It’s often said by anti-gunners some to the effect of “mass shootings only happen here“.
This, of course, is not true:
Of the 97 countries where we identified mass public shootings, the U.S. ranks 64th per capita in its rate of attacks and 65th in fatalities. Major European countries, such as Norway, Finland, France, Switzerland and Russia, all have at least 25 percent higher per capita murder rates from mass public shootings.
Fortnite now the 8th most populated place
The future is, well, that’s a pretty cool game actually. My son plays it.
Via NJT, who has a question about the holster, comes this scene from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs:
You can watch the movie on Netflix. I started it. The first two stories were pretty good. I haven’t gotten to the rest yet.
Police in the UK want to predict serious violent crime using artificial intelligence, New Scientist can reveal. The idea is that individuals flagged by the system will be offered interventions, such as counselling, to avert potential criminal behaviour.
I see now way this can end poorly.
Tam introduces us to a holster that indexes on the handgun’s light, if that light is a SureFire X300U. That’s pretty clever.
If election persists for more than four months . . .
Though, to be honest, I do question the legitimacy of elections. Generally, elections seem to be way too close, putting them within the margin of cheat. And I don’t know that I have enough faith in the results. Odd how vote recounts mostly tend to go the one direction.
A good man who I have known for over 25 years is having his toe amputated due to complications from diabetes. He works as a carpenter and has been unable to work for a while and will be unable to after surgery. If so inclined, send his family a few bucks. I’d appreciate it.
Lever guns are next. I guess it’s sort of a lever gun. Why the gun control crowd in Australia thinks that a $2,500 rifle is something criminals would use, I dunno. Here’s a video showing its operation:
A study of firearm homicide and suicide rates in the 10 years after California simultaneously mandated comprehensive background checks for nearly all firearm sales and a prohibition on gun purchase and possession for persons convicted of most violent misdemeanor crimes found no change in the rates of either cause of death from firearms through 2000.
The senior author, Wintemute, is a long time anti-gun hack. And he concluded this.
During the Obama presidency, the IRS targeted non-profit groups that were conservative or tea partyish. Now, the IRS is targeting the legalized marijuana business.
Time off for thanksgiving was great. Hope you and yours had a great one too.
To you and yours. Light blogging as I must Brussels some sprouts, collard some greens and pinto some beans. Odd that this year is the first year in a long time where I am not on turkey duty. It has me a little down, actually. I like cooking the turkey.
You guys enjoy and be safe out there.
I have nothing to add:
Just read a travel advisory for those who live in states where pot is legal, warning their friends to be aware that just because it is legal to buy, doesn’t mean it is legal to have in other states. The comments lament how unfair it is and how hard it can be to keep current on a plethora of drug laws to remain compliant while travelling.
“Welcome to our world,” says the gun owners.
Rep. Eric Swalwell implies that when the government comes to take your guns, they should nuke you if you don’t comply. This is, essentially, calling for a war. And, trust me, that’s the last thing anybody wants. This simpleton probably thinks that he’s just gonna sit on the sidelines while the revenuers go door to door, kicking them in to take guns from Bubbas all across the red states.
He’s wrong.
Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Fifth Circuit
For later reading.
Dont Buy A Smith & Wesson M&P .40 Without Reading This Review!
Though I am tempted in the event there’s another run on ammo.
Leaving a Rolls-Royce unlocked is a risky business, as Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside has learned the hard way.
According to 640 AM radio host Andy Slater, on July 5 Whiteside bought an M16 assault rifle, along with a rifle bag and a silencer, for approximately $50,000 from Johnsons Firearms in Miami.
After purchasing the rifle, the 29-year-old drove to the University of Miami for a workout and only discovered the rifle was missing when he returned home the next day. He immediately alerted the police and told detectives he had only been at the gun store before moving to the Watsco Center for practice and eventually returning to his residence in Miami Beach.
An actual crime involving an NFA weapon?
I interrupt a blogging break for this breaking news.
It appears that the Department of Justice is about to ban bump stocks. I say about to because the Final Action is slated for the imaginary date of 12/00/2018. The new rule:
This rule is intended to clarify that the statutory definition of machinegun includes certain devices (i.e., bump-stock-type devices) that, when affixed to a firearm, allow that firearm to fire automatically with a single function of the trigger, such that they are subject to regulation under the National Firearms Act (NFA) and the Gun Control Act (GCA). The rule will amend 27 CFR 447.11, 478.11, and 479.11 to clarify that bump-stock-type devices are machineguns as defined by the NFA and GCA because such devices allow a shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger. Specifically, these devices convert an otherwise semiautomatic firearm into a machinegun by functioning as a self-acting or self-regulating mechanism that harnesses the recoil energy of the semiautomatic firearm in a manner that allows the trigger to reset and continue firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger by the shooter.
This is nonsense because the assertion that allow that firearm to fire automatically with a single function of the trigger is demonstrably false. This should require a law passed by congress, which this rule unironically acknowledges. And then there’s the analysis of the rule’s economic impact being significant:
The rule will be “economically significant,” that is, the rule will have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million, or adversely affect in a material way the economy, a sector of the economy, the environment, public health or safety or State, local or tribal governments or communities. ATF estimates the total cost of this rule at $320.9 million over 10 years. The total 7% discount cost is estimated at $234.1 million, and the discounted costs would be $39.6 million and $39.2 million annualized at 3% and 7% respectively. The estimate includes costs to the public for loss of property ($102,470,977); costs of forgone future production and sales ($213,031,753); and costs for disposal ($5,448,330). Unquantified costs include lost employment, notification to bump-stock-type device owners of the need to destroy the bump-stock-type devices, and loss of future usage by the owners of bump-stock-type devices. ATF did not calculate any cost savings for this final rule. It is anticipated that the rule will cost $129,222,483 million in the first year (the year with the highest costs). This cost includes the first-year cost to destroy or modify all existing bump-stock-type devices, including unsellable inventory and opportunity cost of time.
They are willing to destroy a lot of economic value and make a lot of people criminals with an arbitrary and unlawful ruling. So, all you folks who bought bump stocks, what are you going to do when this thing passes?
In Chicago, a good guy with a gun stopped a shooting. When the police arrived, they shot the good guy.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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