I suspect the real numbers are about half this:
One of my daughters listens to the same books on the same account as I do and we talk about them. Still, those are larger numbers than I expected.
Quote of the day—Quora
Should a law be passed requiring that one gun manufacturing executive or lobbyist be publicly executed for every victim of a school shooting?
Quora
December 2022
[This is what they think of you.
They want you dead.—Joe]
Quote of the day—NRA-ILA
The Biden White House has for the most part worked hand-in-glove with gun control advocacy groups toward their shared goals of civilian disarmament. But a lawsuit against the government by survivors of the Sutherland Springs attack in 2017 is putting a strain on this harmonious relationship and causing embarrassment to all concerned. That’s because defending the suit has forced the government to admit inconvenient truths about the limitations of gun control. Now Biden & Company face a tough choice: Pony up more than $230 million or appeal the current judgment against the government and incur the wrath of its usual allies by truthfully admitting the top priority of gun controllers doesn’t really stop violent criminals.
…
It’s significant they had already argued in the case that even background check denials would not likely have stopped the perpetrator, nor could the Air Force had known from his commission of domestic violence that he had the potential to carry out a different type of attack. Both those admissions essentially negate any further claims by the Biden Administration that firearm background checks have any essential role to play in public safety.
NRA-ILA
January 9, 2023
Biden DOJ Angers Gun Control Allies by Truthfully Admitting NICS Can’t Stop Violent Criminals
[It is such a pleasure to see the truth we have been shouting from the rooftops for decades finally putting the squeeze on the anti-gun people. With the Bruen case behind us the legal environment is essentially won with “just” a decade or two of mop-up left. As seen above the practical argument is becoming more and more one sided. The philosophical argument is easily won which may be why the anti-gun people almost never push that angle.—Joe]
Born to regulate
This will not go over well:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) may decide to outlaw natural gas stoves after a new study claimed the appliances can emit harmful pollution, according to Bloomberg.
The article makes it sound as if the CPSC can ban gas stoves without any action by Congress.
As I can’t imagine there is as much soot and other pollutants as they claim this would appear to be another case where people get a thrill out of creating regulations:
I like having a very direct and very powerful impact on worker safety and health. If you put out a reg, it matters. I think that’s really where the thrill comes from. And it is a thrill; it’s a high… I love it; I absolutely love it. I was born to regulate. I don’t know why, but that’s very true. So as long as I’m regulating, I’m happy.
I wonder if 18 USC 242 could be made to apply to them.
Between having promise and realizing it
I don’t care for the communist spin in the article but the core of the message is intriguing:
The effort to slow down aging isn’t slowing down. The Institute for Aging Research at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine claims we’ve moved beyond hope in turning anti-aging into reality, and we now sit “at the point between having promise and realizing it.”
I expect the middle class have access in less than a decade after the billionaires.
Quote of the day—The_right_thinks_memes_are_facts (@Politicallyexp2)
Wow there was a whole lot of small dick energy coming from your tweet. My god you cucks are so sensitive! Can’t handle free speech
The_right_thinks_memes_are_facts (@Politicallyexp2)
Tweeted on November 17, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
The context has nothing to do with free speech. It has to do with a threat to “neutralize” anyone with an AR-15.
My message to The_right_thinks_memes_are_facts (@Politicallyexp2) is:
Please continue. We are gathering evidence for your trial.
My model for their thinking pattern is something approximating hissing and popping noises around a tribal/communist offset. These useful idiots are essentially alien entities to me.—Joe]
There could be a problem here
Via Rolf who says, “I detect a problem”:
I think someone needs to put a little more spin on their bullets.
Although, if the distance is short enough and/or the target big enough this probably has more stopping power than a soft or hollow point bullet.
An issue with solar power
I was at my place in Idaho last month to do some general maintenance on things and this was one of the things I had to take care of:
In the center is a solar panel. The batteries, in the box on the right, were still holding up but were low. I brushed off the snow and charged up the batteries with an alternate power source. They probably will hold out until I visit again. But this is an issue with solar power. You might think of solar panels as near zero maintenance, but they are not. They get dirty as well has get covered in snow and ice. The batteries also need to be replaced every few years.
For some applications they are the best choice available. For general purpose electricity, not so much.
Boomershoot 2023 entry opening soon!
Registration opens for staff 1/9/2023 6:00:00 PM Pacific Time.
Registration opens for previous year participants 1/14/2023 9:00:00 AM Pacific Time.
Registration opens for everyone 1/21/2023 9:00:00 AM
As Boomershoot 2022 participants know we had some issues with placement of long-distance targets.
Due to issues mostly beyond the control of the landowner we were only able to place a few targets near the 700-yard area berm. Most of the details have been worked out for this year with a different area for some of the long distant targets.
You can see the new target area by visiting the entry website Available Positions web page.
Select an available position and you will find an image with all the target areas for a given position. Some shooting positions will have parts of one of the available target areas blocked by the tops of trees. The shooting position specific image (the bottom image) is several years old, and the trees have grown. The top image of available target areas is from August 2022 and closely represents the view from the East (left) side of the shooting berm. Choose your shooting position to take this limitation in mind.
Prices have increased. Boomershoot was losing a lot of money on the dinner and breaking even on the High Intensity event. There have been donations offer to cover the price of dinner for ALL participants. If one of these generous offers comes through refunds will be given to everyone who has signed up for dinner at the new price.
Let me know if you have questions or see typos or errors on the website.
Sign up here.
Quote of the day—Timothy P. Carney
We know for a fact that Democrats and liberals use the charge of racism dishonestly as a cudgel — as a way to shut up political enemies and increase the cost of opposing them.
Recall how liberals wrote in private emails they expected only their allies to see: “Take one of them … who cares — and call them racists.”
What is necessary,” liberal journalist Spencer Ackerman explained, “is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [face] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear.”
Timothy P. Carney
January 5, 2023
Cori Bush reveals that when Democrats talk about race, they simply mean party
[Violence and lies, It is an inherent part of their nature.—Joe]
Evidence for their trials
Please continue doing this:
A King County Superior Court judge has ordered a Federal Way gun shop to stop selling high-capacity magazines in violation of a state ban.
Judge Michael Scott on Friday granted Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s motion for preliminary injunction against Federal Way Discount Guns and its owner, Mohammed Reza Baghai.
Ferguson sued the store in December, saying it’s one of just two gun stores out of 25 tested across the state that failed to follow the law during a compliance operation.
This is evidence to be used at their trials
Yes, I know that at this time the odds seem very low of this happening. But I also know the odds are lower still if we don’t think and plan as if it will happen some day. There were lots of people who thought they would never be prosecuted for lynching blacks too. Attitudes can change a lot in 20 years. Be a force to change attitudes.
Quote of the day—John R. Lott, Jr.
Like many other mass public shooters, the Buffalo shooter targeted defenseless people. He even wrote in his manifesto: “Attacking in a weapon-restricted area may decrease the chance of civilian backlash. Schools, courts, or areas where CCW are outlawed or prohibited many[sic] be good areas of attack. Areas where CCW permits are low may also fit in this category. Areas with strict gun laws are also great places of attack.” The national media refuses to report other explicit statements by attackers explaining why they pick the targets they do. Nor do they report the fact that 94% of mass public shootings occur in places where civilians are banned from having firearms.
John R. Lott, Jr.
President, Crime Prevention Research Center
December 15, 2022
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
[Emphasis in the original.
Via David Hardy who also says this:
Read it all, this is great material, probably best I’ve seen on the topic.
Prepare appropriately and spread the word.—Joe]
Red flag law is unconstitutional
The good news just just keeps coming:
The New York law that enables the confiscation of guns from people who haven’t committed a crime is unconstitutional, a state Supreme Court judge has ruled.
This red flag law, or the Extreme Risk Protection Order law, lets individuals—including police officers—petition a court to allow the seizure of firearms from a person they believe poses a threat to themselves or others.
If a judge agrees, the judge can direct law enforcement to take guns from the person in question.
The law, which took effect in 2019, has led to the issuance of more than 1,900 removal orders.
However, the law is in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Second and 14th amendments because it doesn’t “sufficiently protect a citizen’s rights,” state Supreme Court Judge Thomas Moran said in a ruling in late December 2022.
The answer I want to know is when are the prosecutions of the criminals who created these laws going to start happening?
Bump stock ban unconstitutional
Today the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms regulation extending the federal prohibition on machineguns to “bump stocks” is unlawful, as Eugene noted in a post below. In Cargill v. Garland, the judges split 13-3 on the merits, and the 13 in the majority divided on the rationale. Eight of the judges concluded the statute is unambiguous. Five additional judges concluded that, insofar as the statute is ambiguous, it should be interpreted not to cover bump stocks under the Rule of Lenity.
As I have said before, it is not unreasonable to assert that my grandkids will be participating in machine gun sporting events in high school.
My dream will have been realized.
Quote of the day—Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith
You have no “checks and balances” of power in your country unless you have an armed citizenry to counteract an armed State. 
This is what the UK doesn’t understand. 
Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith
Tweeted on January 4, 2022
[Or, perhaps the people in power do understand and prefer there not be checks and balances on their power.
I’m of the opinion the U.S. should sanction countries which infringe upon the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. But, I will grant we need to do far more in our own country before we have the moral highroad on the issue.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Joe Patrice
There are two kinds of lawyers in this world: the ones who understand Bruen as an unprecedented and ahistorical Supreme Court power grab rewriting the Second Amendment to create an individual right to gun ownership over and above the power of the states, and the ones who collect fees from gun dealers and manufacturers.
Joe Patrice
January 4, 2023
Lawyer Challenging NY Gun Regulations Accidentally Says Quiet Part Out Loud
[And then there is the type of lawyer that couldn’t make it in the legal profession and now demonstrates why by writing ill-informed opinion pieces and/or deliberate lies.
There are so many profoundly wrong things in this post that I have to believe he either did not read the Heller and Bruen decisions and/or he is deliberately lying.*—Joe]
* A third possibility is the sky is a different color in his universe.
Quote of the day—Midnightstimepasser
Never ever, EVER give up your firearms. It’s the only thing standing between us and complete subjugation. Not Law Enforcement, not the Constitution, not some judge in a black robe, not the military.
I will give up my guns when the cops, military, government and criminals are disarmed. Until then, bugger off.
Midnightstimepasser
January 3, 2023
Comment to Ice-T on gun control and why he disagrees with it.
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Roque Planas
States with permitless carry could become the majority before the year’s end.
Roque Planas
January 1, 2023
People Can Now Carry Guns Without A License In Half Of America’s States
[This is what I call a good start.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Art Daddy @tumbled_heroes
Everyone open carrying is over compensating for other short cummings. 
That’s all they’re doing. Not for safety or security, but out of shame.
Art Daddy @tumbled_heroes
Tweeted on November 13, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
Of course they are an artist. It is about the feelings and not the science, morality, or the law. And with it all about the feelings they think childish insults can override anything they feel strongly about.
Via a tweet from In Chains @InChainsInJail.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Just the News Staff
Democrats with ambitions of broad gun control in the United States face a major stumbling block in their efforts to enact those policies: American voters themselves.
Gun rights remain broadly popular in the United States, even after years of Democratic efforts to turn high-profile mass shootings into major gun control initiatives.
A long history of gun ownership, coupled with robust constitutional protections for firearm ownership here, have led to one of the largest private gun stocks in the world.
The enduring popularity of guns in the U.S. was underscored by a recent RMG Research poll conducted by Scott Rasmussen, one that earlier this month found some support for new gun laws among voters but far more overwhelming favorability toward gun rights.
Just the News Staff
December 30, 2022
As Democrats ramp up gun control, a supermajority in U.S. think gun ownership good for society
[This is essential. Over time, SCOTUS rulings will match the culture more than the culture will match SCOTUS.
Keep up the good work. Take a newbie to the range.
Yesterday I took a new coworker to the range. He is former military and likes guns but all his guns were stolen a year or so ago and had not replaced them. I took him to the range and let him shoot several of my handguns and introduced him to Steel Challenge like shooting (with multiple paper targets) and USPSA stages. He said he really enjoyed that and it was nothing like he had ever done before. He plans to get a new gun soon. I plan to take him to a Steel Challenge match when the weather gets better.—Joe]