Often when we see a bill being argued we analyze the bill and discuss how it is intended to be used and how it is likely to be used. WHen things happen that the bills originators did not intend we call that “The Law of Unintended Consequences.”

My favorite example of this was G.W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” program. My wife is a teacher. As she explained it to me, the program meant that they could no longer fail a student, “hold back” as they now call it. Every child, no matter how far behind, no matter how many sigmas below mean they might be had to be passed to the next grade.

This was the start of the great push to get everybody through high school. It didn’t matter if the student had earned a high school degree, they were going to graduate.

The harm this did to so many children is propagating through out our current society. Kids that couldn’t read, couldn’t do math, that were ignorant of just about all of history are no adults that are functionally illiterate, incapable of adding two numbers and getting the same answer twice in a row, and are pontificating on subjects where they don’t know what happened 10 years ago much less 100 or 500 years ago.

Ignorant by design.

And all because the teachers unions wanted G.W. Bush’s program to fail. This was my introduction to hating teachers unions. Prior to this, it was only a mild dislike.

In 1993, in response to the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, by a crazy person, the gun grabbers (Chuck Schumer) got the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 passed and signed into law. This established the NICS check program.

Under the Brady Act an FFL was required to run a background check prior to transferring a firearm.

5 business days (meaning days on which State offices are open) have elapsed from the date the transferor furnished notice of the contents of the statement to the chief law enforcement officer, during which period the transferor has not received information from the chief law enforcement officer that receipt or possession of the handgun by the transferee would be in violation of Federal, State, or local law; or

This is language, in the “Interim Provision” is there to light a fire under government bureaucrats. The FFL had one day to file for the background check with the chief law enforcement officer. The chief LEO had 5 days to get a response back to the FFL or the transfer could proceed.

The bill gave the Attorney General 6 months to identify the system they were going to build and a total of 60 months from time of passage to have a NICS system in place. This is because everybody on the gun grabber side KNEW that it would take longer than five days to do the checks that they wanted done.

The actual thought by the infringers was that the NICS system would stop people from buying firearms. It didn’t.

Oh, notice the language “Handgun”. It quickly morphed in include all firearms that are not also NFA items.

There is more language in the bill to allow the states to do their own thing as long as they did the check. And it still required the ability for the FFL to proceed if they had no response within those 5 days.

But now we are seeing a spat of bills showing up that are designed to circumvent this fail safe. The infringers argue that the default should be to NOT transfer the firearm. Just to make sure no bad person gets a gun from an FFL.

But we know what will actually happen. We have the proof already. NFA transfers and approvals take months if not years to be approved. And paperwork gets sent back for minor errors that require the application to be resubmitted.

Every location that had a permit to purchase scheme in place started slow walking applications when the panic began. South Carolina is experience huge backlogs in permits for CCWs.

If we let them add “we were busy” as a reason to delay a transfer you can darn well bet that we are going to see staffing reduced in those places. No need to be efficient or rapid. So what if it takes 6 months to approve a firearm transfer. They should just be happy they are allowed to purchase a firearm at all.

And it would not surprise me if we started to see lubricant being presented to government officials to fast track applications.

Measure 114 out of Oregon already does this. They changed a “no response” to be “wait until we allow you to proceed”. This isn’t an unintended consequence. This is intentional.

Post Bruen the states that are anti-freedom are doing their best to stop people from exercising their right to keep and bear arms.

Watch for more of this “delays should not proceed” legislation in the near future.

Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act

One of two glorious pieces of pork. Mustard, salt, garlic, pepper and brown sugar. It will be sprayed with 50/50 mix of apple juice and apple cider vinegar.

Scheduling for 10 hours of total cooking time. Add one hour of resting and I figure the first lot goes into my stomach sometime after 5 pm.

Almost 5 hours in…

Not a bad color.

And done. Total time including rest? Nine hours. It came out soft as it can be and only needed gloves to separate the meat which is a good thing because I did not want to buy the silly claws. Good heat-resistant gloves however are a nice investment.

It will need to be fine-tuned some. I will play with the rub ingredients and will try injecting for experimentation’s sake. There was a chunck of pork the size of half my fist that did not get as soft as the rest but is quite edible and will suffer my wrath later.

And in case you want to know the procedure I followed, I went with this particular video and recipe.

From the Bureau of Assholes, Twats, and Fuckers just dropped their arm brace rule.

On January 13, 2023, the Attorney General signed ATF final rule 2021R-08F, “Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached ‘Stabilizing Braces,’” amending ATF’s regulations to clarify when a rifle is designed, made, and intended to be fired from the shoulder.

The rule outlines the factors ATF would consider when evaluating firearms equipped with a purported “stabilizing brace” (or other rearward attachment) to determine whether these weapons would be considered a “rifle” or “short-barreled rifle” under the Gun Control Act of 1968, or a “rifle” or “firearm” subject to regulation under the National Firearms Act. The rule’s amended definition of “rifle” clarifies that the term “designed, redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder” includes a weapon that is equipped with an accessory, component, or other rearward attachment (e.g., a “stabilizing brace”) that provides surface area that allows the weapon to be fired from the shoulder, provided other factors, as listed in the definition, indicate the weapon is designed and intended to be fired from the shoulder.

This rule does not affect “stabilizing braces” that are objectively designed and intended as a “stabilizing brace” for use by individuals with disabilities, and not for shouldering the weapon as a rifle. Such stabilizing braces are designed to conform to the arm and not as a buttstock. However, if the firearm with the “stabilizing brace” is a short-barreled rifle, it needs to be registered within 120-days from the date of publication in the Federal Register.

This rule is effective the date it is published in the Federal Register. Any weapons with “stabilizing braces” or similar attachments that constitute rifles under the NFA must be registered no later than 120 days after date of publication in the Federal Register; or the short barrel removed and a 16-inch or longer rifle barrel attached to the firearm; or permanently remove and dispose of, or alter, the “stabilizing brace” such that it cannot be reattached; or the firearm is turned in to your local ATF office. Or the firearm is destroyed.

Please note that this is the text of the final rule as signed by the Attorney General, but the official version of the final rule will be as it is published in the Federal Register. The rule will go into effect once it is published in the Federal Register.

Go check to see if your arm brace is now an SBR.

Act accordingly.

I don’t believe even the fattest of fats can disagree carrying extra tonnage is bad for your health. But the convincing issue is not that you will die younger than a sane person if you do not lose weight; if you are dead, you have no more problems and neither your family once you are buried or have to pay more than others to cremate your body. The problem is what happens if you have an accident or a malady that makes you immobile and bed-ridden? We all are one misstep away from that. The difference is consequences of an accident will be compounded by excessive weight while immobility is greatly lessened if you are fit or at least not morbidly obese.

Let me put it in a way you will understand: You will learn to live marinading in your own urine and feces till somebody comes with a lift to hose you down. You will learn to live developing painful ulcers on your backside for lack of movement and cleaning. You will eventually breath noting but inside air because it is a logistic nightmare to get you out of your room and into an oversized and overbuilt wheelchair that can handle your body. Ignoring you will be the path of least resistance that make life for others easier.

You will go back to eat with a bib because you will be spilling food on your chest and overly protruding belly. You will probably need to breath oxygen because your lungs’ capacity will be diminished by the amount of fat surrounding and constricting them. You will become an example of why we need Death Panels.

And the worst part of all is that you will come around and accept this debasement. And you will not mind putting yours through the misery of caring for you or working more to pay to do so.

I beg you, seek help, lose weight as much as you can.

Larry Correia on Rob “Quisling” Pincus’ new gun.

And I wouldn’t even bother to buy one for peanuts. But Pincus can try and sale it to his Gun Control buddies since it boasts a 10-round magazine which is less murderous that other magazines with higher capacities.