I caught this beautiful tidbit regarding why Dick’s stopped selling Evil Black Rifles:

The board agreed to reject blood money.

I could not let go of that load of Fake Righteousness, so I replied:.

This CEO only “destroyed” weapons that will have almost zero probability to be involved in any type of crime just to appear cool to the Woke Club.
Now, if they were really into eliminating the Blood Money, they should go into the books, find out how much they made selling guns all these decades and begin a Buyback of all the stuff they sold.
It is easier to say “Hey! I am not selling Bad Ugly Bang Stick Anymore, Love me! (But Eff You I am keeping the profits from all the ones I sold before)”

This is a SJW variation of criminals and their enablers excusing their behavior:  “I am not killing anymore so I should not be prosecuted, in fact, you ought to thank me and allow me to live my life unencumbered.”  In Catholic terms, you confessed but made a fake gesture of penance, there is no real contrition because you have failed to repair the harms you inflicted. So, if Dick’s CEO considers guns to be bad and doing damage to the community, he should actually do something that shows his commitment to his self-imposed penance such as donating every single penny they made selling weapons through the years to a children’s cancer charity.  And. of course that includes a part of what he has made through the years from the company, right?  That is true penance: It has to hurt.

Why is it that many of the same people who are pushing for marijuana decriminalization or legalization are at the same time at the forefront of banning flavored vaping?

Marijuana has been clinically proven to damage developing brains.

While Nicotine is not good for you, the negative effects of vaped nicotine are much less than that of either smoking or marijuana.

In fact, published medical research indicates that marijuana smoking has a greater risk of causing lung cancer than smoking tobacco.

And while I don’t vape, I can tell you I prefer the smell of flavored vapes which have taken the place of cigarettes in the break areas at work.

I for the life of me cannot understand why for so many politicians, they want to legalize a recreations substance that destroys your brain and deadens your emotions while increasing your risk for cancer and smelling like burning skunk’s asshole, but they want to ban a relatively harmless substance that smells like fruit punch.

The trailer does not do it any justice, but you need to see this movie. The amount of amazing acting pouring out of Stephen Lang will floor you. I know it did me.  But he could not do less as he was honoring Medal of Honor recipients.

I saw it in Amazon via the IMDB app which is free but you will have to deal with a few commercials.

Do get antihistamine.

This example of Dead Che should be imitated by every idiot that still believe in Marxist fairy tales.

From the Tampa Bay Times:

Pinellas sheriff yanks 309 rifles over ‘serious manufacturing’ issues
The final straw came when one of the weapons made by Odessa-based Adams Arms failed to fire.

The issues with the Adams Arms rifles began almost immediately.

The first batch of AR-15s ordered from the Odessa-based manufacturer by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office had some trigger problems, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said. Then, in later batches, a few rifles switched on their own from semi-automatic to fully automatic fire.

That is very, very bad.

The sheriff warned the company: Give us a refund or inspect every rifle and put it in writing that they’re functional.

Then came the final straw. A deputy went to shoot one of the rifles at the range and when she pulled the trigger, nothing happened.

That is worse.

Deputies traced the defect to the manufacturer. The sheriff had seen enough.

He took 309 Adams Arms rifles out of service last month, ordered replacements from a different manufacturer, and meantime reshuffled the remaining rifles.

Gualtieri is seeking a refund of just over $300,000 from the company.

That’s going to hit someone right in the Christmas bonus.

Another Tampa Bay area agency, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, also has Adams Arms rifles.

A spokesman said Friday that the office hadn’t found any issues with its weapons but was still reviewing the problems that Pinellas flagged.

I bet they will double and triple-check everything.

The progression of problems the Pinellas sheriff experienced raises questions about how the office decided to go with the boutique manufacturer in the first place.

The Adams Arms purchases didn’t go through a competitive bid process, the standard practice in government for purchases over a designated threshold where an agency solicits proposals from potential vendors and ranks them against each other.

This is why bids and competitions are important, they weed out problems like this.  Also, something smells fishy…

Competitive bidding isn’t required by law for sheriffs, independent constitutional officers in Florida who are subject to rules different from those governing local governments.

Ummmm…

Still, experts say competitive bidding is still considered best practice for keeping the process transparent.

I agree.

Instead, Gualtieri relied on a memo from a training deputy that cited internet research.

“Everything you read on the internet is true.” – President A. Lincoln, April 13, 1865

Pinellas started buying rifles in or around 2006, Gualtieri said, originally from Rock River Arms, an Illinois-based manufacturer founded in 1993.

In February 2014, then-Deputy Matthew Seymour wrote a memo recommending Adams Arms. Seymour said the Adams Arms rifle was almost identical to the Rock River gun but featured an operating system that made it “a cleaner, cooler and more reliable running weapon.”

The original gas impingement system has served the military in almost every climate on earth, under a wide variety of conditions for over 50 years.  The AR-15 was not designed to run a piston, and there are issues that piston systems cause in that platform.  Only a few companies have developed really successful piston systems, the rest are novelties.

No law enforcement officer or civilian will ever be in the kind of firefight that gives any advantage to a piston system, and unless you are going to drop huge money on an HK or LWRC piston, it’s not a system I’d trust.

He compared Adams Arms to nine other brands, including giants such as Bushmaster and Ruger. In his comparison, he cited the manufacturer’s websites, online gun forums and Wikipedia.

“The idea to switch from Rock River to Adams Arms was pushed from the bottom up,” Gualtieri said.

So rather than test fire, they just used gun forums and Wikipedia.

Sounds like a fanboi got this department to buy a bunch of his favorite rifles.  Makes me wonder if he has a buddy that works over there.

Gualtieri signed off on the purchase in April 2014. The first order was for 18 rifles at a cost of about $881 each.

Also included in the Pinellas deputy’s memo was a recommendation from a Pasco corporal, who said the agency was happy with the customer service at Adams Arms and found that the guns “operate flawlessly.”

Pasco County Sheriff’s spokesman Kevin Doll emphasized that the recommendation was from deputy to deputy and not an official recommendation by the Sheriff’s Office.

The Pasco agency didn’t go through a competitive bid process, either.

Why does the word “kickback” suddenly appear in my mind?

So two Sheriff’s departments bought guns based on internet reviews and a couple of deputies saying they loved the guns and did no trial testing.  Now at least one department has major safety and reliability issues and has been burned on $300,000 of taxpayer money.

This whole thing is a disaster.

There are a lot of AR-15 makers out there, it has become a cottage industry.

That’s the good news.  The bad news is not every maker builds to the same quality and reliability.

Before you bet your life on something, make sure it’s good.

Also, this is another good reason for concealed carry.  Even if the police respond quickly, there is no guarantee that their equipment will function flawlessly.

Just think about what happens if an officer responds to an active shooter and his gun goes *click.*  Who is going to save you now?

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a portion of a controversial Florida law that called on local police to cross state lines to assist federal immigration officials but left in place a provision where the officers would have to hold undocumented immigrants until the feds pick them up.
…
The law allows the governor or attorney general to take action on elected officials who don’t comply with the law, including removing them from office.

All Florida cops and elected officials will be forced to comply with ICE as of Tuesday

This was a nasty slap in the face of the Florida Liberals, specially the South section of the Miami Dade County. Now allow me to tell you how much of a controversy this has been down here: I found about this decision taken 8 days ago by sheer happenstance in a LEO sub-reddit. The news did not make waves significant waves when it was passed and then signed the same way almost nobody had heard the court’s decision  from a week ago.

If a suspect has a retainer from ICE, it is more likely for a violent crime or gross immigration violation. The media always will print/show the poor mom who hs been 25 years illegally in the US and she has kids and grandkids born in the US as if hers was the type of case ICE only goes after. They will ignore the serial rapists or ultra violent illegals because it screws up the Open Borders narrative they support.

South Miami Mayor Stoddard said the decision makes for “bad law from a municipal standpoint.”

“As soon as the community perceives the local police as agents of ICE, they stop talking to the local police, and that makes everybody less safe,” he said. “Now, there will be a whole segment of our community unwilling to report crimes. It’s already the case in a lot of immigrant communities, and this makes it worse.”

Here is  quick lesson on the demographics of Miami Dade. Although I am not sure exactly where the border line is, the South of the county is were the thick of the Mexicans and most Central Americans migrate for agricultural purposes with the exception of Hialeah Gardens which is also known as Little Nicaragua.  The North is Cubans, the Caribbeans and pretty much the rest of South America: Colombians, Haitians, some Dominicans (they tend to move to NY with the Puerto Ricans), Venezuelans, Brazilians, etc.

There is no love lost between North and South of the County, same as in real life with the countries. Anybody saying this is a lie is trying to sell you a Liberal/Latinex political fantasy. I cannot speak for the proclivities and customs of the County Southerners, but the County Northerners have no issue with ICE deporting illegal aliens who are violent criminals. You wanna see a bunch of pissed off Latinos? Let them know that the guys who raped Little Maria was released on bail and it is now walking the streets because the Mayor believes in no extradition for violent scum just to poke Republicans in the eye. Pepe the Rapist will be invited to a picnic in the ‘Glades and would never be heard from again. And if they had the chance to invite the Mayor to the same festivities… Basically, if they can drop the dime on an Violent Illegal, they will do it and rightfully so because they love their families as much as any other ethnic group.

Oh well, draining the Swamp in Swamp Land was needed…