Gun Free Zone

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Earlier this year a buddy and I went on a 3 day overland trip to the white mountains, but got stuck in snow day 1. Buried axle deep without any recovery gear (unprepared) And not enough cold weather gear. We ended up staying the night on that pile of snow as the snow had turned to ice as soon as the shade hit us. (Im not used to overlanding or camping in snow, usually just desert camping here in AZ) and yes we spent all day digging

Towards the end of day 2 of being stuck and digging all day, potentially getting ready to sleep on that snow again, we heard something… it was a 4 wheeler. Old Guy was turkey hunting.

He helped us dig for 4 hours…. He was on his hands and knees and he wouldn’t stop digging. Eventually his dad showed up who he radioed with some short straps. Him and his dad pulled my truck out with 2 tiny 4 wheelers in mud ice and snow!

The mental battle finally ended. I’ll never forget that experience, the feeling I had while we were stuck, and the feeling afterwards. Relief and Pure joy. I’ll never forget those 2 guys.

They were a great example to me. They didn’t need to help, he could’ve seen us and turned around. But he saw us digging and saw how bad it was, and still chose to try and help.

In the picture he’s wearing NODs and $150 tactical pants.

They are driving a $70,000 Ford Raptor.

They had the finest in tactical gear and flashy goon squad Instagram gun influencer shit money could buy.

They didn’t have food, water, blankets, cold weather gear, good shovels, a winch, tow straps, or any of the gear necessary to not die of the elements.

In WWI, there were more combat casualties from frostbite, trench foot, and disease than bombs or bullets.

These guys were going to get wiped out like the German army in Russia.  Not from enemy action but snow.

I’m absolutely going to dump shit on them for this because this is exactly what I expect from tactical influencers.

If the shit ever hits the fan, it’s good to know that if I want NODs and an HCAR, all I have to do it wait for the rich influencers with them to freeze to death, and I can take their Gucci gear off their corpseicles.

The ULVN shooting that happened last week is pretty much off the Media radar by now. The shooter was a Caucasian, but the moment it was known it was a university professor (and probably a Liberal), the “importance” of the event dissolved. Other than another statistic to be (mis)used by the Gun Control groups, this is now a non-event.   And the official soft-excuse/explanation/consideration for the guy’s behavior has been already given in this article: ‘Cry for help’: Forensic psychologists weigh in on UNLV shooter’s behavior (ktnv.com)

Scholastic Gun Free Zones keep collecting victims and it seems those living in them still fail to see they are just prey-in-waiting, but keep blaming guns for the killings. Yesterday I recalled the argument gun banner keep using against carrying on campus: “It will chill the free exchange of ideas” which is remarkably unfunny when you know the ideas only flow one way with fascistic determination. Heck, being a Jew on some campuses right now means you get to be chased by a mob of angry idiots waving Palestinian flags and chanting about genocide.

Is there evidence that a group of armed individual can sustain arguments and discussions without solving the dispute with guns?  How about concentration a dozen (or a couple of hundred) armed people who know how to shoot in an enclosed area and add a competition mixed with discussing politics and candidates? Because that is what shooting sports is almost every weekend somewhere across our nation. And if the Gun Grabbers’ dogma was true, we would have victims every weekend. Instead, we have a whole lot of paper perforated, a bunch of spent brass and/or hulls rolling around on the ground and maybe a feeling or two slightly scratched and that’s about it.

But we are the dangerous ones. In a sense they are right: We keep proving them wrong.

The sound quality isn’t great in this version, but here is the one and only Eartha Kitt

And with much better sound:

In the midst of doing much needed ballistic therapy with friends, some shooting was done from a Henry Carbine into ballistic gel. On the left we have Federal Punch 124gr and on the right Hornady’s Critical Duty 135 grains. Both showed good expansion and no detectable mass loss.

Also, a frangible was tested, but truthfully, I would barely trust it to stop a rabbit.

B.L.U.F.
First article about choosing powders. There is another article coming on the same topic, covering different parts.
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I had been “gifted” a box of reloading supplies. This was a bunch of 30-30 bullets, some miscellaneous things, and 200+ .45 ACP cases. This sat on a shelf for years before my friend mentioned that one of her co-workers was selling his reloading press. I offered to buy it.

Today I know that I over paid. What got was a Lee Single stage press. Not enough for me to reload, but enough for me to at least get started. Along with all of those .45ACP cases was a set of dies for .45ACP. Maybe two sets. I know I have two sets of .45ACP dies now.

I decided that I was going to learn how to reload to make some range candy.

My history with guns started very late in life. I managed to sell a domain name for a boat load of money. That money went to numerous things. That included a 7.62×39, 7.62×51, 5.56×45, 9×19, and a .45ACP. Along with each of those, I purchased 2000 rounds of each caliber.

I was down to around 500 rounds of .45ACP and made the reloading plunge.

So there I am, with numerous tools and no idea how to use them. Since my press said “Lee” on it, I purchased the Lee reloading manual. I still have that book.

I read the section on how to reload twice and then went shopping for what I needed to complete my first round of reloading.

According to that book, I needed:

• Bullets
• Primer
• Powder
• Calibers
• Powder measuring device

Do NOT use this list. It is incomplete, in my opinion.

The measuring device they recommended was a volumetric device. Little calibrated scoops. Each scope would measure out a fixed amount of powder, by volume.

The Lee people had taken many samples of different powders to find their density. Once they knew the density of a powder, they could translate a load given in grains into a volume in cubic centimeters. If a powder was consistent enough in density, and the safe charge could be made with one of their powder measure scoops, they would give that measure in their recipes.

They are so confident in this method that each(?) die set from Lee comes with a powder measure scoop that should work with some powders for that caliber. And they have that reloading information with their die.

As you can tell from this tale, I bought into this. The cost of the entire set of scoops was less than a scale.

Having decided I was going to reload this way, I had a set of powders that “worked” with this method. I went to my LGS and looked through all the powders they had until I found one that matched the list of powders I had recipes for. That happened to be Accurate #5.

I brought it home, primed 5 cases, put powder in 50 cases. Checked the powder level in all the cases, then seated the bullets in each case.

All the rounds worked. I had successfully reloaded 50 .45ACP cartridges!

Why did I choose that powder?

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B.L.U.F.
What is the difference between an as applied challenge and a facial challenge to law?
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In Antonyuk v Hochul, the plaintiffs challenged parts of New York’s CCIA on facial grounds. This is to say, they claimed that the challenged legislation is always unconstitutional.

For example, it has been established that a ban on all handguns is unconstitutional. There is no case in which it would be considered constitutional. The state argues around the fringes, if a ban on all handguns is unconstitutional, how about a ban on some guns?

Consider a different civil right, a right protected by the constitution, the right to assemble for free speech.

In my town we have a commons. It has a pretty gazebo and during the summer months they will have open air concerts and art festivals and discussions and all sort of assemblies. If I want to show up and start playing my fiddle (badly) at the gazebo, there is no issue.

On the other hand, if I would like to have an ‘event’, I need a permit.

The first question asked is, “Does this touch fingers with a core civil right?” The answer to that is an unequivocal “YES”.

Since the proposed conduct, having an event on the public commons, implicates the plain text of the First Amendment, it meets the first prong of a facial challenge.

Permitting is well established, so only a lawyer interested in fleecing me would take the case, but assume it got into court.
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B.L.U.F.
This is the long-awaited opinion from the Second Circuit court regarding the CCIA challenges. This panel was anti-gun, there is nothing negative in the opinion that is surprising.

What is surprising is that we won even a little bit.

The plaintiffs will either request an en banc rehearing or take it to the Supreme Court. I believe that the Antonyuk case is at final judgement at the district level. If that is the situation, then this case is ripe to be heard by the Supreme Court.
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The Second Circuit Court has finally issued their opinion on New York state’s Bruen tantrum. It isn’t great.

If you are applying for a CCW in New York, you no longer have to give social media information and access, private property no defaults to “carry ok” rather than “gun free zone”, and Pastor Spencer and his church members can carry in religious locations.

Everything else seems to still stand.

Background

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