being sold guns on the basis of mental health with ever lowering levels of no-process in the sanity determination.
How do you close loopholes?
You pass another law that amends the previous one and eliminates the legal means to skirt the law intended to ban that activity.
You can also repeal the law entirely.
Why don't we press for that? Ever.
We keep talking about how much we know about the Constitution and how little our opponents do. The Feds should have no say over intrastate sales anyways, why don't we press for repeal on those grounds? And press for a legislative solution because the Supreme Court blew it on interpreting the interstate commerce clause.
Why is this always "impossible"? Why aren't we on the offensive?
Because milquetoast to lukewarm pro-gun is still a B+ rating. If it was the C- or D it should be, maybe we'd get different candidates. Rating them just on their gun stance and disregarding their length of tenure in office would downgrade a lot of them too, and prolly would have cashiered Harry Reid when he had two eyes.
The language of calling private sales at a gunshow a loophole is a clue to the thought process of the anti-gunners to be sure.
I am starting to suspect that NICS is back-door registration they way they keep insisting that all sales be subject to it. At least they see it as a means to bar people from being sold guns on the basis of mental health with ever lowering levels of no-process in the sanity determination.
How do you close loopholes?
You pass another law that amends the previous one and eliminates the legal means to skirt the law intended to ban that activity.
You can also repeal the law entirely.
Why don't we press for that? Ever.
We keep talking about how much we know about the Constitution and how little our opponents do. The Feds should have no say over intrastate sales anyways, why don't we press for repeal on those grounds? And press for a legislative solution because the Supreme Court blew it on interpreting the interstate commerce clause.
Why is this always "impossible"? Why aren't we on the offensive?
Because milquetoast to lukewarm pro-gun is still a B+ rating. If it was the C- or D it should be, maybe we'd get different candidates. Rating them just on their gun stance and disregarding their length of tenure in office would downgrade a lot of them too, and prolly would have cashiered Harry Reid when he had two eyes.
Thwarted
Today was CCW class day at the local range.
Two hour wait for members, and we normally get to cut to the front of the line.
I've never seen the class day so well attended before.
More owners are better than fewer! Just justifies more ranges locally!
Two hour wait for members, and we normally get to cut to the front of the line.
I've never seen the class day so well attended before.
More owners are better than fewer! Just justifies more ranges locally!
About That Ranseur
For us ancient gamers, back when gamer meant pencils, a table, paper and dice, there was Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.
We recall E Gary Gygax looked up every synonym of "polearm" and put them on the weapon table. We even got pictures when Unearthed Arcana came out.
If you used the speed/range table, the differences in these weapons mattered. Real debate about the relative merit between a glaive and glaive-guisarme happened with the same heat as 9mm vs .45.
Here's a series of youtube on the problem. In particular...
It was actually something of a relief when we converted to GURPS with just a few polearms defined by effect rather than appearance (glaive, halberd, and poleaxe in 3e adding a naginata for 4e) and it boils down to what kind of thrusting damage you do when stabbing and if there's a hook on the side. The GURPS names for these things is wrong for a lot of the weapons represented, and it's not until Low-Tech for 4e that we start adding in all the silly sub-variants we're familiar with from the old AD&D days, but it's still a pretty sparse list by comparison. Bill (including dueling bill, forest bill and guisarme), Glaive (including dueling glaive, bardiche, fauchard, jedwart, jeddart stave, and lochaber axe), Halberd (including dueling halberd, ji and voulge), Horse-Cutter (including pudao and bisento), Monk's Spade, Naginata (including nagamaki, rhomphaia, and ngao), Poleaxe (ahistorical) and Polleaxe (including bec de corbin). With sub-variations listed in the text description.
In GURPS, spears (including bolg, chaing, hasta, ngao, sibat and yari) and warhammers aren't polearms because they use different skills.
Our friend the ranseur is listed under partisan (Low Tech p. 60), and that's just a kind of spear using the spear skill. In GURPS terms, a ranseur is the same as a boar spear, Bohemian ear-spoon, magari-yari, partisan, spetum, or spontoon. An "unthrowable" spear with something to keep the impaled target from walking up the stave (rules for this are in the GURPS: Martial Arts I don't own).
We recall E Gary Gygax looked up every synonym of "polearm" and put them on the weapon table. We even got pictures when Unearthed Arcana came out.
If you used the speed/range table, the differences in these weapons mattered. Real debate about the relative merit between a glaive and glaive-guisarme happened with the same heat as 9mm vs .45.
Here's a series of youtube on the problem. In particular...
It was actually something of a relief when we converted to GURPS with just a few polearms defined by effect rather than appearance (glaive, halberd, and poleaxe in 3e adding a naginata for 4e) and it boils down to what kind of thrusting damage you do when stabbing and if there's a hook on the side. The GURPS names for these things is wrong for a lot of the weapons represented, and it's not until Low-Tech for 4e that we start adding in all the silly sub-variants we're familiar with from the old AD&D days, but it's still a pretty sparse list by comparison. Bill (including dueling bill, forest bill and guisarme), Glaive (including dueling glaive, bardiche, fauchard, jedwart, jeddart stave, and lochaber axe), Halberd (including dueling halberd, ji and voulge), Horse-Cutter (including pudao and bisento), Monk's Spade, Naginata (including nagamaki, rhomphaia, and ngao), Poleaxe (ahistorical) and Polleaxe (including bec de corbin). With sub-variations listed in the text description.
In GURPS, spears (including bolg, chaing, hasta, ngao, sibat and yari) and warhammers aren't polearms because they use different skills.
Our friend the ranseur is listed under partisan (Low Tech p. 60), and that's just a kind of spear using the spear skill. In GURPS terms, a ranseur is the same as a boar spear, Bohemian ear-spoon, magari-yari, partisan, spetum, or spontoon. An "unthrowable" spear with something to keep the impaled target from walking up the stave (rules for this are in the GURPS: Martial Arts I don't own).
Train
For all the talk...
It still all boils down to a willingness to kill the other motherfucker dead.
Lots and lots of people can't. They just cannot.
Training can be used to overcome this, and it's not very difficult to get there.
But... did your training do that?
Did your training teach you to do it constructively? Or did it teach you to do a mag dump reflexively from the draw then robotically pivot your head 90 right then 180 left then 180 right then 90 left back to center?
Did it teach you to move, or just stand there?
Did it teach you to get to cover if you can, or just stand there?
Was the round-count to get your skills up through repetition or was it a back-handed test of your gun's reliability to fire more ammo than you're ever going to carry all at once?
Did the school forbid you to clean your gun during down time and breaks on the grounds that your gun shouldn't need cleaned if it was any good?
For Gods' sake, ask around before paying someone to teach you something you'll have to unlearn later paying someone else to unteach you. Be wary of the people dropping names and class titles without explaining what you're going to learn. If they're acting like you should already know what the difference between basic and advanced carbine classes when they know you've never taken any classes, you might want to discount their recommendation.
Call the school/instructor! Shockingly, they want you to learn and will be more than happy to explain what you're going to be doing and for how long. If they're cagey or unwilling to explain, you don't have to spend your money there, do you?
There's a reason for the truism, "train as you fight," because you're going do what you learned when the stress starts. Learn to do the right thing, preferably learning it right the first time.
It still all boils down to a willingness to kill the other motherfucker dead.
Lots and lots of people can't. They just cannot.
Training can be used to overcome this, and it's not very difficult to get there.
But... did your training do that?
Did your training teach you to do it constructively? Or did it teach you to do a mag dump reflexively from the draw then robotically pivot your head 90 right then 180 left then 180 right then 90 left back to center?
Did it teach you to move, or just stand there?
Did it teach you to get to cover if you can, or just stand there?
Was the round-count to get your skills up through repetition or was it a back-handed test of your gun's reliability to fire more ammo than you're ever going to carry all at once?
Did the school forbid you to clean your gun during down time and breaks on the grounds that your gun shouldn't need cleaned if it was any good?
For Gods' sake, ask around before paying someone to teach you something you'll have to unlearn later paying someone else to unteach you. Be wary of the people dropping names and class titles without explaining what you're going to learn. If they're acting like you should already know what the difference between basic and advanced carbine classes when they know you've never taken any classes, you might want to discount their recommendation.
Call the school/instructor! Shockingly, they want you to learn and will be more than happy to explain what you're going to be doing and for how long. If they're cagey or unwilling to explain, you don't have to spend your money there, do you?
There's a reason for the truism, "train as you fight," because you're going do what you learned when the stress starts. Learn to do the right thing, preferably learning it right the first time.
Disconnect
I occasionally wonder why, since nearly all business in the US is small business... privately held small businesses...
Why then, does the stock market have much bearing at all on them?
I'm snipping at the edges. The answers are not encouraging, nearly conspiracy theory stuff, about how the tendrils reach down from companies tied to those markets and in effect tying otherwise unencumbered businesses to their success or failure.
Why then, does the stock market have much bearing at all on them?
I'm snipping at the edges. The answers are not encouraging, nearly conspiracy theory stuff, about how the tendrils reach down from companies tied to those markets and in effect tying otherwise unencumbered businesses to their success or failure.
08 January 2016
Fearful And Optimistic
I am a'skeer'd of opening up a constitutional convention. Who knows what will come out?
I am also desperate enough to give it a shot.
h/t Ace.
I am also desperate enough to give it a shot.
h/t Ace.
Another Thought
Again, probably not original...
I've long liked the idea of jury nullification.
I'd always thought that I'd vote innocent on someone who was guilty of breaking the law, where I thought that the law was unjust or unconstitutional.
I've come into another reason to nullify.
For when the law is just and constitutional, but the mandatory sentence is unjust and excessive.
We've really got to get mens rea restored to our legal system to get it to more resemble a justice system.
I've long liked the idea of jury nullification.
I'd always thought that I'd vote innocent on someone who was guilty of breaking the law, where I thought that the law was unjust or unconstitutional.
I've come into another reason to nullify.
For when the law is just and constitutional, but the mandatory sentence is unjust and excessive.
We've really got to get mens rea restored to our legal system to get it to more resemble a justice system.
07 January 2016
Meaningless
If we're going to downgrade the Medal of Honor by over-issuing them...
I want to submit both my Army Service Ribbon and Overseas Service Ribbon for upgrade to at least Bronze Stars with V device.
I want to submit both my Army Service Ribbon and Overseas Service Ribbon for upgrade to at least Bronze Stars with V device.
Priority
My gun IS more important than your child.
Simply because of the mine is more important to me than the yours with everything.
My child is also more important to me than your child too.
I don't know you, but I can see what kind of person you are by demanding I change something about my life to suit yours. You're probably going to transfer those twisted values to your child, so of course I will value them as I value you.
Lower than something I like and enjoy having around.
Simply because of the mine is more important to me than the yours with everything.
My child is also more important to me than your child too.
I don't know you, but I can see what kind of person you are by demanding I change something about my life to suit yours. You're probably going to transfer those twisted values to your child, so of course I will value them as I value you.
Lower than something I like and enjoy having around.
26USC § 5845 (k)
26 USC § 5845 (k) Dealer
The term “dealer” means any person, not a manufacturer or importer, engaged in the business of selling, renting, leasing, or loaning firearms and shall include pawnbrokers who accept firearms as collateral for loans.
What I have not been able to find is the definition of "in the business of".
I know what I'd consider being "in the business of."
Doing something for money regularly and depending on that money as part of my livelihood.
Selling a car wouldn't make me a car dealer.
Selling a car every month to pay the mortgage would.
It's a matter of scale.
Why matters.
Motive matters.
Selling a pile of guns to be rid of them, isn't engaging in business.
Selling a gun, for a profit, to pay a sudden and unexpected expense, isn't engaging in business.
Selling a gun a month while refining a collection isn't engaging in business.
Selling a pile of guns because my interests changed isn't engaging in business.
The number of guns bought and sold doesn't really matter. The why they are bought and sold does.
Proving motive for a sale is much more difficult than proving that a sale occurred, guess what they want to measure.
The ironic thing, to me, is how the FFL rolls were purged during the Clinton administration because there were too many dealers. Now we've too few?
I see what they're trying to do here.
They're not going to make it easier to get an 01FFL. The Clinton era standards will still stand. What they're going to do is try and make ever smaller numbers of transfers require an FFL.
This is why we need Congress to take lawmaking away from the executive branch. We need candidates whom are actually pro-gun for both executive and legislative branches. We need the people we elect to start appointing judicial candidates who understand separation of powers.
And by pro-gun I mean people like us! People who own and shoot guns. Setting a bar that a "pro-gun" candidate must own at least as many guns as I do and of a similar type. Not just letting them get away with a photo-op in a birding setting.
06 January 2016
Yipes
One machinist buddy thinks my suppressor clone should be between 16 and 20 hours to build.
That translates to $1,440 to $1,800 at his shop because $90 an hour for prototyping.
The good news is that with an approved stamp in hand I have no time limit to start work or even finish. I could literally take decades to whittle it from a block of iron using a Q-tip and toothpaste.
Time to fill out my eforms and plunk down $200, I think.
The saddest thing about this project, really, is that it's not going to yield a very good suppressor by modern standards. If it works as well as the real thing, it's only going to give a 26 dB reduction compared to 32-35 dB for a more modern design.
That translates to $1,440 to $1,800 at his shop because $90 an hour for prototyping.
The good news is that with an approved stamp in hand I have no time limit to start work or even finish. I could literally take decades to whittle it from a block of iron using a Q-tip and toothpaste.
Time to fill out my eforms and plunk down $200, I think.
The saddest thing about this project, really, is that it's not going to yield a very good suppressor by modern standards. If it works as well as the real thing, it's only going to give a 26 dB reduction compared to 32-35 dB for a more modern design.
Because Orcs Aren't Green
Did some parts swapping because the physical description of Orcs in most GURPS materials say they're dark skinned, but no indication of being green.
Love those chompers!
Also, since it's hard to make a Lego cigar... I added some flame to his little stub to kind of make it more clear.
Jog My Elbow Will You
Fired up the CAD package and dimensioned the parts I need to make a reproduction of an HEL4A Blast Suppressor.
Figure with dimensioned drawings I can get some quotes on materials and machine time.
If the prices come back half reasonable, I'll fire off a Form 1 on Monday.
That'd be a no photograph, no finger prints, no telling the sheriff what I'm up to Form 1 on my Evil Loophole Trust.
Figure with dimensioned drawings I can get some quotes on materials and machine time.
If the prices come back half reasonable, I'll fire off a Form 1 on Monday.
That'd be a no photograph, no finger prints, no telling the sheriff what I'm up to Form 1 on my Evil Loophole Trust.
05 January 2016
Hot Under The Collar
NFATCA seems to have gotten what THEY wanted and changed the CLEO sign off to a CLEO notification, like a C&R FFL.
It looks like trusts will have to submit fingerprints and photos of everyone mentioned in the trust, or just the trustees, or just someone who makes decisions... Or, even the lawyers reading it aren't certain.
I am hot under the collar about this because the constant insinuation that the only reason a person would establish an NFA trust is to go out and break the law.
I did not.
One huge thing that creating a trust gave us, here at Casa McThag, was Harvey, being a trustee and grantor, could possess the NFA items as well.
We're both law abiding gun owners and carry permit holders. I'm an 03FFL. We're the polar opposite of forbidden person.
There's no real reason that Harvey can't have access to a short barrel rifle, except that if I forgot to lock the safe one day, while I go to the store and she stays home, the ATF regards that as a transfer. Big trouble.
In a trust, we both own it, so it's not a transfer if I'm not here and she can get to it.
That's all it was. And it was presented to us as the proper way of doing things to comply with the laws, rules and regulations.
We did it the way we did it to OBEY the law, not break it.
NFATCA managed to make my life harder while making their lives easier. I will never be happy when someone does that to me. Not even when I am assured that it's good for me. I'll make my own determination of that, thankyouverymuch.
Who can own an NFA item, or not, is exactly the same as who can own a gun, or not. NICS works for that without photographs and fingerprints. Why do we need them for a short barrel? I don't need photographs and fingerprints to pay income tax. Why do I need them to pay the $200 tax on an NFA item?
That's the tack we should have taken with NFA items, not giving people who despise us a chance to make up more onerous burdens.
Now it's off to the worthless congress critters for relief.
My Representative doesn't submit bills and constantly tells me he can't do anything because he's not on the correct committee.
One Senator is anti-gun and isn't up for reelection until 2018; the other is running for President and isn't bothering to vote anymore.
Huzzah!
It looks like trusts will have to submit fingerprints and photos of everyone mentioned in the trust, or just the trustees, or just someone who makes decisions... Or, even the lawyers reading it aren't certain.
I am hot under the collar about this because the constant insinuation that the only reason a person would establish an NFA trust is to go out and break the law.
I did not.
One huge thing that creating a trust gave us, here at Casa McThag, was Harvey, being a trustee and grantor, could possess the NFA items as well.
We're both law abiding gun owners and carry permit holders. I'm an 03FFL. We're the polar opposite of forbidden person.
There's no real reason that Harvey can't have access to a short barrel rifle, except that if I forgot to lock the safe one day, while I go to the store and she stays home, the ATF regards that as a transfer. Big trouble.
In a trust, we both own it, so it's not a transfer if I'm not here and she can get to it.
That's all it was. And it was presented to us as the proper way of doing things to comply with the laws, rules and regulations.
We did it the way we did it to OBEY the law, not break it.
NFATCA managed to make my life harder while making their lives easier. I will never be happy when someone does that to me. Not even when I am assured that it's good for me. I'll make my own determination of that, thankyouverymuch.
Who can own an NFA item, or not, is exactly the same as who can own a gun, or not. NICS works for that without photographs and fingerprints. Why do we need them for a short barrel? I don't need photographs and fingerprints to pay income tax. Why do I need them to pay the $200 tax on an NFA item?
That's the tack we should have taken with NFA items, not giving people who despise us a chance to make up more onerous burdens.
Now it's off to the worthless congress critters for relief.
My Representative doesn't submit bills and constantly tells me he can't do anything because he's not on the correct committee.
One Senator is anti-gun and isn't up for reelection until 2018; the other is running for President and isn't bothering to vote anymore.
Huzzah!
FFL
Once upon a time, in the Bush and Clinton administrations, the plethora of "kitchen counter" FFLs was a scourge upon the earth that must be eliminated.
So rulemaking did occur to clearly define where an FFL could be located and these rules effectively made it impossible for most people to be an 01FFL.
Because an 01 has to be in the business of selling guns, a quick check of zoning often nuked prospective applicants. Then those who passed that bar would get nailed for not doing enough business, because lots of hobbyists got an FFL just to avoid a trip to the gunshop and paying the transfer fee, anyone who didn't sell enough guns was deemed to be exploiting this loophole and their FFL revoked.
So we have many fewer FFL's now than we did back in Ye Ancient Days of Yore when Reagans and Tipo'neils walked the earth.
NOW the problem is there isn't enough Federal Firearms Licensees!
With the aforementioned restrictions on who can get the license, it's a catch 22 if they decide that any unlicensed sale is verboten.
We need to remind our congress critters that it is NOT illegal to sell a gun if you don't have a license and it is NOT illegal to buy a gun from someone without a license. Remind them that the law does not define being in the business of buying and selling firearms.
Yet we can still go to jail for not breaking the law, because we're violating a regulation.
I'm writing some ineffective letters, you should too!
So rulemaking did occur to clearly define where an FFL could be located and these rules effectively made it impossible for most people to be an 01FFL.
Because an 01 has to be in the business of selling guns, a quick check of zoning often nuked prospective applicants. Then those who passed that bar would get nailed for not doing enough business, because lots of hobbyists got an FFL just to avoid a trip to the gunshop and paying the transfer fee, anyone who didn't sell enough guns was deemed to be exploiting this loophole and their FFL revoked.
So we have many fewer FFL's now than we did back in Ye Ancient Days of Yore when Reagans and Tipo'neils walked the earth.
NOW the problem is there isn't enough Federal Firearms Licensees!
With the aforementioned restrictions on who can get the license, it's a catch 22 if they decide that any unlicensed sale is verboten.
We need to remind our congress critters that it is NOT illegal to sell a gun if you don't have a license and it is NOT illegal to buy a gun from someone without a license. Remind them that the law does not define being in the business of buying and selling firearms.
Yet we can still go to jail for not breaking the law, because we're violating a regulation.
I'm writing some ineffective letters, you should too!
04 January 2016
Then Why Does It Take Six To Nine Months
Apparently, no background check at all is run when you send in a Form 4 using a trust or corporation.
I learned this from The President today.
I guess the examiners just do hookers and blow all day and issue stamps during rare moments of clarity.
I also learned that anyone who ever sells a gun is afilthy criminal unlicensed gun dealer.
SIGH
The list of things that's already illegal that He wants to make illegaler is astounding. They really don't know the actual state of the law.
It's past damn time we fomented for the LAW to say PRECISELY what is and is not legal. These constant and unending deaths of a million cuts via fiat regulation and executive tantrum has gone on far too long.
To the National Rifle Association (of which I am member in good standing), shall we change the rating system? You don't get an A+ unless you introduce pro-gun legislation, A's are for voting for such legislation and against anti-gun bills every time no matter what they're attached to, B's are for voting for such legislation and against anti-gun bills only when they are stand alone, C's and D's are for being passive and taking no active roll, with your general posture deciding if you get the higher grade and F for any vote for any anti-gun legislation regardless of what it's attached to.
Why get extreme like that?
Because way too many people only look at that NRA rating and then vote accordingly. This is a way to throw our weight around and buck business as usual.
All of this bullshit spewed today is about the law saying that forbidden people can't own a gun.
But the Gods Be Damned lawmakers couldn't just fucking say that, they had to include the verbiage that allows unaccountable and unelected apparatchiks to make law and call it regulation. Take that verbiage out.
And a triple FUCK YOU to the NFATCA for fucking with the status quo on NFA in the first place in the half-assed way they did. You fucking morons don't even comprehend the damage you've done here. YOU made this an issue. FUCK YOU. People who are forbidden to buy an NFA item used a trust to obtain one? NAME ONE just ONE and not just "I saw someone". Name their name. Link us to the arrest. Link us to the news story. You can't, can you? Because it didn't actually fucking happen, you lying piece of shit. You just decided that it might, maybe, someday and asked the ATF pretty please to do something about it. Sadly I suspect the real motive was the groundswell of unwashed "common" folk breaking into their country club with their silencers and doing so with great ease, and without having the requisite huge social standing to be real people like a TRUE NFATCA member.
I learned this from The President today.
I guess the examiners just do hookers and blow all day and issue stamps during rare moments of clarity.
I also learned that anyone who ever sells a gun is a
SIGH
The list of things that's already illegal that He wants to make illegaler is astounding. They really don't know the actual state of the law.
It's past damn time we fomented for the LAW to say PRECISELY what is and is not legal. These constant and unending deaths of a million cuts via fiat regulation and executive tantrum has gone on far too long.
To the National Rifle Association (of which I am member in good standing), shall we change the rating system? You don't get an A+ unless you introduce pro-gun legislation, A's are for voting for such legislation and against anti-gun bills every time no matter what they're attached to, B's are for voting for such legislation and against anti-gun bills only when they are stand alone, C's and D's are for being passive and taking no active roll, with your general posture deciding if you get the higher grade and F for any vote for any anti-gun legislation regardless of what it's attached to.
Why get extreme like that?
Because way too many people only look at that NRA rating and then vote accordingly. This is a way to throw our weight around and buck business as usual.
All of this bullshit spewed today is about the law saying that forbidden people can't own a gun.
But the Gods Be Damned lawmakers couldn't just fucking say that, they had to include the verbiage that allows unaccountable and unelected apparatchiks to make law and call it regulation. Take that verbiage out.
And a triple FUCK YOU to the NFATCA for fucking with the status quo on NFA in the first place in the half-assed way they did. You fucking morons don't even comprehend the damage you've done here. YOU made this an issue. FUCK YOU. People who are forbidden to buy an NFA item used a trust to obtain one? NAME ONE just ONE and not just "I saw someone". Name their name. Link us to the arrest. Link us to the news story. You can't, can you? Because it didn't actually fucking happen, you lying piece of shit. You just decided that it might, maybe, someday and asked the ATF pretty please to do something about it. Sadly I suspect the real motive was the groundswell of unwashed "common" folk breaking into their country club with their silencers and doing so with great ease, and without having the requisite huge social standing to be real people like a TRUE NFATCA member.
Cartridge ID
Marv has a short belt of 8mm Mauser ammo.
He's sure it came from a relative, probably his grandfather.
Head Stamp (starting at 12) P181 - S* - 38 - 37.
I've managed to trace that down to...
Being made by Hugo Schneider AG - Brass case - Lot 38 - made in 1937.
The bullets strongly attract a magnet.
I think it's bog standard 7.9mm Patr. S.m.E. aka 7.9mm Patrone Spitzgeschoss mit Eisenkern aka 7.9mm cartridge pointy bullet with an iron core.
In other words, normal 7.92x57mm ball.
Update:
Further examination leads me to think that it's really 7.9mm Patr. S.m.K. aka 7.9mm Patrone Spitzgeschoss mit Kern aka 7.9mm cartridge pointy bullet with an armor piercing core. I come to think this because of the red sealed primer.
He's sure it came from a relative, probably his grandfather.
Head Stamp (starting at 12) P181 - S* - 38 - 37.
I've managed to trace that down to...
Being made by Hugo Schneider AG - Brass case - Lot 38 - made in 1937.
The bullets strongly attract a magnet.
Update:
Further examination leads me to think that it's really 7.9mm Patr. S.m.K. aka 7.9mm Patrone Spitzgeschoss mit Kern aka 7.9mm cartridge pointy bullet with an armor piercing core. I come to think this because of the red sealed primer.
Failure To Launch
Whenever you try to write something honest and it reads like you're a fucking lunatic...
You might just BE a fucking lunatic.
You, being ME...
I'm having a lot of trouble expressing my general dislike and distrust of cops in a form that sounds rational; making me wonder how rational my distrust and dislike is.
While I've definitely experienced some injustice from a couple of departments, I am starting to think that I'm like that guy who had a few bad experiences with a black people and immediately joined the Klan.
It'd prolly help me a lot if opinion on police was less polarized and tribal. On one hand we have Black Lives Matter (where all cops are evil and cannot do anything right), and on the other we have The Thin Blue Line (where all cops are good and cannot do anything wrong). With the sides so far apart, all I have to go on is my limited (and bad) personal experiences.
You might just BE a fucking lunatic.
You, being ME...
I'm having a lot of trouble expressing my general dislike and distrust of cops in a form that sounds rational; making me wonder how rational my distrust and dislike is.
While I've definitely experienced some injustice from a couple of departments, I am starting to think that I'm like that guy who had a few bad experiences with a black people and immediately joined the Klan.
It'd prolly help me a lot if opinion on police was less polarized and tribal. On one hand we have Black Lives Matter (where all cops are evil and cannot do anything right), and on the other we have The Thin Blue Line (where all cops are good and cannot do anything wrong). With the sides so far apart, all I have to go on is my limited (and bad) personal experiences.
Underlined In Bold
The fracas in Oregon sure does underscore that if you don't own it, you can't control it.
And if you have to get permission to do it, it's not a right.
And never trust the government.
I may be late to the game, but I'm starting to see parallels with the environmentalists pushing the government to create allthese refuges this fallow land and The Church swallowing up property all over Europe in the way-back days.
Property controlled by a small number of people with goals can differ significantly from the wants and needs of the people of the nation.
And if you have to get permission to do it, it's not a right.
And never trust the government.
I may be late to the game, but I'm starting to see parallels with the environmentalists pushing the government to create all
Property controlled by a small number of people with goals can differ significantly from the wants and needs of the people of the nation.
Why I'm Sticking With The Kool-Aid
...of M&P and not drinking the Flavor-Aid of Glock.
I shoot them both the same, so value neutral. Though there's noticeable differences in how... The Glock seems to want to pull left and the M&P often gives tiny twitch right I notice when I'm dry-firing but not at the range.
Same number of shots.
Same sights now too.
I've found that I really like having the thumb safety. Preference thing. A clinging vestige of carrying a 1911, I guess.
I really really really like that I don't have to pull the trigger in battery on the M&P to take it apart. Starting the take-apart process with the slide locked to the rear is a valuable crutch for people like me.
Neither gun was made in America with Austria for Glock and Massachusetts SSR for the Smith.
The last reason to keep with the Smith is both Harvey and Marv shoot them too and have a much stronger preference than I do.
I shoot them both the same, so value neutral. Though there's noticeable differences in how... The Glock seems to want to pull left and the M&P often gives tiny twitch right I notice when I'm dry-firing but not at the range.
Same number of shots.
Same sights now too.
I've found that I really like having the thumb safety. Preference thing. A clinging vestige of carrying a 1911, I guess.
I really really really like that I don't have to pull the trigger in battery on the M&P to take it apart. Starting the take-apart process with the slide locked to the rear is a valuable crutch for people like me.
Neither gun was made in America with Austria for Glock and Massachusetts SSR for the Smith.
The last reason to keep with the Smith is both Harvey and Marv shoot them too and have a much stronger preference than I do.
03 January 2016
Off The Books
"Everyone should own a gun that nobody knows about." K. Dutoit.
"Every gun owner prizes finding a gun that's off the books." P. Vail.
Mr Dutoit might have a point. But his point fuels the liberal-moderate opinion of gun owners.
My selection process for guns has a lot more to do with the make, model and caliber than whether I need to go through an FFL or a background check and if there's a record of sale that the government can readily call up.
I've bought some of those guns in the parking lot of a gun show.
I've never bought a gun where the primary consideration was that it was off the books.
Because I'm blabby, I don't hide my purchases well either. Nothing on the internet is a secret. Gun registration by Flickr account! Of course they're going to go nuts finding the guns on my photostream that were here just long enough to take pictures of, or have been traded for another gun.
"Every gun owner prizes finding a gun that's off the books." P. Vail.
Mr Dutoit might have a point. But his point fuels the liberal-moderate opinion of gun owners.
My selection process for guns has a lot more to do with the make, model and caliber than whether I need to go through an FFL or a background check and if there's a record of sale that the government can readily call up.
I've bought some of those guns in the parking lot of a gun show.
I've never bought a gun where the primary consideration was that it was off the books.
Because I'm blabby, I don't hide my purchases well either. Nothing on the internet is a secret. Gun registration by Flickr account! Of course they're going to go nuts finding the guns on my photostream that were here just long enough to take pictures of, or have been traded for another gun.
Shooting Magnified
I am digging my Primary Arms PAC5X.
Something I didn't realize until just the other day, what a magnified optic lets me do is to have both the aiming device and the target in focus together.
With iron sights, if I'm doing as recommended, the front sight is in focus, but the target and rear aren't.
The effect is also apparent with red-dots. Focusing on the target still works.
I just know I noticed something that everyone else has known for years. I don't care if I'm the last person to learn something; as long as I learn.
Something I didn't realize until just the other day, what a magnified optic lets me do is to have both the aiming device and the target in focus together.
With iron sights, if I'm doing as recommended, the front sight is in focus, but the target and rear aren't.
The effect is also apparent with red-dots. Focusing on the target still works.
I just know I noticed something that everyone else has known for years. I don't care if I'm the last person to learn something; as long as I learn.
02 January 2016
Legal
Despite the efforts of Mark Herring to the contrary, I am legal to carry a concealed firearm in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
My Utah permit arrived today.
It carries the absolute worst photo of me every taken for identification purposes.
My Utah permit arrived today.
It carries the absolute worst photo of me every taken for identification purposes.
Moar Mud
Watching the mud tests that Ian and Karl are doing at InRange...
They got an AK to fail. They've gotten an M1 Garand to fail. Their first test was a MAS-49/59, M1A and AR-15. They've even taken a Kel-Tec RDB to task (and it failed too).
The AR has done best of them all, followed by the MAS.
Almost like direct impingement is a reliability enhancer?
In the original test, there was open water, and I was trained to swish my rifle in the water should it get smashed into the mud; something they deliberately didn't do. Their testing is deliberately making it worst case.
I'll bet a quick swish would have prevented the AK from failing, but the Garand and derivatives were stopped by stuff falling into the action from its mostly open design.
Now I want to see them do more, and they plan it.
In particular, I want them to do a stock M1A vs H&K vs FAL.
They got an AK to fail. They've gotten an M1 Garand to fail. Their first test was a MAS-49/59, M1A and AR-15. They've even taken a Kel-Tec RDB to task (and it failed too).
The AR has done best of them all, followed by the MAS.
Almost like direct impingement is a reliability enhancer?
In the original test, there was open water, and I was trained to swish my rifle in the water should it get smashed into the mud; something they deliberately didn't do. Their testing is deliberately making it worst case.
I'll bet a quick swish would have prevented the AK from failing, but the Garand and derivatives were stopped by stuff falling into the action from its mostly open design.
Now I want to see them do more, and they plan it.
In particular, I want them to do a stock M1A vs H&K vs FAL.
Declining Sales
There's a breastrant chain called Tilted Kilt.
There used to be two of them locally, now there's zero. The next closest one in Fort Meyers just shut down.
They cite declining sales.
The food was actually pretty good at the local places, and a decent selection of beers.
But we hadn't darkened the Clearwater location's door in almost a year before they closed despite having the car-club meeting there on the "off" Wednesdays for most of a year.
Why did we quit going?
Ear bleedingly loud live music.
We checked both locations and they were the same.
Considering we wanted to socialize over dinner...
I'll bet we weren't alone.
With the ear splitting music, the place was just another bar. That attracted the bar crowd, and that's not the same people as the dinner crowd. One group buys food, the other doesn't. You can tell by the names who's who.
Without food sales, they're not a profitable venture.
There used to be two of them locally, now there's zero. The next closest one in Fort Meyers just shut down.
They cite declining sales.
The food was actually pretty good at the local places, and a decent selection of beers.
But we hadn't darkened the Clearwater location's door in almost a year before they closed despite having the car-club meeting there on the "off" Wednesdays for most of a year.
Why did we quit going?
Ear bleedingly loud live music.
We checked both locations and they were the same.
Considering we wanted to socialize over dinner...
I'll bet we weren't alone.
With the ear splitting music, the place was just another bar. That attracted the bar crowd, and that's not the same people as the dinner crowd. One group buys food, the other doesn't. You can tell by the names who's who.
Without food sales, they're not a profitable venture.
AK47: Mud Test
Hey, look, you can make a machine fail by covering it in mud.
Now I wanna see if any gun can survive their protocol.
01 January 2016
Time Delay
I've had pretty much all of Motörhead's catalog for years.
While I like it a lot, I never seemed to actually sit down and listen to it.
With Lemmy's death, I fired up iTunes and I've been binge listening.
Some songs seem derivative until you check the dates the albums come out and you realize that they were actually pioneering.
Their influence was widespread and deeply felt.
Yet, many people who love musicians heavily influenced by Motörhead have never heard of them.
Isn't that odd?
While I like it a lot, I never seemed to actually sit down and listen to it.
With Lemmy's death, I fired up iTunes and I've been binge listening.
Some songs seem derivative until you check the dates the albums come out and you realize that they were actually pioneering.
Their influence was widespread and deeply felt.
Yet, many people who love musicians heavily influenced by Motörhead have never heard of them.
Isn't that odd?
Happy New Year!
Had Marv up, drank beer, drank moonshine, grilled some hot dogs, set off some fireworks, smoked a cigar.
Good times!
2015 was the second biggest year for posts here since I started.
Still haven't broken 1,000 in a year. I'm pretty blabby, I can get there!
My new year's resolution is 1920x1200. Same as last year.
Good times!
2015 was the second biggest year for posts here since I started.
Still haven't broken 1,000 in a year. I'm pretty blabby, I can get there!
My new year's resolution is 1920x1200. Same as last year.
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