As a former federal agent, I carried a gun and two extra magazines every day — marked “for law enforcement use only.”

My mags held more than 10 rounds — the limit under federal law at the time.

That provision was part of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, which expired in 2004. 1/

— Rep. Abigail Spanberger (@RepSpanberger) July 7, 2023

Because weapons of war do not belong on our streets.

A restored Assault Weapons Ban is an overdue, commonsense step to save American lives. 3/

— Rep. Abigail Spanberger (@RepSpanberger) July 7, 2023

She was a Postal Inspector who then became a CIA Officer.

Her statement was then backed up by a Marine Officer turned Congressman.

I carried guns in Iraq, and I know how to use them. I’ve also seen what they can do to a person.@RepSpanberger is 100% right — large magazines and assault weapons need to be banned from our streets.@SpeakerMcCarthy should put Democrats’ gun safety legislation up for a vote. https://t.co/c7KnUibfl5

— Rep. Seth Moulton (@RepMoulton) July 8, 2023

These people love the idea of government agents outgunning civilians.

There is no evidence at all that magazine capacity bans have any effect on crime.

Even the idea that: “the bad guy can get bum-rushed when he reloads” us fallacious.

These people simply enjoy having privileges that ordinary citizens don’t have.

It’s no surprise that the people who exempted themselves from insider trading so they can make millions on a government salary like having guns and magazines that you cannot.

We’ve seen police hide in the Conductor’s Cab of an NYC subway car and watch the the window while a serial killer with an APB stabbed a passenger.

We watched how an entire Sheriff’s Department set up a perimeter around a school shooter rather than engage.

We watched how a few hundred cops stood around in a school hallway and listened to children scream rather than engage and active shooter.

Then we watched how a cop mag dumped in a golden retriever with a wagging tail that was running away from him, in a quiet suburban neighborhood, in front of a bunch of children.

The common thread is that all these officers wanted to go home safe at the end of their shift.

That’s it. Collect a paycheck and go home at clock-out time.

Fine, but there are a lot of jobs where that can be done. But nine of them are jobs that ostensibly protect and serve the community.

There us no Thin Blue Line.

There are just people with qualified immunity who want to go home safe at the end of their shift.

This is the new flag of American law enforcement.

Feast your eyes on this:

As a reminder:

The Wounded Knee Massacre began when a Lakota named Black Coyote refused to give up his rifle to the 7th Calvary because he had paid a lot of money for it.

The Lakota didn’t give up their guns to protect their children.

I wonder if Lakota Man’s opinion applies to Native American Lakota.

https://twitter.com/BikeThisCity/status/1675701347138834432?s=19

The Soviets knew that they couldn’t throw everyone who disagreed with them into a prison for treason.

A hero soldier who won medals or a popular apparatchik couldn’t easily be dismissed as a traitor.

So the Soviets had a method of dealing with these people who disagreed with the new edicts of the party.

They were crazy.  They were diagnosed with Sluggish Schizophrenia and institutionalized.

They were sent to mental hospitals instead of gulags, although those weren’t that different.

The overall message was that disagreement with the party was either treason or insanity.

The guy in the picture above bought a big truck.

I don’t know why, and I have no desire to speculate.

There are people in the comments who are saying “maybe he pulls a trailer or hauls lumber.”

Those are irrelevant. Cars are like guns in that I believe you should be able to buy what you want.

I have a Ram 2500 because I wanted it. I like it. It was my money and I spent it in something I enjoyed.

That’s enough justification in a free country.

For that reason, Emily here believes that I need therapy.

I disagree with her position and therefore I am mentally unbalanced.

Give her enough authority and she might even decide that I need to be institutionalized until I see the errors of my way.

These people are no different than the Soviets, they just don’t have enough power to do all.the things the Soviets did.

I’m relatively new to this gun stuff. Before the 2000, I didn’t have money for firearms, and after I bought my first round of firearms, I didn’t have money to purchase guns for a long time.

I was forced by good comments to go do math and then visualize it. Thank you, gnuplot.

In the graph above, the first line is purple and represents the Point of Aim through the scope 1.5 inches above the bore.
The second line, green, is a simple constant acceleration of gravity in an ideal environment. I.e. bull crap. It is there so that I can have a verification stage.
The next line is the results from the Hornady ballistic calculator app. The values input are BC of 0.12, muzzle velocity of 1050, diameter of 0.22inches, weight of 40 grains. These are the numbers from the CCI subsonic 22LR ammunition.

From looking at the constant acceleration and the G1 calculations, you can see there is a difference. The bullet is losing velocity in the G1 graph and drops more than 8 inches at around the 67 yard mark. The constant acceleration has that happening at around 72 yards.

Next, I “zeroed” the rifle/scope combination at 25 yards. This requires that there be an initial upward component to the path of the bullet. I did not do the math correctly to modify the initial horizontal velocity based on stealing some of that for the upward motion.

The orange line is again constant acceleration. The curve is tangent at 25 yards. Depending on initial velocity, this might not be a tangent, but instead pass upwards through the PoA curve. The M193 out of an AR15 platform, zeroed at 25 yards, continues upwards for a significant distance.

The yellow dots are the Hornady G1 calculations with an initial upward velocity added.

What does all of this mean? It means I’m a visual person and should have spent the time graphing this stuff, so I could actually see what I’m doing.

Thank you for the feedback.

I’m getting better.

At issue is learning the easy things, but not understanding them.

Before I put the new scope on the rifle, I was hitting my target(s) at random ranges consistently. I put the new scope on the rifle, zeroed it, was, very, happy with the groups I was getting.

For many reasons, I didn’t have an opportunity to press the trigger for a while. My partner wasn’t here to help with the meat processing, the weather was too yucky to flesh the hide. I just didn’t get a chance.

I did glass a number of targets over the week, but no shots taken.

Then the other day, everything aligned, and I was good to go for a shot. I waited until he presented a beautiful side view, sighted in to put a round through his eye… slowly pressed the trigger, bang. And he took off. Clean miss.

Hmm, what did I do wrong? The next day I had another opportunity. Again I waited for a good presentation, lined up to take him through the eye. Pressed the trigger.

That damn critter didn’t even flinch.

Why was I missing at these ranges. It didn’t make any sense to me.

My mind started working the problem.

The answer came to me, bullet drop!

I was wrong.

Over the distances I was shooing, the time of flight was less than 0.08s. Using that old school math, we find that the distance a bullet drops in a given time is 0.5at^2 a=32ft/s^2. Fumble fingering the calculator, that gives me a drop of 1.5 inches.

Shit. That’s more than enough to miss that rodent’s entire head.

Add to all of this that because the rifle is sighted at a known distance, it is only at that distance and one other where the point of aim and the point of impact are at the same level.

At 25 yards, the point of impact will be either 3.5 or 3 inches below the perfectly parallel to bore scope. I say 3.5 or 3 because I do not remember whether the scope is 2 inches above bore or only 1.5.

This means that to have the point of impact intersect the point of aim at 25 yards, I have to point the scope down 3.0-3.5 inches.

But as we move the target closer or further from the muzzle, the amount of drop changes. This makes a difference. There is also that difference in angles. With the scope pointing down to get the rifle bore to point slightly up, there will be a period of time when the bullet is low compared to the point of aim.

After that time, the bullet will be high, compared to the point of aim.

Then we add even more stupid to the equations.

I got the new scope because I wanted the hash marks on the reticle to help me with figuring offsets.

The scope is lower cost, so it is a second focal plane reticle. This means that the distance between hash marks stays the same regardless of the magnification.

When the manual says that a hash is 1 MOA, they mean it is 1 MOA at 9x, not at 4x, where I keep the scope.

This means I need to know the magnification to use the hash marks to measure with.

I’m going to head back to the range and do some actual measuring. Then I’m going to use a ballistic calculator to have a better idea of wtf I’m doing and where that bullet is going to be relative to point of aim.

If things go well, I might even be able to figure all of this out, without blowing up my brain.

Once all of this is figured out, I get to repeat it with the Marlin in 30-30.

I was just cjecking the local news and bumped into this load of BS.

Man Accused of Robbing Murfreesboro Gas Station at Gun Point – Rutherford Source

If you need help identifying the suspect, why effing blurring the face?

And the video in the article seems to be suspiciously edited every time we are about to get a full view of the face. And I bet this is not the only angle available, specially from cameras that are set at face level which I believe is the norm in most chains nowadays.

Why even bother to seek for help if you are too scared to give us details? Because the new norm in News outlets is “not to perpetuate narratives against minorities.” That they are perpetuating the myth that minorities are too fragile to accept one of them is a criminal is probably worse than anything since they are letting a bad guy roam free among them.

Anyway, be on the lookout for a suspicious guy with a blurred face when you go out.

That is a miserable grouping at 20 yards. Somebody in Facebook made the calculation and it comes about 24 MOA; I can get a better pattern with buckshot.

And he was shooting at a static, non-threatening target. Now imagine his grouping if leaded shit was flying at him and was forced to shoot from cover under adrenalin dump…. and there were several bad guys after his ass.

He’d be dead holding an empty weapon.