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When guns are outlawed, outlaws will still be beastly with guns
What’s with Timothy Diggs Jr’s haircut? And eyebrows? Note the ever-popular, in mugshots anyway, neck tat.
Who doesn’t smile to see an Amish family plodding along in a buggy, behind their horse? It’s a great reminder that it takes all kinds to make a world, and the Amish are pretty much the definition of people who follow their faith and do no harm.
Well, one Timothy Diggs Jr. appears to have some beef with the Amish — enough that he did a drive-by of a horse. It took a while for East Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania, cops to put the case together, but when they pinned the horse murder on Diggs, they didn’t have to go far to find him — he was already locked up in Lancaster County Prison pending trial on felony charges.
Quick: what’s the over-under on the gun he shot the horse with having been legally acq
Remember…?
Flashbang and Speedbump, the Marathon bombers?
Well, Speedbump is still dead. Flashbang is due to be tried in September, ober the strenuous objections of his terrorist lawyers, who wanted him tried no sooner than September… 2015. Not to mention his loyal fan base at Rolling Stone, who don’t want him tried… ever. Because he looks so dreamy. Lord love a duck, it it really going to be ten years before this crumb gets the needle?
The SAFE act, Andrew Cuomo’s emergency legislation……that punished New York gun owners for the acts of criminals? It was going to ban the AR. But by putting a thalidomide-looking stock that resembles some of the monstrous things on the rear end of WWII Japanese machine guns, Cuomo’s restless subjects can have a sort-of AR that’s within the letter of this extremist law. Charles Cooke says, “Pass stupid law, get a stupid result.
Why do we have gun books? Labors of love, mostly.
We’re sitting a mere few steps from the Unconventional Warfare Reference Library, and the office itself is where many of the gun books live. The shelves are an expanding display of tomes in all stages of use: regular references, to be read next, to be read some day, being read now, being reread.
There are new books coming out from time to time, often labors of love by well-informed, detail-obsessed authors. These books don’t get into mainstream bookstores; by getting interested in the design or history of firearms, friends, we all have joined a minority group.
You might think the authors are richly remunerated for their efforts. You would probably be mistaken. The key fact is bolded in the email excerpt below, as reported in the Huffington Post:
Average book sales are shockingly small, and falling fast. Combine the explosion of books published with the declining total sales and you get shrinking sales of each new t
Breaking: win for California gun owners
The 9th Circuit, the most liberal Court of Appeals, has found that the may-issue-but-won’t-issue policies of some California counties are unconstitutional. There has to be some legal mechanism for citizens to carry guns in self-defense, and San Diego’s de facto prohibition isn’t lawful.
Dave Kopel at the Volokh Conspiracy (now, unfortunately, mired in the morass of mediocrity that is the Washington Post, but hey, he is reaching new eyes):
The Ninth Circuit, in a 2-1 opinion written by Judge O’Scannlain, ruled that Peruta was entitled to Summary Judgement, because the “good cause” provision violates the Second Amendment.
The Court ruled that a government may specify what mode of carrying to allow (open or concealed), but a government may not make it impossible for the vast majority of Californians to exercise their Sec
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have ashtrays
Jose E Reyes — one of two Satanic murderers. To Hell with him. Literally. Aside: there’s a criminology Ph.D. to be had by correlating neck tats and piercings with felony raps.
Jose E. Reyes started with weed, then he graduated to — we’re not sure what. But somewhere along the line it seemed like a good idea to sell his soul to the devil. We’re not sure what else he got for it, but he and another debbil-dealin’ kid (whose name is withheld because the sweet little murderer is only 16) got a capital murder charge. Police say they beat a 15-year-old girl, Coriann Cervantes, to death — after raping her. Motive for the crime? If the 16-year-old committed a murder, he could get the opportunity to flog his soul to Mephistopheles, too.
Who says evangelism can’t be disruptive?
Another senseless gun crime, except the “guns” were an ashtray and
Dealing with local results of Global Warming
Global Warming is probably upon you this season, if you live in the USA. For Californians it’s only more drought than usual, but everyone else is freezing his yarbles off. But our lords and betters say their computer models say this is “warming,” so who are you going to believe: Michael ‘Piltdown’ Mann, the “Jerry Sandusky of Climate Science,” or your lyin’ eyes?
So, as a public service to those of you who do not live in a state that hires out its hills to itinerant skiers, or that did not luck (?) into the Reserve SF unit that unlike every other Reserve unit did “summer camp” in the Arctic Circle in February, we present this pull from the NOAA website, which is otherwise full of dire warnings about global warming:
We can’t quibble with most of those words of advice, but we’d add a few. Most people who
Situational Awareness
As the original YouTube poster says, “oblivious”. He claims it’s his in-laws.
Supposedly this is in Pasadena (presumably, California, as a bear encounter in Pasadena, Texas usually ends with bear steaks). It’s a suspiciously urban area for a bear to turn up in, even the black bears that have become so accustomed to humans. The bear appears to be a juvenile (not a cub, not a breeding-age adult either).
People have different definitions of what “situational awareness” is. Well, here is a glaring example of what it is not.
Hat tip, Kevin at Exurban League.
(Yes, this is a bit small and nontechnical for an early morning post. Well, do you want to write our Requirements Definition Document to standard, and we’ll write blog posts? Didn’t think so. But we do have a bunch of stuff — some of it with moss on it — needing this or that to be released. Anyway, sorry ’bout that. -Ed.)
Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week: Guardian of Valor
If there’s one thing that gives us the angries around here, it’s phonies. Well, sometimes, we’re not angry because they’re so pathetic that they make us laugh. But sometimes they do real damage. A lot of people who make false claims of military service do it to get elected, like Philadelphia Councilman David Oh, a phony SF soldier. Some do it to get money, or prestige. Quite a number do it to impress the chicks.
Ladies, if some guy is all SF SEAL superhero on you, take a cue from Reagan: “Trust, but verify.”
There are some common threads in phony claims. If it sounds too good to be true… if it sounds like a movie plot… if the guy says his records are classified, or burnt up… if the guy is all about his personal heroism but never mentions teammates… if none of his war stories are about something funny that happened, but instead they’re all “blood artery spurt kill death”… if he talks about medals and drops names of celebrities, but can’t tell you who
Daley Nephew had gun, violence record
The murderer — a nephew of former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley — who recently received a remarkable plea-bargained 60-day wrist-tap for a 1994 murder, was no stranger to violent crime, or to sweetheart treatment, at the time. It’s not surprising that the corrupt senior levels of the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County States Attorney’s Office continue to cover up RJ Vanecko’s life of violent crime to this day.
In 1992, he pulled a shotgun — Mayor Daley’s gun, it turns out — at a party he and Daley’s son were throwing at a Daley property in Michigan. Because it was in Michigan, not Illinois, the Daleys were unable to completely broom the case. Patrick Daley had grown enraged that two filipino-Americans had crashed the party. Daley and his friends, including Vanecko, attacked the Filipinos and their friends screaming racial slurs, and swinging weapons.
Later Patrick Daley attended West Point but resigned before completing a year, reportedly
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have bomb vests
No word on whether his last words were, “Pay attention, I’m only going to do this once.”
A group of Sunni militants attending a suicide bombing training class at a camp north of Baghdad were killed on Monday when their commander unwittingly conducted a demonstration with a belt that was packed with explosives, army and police officials said.
The militants belonged to a group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, which is fighting the Shiite-dominated army of the Iraqi government, mostly in Anbar Province. But they are also linked to bomb attacks elsewhere and other fighting that has thrown Iraq deeper into sectarian violence.
Twenty-two ISIS members were killed, and 15 were wounded, in the explosion at the camp, which is in a farming area in the northeastern province of Samara, according to the police and army officials. Stores of other explosive devices and heavy weapons were also kept there, the officials said.
Eight militants were arrested when they tried to escape, the
If you read nothing else on PTSD…
A “PTSD counselor.” He turned out to be a phony, imagine that. Hey, Chris, he’s from Houston; is he out of prison yet?
…read Chris Hernandez’s post at BreachBangClear, PTSD and Fakers and Frauds and WTAF? Not just because he quotes WeaponsMan.com. The initial story he tells (of seeing a PTSD story on the tube, rolling his eyes like most of us combat vets do, and then being shocked when the subject of the story was a personal friend of his who he knew had seen a ton of The Elephant) is one he’d told us before, and many of you will sympathize.
Actually, we’d recommend one more read to you, and that’s the chapter on PTSD, its origins and its wide application to fakers, in S
‘Legendary’ 704 bolt guns to return
You might not have heard of the Ed Brown bolt actions — Brown is much better known for pistols — but they used to make a hell of a bolt-action rifle on what was an improved clone of a Remington action. Until 2006, this was the Model 702 and from 2006 to 2010, it was the Model 704. But in August of 2010, Ed Brown Products pulled the plug on its bolt rifles, perhaps to address the pistol backlog. Ed Brown never restarted production of the gun — but it’s coming back anyway.
The Model 704 has a Mauser-style controlled feed instead of the 700′s push feed. One difference between the two is in the design and action of the extractor. In a Mauser, or a 704, the cartridge from the magazine comes up under the extractor and the extractor holds it from the very beginning and controls its path into the breech. It is a very positive feed. In the 700, the cartridge is pushed out of the magazine and into the chamber, very much like the cartridge from an M16 or AK magazine. As in those gas guns, the extractor doesn’t snap over the
9mm, terminal ballistics, and the “Loud Rap” shooting
X-ray of victim Jordan Davis. Bullet entered at arrow, traversed chest & multiple organs, lodged in armpit. Perforation of aorta was fatal.
Miguel at Gun Free Zone is following our old friend Andrew Branca, author of The Law of Self Defense (read it if you’re even thinking about carrying) and is learning some interesting things about the 9mm round. We’ve been very remiss in posting some info we’ve got from some recent government tests on that, and will try to get to it anon.
Following Andrew Branca (@LawSelfDefense ) and his live tweeting of the Dunn Trial. Prosecution presenting ballistic and X-Ray evidence of the damage the bullets inflicted on Jordan Davis. The following is a quick look at the performance of the ammunition used a
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have hijabs
Neck “hangman” fracture — file photo, not this particular decedent. After all, making an image of a human or any living thing is a sharia violation. Heh.
A middle-aged Morrocan woman from a family that likes Canadian social welfare policies more than Canadian cultural freedom is the latest victim of gun violence and Moslem backwardness, but mostly Moslem backwardness. To put it another way, the Moslem hijab, a symbol of the slavery of women under the sharia theocratic system, has scored another victim, when this lady’s baggy covering wrapped around an axle (literally) and choked her out.
The Quebec coroner’s office is conducting an autopsy on Naima Rharouity, a 47-year-old mother of two who was killed after a piece of clothing she was wearing became caught in an escalator at a Montreal train station.
Rharouity was at Fabre metro Thursday morning when the accident happened. It appears that she was
Oddities and Endities, and “Whatever happened to…” #3 or so
Oddities…
You won’t see this one on “CSI Orlando”
If you can’t trust the cops… at least you can trust the crime labs, right? Er, maybe not:
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced that Joseph Graves was arrested Tuesday. It comes a day after the chemist resigned from his job at a Pensacola lab that tests drug evidence.
Investigators say Graves replaced painkillers he was testing as evidence with non-prescription pills. He is charge with then selling the painkillers.
The guy would just report that the mystery pills were narcotics, regardless… and then sell them for cash. As many as 2,600 cases may be compromised. If this guy was any worse, they’d make him medical examiner in Mississippi.
Poachers? They still got them?Yeah, they do:
Seven residents of Allagash and one Palermo man were charged Thursday with various poaching offenses from hunting with a suspende
Ballistic Buzzword Bingo
Here’s a new drinking game to be played with a friend and a few new gun introduction videos, or a couple issues of recent magazines. Every time you see a buzzword, drink, and mark the buzzword if it’s a first appearance.
If someone uses a buzzword wrong, drink twice.
First to get five in a row wins!
We don’t think it’s possible to get all five from a single advertisement. We’d hate to be wrong about that.
Frontlines of a failed society: Philadelphia
Here’s what happens when people live in an area full of predators: they experience predation, which is no fun if you survive, and less if you don’t. As anyone who’s studied crime in America in any depth realizes, real-world violent crimes are usually committed by marginal, sketchy criminals against equally marginal, sketchy victims; when money is a motive, the sums are pathetically small.
This penny-ante crime with big-ticket consequences has reached the point, in a city whose founders named it without intended irony, “The City of Brotherly Love,” where criminals routinely kill over a poor woman’s handbag and its pathetic contents: a few dollars. A pack of cigarettes.
“She gave it up and she still was killed,” said Sanchez, 40, an administrative assistant. “It’s 2:40 in the morning. She’s just coming out of the bar. At 2-something in the morning, they probably didn’t have that much cash on them.
“Where are our men? Why are they not protecting us?” Sanchez continued, her voice full of frustration. “Men are failing us. I feel as though we are not being protected.”
Honey, your men are not only not protecting you, they’re attacking you. But in the Philadelphia
When guns are outlawed, wait, the outlaws did what?
Here’s another “child” who’s a victim of “gun violence.” Naturally the TV stations ran this with graphics showing a scary big pistol or a tactical’d-out AR-15. Because The Gun Done It™ to the sort of credentialed-but-not-educated folks that work in TV news.
In actual fact, the weapon that discharged the fatal shot was a bolt-action rifle. It was getting das fingerpoken from two guys, including the victim’s Baby Daddy, Allen Ormond Jr., and his buddy Kevin Elkins, who both were — and we hope you’re sitting down for this revelation — who were banned for life from handling, owning and especially shooting firearms because they’re both felons.
Career criminals, in fact.
Funny, the gun ban does not seem to have affected these two losers’ ability to cause mayhem. Next, let’s try making crime against the law, see how that works… For The Children™.
Common-sense Idiot Control Measures
He calls it the “Official Registry of Idiots in the US.” Its URL is idiotsregistry.info. Now, if anybody actually ever tried to create any such thing, its sheer mass would cause the internet itself to collapse into its own gravitational field, creating the first digital black hole and returning us all to the dark ages of dialup-modem BBSes. After all, enumerating all the nation’s idiots is an impossible task, the thirteenth labor of Hercules.
But it’s not that kind of registry at all.
You see, “he” is Dennis Sobin, a pornographer, pedophile and convicted kiddie diddler who feels put out that he has to register as a sex offender. And not just him; it chafes his child-ready private pedo parts that all the pervs like him have to register.
So he’s established the Idiots’ Registry — for the people in the office, those bureaucrats who are so desperate for a low-e