Carry permits top 200K

So, the dog and pony show of a shutdown is upon us. Here’s how the .gov reacts:

They will spend more money to shut down a website than it takes to leave it up. Just to show you who’s boss.

The feds are only closing the more popular locations and the lesser known ones stay open. Just to show you who’s boss.

Instead of just turning out the lights, hire 7 bodies to place barricades at more expense than just turning off the lights. Just to show you who’s boss.

And more of that. And Rand Paul agrees. It’s just to show you who’s boss.

No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.

Carney says they could attach gun control to all these spending bills.

In case of bikers attacking you. Also, where guns are banned.

Mass stabbing in China. Where, you know, guns are banned.

And a 5 stabbed with scissors in NY. No doubt they were assault scissors.

NY SAFE Act claims first political casualty.

Shotgun or rifle for home defense? Rifle.

Buy a suppressor or SBR from AAC and get $100 store credit.

Glockity

FNH P-12 vs. Colt Sporting Rifle

A 9mm AK that takes glock mags

Hipsters discover Project Appleseed. You’ve probably never heard of it.

Good

Back in the day, anyone could go sit for the CPA exam. I was required by law to obtain some arbitrary number of college hours and so many accounting courses to sit for it. Since that arbitrary number of hours was pretty close to a masters degree, I went ahead and got one.

Such requirements and licensure, in general, are state funded protection rackets for certain industries in many cases. While I may want my doctor, lawyer or accountant to have jumped through some hoops that prove competence, I’m less concerned about, say, my hair stylist having a license.

Gun permits were not delayed. We don’t have gun permits in this country. We have NICS and it’s still going. Despite what this news guy told you.

So, a man keeps less than $10K on hand and deposits money before then. The IRS thinks it looks like he’s trying to avoid federally mandated reporting on transactions over $10K and takes all his money. Since it’s the IRS, I be he’s a conservative too.

Is you don’t denounce the cult. This is ridiculous. I’m more agnostic on the coming ice age err global warming err climate change err whatever they call it this week because it’s often pitched in a manner that promotes social engineering and, apparently, whatever they call it this week can be blamed for nearly everything.

And, you know, Captain Coo Coo Banana thinks the people that might question those sorts of things are, you know, just like the apartheid.

They always peddle that lie. But it doesn’t pan out, even in Illinois.

About that supposed warning shot we were told about.

They assume their political enemies are bigots.

I really liked Anthony Bourdain’s little gun missive here, namely this part:

I may be a New York lefty—with all the experiences, prejudices and attitudes that one would expect to come along with that, but I do NOT believe that we will reduce gun violence—or reach any kind of consensus—by shrieking at each other. Gun owners—the vast majority of them I have met—are NOT idiots. They are NOT psychos. They are not even necessarily Republican (New Mexico, by the way, is a Blue State). They are not hicks, right wing “nuts” or necessarily violent by nature. And if “we” have any hope of ever changing anything in this country in the cause of reason—and the safety of our children—we should stop talking about a significant part of our population as if they were lesser, stupider or crazier than we are.

But then he goes on to label Wayne LaPierre a “batshit absolutist”, which is clearly wrong. I mean, the President of the US and Wayne agree on school safety. If you want a “batshit absolutist”, that’s the wrong tree to bark up. But otherwise, right on.

We must ban them because they shoot other children at an statistically insignificant rate.

So, the “shut down” isn’t.

I was surprised to wake up and see the roads were still there.

I thought I would get to fulfill my life-long dream of betting on a monkey knife-fight. But it turns out, they just closed some parks.

Pretty frightening.

JMB bolty

Israeli 7.62mm Conversion

Remote Control Sturmgewehr 44 In Syria

Color Case Hardening

It’s terrible. All these people going about their business as if nothing happened. Most are going to work.

Good thing I brought a rifle and bug out bag.