I've bought exactly one box of 5.56 since all this crazy buying began last year. Other than that I haven't bought a single round in a major, popular caliber. While 223 / 5.56 ammo prices are still way too rich for my blood, it does seem like some sanity has returned to the market. In addition, I was able to find enough PMAGS in stock to cancel my backorders with DSG Arms.
Palmetto State Armory not only has XM193 in stock, but it's not ~$1 / round anymore. Also, this is a sight I haven't seen in a long time. An entire page of in stock .223 / 5.56 FMJ.
Maybe I'll actually be able to afford some ammo sometime later this year.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Quote of the Day - That Jefferson Dude
"Mankind soon learn to make interested uses of every right and power which they possess, or may assume. The public money and public liberty, intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy, but found inadvertently to be in the hands of one only, will soon be discovered to be sources of wealth and dominion to those who hold them; distinguished, too, by this tempting circumstance, that they are the instrument, as well as the object, of acquisition. With money we will get men, said Ceasar, and with men we will get money. Nor should our assembly be deluded by the integrity of their own purposes, and conclude that these unlimited powers will never be abused, because themselves are not disposed to abuse them. They [the assembly] should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when a corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price. Human nature is the same on every side of the Atlantic, and will be alike influenced by the same causes. The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered."
- Thomas Jefferson - The constitution of the State and its several charters
The men who founded this nation understood government, abuse of power and human nature far better than today's useful idiots could ever hope to. You read what these men wrote and think "what would they think of how far we've fallen, of all of the abject morons in America today?"
How they would weep for their country, and my, how the leftist MSM and the SLPC would treat Jefferson if he were alive and speaking / writing today.
- Thomas Jefferson - The constitution of the State and its several charters
The men who founded this nation understood government, abuse of power and human nature far better than today's useful idiots could ever hope to. You read what these men wrote and think "what would they think of how far we've fallen, of all of the abject morons in America today?"
How they would weep for their country, and my, how the leftist MSM and the SLPC would treat Jefferson if he were alive and speaking / writing today.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
90!
My Poppop turned 90 over the weekend. He also shares a birthday with my dad, who isn't quite as old
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Almost There!
After this Friday I'll have one more class to go before I finish this program and get my paralegal certification. My take home final is due Friday evening, and then I have off until July, when I'll take Wills & Trusts online. Then I'll be done and will apply to become a member of the Delaware Paralegal Association.
Contracts is done. I managed a 94.6% even with a 0 on a quiz. It was due Superbowl Sunday and well, It completely slipped my mind while I was drinking beer & watching football.
Contracts is done. I managed a 94.6% even with a 0 on a quiz. It was due Superbowl Sunday and well, It completely slipped my mind while I was drinking beer & watching football.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
NYT's butthurt
Apparently the New York Times thinks that the President should have threatened and strongarmed members of Congress to get his way on gun control.
Yeah, because that's totally the kind of executive branch we should have in this country.....
Yeah, because that's totally the kind of executive branch we should have in this country.....
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Delaware Anti-Gun Bigots Emboldened - Guns and Mental Health
Fresh off the heals of passing HB35, the private sales ban, Beau Biden and the rest of the anti-gun leftists in my state are feeling emboldened. They're determined to screw up this state and screw over gun owners some more.
Funny, Beau Biden is the AG. He might want to look at our violent crime rates compared to say, PA or VA, which both have far less gun control. Also, as AG he should know damn well where the violent crime is centered. Hint, it's in a handful of Wilmington neighborhoods. Take Wilmington out of the equation and Delaware's violent crime rate is more in line with deep red states in the midwest.
Biden and the rest of these morons want to require mental health professionals (including school counselors) to report "dangerous" gun owners to police. When you live behind enemy lines it's things like this that get used punitively against average gun owners.
So here's how it'd work. Health professional is now required by law to call the cops, cops "investigate" and refer cases to the DOJ / AG's office, DOJ then asks a judge to strip that person of their constitutional rights and confiscate their property.
If the mental health professionals are required by law to call the police, they're not going to take any chances because they'll want to cover their own asses. They'll simply institute a one size fits all policy of deferring to the police in order to protect themselves and their providers from liability. Have a Dr. who is a gun fearing wussie? In that case simply seeking counseling and owning a gun could be enough to involve the cops? Don't believe me? Think about how crazy and irrational your average anti-gun person reacts to things.
There's also this great nugget for parents out there. There are plenty of mental health professionals who would consider any interest in firearms to be defacto evidence that the child is "troubled" And boy oh boy, lets strip citizens of their rights, without any due process, and based only upon the subjective standards of whatever "mental health professional" they're dealing with.
"In the case of a troubled child, authorities could seize any guns owned by a parent or guardian with whom the child is living."
Your kid going through some normal teenage angst and goes to a few counseling sessions? Great. Now the state can confiscate YOUR guns because your kid seeked out mental health treatment. No word yet on whether the State may seize gasoline, matches, and kitchen knives from parents with a "troubled child."
Let's say your kid is going through a rough patch. Are you more or less likely to get the kid help if you (rightly) fear that the State will confiscate your legally owned property at gunpoint and potentially charge you with a crime?
My senior seminar class in college was "The law and popular culture." The only graded work I had to do was a presentation and research assignment on the history of the insanity defense. You wouldn't believe the accuracy with which "mental health professionals" historically found people "insane."
Here's the thing. "Mental Health" isn't really a science. It's subjective. I remember looking at the DSM IV for that research. Virtually everyone has a mental ilness at some point in their lives under its criteria. Hell, who hasn't suffered from depression at some point in their life? Are we going to take guns from anyone with ADHD? Aspergers? etc.?
It's almost as if the anti-gun crowd wants to further stigmatize both gun ownership AND mental health and shame people in either category. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that such an approach will only exacerbate the problem lawmakers are attempting to address. As I read this article I'm reminded of what Rand said about the government and criminals......
We have the process we do for adjudicating people mentally ill for a good reason. Because it is an essential safeguard of our liberties. Governments have a very long track record of using the "mental illness" label and committment to punish dissidents, silence dissent, and remove political opposition. It would appear little Biden has a little something in common with tyrants of the past.
Biden has had a stroke. Are we sure that doesn't make him "unfit" to own a gun? I bet you could find a mental health professional somewhere who would say it does......
H/T to Sebastian
Funny, Beau Biden is the AG. He might want to look at our violent crime rates compared to say, PA or VA, which both have far less gun control. Also, as AG he should know damn well where the violent crime is centered. Hint, it's in a handful of Wilmington neighborhoods. Take Wilmington out of the equation and Delaware's violent crime rate is more in line with deep red states in the midwest.
Biden and the rest of these morons want to require mental health professionals (including school counselors) to report "dangerous" gun owners to police. When you live behind enemy lines it's things like this that get used punitively against average gun owners.
So here's how it'd work. Health professional is now required by law to call the cops, cops "investigate" and refer cases to the DOJ / AG's office, DOJ then asks a judge to strip that person of their constitutional rights and confiscate their property.
If the mental health professionals are required by law to call the police, they're not going to take any chances because they'll want to cover their own asses. They'll simply institute a one size fits all policy of deferring to the police in order to protect themselves and their providers from liability. Have a Dr. who is a gun fearing wussie? In that case simply seeking counseling and owning a gun could be enough to involve the cops? Don't believe me? Think about how crazy and irrational your average anti-gun person reacts to things.
There's also this great nugget for parents out there. There are plenty of mental health professionals who would consider any interest in firearms to be defacto evidence that the child is "troubled" And boy oh boy, lets strip citizens of their rights, without any due process, and based only upon the subjective standards of whatever "mental health professional" they're dealing with.
"In the case of a troubled child, authorities could seize any guns owned by a parent or guardian with whom the child is living."
Your kid going through some normal teenage angst and goes to a few counseling sessions? Great. Now the state can confiscate YOUR guns because your kid seeked out mental health treatment. No word yet on whether the State may seize gasoline, matches, and kitchen knives from parents with a "troubled child."
Let's say your kid is going through a rough patch. Are you more or less likely to get the kid help if you (rightly) fear that the State will confiscate your legally owned property at gunpoint and potentially charge you with a crime?
My senior seminar class in college was "The law and popular culture." The only graded work I had to do was a presentation and research assignment on the history of the insanity defense. You wouldn't believe the accuracy with which "mental health professionals" historically found people "insane."
Here's the thing. "Mental Health" isn't really a science. It's subjective. I remember looking at the DSM IV for that research. Virtually everyone has a mental ilness at some point in their lives under its criteria. Hell, who hasn't suffered from depression at some point in their life? Are we going to take guns from anyone with ADHD? Aspergers? etc.?
It's almost as if the anti-gun crowd wants to further stigmatize both gun ownership AND mental health and shame people in either category. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that such an approach will only exacerbate the problem lawmakers are attempting to address. As I read this article I'm reminded of what Rand said about the government and criminals......
We have the process we do for adjudicating people mentally ill for a good reason. Because it is an essential safeguard of our liberties. Governments have a very long track record of using the "mental illness" label and committment to punish dissidents, silence dissent, and remove political opposition. It would appear little Biden has a little something in common with tyrants of the past.
Biden has had a stroke. Are we sure that doesn't make him "unfit" to own a gun? I bet you could find a mental health professional somewhere who would say it does......
H/T to Sebastian
Quote of the Day - Senator Mike Lee
"You cannot track all gun sales without tracking all gun owners. But the government has no business monitoring constitutionally protected activity, like gun ownership, any more than it has any business tracking what books Americans read or how often they attend church."
Sen. Mike Lee (R) - Utah
Lee also points out that the so-called "gun show loophole" was originally a legitimate carve out......... Of course the anti's then attacked us from that ground we'd already ceded, as they will continue to do.
Of course anti's reading this will just say "you can't compare guns to books or religion. Neither of those are "instruments of imminent death."
Sen. Mike Lee (R) - Utah
Lee also points out that the so-called "gun show loophole" was originally a legitimate carve out......... Of course the anti's then attacked us from that ground we'd already ceded, as they will continue to do.
Of course anti's reading this will just say "you can't compare guns to books or religion. Neither of those are "instruments of imminent death."
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Affirmative Action - Pure Idiocy
Ah yes, this is our colorblind, post-racial, Obama America
Some leftist hack in Phoenix noticed that, oh no, many of the lifeguards at pools used by minorities were in fact a lighter skin tone than the kids using the pool.
That's a huge problem! Because in 2013 the thing we should really be worried about is the skin color of the person charged with saving kids from drowning.
"On a recruiting effort there over the winter, the city's Melissa Boyle tells students she's not looking for strong swimmers."
"We will work with you in your swimming abilities"
Yeah, that sounds like a splendid idea! Let's recruit people who cannot perform or have difficulty performing the ONE thing every lifeguard has to be able to do. Let's not hire on whether the person can perform the job well (or at all) but on what color their skin is. I mean I would much rather have a bunch of incompetent people around who are charged with saving my life, but I don't want the icky competent ones because they don't look like me!
Man, if a kid dies because of this Boyle is opening up a huge liability issue. But hey, why should merit ever mean anything in America when we can race bait and play identity politics?
"The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white,""and we don't like that. The kids don't relate"
Oh yes, because it's obviously of the utmost importance that kids be able to relate to their lifeguard, but whether that lifeguard is a strong swimmer or not is of little consequence. Also, the inference here is that the kids just can't relate to the lifeguards because they're different races?! That's just so flatly racist in it's own right, and as someone who lives with a black man whom I consider a friend, that kind of attitude just rubs me the wrong way. It assumes automatically that "relatability" revolves around skin color. Pretty disgusting if you ask me.
This is like recruiting overweight, fat, bald men to star in women's lingerie commercials because you want to be politically correct and not appear "sexist."
H/T to Hube
Some leftist hack in Phoenix noticed that, oh no, many of the lifeguards at pools used by minorities were in fact a lighter skin tone than the kids using the pool.
That's a huge problem! Because in 2013 the thing we should really be worried about is the skin color of the person charged with saving kids from drowning.
"On a recruiting effort there over the winter, the city's Melissa Boyle tells students she's not looking for strong swimmers."
"We will work with you in your swimming abilities"
Yeah, that sounds like a splendid idea! Let's recruit people who cannot perform or have difficulty performing the ONE thing every lifeguard has to be able to do. Let's not hire on whether the person can perform the job well (or at all) but on what color their skin is. I mean I would much rather have a bunch of incompetent people around who are charged with saving my life, but I don't want the icky competent ones because they don't look like me!
Man, if a kid dies because of this Boyle is opening up a huge liability issue. But hey, why should merit ever mean anything in America when we can race bait and play identity politics?
"The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white,""and we don't like that. The kids don't relate"
Oh yes, because it's obviously of the utmost importance that kids be able to relate to their lifeguard, but whether that lifeguard is a strong swimmer or not is of little consequence. Also, the inference here is that the kids just can't relate to the lifeguards because they're different races?! That's just so flatly racist in it's own right, and as someone who lives with a black man whom I consider a friend, that kind of attitude just rubs me the wrong way. It assumes automatically that "relatability" revolves around skin color. Pretty disgusting if you ask me.
This is like recruiting overweight, fat, bald men to star in women's lingerie commercials because you want to be politically correct and not appear "sexist."
H/T to Hube
Monday, April 22, 2013
No, Not the poor gummi Bear!
Maybe I'm in an odd mood today, but I found the fact that he was using a giant gummy bear as ballistics gel quite amusing.
Quote of the Day - Gun Control Future
If you could take supporters of gun control into the future - a future in which they had won - and show them the violent dystopian wasteland they had created, they wouldn't care.
Oh, wait...never mind. No need. Chicago already exists."
- Breda Fallacy
Or Caracas, or Juarez, or Killmington, or, insert any liberal big city in the U.S. here. Not only do they not care, but they will never admit reality. It's always, without fail "But it'll be different this time." They are, above all else, religious fanatics.
Oh, wait...never mind. No need. Chicago already exists."
- Breda Fallacy
Or Caracas, or Juarez, or Killmington, or, insert any liberal big city in the U.S. here. Not only do they not care, but they will never admit reality. It's always, without fail "But it'll be different this time." They are, above all else, religious fanatics.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Poor, Poor POUTUS
Yup, the President and VP are acting like two petulant little pouty crybabies. They're acting like mommy told them to sit down, shut their yap and go to timeout in the corner. I'll tell you what. Looking at the anger on Obama's face over not getting what he wanted leaves me thrilled. His face is priceless. Any day that man is pissed off because he was unable to demagogue, lie, and browbeat freedom into submission is a great day for Liberty and for America. Obama calls it a "Shameful day for America" Yup. That's Obama. When liberty prevails it's "shameful" Shit, he's more animated and angry over this personal defeat than I've seen him yet. This bothers him more than Benghazi, Aurora, Sandy Hook, etc. etc. Then again, this was a personal defeat. Obama got his ass handed to him, and malignant narcissists like him lash out in emotional tirades when that happens.
Here's a transcript of Obama's remarks. Sad panda. Full of BS and outright lies, all the while claiming the NRA "willfully lied" when they did nothing of the sort. I love his claim that the bill "outlawed any registry" Oh suuuure, and the bill that created Social Security outlawed SSN's being used for indentification purposes too.........
Here's a transcript of Obama's remarks. Sad panda. Full of BS and outright lies, all the while claiming the NRA "willfully lied" when they did nothing of the sort. I love his claim that the bill "outlawed any registry" Oh suuuure, and the bill that created Social Security outlawed SSN's being used for indentification purposes too.........
Quote of the Day - Jefferson on Legislators
"Our legislators are not sufficiently apprised of the rightful limits of their powers; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us."
- Thomas Jefferson
I often wonder what the Founders would be saying if they were among us today to see the actions of our politicians. To say they would be aghast at these malignant narcissists who think they exist to rule over us is a gross understatement I think. And man, how I wish Henry Louis Mencken were alive and writing today.
- Thomas Jefferson
I often wonder what the Founders would be saying if they were among us today to see the actions of our politicians. To say they would be aghast at these malignant narcissists who think they exist to rule over us is a gross understatement I think. And man, how I wish Henry Louis Mencken were alive and writing today.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Planned Parenthood vs. FFL's
An FFL dealer can get shut down permanently by the ATF for minor paperwork "violations" but stuff like this can go on at Planned Parenthood in Delaware not only does nothing happen until nurses go public, but the place only gets shut down "temporarily."
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