A ban on handguns. Licensing and registration of long guns. Background checks. There’s three ideas…
Disarm @Disarm
Tweeted on June 10, 2014
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
28 Nosler
175 grains at over 3,000 fps. Owww!
I’ve been using the Berger VLD (Very Low Drag) 7 mm bullets which have an amazing ballistic coefficient for the weight, and do very well in the 280 Remington A.K.A. 7mm Remington Express cartridge. I’m sure they’d do very well in the new Nosler cartridge also.
Gun safe expansion tools
Sometimes I wish I could just expand the size of my gun safe a little bit. It seems like there should be room in it for another gun or the magazines but it just doesn’t seem to work out. And I don’t want to buy another safe. I’m cramped enough for floor space as it is.
A few days ago I was asked if I would link to web site for gun storage solutions. After looking at the site a bit I decided they had some good products and agreed.
The Rifle Rods and Mag Mounts look particularly interesting to me.
You can’t really expand the gun safe in a practical manner but you can get more stuff into it if you organize it better.
C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism
I have never been a big fan of C.S. Lewis in general. When I received the following email I very nearly responded back with a negative response:
Dear Joe,
Could I interest you in please posting a notice on your blog of the following new YouTube video from the C.S. Lewis Society of California of my keynote talk at the first annual conference of Christians for Liberty, that was held at St. Edwards University in San Antonio, TX, August 2, 2014?
Thank you for your kind consideration!
Best regards,
David
——
David J. Theroux
Founder and President
The Independent Institute
100 Swan Way
Oakland, CA 94621
(510) 632-1366 Phone
(510) 568-6040 Fax
http://www.independent.org
I decided that I should at least watch a minute or two of video before rejecting it.
This quote at about 2:25 in the video made me decide to post it:
Could one start a Stagnation Party—which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?
C.S. Lewis
1940
Naïve, stupid, crazy, or malicious
Some people “want to make it harder for bad guys to get guns”. Okay. I understand the sentiment. I can even understand that some people are more “practical” than principled.
People with far different principles than I have long made a “principled” case that economic central planning is better than a free market. Such a system “will make everyone more equal.” But that “principled” approach is easily defeated by pointing out the practical results of those experiments. Tens of millions murdered by their own governments and shortages of even essential products.
We have the principled approach of an inalienable right to keep and bear arms protected by the Second Amendment. What data do they have which contradicts this? Why can’t they understand it’s a fool’s mission to keep guns away from the bad guys?
This is from a UK paper article titled How did the Paris terrorists get hold of their weapons?:
In 2010, police in Belgium stated: “Counter to what you may have heard, it’s not easy to get hold of a Kalashnikov.” To prove them wrong, a reporter for Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure managed to do so in less than six hours.
The evidence is overwhelming that black markets supply any product which is both technically possible and people have the money for. The price might be higher and the quality may be lower. But where there are buyers there will soon be sellers.
The examples are all around us as well as in history. Think of prohibition. Think of recreational drugs. As I have said before, “The average high school dropout can get all the recreational drugs they want within an hour anytime of the day, any day of the week. So just how effective you think a background check would be in reducing the abuse of recreational drugs?”
The people that insist that background checks, bans, restrictions on ammunition sales, and “gun free zones” cannot be right in the head. They have to be willfully naïve, incredible stupid, have mental issues, or they are malicious.
When you are dealing with people like this there is no value in compromising. There is no value in “agreeing to disagree”. There is no value in “respecting their opinion.” These people need to be defeated. They need to be put in their place. They need to be made an example of. They need to be made politically irrelevant. They need to be prosecuted. They are prejudiced bigots. They need to be swept into the dustbin of history. The should be despised as a 21st Century version of the KKK because this is what they are.
Quote of the day—Craig Wallace @Craig Wallace
Meanwhile … guns. Ban them all.
Craig Wallace @Craig Wallace
Tweeted on December 15, 2014
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Kafkatrapping
I came across a great new word today at ESR’s blog. “Kafkatrapping”
The term Kafkatrapping is based on the story “The Trial” by Kafka. (whole story here)
The definition: a form of argument that, reduced to essence, runs like this: “Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…} confirms that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…}.”
There are several variants of it explicitly discussed and described in the blog post. Well worth reading. We run into it a lot from the left, and among anti-rights activists generally.
Quote of the day—Severine Lee@SeverineLee
Six killed in Philadelphia shooting rampage- you need better laws! Ban guns! http://abc.net.au/news/5969666
Severine Lee @SeverineLee
Tweeted on December 15, 2014
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Today is The One Day…
…we are told, by someone (?) to celebrate the life’s work of one Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – gun owner, second amendment supporter and NRA member.
OK, but if I approve of his message and his efforts, then surely every day is MLK Day, no? Just as, if you’re a Christian every day is Christmas.
Anyway; I wonder what MLK Jr. would say today, more than 50 years later, of race relations and the moral state of Americans. I don’t recall him having said;
“I have a dream…of a day when a little black child and a little white child will sit down together, and the little black child will accuse the little white child of exercising “White Privilege” and blaming him for his problems. I have a dream of a time when over ninety percent of all black people will sell their votes to the political party of the KKK in exchange for largess, indoctrination into the authoritarian system, lies and broken promises. I have a dream of a time when black people are corralled into dysfunctional, government-union-controlled schools, discouraged from using the schools of their choice, and taught hopelessness and anger instead of hope and love, and I have a dream today, People, of a time when government will have replaced the father in the majority of black families…”
No, I don’t recall him saying any of that, but that is apparently what some people are celebrating today, while calling for more of the same.
Quote of the day—roastbeeftacohat
Bushmaster has been marketing the AR15 as a penis enhancer for years.
roastbeeftacohat
2013
Comment to TIL there’s an equivalent to Godwin’s Law for gun ownership debates called Markley’s Law: As an online discussion of gun owners’ rights grows longer, the probability of an ad hominem attack involving penis size approaches 1
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!
To be fair, in context it’s difficult to say if he was being sarcastic or serious. I searched through hundreds of his comments on reddit and couldn’t find anything that supported the sarcasm hypothesis. There were some hints that the serious hypothesis were valid but nothing definitive.—Joe]
Video of my I-594 speech
You can read the speech here.
The fumbling involved in turning to the last page only lasted about a third as long as I thought it did when I was in front of the crowd.
Other speeches include Bill Burris and Washington Representative Matt Shea.
USPSA match results
The last USPSA match I shot was in October of 2012. That’s two and a quarter years ago. Yesterday I shot in another one with a different group of people.
Two years ago I came second out of eight in my division. This time I came in fourth out of 10. I was fairly pleased with that result. But the main thing I was hoping to do was come in ahead of my son-in-law, John Vlieger. But I was a long way from accomplishing that result. Even if I had not had messed up one stage badly I still would have not beat him:
MCTS USPSA January 2015
1/17/2015
1/17/2015
Match Results – Limited
| Place | Name | USPSA | Class | Division | PF | Lady | Mil | Law | For | Match Pts | Match % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vlieger, John | A79695 | B | Ltd | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 580.4732 | 100.000 % |
| 2 | McIngvale, Trip | FY62076 | M | Ltd | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 559.8666 | 96.450 % |
| 3 | Sturdivant, Peter | TY80329 | A | Ltd | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 514.8913 | 88.702 % |
| 4 | Huffman, Joe | TY29386 | B | Ltd | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 363.6948 | 62.655 % |
| 5 | Fox, Todd | U | Ltd | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 360.9411 | 62.180 % | |
| 6 | Sturdivant, Charlie | TY80586 | C | Ltd | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 348.6704 | 60.067 % |
| 7 | Standley, Robert | A49729 | B | Ltd | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 344.5438 | 59.356 % |
| 8 | Mecklenburg, John | U | Ltd | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 286.2143 | 49.307 % | |
| 9 | Maloney, Edward | U | Ltd | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 206.3510 | 35.549 % | |
| 10 | Fata, Paul | U | Ltd | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 165.8097 | 28.565 % |
Oh well. It’s just more incentive to get out and practice more.
Quote of the day—user1089750
What a festival of disturbing, unbalanced, one-issue low IQ retards.
user1089750
January 15, 2015
Comment to Hundreds at Capitol protest new gun-purchase background checks
[This in regards to the I-594 rally in Olympia. This is what they think of you.
I would like to suggest they just keep on thinking that. Delusions are often functional right up to the point where reality obliterates them.—Joe]
Quote of the day—betterway006
Frankly I don’t really care what the bill says. If it all impedes the manufacturing, sales, ownership, transfer, etc. of guns I’m in favor.
betterway006
January 15, 2015
Comment to Hundreds at Capitol protest new gun-purchase background checks
[The “bill” being commented on was initiative I-594 in Washington State.
I’ll do my best to make sure this is used as evidence against them at their trial.
Don’t ever let someone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Yung Basedgod @BitchmobBoi
Ban all the guns cause they killing people
Ban all the weapons cause they killing people
Ban all the guns cause they made from evil
Yung Basedgod @BitchmobBoi
Tweeted on December 24, 2014
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
594: Rally For Your Rights
Sean Flynn and I woke up at an obscene hour this morning and drove to Olympia Washington for the rally to oppose I-594. As you might imagine from the number of QOTDs he has provided and the numerous posts that mention him it was a pleasure to have him as a companion for the drive.
At the rally last month I didn’t talk to anyone and only recognized Mike Vanderboegh (his thoughts on today’s rally are here). This time I saw and talked to a number of people including Barron and Janelle, Gay Cynic, Dave Workman (I didn’t really talk to him, just nodded “Hi!”, his thoughts on the rally are here), Anette Wachter and Charles, Alan Gottlieb, Brian Keith, and numerous other people I recognized.
I believe my speech went okay. Joel Connelly from the Seattle PI made mention of me in his blog post about the rally. He said I was “from a group called Boomershoot” which doesn’t really make any sense, but did correctly note I quoted Any Rand from Atlas Shrugged and The Virtue of Selfishness. I suspect he intended that to mean that I could be dismissed without further thought because in a couple sentences he said, “About the day’s only reflective remark came from State Rep. Brian Blake, D-Aberdeen, a Democratic legislator who actively opposed I-594”.
Brian Keith told me my speech got a bigger response than all the speeches prior which was my impression as well. I’m nearly certain there was only one speech after mine that got a bigger response from the crowd.
The text of my speech is “below the fold”. If you are a regular reader of my blog there isn’t any new material here.
Me giving my speech. Photo by Sean.
Barron and Janelle
Some of the LGBT contingent.
Some of the I will not comply contingent.
It’s instructive to see the selection of photographs the Daily Herald (Everett, Washington) posted of the rally. It’s all guns and images that reinforce the stereotypes the anti-gun people want to believe are true. They didn’t include any pictures of ordinary people standing around listening and applauding like what I saw:
After the rally I visited the offices of my representatives then attended a luncheon with other activists and some lawmakers.
Quote of the day—Ashley @almostpolitical
I’m just going to say it. I think we should ban guns.
Ashley @almostpolitical
Tweeted on December 29, 2014
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Matthew Foss
Matthew Foss
From here.
[I don’t know the date or which of the many Matthew Foss’s in the world wrote this. I don’t know if it was a parody or sincere. If you find out let me know so I can update this post.
Assuming it was sincere…
Just so you know what they think of you and what they want done to you.
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Ari Spool@arispool
I think I’ve tweeted that we should ban guns more in 2014 than ever! Banner year for us needing to ban guns
Ari Spool@arispool
Tweeted on December 20, 2014
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Coalition of Gun Rights Speakers Scheduled for Jan. 15 “594: Rally For Your Rights”
Via wagunrights.org:
Join us in Olympia on Thursday, Jan. 15 for “594: Rally For Your Rights” starting at 9 a.m. The event will showcase Evergreen State activists showing their support for gun rights while at the same time contacting and hearing from and meeting with their local lawmakers to discuss their concerns.
Scheduled speakers will include State Sen. Pam Roach (R-31st), State Rep. Brian Blake (D-19th), Rep. Liz Pike (R-18th) Rep. Lynda Wilson (R-17th), National Rifle Association Senior State Liaison Brian Judy, plus Adina Hicks, executive director of Protect Our Gun Rights Washington, Paige Biron with the Pink Pistols and Rick Halle with the Gun Rights Coalition, Alan Gottlieb (Second Amendment Foundation, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms), Paige Biron (Seattle Pink Pistols). Rick Halle of the Gun Rights Coalition will act as the Master of Ceremonies.
In addition, Bill Burris, representing the Washington Arms Collectors, Gun Owners Action League of Washington and the Washington State Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors Association will appear, along with Joe Huffman from Boomershoot.
The Rally For Your Rights, the first 2015 Legislative Rally against I-594 is sponsored by Washington State Rifle & Pistol Association, I Love Guns & Coffee, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the Second Amendment Foundation, Jews for the Protection of Firearms Ownership and the Washington Arms Collectors. The event will be attended by individuals from all of the previously mentioned groups, including WAFLAG, WaGuns.org, the Gun Rights Coalition and the Seattle chapter of Pink Pistols.Protect Our Gun Rights chairman Alan Gottlieb also released a statement today in anticipation of the rally and the 2015 legislative session.
“I’m honored to have been invited to share the concerns of more than a million Washington gun owners who are now feeling the effects of all the problems with Initiative 594,” Gottlieb said. “This poorly-written measure, which is now being challenged in federal court, has already created confusion for legions of law-abiding citizens.
“I’m hoping to meet with my own state legislators,” he added. “I want them to hear from me not only as an activist but also as a taxpayer and constituent. This will be an important event because it will give concerned gun owners from all over the state a rare opportunity to meet their representatives face-to-face, while they are all gathered in Olympia.
“Like it or not,” Gottlieb – a Bellevue resident – observed, “gun owners have rights, too. We will not be silenced by elitist billionaires, nor will we quietly accept being treated as second-class citizens because we exercise our Second Amendment rights. I hope gun owners join us in Olympia to Rally for our Rights.”
Help will be provided at the rally for citizens in locating their state lawmaker and scheduling a visit to meet with them. Citizens may also locate their lawmaker by going to app.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder/ or contact the legislative hotline at 1-800-562-6000.
