Now people are starting to ask the right questions

What Will Gun Controllers Do When Americans Ignore an ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban?

The answer, of course, is all day, every day, and twice on Sundays. 


"So, the government somehow defines "assault weapons" in a meaningful way and bans sales of new ones. How is that going to be effective given the millions of disfavored weapons already in circulation? That includes roughly 8 million AR-15-style rifles alone—out of somewhere north of 300 million firearms in general. It's not like they're going anywhere."


I still feel that the 300 million number is extremely conservative given the number of firearms that have been sold in the past few years alone.  Of course the author is right in that no branch of government was able to  define the term "assault rifle" in a "meaningful way".  Just look at how arbitrary the "bayonet lug" or the "shoulder thing that goes up" were or what the SBR brace is now. 


Here is the "ah ha"" moment of the ease of nullification that needs to be imparted loud and clear to the disarmament folks:


"People have been 3D-printing AR-15 lower receivers (the parts legally classified as a firearm) for years. More durable receivers are CNC-milled by hobbyists from partially finished blanks as well as raw blocks of metal. These techniques were developed in anticipation of the laws now proposed, with the specific purpose of rendering them impotent."


Even before 3D printers and CNC machines, free men and women did not need permission to make firearms.  Pass whatever "feel good" law you law you wish, it does not matter a damn.  Firearms manufacturing has been completely and forever democratized.  It will in the hands of the people to decide what they are going to give up and what they simply will not.


Anyone interested in hosting coast-to-coast 80% lower parties?

What a strange world we live in

Homeland Security Adviser Demands National Gun Registry

From PJ Media:
"Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, born in Cairo, immigrated to the U.S. in 1990. He recently retired from the FBI after 22 turbulent years at the bureau. Following the Orlando attack, Abdel-Hafiz explained his rationale for creating a national gun registry:

A former FBI counter-terrorism agent says lawmakers could make mass murders less likely. "What we need to do is keep the ownership of guns known to the government, so we know who has what," said security consultant Gamal Abdel-Hafiz. “And I know a lot of people are against that.”

Seems to me there was some talk about a Muslim registry for the same reasons.  Wonder how he weighs in on that one.

File under "No one thinks they are an evil person"

More on the rats among us

This is just my job

One from Joe at Boomershoot
"This is just my job. So said the guy gathering signatures at the grocery store."
"One of the initiatives he was promoting was designed to get more guns out of the hands of law abiding people." "When I saw his booth and the anti-gun language, I resolved to talk to him on my way out of the store."
.....


"His reply: “This is just a job for me. I’m a gun owner.”
"I don’t remember my reply, but it was not what I was thinking:" "Quisling." "Judenrat." "To make others defenseless because you are getting a paycheck."




I am reminded of a post from some time ago that references something quite similar..


"...I once told a hoplophobe child psychiatrist on a "gun violence" panel in Birmingham:

"Let's say you're right. Let's say I AM paranoid. Let's say I'm CRAZY." (And here I opened up my eyes wide and edged closer to him. He jumped back in fear.) "Well, I'm still armed to the teeth. That just complicates your problem, now doesn't it?"


The Old Man loved telling people that story.  Anyone that would listen; his eyes would get wide at the appropriate places and he would smile at the end for effect.  What only but a few were able to grasp is its profound wisdom.  Men, even well meaning ones that are simply trying to make their way in the world, who may even be sympathetic to your cause, who ask for to disarm need to have their lies exposed for what they are at eye ball level.


After all, evil triumphs when good men do nothing to the well intentioned ones aid it.

Tacticool Tuesday - What's in your vehicle?

BOV Kit lists are numerous and fairly redundant.  They do what they are suited to do.  The amount of time we spend in and around our vehicles is staggering.  About.com compiled the US Census data that suggests that the average American driver spends over 100 hours behind the wheel each year.  The AAA adds some more math to calculate it out further as to age, location, and certain occupational concerns.  Bottom line is that Americans are finding themselves with their vehicles more, and now we have a crumbling infrastructure to contend with along with more cars, (and more jackasses), being on the road.

It is a wonder we get anywhere sometimes.

Despite your focus, rural, urban or suburban, every car needs to have some sort of blowout kit to handle life's imponderables.  A good IFAK is just big enough to store beneath a seat but big enough to handle a lot of the first responder issues of controlling bleeding and maintaining breathing.  The IFAK is good, especially when coupled with a small, cheap range bag that is packed with other essential gear, more ammo, water, whatever; you get the idea.

In doing some research for some other bit of Tacticool that I found on a facebook auction site, I ran across this little gem that looks promising as a quick reaction bag for really bad days on the road:

But you say, "Matthew, why the hell would I need an active shooter kit in my Grocery Getter"?  Well check out the second video and I think you can see the utility a little better.

 

 

It makes a little more sense now as a fairly useful, and completely accessible system.  The only problem that I see in this is keeping the spouse and kids from stripping it of batteries, meds, band aids, or chemlights.

 

I can't help you there.

Sipsey Public Service Announcement

Through the comments section, I am sent a metric crap ton of links to stories.  Most of them with little or nothing to do with the story that they are commenting on.  Some of them are utter tripe.  Some are fantastic but not on point for the post.  Being the fairly educated white boy that I am, I deduce this is to get my attention to a particular tidbit of news that would be interesting to the general audience.


That is absolutely awesome and thank you so much that you have taken ownership of your participation in bettering the community to want to have it shared with the audience.  Before, they were simply deleted out of hand, but I am finding that there is a lot of great information but I cannot publish it as it will derail the real comments and it is frankly not germane to the post.


Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately because it prevents tampering with the comments), I cannot click on the link to check out the story that is contained in the comment.  I can only check mark the comment and either delete it or approve it to be published.  What this is causing me to do is go and manually look up the story.  Sometimes it is easy, sometimes no so much.


What I would ask you to do is send the link to the following email address:  sipsey street irregulars AT gmail dot com.  I will be able to check it out from the email and make a better assessment where it needs to go.  I know for some, you may not want to submit the comments as anything other than anonymous and do not want an email address, even a fake, to be linked to the comment. The reasons are not important to me, the content and bettering the community is what is important.  If you do not want to go through making an anonymous email, let me know and I can set up a proton mail account you can dump it into.  Just let me know in the comments if that is better.

Sunday Jams - Old Crow Medicine Show

The Blow Out Kit

As you may already know, I am finishing up week one of my two week Reserve Annual Training.  The first week was spent with the normal mundane housekeeping stuff that we have not had time to complete.  If you think that you have it bad with the occasional but, nonetheless, obtrusive corporate HR training requirements, you have not seen what the Army is forced to sit through with the quarterly gauntlet of mind rotting, tax payer subsidized, power point slides and online courses.  Not to make light of the epidemic of veteran suicides, but after you have sat through your hundredth session of quarterly sexual harassment or master resiliency training, hanging yourself by your own safety reflective belt just for a diversion seems pretty attractive.

One thing of note, however, is that I took a refresher Combat Lifesavers course and it gave me the inspiration to publish a series of posts relating directly to the immediate life saving actions that you need to take after an active shooter incident.  This will be coming from the meathead perspective of  the military, but you can easily adapt them to your situation, whatever first responder role that may be.  This will be another easily digestible, slow burn of posts that describe what you can do at a very basic level as a first responder of an active shooting incident or explosion.  Surprisingly, it is actually quite a lot.

"Legal Disclaimer" up front
One caveat is that these actions can be performed by anyone that has the approved hands on training.  The skill illustrated on this blog are for educational purposes only and should not be interpreted as the same thing as real world training.  This does not give you the qualifications to perform emergency medical treatment any more than watching Scooby Do makes you a private investigator.  It would be a good idea to read on your local or state interpretation of the Good Samaritan laws before you get yourself in a situation a high priced lawyer cannot get you out of.


The Stuff


First things first, we need to cover the very modest equipment that you need to provide this care.  On every Soldier's armor, you will find the Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK). Please reference the picture below or you can go to this link for the pdf.

In short, you will need the following items:

1 container/pouch

1 CAT Tourniquet

1 Israeli Bandage

1 Nasal Pharyngeal Airways

2 Pair latex gloves

1 Combat Gauze

1 Tension Pheumothorax needle

2 Chest Seals (H&H, Bolin, HyFin)

1 roll surgical tape

Sterile Gauze

Combat shears

Fine point Sharpie Marker

You will also want:

SAM Splint(s)

3 cravats

Additional gauze

For SHTF scenarios:

Pill pack with the following doses:

Mobic 15mg

Tylenol 2, 650mg

Moxifloxacin, 400mg

What it is and what it isn't

That is the "stuff" for one person's individual kit. You may want to have a larger first responder bag that can handle more than one incident/victim.  The IFAK will get you out of most trouble given that you can get to a hospital in a decent amount of time.  It will not treat heart attacks, strokes, poisonings, spine injuries, and other much more common life threatening incidents.  This kit is strictly for the aftermath of gunshot wounds, blunt trauma, compound fractures, and other life threatening but treatable incidents that are common to the battlefield.

I would caution you to keep your boo-boo kit separate from your blow out kit.  You will not want your band aids and Imodium to become jumbled in with the actual life saving materials.  Every tool has its place.  I would also encourage you to have at least two CAT tourniquets either in or attached to your Go Bag or directly attached to your gear/rifle.  Whatever's clever for you. 

Also,  if you are a III Percent vendor that sells any of the equipment listed above, shoot me an email (not the Georgemason, but the Sipeystreet account),  and would be more than happy to link to your products. 





Another from Weasel Zippers - When Slippery meets slope.

Lynch seems to think that the No Fly List could be adpated to prevent gun purchases

Just as it says.  AG Lynch is trying to adapt the No-Fly list to red flag anyone trying to purchase a finrearm.  This is all feel good and easy enough to apply until you take a small step back as to what it actually means to get on the No Fly list


Here is a refresher as to some things that can put you on the No Fly List:


8 ways you can end up on the no-fly list


1. Being suspected to have been involved at some point in time of terrorist activates.  Whatever that means, because no one seems to know.
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2. Travel to other countries.  Given the prism that this State Department views certain countries as either "good" or "bad", I can see how this is pretty arbitrary.  Moreover, not one State Dept. bureaucrat was held responsible for letting these people back in.  I'd like to have that conversation with Loretta.


3. Complaints from SJW's on social media.  No really, that's it.


4. Have a name that sounds the same as someone on the No Fly List.  Which is in no way arbitrary or against the rule of law.


5. When the alphabet agencies call you out, you don't play ball.  As in, if you don't snitch, you don't fly.  Or own a gun apparently.


6. Because Bureaucracy.  Typing errors can get you on the list.  Try defending yourself to the machine that you, Mr. John Q. Smith from Anytown USA is not Mohammed Salafist .


7. Bench warrants, too many parking tickets, whatever. 


8.  Again, Social Media.  Tweeting your displeasure in the Hillary/Bernie 2016 ticket can catch the eye of Mordor and keep you from flying.


See how this is a really bad idea?

So "Triggered" even the Hipster's think this is mainstream

University oif Northern Colorado Bias Response Team Hangs 680 Posters in response to "offensive" phrases

If you do not think that the enemies of the western civilization are not taking note, they are.  What's funny is these people think they can negotiate with ISIS but free market, gun owning producer/breeders need to be eliminated.  Boy-o-boy are they in for a surprise.

Herschel Smith's take on the current state of affairs

The Goal is People Control and not Gun Control

As to be expected, Herschel does an excellent job to explain and expand on the very important analysis by GEN Patton from earlier this week and other events that have been culminating to where we are right now.


I could give you the highlights, but the entire thing article is a highlight.  I would invite you to click on the link above and read it the article in its entirety.


Trigger warning for the Trump crowd; bring your listening ears and an open mind.  Perhaps the base can make enough noise to get that guys attention.  Call it a triumph of hope over experience.

The Rats are in the Cornfield

Store Owner: Undercover CBS Purchase of AR-15 Broke Federal Law

ATF, Virginia State Police contacted over ‘straw purchase’

It sure is hard for a working journalist to keep up with the fast moving targets of pushing the narrative-du-jour.  With facts as rare as hens teeth over in the MSM, someone thought it would be a great idea to legally purchase an eeee-veyl assault rifle with the express purpose of legally transferring it to a third party.  The idea would be to conduct an "undercover" sting investigation to prove that the exception of legal private transfers disproves the rule that the NCIS system works.  Well, works well enough for the purposes of this story anyway.


"The store, SpecDive Tactical in Alexandria, Virginia, said that when CBS News’ Paula Reid [legally] purchased the rifle she told the store’s general manager the gun was for her own use. However, when CBS reported on the story they revealed the gun was purchased for the story and transferred to a third party a few hours later. “The rifle we purchased was legally transferred to a federally licensed firearms dealer and weapons instructor in Virginia, just hours after we bought it,” the report said."


"The store said they contacted the ATF after viewing the report because they feared the misdirection used by the CBS reporter constituted a straw purchase, which would be a federal crime."


As any sane person involved with the most regulated industry in the country, the store owner smelled a rat and called in the boys in blue. 


Again from the article: “Ms. Paula Reid came into the shop with cash, claiming she wished to purchase an AR-15 to, ‘undergo training,’” Ryan Lamke, SpecDive’s general manager, told the Washington Free Beacon. “She refused basic, free instruction of firearms safety under the pretense that she was using the firearm for training with a NRA certified instructor.”


Now, we all know that absolutely nothing will happen to Ms. Reid.  She is, after all, a vetted member of the fourth estate that was in the field and caught pushing the narrative.  But the story should be a cautionary tale of keeping your b.s. antennae on full alert in everything you do.  Especially when it comes to dealing with things that can put you in prison.


If it smells like a rat and looks like a rat and talks like a rat, you should probably believe that it is a rat.  These hacks are generally out of their element and are fairly easy to pick out.  Professionals are a bit different in that they study the culture and can talk the talk.  Invariably they will come to you with the deal of a lifetime.  You do so at the peril of your livelihood, family, friends.. Both types, the rank armatures and the hardened professionals, will always come at you sideways.  It is the only way they know.

Must Read of the Day: Thee Card Monte

Three Card Monte



Before we get caught up in the D's vs. R's game, George makes some very important points to watch the hands that are shuffling the cards.


"We’re being played like marks right now over the shootings in Florida. Stop and think about that for a second before you read on. Think about all the discussions out there right now.  Guns, muslims, gays, immigration, ISIS, you name it.  And it’s all a game."

Good stuff from the Feral Irishman

Awesome

Taking a chance on the radical notion that kids do not need the permission of society or the state to lead a healthy life.  I can see that prayer shaming would be a real thing for ego-centric people caught up chasing vacant, boring, and plastic lives.  It would be uncomfortable for those same people to see other kids positively influenced by something bigger than themselves.

Two Cheeks on the Same Ass

Submitted with only this comment:


The establishment on both parties knows how the Dems lost the House and Senate after the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and again in 2010 with as an answer to the first term of Obama.  They will have much to lose if they try and push for it now.  Which is why I say now that pressure needs to be put on the knee jerk, tearful handwringing of the establishment politicians (of both flavors), but not to go and sell you car to stock up on stripped receivers.


The canary in the coal mine is if the DNC is willing to truly push for additional gun legislation and so abdicate more seats in the House and Senate.  Any national disenfranchisement our firearm rights will be met with resounding defeats everywhere except for the deeply established colonies of big "S" socialist elitism, (i.e. NYC, LA, Chicago, Baltimore, San Fran, etc.).  If they are, they have abandoned any pretense that things will things will continue on the two part path.  The two state cold war we have currently enjoy will get lots and lots warmer.


Republicans Seek Wider FBI Surveillance Power After Orlando


Dems push for new gun laws after Orlando attack

Matt Bracken ties the Oathbreaker Petraeus to the Saudi's

Navy Seal: General Petraeus Is On The Saudi Payroll 

Go to around the 10 minute mark to skip the Alex Jones spiel. 

Follow Up to Okie Card Reader Swindle - It's Pretty Awesome

Highway Patrol Says it Did not Do What it Said it Did Before, But it Really Wants to do Because Drugs, and Crime, and Stuff.

"Earlier Monday at a news conference, Thompson said he wanted to re-evaluate use of the device but that there were no plans to stop using it.

"It's too good a tool" to cease using, he said. "I personally want to sit through this to get a clear understanding of how this works and get a good comfortable feel before we move forward."

What's more:

"The state paid $5,000 for the devices and $1,500 for training, and the company that makes the devices, ERAD Group, gets a 7.7 percent cut of any funds seized and forfeited through use of the device."

So to summarize, the Okie Dept. of Public Safety is very temporarily pulling this $6,500 money making scheme not because it does nothing to with Public Safety but everything to do with getting familiar with the product.  They probably spend more on new propaganda pamphlets from the SPLC every year so the cost is not so much in the grand scheme of things.  The cost is not the issue, the kickbacks to the developer are.  Moving on.

“We can do nothing with someone’s bank account. We can do nothing with someone’s debit card,” Adams said. “What we can tell is if it is yours, if the information on the back of a gift card is your personal credit card information.”

So this machine that costs $5000 and all they claim it can do is read out the name and banking information from the person that bought it.  It cannot touch the bank account of the purchaser but it can swipe the money from the card.  All without a shred of due process.  Moving on.

“If we didn’t have this technology … we would lose out on the ability to help people that live and work here, or the people passing through here,” Thompson said."

I don't even know what that means, but I love it.  Sally Struthers was clearly being upstaged with this tearful mush-mouthed pile of garbage.  Moving on.

“In order for us to use those card readers … we have to have reasonable suspicion a crime has occurred to stop someone, then we have to have probable cause before we can move forward to swiping that card and seeing what’s on the card,” Thompson said."

In other words, a stop for a burned out tail light is PC to run your cards. And they wonder why people are pissed.  Thank you War on (Some) Drugs (c).

"Thompson said law enforcement agencies in at least 25 states have ERAD devices. The inventor of the device, T. Jack Williams, told Oklahoma Watch last week that hundreds of law enforcement agencies around the country have the device."

"So far, no prepaid card funds have been seized by the Highway Patrol using the devices, Thompson said. The department’s use of the devices is to combat criminal organizations that have taken to using prepaid cards as a way to fraudulently obtain money or disguise illicit operations, such as drug or human trafficking."

But hey, it's totally cool because, crime.  Or something.

Wait a tick. Didn't we have this from just last week: "If you can prove that you have a legitimate reason to have that money it will be given back to you. And we've done that in the past,"  [Oklahoma Highway Patrol 1LT] Vincent said about any money seized."

So first they took money from bank cards and were so kind as to give it back from a machine that can only read names on gift cards.  But then they did not take money from gift cards and it was all just a big misunderstanding but it's totally cool because 25 states us the technology.

Is it me, or do you have the feeling you're standing waist deep in a huge pile of male cow excrement?

 

Tacticool Tuesday - I give you the future of helmets, assuming we can still pay for it of course

New ballistic helmet brings you one step closer to Iron Man

"The Devtac Ronin Level IIIA Ballistic Helmet was unveiled at SHOT Show 2016. This ventilated two part helmet provides 70% ballistics protection (it may not be 100% but it’s a lot more than 0%). The cheekguards can be removed as necessary to provide access for a solid cheek weld when switching to firearms that aren’t modified to work with the helmet. Marketed for military and SWAT applications, the helmet will be available for civilian purchase later this year. The general look of the helmet is definitely intimidating. You wouldn’t want to see a squad of these bad boys coming for you."

I don't know about Iron Man, but definitely a little closer to Starship Troopers power armor mixed with a General Greivous look.

I cannot believe this particular model being will be fielded by either Officer Friendly or Private Snuffy.  I see a huge design error alone with the relatively limited field of view and the enclosed facemask that ensures you will be sucking in your own CO2.  These are the same reasons I hate paintball masks.  I understand what that it happens to have a fan system included but I also I know what happens to fans in the desert.  Just like everything else mechanical, it gets dirty and breaks.  Not exactly sustainable, is it?

It is like it was made by some damn MILSIM airsofters and not DARPA, ergo, no one actually tested the damn thing before they decided to showcase it at Shotshow 2016.  But I digress.

It does, however, represent a small step to the realization of future land warrior concept.  In 2013, a little fuss was made regarding the new helmets that were being developed, but I am unaware of an integrated GPS and communications platform being put through its paces.  Money and the willingness to have the taxpayer foot the bill for a helmet worth thousands of dollars per unit will be the deciding factor.  Of course, if the Department of Defense get's any smaller due to personnel cuts, we may just be able to afford it.

Time will tell.

We are all we have, you are all you have

From Billy Beck via Facebook. 

"You are at war, and your government cannot protect you. The enemy is far too committed and nimble for any of the government's force to turn quickly enough and face any given attack until it's upon you: right there in the same room with you. You must integrate the fact that if the enemy attacks, then *you* are at the front, and you must learn to act with every possible exploitation of the Western mind, including the indispensable device of firearms for defense against the known tactics of people who you must know may try to kill you and everyone around you, at any moment. You must know this.

You are at war, and your government cannot protect you. Dismiss all piece-meal rationales of "hate": you might as well decry "dance floor violence" after Bataclan and Pulse, but you will require principles, nonetheless, when it's a train blown-up or a shopping mall full of women and children. Do not grant the authority of "the authorities" and their insistent disintegrations of reality; their prosecutors' pious proceedings, their investigations engineered for hoarding facts and designed to craft narratives, their video pageants strutting their "communities" and taking uniformed bows. Understand that you will be at the front: not them.

You are at war, and your government cannot protect you. Understand that every step that it takes toward disarming you or any of your fellows, during these distinct times in which attacks like Bataclan and Pulse are well-known and could be fiercely met in grand old American traditions of courage and decisive action, is a step relinquished to evil: it's wrong, in defiance of manifest facts, and positively dangerous to American life.

You are at war, and your government cannot protect you.

You must understand that *you* will be at the front."

Well, she did say 'scuze me

Wrong hood apparently for this person of color.

Telemundo Reporter Attacked on Live TV

 

 

A US woman has been arrested after punching a female reporter in the face during a live cross.

Telemundo 62 journalist Iris Delgado was wrapping up a report outside Philadelphia’s City Hall on Wednesday night when she was approached by Waheedah Wilson.

Wilson said "excuse me?" several times, while Delgado continued speaking to the camera, then grabbed her and punched her in the head.

"Oh my god, we hope she’s okay," anchor Ramon Zayas exclaimed in Spanish.

The Telemundo 62 camera crew followed the woman until she was arrested by police shortly after.

Wilson punched Delgado three times before shoving her to the ground, witnesses said.

She has been charged with assault.

NBC, which owns the Spanish language channel, said Delgado is recovering.

"Iris Delgado was the victim of an unprovoked attack by an individual while reporting live for Telemundo62’s 11 PM local newscast. Thankfully, she is ok and is understandably taking some time off to recover. We look forward to her return," the company said in a statement.

Wilson, 37, has had numerous run-ins with the law, Philly Voice reports.

The Grab and Go Pack

I have one of these for my Army Reserve kit.  I have another couple or more back in Alabama for my "civilian" kit that is of much better quality but not exactly set up according to military SOP.

Bottom line is that just like weapons, your gear should be set up by task.  Your urban "gray man" kit will probably be much different from your rural gear which will not have your supplementary items (waterops, rappelling gear, ghillie suit, additional commo, you name it).  This is why I am in favor of separate bags for separate missions.

I fully understand that not everyone will have the need or want to have everything seperate, but I fully endorse having one single container for your "Minuteman" gear.  I will not get into the particulars as to what you should carry.  The guy in the video has some points and quite frankly, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits all lift for what you personally will want.