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This day, February 26, is the birthday of Major-General Orde Charles Wingate (born, 1903, died 24 March 1944), an eccentric British Army officer who organized special military units in Palestine in the 1930s, and in Abyssinia, Sudan, and Burma during World War II. He is most famous for his creation of the Chindits, airborne deep-penetration troops trained to work behind enemy lines in the Far East campaigns against the Japanese during World War II. On February 26, 1993: A truck bomb built by Islamic extremists explodes in the parking garage of the North Tower of New York’s World Trade Center, …

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(Continued from Part 2.) Editor’s Note: The following section of the article describes some high power and out-of-band transmission modifications that are not legal under most circumstances. In an absolute disaster situation, anyone can operate outside of normal bands/channels without a license and probably without any legal repercussions. But doing so in normal times will surely get someone arrested, their gear seized, and some hefty fines. Beware! BACK TO THE FUTURE, CB RADIO IS BACK! Although Citizen Band (CB) might not be a part of our primary radio communications plan, we may need to operate a CB to talk to …

The post The K.I.S.S. Principle and Transceivers – Part 3, by Tunnel Rabbit appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at the ongoing commodities boom. Precious Metals: ‘Gold is going to be outpaced by silver and platinum’ – Bill Baruch o  o  o Kansas Bill Would Make Gold And Silver Legal Tender In The State Economy & Finance: At Zero Hedge: Got Inflation? The Fed Just Printed Another $100+ BILLION …

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“Education is the best provision for old age.” – Aristotle

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haha, this went from good to hilarious:

The YouTube algorithm really knows me.

Thoughts?

This is great:

The following blog is an excerpt from, “Hooked on Fishing in National Parks” by the National Park Foundation.

Fishing has a way of bringing people into the present moment.

As Sue Daignault describes it, “maybe it’s the hope of feeling that lively tug when a fish strikes.”

To notice that slight, or intense, vibration on the line, we mu...

I thought the opening credits to American Gods had a familiar feel. Looking into it, the production house that did them, Elastic, also did the opening for Altered Carbon and (maybe my favorite) the first season of True Detective.

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 Moving along, I couldn't take the bicycle to the Philippines, but I did the cameras, lenses, and flash. By this point, I was carrying one camera body with B+W film, taking pictures for the Squadron cruise book. The other body was carrying the Kodachrome.

Olongapo, in the P.I., 1983. Ask me no questions and I will tell you no lies. 

Here's a few. Nothing special, except that I had the camera there and ready, managed to get the exposure close and the picture in focus.

I bought an Edimax 1200ac USB WiFi because it was tiny and therefore easier to bring with me.  Performance initially was very good, then slowed down.  Maybe I should have installed the drivers that came with it.  That killed it and worse, Windows 10 System Restore rendered my PC unbootable (first disappointing time) nor is there anyway to restore the system image on my network hard drive.  I sure hope my daily backups preserved all my files.

 It's not so much that the Chinese government shoved swabs up the asses of Biden's State Department officials, it's the fact that the officials allowed it to happen.  Citizens of the US do not bow and they definitely don't take one up the ass, unless they're Eric Swalwell or probably Hunter Biden.

Of course it's just symbolic of the way that Biden and Company are bending over and taking it hard from the Chinese.  

And how they want to treat the citizens of the US.

The past year, and the beginning of the current one, has seen plenty of in-person events being canceled due to the pandemic. The organizers of IDEX and NAVDEX, in Abu Dhabi, UAE, decided instead to put in place rigorous health protocols and still welcome the biggest players of the defense industry. Here we’ll first see […]

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Photo Of The Day and time for another picture taken through the reticle. We’re looking into the Kahles K18i, with the 3GR reticle. There is also an IPSC reticle, but I would prefer the 3GR. The K18i has a slim and streamlined design with all but the necessary features removed. It’s a great optic! You […]

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Welcome back to TFB’s Concealed Carry Corner. Most people have heard various statistics about people being killed with their own gun, of which I don’t really pay attention to, since the typical sources are coming from known anti-gunners. However, I won’t deny that people have been killed with their own firearms, which could stem from […]

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Not too surprising. As Don Kilmer has remarked, the 9th ought to adopt a Circuit Rule that any panel opinion striking down a law on 2A grounds will automatically be set for en banc reconsideration. It's what the court does, anyway, so why not save people the trouble of filing a motion?

It'd be interesting to do some calculations, given how rarely the 9th grants en banc, so see what percentage of en-banc cases are composed of pro-2A rulings.

NATO Secretary General wants solar powered tanks. [rolls eyes]

The comment there sums it up:

The stupid, it burns … an M1 tank gets 0.6 mpg. A gallon of diesel contains ~ 40 kWh of energy. A solar panel puts out ~ 1 kWh per day. A solar panel is about 17 sq. ft. You MIGHT fit four of them on an M1 tank without impairing the weapons and sensors. Then you’d need four Tesla Powerwall batteries, weight half a ton.With that setup, every ten days you could move your tank 0.6 miles …

Here's your sign.

Instapundit linked to an article about which cockroach to bet on in a fight and observed that if you are betting on cockroach fights "you may need help."  The comments that follow put more smiles on my face than the rest of week combined.  Yes, the Democratic primaries should be called "cockroach fights," and yes the lockdowns have been going too long. 

 A great article over at Recoil magazine about the M3A1.

The old Grease Gun was named for its resemblance to the tool still used by mechanics today. Inspired by the British Sten and German MP40, and developed during early WWII, “the Greaser” was made almost entirely of stamped metal with only a couple of machined parts. Production cost was $15 per unit in 1943, equal to about $220 today. The Army touted it as more accurate than the Thompson, claiming a soldier firing an M3 full-auto offhand would keep 90 percent of his rounds inside a 6×6-foot target at 50 yards. We like to call this claim “absolute nonsense;” the Greaser was appreciated for its ability to spray an area with heavy .45 rounds, but nobody ever called it precise.

Nobody ever called it precise, but you could lay down a base of fire with it, and it was fairly easy to hit a half-silhouette at 50 meters.

The M3A1 was my favorite personal firearm during my Army years.  It was cheap, clunky, and inaccurate, but it was a helluva lot of fun to shot.  ...

As Tench Coxe reminded us, "Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American..." You'd think an "originalist" would have known that.

 Arizona Lawmakers to Cops: You Should Convict People Before You Take Their Stuff [More]

That'll never work.

[Via Michael G]

 Black Lives Matters Brought in $90 Million in 2020, but Local Chapters See Little of That Money [More]

So could I get in trouble for "Pimp My Yacht"?

[Via Michael G]

 Why It's Going to Be Much Harder to Make Expert Under the Marines' New Rifle Qual Standard [More]

That's racist!

[Via Jess]

 “The Don’t Tread on Me tags say he probably has guns and is probably angry at some minority or politician,” a response to the post read as Adams Morgan residents and users of the community-based Next Door social media platform began to panic over the sight of the truck. [More]

The SPLC's work is finished here!

[Via Jess]

Classicfm.com:

How low can he go? Turns out, ludicrously, earth-shatteringly low…

Since 2012, Tim Storms has held the world record for the lowest ever vocal note – that’s a deliciously gravelly G -7 (0.189 Hz), which is eight octaves below the lowest G on the piano.

The American bass, who stretches the lowest male voice type to its extreme, holds the Guinness World Records for both the “lowest note produced by a human” and the “widest local range”.

Speaking to Classic FM in his winning year, Storms said his voice “was always low”.

“The older I get, the lower I get,” he said. “I never went through that adolescent voice changing phase.”

Pour some liquid thunder down a microphone, and Storms’ voice is sort of what you get (listen above).

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Alexander Zubatov takes a walk through the Dante’s Hell that is Bill de Blasio’s New York City and reflects on the experience of living in the ruins of a formerly great civiization.

The subway is on the next block, and there should be at least two or three more trains stopping here before the 1 a.m. post-pandemic subway curfew hits. I descend one flight of steps, turn the corner past the curled-up form at their base, take another flight down and arrive at the turnstiles by what I know no name for other than the manned “token booth,” though tokens have not existed in years, the function of dispens...

 Georgia Senate Passes Bill Requiring Voter I.D. For Absentee Ballots [More]

Cue the furious screams of "Disenfranchisement!" in 3...2...1...

[Via Michael G]

A week or so ago SIG Sauer dropped their 2021 catalog, with a few new gems including new Elite series pistols a new entry to the TREAD line of rifles and SIG’s 277 Furry ammunition. Let’s take a look! Here’s SIG Sauer’s announcement of the new catalog, which is available to view online at sigsauer.com/catalog NEWINGTON, […]

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A new bill has recently been introduced by Representative George Till of Vermont that would potentially allow hunters to hunt using suppressors. While suppressors are already legal in the state, it is currently not legal to go hunting with a suppressor equipped rifle in the state. The new bill titled Hearing Protection Act, House Bill […]

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I wouldn’t normally put Babylon Bee stuff on TZP, but this one tickled me.

Ben Shapiro Honors Year Of Jubilee, Frees All Of The Libs He’s Owned

NASHVILLE, TN—In keeping with the ancient tradition ordained by God, Be...

With HR127 being brought forward in early February of 2021, somebody tipped me off to a very small page where the phrase of the Second Amendment was being censored.  So we tried to replicate what we saw with an experiment. On Monday the 15th of February, First I posted a screenshot of the censored post, and it was fact-checked and censored behind the fact-check wall. Then I took a screenshot of the actual Second Amendment on Google and the same thing happened.

They were trying to tie it back to some misquoting of George Washington. They were saying the Second Amendment was fact-checked as not true.

1776 United
February 18, 2021
1776 United: Censoring the Second Amendment
[Emphasis added.

Perhaps, in their reality, it doesn’t actually exist. I’m okay with that. But their friends and relatives really should see that they get the help they need rather than letting them let them cause others harm when they are experiencing such delusions.—Joe]

Borepatch's co-blogger ASM826 describes the technique of "light painting" using a flash:

Last night The Queen Of The World fell and broke her wrist.  The break is bad enough that she'll have to have surgery next week.  So far the Blogshoot is still on but I'm pushing the start time to 12:00 noon.  This will cut the day a little short but I'll have to set up by myself and so it will take longer than planned.

Please check this space on Friday evening for any changes - I don't think we'll change anything but life sometimes speaks in its Outdoors Voice.

On the plus side, the local Doc-In-A-Box was actually a 24 hour ER, with X-Ray and all that sort of thing.&...

[The ATF] showed up in late August and said basically, “Hey, it’s a machine gun, we’ve deemed it a machine gun.” I said, “What? When did this happen?”

They’re like, “Well we just deemed it a machine gun.”

I was like, “Ok, well where is my paperwork?”

“We don’t have any paperwork.”

“What do you mean you don’t have any paperwork? Is there, like, a report?”

“There is a report, but you can’t have it.”

“Wait a minute, you’re telling me it’s a machine gun, and there’s a report, but I can’t have the report.”

“You would have to go to court in order to get this report.”
Etc.  Such a level of bullshit is amazing.

They're apparently counting on saying 'Ignorance of the law is no excuse', except when you make a POINT of not telling people about a 'law' you created out of thin air, that doesn't(damn well shouldn't) work.

Of course, considering what a crapshow an awful lot of courts are anymore, you can't count on it.

So yesterday on my way to afternoon chicken chores I saw suspicious tracks…

Distinctive tracks. Round split-hooved tracks. Cattle tracks. Grrr…

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 I don't do Twitter, so I don't know, but PJMedia tells me that the hashtag #FireFauci was trending yesterday.  Here's the headline.

'Fire Fauci' Trends on Twitter as His Mixed Messages and Inconsistencies Finally Get Called Out

Here's the deal with Fauci.  I don't believe anything he says anymore, because if I wait a couple of hours, whatever he says will change.  I understand that what he is doing is not an exact science, but his understanding of it should not change on an hourly basis. 

But, he probably cannot be fired.  He's a government worker, and is probably so ensconced in the Civil Service that he'll be there until he retires.  But, we can choose to ignore him, or mock him, or even write blog posts about how utterly inconsistent he has been.  He loves the media adulation, and he wants to be relevant, and once this pandemic is over, he'll go back to being a faceless functionary.

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Back on the 17th of August, 2017 – three and a half years ago, TPOL published this commentary.  In that time, the truth of the premise has been proven over and over ago.  It is worth sharing again, with a few more comments [in red italics]. Tyranny and terror are closely related: force and the threat of force is essential for government to enforce its edicts. And it grows more common and explicit.

The terror of local government in the Fifty States, part 1

The attitude and record of local governments across the Fifty States is incredibly distressing, to me and many others. It is not a series of isolated incidents, or of a few big urban areas or small rural towns, but a commonly-found situation in virtually every state and every region, for governments of all sizes.

Part of the incredible stress on our society comes from this attitude of government at the local level, where residents and businesses (and even passers-through) are ...

We're the Only Ones offensive enough... 

[Via Michael G]

 Read it now, as it may well disappear when the NYT staff inform Sulzberger that it threatens their safety to have facts published in the newspaper. [More]

I had to right-click the Times link and open this in an incognito window to get past the paywall.

I don't suppose it occurs to anyone to send the lying racist ingrate back to her glorious homeland?

If anyone from there has room to complain:

Armed men abducted and beheaded a five-year-old albino girl in Mali at the weekend, police said, in what was feared to be a ritual murder for supposedly magic body parts.

How she can afford to go to Smith with th...

First Amendment Right to Videorecord TSA Patdown of Your Family Member [More]

And if you get Mad Maxie, you may be able to monetize it on Pornhub.

[Via Michael G]

 House takes first step in contested election review that may result in Republican being unseated [More]

And only a Nazi would cry "Baseless!"

[Via Michael G]

Student columnist calls white peers returning to campus an ‘invasive species’ [More]

Between that and "vermin," I'd say we've pretty much been dehumanized enough for Phase Two...

[Via Michael G]

 USA Today opinion writer: 'Bury the 500,000 COVID dead at Mar-a-Lago' [More]

I guess that's an improvement over wanting to kill gun owners.

A Gannett Publication.

Special prosecutor appointed in case of gun-waving couple in St. Louis [More]

Note the difference in how the release of names is treated.

Hey, they gotta build on the narrative of who is violent and dangerous.

[Via bondmen...

 Goldman Sachs Says Urban Flight To Last For Years [More]

And guess how most are going to vote.

[Via bondmen]

 Democrat Voters Overwhelmingly Believe “Trump Supporters” Are The #1 Problem In The Country [More]

If you think about it, for them we are.

[Via bondmen]

44% of libs believe police killed 1,000 or more black men in 2019: It was actually 25 [More]

Just keep the truth confined to "conservative media" and the narrative'll be fine.

[Via bondmen]

 The well-placed sources told RCI the plainclothes officer has gone into hiding out of fear for his safety.  [More]

What's to worry about if they won't tell us who he is?

Well, they could, but you know what happens next.

When the government can "legally" hide the identity of its agents who kill citizens and keep the evidence at their disposal from being publicly scrutinized, it's pretty much game over for peaceable redress. I wonder if anyone doing that gets that.

Curious, how the DSM universally doesn't give a damn.

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 Family of shooter who opened fired in a gun store now claiming he was ‘murdered’ by those who stopped him [More]

Where have we heard that before...?

[Via bondmen...

 Law Enforcement Confirms What We Already Knew About The Capitol Riots, Obliterates Democrats’ Narrative [More]

Yeah, but who reads Red State?

[Via bondmen]

 A New York man died and his brother was injured on Sunday when a small explosive device meant to be used as part of a gender reveal party malfunctioned and exploded. [More]

How can "some kind of pipe [with] explosive material" malfunction if it performed exactly as misdesigned? 

And I thought revealing gender was noninclusively binary and premature until Rachel Levine says it's time to operate...

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The Lies Aren’t Secret - Thanks to friendly courts, the Deep State continues to avoid accountability, triumphant at home and abroad. [More]

We could tell you but we'd have to kill you.

[Via Michael G]

Right now however, I’d like to ask you to help our friends in Yamhill County where tomorrow they will be considering a Second Amendment Sanctuary Ordinance to protect not only residents of Yamhill, but anyone who visits there. Fashioned after successful ordinances in other counties, their SASO simply says that the county will not spend money or police manpower arresting law abiding gun owners whose only crime is being the target of leftists in Portland. [More]

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He brandished it for the webcam, then set it aside. [More]

Inigo?

That and guns are evidently racist.

You ought to go far in the AP, John Flesher.

[Via Mack H]

 Via LinkedIn:

 The reason politicians “rely” on such polls like this latest bit of Gallup nonsense is to ascertain how successful they’ve been in swindling the ignorant out of their rights, and to determine what could work to further spook the herd. [More]

Who better to ask than those who really don't know a damn thing "thanks" to media lies of commission and omission?

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The very early production MkI Bren light machine guns were made with two dovetail brackets on the left side of the receiver. The rear one was for the standard rear sight, and the front one was to accommodate two types of optical sights. A mounting for the No.32 telescopic sight (the same one used not he No4(T) sniper rifle) was planned, but never produced. What was made in small numbers by the Plessey company was a “fixed line sight”. This was really more like a surveyor’s tool than a traditional sight, and it used the same optical element as the Vickers dial sight that was introduced alongside it in 1939. The purpose was to allow a tripod-mounted Bren to be set up with specific limits to its field of fire, and then for the gun to be removed, used on the bipod elsewhere, and returned to the tripod and confirm the field of fire, especially in the dark. This is...

In honor of the late Jeff Quinn of Gunblast.com, Ruger has released a special edition memorial GP100 to honor his memory. The Memorial GP100 will feature Jeff’s visage complete with his famous beard and signature. In addition, the revolver will also feature a 4.2″ half-lug barrel, stainless steel hammer, non-fluted cylinder, and a gold bead […]

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As you know, 2020 was a record-breaking year in terms of firearm sales primarily due to the uncertainty caused by the pandemic. Many people (over 8 million!) who bought firearms in 2020 are first-time buyers. Understanding the importance of educating these new firearm owners on everything gun-related (safety, handling, maintenance, legal aspects, etc.), Nosler started […]

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Ukrainian Mayak arms plant has designed an AK variant called KalashNash that has a quick barrel change feature. It is possible to change the caliber of this rifle to any popular intermediate cartridge (5.56×45, 7.62×39, 5.45×39, 6.5 Grendel, etc.) by swapping the populated barrels and using caliber-specific bolts and magazines. Presumably, the two slots cut at […]

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The American-180 is a rare .22LR submachine gun developed in the 1960s which fires .22LR from a wind-up pan magazine. It originated with the Casull Model 290 that also used a flat pan magazine. Only 80 Casull M290s were built. The American-180 is an improved version of the Casull design. Today, James Reeves speaks with […]

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Hmph.

Large teacher car rally against MCPS reopening plan. pic.twitter.com/Ch1LFmsqIg

— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) February 23, 2021

If they wanted to end the fully vaccinated, over-unioned, teachers they should set a date to re-open the schools and stop paying the teachers that don't come back.  It's not like the county is taking in a lotta tax money with everyone not participating in the local economy as hard, where is the teacher salary money coming from?

We do, truly, live in amazing times.  SUCH a long mass quarantine!  Couldn't have done what we've done now back in 1920.   Or 1990 for that matter.  People would have had to break it pretty quick if not for the internet and our ability to get people to deliver everything.  No matter your opinion on the lockdown efficacy, the fact what was done was even possible amazed.  ...

Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website.  You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day.  These books can be downloaded to a Kindle reader or a free App on your phone or personal computer.  Even if you don’t have a Kindle, you can download a free Kindle reader for your computer or phone HERE.  

Here are a few free books that I think my readers might enjoy. Check these out.

One caution….

These books were free at the time I posted them. Prices change rapidly. Please check the price before you hit the“buy” button!

If you cannot see any of the links below, there is likely a setting in either your internet browser or ad blocking software that prohibits “live links.”  If you see a blank page below, check those settings.  I promise you that there are book links actually listed directly below.

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Just like people, ARs come in many shapes and sizes. They vary in weight, with options for a variety of different optics and other accoutrements. Some people add bipods and vertical grips, while others may add lasers and lights. Regardless of what your AR looks like, fundamentals, once learned and put into practice, make shooting it easier. These are some tips for shooting your AR.

Sponsored by Springfield Armory

February 25th is the birthday of bluegrass music legend Ralph Stanley (1927 – 2016). His harmonizing and high tenor solos had an almost haunting sound to them. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 93 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: The photovoltaic power specialists at Quantum Harvest LLC  are providing a store-wide 10% off coupon. Depending on the model chosen, this could be worth more than $2000. A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any of their one, two, or three-day course …

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(Continued from Part 1.) UHF Business Band Transceivers This is a more versatile radio than the Midland MXT400 that can access off the beaten path frequencies, and provides much better COMSEC (Communications Security). These can use the same antenna, cable, and adapters detailed for the GMRS transceivers. This type of radio can be programmed per your instructions by BuyTwoWayRadios.com, and the radio is easy to use and rugged. Our choice of frequencies are limited by the radio to the UHF band, and the limits of the antenna that covers only a section of the UHF band. We can also purchase …

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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods— a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from “JWR”. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. Today, we look at a re-purposed Atlas Missile silo. Silo, Sweet Silo First up, Tim J. sent us a link to this at The Natural Building Blog: Underground Home Recycled from a Missile Silo. …

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“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters’ side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents. Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family meals where the father or mother treated their grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered to any other young people, would simply have terminated the acquaintance? Dogmatic assertions on matters which the children understand and their elders don’t, ruthless interruptions, flat …

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My pleasure to present to you, the Chick-Fil-AR:

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Protect Reno May at all costs.  Holy I can’t believe all the hoops th...

I have a lot of need to think less; the use of my brain impairs my speech by tiring me out.

2/24/21 New York Times has an article about a widely publicized racism incident at Smith College in 2018 that turned out to be nothing od the sort, but badly injured some of the working class employees at a $78,000 a year college,  and it had led to a Critical Race Theory orgy of emotional attack on white employees. 

By Jeff Gurwitch February 24, 2021 Let’s be real, when it comes to rifle slings, most shooters have settled upon using 2-point slings (with a single adjustable strap, connected to the rifle at the buttstock and handguard). Multi-point slings and single points have for the most part faded out of large-scale use. Multi-point slings have …

 As much as I hate National Review for its Never-Trumpism, this article points out that V-C day uis coming and soon:

Rates of infection have retreated before, but this time will be different, because a colossal number of Americans (perhaps ...

 Members of Congress asking cable TV companies to drop conservative news channels for doubleplusngood news:

Yet, to our knowledge, the cable, satellite, and over-the-top companies that disseminate these media outlets to American viewers have done nothing in response to the misinformation aired by these outlets. 14 AT&T currently carries Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN on U-verse, DirecTV, and AT&T TV. 15 As a company that serves 17 million Americans,16 AT&T plays a major role in 2 the spread of dangerous misinformation that enabled the insurrection of January 6th and hinders our public health response to the current pandemic.

It is for these reasons we ask that you provide us with responses to the following questions about AT&T’s policies toward content carried on U-verse, DirecTV, and AT&T TV by March 8, 2021:

1. What moral or ethical principles (including those related to journalistic integrity, violence, medical information, and public health) do you apply in deciding whi...

Something to think about Civil War wise, this video asks what the two countries would be like if the solidly Democratic and Republican states went their separate ways?  A lot more equal than I thought. 

On January 25, Polish media outlet Onet.pl published an article about the MSBS GROT, the new service rifle recently introduced by the Polish Armed Forces. The MSBS Grot is produced by Fabryka Broni “Łucznik” in Radom, part of the Polish Armaments Group, a state-owned holding company. The article reported on a series of trials conducted by a […]

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Soldiers from the French Foreign Legion with a Heckler & Koch HK416F and the FN Minimi (Mini-Mitrailleuse – Mini machine gun), These pictures are from the 2ème Régiment Etranger d’Infanterie and as you can see they’re at sea. Caption (computer translated from French): On land and at sea, the DRAGON Embedded Tactical Group (GTE) does […]

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Not So Fast, Nagant When we think of a revolver candidate for a suppressor, invariably our mind drifts to the M1895 Nagant.  A good revolver, to be true.  Gas-sealed revolvers, however, were around far earlier, with the UK having a rich history of development in this type of firearms.  What is a gas-seal revolver?  In […]

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What do me and Tiger Woods have in common? 

Our very own Miguel has graciously offered to run the El Presidente drill at Saturday's blogshoot.  For those of you not familiar with El Presidente, Pew Pew Tactical has a good overview:

“El Presidente” is a shooting drill originally developed by Jeff Cooper (remember the 4 firearm safety rules) when he was training security for a South American president.  The name came about when it was incorporated into USPSA/IPSC as a standardized stage.

The Silicon Graybeard has been dishing up awesome free content for 11 years now.   He's a daily read for me (heck, maybe he'll come to a blogshoot sometime, too, hint hint).  Go give him some commenty love.

Whichever of you suggested that I mock up a design in cardboard: Thank you!  I now have all the dimensions to do it in very thin sheet steel, with the advantage that using a metal brake on steel holds a bend a lot better than when bending a pizza box.

Finally, a researcher whose work seems to support, rather the attack, Second Amendment rights. David Schwebel, a psychology professor, and his associates describe a training program to improve children’s ability to safely deal with guns. Perhaps surprising to those who read academic studies regarding firearms, they imply that children’s exposure to firearms is not unusual […]

I have a love/hate relationship with primer tools.

This is my current go-to tool, an RCBS that works fine, really. Doesn’t need a whole set of individual case holders, which is a big plus. Gives you enough leverage that it’s not a hand exerciser but not so much you’re crushing primers. Eliminates that idiotic elevator thing Lee tools have that seats the primer sideways half the time. But it does have one very ...

Michael Anton (famous for the 2016 “Flight 93 Election” essay) reflects on all the arm-twisting going on anent acceptance of the 2020 Election’s legitimacy and he has plenty of intelligent observations.

Recently, I appeared as a guest on Andrew Sullivan’s podcast. Sullivan is vociferously anti-Trump, so I expected us to disagree—which, naturally, we did. But I was surprised by the extent to which he insisted I assent to his assertion that the...

 Indiana's state of emergency has been extended yet another 30 years days.  The stated reason:  there's going to be a bunch of NCAA tournaments in Indianapolis so the state needs to be kept under lock and key because basketball.   I can't even completely convey my disgust in words, even four letter words.  

Fucking pussy with his sports metaphors can kiss my ass.  If the emergency really is an emergency after a year, then they shouldn't be doing the tournaments.  If they are allowing the tournaments, then there is no emergency.

 Belle bought us a laser target for fast draw practice that doesn't require ammunition. We have some laser cartridge's that we've used in the past, but this system takes it up one level, so that we can actually get times, and score hits and misses.  The system is sold through the Association website,   I already had the timers, so we only had to buy the laser target.

I spent part of this morning learning to set it up and calibrate it.  The learning curve is pretty flat once you read the instructions, but it does have to be calibrate...

Shots fired near kids, bricks thrown at officers: Kansas City police detail sideshow bust [More]

Now hold the damn phone: I thought Hizzoner made those illegal...?

Next, you're gonna be telling me his Blo...

HOW MUCH MORE INSANITY MUST WE ENDURE AS AMERICANS? [More]

The important thing is not to snap and then lose it, because that ignores Patton's maxim and won't end well.

When it comes to our little wheelhouse, we're still able to DRES for success...

Make them the ones who go nuts. 

UPDATE: 

The daftest bit of madness, the war on biological gender, is just part of it all. Sanity itself is now on trial, according to a book review in The Post’s Sunday Outlook section, “How colonialism and capitalism helped place a stigma on mental illness.”

It's NSFW, but I heard a version of this joke...

[W]e have received unfortunate news that the receiver of the T36 will now be classified by ATF as a machinegun receiver.  ATF has recently determined that the blocks and restrictions manufactured into our semi-automatic receiver (which are a replica of the SL8 prevention method) are not sufficient and now require an auto sear block on this platform. We disagree with this position but do not make the regulatory decisions. [More]

 Governor Andrew Cuomo has created a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and bullying is so pervasive that it is not only condoned but expected. His inappropriate behavior toward women was an affirmation that he liked you, that you must be doing something right. He used intimidation to silence his critics. And if you dared to speak up, you would face consequences. [More]

So Cuomosexuality is a disorder...?

[Via Mack H]

 "Tech co. believes that a more equitable world will be built by people with organizing superpowers. To achieve this vision, we are building one seamless, intuitive, and intelligent platform that integrates data, tools, and experiences to give anyone those superpowers," reads one job listing for chief technology officer. [More]

Not "anyone." That "left/right" blather is just that.

You can bet anyone who doesn't pass ideological muster will be "deplatformed" quicker than you can say "baseless."

 Minneapolis Sets Up Barbed Wire Fence as George Floyd Murder Trial Approaches [More]

Who do these people think they are? Congress?

That a Democrat administration is doing this against a more radical faction tells me that schism could split wide open and fracture into many pieces.

[Via Michael G]

 Democrat Ministry of Propaganda: DHS Blames “Right Wing Terrorists” for 2020’s Antifa/BLM Leftwing Terror [More]

You know how this works.

[Via Michael G]

War on Texas Is a War on America - Opening the border, relaxing voter integrity laws. [More]

And as with the War on America, their greatest enemy is domestic.

[Via Mack H]

An MSNBC political analyst who once encouraged terrorists to blow up a Trump Tower building is set to testify in a House hearing on domestic terrorism. [More]

With the understanding that Trump is an avatar, what he really means is your house.

[Via Michael G]

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Shooting rests are a great tool to have for almost every range trip especially if accuracy is your aim for the day. Birchwood Casey has five new shooting rests for 2021 which include the Alpha, Bravo, Echo, Foxtrot, and Tango rests each with their own specific set of features and specialties. New Shooting Rests for […]

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Springfield Armory have announced the launch of a new line of red dot optics for pistols and rifles. The new HEX line launches with two new sights: the WASP, a micro red dot reflex sight designed for concealed carry pistols, and the DRAGONFLY, a standard size red dot which can be mounted on rifles and […]

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I'm engaged in a project to dramatically reduce the number of books and magazines in the attic. I had been dragging stuff to Half Price Books in fits and starts before the Time of the 'Rona, and since then I've just been dropping off boxes at the Goodwill store on Keystone Avenue.

How did the kleptomaniac treat his condition?

He took something for it.

 Some years ago, there was a murder for hire in Sonoma County with a crossbow.  The bad guys kidnapped a business rival of their employer near Sacramento and eventually killed him in northern Sonoma County.  I guess California gun control worked; they did not use a gun for murder.  I thought this very odd, but I just found this video on YouTube:

No reason to light the fire…

…lit the fire anyway.

Hey, there was a time when morning fire was optional when indoor temp was in the 40’s, forbidden when it was in the 50’s. But that was more than 10 years ago and ‘cool’ seems like cold now.

When I first stumbled across this story in the Sun (hat tip to Citizen’s Free Press)

The ex-con admitted to cops that he killed 41-year-old mother of two Andrea Lynn Blankenship and cut out her heart to cook it and eat it on February 9.

I wondered why I hadn’t seen anything about it in the US mainstream media.

But then I saw the pictures of the perpetrator:

And the Victim:

Oh…now I get it. Can’t print any news that doesn’t support the “systemic racism” narrative.

And I’m pretty sure that noticing this makes me a white...

 Academics called breastfeeding 'ethically problematic' because it endorses 'gender roles.' [More]

So draw and quarter them in utero, starve them to death if they escape. Problem solved.

Although I'm sure the movers behind this would prefer the Mr. Natural approach (and I won't hotlink to https://fantasymerchantblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/img_3705.jpg?w=723 and suggest you don't satisfy your curiosity by going there, but we are, after all, exploring the depths of the "progressive" mind)...

[Via Michael G]

 China Responds to Ottawa Genocide Declaration by Accusing Canada of… Genocide [More]

I'd love to see some deep fake pro come up with a Jinping/Justin version of this...

[Via Michael G]

Say, Why Are House Dems Calling On Biden To Give Up Full Control Of Nuclear Weapons? [More]

Because separation of powers was just a suggestion...

Of course, there's an easier way, but that's not what this is really about, and since when has being grossly unconstitutional ever slowed Democrats down?

[Via Michael G]

 “This is a deeply sad and tragic day for Bi-State Development and Metro Transit,” Bi-State Development President and CEO Taulby Roach said in a statement Sunday afternoon, adding that the security guard was killed “due to an evil and senseless act of violence.” [More]

And the fact that you and your board made sure "those security officers wouldn’t carry firearms" had nothing to do with the outcome, eh, Taulby...?

 Deplatforming Alert: GoDaddy Investigating Sites It Hosts or Registers for Connection to Capitol Hill Riot - The Soros-connected group Accountable.US, is demanding GoDaddy deplatform even groups such as Turning Point USA and Women for America First. [More]

Nice to know who's telling Americans what political speech is permissible...

[Via Michael G]

 Vietnam veteran, 82, bludgeons a knife-wielding home intruder, 61, to death with the butt of his shotgun after suspect attacked his wife [More]

So will this be counted as a "gun death"?

[Via Florida Guy]

Democrats starting to panic over a reckoning at the polls for blue-state bungling of COVID [More]

No worries...

[Via bondmen]

 Among the straw purchases observed by agents during the gun show were a transaction by a straw purchaser who bought an Uzi and long gun for Fields using money Fields passed to the purchaser, officials said. Fields was arrested by agents, who obtained a search warrant for his home, where they said they recovered 13 additional guns. [More]

So the government, established to actualize the goals of the Preamble, knows he can't be trusted with a gun...?

[Via bondmen...

Denying a motion for dismissal made by Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker, a U.S. District Court Judge in North Carolina has ruled that plaintiffs challenging last year’s “temporary suspension” of processing pistol purchase permits, allegedly due to the COVID-19 outbreak and state of emergency declared by Gov. Roy Cooper, may pursue damage claims and associated claims for declaratory relief and attorney’s fees. [More]

Between that and this...

 No Charges For Rochester Officers In Death Of Daniel Prude [Watch]

It doesn't look like the weather's going to be a problem...

[Via Jess]

 Marin residents misuse access codes meant for Black, Latino communities to get COVID-19 vaccines [More]

Any questions?

[Via Steve T] 

Illinois becomes first state to eliminate cash bail [More]

This should end well.

And the only thing "systemic" about racism is the way the left exploits the term to tar its opponents.

[Via Steve T] 

 The warrant is the latest step in an investigation that began a year ago, after the disappearance of dozens of firearms from the gun store of the Los Angeles Police Revolver and Athletic Club, a private organization whose members are in law enforcement. [More]

"Only Ones" guns at "Only Ones" prices!

[Via Steve T] 

 Biden Gun Control Plan Would ‘Criminalize’ up to 105 Million People: Gun-rights Group [More]

I'd like to see the plan for rounding us up fleshed out.

[Via DDS]

Taurus USA have introduced a new addition to their Raging Hunter series chambered in .460 S&W. The new hunting revolver will be available in a range of three barrel lengths, 8-3/8″, 6-3/4″ and 5-1/8″ and will come in two finishes – all black and a two-tone with MSRPs of $968.18 and $983.33 respectively. Last year Adam took a look […]

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New for 2021 in Davide Pedersoli’s catalog of firearms is a single-shot hammer-fired .22LR rifle called Black Widow. This is a break-action gun with the barrel folding towards the stock until it reaches the grip. When folded, the gun has quite a compact triangular shape and according to the manufacturer, can be easily stored in […]

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• The 2nd amendment to our nation’s constitution guarantees the individual right to keep and bear arms.
• WSSA members have taken a firm stance on protecting this right and ensuring that no person, legally entitled to possess a firearm, realizes any pressure from laws inconsistent with the Constitution.
• We continue to monitor this issue, both regionally and nationally and join to defeat any legislation that seeks to impair our 2nd amendment right including Amicus Briefs in support of second amendment rights in lawsuits in California, Maryland, and Colorado.

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[I’ve heard details via private channels which are even more reassuring.—Joe]

Installing the mag release button before replacing the trigger/trigger-bow. 

And ALL 1911 gunsmiths have done that.  More than once.  Guaranteed.  They often don't care to admit it... 

 The US Supreme Court has once again punted on the Pennsylvania election case, claiming that now that the election is over, the question is MOOT.  

Here’s the thing about this particular case in Pennsylvania. The legislature had voted and passed legislation that mandated ALL ballots, including absentee ballots, be received by 8pm on election night. Any ballots received after that deadline wouldn’t be counted. This was a well-known rule throughout Pennsylvania. 

 But then, the State Supreme Court got involved after Democrats sued. Suddenly, in the midst of the election, after ballots had already been sent out, the court moved the deadline to three days AFTER the election. Their reasons? Covid and the U.S. mail. Stupid reasons if you ask me. But that is what Pennsylvania’s court did. They arbitrarily overruled the legislation because reasons. What’s even worse about their ruling is it also opened the door to allowing ballots to be counted, even if no signature nor a valid postmark. But nothing to see here,...

All around us, it seems that political careers of major movers and shakers are cratering. Boom! Flatter than a pancake.

They are in both old parties – with various political philosophies.

But I think we can learn a lot from their trials and tribulations. Even if we don’t gloat over their falls.

Most recently, we welcome Senator Ted Cruz to the stage. Or maybe we are just hoisting him up like a piñata. He did it to himself. Fun as it might be to escape a nasty winter storm and power outage by going to a nice warm tropical resort – even if was previously scheduled? Stupid, stupid, stupid. For a politician, a public figure, and someone with the enemies Mr. Cruz has. (Doesn’t mean his political enemies and the twitter-goons aren’t over-reacting. But what do we expect?)

Then we have those two “anchor” State governors, darlings of the “left” and social justice warriors everywhere.

Oh, but that is so yesterday! Now governor-emperors Cuomo and Newsom are suddenly targets for their failures in handling the Lockdown. After months and months of...

Gun sales booming among women, Black Americans [More]

Yeah?

How do they vote?

If being into guns was all it took, we'd have no better pal than Lon Horiuchi.

As the saying goes, it's not about guns, it's about freedom.

[Via Jim S]

Mercer County, MO declares gun laws null, authorizes Sheriff to arrest federal agents [More]

Now that's what I call rights enforcement!

Has everybody here done your due diligence?

 “Untraceable ghost guns are now the emerging guns of choice across the nation,” Feuer said. “Nobody who could buy a serialized gun and pass a background check would ever need a ghost gun. Yet we allege Polymer80 has made it easy for anyone, including felons, to buy and build weapons that pose a major public safety threat.” [More]

"Weapons of choice," eh?

It's not a "Bill of Needs."

The major threat to public safety is overwhelmingly Democrat constituents who have proven they can't be trusted without a custodian.

Der!

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  Not only must Americans accept that Trump is an insurrectionist, but they must also believe gun owners are insurrectionists, too. [More]

Yep. Trump is an avatar.

Everything they want to do to him they want to do to you.

But first, your guns...

 Biden Approval at 57%-36%; By 55%-39% Margin, Virginians Approve of Gov. Northam’s COVID Response [More]

No doubt. 

Not that it has anything to do with that "single issue"...

And Jorge helped!

[Via Mack H]

In the years after World War One, the British military wanted a new machine gun, and they wanted it to replace both the Lewis and the Vickers. Through the 1920s the British would tinker with most of the light machine guns that became available, but it was not until the early 1930s that a serious formal trial was conducted. The initial trials found three particularly encouraging guns; the ZB-26, Madsen, and Vickers-Berthier. Over a series of followup testing, the Madsen and Vickers-Berthier were both eliminated, leaving the Czechoslovakian ZB as the final choice.

The British were extremely enthusiastic about the qualities of the ZB, and it is understandable why. The final .303 British version, the Bren, is widely regarded as the best magazine-fed light machine gun ever made. In its final preproduction trial, one of the prototype guns endured a 150,000-round trial without any...

Rapid Defense Package – That’s the Springfield Armory Hellcat‘s name in its latest edition. Paired with the brand new HEX Micro Red Dot, a Gen 2 trigger, a threaded barrel with a self-indexing compensator to tame the muzzle rise, the package looks quite interesting. There is also a version with an ambidextrous manual safety for […]

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On February 24, 1970 an avalanche took the lives of 29 Swiss Army officers in Reckingen, Switzerland. — To those who have been sending anxious e-mails about the status of their orders for SurvivalBlog Archive USB Sticks, here is an update: The second batch of orders starting mailing Monday, following a brief delay while our fulfillment team was awaiting a new supply of padded mailers.  All orders placed one or before February 20th should be mailed within the next 14 days.  Please note that we had advertised: “Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery.” Thanks for your patience. – …

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Editor’s Introductory Note:  Because of the length of this detailed article, it will be serialized into five parts. — I’ll begin with a note of warning for those who would delve into, or recommend sophisticated radio equipment.  The learning curve can be steep, and it requires a significant investment of time to become competent. I recommend using the “Keep, Simple, Stupid” (K.I.S.S.) principle. The apocryphal originator of the K.I.S.S. principle was no simpleton. He was the aircraft design genius Kelly Johnson, and we should heed the advice. It is likely that simple-to-use equipment is the best choice for most. Here …

The post The K.I.S.S. Principle and Transceivers – Part 1, by Tunnel Rabbit appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

“Few people realize the immensity of vacancy.” – H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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New to 3d printed gun YouTube.  STRONG right out of the gate:

More trials and tribulations with the 3d printed VZ 61:

The channel is Print Shoot Repeat.  The production quality is high, editing is on point, and the music is great.  Such a good brand name too.  Printing VZ 61 as one of his first prints is such a flex.  I watched the parts kit unboxing video too.  I bet the parts industry is lucrative as hell right now, hopefully there is enough supply ...

We the people keep badgering Brandon to finish the AK-50.. so he gives us updates.  The circle of life:

Really cool to hear about the changes.  “Building in public” has become popular over the past few years with software, but Brandon is still the only guy (that I know of) working on such an ambitious project in the gun community whose talking about the steps a long the way.  I wish more people would take his lead.  If you know of any others let me know so I can take a look.

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Featured blogger Rogue Preparedness walks you through how to make a DIY oil lamp. ~ The Editors

Making your own oil lamp is extremely easy. One of the benefits of making your own oil lamp is that there are many different kinds of oils and fats to choose from.

• Olive oil
• Castor oil
• Vegetable oil
• Fish oil
• Nut and seed oil
• Tallow
• Butter

You can use practically any type fo cooking oil and most fats.

 Hiroshima was about 30 km north of the base I was stationed at. I took the train a couple of times, but riding up the coast on a bicycle gave you mobility once you got there. I had saddlebags and a rack so the camera gear went with me.

Rocky and I would explore the city, wander the ginza (the shopping district), and sometimes stay late in the bar district before cycling home. Peace Park was one of our regular stops and I kept trying to take the definitive photo. 

I finally took this one night.

I remember a l...

I wasn’t expecting any particular controversy over yesterday’s post. I just noticed something on a package I thought worthy of mention, and then I mentioned it. But apparently I broke some peoples’ rules – I actually got an email from a long-time and valued reader who announced an intent to flounce off and darken my door no more. Probably there were others, I don’t know.

I wasn’t expecting that. It didn’t just surprise me, it depressed me. Happily, though, I happened to drop in on the Adaptive Curmudgeon, a little place on TUAK’s blogroll that I admit I don’t visit every day – and to my delight I found that he had resumed telling the tale of The Lesbian Activist Squirrels.

The Lesbian Squirrels is a serialized story, long since more than novel-length, which proceeds in fits and starts whenever the Curmudgeon’s muse shakes off her hangover enough to kick him in the pants and get him writing. It’s been going on for years and like most serialized stories the plot kind of wanders into the weeds t...

 There are reports that Elon Musk has moved to Texas.  When seeking conformation, Musk responded with a reply that many should use when talking to the media.

Oh, snap.

Today, February 23rd, 2021 is an exciting excuse to go over one of the most popular and even disputed cartridges in North America. The .223 Remington cartridge designed all the way back in 1957. This lovable 22 caliber cartridge is a regular mainstay whether it is used for varmint hunting like coyotes to prairie dogs […]

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The FN F2000 is the standard issue rifle for the Slovenian Armed Forces. In case you think you see it rarely it’s because FN Herstal has stopped the production. It was probably released a few hundred years too early, don’t you think? Soldiers from Slovenia take aim on a range at Camp Adazi, Latvia. Slovenia […]

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Welcome everyone to the 82nd edition of ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’, one of our many series here on TFB. If you’re new to the series, this is where we look at the most obscure firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is this Gat a sweet deal or only have […]

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to give you all the data. See what you can find missing amongst all the ' an incident in July in which a pickup truck pulling a horse trailer drove through Black Lives Matter protesters on Interstate 244 in Tulsa' and 'a 29-year-old man was dragged to his death beneath a tractor-trailer that drove into a sign-carrying group on a road' stuff.

That's right, no mention of 'protesters' trying to break widows to get to the driver and passengers. Often armed 'protesters'. Which you would think is rather important to the story. Because that part they don't want to you to hear about.

Political operatives with bylines.  Nothing more.

I keep being told (by the ones who don’t just dismiss the obviously stolen 2020 election out of hand) that all the ills we suffered during the last election are going to be fixed before the next one, so Republicans have a good chance of taking back congressional majorities after the elections in 2022.

Sure they will

The “Establishment” Republicans, who are basically nothing more than the flip side of the same coin as the big government Democrats, were so desperate to get Trump out of office that they were willing to allow the voting process itself to be compromised. Now that the Genie’s out of the bottle, they’re not getting it back in. The precedent has been set. We’ve basically demonstrated to the democrats that they can change the rules whenever they want and steal an election with no consequences. They can do it brazenly and even on video and nothing will be done to correct it, not by the legislatures and ...

 However, Republicans will likely be united, or close to it, in opposing Murthy’s confirmation because of what he did as surgeon general. Most notably, Murthy advocated treating gun violence as a public health problem. That may well be reason enough to oppose him if, like me, you believe this amounts to straying well outside of the Surgeon General’s lane. [More]

What a disaster this foreign-born petty tyrant will be.

And be he will with Kamala casting the tie-breaking vote. That is, assuming some Republiquislings don't decide to "help" in the spirit of bipartisanship.

[Via Michael G]

Florida Ag Commissioner Nikki Fried won’t lower flags to honor Rush Limbaugh, defying Gov. DeSantis [More]

As has been observed, the same people glad that he's dead want you dead.

See?

[Via Mack H]

Huckabee: GOP has 'more of us than they do of them' [More]

New driver’s license photo shows California woman in face mask ... A DMV official blamed the goof on an “oversight”... [More]

Sounds better than "utter incompetence but you just can't fire these people," doesn't it?

Maybe it's a test run for a Democrat Voter ID bill...

[Via Mack H]

If I could be any superhero I would be Aluminum Man so I could foil crime. 

It’s Monday, and on Monday morning I go into town with D&L for water and groceries. And as it happened, I had a busy time scheduled…

...

Also, I really need a better chimney cap.

I just had my first indoor bird of the year, and it narrowly avoided being burned to death since it apparently escaped the woodstove between my opening the stove door and going to the kitchen counter for my blowtorch*.

I didn’t actually see the bird escape the stove, since the room was darker than the bird. But having started the fire and gotten my coffee water going I returned to the bedroom to find a half-dead but extremely agitated sparrow on the bed.

I gave it some time to settle down on a window, then easily gathered up the poor little thing and released it outdoors. They always seem to get a burst of new energy when you do that, and don’t hang around to chat.

—
*yes of course I keep a propane torch on the kitchen counter, don’t you?

…and I left Michigan like 23 years ago.

So overnight the sky cleared and it got good and cold, like mid-teens, which meant that the mud froze and I could go for a nice walkie.

For the first time in almost a week, that is. And it was a pretty truncated walkie, because I about froze my fingers and toes off even through good gloves and boots.

And along the way I kept running into broken branches blocking the pat...

I think this is exactly right and helps to explain a variety of important class antagonisms. https://t.co/tt5GTzCMBu

— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) February 17, 2021

 I'm on the list.  Both Belle and I qualify, and I went to our local apothecary and signed up.  They'll call me in a couple of weeks.  However, the Great Southern Ice Storm made last week a No-Go, so I'll be that the timeline was pushed back a week.

I'm not scared of the vaccine.  The Army poked a lot of stuff in my arm that didn't make much sense.  One time they gave me a shot for Black Plague.

"Where are you sending me that I need a Black Plague shot?"

"Nowhere, but it's not in your records, so you get one."

However, ny buddy Termite sent me this interesting graphic that sums up the feeling of a bunch of people.

I'm sure this will be an i...

Maybe I am just being sensitive, but it seems that in the past few months, rhetoric has ramped up on both sides of the Great Divide in American politics. Actually, ALL sides of the multiple divides of political thought and actions here in the Fifty States.

As we go through a nastier than usual winter in much of the continent, is all of this just lots of screaming that will erupt into action and movement – even more confrontations (including violence) – when Spring comes?

Indeed, are all of the Biden regime’s claims of wanting to build unity just leading to more division? Are the claimed threats that Trump, now powerless, was shattering the American nation – and still is – true?

At the same time, we are seeing more and more restrictions – and threatened restrictions – on liberty. To listen to many of us, freedom is vanishing as rapidly as snow in a chinook. So people ramp up even more. Grumbling grows.

Does that mean that we are facing civil war, come Spring of 2021? Does that mean the only chance we have of defeating the enemies of liberty within the Fifty States is violence?

 Missouri Senate approves bill to increase penalties against protesters and creates a bill of rights for officers [More]

Good grief.

And the "bill was perfected by the Senate"? I guess it depends upon what the meaning of the word "perfected" is.

[Via bondmen]

 The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot [More]

The better to smear you with, my dear.

[Via bondmen]

It's all in the upbringing. [More]

I'm reminded of a family farm stand in California I used to stop at years ago on my way to and from a camping site. We'd buy berries and the like, and when they had no one in attendance because they had to do something else, they'd put up a sign asking people to leave the right amount in an accessible cash box. 

No one I know would have dreamed about doing the wrong thing. And we're the bad guys.

...

Racial integration lives at a Southern gun show [More]

Either they just don't make white supremacists like they used to or somebody's been lying to everybody.

[Via bondmen]

 Jen Psaki responds to small business fears: Biden 'nominated a woman' to lead SBA [More]

Just to be clear, if Rachel Levine ddn't have another gig she'd qualify?

UPDATE - Speaking of which:

Levine has advocated for sex changes for pre-pubertal people, otherwise known as “children.”

[Via Michael G]

 Expect to get COVID-19 shots for years to come, Johnson & Johnson CEO says [More]

A song from my misbegotten youth comes to mind...

This is fine...

[Via Alan D]

 Merrick Garland Vows to Prioritize Prosecuting Capitol Rioters and Their 'Abettors' [More]

So that's who bought it!

UPDATE:

Merrick Garland: Antifa's and BLM's Attacks on Federal Courthouses Weren't Domestic Terrorism, Because It Was Nighttime

[Via Michael G]

But a kind of censorship we didn't expect took place this week when independent fact-checkers decided to place warning labels on the actual Second Amendment itself, hiding it behind a fact-checking statement saying the included content is false. [More]

 Researchers propose ‘ethically correct AI’ for smart guns that locks out mass shooters [More]

Skynet approves.

[Via JPFO]

Democrats usher in election reforms, from anti-discrimination protections to earlier ballot counting [More]

Remember, with "progressives," every day is Opposite Day!

And Jorge helped!

[Via Mack H]

Today the Senate Judiciary Committee took 4 hours of testimony on SB 554, a bill designed to turn 300,000 law abiding Oregonians into felons so that Ginny Burdick can leave the Senate happy. [More]

There's a Kennedy quote in here somewhere...

 Comparatively speaking, I wonder what this does to the numbers and if it counts if you can't "justify" a wealth transfer... [More]

 Entire California School Board Resigns After Mocking Parents For Wanting Schools Open [More]

I wonder what the percentage of voters is who actually check affiliations of school board candidates and other "nonpartisan" offices, as opposed to they remember the name from a sign or slate mailer, or it "sounds better."

[Via Henry Bowman]

 The New Hampshire House of Representatives will meet in session tomorrow, and they have several key bills to vote on regarding your second amendment rights! [More]

I'm pretty sure the slogan isn't "Live free or leave an anonymous 'Molon Labe!' comment."

Wait! The former lead reporter at NRA TV interviews Wayne LaPierre and breaks the story that There’s Nothing To See Here? WLP continues to claim credit for the big court wins in cases that WERE NOT NRA cases. I challenged him on that years ago. https://t.co/4Ie9e3sAKZ

— Tom Gresham (@Guntalk) February 23, 2021

 Dem Rep. Khanna admits Democrats 'don't want' small businesses that pay less than $15 minimum wage [More]

Welfare recipients = constituents!

Disarmed constituents.

Khanna, eh? Anybody else notice a trend among children of immigrants that didn't use to be so pronounced? 

[Via Mack H]

 'Give It a Try!' Seattle-Backed Homeless Shelter Provides Pipes to Smoke Heroin and Advice on 'Booty Bumping' [More]

Yeah, about that...

[Via Michael G]

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A lot of you will be familiar with the TommyBuilt Tactical T36 which is basically a replica conversion H&K G36. The T36 is an expensive but popular choice of firearm for those who want to enjoy some of that sweet German engineering without having to convert an SL8 on their own or go through the trouble […]

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Performance Duty Pistol – The new flagship handgun from Walther Arms is intended for concealed carry or duty service and comes in either compact or full size with different slide lengths. The PDP is red dot ready, features a brand-new trigger and has deep serrations in the slide as well as a duty texture for a […]

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We propose to build directly upon our longstanding, prior r&d in AI/machine ethics in order to attempt to make real the bluesky idea of AI that can thwart mass shootings, by bringing to bear its ethical reasoning. The r&d in question is overtly and avowedly logicist in form, and since we are hardly the only ones who have established a firm foundation in the attempt to imbue AI’s with their own ethical sensibility, the pursuit of our proposal by those in different methodological camps should, we believe, be considered as well. We seek herein to make our vision at least somewhat concrete by anchoring our exposition to two simulations, one in which the AI saves the lives of innocents by locking out a malevolent human’s gun, and a second in which this malevolent agent is allowed by the AI to be neutralized by law enforcement. Along the way, some objections are anticipated, and rebutted.

Selmer Bringsjord
Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu
Michael Giancola
February 5, 2021
AI Can Stop Mass Shootings, and More
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Peter posts about how Blue States are getting increasingly uncomfortable for folks of conservative mindset and recommends getting the heck out of Dodge:

As I've said before, if you find yourself trapped in such a "blue state", or in a blue enclave within a "red state", it's long gone time you started looking for a way out of there. You may lose money by moving, but you'll at least retain at least some degree of the freedom for which our founding fathers fought . . . not to mention your self-respect. Freedom begins locally, with citizens and their local government controlling their own affairs. From there, we can move upward and outward to take back levels of government that have been infiltrated by the progressive enemies of freedom - but it all starts locally.

 The Queen Of The World and I did exactly that last year.  Even though we lived in what I used to call "The United States of America portion of Maryland" it was still Maryland.  We planned our exit for about a year and yes, we had to pay for the move ourselves.  ...

 This 2/21/21 Reuters article could have been headlined "Transgender OathKeeper Turns Out to be Mole."

Briefly, OathKeepers were a component of the Capitol mob.  ("The Capitol Mob" sounds like a Sunday morning politics talk show, doesn't?)  She/he/? is pleading for home confinement bail because she/he/? is worried about rough treatment in jail.  She claims to have met with the Secret Service before the riot. The Secret Service gave one of those "We will not confirm it, but we will not quite deny it, in case she has proof we met" answers:

A Secret Service representative said it worked with government partners for security on Jan. 6, but added “any assertion that the Secret Service employed private citizens to perform those functions is false.”

Group trap: A friend who was an antiwar activist in the 1960s told me, "You could always tell who the FBI agent was; he was ...

on blogging.  Combination of family in the hospital, no water, no plumber available for another couple of days(this storm was bloody awful), and generally worn out.  So today is probably just going to be some 'toon clearing

That horrible and terrible and tragic.  What did Biden do?  He rejected the Governor’s emergency declaration and only approved a state of emergency in 77 counties.

If Biden’s lack of response during the storm and pathetic response in the wake of it isn’t disappointing enough, perhaps you should know how ...

 There are some comments under my latest AmmoLand piece I believe merit further awareness because, as one reader put it, "This is a topic that needs more coverage and wide dissemination." 

I cannot urge you strongly enough to go to SanctuaryCounties.com and first of all familiarize yourself with the site, then drill down to your AO, and tell your friends.

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The FG-42 was specifically made with a scope attachment on every rifle, and intended to serve as a marksman’s or sniper’s rifle. But how much of that actually happened during World War Two? And was the FG-42 actually suited to a sniper role?

Many of you are probably familiar with the X Products Can Cannon, an AR-15 upper receiver assembly that allows launching muzzle-loaded beverage cans using blank cartridges. At SHOT Show 2020, the company introduced the FORE golf ball launching adapter for the Can Cannon. The latest addition to this product line is the X1 Stand Alone […]

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Aero Precision has just announced the launch date of their newest pistol caliber carbine, the EPC-9. Standing for Enhanced Pistol Caliber, the EPC-9 should be made available beginning March 3rd, 2021. Below, Aero Precision posted a full FAQ about the upcoming EPC-9 which should address some of the most common questions people will have about […]

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Over the past several years, Raniero Testa, an Italian athlete sponsored by Winchester, has set multiple world records of shooting airborne clay targets. A little over a year ago, he set a record of breaking 14 clays pigeons in mid-air which earned him a nickname/stage name RT14. Well, apparently, his new stage name is now RT17 as […]

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 Nice!  You don't see many of these around anymore.  The opening of Superman?

Our Field Intelligence Team, quickly acted on intel they received and were able to removed this illegal Firearm off the street. #Onelessgun pic.twitter.com/fwaeV9by2w

— NYPD 100th Precinct (@NYPD100Pct) February 18, 2021

The Gutta Percha looks to be in fine shape.

Now I've heard of five-screw S&W and started coun...

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