Dec 012021
 

The most recent APR rewards included a CAD diagram I created of the “Disney Bomb.” This little known weapon was created by the British in WWII, but dropped by USAAF B-17’s in the last months of the war in Europe. The reason for the unusual name: in 1942 Disney produced an animated propaganda film on the history and potential or military air power. This film included sequences of the war to come, depicting some kinda-sorta sci-fi thinking. Included here is a bomb with a rocket motor, used to penetrate the reinforced concrete roof of a submarine pen. This gave some British engineers ideas… and they made it reality. The Disney bomb was imperfect, but damned if it didn’t work. Next time someone argues that sci-fi doesn’t actually directly inspire engineers to create the future, remember the Disney bomb.

The YouTube version of “Victory” linked below is pretty awful in reproduction quality, but it’s the best I’ve seen (it was released on DVD some years ago).

 Posted by at 12:19 pm
Nov 212021
 

Some series get cancelled on a cliffhanger. Such is the case here, where a road rage incident has a guy with a (very crappy, almost certainly fake) sword try to intimidate another guy… who seems wholly unimpressed and pulls a rifle from his trunk.

Road rage hierarchy – The sword is more mighty than the fist, but then there’s the AK15… from PublicFreakout

I get a serious Antifa vibe from the “swordsman.”

 Posted by at 1:40 am
Nov 172021
 

So a know-nothing journalist set out to research and write a hit piece on the concept of “ghost guns” by taking an 80% kit and finishing it to a functional firearm. The idea seemed to be to show just how easy it is for criminal types to get a gun that the law says they shouldn’t have. Two problems, though: first, the job turned out to be far harder than the journalist had expected. Second problem: the journalist set out to obey all the law in his quest to make a “ghost gun,” but in the process he seems to have unintentionally broken a truckload of laws. Thing is, these are dumb California laws, the sort of laws that clearly exist solely to trap regular folks. The kind of laws that exist solely to dissuade people from exercising their basic rights. But will *this* guy get charged? After all, he has the right politics.

How easy is it to build a ghost gun? We asked our reporter to find out

A video was put together to explain what laws the journalist broke. Takes more than twenty minutes to go through it. Strictly speaking this guy is far more of a lawbreaker that Rittenhouse ever dreamed of being.

 Posted by at 10:41 pm
Nov 152021
 

How is it that people can be *this* friggen’ stupid? It’s like he’s trying to throw his own case. And that may be the case… the prosecution of Rittenhouse has been so inept that a mistrial might be the only chance these yahoos have to assure that their show trial gets the result they want.

Rittenhouse prosecutor points AR-15 at jurors… With finger on trigger…

As many have pointed out, by pointing a firearm at people, Binger should have been mobbed by the people int he courtroom. he lost the right to defend himself the moment he drew down on the jury.

 Posted by at 10:00 pm
Nov 132021
 

America’s gun infatuation is a threat. The Supreme Court could make it worse.

Behold!

I was one of 30 former national security officials to sign on to an amicus brief arguing that unrestricted access to concealable firearms poses a great threat to public safety. If states like New York are unable to restrict who may carry a concealed weapon, we will be at greater risk of gun violence, threats from foreign and domestic terrorism and political extremism.

Because current laws against concealed carry are stopping terrorists? Really? Someone who wants to carry out a political assassination will be dissuaded because he can’t get a concealed carry license, or because a place where he wants to shoot somebody has a sign on the door saying “no guns?”

The author is probably not actually so stupid as to believe what she’s saying. But she probably believes that a lot of the American public *are* that dumb. If you are on the political left or on the side of gun control… just bear in mind that people like this think you are a ᚠᚢᚳkᛁᚾᚷ moron, willing and able to believe the most patently stupid arguments imaginable. People like this use not only fearmongering, but fearmongering based on falsehoods and an utter lack of logic. They should be spurned and mocked.

 Posted by at 10:38 pm
Oct 232021
 

“Boop on the snoot” is not the phrase I would have immediately dreamed up to describe “getting shot in the face with 12 gauge 00 buckshot,” but, hey, it’s catchy. Like the guy’s face. See, it caught buckshot.

What I don’t get are all the civilians milling about when the cops pour in, shouting “everybody get down.” And they just stand there like pillocks.

 

 Posted by at 1:51 pm