Mar 132013
 

Every time I hear a politician or talking head yammer on about how “compromise” is an unalloyed good, I get a twitch in my left eye. Compromise is very often *not* a good thing. If I’m swimming in the ocean and a shark wants to eat me, what’s the compromise? That it just eats my leg? If I’m a Jew and the anti-Semite wants to kill me and my family, what’s the compromise… that they just take the female members?

No, sometimes one position is just wrong, and no compromise with them should be made. And very often, repeated compromise doesn’t end with each side with half, but with one side with nothing.

A good little tale via the LawDog Files:

Let’s say I have this cake. It is a very nice cake, with “GUN RIGHTS” written across the top in lovely floral icing. Along you come and say, “Give me that cake.”

I say, “No, it’s my cake.”

You say, “Let’s compromise. Give me half.” I respond by asking what I get out of this compromise, and you reply that I get to keep half of my cake.

Okay, we compromise. Let us call this compromise The National Firearms Act of 1934.

There I am with my half of the cake, and you walk back up and say, “Give me that cake.”

I say, “No, it’s my cake.”

You say, “Let’s compromise.” What do I get out of this compromise? Why, I get to keep half of what’s left of the cake I already own.

So, we have your compromise — let us call this one the Gun Control Act of 1968 — and I’m left holding what is now just a quarter of my cake.

And I’m sitting in the corner with my quarter piece of cake, and here you come again. You want my cake. Again.

This time you take several bites — we’ll call this compromise the Clinton Executive Orders — and I’m left with about a tenth of what has always been MY DAMN CAKE and you’ve got nine-tenths of it.

Then we compromised with the Lautenberg Act (nibble, nibble), the HUD/Smith and Wesson agreement (nibble, nibble), the Brady Law (NOM NOM NOM), the School Safety and Law Enforcement Improvement Act (sweet tap-dancing Freyja, my finger!)

I’m left holding crumbs of what was once a large and satisfying cake, and you’re standing there with most of MY CAKE, making anime eyes and whining about being “reasonable”, and wondering “why we won’t compromise”.

I’m done with being reasonable, and I’m done with compromise. Nothing about gun control in this country has ever been “reasonable” nor a genuine “compromise”.

 Posted by at 8:41 am
Mar 092013
 

Defense Distributed is selling  30-round AR-15 magazines for $50 a pop. Not especially newsworthy, except that these magazines are 3D-printed. I have no idea if they are any good or not; they look reasonably rugged, if somewhat lacking in detail. Also lacking springs, which you provide.

Why would someone buy one of these? Collectors value, perhaps… the very first commercially available 3D-printed firearm magazine.

And ya gotta love the name.

Cuomo Mag

 

 Posted by at 7:30 pm
Mar 072013
 

North Korea threatens nuclear strike, U.N. expands sanctions

Nork Foreign ministry released a statement saying they’re going to nuke the US as a pre-emptive strike. Yeah, good idea. Takes inane saber-rattling to a whole new level.

Of course, if the Norks nuked the US, or nuked South Korea, or just invaded South Korea… even with the current US administration, North Korea would get leveled. And perhaps – just perhaps – that’s the goal. Get the US to flatten North Korea, surrender, then the US has to rebuild the place. And a post-war reconstruction could hardly produce a country worse off than one that has been under Communism for nearly 70 years. Kim Jong Etc. was edumacated in the west, so he must know what a craphole his nation is; it’s just barely possible that he might actually want to make the place better. And losing a war against the US would do it. The current terrible infrastructure would get built into something modern; the economic and cultural cancer that is collectivism would be replaced with capitalism (even Obama could not prevent that); the “excess population” would be reduced. North Korea five years after losing to South Korea and the US would be an infinitely better place than North Korea today.

Sadly, it’s perhaps just as likely that they’re crazy enough to think they could win.

 Posted by at 10:22 am
Mar 062013
 

Anti-Second Amendment Legislator’s Criminal Record Exposed

One of the anti-Constitutionalist legislators in Colorado trying to ban standard magazines and conventional firearms turns out to have a criminal record. How good of an idea is it to allow criminals to write the laws, especially where it impacts the ability of the people to defend themselves against criminals?

 Posted by at 11:48 pm
Mar 052013
 

Triumph of form over function:

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It is simply two metal blades held apart by nylon spacers and hooked up to a stun gun. While definitely impressive looking, as a *sword* it would be a disaster. Two blades like that simply would not cut worth a damn.

An improvement – an expensive improvement – would be to sandwich a non-conductive ceramic core between conductive thin metal blades, forming a single-edged solid blade of composite construction with a sharp ceramic edge. The tip of the blade would remain pretty much non-functional for stabbing, since the metal “prongs” would probably have to not have ceramic between them, but it’d be useful for chopping.

 Posted by at 6:54 pm
Mar 032013
 

To my reading this section of the US Code would seem to permit lawsuits against, say, legislators who pass laws that infringe on Constitutionally protected rights. So why isn’t Diane Feinstein tied up in the courts 24/7?

Every person who under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, Suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.

This might perhaps be a legal remedy against the gun grabbers: sue the bejeesus out of them, individually, repeatedly, non-stop, until they either change their unConstitutional ways or are left destitute, unable to afford personal bodyguards or 16-ounce sodas.

 

EDIT: Whoops, looks like legislators are granted “absolute immunity.” Feh. But municipalities are not, nor are individual employees of the government. So, sue any city government, cop, sheriff or agent who tries to gungrab. A few lessons of *that* where ATF guys lose their homes to plaintiffs’ lawyers, or a few city halls get transferred to the NRA to be turned into firearms museums, might put the kibosh on unConstitutional gungrabs.

 Posted by at 4:04 pm
Mar 022013
 

Popular Standard Shotgun Could Be Banned Under Proposed Bill

This Colorado bill bans any magazine that can be converted to hold more than 8 shotgun shells. But the standard tube-fed shotgun can be easily modified with an extender to hold more than 8 shells.  Thus the standard pump shotgun would be illegal.

Not mentioned in the article… there are shotgun shells of shorter than standard length, such as the 1.5 inch long Aquila minishells. Where you might get 6 standard length shotgun shells in an unmodified tube magazine, you might get 12 of the minishells in the same tube. Thus a pump shotgun that was built to *not* be extendable may very well still be illegal under this bill.

Additionally: for virtually every pistol caliber, there is a “snake shot” load readily available. So where a fifteen-round pistol magazine might at first glance appear legal under this new law, the ability to load it with snake shot would mean it would be illegal.

Additionally: you can keep your pre-ban shotgun, so long as you maintain constant possession of it. This means that if it breaks, you cannot give it to a gunsmith to fix.

I am unwilling to assume that this sort of thing is due to the gun grabbers *not* having thought things through. It seems far more likely that this is what it is… a way to ban far, far more than they claim on the surface.

 Posted by at 2:15 pm
Feb 262013
 

Colorado, which used to be a bastion of freedom until it was invaded and taken over by Californians, is looking to pass a bill banning standard capacity magazines. Ironically, one of the prime suppliers of such magazines is Magpul, which is located – at least for now – in Colorado. Ever since the left started to gleefully dance on the corpses of children in hopes of dumping on the Second Amendment, standard capacity magazines have been impossible to find, as people have been buying them up. Magpul has ramped up production, but even so they have not been able to keep up with demand. The result of that may be that Coloradans might be banned from buying standard magazines before they even got a chance to buy them. So Magpul has come up with a good idea:

Verified Colorado residents will be able to purchase up to ten (10) standard capacity AR/M4 magazines directly from Magpul, and will be given immediate flat-rate $5 shipping, bypassing our current order queue.

If you’re not a Coloradan, your order may be delayed due to filling Colorado orders first. I don’t think too many people will be upset about that… everyone accepts that you take care of the people in most immediate need first.

 

 Posted by at 9:45 pm