From The Mercury News: Here’s the lowdown on Reuben Foster’s assault weapon.

Ruben Foster was arrested for domestic violence.  He also had an assault weapon on him.

It’s California.  What did he have?  How bad could it have been?

That is clipped directly from the news article.

Holy SHIT!!!  Really!?!  Did he really have an SBR?  California doesn’t allow NFA items.  No Sheriff signed off on this.

But multiple sources familiar with the investigation told this news organization that police found a single SIG Sauer 516 short-barreled rifle, or SBR. Foster, who was released Sunday after posting $75,000 bail, was booked on a single count of possession of an assault weapon.

I’m still having a hard time believing this.  If he really had an SBR with no tax stamp, being booked on a single count of possession of an assault weapon was a gimme.  That is a “hard time in Federal prison” type offense.

The Mercury News article then goes and does a copy-paste from the SIG website.

The author then poses some rhetorical questions about the SIG.

So is a 516 legal in California? It depends. While the 516 does not appear on the list of illegal AR-15 variants at the California Department of Justicewebsite, that would be because it’s a recent release (the list hasn’t been updated in more than a decade; the 516 has been produced since 2010). State law also includes generic characteristics that make a gun illegal — if it has the capacity to accept a detachable ammunition magazine and at least one of a list of military-style characteristics including, for example, “a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon.”

On the sigtalk forum, there’s a discussion about how a Sig Sauer can be modified to make it legal in California — removing the grip is one such modification. Other weapons manufacturers looking to sell in Cailfornia used to outfit semiautomatic rifles with a “bullet button” which requires a special button to be depressed — fittingly, by the tip of a rifle round — to release the clip, to meet the state’s fixed-magazine requirement. But that workaround was outlawed last year by the state Legislature.

Never one recognizing the glaring red flag this is an NFA weapon without a tax stamp.

These numb-nuts spend all their time ranting on about needed more gun laws and they can’t spot a violation of the oldest continuously enforced federal gun law in America when they do a Getty Image search.

Either Foster had a SIG 556 and the Mercury News reporter didn’t know an SBR from a regular rifle – which I think is the more probable event.

Or

Foster really did have an SBR and the police haven’t turned him over to the ATF yet.

Either way, this glaring oversight makes it impossible for me to trust the Mercury News on anything gun related, which puts them on par with the rest of the media.

And that includes a lot of people on our side.

As you can imagine, Social Media has been inundated of the typical arguments against guns and the Second Amendment. Nothing new there but it makes me laugh when you get a foaming-at-the-mouth Liberal to crap in their pants when you let them see the very possible consequences of a door-to-door order of confiscation.

My guess is that in their exalted self-importance, they think Police Officers will blindly follow their orders while they sip some chia latte comfortably at home and nothing will happen to them. Cops are not stupid, cops will pause and think: “Wait one, we are supposed to go kick the doors of at least 70 million people, armed with over 350 million firearms, well over a trillion rounds of ammunition and the desire to use them by orders of a bunch of idiots drinking Himalayan kombucha and eating organic ramen tofu? Fuck that shit!”

I can predict with a high level of certainty that the outcome of a nation-wide confiscation order will be just the opposite of what Gun Control advocates will expect.

I have a buddy I have known since college.  He is a gun guy.  More than that he’s a gun industry insider.  He’s worked for several gun makers including some Big (Green) ones, and is currently in working Miami with The Bull.

We were chatting and he told me that he had to put a moratorium on his wife talking about anything relating to his job.  The subject is no-go in public.  This is apparently a thing going on down there right now with the people he works with.

Broward County Sheriff did a press statement.

The important part starts at the 23:25 mark.

I understand the importance of vigilance, but “if your neighbor comes home from the range on Friday night, you should say something” is over the top.

When your life is guns, literally, how do you avoid becoming a suspect when the Sheriff says that.

The fear is taking this type of situation leading to a #MeToo like witch hunt that catches law abiding gun owners.

Law abiding Broward gun owners need to be  careful.  The is very thin line between vigilance and moral panic, and Sheriff Israel is blurring it.

I like movies.  I like to be entertained.

I really don’t spend much time worrying about the demographics of the cast if the movie is well done.

I loved Idris Elba as Stacker Pentecost in Pacific Rim.  Will Smith in Men in Black 3 was fantastic, that movie was awesome.  So was Bright.

I really want someone to do a true-to-the-book Starship Troopers and I will be disappointed if Johnny Rico is not Filipino.

Just make a movie that entertains me and doesn’t try and jam a heavy handed message down my throat and I’ll be happy.

I haven’t seen a Marvel movie in theaters in a while, or any movie for that matter.  Mostly because it’s expensive and I have kids.

I’d like to see Black Panther but holy shit, is there a lot of baggage associated with it.  It is a “defining moment for black America” and is finally “a chance for black moviegoers to finally just enjoy the show.”  It’s “more than a movie, ‘Black Panther’ is a movement.”  It’s so important a movie that people are raising money to take black children to see it because “Black children are so often instilled with the tools to survive, but when do they have the chance to live? When do we let them laugh and smile?”

It’s already been made clear to my that as a white person the movie is not for me.

And that I can’t let my presence in the theater steal joy from the black people in the audience.

So here is my question:

If I go to the theater to see Black Panther, should I sit in the back of the theater in the bad seats, and if a black person wants my seat, I have to stand?

Or, should I put on black face and try to blend in with the crowd?

I’m confused as to what I have to do to enjoy a movie about a black character, created by two Jews, Stanley Lieber and Jacob Kurtzberg.

The Washington Post sent this out because “democracy dies in darkness.”

Mike Pence bought a Valentine's Day gift for his wife at . . . CVS https://t.co/l2XBOL1oe9

— Post Local (@postlocal) February 15, 2018

It was written by WaPo writer Emily Heil.

It seems that Ms. Heil is an unmarried woman in her early 40’s.  This article explains why.

I admit that I am no marriage expert, but after 10 years, I have learned a thing or two.

If you gauge the quality of your marriage by the cost of the gift your spouse buys you on a totally made up holiday, your marriage isn’t on firm ground to begin with.

A couple that really loves each other and does well together isn’t shaken by a CVS gift.

VP Mike Pence has been married to his wife since 1985.  After 33 years, I’m sure whatever he gets her after a long day of work and a national tragedy, is fine.

That Ms. Heil thinks this is newsworthy or embarrassing is likely a strong indicator of why she probably goes home to a bottle of wine and a couple of cats every night.

A girl from Parkland Tweeted a response to what was perhaps Trump’s most anodye Tweet since becoming President.

Her Twitter page is gone, but the Internet never forgets.

Twitter is dangerous.

Never in a million years would I have thought to say to the President he is a “fucking piece of shit.” 

My dad would have killed.  I’d be dead, just dead.

If the paramedics managed to bring me back (and my dad didn’t kill me a second time) I’d be sure I’d never get a job in a professional setting in my life.

I’d spend eternity under the Rickenbacker Causeway with the convicted pedophiles.

I think it’s best that I stunt my children’s social growth, no Facebook or Twitter until they are adults.

This is unbelievable.