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Welcome to Friday! It’s almost the weekend.

I really wish that the climate change gods would decide which way it should be. The last couple of nights I’ve gone to bed, it has been so hot and mucky that I didn’t want to be near my lady. Halfway through the night, I woke up shivering and had to pull up the blankets.

On the good news side, we had about two days of sun. It stopped raining just long enough to get the lawn mowed. Of course, the rain has started back up again before I got the weed wacker out

I’m hoping to do some reloading this weekend. I just have to clear a path to the reloading bench. After two years of not being able to find 30–30 bullets, suddenly everybody has them. I’m going to load a few hundred rounds and do the ballistics on it.

I’m halfway through a reference on ballistics. Not only that, but I actually remember some of my calculus from way back when. My first graphs came close to the correct answer, but not perfect. Likely because I wasn’t using the software correctly.

I picked up a laser range finder today. The range cards show up tomorrow. I intend to have range cards for each of the windows in the house, plus some known locations outside the house.

How many of you have ever used a range card? How many of you have actually used a ballistics chart or table to more accurately put rounds on target at distance?

The squirrel article is in the queue.

I expect to do a product review of the range finder after I’ve had a chance to use it for a bit.

Are you interested in articles about range cards and how to use them? I’ve read a bit and I’m going to put it to use, I am NOT an expert.

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It is hard not to say “Bull****!”

And add to that that the Secret Service admitted it found pot twice before and what we have is a security that is not very secure. If it is by design, by pressure or a colossal case of “we DGAF” is still to be decided.

Anyway, my thought is that somebody is going to play alohasnackbar or some other idiotic and uninspired motive and try to breach the White House with a baggie of ricin or anthrax because the perception is anybody can do it and get away with it. .

 

 

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Ocean State Tactical, LLC v. State of Rhode Island (1st Cir)


B.L.U.F.Looking at another amicus brief by Everytown. Since they are consistently filing briefs in all these Second Amendment cases, it behooves us to see what they are saying.

I came back to add this text. You might get angry with Everytown over this brief. Regardless, they did a good job. Their arguments are self-consistent. They take a stand, then hammer the point home. Their goal isn’t to necessarily win these cases, but to give the court something to hang a bad decision upon.


Everytown is now the overarching group for “Moms Demand”, “Mayors Against Illegal Guns”, It looks like they are claiming “March for our lives” but they don’t do so by name. They claim to have nearly ten million “supporters” with nearly 10,000 of those “supporters” in Rhode Island. Make not that “supporters” are not “members”

For the tax year 2020 they had total revenue of $20,492,640. $20,288,442 of that was from contributions. They reported expenses of $52,280,883 for a net lose of $31,788,243. The largest listed expense is $11,390,489 for other salaries and wages and around $500,000 for the Executives and fundraising. I could not find a “members” number. They only speak in nebulous terms, which could mean anything from a person going around knocking on doors, to the mom that dropped a five dollar bill in their begging hat.

Using the standard modification of language, they claim [Everytown] is the nation’s largest gun-violence-prevention organization, with nearly ten million supporters across the country, including nearly 40,000 in Rhode Island.Amicus Curiae, Brief for Ocean State v. Rhode Island, No. 23-1072 (Court of Appeals)

Argument Summary

Rhode Island’s large-capacity magazine restriction is constitutional under the approach to Second Amendment cases established in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022), for the reasons set out in the State’s
brief, Dkt. 00118022922 (“State Br.”). Everytown submits this amicus brief to expand on three methodological points. First, on the initial, textual inquiry of the Bruen framework, Plaintiffs have the burden to establish that large-capacity magazines are protected “arms” within the meaning of the Second Amendment, and they have not met that burden. Second, in applying the historical inquiry of the Bruen framework—asking whether the regulation is “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation,” 142 S. Ct. at 2130—the Court should center its analysis on 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified. Moreover, 1868 is not a cutoff; examining “legal and other sources to determine the public understanding of a legal text in the period after its enactment or ratification” is also “a critical tool of constitutional interpretation.” District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 605 (2008) (second emphasis added). And, as Bruen instructs, this is particularly so where, as here, the challenged law implicates “unprecedented societal concerns or dramatic technological changes.” 142 S. Ct. at 2132. Third, Bruen’s analysis reveals that a small number of laws can be sufficient to establish this nation’s tradition of firearm regulation, at least so long as there is not overwhelming affirmative evidence of an enduring tradition to the contrary. Although not directly implicated here, given the robust historical record before the Court, we highlight that point in case the Court chooses to address it.
id. at 3

This is pretty clear. The first thing they do is argue that magazines are not arms. More, they place that burden on the plaintiffs (good guys). In many of the infringing cases, we see the state argue this. “AR-15s aren’t arms”, “Big magazines aren’t arms”, “Sawed off shotguns aren’t arms”, but a hunk-o-alumninum is an arm, a plastic stock is a machine gun as is a shoelace.

The second thing is, they argue that the court should look at 1868 as the date to understand what the Second Amendment means. We have discussed this in previous posts. The date of the 14th amendment’s ratification is the date at which 3/4s of the states agreed to accept the Bill of Rights as it was understood in 1791.

They did not redefine the meaning of the Second Amendment in 1868. They affirmed that they accepted it as it was understood in 1791.

Their final argument is that there has been “unprecedented societal concerns or dramatic technological changes” which means that they don’t have to match historical regulations as closely.

The last two arguments are very telling. It means that the state and state operators, such as Everytown, understand that there are no good matches to laws in the founding era. Since there are no good matches, they need to either change the time period or they need to open up what “a good match” means.

They also make the claim that a small number of laws will provide a “tradition and history” of analogous regulations. They are begging for the court to give them as much leeway as possible.

Plaintiffs Have Not Met Their Burden To Establish that the Second Amendment’s Plain Text Covers Their Conduct

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Beer cheaper than soda? That happens when you kill a brand.

The sinking of the Titanic was not this painfully spectacular.

Went online and checked the price of mini cans of Coke (7.5 fl oz.)

That comes to$0.40 per 7.5 fl oz of Bud Light versus $0.64 per 7.5 fl oz of Coke.

And it is being said that the star/asterisk at the top right corner of the sign indicates that the item will not be re-stocked.

Costco will not be offering Bud Light any time soon. Losing rack/shelf space in any store is bad. At a wholesale warehouse? Catastrophic.

Ouch.

 

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Always carry a knife

This pitbull attacks on a child took place in China.

That is a totalitarian country where you have no right to defend yourself.

Chinese government will shoot the dog for biting you, shoot the owner for having a dog that bites, and probably shoot you for being bitten by the dog and going viral.

In America, most of America I should say, you have options.

There are many comments about poking the dog in the eye.

That won’t work with pitbulls.  They are fighting dogs, they fight through the pain to the death.

The only thing you can do is kill the dog or choke it unconscious.  That takes time.

A knife to the throat is much faster.

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California is proving QAnon to be a documentary

California Assembly committee blocks bill that could have sent human traffickers of kids to prison for life

The California Assembly committee on public safety blocked a bill that would increase the charges for human trafficking.

The Golden State lower house committee considered Senate Bill 14, which would make the human trafficking of children a “serious felony.” Serious felony charges under California law currently include murder, rape, and any other crime which may incur the death penalty or life sentence in state prison.

However, instead of upping the ante on child traffickers, the California Assembly Public Safety Committee nuked the measure on Tuesday.

I’m trying to come up with one logical reason that California Democrats wouldn’t want to make the sex trafficking of children a serious felony that isn’t “they are a cabal of pedophiles that trade in trafficked children,” and honestly, I can’t think of one.

The only reason I can fathom someone not wanting to make the sex trafficking of children a serious felony is that they traffic in children.

I’m convinced QAnon isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a documentary about the Democrat elite.

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I don’t think Cancel Culture is the only reason.

MyPillow is auctioning off hundreds of pieces of equipment and subleasing some manufacturing spaces amid what founder and CEO Mike Lindell calls “a massive, massive cancellation.”

Lindell, in an interview with the Star Tribune, said MyPillow lost $100 million from “attacks by box stores, the shopping networks, the shopping channels, all of them did cancel culture on us.”

Several retailers, including Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Kohl’s, pulled MyPillow products from their shelves after Lindell continued to claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Trump.

 

MyPillow auctions off equipment amid ‘massive cancellation,’ CEO Lindell says  | WKRN News 2

I had seen on TV he was doing some massive discount offers and started to wonder why. OK, not really wondering but I think it was not only the Cancel Culture alone but his own mouth.

Mike Lindell calls DeSantis a ‘Trojan Horse’ | The Hill

Mike Lindell baselessly calls DeSantis’s win into question – The Washington Post

‘Unhinged’ Mike Lindell Rant Targets DeSantis Election Results (newsweek.com)

Mike Lindell Accuses Ron DeSantis of Benefitting From Voter Fraud (newsweek.com)

 

 

Is this a preview of things (and votes) to come? Stay tuned.

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