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Interesting that they should keep harping on that.
The guys in Lexington and Concord weren’t either.
The shot heard around the World on April 19, 1775 was done by regular folks.
Freedom got rolling by the common man properly armed standing against those who were seeking his weapons.
The Militia came later.
Even the most ballsy of the WWII Japanese warriors, full of Banzai, were deadly afraid of being burned alive by the USMC flamethrowers.
But it seems lately some mentally fucked up characters have decided to do politics by self-immolation.
Let’s say that yours truly or AWA or J. Kb is arrested with property we stole and a non-registered NFA in our possession. We would probably be in jail with a six or seven figure bail and no chance to see daylight in the foreseeable future, right? Hell, they would call our “favorite” Three-Letter bureau and demand they added federal charges to our basket of legal crap.
But if you happen to be a proper citizen of the great city of Memphis, you get to walk with the blessings of the system:
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — More information has been released about a bond hearing that put an 18-year-old back on the street just weeks before he was in a shootout with police, leaving an MPD officer dead.
WREG has obtained the recording of 18-year-old Jaylen Lobley’s bond hearing on March 7, after his arrest for having two stolen vehicles and a Glock converted into a machine gun.
What happened at Jaylen Lobley’s bond hearing (wkrn.com)
He was just a poor “yute” caught in the vortex of Society and apparently the Judicial Powers felt he was a victim.
Judicial Commissioner Chris Ingram was hearing the case to determine if Lobley’s bond would stay at $10,000. The state is able to argue at those hearings if they think the bond should be changed.
“He is 18 so there will obviously be no prior criminal record as far as adult court. I can’t attest to his juvenile record or bring that up,” he said.
We know nothing” AKA “We reached a decision with the information we had at the time. sorry we fucked up” excuse.
He says the $10,000 bond does seem low, but since Lobley was to be in court the next day, there was no need to adjust it.
“My suggestion is to keep it the same, but if the court is inclined to lower it, I won’t be upset at that,” he said.
The Judicial Commissioner did lower the bond. In fact, he released Lobley on his own recognizance, without Lobley having to pay anything.
TADA! Go free, young man and let that be a lesson to you: Crime does not pay, but it does not cost you either.
Just weeks later, Lobley and a 17-year-old were in a shoot out with Memphis Police. Lobley and Police Officer Joseph McKinney were killed.
And on that, it has come out that the officer succumbed to friendly fire according to the local D.A. The same people who apparently “misspoke” trying to distance themselves from Lobley’s release.
Shortly after the shooting, the District Attorney’s Office released a statement saying, “The Bond was granted by a Judicial Commissioner following a hearing where our office strongly argued against lowering the bond, citing the defendant’s danger to the community.”
Unfortunately, the recording shows the prosecuting attorney did not put up a fight at all as quoted above.
I wanted to go to Memphis just to check the Bass Pro and the museums inside. Not even staying in the anywhere in city, but bedding somewhere way outside Shelby County.
I truly do not know if it is worth the risk.
Take a look at this video
What would you do in this situation? pic.twitter.com/sBIMxJggiY
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) April 17, 2024
Our first reaction would be the liberal application of rifle-delivered ballistic behavioral pills from a position of cover and/or concealment after calling the regional constabulary.
However, we need to consider the Local Legal Reality: If I pop the idjits, will I get in trouble with the Law? Is the D.A. somebody who actually has the best interest of the Citizens in his/her heart or somebody who is running for re-election and needs all the votes from all sections of the populace? We have seen that scenario played too many times in the past.
Again: J.Kb Law is needed. Use of Deadly Force to protect property.
Is that car really worth your life, dear Criminal?
This is a follow up of the post Disappointing AR9 news.
For those coming late to the festivities, I acquired from different sources a 9mm KVP upper and a Spike’s Tactical lower (Glock mag compatible) and they refused to mate properly.
On a rare attack of common sense, I decided to email both Kaw Valley Precision and Spike’s Tactical to get some answer. First of all, both companies were exceedingly fast on replying to my query for which I am happy and encouraged since past experiences with other companies have been utterly disgraceful.
Ian Reel from KVP was upfront and stated that he had not seen many lowers like mine. I won’t deny I would have been a tad incredulous, but reader @Snarkyposters from X (thankyouthankyou) had already pointed me to several AR9 sources of information and I formed the suspicion that this platform is a cluster flock of seagulls.
And then I got the email from John Dowhy of Spike’s Tactical which gave me the final answer to my question(s):
Hi Miguel,
Our Glock-style 9mm Lower has a LRBHO bracket that runs along the side of the magwell. Our 9mm Uppers have a relief cut (in the picture attached) to accommodate for that bracket. Other brands of Uppers often do not fit with our Lower because of just what you highlighted. The Upper hits the bracket and cannot close.
There is no Milspec for 9mm AR’s so mixing brands can be problematic. We have had customers make a relief cut themselves in other brands of Uppers or abandon the other brand and use our Upper.
Bingo! Let me show again the photo of my upper:
The arrow points to the point of unwanted contact between upper an lower and the upper does not have the relief cut.
Mystery solved. Problem? Not so much.
There is no Milspec for 9mm AR’s so mixing brands can be problematic.
Those are words you need to live by if you want to build your AR9.
Right now, I see myself with two AR9 half builds and nowhere to go unless I decide to sink more money in the project which I am not happy to do. I may go with a regular 5,56 lower and one of those adapters for the magwell, but the good ones cost almost as much as a dedicated lower.
I’ll just hit the pause button for a while till some smarts come to me.
