I went to a USPSA match last night after work.

I showed up in my usual competition gear: a Bianchi gunbelt, and Blade-Tech holster and mag pouches.

It’s served me well for years.

I was running a SIG P320 with a fiber optic front sight and adjustable rear.  Limited minor was my classification.

I was the oldest competitor there, at 40.

Everyone else was running battle belts with MOLLE attachments and Cobra buckles, retention holsters, guns with red dots and weapon lights. They had fixed blase knives, blowout kits, and tourniquets. Everything in Multicam.

Two guys were in training plate carriers and bump helmets.

I was prepared for a friendly shooting competition.

They looked like Delta about to raid a cave in Afghanistan.

I didn’t know this was the new standard.

I felt like such a boomer Fudd.

The Left is doing a massive end zone dance over the decision by the Illinois State Supreme Court that the Illinois assault weapons and high capacity magazine ban was constitutional.

BREAKING: MAGA gun nuts have a complete meltdown as the Illinois Supreme Court rejects a conservative challenge to the state's lifesaving assault weapons bans — marking a major victory for gun reform.

But it gets even worse for Republicans…

The court's vote came down to 4-3… pic.twitter.com/vBxUzO1Yba

— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) August 11, 2023

Anyone who knows anything about Illinois politics could have seen this coming a mile away.

The Illinois State Supreme Court always upheld gun control.  Concealed carry was forced on Illinois by the federal 7th Circuit.

The Democrats are celebrating this so hard because they lost every SCOTUS decision on guns since Heller.

I’m hoping this goes to SCOTUS.  With their track record, they will most likely shoot down all AWB and magazine capacity bands.

This thread had nothing to do with guns, but with subsidies for battery powered cars.

But he felt the need to dismiss a valid argument because the accout making it was pro gun, and then doubled down by advocating for sending pro gun people to gulag.

It’s always, ALWAYS, about their desire for total control.

They hate you and want to work you do death in a camp.

The only reason they haven’t yet is because you own guns.

Me and Jerry at the range.

Me and Team Sig.

Lots of people there.

Lots of guns.

Lots of shooting.

Amazing that nobody Chris Kyled a gun culture celebrity.

Actually, it’s not.

This is precisely why I have no faith in a YouTube gun influencer becoming a Congressman.

He made his fame and fortune with gun porn, getting people to watch videos of him shooting guns they could only dream of (the very essence of porn).

When the opportunity came to have a big shoot at a public range, he decided with his YouTube gun influencer friends, that you non-famous people were just too dangerous to be allowed at the range.

What happened to Chris Kyle was a tragedy but also unbelievably rare.

Knob Creek let people fire off belt feds and artillery, and nobody got shot.

I’ve been at matches open to the public where famous competitive shooting celebrities were there and they were cool.

Jerry Miculek is the nicest guy you’ll ever meet.

But Donut and Herrera are special.

They won’t deign to share a range with the hoi polloi.

Maybe he will be a good pro-gun politician.

But right now he still reeks of “I’m special because I’m rich and famous and you’re not” and we already have way the fuck too much of that in DC already.

We watched The Blues Brothers for family movie night.

My son was confused about Illinois Nazis and the line “those bums won their court case.”

My wife explained to him about the Nazis wanting to march in Skokie and this was a reference to that.

He was taken aback by the idea of Nazis marching in America.

I snidely remarked: “That’s why I own a shitload of guns and twice as much ammo.”

He looked right at me and said:

“That’s pretty smart, dad.”

That’s my boy!

You know that I hate gun influencers.

Brandon Herrera is running for Congress.

We’re now entering a quantum singularly where Congressmen and Women are becoming internet influencers and internet influencers are becoming Congressmen.

So I posed this question to him.

Serious question:

Would you support a repeal of the NFA and/or Hughes Amendment?

— GunFreeZone Blog (@GunFreeZone) August 12, 2023

Personally, don’t have high hopes.

In my experience, the guys who invest lots of money into NFA items talk a big game until they realize they might lose value on their investments.

Maybe he’ll answer me, maybe he won’t.

But if he’s really a politician, you know he’ll fuck over the gun community before doing anything that depreciates the value of his NFA collection.