Notes From HPS
BY Herschel Smith
10 years, 2 months ago
After over three years of emotional torture and total economic destruction, the prosecution, representing the same Department of Justice that has stonewalled investigations into its own culpability for smuggling guns to Mexico, now demands extracting five more years out of the lives of Rick, Terri and Ryin Reese. What that prosecution has not done is explain where a government that gets its sole Constitutional instruction on arms under the proscription that “the right of the people to keep and bear [them] shall not be infringed” also finds its authority.
See the update on the Reece family and the lying under oath engaged by the Federal Government. Sad and despicable. When the very ones in authority will not obey the laws the Congress passes to govern them, why should we? And this reminds me of a post Mike Vanderboegh made just recently on the role of the law in totalitarian governments.
When millions of Americans, with neither the metalworking and gunsmithing skills to build firearms by hand, or the wealth to buy equipment sufficiently sophisticated (at the prices such equipment commanded until now) to do so through automation, can nevertheless produce effective fighting arms in the privacy of their homes, “universal background check” laws, “prohibited person” laws, “assault weapon” bans, etc. become meaningless. The gun ban zealots’ worst nightmare–uncontrollable, utterly anonymous access to so-called “assault weapons” is upon us, spelling the death of the “government monopoly on force” so beloved of the gun ban jihadis.
That’s a victory for humanity.
This will make it even easier to ameliorate any evil universal background check law passed by Congress. Rock on.
Mike Vanderboegh passed on this piece on caliber debates again. But this is a strange one. Somebody apparently wants the FBI to begin using the .22LR cartridge. As I said, strange. I’ve always thought of the .22LR as underpowered, even for a varmint round. Muzzle velocity and wound trek matter (I prefer the .22 WMR for varmint rounds), which is why the 5.56 mm (.223) is such an effective round and has served the U.S. military so well for years given its propensity to yaw, tumble and fragment into pieces leaving multiple would treks. Related: here is a very interesting article at The Daily Caller on the history of the .357 magnum (a round which I like very much). For the record, I shoot .45 ACP, .38 Special and .357 magnum in my handguns.
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