I’m never giving up my guns: Columbia protesters edition

 

He seems nice.

This “student leader” very passive-aggressively threatened to murder all Zionists.

That’s only 95% of Jews.

He wants to free Palestine so badly, he’s willing to commit a second Holocaust to pull it off.

I’m never giving up my guns.

The one thing I am grateful for, is that it seems like the people who want to mass murder us here in the US are a bunch of soft, pampered, panty-waists not accustomed to violence.

That makes it easier for someone like me who trains to administer it to counter.

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Not worth the paper it’s printed on

 

Victim identified in fatal Parkville shooting

The shooting came in a Parkville apartment complex in the middle of the afternoon on Sunday, and after the shots rang out, the gunman didn’t appear to be in a hurry to make his getaway.

In the initial stages of the investigation, police said they didn’t feel there was anything random about the shooting.

Police have now identified the victim as 27-year-old Shakeia Allen, and court records suggest that in recent months, police had been to her former home on Bayberry Road for multiple domestic disturbances.

In late February, police responded to a report that her ex-boyfriend had assaulted her while she was trying to move her things out of the home.

When they arrested him the next day, he surrendered a handgun that he had holstered inside his waistband.

While police still haven’t named a suspect in her murder, just last week, a hearing for a protective order involving both parties was dismissed when they failed to appear in court.

She says she got a restraining order.

The news says she didn’t.

Either way, the threat of violating a restraining order wasn’t enough to stop (presumably) her ex from murdering her.

I am not victim blaming.

She did what she was told to do by society.

A court order and a piece of paper, however, is meaningless to someone intent on causing harm.

You are your first and last line of protection.

This is why shall issue is important and Constitutional Carry is ideal.

When someone threatens you enough to make you get a court order against them, you need to be prepared for the chance that they will ignore it.

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The idea of impartial journalism has been long dead so, why the pearl clutching?

Because he lunged and hit a cop from behind which is bad manners and piss-poor strategy?

Was it on purpose or accidental? No idea. But shit happens in a mob situation and none of it is good.

And no, I do not believe that a journalist is immediately assumed to be neutral when they have now for decades kissed the asses of the political pundits they adore. They sure as hell do not mind about my life and I shall return the favor.

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Harvard Freshman Orientation

This is the very possible future why we not only need high(er) capacity magazines, but belt-fed weaponry and all in full auto.

 

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It is the little things that drive me bonkers

On Saturday, I made a piece of scrap metal. I did a stupid, and then could not recover.

Then I proceeded to think my way out of my issue and into an incorrect answer.

Today I did the job over again, making different mistakes.

I’ve had more crashes making this backplate than any other task I’ve done.

The safest way to cut threads to a hard shoulder is to not cut towards the hard shoulder, cut away from it.

This means that you need to run the lathe in reverse. You have to position your cutter upside down or on the back of the side of the work.

Both options require a “left hand threading tool.” Don’t worry about it. Left hand and right hand just indicate which side of a tool the cutting edge is on.

Working in reverse, cutting an internal thread from a hard shoulder is simple. You pull the tool towards you, away from the work. You move the tool to the left to a hard stop. Your tool is now in the correct position along the axis. You then dial in the cut. This is the amount of material you are going to remove.

The final step is to engage the half nut. When you do this, the cartage starts to move away from the shoulder at the pitch required. When the cutter leaves the work, you disengage the half nut, rinse, and repeat until you have cut your threads correctly.

Chances of a crash? Almost none.

With my lathe, this can be an issue. The chuck is just screwed on. This means that it will just unscrew if the cutting force is high, and you are turning the chuck in reverse. You can make light cuts, but you have to watch, and you have to be careful.

This means I don’t do it. I don’t have the right tools to do it. That has been corrected.

I will be able to cut in reverse shortly.

If you are not cutting to away from a hard shoulder, you need to have a relief groove for the threading tool to enter. Without that, there can be issues with thread form at the end of the cut.

I have external grooving tools, I didn’t have an internal grooving tool. That has been corrected.

Because I didn’t have the left hand boring bar threading tool, and I don’t have that grooving tool, I decided to just do a through hole and thread that.

Because I turned my cross slide, all of my clearances are different. Even when I checked for clearances, I still messed up. I had the cross slide touch the work, no big deal but stupid. I had the 7/8 drill touch the jaws. About the only touch that didn’t happen was the tooling.

I got the threads cut. I got the registration cut. I then went to measure and double-check the size of the registration boss for the chuck.

That is 0.53 tall and 2.26 in diameter. The 2.26 will be cut to fit the chuck. The hole was bored to 1.75. It was then threaded 8 TPI. This means it has a major diameter of 1.87 or so. The size matching hole in the chuck back is measured at 2.17 this gives me 0.29 inches. Divide that in half, and we have 0.145 wall size, instead of the 0.59 that we would have done if I had used the proper design.

Regardless, I now have a collet check on a backplate that fits my lathe. The world is better.

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