Sipsey Street Irregulars: FINALLY, we know what the antis are talking about when they say "high-capacity clips."

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

FINALLY, we know what the antis are talking about when they say "high-capacity clips."

A deep genuflection and tip of the boonie hat to Irregular Brian for this discovery:

"I know you’re busy working on the ATF idiocy, but I found the high capacity clip that they’re talking about on TV. -- Brian"

8 comments:

Nicholas Dixon said...: Is that what they want to ban? Please do so.

Those are only useful for random slaughter of civilians, so they should only be used by the police.; February 9, 2011 at 7:51 AM
Anonymous said...: That's what we call an en-bloc drum.; February 9, 2011 at 9:26 AM
PKL said...: I saw one report that claimed that "High-caliber magazine clips" should be banned. Ah, here it is: Source: http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/2839/

My reply was:
""high-caliber magazine clips" he says? Is the author joking?

First the "high-caliber" part: Define that please. Is 5.56mm considered too wide? I think it's puny. What about 12.7mm? It's bigger for sure... but it's still nowhere near as big as you can get... I think the 20mm Lahti might be considered "high-caliber"...

[I can't picture anyone trying to go Rambo with a Lahti...]

What about the big contradiction here, the so-called "magazine clips"? I think he was trying to refer to a detachable magazine. A clip is quite different. A clip is actually a type of metal clip that holds rounds by the rear end leaving the front ends exposed. The magazine is a spring-loaded chamber which fully encloses the ammo. It is often detachable, but sometimes integral with the weapon. Clips are used to load integral magazines except the tubular type."

Keep in mind I had to explain this to a moron, so it's way dumbed down.; February 9, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Anonymous said...: Be carefull what you wish for. We may find out exactly how much of the ill informed public believes that photo is for real.

hbbill; February 9, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Anonymous said...: "Those are only useful for random slaughter of civilians, so they should only be used by the police."

Pure Gold.

AP; February 9, 2011 at 11:22 AM
Alvie D. Zane said...: Whoa! Some competition for the Gigazine!; February 9, 2011 at 6:31 PM
Steve said...: "That's what we call an en-bloc drum."

*gigglesnort*; February 9, 2011 at 7:08 PM
Dedicated_Dad said...: Arctic Patriot said...
"Nicholas Dixon said...
'...Those are only useful for random slaughter of civilians, so they should only be used by the police.'

Pure Gold."

Yes indeed.

Consider that one stolen...

DD; February 9, 2011 at 7:18 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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FINALLY, we know what the antis are talking about when they say "high-capacity clips."

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