In 2014, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was waving around an airsoft gun and got shot by a cop for his troubles. As a result, Rice’s family scored $6 *million* dollars in damages. Additionally, numerous protests broke out, helping spark the BLM movement.
So, will the same sort of thing happen here? In this case, 16-year-old Peyton Ham was waving around an airsoft gun and got shot by a cop for his troubles. One would imagine that the same basic setup should lead to the same basic outcome… a payday for the family, a series of protests, the rise of a race-based political movement. I wonder…
The teenager was white, as is the trooper who shot him, according to Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley.
Well, he’s probably made a good deal of money from all the donations. Now that the hard work of actually making a successful company is at hand… time to move on to something else, I guess.
It seems the super-geniuses behind “Good Pillow” announced their venture before securing the rights to the name. Whoopsie! The guy who actually filed the trademark on the name “Good Pillow” says he wants to actually produce pillows… with a pro-gun message. Seems to me the best way to accomplish that would be to go into business with MyPillow, simply have them make a separate line of pillows printed with images of AR-16 Scary Black Rifles With Shoulder Things That Go Up.
Oh, and an update on just how lucrative the Socialism and Race Hustling grifts can be:
For a Marxist, she’s a pretty savvy capitalist investor. Two of the properties she bought for $1.1 million are now worth $1.52 million. 400 grand ain’t chump change. If she was a good Marxist, she’d turn over her various compounds to the local poor people.
The current President babbled out some nonsensical prattle about some proposed executive actions to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms. included in this are his desire to ban pistol braces as well as “ghost guns,” the scare-term used to describe incomplete gun “kits” that people can buy legally without registration (because they are not actually guns at that point) and then finish into guns.. Right now these generally revolve around what are called “80% lowers:” generally a block of aluminum in the shape of a lower receiver (typically of an AR-15) that can be finished with some drilling and milling by a competent machinist. If he somehow succeeds in making 80% lowers illegal, people will just start selling 75% lowers, or 49% lowers, or even just rectangular billets of aluminum. Currently the receiver is the only part of a firearm that is regulated; you can buy all the barrels and trigger assemblies you like without having to file paperwork. Sniffer Joe might want to change that, however.
Turning a billet into a finished receiver is becoming easier and easier with modern CNC mills; witness the “Ghost Gunner.”
Ghost Gunner is a general purpose CNC mill that gives you the ability to finish a growing library of mil-spec 80 percent lowers to completion. With simple tools and point and click software, the machine automatically finds and aligns to your 80% lower to get to work. No prior CNC knowledge or experience is required to manufacture from design files. Legally manufacture unserialized rifles and pistols in the comfort and privacy of home.
The Ghost Gunner 3 pre-orders for $500 (deposit, as was pointed out in the comments. total price is about two grand). This is the approximate price of a modest AR-15 or a decent 1911… but it should allow you to make an indeterminate number of receivers. Right now it seems to need “80% lowers,” rather than just rectangular blocks of aluminum… but some future iteration of the Ghost Gunner no doubt will be able to achieve that. Hell, soon enough you’ll be able to melt down a bunch of aluminum cans, pour the molten aluminum into a sand or plaster mold, shove the crappy casting into the GG#X and it’ll bang out a serviceable receiver.
Of course, most people are not even aware of the option they have of making their own firearm. Most people only think of firearms procurement in terms of buying one from a gun store. So what has been the result of Temporary President Bidens mumblings about executive actions? Let’s got to the tape:
It’s beginning to look like Biden will be a better firearm salesman that Obama ever dreamed of being. At the same time that the far Left is openly talking about locking up millions of Americans in Federal prison, more and more Americans are lining up to be the targets of the Lefts pogroms.
The Trident I and Trident II were fundamentally different missiles, despite the name.
Somewhere around here I have a technical paper on turning the Trident II into a satellite launcher. Been meaning to work that into an issue of US Launch Vehicle Projects one of these years.
But probably not terribly practical… looks incredibly fragile and more than a bot wobbly. But it *does* look terribly sci-fi. Now if the little floating glowing dots could be made to hover in space like that but without an actual physical support – as is often shown in “holographic” displays in sci-fi movies – then we’re finally have an explanation as to how Starfleet personel can accurately aim their sight-less phasers: they have holographic sights that are only visible within a restricted field of view.
This new Congress wants to not only disarm the populace but the military as well… at least as far as strategic deterrence. I’m sure the Chinese are quaking in their boots.
If there is anyone in the FBI who’s actually interested in defending the US, I’d recommend they use the list of sponsors and supporters of this bill as the basis for an investigation into foreign influence in the US government:
The Investing in Cures Before Missiles Act, offered by Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif….
The proposed legislation has amassed some early support in the House and Senate. Co-sponsors include Sens. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; as well as Reps. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.; Steve Cohen, D-Tenn.; Jesus Garcia, D-Ill.; Raul M. Grijalva, D-Ariz.; Jared Huffman, D-Calif.; Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas; Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.; Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; James McGovern, D-Mass.; Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.; Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Mark Pocan, D-Wis.; and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
Note that there are some of the *dumbest* members of Congress listed there.
The case in question dates from an incident back in 2015. But the Biden/Harris CCP Caretaker Administration wanting the Supreme Court to uphold the idea of warrantless firearm confiscations (along with warrantless searches of homes) just because the government and its agents want to disarm a law-abiding citizen. This would be a blatant violation not only of the Second Amendment but the Fourth as well.
Why even continue with the pretense of a Constitution at that point?
An Aerojet illustration of an interceptor designed to take out targets such as incoming nuclear warheads by the simple expedient of ramming into them at several kilometers per second, the old “hitting a bullet with a bullet” cliche.
“But we can make it harder for those with hate in their hearts to buy weapons of war”
How can you make it harder? Weapons of war tend to cost TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS for American citizens, along with onerous and rights-stomping regulations. “Weapons of war” are almost never used criminally in the United States.
Go away, Barack. You’ve done enough damage to this country. Your legacy of economic and cultural disaster lives on in BidenHarris; let that be enough for you. Don’t add “helped start a civil war” to your ignominious list of disastrous achievements.
