“I think it comes down to reckoning with our history, and our history of white supremacy in the United States and the fact that we live in a post-genocidal society oftentimes that was orchestrated by the United States government,”

But wait, there is more. He goes on to mention the massacre at Wounded Knee where US troops decimated Lakota Indians, mostly women and children and does not even digest the immense contradiction on trying to maintain both points of view.

Is it me or does he look like he is he just got his parole rejected and needs to wait another 5 years?

I posted yesterday about 60 activist in Spain “liberating” some 16 rabbits and getting into crap and even peppered with birdshot.  It seems they ended up a crapload more damage that originally thought.

Last Sunday, around a hundred rabbits died at Gurb Farm near Osono, Spain, after the property was ransacked by animal rights activists.
The vast majority of the rabbits which died were baby rabbits or ‘kits’ as most of the fourteen bunnies taken were pregnant or lactating mother rabbits.

Due to the stress of the assault, many mother rabbits suffered broken spines and miscarried their kits.

Five heavily pregnant mother rabbits died during the incident.

La Vanguardia reports that several rabbits suffered severed spinal injuries and miscarried due to stress.

The vet was forced to euthanize around 90 baby rabbits that were left without mothers while they were very young and vulnerable.

Spain: Vegan Activists Caused Death of 100 Rabbits at Farm

The owner of the farm complains that they were tossing the rabbits to each other. He went on to explain how the animals would stress out, milking mothers will stop milking and pregnant ones would miscarriage.

And this feeble excuse for human walking upright actually had the face to say this:

Trobo que la pagesia d’aquest país té prou seny amb aquesta banda… pic.twitter.com/7ujAqUIeKU

— Robert Sabater Costa (@Robertviladamat) September 1, 2019

Let’s summarize: They break into a rabbit farm, steal 16 rabbits which some were pregnant and some were lactating, break their spine due to mishandling, damage other farm property and see themselves as heroes.

And I know they will get away without paying one red Peseta for the damages.

Hat Tip to  @MalRoadkill

Boy howdy, I have seen some paranoid, pant-shitting hysterics over some news that the dot-Gov is demanding Apple and Google hand over a list of names of people who downloaded an app for a scope.

Most everyone who has written about this is wrong.

Sorry, but this is one of those times where I have to pull rank as a subject matter expert on this.

Exclusive: Feds Demand Apple And Google Hand Over Names Of 10,000+ Users Of A Gun Scope App

Own a rifle? Got a scope to go with it? The U.S. government might soon know who you are, where you live and how to reach you.

Calm your tits, that’s not a thing.

That’s because the government wants Apple and Google to hand over names, phone numbers and other identifying data of at least 10,000 users of a single gun scope app, Forbes has discovered. It’s an unprecedented move: Never before has a case been disclosed in which American investigators demanded personal data of users of a single app from Apple and Google. And never has an order been made public where the feds have asked the Silicon Valley giants for info on so many thousands of people in one go.

That may be true, I don’t know.

According to an application for a court order filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on September 5, investigators want information on users of Obsidian 4, a tool used to control rifle scopes made by night-vision specialist American Technologies Network Corp. The app allows gun owners to get a live stream, take video and calibrate their gun scope from an Android or iPhone device. According to the Google Play page for Obsidian 4, it has more than 10,000 downloads. Apple doesn’t provide download numbers, so it’s unclear how many iPhone owners could be swept up in this latest government data grab.

Forbes will get to this at the bottom paragraph number seven, below the fold or the first ad break in the article, and do a shit job of explaining it.

There are four letters you need to know to understand what is going on here.

I T A R.  ITAR, pronounced “eye-tar” is short for International Traffic in Arms Regulation.

This is some serious Federal law.  Serious like if you violate ITAR they will send you maximum-security get pounded in the ass Federal prison.  The fine for violating ITAR is a minimum of $500,000 per violation.

There is no latitude on ITAR.  No “I didn’t mean to violate it” or “I didn’t know I was violating it.”  If you get caught they will drop the hammer on you.

I know ITAR.  I live, eat, breathe, and sleep ITAR.  Every employee where I work as a defense contractor has to go through ITAR training every year.  We spend a full day with corporate counsel on it.  If an employee violates ITAR, not just does that employee get to go to prison, the whole company gets fucked.  Fucked as in the ATF yanks our license to manufacture.

So when I say “I know ITAR,” I know ITAR.  Just say “ITAR” in a city like Huntsville, where half of everyone with an engineering degree works for a defense contractor, and buttholes will pucker within earshot.

In  a nutshell, ITAR prohibits the export of ANYTHING related to arms or weapons manufacture without explicit permission from the Federal government.

Here is how serious they take this.  We cannot have a non-US citizen come into our facility without permission.  Having a foreign national visit us for a tour of the facility constitutes export.

There are lots of things that most people wouldn’t think are ITAR regulated but are.  Your copy of Flight Simulator is ITAR restricted, eecause it can be used to train combat pilots overseas.  Your toy drone is ITAR regulated because it contains some of the same software as a Predator or a Reaper and some Jihadi can weaponize it.

Even small things you wouldn’t consider to be ITAR are ITAR if they are used in weapons.  Are you a gun maker?  Do you want to buy some cheap grip screws or aluminum extrusions for pic-rail?  You better not send those drawings to a machine shop in China without approval because even something like screws are ITAR if they are for guns.

Have I impressed upon you the seriousness of ITAR?

So, back to the Forbes article.

The scopes we’re talking about here are ATN.  Gun people are probably familiar with them, they make advanced thermal and night vision scopes.  Some of their features are incredible: laser range finding, self zeroing, video recording, ballistic drop calculating, etc.

Not just are they very powerful scopes, but the technology could be hacked to do things like make gun systems or ballistic computers for tanks and artillery.

So take everything that you learned about ITAR and now understand that the app to drive this scope was downloaded by people all over the world.

That software was exported without permission from the Federal government.

In addition, the app works in conjunction with the scope, so the Government wants to know if there were people overseas who bought the scope which means the scope itself was exported without permission.

To put it bluntly, the Federal government wants to know if what amounts to a miniaturized targeting system from am M1 Abrams was shipped overseas without permission in violation of ITAR.

Dot-Gov is not trying to access this information to see if Freedom Eagle dot Facebook has an AR-15 so they can come take it away.

Dot-Gov is trying to access this information to make sure Ali’s Bodega didn’t ship a dozen night vision scopes to his cousin in Afghanistan in violation of ITAR.

If the court approves the demand, and Apple and Google decide to hand over the information, it could include data on thousands of people who have nothing to do with the crimes being investigated, privacy activists warned. Edin Omanovic, lead on Privacy International’s State Surveillance program, said it would set a dangerous precedent and scoop up “huge amounts of innocent people’s personal data.”

Yes, there are privacy concerns here, and that will need to be worked out by the courts.

Look, there are serious privacy concerns about the government asking for huge amounts of download data.  This is something the courts are going to have to work out, not just in this case but in many, many cases.

And no, I don’t have that much trust for The Fed dot Gov.

The point is, the sky is not falling.  What happened was an ITAR violation of extraordinary proportion – every download of that app to an overseas account is a violation – and the government is trying to mop it up.

Calm down, this isn’t step one in having a SWAT team kick in your door because your Google search history suggests you have glass on your rifle.

Basically, you can poop anywhere without fearing legal repercussions. It has gotten so bad that there is not only a map displaying where human poop has been located, they even have a phone app to report it with photo included.

A buddy in Facebook asked this poignant question:

DO PEOPLE IN SAN FRANSHITSCO STILL HAVE TO PICK UP THEIR DOG’S POOP?

And the answer is YES.

“According to the San Francisco Recreation and Parks department, it is illegal “for any person owning or having control or custody of any dog to permit the animal to defecate upon the public property of this City or upon the private property of another unless the person immediately remove the feces and properly dispose of it.”
The San Francisco Health Code has a two-part ordinance–Pick It Up and Carry the Bag. Each carries a $320 fine for failure to pick up and failure to “carry a suitable container for the removal and disposal of dog feces.”

So you can be nailed up to $640 for Fifi’s “gifts” but Eddie the Wino can lay the equivalent of 4 Taco Bell meals in your sidewalk and walk away without any consequence leaving you to deal with the odiferous and unhealthy mess.

Yeah, that makes sense.

My wife an I just finished Carnival Row on Amazon.

It is the most intriguing and addictive show I have seen in a very long time.

Excellent doesn’t begin to describe it.

Rarely have I seen a mystery show that I haven’t been able to figure out by the third episode.  This one kept up going to the very end.

Also, as a gun guy, it’s fascinating to see the props that they use for a world that is essentially 1900 England.

Even if you are not a fan of fantasy – and I’m not – it is an absolute must-watch.

The level of ignorance and stupidity I read in this OpEd from The Washington Post blew my mind.

Brace yourselves.

Want an assault weapons ban that works? Focus on ballistics.

Here is the kicker:

Julius Wachtel is a retired agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and a university lecturer.

Yeah, this guy was Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm’s Long Beach office.  Let that sink it when you read this.

America’s assault weapons laws seem largely a failure. The federal ban, enacted in 1994, did not demonstrably reduce violence and was allowed to expire 10 years later. State-level equivalents seem equally ineffective.

That is accurate.

In California, whose 1989 assault weapons act was first in the nation, gunmen armed with .223- and 7.62 mm-caliber rifles, respectively, took the lives of Sacramento police officer Tara O’Sullivan in June and California Highway Patrol officer Andre Moye last month. Another gunman killed three people and wounded a dozen more at an outdoor festival in July.

So should we give up on banning dangerous firearms? Absolutely not. The reason these laws have proved ineffective isn’t because a ban can’t work; it’s because none have addressed the underlying characteristic that makes some firearms so lethal in the first place: their ballistics.

What?

After O’Sullivan’s death, Sacramento’s grieving police chief pointed out that “bulletproof” vests are no match for high-power rifles. He’s correct. According to FBI data, 471 police officers were feloniously shot and killed in the United States during the past decade. More than 100 were killed by rifles, 65 in the powerful .223, 5.56 mm and 7.62 mm calibers common to assault-style weapons. Rifles also figured in 20 of the 21 fatalities caused by rounds that penetrated body armor.

We’re talking 223, 5.56, and 7.62×39, which at most have muzzle energies barely making 1,500 ft-lbs.

Any hunter will tell you that this is fairly insubstantial compared to the common short and standard action length centerfire rifle cartridges that most game hunters use.  Some states won’t let hunters take deer with 223 because it lacks power.

Also, not one soft armor vest, the types that police wear under their uniform shirts, are NIJ rated for rifle calibers.

California, six other states and the District “ban” assault weapons. But these laws skirt around caliber. Instead, they focus on a weapon’s physical attributes. For example, California requires that semiautomatic firearms with external baubles such as handgrips have non-detachable magazines and limits ammunition capacity to 10 rounds.

Those characteristics, though, aren’t the main reason assault-style weapons are so dangerous. That’s fundamentally a matter of ballistics. High-energy, high-velocity .223-, 5.56- and 7.62-caliber projectiles have unbelievable penetration power. When these bullets pierce flesh, they produce massive wound cavities, pulverizing blood vessels and destroying nearby organs. Rifles can deliver this mayhem from a distance. That’s what happened in 2017 when an ostensibly law-abiding gambler opened fire with AR-15-type rifles from his Las Vegas hotel room, killing 58 and wounding more than 400 others.

Right…  If this guy has a problem with what the 223 does, he’s shit his pants at the terminal ballistic of a 162 grain 308 out of a bolt action Model 700.

Such massacres have become commonplace. On Aug. 3, a 21-year-old man allegedly used an AK-47-style rifle to kill 22 and wound more than two dozen at an El Paso shopping center. One day later, a 24-year-old man donned body armor, grabbed an AR-15-type rifle and burst into a Dayton, Ohio, nightclub, killing nine and wounding more than two dozen. Then came the carnage in West Texas, where another AR-15-style rifle was used to kill seven and wound 22, including three police officers.

Despite the deplorable toll, not one state has dared address ballistics. Why? Because it might offend hobbyists who get a thrill from tinkering with powerful guns, as well as citizens who want such weapons for self-defense. It would also threaten the interests of the gun industry, whose economic viability depends on producing and importing ever-more-formidable hardware.

Because it’s a bullshit approach because as soon as any state goes down the path of banning gun based on the ballistic performance of the cartridges they fire every centerfire hunting rifle on the market gets banned.  All of them.  The 30-30 Winchester, which dates to 1895 and is the first smokeless powder cartridge commonly available in the United States bests the 223 by over 600 ft-lbs of energy.

This isn’t going to “offend hobbyists,” it’s going to nullify a substantial part of the Second Amendment.

So lawmakers have chipped away at the margins — say, by limiting ammunition capacity. But even 10 highly lethal rounds are an awful lot. With guns and gun parts readily available from private parties and through the Internet, restrictions on how weapons are configured are also easy to circumvent. Consider the 2015 San Bernardino massacre, when a married couple murdered 14 and wounded 22 with a pair of state-legal AR-15 clones. Both weapons had been modified to accept high-capacity magazines, in a simple process that’s described online.

Bottom line: Many semiautomatic firearms are exceptionally lethal whether they’re short- or long-barreled, have handgrips or extended magazines. What can be done? Following the examples set by Britain and, most recently, New Zealand, we could ban them outright. Or we could create a scale of lethality, assigning scores for penetration ability and wounding effect along with ammunition capacity, rate of fire and accuracy at range. Guns that wind up at the dangerous extreme could be prohibited, while others would be subject to a range of controls.

Goodbye centerfire rifles and magnum caliber handguns, because the 223 is on the weak end of the scale.

Of course, even the best-crafted scale won’t solve our epidemic of gun violence. By all means, expand background checks and implement “red flag” laws. But don’t use that as an excuse to keep ignoring what lies at the root of the mayhem: fearsome ballistics. Address that, and the toll will ease.

The fact is that some European countries already use a system like this.

England limits air guns by Joules of muzzle energy.  Anything that exceeds 2.4 Joules (the limit that breaks the skin) requires a permit.

France and Italy both have laws for handguns that limit the energy of the cartridges they can fire to low power target loads.  Anything more potent than a 38 special wadcutter is banned.

Such a system in the United States would gut the intent of the Second Amendment because the very things the government would want to ban – large wound channels and deep penetration – are the exact criteria that make certain types of ammunition preferred for defensive use.

The more a bullet does what you want it to and engineers work hard to make it do, the more it will be banned.

It seems that this guy wants to make us into England or Australia where the only guns we can (relatively) easily have are rimfire and shotgun limited to birdshot.

This is ridiculously bad, and coming from an ATF special agent makes it all the worse.

60+ activists in Barcelona went into a rabbit meat farm, rescued 16 s then were followed, chased & assaulted by the creepy farmers. Please find more footage, share & follow all of these amazing activists risking their lives for animals & for the truth. live-streams on Instagram pic.twitter.com/isdiyJxQ6I

— Allie Moser Ⓥ (@AllieJMo) September 2, 2019

“Rescue.” You say potato, I say theft. Little girl got herself some birdshot.

PS: Human blood is not Vegan, she is screwed.