Getting around gun laws with the 1776 Boomstick

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Apr 242021
 

It is legal for you to build your own firearm from scratch (assuming you live in a civilized region that recognizes your basic human rights). Where things get tricky is if you try to *sell* your home-made firearm. If you don’t have proper Federal licensing… you can get in a *lot* of trouble.

But there seems to be a loophole: government “buy back” events. They will buy any piece of junk gun for a relative pittance, no questions asked. They will then (probably) check the firearm to see if it was used in a crime, and if not, they will then (probably) destroy that firearm, no matter how rare, valuable or historically significant it is (unless, gasp, someone in the chain recognizes its value and absconds with it).

“Buy backs” are of course dubious for any of a number of reasons. The guns they get are typically either junk that couldn’t function to be used in a  crime, or grand-dad’s old war relic that hasn’t seen the light of day in years and isn’t likely to be used in a crime either. And of course there’s the existential issue with buy-backs: how do you buy back something you didn’t own in the first place?

Here’s the fun part: you can make a functional crappy zip gun or slam-fire shotgun for a few bucks in scrap and labor. And these buy-back morons will buy them for substantially more than they cost you to make. And it’s all legal, apparently. Gentlemen, behold – the 1776 Boomstick, the profit-making venture of the future:

Florida Man Sells Homemade ‘1776 Boom Sticks’ At Gun Buyback, City Runs Out Of Cash In 30 Minutes

The gentleman selling the “Boom Stick 1776” shotguns told me he called the City rep before the event, and asked if they would purchase a single-shot shotgun – because the flier said they were buying semi-automatic firearms. Allegedly, he was told they would pay $125 for single-shot shotguns. So he attended the event.

At the checkpoint, he did have to demonstrate that they were functional (they were), and he was sent to the payment line, guns in hand.

Maybe ten bucks worth of junk, twenty bucks worth of labor, for $375 in sales. SPECTACULAR.

Would it be illegal or unethical to petition your local city or county to hold a buyback, while you have prepared a stock of slamfire shotguns for the specific purpose of selling at ten times their cost? I dunno, maybe… but it would be *appropriate,* and got-dam hilarious if you pulled it off.

 

Side note: take a look on that cops face. It is the weary look of a man who knows that he’s getting played, and knows that there’s nothing he can do about it, and who knows that there are *far* better things for him to be doing with his time.

 Posted by at 7:52 pm

Apparently protestors can legally keep you from your own home

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Apr 182021
 

Guy tries to drive down his own street to his own home, but is blocked by racist/Marxist “protestors.” Cops then arrest *him.* If they can keep you from getting to your house, it’s a small step before they can simply *occupy* you house and steal all your stuff.

On one hand, I gotta wonder what these “protestors” think they’re going to accomplish by alienating regular folks just trying to live their lives in their own homes (and restaurants, shopping malls, wherever else the Antifa/Burn-Loot-Murder terrorists decide to show up). After all, it’s clear that they are not winning hearts and minds with these tactics. On the other hand, they are successfully demonstrating both to themselves and to potential new recruits that they have power: the power to intimidate the citizenry, and the power to get the local government – and often enough, as here, the cops – to do their bidding. This will only embolden the terrorists, the *actual* insurrectionists who pose a real threat to the continued existence of the country. That’s why these kind of laws are important.

 Posted by at 12:41 pm

Green New Deal: French style

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Apr 112021
 

French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights

 

If your flight within France could be covered by a train in 2.5 hours or less, the French government apparently just banned it (some wanted to ban flights that trains could cover in 4 hours). The purpose of this is to reduce carbon emissions. I suspect  one obvious result of this will be an increase in *private* flights… corporate jets, air taxis, that sort of thing. If this *really* messes with flights, then that will drive up both road traffic (increasing CO2) and increasing demand for trains, perhaps driving up construction of train lines (increasing CO2 as well as messing with public and private property along the routes).

From this news article it’s unclear if that 2.5 hours is what the route *actually* takes, or what the theoretical is. Those could differ wildly. And from the article it’s not clear how precisely the “routes” are defined, since airplanes and trains don’t launch out of the same stations. I could easily see a lot of legal wrangling over the details… City A and City B might both have train stations and airports, but the airlines could argue that “the trains don’t stop at the airport, therefore it’s a different route.”

If the airlines are serious about keeping their shorter routes, there is an obvious solution: screw with the trains. Slow them down, either through mechanical tinkering or software manipulation/hacking. Illegal? Sure.  But so should be Green New Deal-style regulations.

 Posted by at 3:46 pm

Now there’s a shocker

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Apr 102021
 

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 3

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.

AR-15
AR-308
AR-9
AR-45
Polymer80
1911
Engraving
Serialization

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.

That said, Biden did make an interesting point:

Biden on the Second Amendment: ‘No amendment is absolute’

And this is true. It is now time for the press to confront Biden about the lack of absoluteness with regards to, say, voting rights.

 Posted by at 2:06 pm

I have a new favorite preacher

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Apr 052021
 

OK, granted, I didn’t really have a favorite preacher *before,* but this guy…

He demonstrates the proper method of dealing with officious bullies and government Karens: raise your voice, be more belligerent than they are, intimidate *them* but without becoming actually threatening or physical. Don’t give an inch. Don’t give them the opportunity to speak. Shout them down. Now people need to start doing this whenever the likes of AOC or Beto O’Rourke open their yaps. Since he’s in Canada, I guess he won’t be screaming much at Biden.

I suspect he and I would have theological differences. But I gotta respect his ability to drive away government officials who want to interfere with his right to practice his religion, pandemic or no. If the Worst People In America get their way and ban standard capacity magazines and incredibly common firearms, I have hopes that when government stooges and toadies go knocking on doors to intimidate citizens into enfeebling themselves, this is the response they’ll get.

 Posted by at 3:10 pm

This sure seems likely to lose in court

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Mar 252021
 

City of Oakland Mayor is branded racist for giving families of color $500 a month if they earn under $59,000 with no rules on how they spend it – but offering poor white families nothing

Doling out cash to people based on their race seems like it would slam up against “equal protection” and “nondiscrimination” laws.

Another article:

Oakland launches guaranteed pay plan for low-income people

The mayor of Oakland, California, on Tuesday announced a privately funded program that will give low-income families of color $500 per month with no rules on how they can spend it.

“Of Color” means “everyone but white people.” Or at least it used to: recently Asians have been declared  by the Woke to be white due to their “privilege” (which seems to come from rather enthusiastically embracing this thing called a “work ethic”). It should be interesting to see how Oakland goes about deciding who is sufficiently non-white, how fast the lawsuits come out, how big the army of attack lawyers will be, and how soaked the taxpayers of Oakland will end up. If I was paying property taxes in Oakland, I’d consider *not* being taxable in Oakland just as fast as possible.

 Posted by at 9:43 pm

No/Yes: A case study in cognitive dissonance

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Mar 242021
 

“We’re not coming to take your guns”/”We’re coming to take your guns”

The most recent news article shown in that video:

Biden Administration Urges Supreme Court To Let Cops Enter Homes And Seize Guns Without A Warrant

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?

 

 Posted by at 5:36 pm
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