To begin with, this is your president. This ought to be one of the most shameful things ever said by a sitting president.
"Do you have any words to the victims of the hurricane?"
BIDEN: "We've given everything that we have."
"Are there any more resources the federal government could be giving them?"
BIDEN: "No." pic.twitter.com/jDMNGhpjOz
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2024
We must have spent too much money on Ukraine to help Americans in distress. I don't…… [read more]
Davidson County Sheriff’s Deputy Tripp Kester, speaking during a board of commissioners meeting Tuesday night, gave a fiery defense of the Constitution and Second Amendment rights, “personally and publicly” going on record that he will not enforce an unconstitutional law.
“I’m going to protect the people of the county regardless of what’s done here,” Kester said. “Let’s get on board and let’s do the right thing. We’re not going to allocate any personnel, finances, resources or anything to infringe on their liberties.”
“I am not being disrespectful, but regardless of what you do or don’t do, I am not going to enforce an unconstitutional law,” he added, garnering a raucous applause from the packed room.
Shortly after his speech, the board voted unanimously to become a Second Amendment sanctuary, joining several other North Carolina counties that have approved some form of gun rights affirming resolution over the last few weeks.
You can watch the speech below.
Thank you Deputy Kester. We’ll all hold you to those words. And I appreciate your support of the resolution sir.
On average, with the shorter barrel there was a 12-percent reduction in velocity (100 fps). The smallest difference—26 fps—was recorded with the Buffalo Bore 110-grain Barnes TAC-XP load. The most-extreme variation—200 fps—was recorded with another Buffalo Bore load, the +P Outdoors-man, which utilizes a 158-grain, hard-cast, Keith-style bullet. More important than the velocity loss was how the slower velocities affected terminal performance. This is because when it comes to stopping bad guys, penetration and expansion are what matter.
The average penetration depth for the nine loads fired from both barrel lengths was 14.28 inches. The average penetration variation between barrel lengths was only 0.80 inch. For all practical purposes, that’s irrelevant; individual loads can vary more than that from shot to shot. However, comprising that average were a few extremes worth mentioning.
The 140-grain Hornady XTP load penetrated 2.25 inches deeper from the longer barrel simply because of its 99-fps faster impact velocity. With the 110-grain Hornady Critical Defense load, an 85 fps decrease in velocity caused the bullet to penetrate 1.75 inches less. However, with the 125-grain Golden Saber +P load, the longer barrel delivered 3 inches less penetration because the bullet deformed with a larger frontal diameter at the only slightly higher (57 fps) impact velocity. It should be noted that the hard-cast Outdoorsman load passed through all 28 inches of gelatin, regardless whether it was fired from the 1.9- or 4-inch barrel.
With regard to expansion, there was minimal difference. The average variation in expansion between rounds fired from a 1.9- and a 4-inch barrel was a mere .04 inch. The lone exception was the Winchester Silvertip bullet. Out of the 1.9-inch barrel, it expanded with a frontal diameter of .66 inch, but out of the 4-inch barrel it had a recovered frontal diameter of only .4 inch. The higher impact velocity (132 fps) overly stressed this bullet and caused it to shed 46 percent of its original weight. Out of the shorter barrel, the bullet retained 99 percent of its weight.
There was one load that stood head and shoulders above all others. The Speer 135-grain Gold Dot Short Barrel load only varied .5 inch in penetration depth and .03 inch in expansion, even though there was an 83-fps difference in impact velocity. Obviously, this load is aptly named; Speer purposely engineered it to deliver optimum performance from short barrels. Not only did it perform near identically from both barrel lengths, it delivered what many consider optimum terminal performance from a defensive handgun. Any load that will penetrate in excess of 12 inches and expand to 1.5 or more times its original diameter is noteworthy.
First of all, I think this is good news for ankle-carry small frame and short-barrel revolvers. There just isn’t much of a loss in performance.
Second, it looks like Speer has done a very good job with .38 Spl. ammunition, calling it the “Short Barrel Load.”
They’ve bought into the notion of right wing violence. No such thing is going to happen in Richmond. Any violence will be at the hands of Antifa, and drama will be courtesy of crisis actors hired by Soros and Bloomberg.
A TSA agent whipped the braids of a Native American woman and yelled “Giddyup” during a security check at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, according to the woman and the federal Transportation Security Administration.
“Going through @TSA at @mspairport, the agent said she needed to pat down my braids. She pulled them behind my shoulders, laughed & said ‘giddyup!’ as she snapped my braids like reins,” Tara Houska wrote on Twitter on Monday.
“When I informed the middle-aged blonde woman who had casually used her authority to dehumanize and disrespect me, she said ‘Well it was just in fun, I’m sorry.
Giddyup!
As I’ve said so many times before, “The TSA is a federal jobs program for idiots, hicks, goobers, perverts, control freaks, and maladjusted anti-social types who cannot get work elsewhere.”
I don’t believe in caging men. I’ve said it before in the context of imprisonment. I don’t believe in incarceration and rehabilitation, nor prison camps of any sort.
If a man has committed a crime worthy of death (e.g., rape, murder or kidnapping), then put him to death. If he has stolen from you, he becomes your slave until the debt is paid. There is no such thing as a “debt to society.” Debts are to individuals, not groups. That’s the Biblical model. There isn’t a model better than that.
What the democrats are doing in Virginia is caging men, just like incarceration. Democrats believe in caging men. And most republicans too.
The majority-Democrat state Senate passed legislation that would restrict monthly gun purchases, expand background checks on firearms, and allow localities to ban guns in certain designated areas.
Senate Bill 69 amends Virginia law to restrict citizens’ ability to purchase more than one handgun per month, Senate Bill 70 requires mandatory background checks for all private sales of guns, and Senate Bill 35 requires localities to ban guns at public events.
Although Democratic Sen. John Edwards struck the assembly’s most controversial legislation, Senate Bill 16, which would have prohibited the sale, possession, or transfer of an assault rifle, many Republicans believe the House of Delegates will pass the similarly worded House Bill 961, which bans the purchase or possession of assault rifles in Virginia.
Soon to be signed into law, I’m sure. Limits on gun purchases, universal background checks, and laws to disarm the public at certain events and locations.
VCDL Sue VA Governor over Lobby Day Gun Ban Springfield, VA – In response to Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s gun ban before Lobby Day, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) announce the filing of an emergency injunction to overturn the governor’s illegal ban. Erich Pratt, GOA’s Senior Vice President, stated the following: “Governor Northam is behaving like the royal governors who long preceded him. He has arrogantly and brazenly tried to restrict the rights protected to Virginians by the First and Second Amendments. “For this reason, Gun Owners of America is joining VCDL in asking the courts to issue an emergency injunction forbidding the enforcement of the Governor’s unlawful ban. The Lobby Day rally is held annually with thousands of participants and without incident. The only difference this year is that, in response to the Democrats’ attempt to eviscerate the Second Amendment, a much larger crowd is expected. “GOA is arguing that the Governor’s actions violate the Virginia and U.S. Constitutions, as well as, a 2012 state law which strictly limits the governor’s ability to ban guns in a state of emergency.”
A Virginia judge has ruled in support of a state of emergency Gov. Ralph Northam (D) put in place on the state capitol Wednesday to temporarily ban guns ahead of a rally scheduled for Monday.
Northam declared a state of emergency citing “credible intelligence from our law enforcement agencies of threats of violence.”
What? You didn’t really expect a black-robed tyrant to be true to your God-given rights, did you?
So now you’re cordially invited (or not) into a city where you know they’re busing Antifa thugs in, and yet you can only come if you’re disarmed.
You learn two things from this video. First of all, Coyotes have lost their fear of other Coyotes and now work in packs. This is learned behavior, along with an admixture of Wolf DNA. Don’t go out unarmed.
Second, cats. Even when I walked my 90 pound Doberman Heidi (before she passed away), when she tried to screw with local cats I always pulled her back.
I’d say to her, “That cat will claw your eyes out girl and I’ll be walking a blind dog. Learn what you can mess with and what you can’t.”
I would have turned her loose on Yotes, other dogs, or two-legged assailants. Not cats.
