I just went ahead and stole the whole thing from Sebastian.
Seeing gun owners try to explain to other people the laws around machine guns is painful, especially when they get terminology wrong. Let us go over briefly some terms.The Federal Firearms Licensee
There are a lot of different types of FFLs. Let us review:
Type 1 – Dealer in Firearms (but not destructive devices)
Type 2 – Pawnbroker
Type 3 – Collector of Curious and Relics. I lot of you have this one, and so do I.
Type 6 – Ammo manufacturer
Type 7 – Firearms manufacturer (but not destructive devices)
Type 8 – Importer of firearms (but not destructive devices)
Type 9 – Dealer in destructive devices
Type 10 – Manufacturer of destructive devices.
Type 11 – Importer of destructive devices.
The Special Occupational Taxpayer (SOT)
You’ll often hear people refer to “Class 3 firearms” Ain’t no such thing as a class 3 firearm. Classes are Special Occupational Taxpayers. This is the license that allows an FFL to deal in NFA items.
Class 1 SOT – Importer of NFA firearms.
Class 2 SOT – Manufacturer and dealer of NFA firearms.
Class 3 SOT – Dealer of NFA firearms.
Title I and Title II
This refers to Title I and Title II of the Gun Control Act of 1968. This is how to categorize a firearm. Machine guns are Title II firearms. Rifles, shotguns and handguns are Title I firearms. Silencers are Title II items, but we’re trying to move them to Title I. The National Firearms Act regulates machine guns. It is part of the Internal Revenue Code. It was a 1986 Amendment to the Gun Control Act that banned any new machine guns from being registered to non-government entities, 18 U.S.C. 922(o). If you’re in possession of a Title I firearm illegally converted to a machine gun, you’ll be charged with violating 922(o), not violating the NFA. The government can’t prosecute you for failing to pay a tax it refuses to collect.
The blood libel is a centuries old antisemitic lie that Jews engaged in the ritualistic killing of non-Jewish children to take their blood and drink it/use it in the Passover Matzo/etc. It was given new life in the modern area by Arabs and Palestinians who have spread the lie that Israelis steal organs from Palestinian children to use a spare parts for sick Jews. This rumor even spread to Haiti after Israel sent a field hospital to aid in the international recovery effort after the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
In general the blood libel is one in a trend of antisemitic canards (stereotypical lies). Other common ones are that Jews control the media, control the banks, control the government, and are not patriotic or have dual loyalty to Israel and the nations of their citizenship. These lies have surfaced time and time again against the Jews and was justification for antisemitic attacks.
The French dragged out the accusation of disloyalty during the Dreyfus Affair. The Germans used all of them to justify the Holocaust.
The reality is these canards are ways for people who cannot rationalize the world around them and feel like they have no control over their own lives to scapegoat some other group for their problems.
“It’s not me or random chance, it’s the Jews who secretly control everything that’s the problem.”
In the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting it is EYE POPPING to watch almost all of these antisemitic canards dragged out against gun owners in general and the NRA in particular.
Kurt Eichenwald went to twitter to attack gun owners who own AR pattern rifles for wanting to kill American Troops.
Here is Joe Scarborough saying exactly the same thing on his show.
See, gun owners are disloyal to America and want to kill American soldiers.
Writer Brett Arends also questioned the loyalty of gun rights advocates. Either they support gun rights or they support mass shootings.
There is no room in these people’s minds for a person to be a law abiding, patriotic, gun owner.
Next is the conspiracy that the NRA – as some sort of nebulous entity – secretly controls Congress with money.
Here is a California state Rep explaining how all gun owners and gun rights advocates are collectively responsible for this one shooting because they control Congress.
In response to the news the Rep Steve Scalise would continue to support gun rights after being shot, this was the response by some on Twitter.
Forget principles, it’s all about the NRA money.
A writer for WaPo tried to explain, poorly, how the NRA owns Congress.
ZOMG!!! Only $3.5 Million since 1998, that’s…. nothing. But never mind that $3.5 Million is a drop in the ocean of political money, it’s NRA money and that’s bad.
The LA Times published an article making the same claims about how this shooting is caused by the NRA and “fist fulls of money.”
Here is Rob Reiner explaining how the NRA has a “death grip” on Congress. Or not explaining. It doesn’t matter how this doesn’t make sense, it’s real to Rob Reiner.
These are the same conspiratorial lies over and over again. A small group of others – this time (generally not-Progressive) gun owners and the NRA – amasses some unparalleled political power through money to control the government and media, and is disloyal to America, putting their desires for power above the safety of poor non-NRA children.
Same shit, different scapegoat, and just as ugly, hateful, and bigoted.
The genius behind this tweet got obviously called names which I am sure most she did not understand, deleted her account and then came back under another name.
She was found but this time she decided to try to defend her tweet saying that there are better ways to say that word. There is no other word in Spanish for black, in fact the word alone even when applied to a person does not have a negative connotation and is even used as nickname.
So, other than writing in Spanish “the opposite of white”, I really don’t see how is Maybelline going to tell Spanish-speaking women around the world that they are buying black eyeliner.
Do you remember when we were told Multiculturalism was going to end the misconceptions and troubles among people?
They lost the Multicultural war. It was a self-inflicted wound that festered.
There is a couple of items that we used and abused with glee and delivered. Boredom and lack of information are annoying at best and at worse can lead to desperation and stupid moves. Being able to get communications and even a bit of entertainment helps a lot. Both items are no longer being produced, but modern versions are available.
First, this AM/FM radio.
This is the model we had for many years now (since 2012 to be exact). I usually do not buy Sony because they charge you extra just for the name. But this one was priced around $10 in some flash sale of sorts and I snatched it for the wife who wanted something in her bathroom for the morning beautification ritual and to be small so it would not clutter her counter and a 4.5″ x 2.5″ x 1″ it does not get any more unobtrusive.
Next was this portable Digital TV.
Already a veteran of Katrina and Wilma. It is battery-powered, it can be plugged to your car’s lighter socket and to regular 120 AC. It was a substitute to the old analog Black & White AM/FM 5.5″ TV you could find in every store in South Florida for under $20 and even under $10 if you were attentive.
Unfortunately, the new portable digital TVs are not that cheap. Ours I found on sale at a Walgreens for the low-low price of $69.99 and you will find them in Amazon higher. The great thing about this little sucker is the external antenna that is connected to the TV via a coaxial input. The little antenna will help capture nearby stations, but I plugged an old inside-the-house antenna and I was getting stations from 2 counties away(I did add the aluminum foil bunny ears and they worked !)
I almost forgot: It comes with a remote and fully charged and not played with much it should give you about 90 minutes of play time. When the battery ran out, it was either charged via one of the cars or with its wall plug connected to the generator.
Now, these are not items to have on droning in the background 24/7 just to keep you company. You use them to give you a temporary respite and to be informed. TV and radio stations(if operative) will give you updates at the top and bottom of the hour and that is when you should tune. Saving an important event happening or a scheduled announcement, you should only tune at those times and shut off when the announcers become repetitive. Remember, you need to conserve resources.
The TV is back in the closet where it had been since Wilma. The radio is back on the bathroom counter. Both have outlasted “normal” devices: I had two iPods die on me plus we are changing our TV come Christmas since it suddenly developed a weird shadow on the screen that is annoying as hell.
You will learn to have to do with a bunch less when things go to the crapper. But you can mitigate your exposure yo hellish boredom if you are smart about it.
PS: Dead Tree Books do not need recharging or alkaline batteries.
It was brought forward in comments and this is my explanation:
Because nature abhors vacuum.
The same applies to humans, specially after events like this. It is human nature to find the responsible party and assign blame and if we suddenly have a hole where the name of the shooter is supposed to be, our Opposition and the Media will do their best to put the NRA and our names to it.
In an era of instant and full information, to try to ignore the name of a shooter for whatever psychological reasons is sadly outdated.
To hobble ourselves and allow Gun Control to have free hand is suicidal.
So yes, I will mention names and details of the assholes because unfortunately we are not fighting against an honorable adversary. To expect they will fight clean or even with a semblance of honor and morality is to deceive ourselves.
Stephen Craig Paddock. Las Vegas shooter.
PS: That is my particular standing on the issue.
J. Kb. may have a different notion and proceed accordingly.
Update: I saw this in Facebook and have to share:
Take control of the narrative, shape the debate, focus interest where YOU want it. These are basic principles. Abandon the field and the enemy occupies it, and you fight twice as hard to recover it.
