Guns are, in a manner of speaking, an appliance. They have a function, and they do it well, for a very long time under most usage rates. The technology is pretty straightforward, the cost is competitive, the technology generally improves with time, and they are easy to operate.
Major home appliances? Not so much. Continue reading
Ry sent me an email with a link to this collection of gun cartoons. A few are duplicates of my collection but there a bunch of new ones as well. I’m going to be posting the ones I’m fairly certain are new to this blog starting with:
Not-so-smart? So perhaps our brainiac cartoonist could answer the following questions:
The answers are:
And furthermore the NRA and most gun owners don’t have a problem with the existence of “smart guns”. They have a problem with and correctly do object to the mandating of “smart-guns” on Second Amendment grounds.
“Smart guns” aren’t smart except in some very limited circumstances. This cartoonist isn’t very smart and should seek help for their prejudice.
This isn’t me. I can quit any time I want.
I shot in another USPSA match today. The results for my division are as follows:
Place |
Name |
USPSA |
Class |
Division |
PF |
Lady |
Mil |
Law |
For |
Match Pts |
Match % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong, Andrew | A83199 | A | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 376.4578 | 100.000 % |
| 2 | LeRoux, Scott | L3253 | M | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 292.5846 | 77.720 % |
| 3 | Gillaspie, Brent | A89049 | U | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 255.9800 | 67.997 % |
| 4 | Denton, Charis | A79746 | U | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 237.9736 | 63.214 % |
| 5 | Mc Nees Jr, Donald | A52430 | C | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 227.0105 | 60.302 % |
| 6 | Sherman, Todd | TY37515 | C | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 215.8692 | 57.342 % |
| 7 | Huffman, Joseph | TY29386 | B | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 213.4978 | 56.712 % |
| 8 | Feucht, Alan | A72439 | C | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 212.2518 | 56.381 % |
| 9 | Fischer, Sarah | A77996 | C | LTD | MAJOR | Y | N | N | N | 199.2419 | 52.925 % |
| 10 | Adams, Bryan | A85106 | U | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 189.7108 | 50.394 % |
| 11 | McClure, David | A71541 | C | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 180.8689 | 48.045 % |
| 12 | Baleros, Rae Arsen | A53054 | C | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 169.9922 | 45.156 % |
| 13 | Cook, Jason | A85741 | U | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 124.4949 | 33.070 % |
| 14 | Mathena, Lee | A54215 | D | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 120.5627 | 32.026 % |
| 15 | Domingo, Noel | A85786 | C | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 106.1564 | 28.199 % |
| 16 | Daniels, Stephen | PEN | U | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 101.9012 | 27.068 % |
| 17 | Reibman, Ryan | A84564 | U | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 95.8378 | 25.458 % |
I really need to practice more. I’m not shooting at a ‘B’ level like I used to.
This match was all classifiers and the “National Percentage” from these stages are, according to the classifier calculator, probably as follows:
It takes 60% to be in class ‘B’. I had problems with each of the stages which accounts for some it. The best example of this was that I shot a no-shoot target and got a miss on “Both Sides Now #1”. If I had achieved the same time and got the A-zone hit I would have had a 72.9621% percentage. I hit another no-shoot target with a miss in “The Roscoe Rattle” which would have translated into 62.9157% had I been a little more careful.
I had some minor equipment problems too. In “Can You Count” I loaded five rounds into each of my magazines because I can’t count as fast as I can shoot. In both strings the magazine did not lock the slide back. In the first string I was a bit confused and it took a while to reload and rack the slide. It happened in the second string as well but I was better prepared for it and it two seconds less than the equivalent first string. Had the slide locked back like it should have I probably would have had something like a time of about three seconds less. This would have resulted in a percentage of 61.6266%.
But I didn’t shoot like that. I made mistakes and my shooting represents that of a solid ‘C’ shooter (40%->59.9%), not ‘B’.
Think of the state as a band of thieves, and you will not be far wrong.
Glenn Reynolds
December 28, 2014
TINKER, TAILOR, STALKER, SPY
[And thugs.—Joe]
As late as 1733 gentlemen of Virginia were said to be naked when they went in public without their swords. They appear not to have gone naked in this sense very often.
David Hackett Fischer
1989
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History)
[What does this tell you about the original intent of the Second Amendment?—Joe]
The worst part of the US is that even though the mass voices arguing against you have the combined IQ of a toddler, their votes are worth just as much.
That country needs some actual leadership to remove the guns and violence. Let the retards revolt and shoot them down with the very weapons they love so much and save countles innocent lives for the future.
Sir Malta
January 6, 2015
Comment to 3D-Printed Guns Are Only Getting Better, and Scarier
[I would like to suggest Sir Malta improve his spelling, grammar, and measurements before he insists those opposing regulation of 3D printed guns “have the combined IQ of a toddler”. But perhaps if he persists in his desire to murder us it is better that he just keep thinking that.
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.
Via email from Jack M.—Joe]
Conflating crime and individual rights is a sign of hoplophobia, a serious mental illness. This calls for an intervention and medical treatment for PBS staff, not propaganda film production. Maybe they could show good faith and publicly sign up for a permanent personal felony-level gun ban, just to be safe.
Alan Korwin
January 12, 2015
PBS scraps ethics, assaults civil-rights group (NRA)
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Via the Firearms Policy Coalition:
In another victory for Second Amendment civil rights by attorney Alan Gura, a United States District Court found a provision of the Gun Control Act of 1968 unconstitutional as applied to some people who, like the plaintiff in the case, are currently law-abiding and not felons, adjudicated as mentally defective, or have a violent criminal history.
This is the second ruling striking down parts of GCA ‘68 in as many weeks.
It’s taken us 47 years to do this but we are finally making progress.
Some revolutions bear fruit, and some kill the tree, but revolutions spring from poison that is already killing the tree.
kchrisc
February 8, 2015
Comment to The Paradox Inherent in Any Slave Nation Revolution
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Height over bore, that is.
I’ve only half jokingly mocked other “future weapon” designs in the past, saying that the trend is toward an ever more clownishly high sight axis. My educated guess is that this is in fact a psychological problem.
With the lower velocity of the grenade/shotgun, it would make actual sense to put it on the bottom, with the flatter trajectory rifle barrel closer to the sight axis.
The new terms like “Soldier integrated such and such” (which obviously turn ordinary warfare into something totally new and different) are also the result of psychological problems. Years ago, while reading one of the supposedly big cheese U.S. military publications, I found that such a thing as an “army” is, technically speaking, no more. No, ladies and gentlemen; we now have a “Soldier-Centric Force Structure” instead, don’t you know, which no doubt changes EVERYTHING.
The advantage you see is that people who have actual experience in stuff are no longer needed, and can therefore be safely and conveniently brushed aside. Who needs an Army General when you can have a shiny, new, Soldier-Centric Force Structure Command and Control Engineering Specialist? Hmm? Was General Patton a Soldier-Centric Force Structure Command and Control Engineering Specialist? I don’t think so. All he did was lead an Army to kill a bunch of folks and break things. Feh!
And who needs a stupid old rifle when you can have something that looks like it came out of a bad Sci-Fi movie written by an ignoramus, and having the ergonomics of a cinder block?
This is somewhat like a family reunion.
Carl Z.
December 31, 2014
[This was part of the note which Carl sent to me with his check for Boomershoot 2015.
It’s true. Many of the people who go to Boomershoot have been attending for many years and it’s the only time they see each other. It’s a very friendly and happy place. No real competition, just everyone turning money into noise, laughter, and smiles.
Be a part of it.—Joe]
Via email from Ry we have this:
Five of Idaho’s universities and community colleges have spent more than $1.5 million to beef up security after the law allowing concealed weapons on campuses was approved, and the schools expect total costs to top $3.7 million for the year.
…
The concealed carry law, passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor last year, took effect July 1. It permits retired law enforcement officers and those people holding the state’s enhanced concealed-carry permit to bring firearms to campus, but bans weapons in dormitories and buildings that can hold more than 1,000 people, such as sports or concert venues.
…
The bill sponsored by Sen. Curt McKenzie, R-Boise, passed by better than 2-1 margins in the House and Senate. A fiscal note accompanying the legislation predicted minimal “fiscal impact associated with posting signage at public entertainment facilities.”
But the schools say they have had to add new staff, provide for training and purchase new equipment.
How did the concealed carry law change their security requirements? The only way this makes sense is if one were to believe that retired cops and people with enhanced, as opposed to standard, concealed weapons licenses are more of a threat than people with no license to carry or standard CWLs.
I think it is very telling that the article doesn’t allow comments.
This like a public restaurant complaining about the costs of segregating their customers after being forced to serve non-whites. These people are either idiots or emulating the KKK on principle.
His evidence is here.
Barb says I’m easy too. But that is in a much different context.
DicklessGunNut @jgpetruna @Mark8065413 @KentAtwater @Frostviper @TANSTAAFL23 @BigFatDave @CJSmith7880 @gunmaster0702
AynRandsTeeth @AynRandsTeeth
Tweeted December 19, 2014
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday! Via a tweet from Linoge @wallsofthecity.—Joe]
When I held my own gun for the first time in my life in this country, I felt empowered and for the first time, I felt free.
If the Communist government took my gun rights away, why are you limiting my gun rights in Colorado? Are you becoming communists? I hope not. I lived under tyranny for 24 years, I do not want to ever live under it again.
Lily Tang Williams
February 2, 2015
Testimony to the Colorado Legislature
[H/T to Catalina Kelly.
I don’t think the transcript is quite right but it is close. The part I quoted starts at about 3:40.
When you hear her voice it is even more powerful than the words alone.—Joe]
Embedding Morse Code in music with life and death consequences.
The message is embedded three times in the song. Even if you don’t know Morse Code if you know to be listening for something you will recognize the spots.
H/T Bruce Schneier.
Essentially the vast majority of the existing population is already suffering to one degree or another under the present day rule. And they are doing nothing to free themselves from their oppressed condition. Other than the very small minority who will join the rebellion when hope surfaces with the insurgency, the majority will remain either neutral (meaning frozen in fear glued to their propaganda mind control devices) or will rise to defend their shepherd……or at the very least their meal ticket. The ultimate enemy of a revolution is not the oppressive government it is attempting to overthrow, but the general population it is trying to ‘free’.
Cognitive Dissonance
February 8, 2015
The Paradox Inherent in Any Slave Nation Revolution — Even When the Sociopaths Lose They Win
[This post has some interesting insights for those who yearn for a rapid revolution. A case can be made that successful revolutions (those that actually change things as opposed to merely substituting one tyrant for another) must occur in the cultural rather than at the point of a gun.—Joe]
Even though I was just commenting for laughs, and don’t really think all gun enthusiasts have tiny pee-pees (actually, they’re sociopaths), I was happy to be of service.
formerChild
February 12, 2015
Comment to How All Your Favorite Liberal Blogs Muffed The Yoga Pants Bill (Which Does Not Exist)
[This is what they think of you: If you are a gun enthusiast then you are a sociopath.
Good to know. Keep that in mind because it will be just one of the many justifications they would use as they herd you into the “education” camps.—Joe]
As I reported the other day I attended a Steel Challenge match last Sunday. Here are the results:
| Stage # | SCSA ID | Stage Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ?? | Go Fast |
| 2 | ?? | No Forgiveness |
| 3 | ?? | Focus |
| 4 | SC-106 | Pendulum |
| Place | Name | Comp | SCSA | Division | Aggregate | Total | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | DQ | Additional |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steve M | 34 | A86909 | OPN | 66.34 | 66.34 | 12.46 | 17.52 | 17.55 | 18.69 | Senior | |
| 2 | Christian S | 23 | PROD | 71.80 | 71.80 | 10.37 | 27.73 | 14.22 | 19.36 | Junior | ||
| 3 | Jon S | 42 | OPN | 83.20 | 83.20 | 12.29 | 31.39 | 21.35 | 18.05 | |||
| 4 | Cel A | 26 | TY54938 | ISP | 83.43 | 83.43 | 12.78 | 18.37 | 21.37 | 30.79 | ||
| 5 | Joe H | 39 | TY29386 | ISP | 96.86 | 96.86 | 16.92 | 23.68 | 25.27 | 30.87 | Senior | |
| 6 | Steve L | 29 | A22574 | OPN | 100.95 | 100.95 | 14.93 | 30.38 | 24.29 | 31.23 | ||
| 7 | Michael M | 1 | PROD | 111.28 | 111.28 | 14.78 | 36.52 | 29.07 | 30.79 | |||
| 8 | David L | 8 | ISP | 121.39 | 121.39 | 21.61 | 28.39 | 29.63 | 41.64 | Law | ||
| 9 | Don C | 11 | A85736 | PROD | 126.14 | 126.14 | 19.73 | 38.49 | 32.14 | 35.66 | Senior | |
| 10 | Steve N | 35 | PROD | 129.43 | 129.43 | 17.59 | 35.38 | 27.84 | 48.50 | |||
| 11 | Mark P | 40 | A75542 | ISR | 129.76 | 129.76 | 26.85 | 39.08 | 31.61 | 32.10 | ||
| 12 | Thomas P | 4 | PROD | 140.92 | 140.92 | 19.94 | 32.46 | 34.12 | 54.28 | |||
| 13 | Brad M | 14 | ISP | 141.71 | 141.71 | 19.15 | 44.93 | 30.84 | 46.67 | |||
| 14 | Koby W | 32 | PROD | 143.88 | 143.88 | 19.58 | 49.42 | 28.43 | 46.33 | |||
| 15 | Jen M | 43 | ISP | 161.30 | 161.30 | 25.17 | 38.62 | 42.54 | 54.85 | Lady | ||
| 16 | Chris S | 10 | PROD | 185.27 | 185.27 | 20.80 | 53.06 | 47.61 | 63.68 | |||
| 17 | Jason F | 46 | PROD | 197.40 | 197.40 | 20.15 | 67.26 | 32.86 | 77.01 | |||
| 18 | Jesse P | 7 | PROD | 201.80 | 201.80 | 25.36 | 53.75 | 45.52 | 77.08 | |||
| 19 | Ryan B | 12 | PROD | 211.82 | 211.82 | 25.77 | 64.61 | 49.41 | 71.91 | |||
| 20 | Craig S | 9 | PROD | 212.21 | 212.21 | 22.93 | 60.11 | 51.89 | 77.19 | |||
| 21 | James W | 13 | PROD | 252.02 | 252.02 | 24.66 | 73.43 | 43.40 | 110.47 | Senior | ||
| 22 | Bob L | 20 | ISP | 336.19 | 336.19 | 51.71 | 86.61 | 86.05 | 117.74 |
I think I did okay for not having shot one in a year and a half. I also had at least three malfunctions in stage 1.
I think there is an error in my score for stage 3. I remember the first two times being in the 7’s and the last three all in the fives once I had it figured out. But they have one of my times as 8.35. I think it should have been 5.35. It doesn’t matter that much. It wouldn’t have changed my placement if that is what really happened.
I have a new part on my bench for my gun that I hope will fix the malfunctions when I try to shoot really fast. I should have it installed and tested by tonight.
