Summertime, an upcoming pistol course, and the Gun Bloggers Rendezvous make me think about showing up at the airport check-in counter with Glock 17 and enough ammo for the event. Here are MJM’s interpretation of TSA’s site instructions and federal regulations with links, quotes, citations and comments:
Archive for July, 2010
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Flying with Guns |
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 |
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Magic for Mortals: Converting Yards to Meters, Meters to Yards |
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 |
Here is the situation. You’ve zeroed for meters. You are invited out to a range. You show up and targets are on yard lines. Or, you hunters might zero for yards but be presented with a measurement to target in meters. We all know that a yard is different from a meter, but expanded out to center-fire rifle ranges, the error created by using them interchangeably accumulates. For example, at 600 yards, the difference between the two is about 50 meters–if you don’t adjust for the difference, you shoot as if your target is 600 meters out but it is only about 550 meters out and your bullet does not drop as far as you thought it would. A local shooter emailed out this practical, quick, and slightly dirty method for converting back and forth between English and Metric. It does not literally work the exact conversion, but it yields a close approximation we ordinary people can work without pencil and paper. I’m passing it on as something you might want to copy/paste into your own shooting notebook. (Purists beware: this is about to grate on your nerves. Humor the mortals–sometimes, good approximations have their uses.) (more…)
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Gun Owners are Sinners! |
Thursday, July 15th, 2010 |
The statement, “Gun owners are sinners,” is true, of course. Aren’t all of us? The Scriptures say so. It’s sort of like Rush saying he has “talent on loan from God.” Well, where else would he–or anyone else–get talent from? But, classifying the firearms and ammo tax as a “sin tax” reveals more about the heart of the Reuters accuser than the gunner-sinner.
We don’t need to be told that we bought guns and ammo in record quantity in 2009. We know this, but you can find proof of our run on the retail gun racks and ammo bunkers in part because the federal government taxes us for exercising the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms:
In October 2009, firearms and ammunition excise tax collection climbed 45 percent from the previous fiscal year, the greatest annual increase in the firearms tax revenue in the agency’s history, the report said.
Up 45%. That is noticeable, huh? Looks like we did our part. We should be heroes! Like buying war bonds, stocking up on ammo is patriotic.
Or, is buying 1,000 rounds a sin?
MJM just calls it common sense given the direction liberty in this country is going. Millions of us saw it the same way, apparently.
Maybe our next congress should repeal the tax.
Hey, how about the Range-time Tax Credit? Or, in support of assuring an armed citizenry, a deduction for the cost of ammunition?
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Russian Agent Sabotages Millions of Ordinary Americans |
Thursday, July 15th, 2010 |
Well, that headline might be a little exaggerated. OK, maybe even a little made up. Maybe I’ll make it the subject of my 3rd Jack McDonald novel (the second is coming out soon). If I do, Jack will do a rear strangle take-down on one of these Russian, virus-slinging hackers like he did to that terrorist in Arcturus. I guarantee that Jack will kill him without mercy. I will really enjoy writing that chapter.
The real headline is that one of the Russian spies worked for Microsoft. If you have recently crashed because a virus wiped out Windows XP, and you sent Windows 7 in to replace the KIA OS, and you thought you were reinforcing your unit with Office 2010, then the discovery of a Russian agent at Microsoft explains a lot. Sabotage! I just know it.
I didn’t even mention how Office 2010 won’t talk to your BlackBerry.
I think in the next book, Jack will run a S&W M&P, an M-4 as always, and an Apple.
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Chicago’s Crystal Ball Foretells the Future of Gun Control |
Sunday, July 11th, 2010 |
Chicago’s Democrat machine’s latest chess move in the great game of gun control reads like a crystal ball, foretelling the future of gun control in America. Chicago could be your kind of town. It could be your town–next. Your city council or county commission probably has on it at least one member who scorns individual freedom. My local, municipal governing bodies have such people. Those law-makers understand at a gut level that a foundational badge of free citizenry is the right to arm. They cannot tolerate that liberty.
So, our examining the Chicago machine’s post-McDonald commie plot in greater detail is no academic exercise. It helps us all prepare for the next local tyrant’s effort to do whatever possible to hold the monopoly on power–to keep you from arming.
What is this newest set of laws aiming to circumvent the constitutional right to keep and bear arms? We are all aware of Heller and McDonald, and we’ve heard that Chicago’s city government stood ready with new and restrictive laws, but what are they exactly? More importantly, what are their practical effects? This article on Your Constant Companion breaks down for you the reactionary new (July 2) Chicago ordinances.
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New England Journal of Medicine on McDonald |
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 |
Pseudo-science has brought us global warming, Al Gore, a NASA tasked with making nice with the Middle East, and doctors who write articles and do “studies” so that they can whine about guns. Sebastian at the blog, “Snowflakes in Hell” called out one haughty doctor. Doctor Julie Cantor, M.D., J.D., used the New England Journal of Medicine platform to express the doctor-lawyer’s disdain of the conservatives on the Supreme Court, of Mr. McDonald personally, of his gun, and–by implication more broadly–of you and me, gun owners. As Snowflakes put it:
“Can you feel the scornful stare down from the ivory tower?”
Liberal doctors have tried to get traction for their argument that “gun violence” is a “public health issue.” Don’t buy it. Not for a second. This is just another haughty way of pretending to authority–more authority than you have to talk about gun control. The setup goes like this:
Only the people whom I approve (people like me) may speak authoritatively about gun control. You, I do not approve. You lack my education and upbringing. (Even if you are educated, you illustrate your cultural and intellectual defects by clinging bitterly to your guns and your religion.) Therefore, you may yammer about your guns all you want, but I mark you as a fool and you have nothing authoritative to say about why guns should be taken away from other silly ordinary citizens. Guns? Let them eat cake!
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This 4th of July… |
Monday, July 5th, 2010 |
…the Revolution continues. We may rest only once would-be-kings stop lusting after power to rule over us.
That would be “never.”
MJM
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From President Obama’s Immigration Speech |
Thursday, July 1st, 2010 |
I’m hearing he just can’t secure the border–as he lies about it being more secure now than ever.
He can’t secure the border. It’s just too long. A speech full of excuses.
What happened to “Yes we can!”?
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President Obama Speaks About Immigration |
Thursday, July 1st, 2010 |
…and speaks, and speaks, and speaks….
…and blames, and blames,
…and drones on…
and does nothing
–except against the sovereign state of Arizona.
