Praxis: J&G Sales has bandoleers.

The latest issue of Shotgun News has a J&G Sales ad on Page 34 for the following:

Nylon Bandoleers with Clips
Each comes with ten 10-round .223 stripper clips and holds 100 rounds of .223 ammo -- ammo not included -- 7-1176 $5.95 each; 2-4: $4.95 each; 5-99, $2.95 each; 100 for $150.00.

Also:

Six Pocket Cloth Bandoleers
Military surplus cloth bandoleers in good condition, each pocket holds one M1 Garand clip or two 1903 Springfield clips (not included) 7-1785 $.99 each; five for $4.95; 100 bandoleers for $65.00

Obviously these are only economical if bought in bulk, but a buck fifty for a Brit nylon bandoleer and 10 5.56 stripper clips is a good deal. Likewise is sixty five cents for a cloth bandoleer usable for clipped .30-06, 7.62 NATO or 8mm Mauser.

David Codrea's Speech, 19 April 2010 and two excellent Examiner columns.

Here and here.

While this is his speech at the Second Amendment Rally across the Potomac in the District of Criminals, he -- like Larry Pratt -- also spoke at Gravelly Point Park with us.

Praxis: Strategy and tactics in one paragraph -- "Killing the enemy on the most unequal terms possible."

Read this in the hospital while awaiting my HBO "dive" today. It says it all. Especially if you keep in mind that it is the tyrant's offensive war makers and war planners who are the most morally justifiable of all possible retaliatory targets. As Junger says, after they open the ball, kill THEM "on the most unequal terms possible."

"Much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. It sounds dishonorable only if you imagine that modern war is about honor; it's not. It's about winning, which means killing the enemy on the most unequal terms possible. Anything less results in the loss of more of your own men." -- War by Sebastian Junger, 2010, quoted in a review by Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today, 11 May 2010, p. 3D.

Obama's "Choice for the Condemned."

Economic suicide by debt or taxes.

Remember, debt repudiation comes at the muzzles of many rifles.

I'm with David on this one.

For the same reason that an incompetent Jihadi who happens to be a naturalized American citizen ought to have his rights respected and not revoked on a whim, Senator Lieberman..

The Lightworker as the Messiah of the Collectivist Religion.

Hallelujah?

ATF can't get no respect.

Boo hoo.

Anybody wanna give 'em a group hug?

Now it seems I am a "glory hound."

So sez the "conservatives" at Pajamas Media.

Well, OK, I'm sure they'd never LIE, right?

Right?

"The West does not have the will to defend itself."

An interview with Mark Steyn.

"In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe . ."

"Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne." -- French diplomat Paul Claudel, 1931, quoted in The Devil's Decade by Claud Cockburn.

America has good reason to worry about Greece by Clive Crook.

Bank Funding Crunch Deepens as Swap Rates Soar: Credit Markets by Shannon D. Harrington and Abigail Moses

Stock market time bomb? Derivatives crash could blow up the global economy by Arnaud de Borchgrave.

The Welfare State's Death Spiral by Robert Samuelson

This will not end well. Creditors, whether governments or gangs, always come with force to collect.

Are you ready to resist your own enslavement yet?

A less-than-gentle reminder.

No Witchwood, no more wheedling discussion on "racialism." Get your own blog.

A new Threeper blog: The Cliffs of Insanity.

This just in from Threeper Alvie D. Zane:

My blog is now alive for the whole worldwide web to see. I invite you to stop by, read, comment, think. I’ll try to post something new at least daily. If you have suggestions, I’m open. I encourage you all to check out the other blogs and links that are there. There’s some really good stuff in them.

Machinegun amnesty to settle problems with NFRTR?

From CPT Jonathan Tuttle:

Hi Mike,

I got an inquiry based on this web site today, and had been unaware it was up. Some stuff is inaccurate, but mostly not:

http://www.adamsguns.com/nfa.htm . . .

. . . The guy did more than a casual job on this site, and it's among the best I've seen. You called some attention before to the new evidence ATF has released on the NFRTR, which logically gives some fresh impetus. That's safely up on the NFAOA web site, copied below FYI.

CPT Jonathan Tuttle

(The below is copied from the section on NFRTR legal/other issues)

ATF releases evidence it has added firearms to the NFRTR after obtaining SOT records

In June 2009, ATF began releasing documents in response to a FOIA request that was filed in 2007, requesting copies of the Work Papers used as evidence in the Department of Justice Inspector General's "review" of the NFRTR, entitled The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, Report Number I-2007-006, June 2007 (click here to read it).

Further background on this FOIA request is discussed in the entry entitled "ATF uses new form to identify 'discrepancies' in the NFRTR" in this section, and will not be repeated here in the interest of conserving space and in reporting new information. NOTE: Anybody can request copies of these documents. Although ATF is still processing this FOIA, the information released so far is too important to wait upon the release to be completed before making these documents public. To obtain copies, do a FOIA to request the same documents that are being released to Eric M. Larson, P.O. Box 5497, Takoma Park, Maryland 20913, under the release identified as 08-726.

What's new is that ATF has released hundreds of pages of evidence that it has added firearms to the NFRTR after obtaining evidence from Special Occupational Taxpayer (SOT) FFL dealers. It has been common knowledge for a number of years that ATF has been using SOT records to correct its version of the NFRTR. The two documents reproduced here are representative of hundreds of other such documents.

As previously noted, ATF heavily redacted its "Firearms Inspection Worknote: NFA Inventory Discrepancies" document, whose obvious "purpose" was to correct the NFRTR. In releases of documents for this FOIA request, ATF has provided a considerable amount of information that had been previously redacted (click here to read it), thus confirming the evidentiary nature and value of the document.

In this document (click here to read it), ATF has provided evidence that ATF had no record of 3 (three) silencers in an SOT's inventory from 2001 to 2003.

While in theory ATF might be able to correct its version of the NFRTR, given enough compliance inspections, there's a vaster hole in that logic than can ever be addressed. The reason is that ATF has no means of making these sorts of corrections in many instances where ATF has approved transfers of NFA firearms or devices between unlicensed transferors and transferees who live in the same state, and are not required to keep records. What happens when James buys a machine gun from Robert in 1985 (or some other year); ATF approves that transaction; Robert takes possession of the machine gun in a timely way; Robert loses his copy of the Form 4 because there was a house fire, flood like Katrina, or just plain human error, and asks ATF for a replacement copy. ATF checks the NFRTR and finds only that the machine gun is registered to James, who died in 1987; whose relatives/survivors recall "Yes, there were some guns, but we don't know anything about them, or in fact anything about guns because guns don't interest us." Where does that leave Robert? The insidious thing about this is that many people who are likely to be victimized are people who only did their best to follow the law. An ATF Special Agent does a lookup on, for example, an amnesty gun that the owner (or heir) recall was registered, and the single piece of paper at ATF's end has vanished, lost or destroyed, or cannot be found. Virtually nobody fights an ATF Special Agent suggesting that "charges here can be avoided if you voluntarily abandon the weapon to ATF, but remember the statute of limitations on your violation is 3 years." The cost of fighting a seizure and forfeiture quickly exceeds the value of the firearm, and is a serious personal disruption.

What else about this? It is worth noting that ATF refused to release any of these Work Papers in the Friesen case, and their significance is clear in the Motion in Limine filed in the case (click here to read it), because they provide valid and reliable evidence that demonstrates the legal basis for the Department of Justice Inspector General's finding that ATF has added firearms back into the NFRTR after losing or destroying NFA paperwork. The legal repurcussions are frightening, in the sense that at least some innocent citizens have been unlawfully deprived of their valuable firearms, some of them heirloom firearms used by a grandfather, father, and son; irreplaceable family artifacts. The American people deserve a better standard of justice by a federal law enforcement agency.

As noted elsewhere in discussion on this site, the Department of Justice Inspector General's "review" of the NFRTR states on page 31: "If the NFA weapons owner [sic] can produce the registration paperwork, ATF assumes the error is in the NFRTR and fixes it in the database." This condition apparently fulfills a Department of Justice standard for requiring a new amnesty period. Specifically, if ATF determines that "a particular individual or weapon is registered" and ATF finds that its "files are missing," then "the only solution would be to declare another amnesty period (click here to read the document).

Finally, while the NFAOA "Resources" page has taken a necessarily critical view of ATF's institutional conduct, ATF should be publicly credited for having the courage to release these documents. Why ATF has chosen to release documents that will probably impeach the NFRTR in Federal District Court at some point, is unclear. That should not be a reason fail to praise the good citizenship and respect for Constitutional processes that ATF as an institution has exhibited by releasing these documents. After the FOIA distribution and appeals are complete, all of the FOIA documents will be put into PDF files and posted on the NFAOA "Resources" page.

Praxis: Two Brief Tips -- Socks and Straps.

From Pete at WRSA: Two Brief Tips.

One, from David, based on authoritative experience.

Two, from a friend today -- simply combine the standard USGI utility strap:

with the standard USGI .30 caliber ammo can:

Clip one end of the strap to one of the handle attachment rings, then repeat on the other side of the can with the other strap clip.

Try it with a loaded ammo can, and you too will be a convert.

Here's another view of the utility strap.

Also, if I may remind readers of the Universal Load Carrying Sling from a Praxis post last December, Mission Loads -- Sustaining Light Infantry on "Shank's Mare."



You can carry two ammo cans with it, as well as other nifty stuff.

"Reconquista" is just a "myth," right?

Well, that's what SPLC says anyway.

So, how inconvenient this must be for Potok & Co.

There are two strains of comments on this blog that need to be dealt with now.

The first, and of lesser import, is the attempt to defend the "grand jurists," "common law "writ writers," etc. as anything more than circus sideshows. We had these in the 90s, as Dakota observed, and they were always either based on misinterpretation of history and law, even common law, and/or carried out by the people who Churchill characterizes as "millenialists" in his book -- mostly by people who were not wrapped too tight but were looking for some kind of magic bullet to stop national tyranny at the local level. Often these people were so "out there" that they alienated even their friends and neighbors.

Now I am not talking about FIJA advocates, but people who assign to themselves "sovereignty" and immediately attempt to wreak their will on other people. For many, what this is is an attempt to find an easy way around the cold hard military and historical fact of preparing to resist tyranny at the muzzle of a rifle. People, there is no magic paper-waving cure for what faces us.

The recent fol-de-rol in Tennessee is just that -- a distracting and self-discrediting sideshow of a sideshow. Don't blame Rachel Maddow for sneering at and ridiculing these people -- like the Republic of Texas folks, the Montana Freemen and the "common law writ writers" who preceded them by 15 years, they are eminently ripe for ridicule and sneering and they did it to themselves -- and by tenuous claimed association, I might remind you -- to us.

None of this is about the fight for liberty that is coming, it is about distraction and wasted effort. And who, in the end, does that serve?

The second and more important point: This business of pointing at black and brown racist collectivism and attempting to use it as an excuse for white racist collectivism is the oldest piece of universal collectivist trickery in the book. "Well, they do it, so why should we treat them as individuals anyway? They hate us so we might as well treat them the same way." Or, "Why doesn't Vanderboegh condemn the black racists like he does the white?"

Any of my long-time readers know that I condemn racist collectivism of every kind. You can accuse me of "not dealing with reality," or whatever, but I rather think it is holding myself to higher standards and standing for principle as my God demands that I do.

If you don't like that, you are welcome to go start your own blog. But my indulgence of the current thrust of these two strains of comments ends now. It is, after all, MY blog and it ain't no popularity contest.

Mike
III

"Citizen grand jury" morons, writ writers, Waco Jim Cavanaugh and Rachel Madcow: A media match made in, uh, well, not Heaven, but someplace.

Missed this when it first appeared. Be sure and watch the video.

When momma decides that Barack Obama and his regime are a clear and present danger to her children, she will order daddy to join the militia.

The beginning.

GOP congresscritters Mike Pence and Cathy McMorris Rodgers ask the question: Why are we bailing out Greece?

It can't be because we expect them to return the favor.