Some are more equal than others

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Jan 112019
 

Why Ald. Ed Burke May Have Been Allowed To Have 23 Guns In Government Building

Y’all will doubtless be shocked to hear that a Chicago politician is corrupt.

He’s been a staunch supporter of gun control measures for decades, but in a surprising twist, federal prosecutors revealed Thursday that nearly two dozen firearms were discovered in Ald. Ed Burke’s offices during their raids in November.

It’s still not known if the guns that were found in November were discovered at Burke’s ward office or at City Hall, but it’s hard to miss the irony of a staunch gun control advocate having to turn over 23 guns as a condition of his bond.

Things could be sped up by the simple expedient of simply arresting anyone suspected of being a Chicago politician.

 Posted by at 7:05 pm

And so it begins… again

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Jan 112019
 

Diane Feinstein Proposes New Gun Ban

The bill bans the sale, manufacture, transfer and importation of 205 military-style assault weapons by name, but it does say existing owners may keep existing weapons.

Any assault weapon that accepts a detachable ammunition magazine, has one or more military characteristics (including a pistol grip, a forward grip, a barrel shroud, a threaded barrel or a folding or telescoping stock) will be banned. Owners may keep existing weapons.

Magazines and “ammunition feeding devices” that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, which allow shooters to quickly fire many rounds without needing to reload will be banned.

Unlikely to pass the Senate or White House, but eternal vigilance against this sort of evil should nevertheless be forever maintained.

Full text and list of everything Feinstein wants to ban (for now) follows…

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 Posted by at 1:54 am

“Compromise” = “Do what I want”

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Jan 032019
 

Where the Debunkers take on what is surely one of the most intellectually bereft civilian enfeeblement propaganda videos that the far left has ever excreted.

I looked up the original anti-rights video that they are debunking. The comments section – which surprising hasn’t been closed – appears to be almost all negative. The video right now has a total of 72 likes… and six THOUSAND dislikes. More importantly, it’s been up since March and has only been viewed 28,000 times; the Debunkers video went up today and currently has 13,000 views.

As with many areas of life, the numbers certainly indicate that the people behind the original video are the fringe extremists, out of touch with the public at large. But that particular fringe is *very* good at screaming and yelling and making the media think that the issues they’re throwing tantrums over are real issues.

 

 Posted by at 6:49 pm

Loud cars merit an armed police response. Who knew?

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Dec 172018
 

While there have been times when I’d’ve loved to have had the police show up because some idjit had an excessively and needlessly loud vehicle – such as the Honda in this video – it would be best if the police actually knew *why* they were showing up toting fully automatic assault weapons with barrel shrouds, 30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second, 30 magazine clip within half a second and shoulder things that go up.

 

Lest ya thing I’m drunk posting… here’s what I’m yammering about.

 Posted by at 1:36 pm

“Nobody wants to take your guns”

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Dec 152018
 

Remember that line from *every* time gun control has been raised? Heh.

NJ State Police Refuse to Rule Out House-to-House Enforcement of High Capacity Magazine Ban

New Jersey has made standard capacity magazines illegal to own, and may be considering sending cops to the homes of gun owners to take their Constitutionally protected stuff.

 Posted by at 1:19 am

Anti-sub Loach

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Dec 142018
 

A Hughes Helicopter magazine ad from 1967 showing the OH-6A in Navy service as a sub-hunter. I do not believe that this was a role that the small chopper was ever used for.However, the Hughes OH-6 proved to be a phenomenally successful design; more than 50 years after this ad, it is still being manufactured in updated form as the MD Helicopters MD500E.

 Posted by at 1:43 pm

Didn’t I see this on Babylon 5?

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Dec 122018
 

I’m split right down the middle between “hey, that seems kinda cool” and “well that seems to be an item of limited practical value.”

Well, perhaps not *right*down the middle. Given that it suffers more damage than a tomater does, it would not seem to be a device capable of being used in practical combat. *Perhaps* if you were mugged you might be able to whip this out and spook the bejeebers out of your assailant, but a shot of bear spray or buckshot would do that somewhat more effectively.

 Posted by at 8:57 pm

Neutral Particle Beam weapon mockup

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Nov 212018
 

A while back a 1987 press image was posted on ebay showing a McDonnell-Douglas full scale mockup of a Neutral Particle Beam weapon system. This would have been an experimental system, not an operational weapon; details on full-scale NPB weapons are *very* hard to come by, but the smallest NPB weapon system that I’ve seen anything remotely resembling hard data on would have required a non-trivial number of Shuttle-derived heavy lift launch vehicles to put into orbit a piece at a time. Some references – extremely vague ones – have even made mention of dimensions for the full-scale weapons being measured in kilometers.

The purpose of this system would likely have been to simply show that a neutral particle beam could be reliably generated and directed at an orbiting target some decent distance away. While it would likely be very unhealthy to be int he way of such a beam, it’s weapons potential would doubtless have been low… thus the need for vastly scaled-up operational versions.

 Posted by at 3:23 am

20-gauge Defiance

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Nov 172018
 

This looks like an interesting piece:

An all-metal (steel and cast aluminum) California Arms Co. “Defiance” 20 gauge side-by-side shotgun pistol from the 1920’s. Only 300 or so were made, and of course the NFA put an end to low cost short barreled shotguns in the 1930’s. But the design looks not only practical but simple, the sort of thing that could probably be readily modeled in CAD for either 3D metal printing or (more reasonably) CNC milling. Seems like the sort of thing that could have a set of easily swappable barrels of different length, down to just a few inches.

 

 

 

 Posted by at 11:02 am
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