Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
Miguel.GFZ
Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack.
Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA.
I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed.
I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.
Alan Dershowitz is a Liberal with a mind like a bear trap. You just don’t pick a battle of wits against this guy unless you are very prepared.
And he is a lefty, a traditional one. But he is infected with a malady that makes him unpalatable for many Pols on the Left: He is honorable. He does not speak with a forked tongue just to be in the good graces of people and score political points.
I have no qualms about him not being a friend of the Conservative movement. But at least I know he will come at you from the front.
He will soon disappear because the Left will despise him even more every day: He makes sense.
While trying to document the horrific event and the subsequent response from paramedics and police, a shirtless man demanded that she stop recording. When she disregarded him, the man punched her in the face, knocking her to the ground. “Stop the (expletive) recording!” the man could be heard shouting at Lorenz in the video as her phone clattered to the ground.
Lorenz was one of many journalists who found themselves in the line of danger during the clash between White nationalists and counter-protesters earlier this month. Saturday’s violence ultimately turned deadly when James Fields Jr., 20, of Ohio, drove the Dodge Charger into a crowd, according to police.
Take the time to read the rest of the article. The author Brando Shulleeta compiles several other incidents including one I posted about. You will find something missing: The political identity of the attackers. Why? They all have been attributed to the Antifa/Left, the same side the journos prefer.
Hell, you have to admit that Mr. Shulleeta is crafty enough with the language by even try to make it appear it was the Other Side/Nazis rather than Antifa/Left. “The injury occurred while he was covering an anti-fascist march” is the recurring theme without actually naming the attacking side.
Antifa knows they can get away (mostly) with attacking people recording events since either most do not reply, press charges or are even arrested by police. But I have the feeling they are going to target “certified” media now because it is cool to attack the big ones if they are not only not blame them but place responsibility of the attack o the other side.
So, you cannot insult the media calling them whores when they act like they were just beaten by their pimps.
From what I had left of my Gun Fund, I was able to get this rifle for a price that it is embarrassingly cheap through a states sale by Denis Badurina’s shop Dragon Leatherworks, longtime friend of this blog.
From what I have gathered online, it seems I scored a Model 70 National Match and although I am not an expert on condition, it looks used, shot and cared for. Not a Safe Queen nor abused.
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An astute and observant reader may have already find what is “wrong” with my rifle: No sights. Even though they came with the rifle out of the factory, for some reason they are not present. Long short, inquires were made, but the original sights could not be found.
Of course, being an ignorant about bolt-action rifles and specially the Model 70 and specifically this particular subspecies, I thought that just tossing some rings and any scope would do the job. Boy was I wrong. First, good or even average scope stuff is EXPENSIVE. From tools to the tube itself? It could be from triple to eight times what I paid for the rifle and I had already expended my funds to the point of leaving enough for a Happy Meal.
Then I realized that the top of the barrel is not quite your regular thin barrels in hunting rifles. It has blocks forward of the receiver and that looked vaguely familiar. I looked online and looky here what I found. US Marine Sniper Rifle with a scope.
That is a long scope! And now a effing classic which commands four to five figures in a Free Market if you can find it. “Fortunately” a replica is being made and sold in Midway USA: Leatherwood Hi-Lux William Malcolm USMC Sniper Rifle Scope.
I did say “fortunately” because at $575 plus whatever I need to pay a good gunsmith to mount it is way past what I have in my Gun Fund. Why not mount it myself and save some bucks that way? I heard Harry Callahan whisper in my ear “A man’s got to know his limitations.”
After all the scare-mongering by Gun Control fanatics and swearing on a stack of Bibles that Campus Carry in Georgia would reduce enrollment, this apparently did not happen, but just the opposite.
However, two very recently famous places of higher education have seen their enrolments drop:
You remember her? I know you do. Melissa Click, University of Missouri professor.
COLUMBIA • Out-of-state students and incoming freshmen are among the hardest hits to University of Missouri enrollment data announced Monday. Undergraduate enrollment is down more than 2,100 students, or almost 8 percent, this semester compared to fall 2015, and almost three-quarters of that loss comes from the freshman class.
But Evergreen faces a deeper, and more long-term threat. It is the only state four-year higher education institution to see enrollment drop steeply since 2011 despite wide-open admission standards. At about 4,080 students, it is about 300 students short of the Legislature’s funded enrollment target.
The two problems are now entwined. Evergreen President George Bridges and his administration need to assure future students and their parents that academics come first — and not acquiesce to the 200-or-so student protesters at the expense of the 4,000-student campus. Without safety, there’s no learning, and without learning, Evergreen will wither into irrelevance.
I am not going to say that Campus Carry helped increase enrollment, but sure as heck it did not hurt it. However, unhinged Liberalism is slowly destroying other places of learning. Maybe this is why the Left is suddenly found with a hard-on for Free College. People who needs to shed tens of thousands of dollars in tuition are going to be looking for stability and common sense, not Social Justice Warriors interrupting classes and parading around campus badly dressed in Suicide Squad’s Harley Quinn Cheerleaders .
The Michigan Gun Owners organization and Michigan Open Carry, Inc. hosted a picnic on Saturday, Aug. 19 at the park to get together and exercise their right to openly carry their holstered handguns in public.“With open carry, we bring gun ownership out of the closet,” said Tom Lambert, president of Michigan Open Carry, Inc. “In that strategy you see success, because people learn the truth. They learn that their friends, neighbors and family are gun owners, and they’re not bad people.”Lambert said several picnics are held every year in different locations around the state. He emphasized the picnic was not in response to any particular event, just an opportunity to openly carry and advocate for the groups’ cause.
Some years ago, I bumped into this documentary in the History Channel. It is about the last month of the Civil War and how the people involved ended up defining the future of the United States and that includes one Robert E. Lee.
It is about an hour and a half, so I’d say you save it for a time of relaxation and comfort.
After watching it, I ordered the book and devoured it. I did not now the respect that Lee commanded among officers in both sides. I did not know Appomattox was not the official surrender of the war but rather the first. That honor and respect were given to the surrendering party because honor and respect were the norm. We have lost a great deal of that and some want it totally out so history must be rewritten.
Most Americans do not comprehend how unusual was the US Civil War. Usually and unless one side is erased from the map, civil wars have aftermath that last for decades and even centuries as the region that was the former Yugoslavia demonstrated (First record of internal war? The year 1490.) The United States did not have a guerrilla warfare to deal with by the Government, nor did flare ups between armed groups ever occurred, most everybody went home and rebuild their lives. For all the problems that went unresolved then, there was never anther taking of arms.
“Boys, I have done the best I could for you. Go home now. And if you make as good citizens as you have soldiers, you will do well. I shall always be proud of you. Goodbye. And God bless you all.” Lee addressing his troops after signing the surrender at Appomattox.
On the other side of the lines, Union soldiers began to celebrate. Artillerymen fired their guns to salute the victory over Lee. Grant heard the artillery booming and sent orders that it should stop. “The rebels are our countrymen again,” he said. “We can best show our joy by refusing to celebrate their downfall.”
It was the honorable men we had back then who by honor alone triumphed over scum, and God there was scum on both sides. Lee’s properties were confiscated and after Lincoln’s assassination, some idiot thinking he was paying the ultimate disrespect, used Lee’s land as burial grounds for Union Soldiers. Today it is known as Arlington National Cemetery and I pretty much doubt General Lee would have found nothing but honor in hosting the resting place of servicemen who laid their lives for this country.
The question we need to ask ourselves is: Is there Honor left?
One of my nieces is a teacher and though her Social Media postings I found out that her school and many others are going to close Monday for “security reasons.”
According to Space.com “The maximum duration of totality for this eclipse will be 2 minutes and 40 seconds.” That is all. People are behaving like the seas will rise, mountains will fall, satellites will come crashing down to the Earth while we are covered in darkness for ages. We are gonna shut down schools for safety reasons because there will be a grand total of minutes and 40 seconds of darkness. That is not even enough amount for a decent necking and a reach for second base!
And these are schools we are talking about! Center of alleged knowledge!
And then the hysteria about the eyeballs falling off the eyes, cooked from the eclipse. In 1970 there was an annular eclipse and it was very nicely seen in Venezuela. It was a school day and we actually were at school learning our stuff. We were told to bring welder mask’s glass or welding goggles to watch the eclipse. Of course, most everybody did not have access to those items, but not to fret, the school provided pieces of dark film to each class to be shared among the students. When the time for the eclipse approached, we were herded to the huge parking lot which had been watered and was now covered in puddles. The Brothers came out on the P.A. and told us that we were to look at the eclipse though the film and into the puddles… and it worked! Hell some of us even look without the film and it was bright but we did not go blind or burned retinas. Maybe a ghost of the eclipse if we closed our eyes and that was it.
The eclipse was like any other eclipse: short and a let down after having endured pretty much the same hysteria we are seeing today was being told back then. When I got home, mom told me that the chickens we used to keep, went to their perches to sleep and then freaked out a bit when the sun came out again so fast. But other than that, cats, dogs and neighbors were pretty much the same.
You figure that 47 years later, we would have progressed a bit about eclipse B.B. but apparently not.
