Gun Free Zone

My YouTube feed dropped this jewel in my lap and sent me drooling: The Ruger Deerfield in .44 Magnum.

So my next step was to check in Gunbroker just to find out they want a couple or more mortgage payments for one of those sticks. I also find out that they were only manufactured for something like 6 years and dropped which may mean it was either issues with the manufacturing, quality control problems or simply not enough buyers. Whatever it was, it is a shame they are not being produced anymore.

I secretly want a carbine in .357 Magnum. but what is available comes in the lever action flavor and are priced in the couple of mortgage payments too.

I know, We are experiencing a huge distortion in the market and guns are expensive. But back to pistol caliber carbines, Ruger has made a killing with the PC 9 and I am not saying they are super affordable, but shooting 9mm +P aint precisely shooting BBs

I took a couple of side jobs and managed to save enough to get me a PC9 before the big escalation in prices. It had been unfired till the SW Florida Blog shoot and I was not ready for what I got. Boy, what a frigging gun and deserving all the accolades it has gotten in different places. Out of the box accurate, low perceived recoil and the reliability of grandma’s old pedal sewing machine.

The only “improvement” it has is the front sight painted green with a special and hard to find high-visibility paint….from Walmart.

I was amazed at the ease of shooting and the accuracy of the carbine. Once I found the front sight, hitting a small plate (I think 6″ x 8″) at 25 yards became boringly accurate. The only addition will be a small light for night work and that’s it. I won’t even bother with a red dot.

Now comes the point of the post: Dear Ruger: Can we get a Takedown PCC in .357 Magnum? Pretty please! I am sure you guys can come up with the proper evolution of the Deerfield. And at least 6 rounds.

(Cue Mike Kupari and Michal Bane screaming for a Ruger PCC in .44 Magnum 🙂)

I think editors in South Florida already left for the Thanksgiving holiday and left the Junior team in charge. Hint youngins: Accompanying images are important!

I am trying to enjoy my meager diet breakfast (all 294 calories) while watching a bit of TV when I am shown this “patriotic” ad which ends this way.

Who was the dumb bastard in the ad company who decided on this message?

ALL:  the whole amount, quantity, or extent of.

All Lives Matter, at least in my opinion and probably most common folks, include Black lives. Yet, we are being bombarded that somehow “all” is not all but there is some sort of exclusionary section that is keeping Blacks from being part of “All.”

Now, when I say All Lives Matter, I am including everybody’s and stating that every live is worth being respected. I still have not seen where “All Lives Matter” come with an asterisk and then the very small cursive at the bottom that says “conditions apply, see dealer for limitations, This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm, it may cause diarrheas and hair loss. See a sociologist if you experience discomfort.”

To me, when I have idiots expressing the pictured imbecility, I read it as 1) They see themselves as less than other people or 2) They know it is bullshit, but wanna play with that pony to see if they get shit for free and without making an effort. Both are insults to the men and women of the Civil rights movement who toiled and died for equality and even a bigger insult to those Black who do not need to be treated like retarded children by their own and have somehow managed to make a life for themselves and their children with honest labor and lots of love.

But somehow, I am with the Klan because I do believe All Lives Matter.

One last thing: If your belief is All Lives Don’t Matter, then do not bitch when you are treated like pond scum or worse. you yourself indicated your life is not worth respecting. Enjoy the fruits of your labor.

From the country formerly known as Great Britain:

Police are reminding people to remain vigilant and always report anything suspicious after a man was jailed for possession of ingredients for explosives and terrorism-related offences.

Filip Golon Bednarczyk, 26 (28.01.94) of Luton, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, 24 November, for one count of making or possession of explosive(s) under suspicious circumstances, contrary to Section 4 of the Explosive Substance Act 1983; and seven counts of possession of documents of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, contrary to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Man jailed for terrorism offences

Was a cache of bombs discovered? Pipe bombs ready to be used? was he ready to do his own version of the Gunpowder Plot?

Detectives from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command arrested Bednarczyk at his home address on 11 December 2019 after they identified him as someone who bought suspect items from the internet. A search of his home address recovered instructional documentation for the production of gunpowder and C4 plastic explosive as well as a number of ingredients for making explosive devices. However, no terrorist-related activity, or imminent threat, was discovered.

Forget the “ingredients” part. Most everybody with a basic sense of cleanliness and home maintenance will have the proper chemicals that can be used to create some sort of explosive. Heck, if you have a glass container, a bar of Ivory soap and a gallon container of gas for your lawnmower, you have the ingredients for a Molotov cocktail. And notice that it does not matter if the Crown could not prove that there was a criminal intention in the part of Mr. Bednarczyk: the mere possession is enough which is something we already have to a certain degree in this country.

While I was reading the article, I paused for a second, looked around my office and had to chuckle at the thought of the series of heart attacks if this room was in the UK and Tactical Bobbies would come in. The reloading components alone would make for a 2 mile radius evacuation and call just about every Explosives Ordinance tech in the country.

But that is not what I wanted to point out, but the “recovering of instructional documentation” that rung my bell. The Left hates the First Amendment as bad as the Second and probably they do not have much affection for the rest of the Bill of Rights. They need to make one chink in the armor so they can blitzkrieg in and declare any non party-approved thought or information a crime worth the death penalty or  “therapeutic  psychosurgery” (Lobotomy) or at least 20 years in a re-education camp in Alaska.

And after what we have seen Facebook and Twitter do to the dissemination of their propaganda and the Fact-Checking (AKA Memory-Holing Light) you can rest very unassured that the same legal fate that fell on Mr. Bednarczyk, will eventually fall upon our land.

I am almost sure you don’t track Kung-Flu cases that way

It has come to start shifting the blame to those who are unaffected by the virus. I believe that those tested negative and those asymptomatic will be treated the same as if they were “guilty” of “White Privilege.”

“How dare you feel good when there are downtrodden in our country that will die because of you!”

They are indeed a mentally sick bunch.

It is too early for this crap. I need coffee.

Hat Tip @ShootyMcBeard

FACT: Greenhouse gases generated by the U.S. will slide 9.2% this year, tumbling to the lowest level in at least three decades. @EPA

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) November 24, 2020

This is largely because of the pandemic and the economic catastrophe it wrought. “The biggest drop in emissions this year came from the transportation sector, where emissions fell 14 percent, dragged down by a steep drop in air travel and automobile trips.” https://t.co/FTgyAliz2M

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 24, 2020

US CO2 emissions in 2019 were the lowest they have been since 1992. Per capita emissions were lower in 2019 than they’ve been at any time since at least 1950. https://t.co/iXebSmyXRR

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) November 24, 2020

Ah so now we’re talking about last year? Ok cool yes that’s true. So why was that?

“The story of the emissions decline has largely been one of market forces—rather than policies—that have made utilities close coal plants in favor of cheaper natural gas and renewable energy.” https://t.co/dIO44Ldtwc

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 24, 2020

2/ https://t.co/cQMpxLQyFp

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 24, 2020

So Trump policies favored lower carbon emitting technology that reduce CO2 emissions and fuel/energy costs.

But… that’s still a problem.

And despite the success of 9.2% carbon emissions, the Left is excited that yacht and private plane owning millionaire John Kerry is taking over as Biden’s climate czar and will put us back in the Paris Accords.

BREAKING: Joe Biden announces more picks for his national security and foreign policy teams, including former Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry to lead the incoming administration’s effort to combat climate change. https://t.co/0j1rkKPyVw

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 23, 2020

Why?  Because it was never about the climate.  It was always about the control.

A free market driven success at reducing CO2 emissions without tying our hands in an international treaty doesn’t give them the micromanaging control they crave.

Trump could have cut CO2 emissions by 50% and they would still piss and moan about the Paris Accords because they want to control you life.

COVID, climate, climate, COVID, it’s all the same, a crisis that gives them justification to control your life.