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Caught up on time with family and friends.
Played with several oddball firearms, too.
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Just returned from Minnesota
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The contemplation of St.Ballistica
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A more purposeful shotgun user
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Movie review: Renoir
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Another film about artists and models. In this case, a painter and a film-maker and a model who works for one of them and falls in love with the other. While the film-maker’s persona hasn’t been examined in sufficient detail, the painter’s has but through the model’s eyes rather than from the more omniscient author’s viewpoint. Excellent supporting cast, good props and lighting add up to a well done film overall. I do wonder how many of the subtle nuances went missing in translation.
Acting: 9
Lighting and camera work: 9
Plot: 8
Props: 9
Overall: recommended.
Set in 1915, this film would have been better watched prior to The Artist and the Model.
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White shirt
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A very upgraded M&P15-22
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When training with a rimfire equivalent of your serious rifle, it makes sense to make it a similar as possible. In this case, Magpul furniture and sights, Geiselle trigger and Lucid HD7 sight were used.
HD7 offers four reticles, from a simple dot for CQB to rangefinding reticles for longer distances. This rifle also comes with an upgraded model shooter, one who is politically active. You, too, can support GOCRA and other pro-RKBA organizations.
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A serious young man.
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The short and the long of riot response.
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A carbine with a 16″ barrel, 37mm launcher for smoke or (more useful) CS gas.
While the cement abutment and steel utility pole are not ideal cover, they are likely to stop pistol bullets and buckshot. Poking the muzzle past cover reduces concealment but cuts down on the muzzle blast reflection. Poor visibility to the left requires an overwatch to prevent flanking by rioters.
An SBR with 8.1″ barrel and a sound suppressor cuts down the velocity to about 2400fps (with 55gr ammunition), below fragmentation range for military ball. Solution: load up expanding hunting bullets, like Barnes TSX. With the 1x prismatic scope shown and even more so with red dots, sighting is faster than with iron sights. The entire gun fits into fairly small bags, especially with a 20rd magazine inserted.
Again, the dumpster only protects against buckshot and pistol bullets. Stopping rifle fire requires a bit of luck with the angles. On the plus side, it offers a convenient steady firing position high enough above ground to see a ways out. Pulling back about six inches would better safeguard the forward hand from ricochets.
Again, poor visibility to the left and lack of protection from the right pretty much requires an overwatch. A small team can succeed where several unconnected individuals would likely fail.
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Boberg XR45-S
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This pistol’s claim to fame are its specifications: 3.75″ barrel, 22oz weight, low felt recoil, easy to rack slide, good accuracy. The size is really pushing it for a front pocket gun, but it’s sized just right for a jacket or a tuckable holster.
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Equality of responsibility
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Sideguard Holsters: new on AllOutdoor
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Teaching is more efficient than fighting
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If we ever have to take on the prohibitionists in combat, reducing their strength by two would require inflicting two casualties. Or, if the foes in question are support personnel, two civilian casualties. That’s not something our side would do willingly.
As an alternative, we can try to change the score by two in a nicer way. Teach freedom — including self-defense skills. Each person educated away from the totalitarian side is a loss for them and a win for us — and nobody has to die.
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“Gun” control is people control.
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In the past, the gun control strategy relied on prior licensing requirements (gradually struck down) and technical restrictions (also gradually abandoned as pointless). Their current strategy is far more insidious: removal of access for new shooters (I-594) and lifetime prohibition on gun ownership for unrelated criminal offenses and, more Soviet-like, under completely unrelated medical pretexts.
That last direction is of great relevance to the population at large. As American public ages overall and the privacy of medical records from the government prying approaches zero, it exposes everyone to confiscation. Sometimes the confiscation is administrative, in the form of a mandate, but more often it is violent and effected with police raids. The arbitrary nature of the excuses is designed to foster what psychologists term “learned helplessness”, where the semi-random outcome is divorced from personal conduct. The intended effect is to rob a few of their guns and to drive the majority into stigmatized social hiding, making it difficult and scary to share the ideology of self-sufficiency. Self-sufficiency is also attacked by FDA, department of education and many other Federal agencies.
The most offensive aspect of the drive to impose lifetime legal disabilities is that a person prosecuted in New York would still be prohibited from possession of firearms upon moving to Texas, and even if the New York law is later reversed. That’s like giving full faith and credence to Nazi laws prohibiting Jews from owning guns even when the Jews move to America after 1945!
The solution, at this stage, is educating friends and neighbors about these trends. The Federal attempts to grab full control of the medical field in combination with the emphasis of certain states on misusing medical records should be enough to scare logically thinking people into resisting both.
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Cell phone videos of attacks in progress (with corrected link)
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(The chair is for concealment and steadier aim. It’s not bullet proof cover, no matter what movies show.)
An increasing number of massacres of unarmed civilians are now recorded. Most people who are able to hold a cell phone steadily enough to get a recognizable video would have no trouble holding a pistol or a carbine well enough to return fire on terrorists. And, with sound suppressors being essentially over the counter items in France, the attackers wouldn’t be able to see or hear the source all that well with the noise of their own guns masking it.
PS: A more substantive article on the terrorist attack in Paris.
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A reasonable response to Islamic terrorism
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Going after coreligionists of the offenders would make no more sense than bombing the Vatican in response to an IRA attack. The actual culprits of the Paris attack could have been shot dead in the act with minimal difficulty, except that the victims were victims of terrorism twice over — the first time when their government made it impossible for them to go armed for self-defense.
So the solution is two-fold: military action against the command and control of the terrorists and, as importantly, elimination of the laws that disarm French civilians for the convenience of the terrorists. I am not holding my breath on that one, though several East European countries made defensive carry a reality after escaping from Communism. Perhaps people have to hit rock bottom before they consider making freedom legal again.
For the record, I’ve trained several Americans in the use of firearms for defense. Them being Muslim was entirely irrelevant to the process. Like many, they came to America for the benefits of legally secular, egalitarian society and have no interest in changing it. They are, as far as I can tell, the majority in America. In certain other countries, we have no idea what the majority thinks, as the general population is hostage to violent and insane rulers who control not only the expression of opinions but also, through schooling, the formation of opinions.
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Keltec KSG in fun mode
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The ambidextrous nature of Kel-tec RDB
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Is religion a joking matter?
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In my view, religion better be a joking matter! Jokes about Buddhism and Christianity and Judaism indicate the currency of these faiths, at least in the US. Few people people joke about Pagan pantheons because they aren’t relevant to the majority. If Islam becomes off-limit for humor, it would happen for only two reasons. One, is that it goes extinct in the minds of the overwhelming majority. That’s unlikely. The other possibility is that its adherents go extinct when enough people decide that it’s no laughing matter but rather something closer to rabies. And I suspect that the exact flavor or sect would be irrelevant to the “killers of the rabid”, same as the nuances of Judaism or Communism were irrelevant to the German troops executing Jews and Commissars.
So the followers of Islam would do better if they developed a sense of humor about their faith the way Christians and Jews have. Those two faiths aren’t judged by the actions of their craziest adherents, and there’s a good possibility that the Western branch of Islam will be able distance itself from the more traditional adherents. After all, my Muslim friends in the US mostly came here to get away from the rule of their nominal coreligionists. They aren’t interested in turning their faith into a government department anymore than Christians here want a Russian-style Synod as a part of the Washington bureaucracy.
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Bullets and bacon.
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Every so often, some genius of strategy suggests using bullets dipped in pig fat to scare Islamic opponents. If history is any indication, deliberate or even accidental insensitivity to the religious views of others is a recipe for trouble. For example, Enfield rifle cartridges as the proximate cause of the Indian Mutiny. As for scaring the foes by threatening to bury them in pig skins, that impressed them no differently than the threat to piss on the American flag would impress you. Rage, not fear is the likely result.
The other purpose of desecrating the enemy living or dead is improving the morale of your own troops. But some of our troops and many of our allies are Muslim, even if belonging to other sects. So the practice is extremely counterproductive.
The key to effective warring against religious crazies is to ignore their religion. The British made no effort to counter-preach against the Mahdi. They simply wiped out his men with cannon and machine guns for the same reasons they had killed other hostile tribesmen: to establish control of a territory and to avenge the earlier deaths of British soldiers. Religion had nothing to do with it, and the war certainly wasn’t acknowledged as a conflict of faiths. It was a conflict of modern against the primitive and presented as such with no apologies. Similarly, in the suppression of the Boxer rebellion, the mystical aspects of the uprising were ignored and the believers in their own bulletproof nature were shot dead with efficiency.
So I would recommend limiting the reasons for warring on the people who may be Muslim to the same reasons used for warring on atheists or people of other faiths: murder, kidnapping and the like. Validating other people’s claim that America is warring on Islam in general is not just unhelpful, it actually does the enemy’s recruiting for them.
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Something the government got right
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