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What in tarnation?

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So, with Cohen and Manafort down, then comes a bunch of immunity deals for folks close to Trump. Something is up. And I’m not certain what.

You can’t indict a president. He’d have to be impeached. Barring some unforeseen election results, I doubt the votes are in the house for it. And the votes in the senate aren’t there. Trump is too egotistical to resign. The next little bit should be very interesting.

You can get M&P9 for right at 3 bills.

A while back, a Texas professor sued because the law allowed people to carry guns on campus. He had some bogus legal argument. A lower court dismissed the claim. Now, the Fifth Circuit has affirmed the lower court’s decision.

Israel eases gun controls following lone-wolf attacks:

Israel has changed its gun regulations to enable hundreds of thousands more civilians to apply for licences, a move authorities say will increase security but others argue will stoke violence.

The shift in policy, announced by the public security ministry late Monday, means that up to 600,000 Israelis could apply for gun licences, a dramatic increase on the current 140,000 civilians with permits.

A source in the public security ministry, however, estimated that only 35,000 people will be interested in applying for gun licences under the new regulations.

More like this please.

The Russians went and built themselves a mech:

Russia has unveiled a terrifying 4.5-tonne bulletproof robot that can walk and hold weapons in its giant claws – and looks straight out of sci-fi films like Avatar and Robocop.

And it’s made by Kalashnikov.

As a more enlightened country, they have all those gun laws: London bloodbath: Three injured outside Tube station in SECOND shooting in a NIGHT

Why Are Liberal Democrats Arming Themselves?

Colts Camp Perry Model Target Single Shot

From a poster at subguns.com:

send a FOIA request to ATF for the registration history of my pre-86 MGs, just in case. Included the address for NFA branch and my serial and model numbers in the request, just in case my request was assigned to an idiot.

Got a response today, signed by the head of the disclosure division, clearly, unambiguously, and twice stating that ATF has not maintained any data on any registration of any firearms since 1979, none, and since ATF has no firearms registration data, at all, my request is denied.

I’d like to see the FOIA. I’m not an expert on NFA firearms law but, as I understand it, ATF maintains the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. If there saying there is no such record, that would be kind of a big deal.

A 120 round AK magazine.

Once again, Cody Wilson politely says “because fuck you that’s why“.

Antifa assaults a Bernie bro:

Paul Welch is not a fascist. He is a liberal who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary, and for Hillary Clinton in the general election. On August 4, he attended a far-right rally in Portland, Oregon, as a counterdemonstrator intent on signaling his opposition to the “tacitly fascist event,” he told The Oregonian.

Tell that to Antifa: One of the masked militants attacked Welch, striking him over and over again with some kind of metal rod concealed in black cloth. One blow landed on his head, which caused Welch to immediately crumple to the ground. He would eventually need four staples to close up the gaping wound.

When a group is opposing Nazis, it’s usually hard to look worse than the Nazis. But Antifa is trying.

Picking the Forend Length

Well, OK

A Judge in Washington tossed a bought and paid for ballot initiative. Some 300K signatures were illegible.

One bad ass young lady involved in a road rage incident head-butted her attacker, knocking him over. He then persisted and tried to choke her and was summarily shot by her. Good for her.

Meanwhile, a Portland woman used a gun to repel an attacker.

The Daily Caller:

The number of concealed carry weapons (CCW) permits is soaring to new levels despite the rabid anti-gun activism following a slew of school shootings over the past year.

Issued CCW permits increased approximately 275 percent over a ten-year period, from 4.6 million permits in 2007 to over 17.25 permits in 2018, according to a study released Friday by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). The number has been increasing year over year and is forecast to continue trending upwards.

And some diversity:

The most notable demographic increase was found to be among women and minorities. During the aforementioned time period, CCW issuance jumped 111 percent faster for women than for men. Moreover, compared to white individuals, permits for Asian and black individuals spiked 29 percent and 20 percent quicker, respectively.

An agent missed a loaded gun. Airport security should be privatized.

“Fur”-ternity Leave

The future is stupid.

Footage from the Michigan Submachine Gun Championship:

That’s a thing with a very high barrier to entry.

Longtime gun and civil rights blogger Kevin Baker, of The Smallest Minority, is having some health issues. His family could use your help. Go here if you’d like to help them out.

I’ve known Kevin for a long time. He’s been to my house. He’s a fine man.

The media: “we are not executing a coordinated campaign against Trump”

Also, the media: “here’s a coordinated campaign against Trump”

IIRC, Trump did not call the media the “enemy of the people”. He called “fake news” that.

Apparently, ATF was not allowed to inspect the shooter’s weapons. This, according to Len Savage, is not good:

ATF did not disclose that they had not examined the firearms prior to promulgating the rule, firearms designer and Historic Arms, LLC President Len Savage notes. And now that the comment period is closed should they go forward with this rule under the Administrative Procedure Act that information can not be used in a court challenge because it was not submitted prior to closing of comments.

DOJ is manipulating the APA to make sure that information will NOT be used to shoot down the rule, Savage concludes. Does ATF prosecute its firearms cases like it promulgates rules, without ever looking at the evidence? ATF is currently attempting to criminalize an industry and a large swath of the population and NEVER looked at any evidence? They claim they were not allowed’? By whom?

Yesterday, I attributed a quote to Glenn Beck. Apparently, he was quoting Pen Jillette.

Elizabeth Warren has a really terrible idea (what’s new?):

Warren’s “Accountable Capitalism Act” would require that corporations that earn more than $1 billion in revenue a year (note “revenue,” not “profits”) would need a federal “charter” in order to operate. This charter would obligate these companies to consider all “stakeholders,” not just shareholders, when making decisions. The bill would also require these corporations to permit employees to elect 40 percent of the company’s board of directors; a super majority of 75 percent of directors and shareholders would have to approve political donations. (Gee, I wonder if somebody will propose something similar for unions?) Shareholders would be permitted to sue the company if they felt its actions were driven purely by profit and did not reflect the desires of its many “stakeholders.”

The justification for all this is the common, economically sketchy claim of income inequality; that the rich are getting richer and that wages are stagnating. Warren complains in a Wall Street Journal commentary that shareholders have “extracted” $7 trillion in profits since 1985 that “might otherwise have been reinvested in the workers who helped produce them.”

I think we should start a campaign to email her books on basic economics.

Revolving shotgun

The Parkland Shooter Used 5-round Magazines

A co-worker was listening to Glenn Beck who said something to the effect of:

A hundred years ago, our biggest problems were not enough calories and not enough information. Today, we have too many calories and too much information.

The latter being a reference to social media and the 24 hour media.