Consistency and speaking of Prohibition...

3:30 seconds in.



Watch the whole thing.  And as always contact your Rep and Senators.


And take his advice. It's not just gunnie stuff.  I've been remiss in actual neighborhood stuff.


And here's a scary part with the kind of "leverage" the President gets with his waivers and favors.

Remember when I talked about planes?

Well... I think I did.

Anyway here's a report from Popular Mechanics from someone that got to fly in a B2.  Very cool stuff.

Lots of neat stuff in that article. For example, I didn't know, that the B2 actually had facilities for a cot and a head behind the pilot and copilot seats.  Makes sense when you consider how insanely long the missions those things fly can be.

Ban High capacity nitrous tanks!

It's not just with guns that things are banned in stupid ways.  Take whip-its:

Hey, do you want to get high like your parents did in the 70's? Find a convenience store and pick up a pack of whipped cream chargers, more popularly known as Whip-Its! You've likely seen these contraptions around at the occasional gas station and wondered why a box of devices used to make whipped cream cans work have any place among the racks of Cheetos and Snickers and such. Simple, those little cartridges are filled with nitrous oxide. You might recognize that as the "laughing gas" you're sometimes given during particularly gnarly dental procedures. Doing it in large quantities will get you high as shit, and that's why possessing it in large quantities is something only dentists and a few other select professionals are allowed to do.

To get around that, it's sold in tiny quantities as a culinary tool, with most users opting to buy the party-in-a-bottle by the box or case. There are sites online that will sell you 240 whipped cream cartridges for less than $100. You can't freely buy a giant tank of nitrous oxide, but you can totally buy enough nitrous to fill one without much hassle. As this story will attest, you can do so at your neighborhood convenience store or market even.

 But banning a boxes with springs will definitely work.  The whole cracked article is a little microcosm of criminal ingenuity.

Why not Ban X Instead?

A Canadian friend of mine, Miss W, came up with this out of the blue (Okay it turns out it was from reading this at Popehat):

"Oddly enough, I think a good argument against the gun control crowd is smoking. Smoking causes  vastly  more deaths than firearms do. The US loses about 6 500 people to guns in a year. And 443 000 to cigarettes. If you're gonna ban one..."

I pointed out  a similar argument could be made about Alcohol too. Which she agreed with. Though this doesn't even get into the precrime and collective punishment stuff Further:

"And cigarettes really *do* serve no purpose, save the pleasure of the owner. (And probably kill more people with secondhand alone than guns do) Basically, it's a question of which you're gonna do - ban things because they cause harm? Or let them out there because the incursion on freedoms is a greater harm?"

Or if you want more apples versus apples well..
In 2011  323 people were murdered in the US by someone using a rifle. That same year  496 were murdered with hammers and clubs.

Huh. But that won't keep the gun grabbers from trying to DO Something.
Such as these bills they've filed so far.

Should definitely contact your reps if you haven't already. It's quick and easy.  For example Indiana's Senators can be found here.

And here's the order of importance:  "Visit personally, fax, e-mail, call, formal written letter. Formal written letters used to be the best, but that changed with the Anthrax scare, and now it take forever to get snail mail through."

More Gun Control Push

They've got bills up:

New York

Illinois (with a bit of a delay so if you live in Ill, write, call, show up)

Iowa

And national.

For a preview,  no transfers,  magazine bans,  semi-auto bans,  shotgun bans and so on.

There's plenty of stuff for you to write to your reps about.

And here's another letter form if you're looking for ideas. And another point on just how expansive and dangerous this push is.   Never let a crisis go to waste after all.

New Holster!

I just got this in the mail from Michael's Custom Holsters

The other reviews were not kidding.  This is a very solid, very well made holster.   And Michael does true custom work and will make the rig to whatever standards you want.

I had a little extra design put into mine.    

Well recommended.  Just be sure to inquire as to the backlog.

If you live in Illinois...

You better get crackin'.  The antis have a boat of bills that bans everything up to the kitchen sink:   ranges, magazines, lost and stolen requirements,  "assault weapons" ban that covers just about every semi-auto there is.  Very little transfers and grandfathering, registration, registration, registration.

As Sebastian says:

So if you’re in Illinois, get calling. Get your friend to call too. Know an old guy that has an M1 Carbine or two he thinks are safe? Get him involved too, because the M1 could be affected. We have to stop them here. It was inevitable that the Chicago machine would lash out after losing so badly in Court, but we have to stop them here. Illinois gun owners are now at the front line of the first battle in what’s going to be an awful, multi-year war.

The goal here is to throw everything at us, wear us down, and keep wearing us down until we capitulate. Until people are so tired of calling and writing, that we stop doing it. Are we going to let them do that to us? We have to stop each and every one of these.

And speaking of writing, Robb Allen has a new form letter too.

I've got some better news for later today at least.