Ballistic Therapy: 12 gauge edition
Tokarev TX3 12HDM A1, Turkish clone to the Remington 870 and sporting a gorgeous Carry Strap/CW Sling/2-Point Sling from Andy’s Leather wich matches the Turkish walnut. I am not particularly a fan of wood for fireams, but I have to say I do like the furniture on this shotgun.
I needed to pattern it, so we went over the SisInLaw’s place and let a few different rounds fly at different distances till I found the one that performed better IMHO.
And if somebody is thinking “that could make for a nice looking trench gun,” you ain’t wrong. I have the bayonet mount kit on my bench and trying to find and M7 Bayonet at a cheap price which apparently are hard to find.
Baltimore leaders criticize police (Damned if you show up, damned if you don’t)
BALTIMORE – Nearly three hours before a mass shooting turned a south Baltimore neighborhood block party into a scene of terror and bloodshed, the city’s police department received a call about hundreds of partygoers armed with guns and knives – but on-duty officers decided no police services were required.
The decision contributed to a “catastrophic breakdown” in police communication and response during the hours leading up to the July 2 shooting, top city officials said at a city council hearing Thursday evening.
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Two people died and 28 others were wounded when gunshots tore through a large crowd filling the courtyard of the Brooklyn Homes public housing complex as the annual summertime celebration continued after nightfall. Most victims were teenagers and young adults. Officials said there were multiple shooters but haven’t provided an exact number. Police arrested one teenager accused of bringing a gun to the event, but he hasn’t been charged with shooting anyone.
Baltimore leaders criticize police
Why cops did not respond earlier or simply gave a damn till SHTF?
Part one:
Baltimore’s troubled history with policing was thrust into the national spotlight years ago following the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody. Since then, city leaders have focused on reforming the Baltimore Police Department and repairing public trust, especially within the Black community. Critics say this latest failure threatens to jeopardize recent progress.
Part two:
The Baltimore Police Department has been under a federal consent decree since 2017 because a U.S. Department of Justice investigation found a pattern of unconstitutional policing practices. Worley said the consent decree monitoring team, which helps oversee the court-ordered reform process, will be heavily involved in reviewing the shooting response.
I believe the answer lies not on systemic racism as the articles goes in great lengths to imply, but that cops simply are not going to risk going to prison getting involved in a community that wants them behind bars or six under. Doing nothing does not cover them from criticism, but it beats wearing orange rompers or a nap on cold morgue table, plus they are covered under No Duty to Protect.
They voted for “reform” and they are getting paid with the bullets of those enjoying the castration of the police department.
Well fuck him then
At 7.5%, if I bought a house right now, I’d be paying $2,500 more per month in interest alone than I did when I last moved and bought a house in 2021.
That makes it absolutely unaffordable to make a mortgage payment.
This is the killer of inflation.
That should be any presidential candidate’s top priority, curbing inflation.
After that, energy prices.
I just paid $670 to fill of my oil tank after two months. Heating oil also heats my water heater, so even in the summer I burn heating oil. I just burn it at about half the rate in the summer than winter, so in January or February I’ll go through that much oil in one month instead of two.
But no, the big concern is Ukraine not having enough military support.
Fuck Pence and Fuck Ukraine.
Two college educated professionals working good jobs should be able to afford a house in America, but we can’t.
Fix that first.
Ocean State Tactical, LLC v. State of Rhode Island Reply Brief
B.L.U.F.We took a look at the bad guy’s arguments via Everytown earlier this week. Today we look at the reply brief submitted by the appellants/plaintiffs (good guys).
There is a huge issue that the good guys have to overcome in these cases, getting the Court to do their job. If you look at the plain text of the Second Amendment, is the proposed conduct implicated? If so, the conduct is presumptively protected under the Second Amendment.
The state is doing all in their power to make this first step as difficult as possible. As we observed in the Everytown brief, they don’t have any historical regulations to support their infringements. Because they don’t have the history nor the tradition, they desperately want to stop cases from getting to that point.
There is an old legal aphorism, “If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.”
When I write about “emotional blackmail”, I’m discussing how the state is pounding the table. They don’t have facts on their side, they don’t have the law on their side. They pound the table in frustration, begging the court to give them just a little inch.
What this means, at a tactical level, is that the lawsuit almost all say “It is a regulation of conduct that is protected under the Second Amendment. Grant us an injunction stopping it.” The state then gets to do the song and dance “welllllll, it isn’t actually an arm. It doesn’t go boom boom.”. Or they try and say that as long as they allow you this arm, they don’t have to allow you that arm. All of this is just bonkers when the plain text is used.
Introduction
The plaintiffs start their response:
—Ocean State Tactical, LLC v. State of Rhode Island, No. 23-1072, slip op. at 1 (Court of Appeals for the First Circuit)
My lady has a difficult time answering simple questions. “Are you done with your homework?”. Reply: “Sort of, I’ve been working on it for hours. The …(172 words later) so I’m still working on it.” “Thank you, are you done with your homework?” “I just told you.” “No, you didn’t. You said many things in response to a yes, no answer without ever actually answering the question.”
The state is much like that. They don’t actually answer the question presented and instead talk about this or that. The plaintiffs (good guys) can’t force the state to answer. Only the Court can do that. If the state doesn’t answer the court, then the court can treat that none-response as meaningful.
—id.
Exactly what we have been saying. I’m pleased that this reply has stated it so clearly. I expect to use this in the future.
These guys really hammer the state: “Pretend”, “fiction”, “deny Bruen“, “ignore what the Supreme Court”. This is polite lawyer talk for “the state is a lying sack of flaming dog poo”.
HB6614 Violates The Second Amendment
“ZOMG! They is banning books! Them dictaters!”
“Any of us who have taught history understand that the first thing an autocrat does is bans a book.”
Watch & share: @rweingarten on the dangers of book bans and the joy of reading. @MoveOn #BannedBookmobile #ReadingOpensTheWorld pic.twitter.com/TfhwOzq764
— AFT (@AFTunion) July 13, 2023
Here is a photo for you. You probably have a copy of the same item.
This book was/is banned in Venezuela.
I bought this many many years ago when I went to college in the US, then I moved back to Venezuela taking it with me. Even prior to the socialist cockroaches running the country now, if you were caught with this or similar books, you were going to have a very nasty time in the hands of internal security and spend some extended time in their dungeons. Or they could just have said you were some sort of danger to the country and shoot you on the spot.
And yet, they could not stop me from owning one.
Banning books is impossible (ask the Soviets about samizdat) and that goes tenfold in the era of electronic publications.
What the stupid Lefties are claiming to be bans, are just the equivalent of movie rating system. Yet they make it sound like Republicans have an army of Guy Montages cruising libraries and schools setting books on fire and arresting teachers for having forbidden publications.
But I wonder what their reactions would be if I showed up at schools demanding to read Unintended Consequences, Enemies Foreign and Domestic, 1984, A Brave New World and even The Turner Diaries.
Or worse: The Bible.
Please, spare me the histrionics.
PS: I accidentally published an earlier version of this post which was unfinished and piss-poor written. My apologies for any confusion)