Hope everyone had a good weekend at the AGCA Birmingham gun show.

I'm still having technical difficulties with using this laptop here and interfacing with the hospital WiFi. Hopefully I'll get it fixed by this evening. I'm interested to know how things went -- how much ammo was sold, how many guns, what was the attitude of the participants. Please leave comments.

Tomorrow's Birmingham Gun Show.

M19A1 & M2A1 USGI Ammo Cans.

Obviously I won't be there. But that doesn't mean that some of you local newbies who were looking for deals and guidance have to do without advice. Some of you who have received equipment from me in the past have my cell phone number. If you see something that you think might be a deal and want some advice, feel free to call me. One thing that has been true at recent Birmingham shows is the unexpected influx of M2A1 ("fifty cal.") and M19A1 ("thirty cal.") steel ammo cans at reasonable prices. Since the original source of these was a massive buy by an entrepreneur from the CMP program in Anniston (which is unlikely to be repeated) I would suggest you get as many as possible while they're still available at good prices. A buddy bought 5 one-use, clean and tight M19A1s for $20 at the last show -- $4.00 each. Be sure to inspect the inside of the cans and the seals for serviceability.

There are also ammo suppliers who sell empty ChiCom pattern crates (which will hold two M19A1s nestled flat) for as little as $2.00 each. These are the kind of items that, were I able, I would be buying.

Also, there are a couple of you Threepers who are working on your field telephony equipment. Be certain to check with me before buying any phones or reels.

O'Reilly made it back from Iraq. What's next? Are they going to make him point man on the ground in Benghazi?

White House Link to Fast and Furious Back in the United States It would be nice if somebody could get a photograph of this prick.

David Codrea: ATF whistleblower Cefalu parking lot termination secretly recorded

Riehl, seen talking to Cefalu through his Jeep window and reportedly telling him he couldn’t leave because he had to sign papers, had been criticized on the CUATF forum, and Gun Rights Examiner is attempting to track down audit reports to determine what an independent assessment reveals about the allegations there. But the bottom line is, an employee with over 25 years of service who has been a leading spokesman for whistleblowers was unceremoniously canned in a public parking lot by senior division management.

Wallenberg's Syndrome

So, in addition to the stomach cancer and assorted complications I have now been diagnosed with Wallenberg's Syndrome.

Docs of various specialties are getting together to form a medication and rehab plan. Will let you know.

Hospital for me tomorrow.

It seems I had both a minor stroke of the cerebellum controlling my internal gyroscope AND a minor stroke of my brain stem. Consequently I'm going to be admitted to the hospital tomorrow prior to what were to have been outpatient tests. Will post room number and address when I know. Keep me in your prayers.

Obama's Foreign Policy Summed Up: Benghazi and Fast & Furious

I was disappointed that Ryan didn't hammer Biden on F&F when Benghazi came up myself.

Praxis: Why Marksmanship Matters. One man's 'panic' is another man's prudence.

At the beginning of a 4th Generation civil war, everybody starts with a finite amount of ammunition. The ones who never run out are those who make every round count and thus are able to forage out the ammo pouches of the dead men who didn't. That's why marksmanship training matters." -- Mike Vanderboegh, 2010.

A discussion of "panic buying" versus training.

Retaliation? What's that?

ATF whistle-blower fired, claims complaints about 'Fast and Furious' played role

A good start.

Pile Of Manure Dumped On An Ohio Democratic Headquarters

That's all I got left at the moment.

Have to crawl upstairs now and lay down. I would like to thank all those hard-core Irregulars who have sent their subscription money (and more) recently and also remind anybody that if you've been holding off, now is a great time to forward it. The additional medical bills are substantial. God bless you all.

Kurt Hofmann: Government will push back against home manufactured guns.

"(O)ne should not expect even widespread availability of the means to easily make effective firearms at home to win the war on "gun control" by itself. In the end, it will still require decent people willing to fight and die--or, preferably, kill--for their liberty. The government's problem is our hands--they're not cold and dead yet."

"Homeland Security" (an oxymoron if ever there was one) learns to love small drones.

Big Sister's little toys.

Praxis: Outstanding price on P-Mags.

Great deal for black rifle mags.

Pragged in Orlando -- literally and figuratively. Vertigo now explained. "Questions? Questions? We don' need no steenking questions!"

As far as the “prags” go, I don’t consider them cowards, or collaborators, or many of the other insults that “3 percenters” have tossed their way. I do consider them vastly overly optimistic about the prospects of gun rights prevailing through solely “within the system” activism. They remind me a bit of Neville Chamberlain, with the Heller decision being their Munich Agreement (and by the way–don’t give me Godwin’s Law–that ain’t what this is about).

And this brings me to the source of my confusion. The “pragmatic” strategy, apparently, requires gun rights activists to count on the Constitution for protection against people who have made it absolutely clear that they consider the Constitution to be so much Charmin substitute. At least one “prag,” for example, has railed against some other gun rights advocates, for their refusal to vote for one of the chief architects of one of the most brazen attacks on the First Amendment in recent history.

I have frequently criticized proponents of restrictive gun laws for their bizarre “strategy” of attempting to use laws to rein in the behavior of the lawless. I can’t really see much of a difference between that, and counting on the Constitution to protect freedom from those bent on subverting it. -- What I don’t understand about ‘pragmatism’

"Questions? Questions? We don' need no steenking questions!"

So, today I had an MRI brain scan. Tomorrow I'm scheduled for a Magnetic Resonance Angiogram scan. It seems that my vertigo was generated by a small stroke in the center of the brain that controls balance -- a stroke that took place, according to the doctor with the first onset of symptoms, the afternoon of 29 September 2012 while I was at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Orlando.

My wife didn't want me to go, but since my way was being paid by a good friend who thought it important to be there, I went to support his efforts. I was already struggling with nausea caused by the anti-cancer medicine I was taking. I was weak and certainly should have stayed home, but I didn't. Some you may have seen me stagger out of the reception Saturday evening. I wasn't drunk, despite the rumors. I haven't had a drink in ten years. But sometime between the morning and the evening I had the stroke. And what happened that day? I tried to ask a question and was cut off by the prags in charge of the conference.

My question was occasioned by statements made by Mark Barnes in this panel early in the morning:

8:45 a.m. Federal Affairs Briefing

Mark Barnes, president, Mark Barnes and Associates

Jeff Knox, managing director, Firearms Coalition, gun issues columnist

Larry Pratt, executive director, Gun Owners of America

Joe Waldron, legislative director, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

There was a 11:45 a.m. Q & A scheduled on all morning panels but they announced that because of time constraints it would be postponed into the afternoon at 5:30 p.m. Among Mark Barnes statements I wished to question were these:

** We should not wish to sweep out the "old hands" of ATF because they exercised a "moderating" influence on the young cowboys and,

** That we too should understand that a permanent director was a good thing for the agency.

There was also a general feeling expressed by many speakers that the GOP would save us from the big bad boogie men of gun control, especially through the courts.

When the afternoon Q&A finally arrived, I was the first at the microphone, yet I never got a chance to ask my questions -- I was cut off. Here is the question I was never allowed to ask, for the record, from my original crumpled single sided note pad paper:

"I have a couple quick comments on the first panel and a question, which speak to the reality we face as far as the rule of law and the legitimacy of the two party regime:"

(Here was about where I was cut off.)

"Over a year ago the ATF whistleblowers were promised oversight hearings into ATF policies and procedures, Thanks to the intervention of John "Ol Yellowstain" Boehner, that has not happened."

"As far as the moderating effect of 'old hands,' I'll believe that when ATF ceases its 10 year persecution of an 'economic Waco' on Georgia firearms designer Len Savage, whose only sin was to successfully testify as an expert witness on behalf of ATF victims."

"As far as a 'permanent director for ATF, if Obama had his way we would have Chicago anti-firearm zealot Traver instead of the bumbling Melson."

I was going to conclude this preamble with this:

"My question is, does anyone on the panel believe that if Obama is reelected that we can avoid a civil war?"

That's the question I never got to ask, presented here for the record. After being repeatedly cut off, I wadded up the notepaper and threw it to the floor, and walking away from the microphone said, "Okay, here's my question, 'What does anybody on first panel believe we are going to do WHEN Obama is reelected?'" I then walked to the back of the room.

Shortly thereafter, or perhaps before, I had my little stroke, although it took until today to diagnose it. What was so inherently dangerous for Gottlieb and Company in that question, I do not know. I was warmly greeted by participants, both personally and with applause when my name was mentioned. Who knows what motivates Prags? All in all, it was a waste of blood pressure.

Anyway, keep me in your prayers tomorrow.

Still very rocky.

Vertigo is for the birds.

"Juden haben waffen!" Kurt Hofmann reports "CSGV becoming increasingly frantic over 'printable gun'"

"I, myself, remained on the balcony and fired at the confused and embarrassed Germans with my Mauser. From my balcony, I could see them in all their helplessness and their loss of control. The air was full of wails and shouts. Many of them tried to run to the walls of the houses for cover but everything was barred and beyond that, death was pursuing them. In the noise, the fluster, and the cries of the wounded, we heard the astonished outcry of one of the Germans: 'Juden haben waffen! Juden haben waffen!' ('The Jews have arms!') . . .

The battle lasted for about a half an hour. The Germans withdrew and there were many corpses and wounded in the street." -- Recollection of the opening engagement on 19 April 1943 of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Haim Frymer, Jewish Fighting Organization, quoted in Resistance by Israel Gutman, New York, 1994, pp. 206-207.

Originally posted at Sipsey Street as -- Praxis Repost: Strippers. "Juden haben waffen!"

The government monopoly of violence advocates are wetting their panties again.

CSGV and their fellow travelers are so committed to their sick agenda of a "government monopoly on force" that they wish death on those who would make that monopoly impossible. Such people are exactly the reason the "Wiki Weapon" project is so vital to not only Americans, but to the world.

"Only Ones" at play. Mayor Bloomberg's Private Army Guns Down Another Unarmed Citizen.

NYPD Officer Kills Unarmed National Guardsman

'Fast and Furious': What are they hiding?

Why should we have any trouble believing the gun-hating Obama administration launched an operation designed to retroactively turn their erroneous reports into true reports - especially when President Obama, far from trying to get to the bottom of all this, has channeled Richard Nixon and invoked executive privilege to prevent Congress from learning the truth?

David Codrea: Black intellectual bigotry endangering poor urban blacks by disparaging guns

Two separate statements from prominent black intellectuals made Tuesday, one from Chicago and one from Virginia Tech, reveal anti-gun bigotry with foundations that include chronic dismissal of whites through negative stereotypes. Writing for Open Salon, commentator and editor of the “We are Respectable Negroes” blog Chauncey DeVega, and poet and “distinguished professor of English” Nikki Giovanni, both with an established history of fixating on race, used their positions of influence to advance the collective at the expense of the individual, widen the racial divide, and disparage guns and gun owners.