Angus, we are happy you are getting a piece of history, but we are also jealous so I am making thigns thing up because I am that kind of ***hole 🙂

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What is the  Interstate Popular Vote Compact? According to Wikipedia “The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.”

Let me see if I get this straight: In order to “respect” the results of the Nation’s popular vote (which legally count for squat), a state must ignore the results of its people’s vote.  The Sun Sentinel editorial thus is saying that it does not matter if Floridians vote overwhelmingly for one presidential candidate in the future, the results must be ignored because the voting results of the West Coast and the Northeast would be more important that ours.

That first election with the compact in place will also guarantee that the following elections will be filled with abstentionism because, if my vote is not going to count even when my candidate wins, why should I give a fuck about voting anyway? And that is how we will end up with Alexandria “She Guevara” Ocasio-Cortes as president and the Venezuelan Socialism as the law of the land.  Bye-bye the Democratic process they claim the   Interstate Popular Vote Compact is supposed to protect.

It is always nice to see a South Florida Media Outlet bowing to its Carpetbagger Masters. May the next round of cutbacks arrive soon.

So yesterday and by ways I am still not figured out, I managed to land three fingers of my right hand on a live eye of the stove.

It hurt like a Mo…

Sent pretty much 8 hours doing the 10 minutes in – 10 minutes out of cold water till the pain subsided enough to go to sleep.  Right now, as long as I don’t do something stupid like grabbing a hot mug of coffee, the pain is gone…OK dormant.

A boxer (forget who) was asked if when you get old it is tougher to see the incoming fists. The boxer replied that he could see just fine, it was getting out-of-the-way that gets harder with age.

I can attest to that.

Reflexes once were like this little manic creature sipping espresso and munching on Meth snacks: always ready to jump at the least of stimulus. Now? tea, eating cupcakes and sitting on a rocking chair.

Plan accordingly. I sure as hell have done so.

This video was Tweeted out by Connecticut State Representative Jillian Gilchrest.

https://twitter.com/Jilchrest/status/1092519429232095243

She is so excited to propose a bill that would increase the sales tax on ammo to 50%.

Her example is “if someone were to buy a fifty cartridge box of ammunition” they would pay $15 instead of $10.

Again, we are treated to another anti-gun Democrat who just sounds fucking stupid when talking about something gun related.  They string words together, that while technically correct, come up with a sentence that sounds like it was spoken by someone form whom English is not their primary language and just learned recently.

This really does illustrate just how different the cultural gulf is between the Left and Right on topics like this, that when they talk about guns they sound like they are learning to speak a foreign language.

But I digress…

She admits that the purpose of this tax is to decrease use by increasing cost.  Exactly like what Connecticut has done with cigarettes.

The question raised by this bill is, who is most going to be hurt by this punitive taxation on ammo?

How much ammo do criminals go through?

I’d guess, not much.  You can rob a lot of stores without firing a shot.

When it comes to mass shootings, what we’ve seen in virtually all of them is the shooter taking weeks and months to plan the shooting.  Most of them seem to know that they will not survive the event, given the number that end in suicides.  Will a $100 in taxes on a case of 9mm really be the hindrance to the wannabe mass shooter who plans on going down in blaze of infamy?

Of course not.

This bill is aimed at target shooters who buy large volumes of ammo for practice or competition.

A USPSA stage has a max of 32 round required, six stages per course, that’s 192 rounds.  Not all stages meet the max, but factor in misses and re-shoots, and 200 rounds per match is a decent number.

That’s $20 in taxes using cheap 9mm.

A round of Trap or Sporting Clays is 100 rounds.  That’s about $15 in taxes for 12 gauge target loads.

The text of the bill isn’t available yet, so I don’t know if it will put this tax on reloading components or not.  Part of me thinks it will because she clearly hates target shooters.  Part of me thinks it won’t because she’s too stupid to consider that.

Either way, reloading is not an option for some people, and law abiding gun owners should not be forced into rolling their own in secret to avoid oppressive goverment like the Israelis under the British Mandate.

Her Tweet says “I’m hearing push back about the need to protect one’s home… but how much ammunition does someone really need to do that?”

That’s strawman held together with bullshit.

It’s not about the one box of Golden Saber I have loaded in my home defense gun.

It’s about the cases of UMC I burn up at the range in practice.

My ammo budget, as a rank amateur who don’t get to shoot as much as I’d like, is at a minimum 250 rounds of 45 ACP per month.  If I do a round of clays or have a day zeroing rifles, or shoot the odd carbine match, I can bump that to 500 rounds per month.

With an MSRP of $112 per mega-pack of 45, that’s $56 in taxes per month alone on just pistol ammo.

It is glaringly obvious that this bill is supposed to suppress target and competitive shooting in the Constitution State by wearing down the ammo budgets of working and middle class shooters.

Because nothing says “Constitution” like making exercising a right explicitly protected in the bill of rights, prohibitively expensive.

Also….

It’s great how a Democrat can mention that for things like cigarettes and ammo that increasing taxes has the direct goal of reducing consumption by making the good more expensive.

Then on the other hand they will say that increasing taxes on income or payroll or capital gains will not decrease any productivity by making production more expensive.

Why are they allowed to slide on holding these contradictory opinions simultaneously.

But wearing a garment that symbolizes the submission of women to men is cool.

I need a nap after that.

General Bill by Book
Transfers of Firearms: Requiring transfers of firearms to be conducted through a licensed dealer; requiring deposit of the firearm with the licensed dealer under certain circumstances; providing for disposition of the firearm if the licensed dealer cannot legally complete the transaction or return the firearm to its owner, etc.

I don’t have to go over the UBC being crap thing again, but it is this section that I just noticed and worries me for the potential it has to screw people over.

If the buyer is denied, the seller has to go again with a background check,. And if it erroneously comes back as denied, he loses the gun because it has to be turned to the Sheriff within the next 24 hours. Appeals are taking 3 months or more as I well know and suffered.

This is a roundabout confiscation scheme, plain and simple.

I almost forgot the text of the bill