Well That's New

Yesterday over 200 people linked in here from Facebook.

On a blog that gets, on average, 1,000 hits a day that's significant.

Now I wonder whom linked to me from Facebook, since it's a generic m.facebook.com link-in.

That's What The Uniform Is For

To the LEO who was defending the policy and procedure of establishing a perimeter while an active shooting mass murder was happening and only entering the building once sufficient force and organization was marshaled; on the grounds that entering piecemeal would cause confusion and endanger their fellow LEO's to being shot by mistake by other LEO's.

Why do you think you're wearing that fancy get-up with a badge and shit?

Why do you think it doesn't look like everyday clothes everyone else wears?

It isn't just so the oppressed masses common citizen can know from which font the authoritah flows.

It's so you can identify your fellow officers at a glance.

You guys so dearly love to play dress-up-like-a-soldier and you missed one of the basic things of soldiering?

Never mind that despite your worry about confusion, that a single person shooting back stops these things dead in their tracks.

What really worries me here is I have a goal that anyone will be able to carry legally right into that school as long as they're legal to own a gun.  Not just specially licensed and sanctioned employees of the state.

If you can't tell your uniformed buddies apart from the terrified victims and the murdering bastards... what chance do I have of being identified as a good guy and avoid being shot?

I want the procedure for that.  I want to know how to coordinate with law enforcement in an established way because in all likelihood, if I'm shooting back at the bad guy; I've been there the entire time while you're just arriving much later.

You don't even pretend to want to establish such rules.

That alone should frighten anyone with a carry permit.

A Fine Rant

Miami_JBT is on arfcom and he takes time off to confront the people in Tallahassee.

As many here know, I've been fighting an uphill battle for the past few years here in Florida for better gun rights. Florida should be a walk in the park. We have a GOP Super Majority and we have more CCW permit holders than any other State in the Union.

But it has been defeat after defeat. Nothing that truly expands freedom passes and more so as we just saw. The GOP has no issue at all caving in and pushing gun control. So many ask why? Why do we lose?

I can answer that very easily. Because we don't fight. When I was "WE". I mean us, gun owners as a whole. All I see is people bitching. They complain that the NRA isn't doing something, or GOA is too weak, or the GOP should be stronger on this issue or that. Etc, etc, etc... Furthermore, all I see are people coming up with excuses.

I can't take time off because of work or it is too far of a drive or some other hogwash.

But strangely I can see every damn gun owners order ten lowers and one hundred mags from PSA. I can see them horde all the .22 ammo at Wal-Mart and I can see them panic buy at a gun show. Just recently, 7,000 Florida gun owners went to the Tampa Gun Show right after the Parkland shooting. In two days, 7,000 people went and spent money on ammo, guns, mags, and accessories.

Sure, you might think I'm going to say that they can spend that money in more donations to the NRA, SAF, GOA, or some other group. Yeah, they can do that. But that is also part of the problem.

People think that if they send a check to someone else that shit will get done and they can coast on easy street with the belief that the person they're paying will do the hardest damn job in the world for them. Well, they won't. Why? Because every damn person I know goofs off at work and tries to do enough just to get by while collecting a pay check. The same works for lobbyists. IT IS A JOB, IT IS NOT THEIR PASSION.

I am truly burning out fighting this shit. I am trying to be a role model and I truly understand that some give it their all based on their circumstances. But I am talking about us as a whole.

Yes, the left is better organized and funded. Who gives a flying fuck. We can be the same too if we actually got off our asses. I see the left fucking do it. They deal with 8 hour bus rides from Miami to Tallahassee. That means they leave at 2am to get here by 10am to be in front of the cameras when the Session starts. We don't have that dedication.

I respect the commie fucks for that. They understand that shit is hard work and sacrifice. But our side is "fuck that man.... it is too hard and why even try".

7,000 fucking gun owners went to the Tampa Gun Show. But they couldn't drive the three and a half hours to Tallahassee to attend a Pro 2nd Amendment Rally?

That is why we lose. The majority of gun owners are like this....



You want shit done? You gotta do it yourself.

If we don't all start doing what needs to be done that it won't get done. Stop expecting others to do it for you.

DO IT YOURSELF!

Found On Arfcom

Funny whenever you see a Spec Ops guy going against the constitution it's always a SEAL or some Marine, but NEVER a Ranger. Wonder why that is?

I Think They're Feeling Guilty

Otherwise why would they think they needed to justify their actions.

Why We Voted For The School Safety Bill

By Representatives Rene Plascensia, Thad Altman, Tom Goodson, and Randy Fine

Today, we voted for the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, and with its passage, it was sent to Governor Scott for his signature. This ground-breaking legislation, passed in the aftermath of the unfathomable tragedy of the murder of seventeen teachers and students last month in Parkland, is dedicated to ensuring that nothing like this ever happens again in the State of Florida.

This 105-page, $400 million bill offers a multi-pronged strategy to address the existential challenge facing our schools. The bill creates the Office of Safe Schools within the Department of Education and appropriates tens of millions of dollars to assist with school security assessments and hardening. It dramatically increases funding for full-time School Resource Officers, full-time law enforcement personnel in every one of our schools. It provides new mechanisms to temporarily restrain weapons from those adjucated mentally ill or unstable. It commits tens of millions of dollars to increase mental health services for our youth, to make sure we intercept troubled youth before they turn to violence. $400 million dollars to make sure this never happens again.
We’d like to address a number of the more controversial components of the bill. On one side, the bill creates the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program that will allow school personnel, including teachers, to defend themselves and their students in the event of an armed assault on campus. Here are some things you should know: the program is voluntary, and no teacher or school employee will be forced – or even encouraged – to carry a weapon. Any person who wishes to participate will have to complete 132 hours of comprehensive firearm safety and proficiency training, pass a psychological examination designed by the FDLE, pass an initial and ongoing drug tests, and complete annual training and firearm qualification. Ninety-eight percent of mass shooting events have happened in the ironically named “gun free zones.” The statistics shake out this way because mass shooters know they will be able to inflict their carnage unimpeded. It is our belief that simply by having the knowledge that some school personnel COULD be armed will dissuade madmen from making a “gun-free” zone a “gun-used” zone.

To those who complain that this is a “gun control” bill, we could not disagree more. The bill bans devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into automatic weapons, a type of gun that has been illegal for decades. The bill requires a three day waiting period on all firearms, but not for hunters and not for anyone with a concealed carry permit. We don’t see it as an undue burden to wait as long for non-hunters to buy a rifle as it takes to get your items from Amazon Prime. Lastly, the bill does not allow non-military and law enforcement members under 21 to purchase a rifle from a firearms dealer. But it does not stop a father giving a rifle to a son that he believes can own and use it responsibly. It does not stop a mother giving a shotgun to her daughter that she believes needs it to protect herself.

Do we think these gun measures would have stopped Parkland? No. Do we support them? No. But the question before us is not whether we support these measures or whether we support the Guardian program. The decision before us was whether we supported or opposed the package as a whole.

The famous philosopher Voltaire once said that “Perfect is the Enemy of the Good.” Is this bill perfect? No. Are there things we would change? Yes. But is it good? Will it protect children by hardening schools? Yes. Will it provide additional mental health services to try to intercept damaged children before they turn to violence? Yes. Will it remove guns from those determined to be mentally ill? Will it allow the next Aaron Feis to defend himself rather than be gunned down defenseless? Yes.

Bottom line: will it save the lives of those we have the highest obligation to defend – our children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters? Yes. It will.

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Representatives Plascensia, Altman, Goodson, and Fine are the four Florida House members that represent Brevard County

I Think We Deserve An Audit

I was ranting in the comments about our pro-gun organizations and it hit me.

They don't keep us better informed than we normally are on our own.

They don't get pro-gun legislation passed.

They don't get anti-gun legislation repealed.

WHERE DOES ALL THE MONEY GO?  I really want to know.

Marion Hammer reportedly gets $300,000.00 a year to do... what?  Send me two emails a week after I read about it at Miguel's?

This very blog gave more updates than I got from the NRA or Florida Carry.

Where's the money going?

More to the point, why should we keep spending it?

Convince me.

After Watching Florida's House Of Representatives

I can assure you that this guy is NOT from Florida's lower house.




This guy for President.  Or Chief Justice.

Momentum

Momentum and missteps.

I really do think that we lost the chance to stop SB 7026 when the big guns refused to step out of the shadows and support open and campus carry.

It signaled we were divided on the this topic, so other fissures must exist.

It's the Fudd gun vs MSR thing again.

The conservative vs liberal (in their original meanings no less).

Ms Hammer and the NRA represent the conservative position on carry.  Florida Carry and many gun owners represent the liberal position.

The problem is the status quo aligns with their conservative position and thus refuses to do anything to expand gun rights.

In politics, I've been noticing, if you're not expanding, you're contracting.

The biggest pro-gun organization allowed the answer to, "you're pissing off the gun owners," to be a nice safe, "so what?"

Now we have another "compromise" where something is taken from us and nothing is gained.

I'm beyond pissed off.  I'm so upset I am wondering what it takes to get on the ballot.

Partisan

The NRA-PVF rating is worthless in Florida.  Too many A rated folks just fucked us.  Far too many are completely unrated.

For this rating to have any value, then someone has to pay attention to their behavior and rate them past their self assessment questionnaire.

If you know of an NRA rating I missed, lemme know!

Yays:

Ahern R-66, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Albritton R-56, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Altman R-52, A rating.
Avila R-111, No NRA rating.
Berman D-90, No NRA rating. Term limited out.
Beshears R-7, No NRA rating.
Bileca R-115, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Boyd, R-71, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Brodeur R-28, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Burgess R-38, No NRA rating.
Burton R-40, No NRA rating.
Clemons R-21, A rating.
Corcoran R-37, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Cortes, B. R-30, No NRA rating.
Cummings R-18, No NRA rating.
Daniels D-14, No NRA rating.
Diaz, M. R-103, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Duran D-112, No NRA rating.
Eagle R-77, No NRA rating.
Edwards-Walpole D-98, No NRA rating.
Fine R-53, No NRA rating.
Fitzenhagen R-78, No NRA rating.
Geller D-100, No NRA rating.
Goodson R-51, A rating, endorsed.  Term limited out.
Grant, M. R-75, No NRA rating.
Gruters R-73, A(q) rating.
Hager R-89, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Harrell R-83, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Harrison R-63, No NRA rating.
Jacobsjacob D-96, No NRA rating.
Killebrew R-41, A rating.
La Rosa R-42, No NRA rating.
Latvala R-67, No NRA rating.
Leek R-25, No NRA rating.
Magar R-82, No NRA rating.
Mariano R-36, No NRA rating.
Massullo R-34, No NRA rating.
McClure R-58, No NRA rating.
Metz R-32, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Moraitis R-93, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Moskowitz D-97, No NRA rating.
Nuñez R-119, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Oliva R-110, No NRA rating.
Olszewski R-44, No NRA rating.
Payne R-19, A rating.
Perez R-116, No NRA rating.
Peters R-69, No NRA rating.
Pigman R-55, No NRA rating.
Plakon R-29, No NRA rating.
Plasencia R-50, A+ rating, endorsed!
Porter R-10, A+ rating, endorsed!  Term limited out.
Raburn R-57, No NRA rating.
Raschein R-120, No NRA rating.
Renner R-24, No NRA rating.
Rodrigues R-76, No NRA rating.
Rommel R-106, A(q) rating, endorsed!
Roth R-85, A rating, endorsed!
Santiago R-27, No NRA rating.
Silvers D-87, No NRA rating.
Slosberg D-91, No NRA rating.
Sprowls R-65, No NRA rating.
Stevenson R-17, No NRA rating.
Sullivan R-31, A rating, endorsed!

Toledo R-60, A rating, endorsed!
Trujillo R-105, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Trumbull R-6, No NRA rating.
Willhite D-86, No NRA rating.

Nays:
Abruzzo D-81, No NRA rating.
Alexander D-8, No NRA rating.
Antone D-46, F rating.
Asencio D-118, No NRA rating.
Ausley D-9, D rating.
Brown D-45, No NRA rating.
Byrd R-11, A+ rating, endorsed!
Caldwell R-79, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Cortes, J. D-43, C rating.
Cruz D-62, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Davis D-13, No NRA rating.
Diamond D-68, No NRA rating.
Donalds R-80, A rated, endorsed!
Drake R-5, A+ rated, endorsed!
DuBose D-64, No NRA rating.
Fant F-15, No NRA rating.
Fischer R-16, A rated, endorsed!
Gonzalez R-74, No NRA rating.
Good D-72, No NRA rating.
Grall R-54, A rated, endorsed!
Grant, J. R-64, No NRA rating.
Hardemon D-108, No NRA rating.
Henry D-26, No NRA rating.
Ingoglia R-35, No NRA rating.
Ingram R-1, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Jacquet D-86, No NRA rating.
Jenne D-99, No NRA rating.
Jones D-101, No NRA rating.
Lee D-84, No NRA rating.
McClain R-23, No NRA rating.
McGhee D-117, No NRA rating.
Mercado D-48, No NRA rating.
Miller, M. R-47, No NRA rating.
Newton D-70, No NRA rating.
Ponder R-4, A(q) rated.
Pritchett D-102, No NRA rating.
Richardson D-113, F rated.
Russell D-95, No NRA rating.
Shaw D-61, No NRA rating.
Smith D-49, No NRA rating.
Spano R-59, No NRA rating.
Stafford D-109, No NRA rating.  Term limited out.
Stark D-104, No NRA rating.
Stone R-22, A+ rated, endorsed!
Watson, B. D-107, F rated.
Watson, C. D-20, No NRA rating.
White R-2, No NRA rating.
Williams D-92, No NRA rating.
Williamson R-3, A+ rated, endorsed!
Yarborough R-12, A(q) rated.

Passed, On To Gov. Lurch

Passed 67-50.

My "pro-gun" Representative is on that list in green.

Back to the Senate for some greasing then off to the Governor.

Bleah! I've Taken All I Can Of This "Debating"

"If it weren't for racists we wouldn't have to take the guns away from everyone but the racist cops who kill our children!"

This is the gist of at least three black Representatives statements in the debate.

I think I am done watching this.

Democrats oppose because the racist government employees (teachers) will kill their children if we force them to carry guns.

Democrats oppose because there's no assault weapon ban.

Democrats oppose because the second amendment is about slavery.  Yes, really!

Republicans support because they have to do something.  This is undeniably something.  So they must do this!

Republicans support because, "what about the children?"

That an NRA-PVF A-rating is a sure measure to determine that your representative supports this bill.  That an NRA-PVF C-rating or lower is a sure measure to determine that your representative opposes this bill.

Unless a miracle happens they're going to pass this shit cookie, I fear.

Cuz Muh Slaves!

The second amendment protects our right to own muskets to join militias to protect our slaves!

Thank you Representative Wengay Newton (D-FL70) for that "history" lesson!

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Eye Opening

I am surprised at how many of our State Representatives are from New York.

No wonder our legislature is such a shithole mess.

Three Day Delay

OK, Rep Randy Fine, NRA-PVF A-rated.

Support a three day delay on all the other rights.

How are you with the government searching your house for three days while you apply for 4th amendment protection and solicit for a search warrant?

How are you with waiting three days before you speak, and only after you're 21?

Fucking idiots!

Quote Of The Debate

"We're not saying you can't possess firearms.  We're saying you can't buy them."

--NRA-PVF A-Rated Republican Larry Ahern.

Folks you can't make this shit up.

Message To Governor Scott

I am asking you to veto this bill should it pass.

I know you've stated that you'd sign it, but legislation passed under the premise of "We must do something.  This is something.  We must do this!" is never good legislation.

The dangers to privacy and due process wrapped up in the mental health portion of this bill are counter everything the Bill of Rights stands for.

This will be bad law.

The focus of legislation aimed at the murders in Parkland should have been the culpability of the Broward County School District and Sheriff's Department in how they refused to investigate, arrest, try and convict the murderer in the months he was showing how dangerous he was.

Investigation and arrest power available to any law enforcement agency in Florida under current law.

Law enforcement failed that day and in the months preceding it.

Gun owners didn't fail that day.  Millions of them did no harm that day or in the days hence.  Not a single bump stock has been involved in a crime in the entire state, ever.  Thousands, if not millions, of 18-20 year old gun owners did no harm that day.

Yet when the sheriff fails, we demand people who were not involved in any way be subjected to additional law which would have not prevented these murders?

At least blame the right people for a change!

Why does Sheriff Israel still have his position?  It's in your power to fix that, why haven't you?

Stop seeking scapegoats.

Useless

It is official.

The NRA-PVF ratings are garbage.

I've now watched FOUR A-rated politicians pushing FOR this bill.

Marion, this is why I constantly call you to task.

The NRA national has abdicated their political power to you in my state and I'm afraid I want to see more than an email telling me what I already knew about a bill in session.

If you can't do more than Miguel's blog, then what need do we have of you?

NRA national?  Fix this.

You concede that Florida is a gun rights battleground state.  A battleground that you cede to the enemy regularly because you can't get Marion to back bills she didn't write.

We needed support for the very non-Fudd bills of campus carry and open carry.

I have seen, repeatedly that if it's not Fudd, we don't get Marion.

Well, you showed them you didn't care and they're walking all over us now.

Fix this!

Be the gorilla you could be.

We MUST Do SOMETHING

The tone of the speeches is, over and over:

This bill isn't perfect.

This bill is SOMETHING.

They are literally repeating, over and over, "We must do something.  This is something.  We must do this!"

Holy fuck.

Every realize that you're much smarter than the people you sent to Congress?

Ever wonder if the reason for that is because no smart person would want the job?

A Caption Would Be Nice

Watching the sausage being made.

No idea who's talking half the time because I didn't catch the speaker telling us.

WOW, do they wander around not talking about what's going to be voted on.

Darn Tootin' I'm Scared

I find I am constantly surrounded by people who discount my humanity.

People who seek to make me an 'other'.

Creating the other is one of the first steps in eradicating a people.

It's literally dehumanizing someone so that they can be killed without feeling bad about killing them.

That's scary.

The people who are actively dehumanizing me because I am white, straight, male and own a gun have shown no reluctance to use violence to achieve their goals.

A propensity towards violence that is approaching the point where it's going to be legal to preemptively shoot first because they're making actionable threats with a history of carrying them out.

That's scary.

John Aquilino was right.

I don't want to be scared any more.

But it's not my decision.  Someone else needs to stop being scary.

It should also be noted that I know the measure of fear.  I know how I respond to it.  It's not a crippling situation for me to be frightened.

Someone who's bent on scaring me should bear that in mind.

There are peaceable solutions to this problem, but it has to begin with the other side of this debate acknowledging and defending my humanity!

I'm especially angry at being dehumanized because I've gone against the grain of "my" side and argued for the humanity of others.

You might even know one of them.

Today's Email To The House

The worst sort of laws are written in haste with a sense that something must be done.

That this law is something and therefore we must do that!

No.

The undue speed that this bill was presented and passed in the senate, with a barrage of spurious amendments to prevent the core language of the bill to be carefully considered is shameful.

If the core language had been considered more carefully the glaring State and Federal Constitutional problems would have been debated and the language edited.

This bill has serious problems with regards to privacy, due process and illegal search and seizure.  Never mind the right to keep and bear arms.

This bill, if passed, will be bad law and that doesn't lead to justice.  Bad laws create injustice.

Even if the issues I mentioned above weren't present, this bill ultimately fails to accomplish the goals stated for its passage.

It will not prevent another mass murder.  It will not even slow the next murderer down.

The murderer broke how many existing laws before they fired the first shot?

The problem, not addressed by this bill, is the law enforcement agency called to address the murderer's law breaking did nothing.

Nothing.

They failed in their responsibility to enforce the law and protect the community.

For what?  To game the system on crime statistics to let the school district get more funding.

They lied and people died.

Where's the passage in this bill that punishes this wanton disregard of our laws and human life?

Thank you

Six Years Of Unbearable Darkness

Six years without the unbearable lightness of Lex.

Dammit.

Guinness and Jameson tonight at Danny's on Grand.

If you're local, stop in for a toast to Strength and Courage.

Free Riders

It has been noticed before that there's like 50 to 150 million gun owners in the US of A.

There's something short of 6 million NRA members.

Since there's not 44-144 million members in any other gun organization this isn't some moral rejection of the NRA for another group, like the GOA or JPFO.

Why aren't you member?

I am, and I complain about their lack of help a lot.

I don't figure I have a right to bitch about their lack of support if I'm not a member.

But why aren't YOU?

It's right up there with people refusing to vote and then bitching the wrong guy won.  You didn't even try to stop them, so shut up.

Joining the NRA is a pittance.  Yes, you can afford it.  It's less than the price of a box of .30-40 Krag.

Less than a pair of 5.11 pants.

Barely shows up as a percentage of a weekend training class.

Besides, I hear that if the NRA breaks 15 million members Charles Schumer will have a debilitating stroke.  20 million and Satan will take Diane Feinstein back.

By the way.

If you can't be bothered to email or call your congress creatures when these idiotic bills are presented, you didn't even try to stop the bill, so shut up when they pass.

Also don't brag that "we" won when they're defeated, you didn't help did you?

Successful He Was

The Secret Of The Tantal Stock

It's a lot more comfortable if I square up a bit more than I'm accustomed.

Interesting.

Still no cheek weld.

The Beryl stock I was looking at turns out to be a $175 item.  Not going to be doing that tomorrow, but I've decided that it's T2K Period Correct®.

Probably remind me of the old stock I put on my Mini-14, which wasn't bad at all.

I'll Be The Asshole

Something about being blamed and punished for these murders pisses me off and starts me to thinking.

Just 17 dead?

If someone from the gun culture had done this...

It'd be at least 100 and those deputies leaning over their hoods were exposed enough to take out.

Why do I say this?

Because we know how to shoot, shoot quickly and on the move.

Lots of us practice a much longer ranges and much smaller targets.  Pack a hallway at less than 100 yards with victims and there's going to be many more dead.

Luckily! we're not that kind of people.  The proof is evident that we have not.  Ever.  Because it's not luck, it's culture.

The gun culture is safe as houses.

We don't murder children.

We don't murder homosexuals at bars.

We don't murder people returning home from travel.

We don't murder people at malls.

We don't murder people at theaters.

We don't murder people at political rallies.

We don't even murder people that some of us decry as murderers at abortion clinics!

We don't murder.

Letter To The Florida House Of Representatives

The number of things wrong with this bill are nearly immeasurable.

It does nothing towards its stated goal.

The sad fact remains that the government failed to do its job and contain an obvious threat.

A threat that they could have contained with the laws and powers they had readily to hand.

Had it not been for their corruption, the murderer would have been investigated, arrested, tried and convicted before he purchased his first gun; let alone used one to murder anyone.

I point this out, again, because this bill does not seek to punish anyone who has any culpability for this crime.

Changing the age to purchase a firearm won't stop this from happening again.

A three day waiting period will have no effect because the murderer waited out Broward's FIVE day waiting period.

The entire ex parte section on restraining orders is a gross violation of due process.

Bump stocks?  Has one ever been used in a crime in all of Florida?  Even once?

What would prevent this from happening again would be some teeth to the laws against political corruption and dereliction of duty.

What would prevent this from happening again would be to require that law enforcement behave as the heroes they demand to be treated as.

What would prevent this from happening again would be to eliminate gun-free zones which only serve to create a ready pool of trapped, disarmed and helpless victims.

What would prevent this from happening again would be to allow people with carry permits on school grounds since the police, obviously, will not do anything to stop a murderer while they're still murdering.  If they aren't going to help, don't forbid us from defending ourselves and our children.

This bill does nothing to help and does much harm.

Writing Against HB 7101

Gun control has failed and is failing to prevent murder sprees.

Florida has had three such sprees in recent times and all three have something in common.

They happened where the victims are barred, by law, from possessing a firearm.

Disarmed by legislators such as yourself.

Prohibited from having a means to defend themselves while the police, very safe in their cordon, wait until the shooting has stopped before entering the scene of the crime.  Safe in the knowledge that they're not legally mandated to do anything at all and are completely immune from the consequences of their actions or inaction.

So we're not allowed to defend ourselves and nobody is required to defend us under current law.

Does HB7101 alleviate this?

Nope.

It's the same useless pablum that the gun-control lobby pitches every time an atrocity happens.  They fling their Jell-O at the wall and see what sticks.

The senate version is bad enough, but now I'm seeing what the house is trying to amend to this pile of burning garbage.

Existing law could have stopped the murderer before he bought the rifle he used.  Corruption and collusion between the Broward County District Schools and The Broward County Sheriff's Office are why he was never arrested, never tried and never convicted.

If you want to stop these things from happening again there's two things that would help immensely.

First a means of prosecuting and punishing public officials for gross dereliction of duty needs to be imposed.

Second, it's counter-intuitive but effective, simply eliminate gun-free zones.

Bad guys with guns are stopped by good guys with guns shooting back.  Bad guys bent on a blaze of glory don't attack places where their ride to fame will be stopped before it ever gets going.

Eliminating the gun-free zone not only provides a ready supply of people who will shoot back to save lives, it also makes it impossible for a would be murderer from knowing whom is armed and who isn't.  That uncertainty does prevent spree shooters from murdering people in other places already.  When was the last time where a spree murderer attacked a place where the victims were allowed to have guns?

I can't remember one.  Can you?

If you must do SOMETHING, then do something that will actually help the problems that caused this, don't punish the innocent and harmless.  Millions of us did nothing wrong, why should we be held accountable when your fellow legislators did more to create this than we did?

What If

The Kbk wz.88 'Tantal' entered service with the Polish Army in 1988.

In the Prime timeline, Poland joined NATO in 1999, but was heading that direction before they got full membership.

The Kbk wz.96 'Beryl' is an upgraded Tantal chambered in 5.56 NATO and it enters service in 1997.

But the development had begun as far back as 1991.

It occurs to me that in the T2K timeline, where the Soviet Union never disintegrated and the Warsaw Pact was intact until 1997 that some Beryl features would be present in late-model Tantal rifles.

The Beryl-A really does look just like a Tantal with a different stock.

So I am thinking that a T2K Tantal could have that stock!

Thoughts Into My Head

Gene Stoner Super Genius

The one thing you never hear people complaining about on the AR-15 is the ergonomics.

Mainly because if you don't like a particular stock, grip and handguard you can change it right out.

Being immersed in AK for a while I'd kind of neglected the AR portion.

Yeah, Kaylee is so much nicer than Mollie Bean or Tonya.

8.5 lb. with a light and optic compared to 10 lb. for Mollie Bean.  And she's much more compact than her Communist sisters.

Once Upon A Time

J. KB writes at Miguels:

The only thing worse than an out of touch celebrity with an armed security detail lecturing Middle America about guns is  an out of touch celebrity with an armed security detail, who can’t honestly fill out a 4473 or pass a NICS check, lecturing Middle America about guns.

 I'd like to remind everyone of Barry Seal.

He's played by Tom Cruise in American Made.

Barry got fucked by the government publishing pictures of the drug lords he took.

He was, rightfully, in fear for his life because of it.

He was told, in no uncertain terms, that because he was a convicted felon that he could not own guns, be around guns (and here's the important part) HIRE PEOPLE WITH GUNS.

This is someone they knew the drug cartels wanted to murder and they refused to let him hire security and forced to keep a fixed schedule to a known location.

If our celebrity felons were banned from hiring people with guns, do you think the tune would change?

Numbers Matching

In 1994 when the Polish parts of Tonya were made in Radom, Poland at the Łucznik Metal Works it was assigned the serial number:

 This number is repeated in a very Germanic fashion on several other parts.

The receiver cover:

The recoil spring assembly:

Under the front sight:

On the bolt carrier:

On the bolt:

On the gas tube:

And it's even electropenciled on the flash-hider/muzzle-brake/grenade launcher:

I Totally Forgot To Mention

My evil baby killing assault rifle ghost gun didn't take control of my mind and force me into a school, church, orphanage, nunnery, mall...

Nope.

Just went with me to the range and perforated some paper targets.

Defective, I am sure.

Night Sight Shootin' Things At Night

The Tantal was originally equipped with a tritium insert in the rear sight and a clip on front sight with a tritium capsule in it.

The sheet metal part clips over the back of the front sight with the wire spring arcing up to and around the front sight post.

The housing for the tritium slides along the wire spring and slips over the front sight post.

When there's enough light to see the normal post you lift up the housing off the post and slide it down the spring's rails.

One thing that's really cool about this system is it's the first tritium sight set for any ComBlock rifle I've seen that can be zeroed.  Not only that, it's zeroed by zeroing the rifle normally.

Sight picture is, as is predictable, not great; but how far can you see in the dark unassisted anyway?

Now all I have to do is find some appropriately sized tritium vials and replace the old, dead ones.

Range Report

Tonya is back from the range.

5.45x39mm in a nine pound rifle is recoiless.

The thin wisp of a stock is not a serious problem when there's no recoil.

It provides not a whit of cheek weld, so you're bobbing your head around while wiggling the rifle around.  It has a negative effect on grouping.

That bipod sure is handy!

Took it to 100 yards from a start at 25 for zeroing.

I can hold about a 12" group at 100 with it.  Getting old and blind is not for sissies or people whose self image is dependent on all the bullets touching when using a clone of a combat rifle with iron sights.

The range officer wanted to have a look and complimented my work!  I beamed.

I had two failures to extract/eject in the first 20 rounds.  One with the Polish polymer mag, one with Magpul.  The remaining 90 fired fine.

For those scoring at home, that was 60 rounds of Tulammo then 50 of Hornady Custom V-Max.

Groups were similar for both.  Probably my shooting rather than the ammo.  I think.

Mollie Bean shoots much better because the stock is better and the red dot is easier for my eyes.

Tonya is just fun.

Sometime down the road when I get some kind of glass on her, we'll see what I can wring out.  Swapping the optic from Mollie Bean to Tonya is a no-go because the rails are different enough in spec that you have to adjust the latch significantly.

Getting Artistic

I like still life.

Goes nicely with:

Won't Work

Guns simply aren't that complicated.

It's been noticed more than once that everything you need to build a submachine gun is available at Lowe's and Home Depot (including tools).

The banners then claim that banning ammo would stop that from working.

Cartridges aren't that complicated either.

The chemistry of the ammunition isn't near so complicated as the organic chemistry going into making Meth.  Banning and restricting ever more esoteric precursor chemicals that are used to make meth is working like gangbusters, isn't it?

You get a complete ban in the US and insurgency is going to be your new buzz word.

To be really bothersome you don't even need that great a gun.  The Liberator pistol concept from WW2 is a valid concept.  The insurgents in the US don't even have to get lucky very often to cause the price of our, now openly evil, government's security to enter a death spiral.

It gets vindictive enough and those employees and agents of the government need to protect their families too.

I can see an insurgency that makes MS13 look out and say, "¡Madre de Dios!" in its brutality.

Americans have mean streaks that we bury deep and don't show people.  It's there though.

It's an important lesson that needs to never be forgot.  Never EVER back someone with nothing left to lose into a corner.

Fuck Hollywood

It's our own fault, letting foreign cultures fester and grow without forcing them to assimilate into American culture.

Let them wear their culturally misappropriated orange American flags.

Do they bear the marks?  Can you see them?

Let them self identify as unredeemed foreigners.

I know how long I can live without Hollywood.

How long can Hollywood live without us?

Especially since their primary customer is now China, not us.  Literally a foreign nation paying them to influence America to their benefit.

Won't be much need for us to put up with them here for much longer if present trendlines continue.

As always, "If you're not stealing from Hollywood; you're PAYING for Hollywood."

Defective

My first all up "assault weapon" was my heavily modified Mini-14.

It did not go off and murder people.  It did not make me go off and murder people.

Perhaps that's because I modified it from a normal rifle and some of that "good" magic still clung to it.

So I built a British L1A1 rifle from a parts kit.

It did not go off and murder people.  It did not make me go off and murder people.

Maybe it's the caliber?  7.62x51mm isn't really an "assault weapon" caliber.

So there's a long wait while the AWB expires before testing can resume.

Now I've acquired several AR-15's in different calibers and rifling twist.

They did not go off and murder people.  They did not make me go off and murder people.

Could it be that the AR is not really an "assault weapon" like the AK surely is!

So I got an AK.  7.62x39mm  Folding stock and everything!

It did not go off and murder people.  It did not make me go off and murder people.

Could it be a caliber problem?

So I got an AK in 5.45x39mm.  All the banned features.

It did not go off and murder people.  It did not make me go off and murder people.

Either every single "assault weapon" I've owned or own is defective with regards for murdering people; or I am defective with regards to murdering people in that I am sane and won't be murdering anyone.

Wanna hear about my huge collection of blunt instruments next?  Spoiler, I don't murder people with those either.