Articles by Herschel Smith

I think he does a very good job of saying the very things I’ve been saying over these pages.  He does a good job with two of the precedents.  He leaves out a third.  I’ve always linked three important ones.

Castle Rock v. Gonzalez

Warren v. District of Columbia

DeShaney v. Winnebago County

But people still believe the reelection sloganeering of “To Protect and Serve” for some irrational reason I cannot explain.

You are your own first responder. No court is ever going to say otherwise. Arm yourselves for your defense and that of your family.

TFB.  They’ve released the new compact ACOG.

• Model: 1.5x16S (TA44 Series)
• Magnification: 1.5x
• Objective Lens: 16mm
• Eye Relief: 2.4 in. 61.0mm
• Exit Pupil: 0.42 in. 10.7mm
• Field of View (in degrees): 7.4°
• Field of View: 39.0 ft.@ 100 yds. 12.9m @100m
• Adjustments (Per in. @ 100 yds.): 2 clicks
• Dimensions (L x W x H) w/o Mount: 4.0 x 1.6 x 2.1 in. (102 x 42 x 53mm)
• Weight w/ Mount: 5.1 oz. (144.5g)
• Illumination Source: Fiber Optics & Tritium
• Reticle(s): Circle Dot, RTR .223 Reticle, RTR 9mm PCC Reticle
• MSRP: $1,357

I put the MSRP in bold.  Yes, you read that right.  They’ve released an ACOG that doesn’t have the magnification of the classic ACOG, and increased the price.

Ha!  And I had the audacity to recommend to Trijicon that they consider their pricing and whether they really want a share of the American market!

Why on earth would anyone buy this for $1357?  It isn’t a 1X so both eyes open downrange will see some oddball things, and it isn’t powerful enough to really be an LPVO or legitimate prism scope.

Good.  It’s nice to see someone has come out with a .22 magnum pistol that’s reliable.  I dumped my KelTec because I couldn’t make it go more than a magazine without a FTF/FTE.  I wrote them and suggested that they reengineer the magazine to be aluminum rather than polymer, and they ignored me.

This one is polymer coated on the outside, but aluminum in the inside.  Also, I had found one link which suggested that the pistol was striker fired in spite of what he said in the video.  But TFB confirms with confidence that it’s a hammer fired gun.  The hammer is a bit hidden but the pictures are good.

That checks the other box for me.  I don’t shoot striker fired guns.

Finally, I like the availability. I hate to read about a new firearm and then find that nothing is available and no one knows when there will be.

Democrat Representative David Cicilline explains his party’s position on Second Amendment rights: “Spare me the bullshit about constitutional rights.” pic.twitter.com/u6tzPLsyAz

— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) June 3, 2022

He seems like a highly objectionable and horrible person, cantankerous, awful to be around, haughty and loud-mouthed.  And use of obscenity in a place like the Congress proves that he isn’t a thinking man, but rather, a person controlled by his emotions.

But okay, I’ll spare him any discussion of the constitution.  The constitution isn’t the source of my rights.

The source of my rights is the Almighty maker of heaven and earth, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the one to Whom every knee shall bow and every tongue confess (that Jesus Christ is Lord).

Townhall.

Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY) warned law-abiding gun owners that Democrats will do everything in their power to ensure AR-15s and similar types of firearms are confiscated during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday.

The hearing was to consider H.R. 7910, the “Protecting Our Kids Act,” which would raise the legal age to purchase “certain semiautomatic centerfire rifles or semiautomatic centerfire shotguns” from 18 to 21 with “exceptions.” The bill will also “modernize the prohibition on untraceable firearms [and] encourage the safe storage of firearms.”

Jones said Congress will pass gun control legislation and nothing, not the fillibuster in the Senate or the Supreme Court, will stop them.

“Enough is enough. Enough of you telling us that school shootings are effective life when every other country like ours has virtually ended. Enough of you blaming mental illness then defunding mental health care in this country. Enough of your thoughts and prayers. Enough. Enough. You will not stop us from advancing the ‘Protecting Our Kids’ Act today,” Jones said. “You will not stop us from passing it in the House next week and you will not stop us. If the filibuster obstructs us, we will abolish it. If the Supreme Court objects, we will expand it. We will not rest until we have taken weapons of war out of circulation in our communities.”

Yeah, yeah.  Bluster much, yes?

You go right ahead and queue that one up.  You find yourself 10 senators who don’t want to be reelected next cycle and pass something like that.

And by assault weapons we know you’re going after pistols too.  So let’s make a low estimate of a 400,000,000 such guns in America, 20,000,000 of which are AR-15s.

Then you go and convince 300,000 cops in America, the average age of which is 40 years old, to forcibly confiscate 400,000,000 weapons.

Let me know how that project works out for you.

NPR.

That sort of telegraphing of intentions is common among mass shooters, said David French, an editor with the conservative publication The Dispatch who recently wrote in support of red flag laws.

French, who told Morning Edition he keeps an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle at home, said that red flag laws would be more effective than a ban on such weapons.

Such a ban wouldn’t work, French says, because “it’s a virtual impossibility — there’s tens of millions, 20 million maybe or more of them in circulation right now.” Such a ban has little support among conservatives, he said, unlike red flag laws.

Does it surprise anyone that sellout and collectivist David French supports red flag laws?  French claims himself to be a Christian – I have seen no evidence.

If he is, why wouldn’t he speak to the main issue of the day, i.e., the weakness, tepidness and lethargy of the churches, of the rejection of the Almighty in the public square, failures in parenting (because of the above), government failure at proper parenting (because that’s not in the province of the state), and the moral wickedness of the society?  Perhaps because of cowardice?

A law cannot possibly make up for the lack of a moral rudder.  Guns have always been ubiquitous in America.  School shootings have not.  You do the math.

Shelter dog realizes he’s being rescued.

Alaskan Malamute protests going to the Vet.  Yea, I don’t like doctors either.

This Tibetan Mastiff has courage.  See the comments for details of what was going on.

Kids play with a deer in the sprinkler.

This Otter’s got some brass.

We can do tricks.

Dog chained to car and dragged 100 yards is rescued and was still wagging her tail.  Don’t do that to dogs.

Special forces dog abandoned by Russians joins Ukrainian forces.  Why would anyone abandon the dog?  How dumb is that?  Don’t do that to dogs.

Mountain lion wanders into classroom in California.

If you have cats, this is one way to keep them interested.

3-legged dog rescues a baby Otter.  In my neighborhood there lives a 3-legged dog who sometimes goes for walks with his owner.  He has the most spunk and spirit of any dog in the neighborhood.

Wolves kill more than 100 sheep near Boise.  They’re going to have to get some donkeys.

His answer was the same thing I said not too many months ago if you recall.  Although I have to say that the idea of unreliability of semi-automatic firearms is very dated and incorrect now with shotguns like Beretta makes.  I’d prefer a semi-auto shotgun to a pump action for a number of reasons, including recoil management and the breakage of sight picture to work the pump.

But I do like the idea of reliance on a wheel gun.

Moose vs Grizzly pic.twitter.com/ZefPYT28L9

— Cozy Cowboy (@cozyCowpoke) May 29, 2022

I know when I adventured in the Weminuche Wilderness in Colorado, I was told by a professional trail maker in that area to watch out for the Moose.  They will stomp you, and they’re very aggressive towards humans.

I guess towards bears too.