J. Kb

This is why I own guns and so should the rest of the Jewish community

 

Don’t let the Left bullshit you with changing the definition of words.  Like they did when they tried to convince everyone that Jihad ackchyually means a peaceful internal spiritual struggle.

Intifada really does mean armed rebellion, and is what the Palestinians called to major terrorist uprisings against Israel that killed hundreds of Israeli civilians.

Now they are calling for it in Michigan.

Remember that according to Palestinian philosophy, any attack on a Jew anywhere is an attack on Israel, and if you can’t get to Israel to fight the Jews there, you can attack Jews where you live.  This is why we see Palestinians in Europe stabbing European Jews during every Intifada.

The Jews of Michiganistan need to get armed and watch their backs.

Bring on the lawsuits against the ATF

I was thinking about this last night after my post about the new ATF arm brace rule.

There are millions of arm braces that were sold.  It was much more common than bump stocks ever were.

The Reload says the estimate at 10-40 million.

 

The ATF will not be able to process even a fraction of guns submitted on a Form 1 in anything close to the timeline they require.

But then there are other considerations.

There are many people who own braced pistols because they cannot own SBRs.

AR pistols are/were legal outside of Cook County (until this latest AWB).  Illinois dies not allow the possession of NFA items.

Upstate New York and California are the same.  It was possible to assemble a compliant pistol but not own an SBR.

Then there are counties where SBR possession might be legal by state law but the local Sheriff won’t sign the Form 1 paperwork.

Blue counties in Red states are notorious for this.

These individuals have no choice but to destroy their guns or hand them over to law enforcement.

There is the issue of interstate travel.  Most people, even some SBR owners, don’t know that to take an SBR out of state requires permission from the ATF on a Form 5320.20.

This is why I never did a Form 1.  I’ve moved four times in six years.  With an SBR I’d have to get ATF permission to do that.

And removing the brace isn’t enough.  The whole definition of a pistol has been changed.  In essence, if you own a pistol version of a rifle or sub machine gun, it’s an SBR by intent.

 

So your 11.5 inch AR pistols or CZ Scorpion or any other PDW style 9mm pistol now requires a Form 1.

Considering how many of those were sold in the last decade or more since the ATF let them be pistols, this is going to turn tens or possibly a hundred million guns into illegal SBRs.

The only good news here is that this has the potential to be so disruptive that if the court shot down the bump stock ban, it will have no choice to shoot this down too.

If anything, this decision might have given ammunition to the case for challenging the constitutionality of the SBR/SBS clause of the NFA (if not the whole NFA) by suddenly turning SBRs into guns in common use with a rule.

What I do know is that a blizzard of lawsuits need to be filed.

The ATF rule on braces just dropped

From the Bureau of Assholes, Twats, and Fuckers just dropped their arm brace rule.

On January 13, 2023, the Attorney General signed ATF final rule 2021R-08F, “Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached ‘Stabilizing Braces,’” amending ATF’s regulations to clarify when a rifle is designed, made, and intended to be fired from the shoulder.

The rule outlines the factors ATF would consider when evaluating firearms equipped with a purported “stabilizing brace” (or other rearward attachment) to determine whether these weapons would be considered a “rifle” or “short-barreled rifle” under the Gun Control Act of 1968, or a “rifle” or “firearm” subject to regulation under the National Firearms Act. The rule’s amended definition of “rifle” clarifies that the term “designed, redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder” includes a weapon that is equipped with an accessory, component, or other rearward attachment (e.g., a “stabilizing brace”) that provides surface area that allows the weapon to be fired from the shoulder, provided other factors, as listed in the definition, indicate the weapon is designed and intended to be fired from the shoulder.

This rule does not affect “stabilizing braces” that are objectively designed and intended as a “stabilizing brace” for use by individuals with disabilities, and not for shouldering the weapon as a rifle. Such stabilizing braces are designed to conform to the arm and not as a buttstock. However, if the firearm with the “stabilizing brace” is a short-barreled rifle, it needs to be registered within 120-days from the date of publication in the Federal Register.

This rule is effective the date it is published in the Federal Register. Any weapons with “stabilizing braces” or similar attachments that constitute rifles under the NFA must be registered no later than 120 days after date of publication in the Federal Register; or the short barrel removed and a 16-inch or longer rifle barrel attached to the firearm; or permanently remove and dispose of, or alter, the “stabilizing brace” such that it cannot be reattached; or the firearm is turned in to your local ATF office. Or the firearm is destroyed.

Please note that this is the text of the final rule as signed by the Attorney General, but the official version of the final rule will be as it is published in the Federal Register. The rule will go into effect once it is published in the Federal Register.

Go check to see if your arm brace is now an SBR.

Act accordingly.

Woke cartography is stupid

 

Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice what can adequately explained with stupidity.

J.Kb’s Razor: Never attribute to bigotry what can adequately explained by other means.

Woke exists to violate J.Kb’s Razor.

The problem isn’t racism, bigotry, or unfairness.

The problem is topology.

The earth is a sphere and you can’t lay a sphere flat.

That is a Mercator projection map.

Every map has advantages and disadvantages, chosen for a reason.

Mercato projections have the advantage of consistent orientation.  Everywhere on the map, north is up, south us down, west is left, and east is right.  Longitude and latitude are at right angles so distances between two points are a straight line.  That is done by sacrificing scale.  Scale changes as latitude changes and it increases further north you go.

The right angle orientation makes it an easy map for novices to use.

It has nothing to do with diminishing Africa or privileging Europe.  It’s a useful projection for maritime navigation.

The Mollweide projection attempts to keep scale but as you can see, longitude cants towards the polls so north is only up at the equator.

 

 

A Goode’s projection attempts to keep scale and orientation, but ends of creating dead spaces.  You can’t draw a line between two points across oceans.

 

It’s a shitty map for navigation.

This dufus’s map attempts to keep orientation like a Mercator but proper scale, so ends up creating huge dead spaces between countries that eliminates relative positions.

There are real reasons of topology and cartography that maps look a certain way, and in none of them was “Africa is full of black people so I’m going to make it smaller to it seems less important” the motivating factor.

If you really want to teach kids about how the earth looks, don’t get a Woke teacher, get a fucking globe.

I, for one, welcome the new Illinois Assault Weapon Ban

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed into law the most restrictive assault weapons bill in existence in the United States.

It is a fucking doozy.

You can read the text here.

It outright bans the manufacture, sale, and transger of a long list of guns by name.  It also eliminates a number of guns by features.  There is no way to build an “Illinois compliant” model the way you can in California.

They did the same for 50 caliber rifles and high capacity magazines: 12 rounds in rifles, 15 rounds in pistols.

If you have one, it’s grandfathered in, but can only be transferred, through an FFL, to a direct heir, or sold out of state, or given to police.

And of course, they exempted law enforcement from

Here is some of the relevant text.

 

This is my favorite little tidbit.

 

You can’t buy, sell, rent, or transfer these types of guns and magazines, but the Hollywood pedophile elite can so they can make action movies in Chicago while lecturing you on gun violence.

This is going to drive Springfield Armory, DS Arms, Rock River Arms, Les Baer, and every other gun maker out of Illinois.

Now I know some if you might wonder why welcome this law.

My answer:

Heller, McDonald, and Bruen.

We’re seeing a number of recent wins in lower courts after New York and New Jersey passed laws specifically to get around Bruen.

This new law spits in the face of Heller, McDonald, and Bruen with its myriad of restrictions.

The lowet courts are going to have a field day with it.

This law is so restrictive that it might be the one that goes to SCOTUS as a challenge against assault weapons bans, finally forcing the Court to make a decision on their constitutionality.

Given Heller, McDonald, and Bruen, I suspect that the court will probably strike down AWBs.

I would love to see nothing more than Illinois’ desire to crush legal gun owners ability to own semiautomatic rifles be the ticket that destroys assault weapon bans.