Praxis: Survival Lasers 300mW red kit — Tool or Toy?

Wear your goggles.

Dear Cheaper Than Dirt…

Trying to buy forgiveness.

I'd like to know the answer to this one, too.

How is MoveOn.org gun owner ‘a proud defender of the Second Amendment’?

Hornady Addresses Ammo Shortage: "We’re working 24/7."

“We appreciate everyone’s understanding and patience,” the company said. “We don’t know when the situation will improve, so please bear with us a little longer.”

Eliot Engel reintroduces his perennial confiscatory gun ban bill.

The point is not the infinitesimal danger that this abomination will ever pass, but that a long-serving (if Engel's oath-breaking abuses of power can be considered "service") member of Congress has the audacity to even try to confiscate citizens' legally obtained property, with no apparent fear of at least tar and feathers.

Back in stock: RWE's III Patches

From Raven's Wood Enterprises comes this announcement:

Raven's Wood Enterprises has received a significant number of requests for the "III" patch and so here's the updated and improved original "III" patch, Audentes Fortuna Iuvat (Fortune Favors the Bold) will be available on 1 March 13 for a limited run to gauge interest.

Patches are $6 each post paid, and orders are accepted for cash (sender's risk), USPS money order, certified or cashier's checks made out to:

Raven's Wood Enterprises, LLC.

PO Box 962

Birmingham, MI 48012

Orders should include a note with a shipping address, and the number of patches ordered equal to the total amount in the envelope.

Example: Order for 3 patches

Note:

Send 3 patches to J. Public

1234 Main Street

Any Town, USA 00000

$18 enclosed

Cash, USPS Money Orders, certified and cashier's checks processed and shipped immediately; personal check orders held for 10 days until cleared by RWE's bank.

The .46 Caliber Semi-Automatic Rifle That Changed the World.

From the American Thinker.

The best-laid schemes of collectivist gang aft a-gley.

"Obama and Bloomberg Together May Unarm the NRA."

There they go again, thinking that this argument over the Founders' Republic is going to be settled by mere political sleight of hand. (See previous post about ammunition sales.)

They just don't get it, do they?

"Gun dealers report shortages of ammunition."

My old Econ 101 professor at Franklin University, William Jennings Bryan, Junior, (don't laugh -- his daddy was a first-generation American from Lebanon, who fled the old country because of political and religious persecution and who took WJB's moniker because he admired the man from our history) taught me that except in cases involving sex and love, all economic transactions were rational. What is apparent from this article is that no one comes close to understanding (or, being willing to speak the uncomfortable truth about) the rationale behind the current market run on firearms and ammunition.

Folks are buying weapons like there is no tomorrow because they believe that there will be no tomorrow. The name for that uncertainty is, at best, economic collapse and at worst civil war.

The evidence is right in front of their faces and they do not, cannot, see it.

Oh, well, back to the reloading bench.

The Gathering Storm

President Obama has set in motion forces that he can't handle.

This is the point: a perfect storm is brewing. I think we're heading for a chaotic and violent period in this country the likes of which no one alive today has ever witnessed. If I'm right, conditions will be ideal for criminals to ply their craft, and President Obama is pushing for gun control at precisely the wrong moment.

I believe that what I have described is realistic and unfortunately inevitable, and that brings me back to my back to the president. He has set in motion forces that he can't handle, and all of us are going to suffer the consequences so get ready for a wild ride.

Would New Gun Laws Spark Widespread Civil Disobedience?

"So, you thought you had me figured for a pushover?"

Will New Gun Laws Spark Widespread Civil Disobedience? Yup, you betcher ass it would.

Coming soon to a street theater near you:

Talk is cheap, Jim. Where's the ATF oversight hearings the whistleblowers were promised?

Bungled ATF Milwaukee Sting Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

Miami Police Endorse "Shooting to Wound" as a policy -- for citizens.

Homeowner Walked in on Burglars, Shot Suspects.

"Absolutely, something that we're seeing that was quite cleaver from that homeowner is what he did was shoot them in the legs to immobilize them. So, clearly, these two men, who have an extensive past for home invasion robberies, are behind bars today simply because the homeowner chose for them to have life and just immobilize them," said Kenia Reyes, spokeswoman for Miami Police."

I guess the cops are just grateful for some more repeat business in the future. The reader who forwarded me this link had this cogent comment:

Sorry, Police.....WRONG ANSWER. You ALWAYS shoot to kill.

What if the invading suspect(s) had been armed with concealed weapons and returned fire? Zzzzt. GAME OVER.

I'll also be surprised if the gun owner is not sued.

(It's happened before.)

Last Round.

Day By Day.

He must be doing something right. He's got all the right enemies.

Texas Senator Goes on Attack and Raises Bipartisan Hackles

Confirming the final step in its Kalifornication process, Colorado passes magazine ban, as MagPul announces it is leaving the state.

FOX reports: Colorado House approves high-capacity magazine ban, despite GOP objections. MagPul announces it is voting with its feet. However, the Democrat legislature threw them a bone:

"Democrats amended the bill to allow Magpul to continue to manufacture high-capacity magazines in Colorado for sale in other states, but the company remained opposed to the ban."

We'll see if MagPul has the courage of its announced convictions.

I'd like to hear from Coloradans on whet they intend to do about this intolerable act. Either comment here of email me at GeorgeMason1776AT1olDOTcom.

"Dorner case shows folly of arming oneself to combat government."

Another collectivist citizen disarmament crank shows his ignorance of military affairs.

More black-robed collectivist ideologues on the way.

Obama Attempting to Change Face and Ideology of the Judiciary. Somewhere in Hell, Karl Marx is laughing.

Why should gun rights advocates in Illinois support ANY concealed carry bill?

A "right" contingent on the government's permission is no right at all, and Illinoisans have no reason to be willing to ask for that permission.

Can you hear it yet? The Long Roll of William Diamond's Drum

The Long Roll: (Mil.) A prolonged roll of the drums, as the signal of an attack by the enemy, and for the troops to arrange themselves in line.

"And having met at the place of our company's parade., [we] were dismissed by our captain, John Parker, for the present, with orders to be ready to attend at the beat of the drum." -- Deposition of Lexington Minuteman Nathaniel Mulliken.

After a restless night of alarms, counsels, musters and dismissals of militia, mysterious couriers, intelligence and counter-intelligence, a forty-five-year-old veteran of Rogers' Rangers in the French and Indian wars, Captain John Parker, commanding the Lexington minutemen, directed his drummer boy to go across the road to the Common and beat the call to arms. And when William Diamond, bringing the enthusiasm of his sixteen years to the beating of his gaily emblazoned drum, rolled out the call to the village's minutemen, the War of the American Revolution began. . . As William Diamond continued to beat the call on his drum, the Lexington minutemen perhaps thirty of them assembled on the Common. Captain Parker directed Orderly Sergeant William Munroe to form the men in ranks. . .

The rolling beat of William Diamond's drum began to drown out, in the ears of the approaching British, the soft thud of their own marching feet on the unpaved roadway. Aware that the drum was sounding a military assembly, the British officers halted their troops, the light infantry in front and the grenadiers in the rear. Orders were given to stop, prime and load their guns, double their ranks, and then to proceed again at double-quick time. -- William Diamond's Drum by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot.

William Diamond's drum is sounding the long roll once again, and it doesn't take much imagination to hear it. As the collectivists in the Federal government attempt to roll the Dead Elephant Party into banning the private sale of arms (and it looks like it won't take much effort), states like New York, Colorado and New Mexico are rushing headlong into their own versions of the same Intolerable Acts. We are thus confronted with the end of what Claire Wolfe called "the awkward stage."

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." – 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution (1996)

The enforcement of these various odious, unconstitutional laws -- whether state or federal -- will be resisted, flaunted and then Leviathan, which can't afford to look silly, will come to kill us for our temerity.

This is not paranoia, but merely the natural order of things in our new collectivist state of Amerika. Don't believe me? Ask a Davidian, if you can find one still alive.

For understand, what we seek is not a revolution, but a counter-revolution -- against the collectivists who have been hacking, gnawing and biting at the supports of the Founder's Republic and their vision of the rule of law for over a century. Like the Founders, we -- who only wish to be left alone with our liberty and property intact -- must seek a restoration of their vision and secure our liberty once more for ourselves and our posterity.

(By 19 April 1775), revolution in the minds of the people of Lexington had already been almost fully achieved. The revolt was of a philosophic nature, skillfully and positively phrased in philosophic terms and on the whole neither inflammatory nor overly emotional in either content or language. The public papers of Lexington, tracing the evolution of the town's opinion, are great state papers, written in the neat orderly hand of Jonas Clarke; and they paralleled, when they did not actually anticipate, the great papers of the colonies as a federation. In the opinion of Lexington there was little doubt left that Britain by her acts had shattered her own traditions, dating from the barons at Runnymede, of a free society. In the Coercive Acts of 1774 (which, in addition to closing the port of Boston, revoked the Massachusetts charter, transferred trials to England or to other colonies, and quartered soldiers on the inhabitants without their permission) the people of Lexington saw the revolution as really one launched by the British Parliament against a wholly British heritage. And in their minds the movement in the colonies, all their acts and resolves, was a counterrevolution to restore centuries-old freedoms and safeguards against tyranny. . .

But it was clear to Jonas Clarke and thus to his townsmen, as events progressed, that no debate of the issues was to lead to any final solution. The ministry of Lord North was proceeding as if it had nothing but contempt for colonial opinion and was bankrupt of any expedient but force. The reaction in Lexington was inevitable. Having already concluded, "We shall be ready to sacrifice our estates and everything dear in life, yea and life itself, in support of the common cause," they voted at last, abandoning faith in the power of reason for the comfort of practical measures, to strengthen their arms and militia with "a suitable quantity of flints . . . two pieces of cannon ... (and) a pair of drums."

One of those was young William Diamond's drum, upon which he beat the long roll and ushered in what we now call the American Revolution but which was, in fact, a glorious counter-revolution against a corrupt regime in violation of its own English Constitution.

Today, William Diamond's drum again beats the long roll. We do not seek a civil war, but one is being thrust upon us. If we do not now stand, then when will we? We must defy these intolerable acts, whatever their source, and challenge the collectivist revolutionaries to come work their will upon us if they do not like it -- and they most assuredly won't. We must give a final rattle of the tail before striking. They may pass whatever "laws" they wish, then watch what happens when they try to enforce them. The next moves will be up to them. May God have mercy on their corrupt, heathen murderous souls, for they are unlikely to receive any in the ghastly civil conflict their tyrannical appetites seem to crave.