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-Great Cultural Revolution
The Founders knew guns would get better when they wrote the Second Amendment
[Reason] During the 19th century, firearms improved more than in any other century. As of 1800, most firearms were single-shot muzzleloading blackpowder flintlocks. By end of the century, semiautomatic pistols using detachable magazines with modern gunpowder and metallic cartridges were available. Would the Founders be surprised by the improvements in ability to exercise Second Amendment rights? Perhaps not, given the tremendous advances in firearms that had taken place before 1791. And certainly not, given that James Madison, author of the Second Amendment, initiated a federal government industrial with the specific aim of vastly improving the quality and quantity of firearms manufacture.
A very beloved argument of the anti 2-A crowd is just so much bullgarb.
Part I of this post briefly describes Some of the firearms advances before 1791. Part II describes the federal industrial policy for advancing firearms technology.

This post is based on my article The History of Bans on Types of Arms Before 1900. It is forthcoming in Notre Dame's Journal of Legislation, vol. 50, no. 2, in 2024. The Post also draws on chapter 23 of my coauthored textbook Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulations, Rights, and Policy (Aspen Pub., 3d ed. 2022).

Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah,
Mine have gotten more effective.
Pity ..... (thinks not to input).
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 05/28/2023 1:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Alexander Hamilton could have used a better handgun.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/28/2023 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Starting to get the drift of the Founders of not trusting a large standing army but relying upon the population to protect the republic and Constitution.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/28/2023 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Indeed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/28/2023 8:31 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658), Lord Protector of England -- as Military dictator was still a vivid cultural memory to everyone in England, Ireland and Scotland.
Posted by: magpie || 05/28/2023 13:51 Comments || Top||

#6  ...and the American colonies.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/28/2023 14:30 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Boston Celtics Win Game 6 Of The 2023 NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals
Sorry for the Barstool link; that's the best I can do on short notice. This has to be one of the top nailbiter games I've ever seen (even bigger than the Patriots / Raiders 'Tuck Rule' game), and now they're on the doorstep of breaking a 150 - 0 drought of NBA teams winning (or not) four straight games after being down 3 - 0.
I am at a loss for words, but this time it's for all the good reasons. For just the 4th time in NBA history, a team down 0-3 has forced a Game 7. In typical Celtics fashion, they achieved it by ripping our fucking hearts out. Going up by 10 with 4 minutes to go, only to miss a billion shots around the rim and foul. The Heat cut the lead just like they always do in clutch time. Watching that 10 point lead dwindle and still seeing all that time left was such a deflating feeling. Then Jaylen and Smart missed some late FTs and I really started to get nervous. Then Jimmy Butler made a 3PM and I REALLY started to get nervous.
Derrick White put in a rebound miss by Marcus Smart with 0.1 seconds (second?) on the clock to win the game; that's the nailbiting shit right there.
I almost had another heart attack!
Posted by: Raj || 05/28/2023 01:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Congrats, I spent my high school years watching the Celtics and Bruins on channel 38.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/28/2023 9:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Vegas made a lot of money from people betting that the Bruins (President's trophy "curse") and/or the Oilers would be in Lord Stanley's final.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/28/2023 10:35 Comments || Top||


Archeologists Uncover Target Store Ruins From Sodom And Gomorrah
[BEE] ISRAEL — Archeologists have uncovered what they believe are the final remains of Sodom and Gomorrah's beloved Target store.

"You could still make out the display for tuck-friendly tunics," said Dr. Sally Mcneil. "It's clear these perverted rapists were massive Target fans."

According to the Israeli excavators, researchers began searching for a possible Target store after unearthing hundreds of pairs of yoga pants. "We knew we had to be close," said Dr. McNeil. "As soon as we found the sign saying 'Satan Respects Pronouns', we knew we'd found it. Our survey indicates the Sodomites had installed curbside pick-up to the south, and a gender mutilation station for children at the north entrance. It was really a very modern society, not so different from our own."

Further research at the dig site led researchers to believe the heavenly fire that burned up Sodom and Gomorrah may have struck the Target store first. "Everyone says Target smells nice, right up until the point sulfur begins raining from the sky," said team member Adrian Maldonado. "You can only walk around the child-abusing satanist products for so long without knowing that the Lord's wrath must be coming. This looks like it was ground zero. Greed, depravity and violence, all wrapped up with a nice bull's-eye on top for the Lord's fury."

At publishing time, Christians had begun nervously looking to the sky any time they drove too near a Target.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As someone once said to me "If God doesn't destroy Hollywood and San Francisco soon, He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology ".
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/28/2023 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe they've filed for a corporate trademark name change to Targay.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/28/2023 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  It will be fun to see South Park recognize that Target and Bud Lite are floundering in the water, and hand them an anvil.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/28/2023 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  P2k, years ago I heard locals calling it in a Faux French accent "Tar-jay" because of acting like an 'upscale shopping experience' and selling the same stuff as Walmart or Sears.
Posted by: magpie || 05/28/2023 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  I got in big trouble with my sister by saying "Target is Walmart for stuck up people."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/28/2023 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Except it is.

I had the experience growing up watching this. A K-Mart and Wal-Mart were basically right next to each other.

When the K-Mart closed, everyone used the Wal-Mart, and it was fine.

Then a Target opened basically across the street, and everyone who was suddenly "Too Good" to shop at Wal-Mart went there.

I had to check out the fuss. It was the same shit but in red and Kathy Ireland's face here and there.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/28/2023 11:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Still hear #4's "Tarzhay" in Matt Drudge's voice from late some Sunday night back in the millennial timeframe.
Posted by: One Eyed the Bunyip2222 || 05/28/2023 18:30 Comments || Top||

#8  And what about Kohl's? Wandered into one once and felt like a prole who'd snuck into the PartiMart.
Posted by: One Eyed the Bunyip2222 || 05/28/2023 18:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Kohl's had to split space with Sephora to stay solvent
Posted by: Frank G || 05/28/2023 20:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Target is doomed regardless, but they have chosen the express lane towards insolvency. Two of my children worked there and they remain a decent employer for college age kids. All their stuff, though, is a 10% markup over Walmart for comparable items. Their home goods are tasteful junk that is a season aware from a yard sale or languishing on the shelves at the Good Will. There is nothing there that you can’t get on Amazon with more selection and less trouble. I used to go there for gift cards and such. They are Blockbuster in Red.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/28/2023 22:31 Comments || Top||


The Boston Brahmins, WASPs, and Nazis: The Pursuit of Eugenics


[Mises] During the progressive era, academia hastily adopted the inhumane pseudoscience of eugenics, and its results on the world were devastating. The influence of the Boston Brahmins in New England can explain the fervent adoption of this malignant belief. This elite and well-educated class of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants reeked of pomp and snobbery.

The origin of the term "Boston Brahmin" came from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in his 1861 novel Elsie Venner. He chose the unique word "Brahmin" because in India they are the most distinguished caste. This is how the northeastern nobles wanted to be perceived in their neck of the woods.

There was no shortage of academics who propagated the eugenics movement. Richard T. Ely was a Columbia University graduate and persistently proselytized eugenic dogma. In 1901, he favored a bill proposed by an Indiana state senator, Thomas J. Lindley, to regulate marriage with the intent that the couple would not have "unfit" children. The state would examine their physical, mental, racial, and moral attributes to decide whether they could wed.

The US Army would conduct a test called the Army Alpha to evaluate soldiers’ intelligence. Richard Ely was pleased to learn the state could evaluate the hereditary status of human livestock. Ely blatantly disapproved of the "unfit" in his book Studies in the Evolution of Industrial Society. He states, "The sad fact, however, is not that of competition, but the existence of these feeble persons." When India was amidst a famine, Ely called for their starvation to continue for the sake of "race improvement." He also claimed black people were "grown up children and should be treated as such."

Ely’s academic prowess, heavily seasoned with racism and eugenics, would unfortunately be passed on to his students. While at Johns Hopkins University, Ely mentored [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson. Eventually becoming Princeton University’s president, Wilson excluded black students from enrolling. Having absorbed the skewed beliefs of Ely, New Jersey governor Wilson signed a sterilization bill targeting the "hopelessly defective and criminal classes."...

Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This elite and well-educated class of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants reeked of pomp and snobbery.

Please replace this picture or include a photo of John Forbes Kerry, the shoe-in for the Hollywood role of pompous, blow-dried Senatorial know nothing snob douchenozzles.

If I ever hit the lottery, I guarantee all of you two things. First - I will get into horse racing, buy a stud horse and enter it into the Kentucky Derby, and the horse will be named Senator Kerry.

Second - the first WCVB Channel 5 (or whoever else beats them to the punch) camera crew to show up at my house will be met by a barrage of fireworks, at which point I will steal their van in the ensuing confusion and drive the fucking thing into Quincy Harbor, conveniently located down the street from my house. I will then walk back up the street and kick the crap out of anyone who's still at my house unless the cops grab me first. Naturally the Norfolk County DA (non-Soros guy by the name of Michael Morrisey) will have received the max donation from me as soon as the lottery payments cleared my bank account. This shit works both ways.

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned to all of you I'm living on borrowed time. I would not mind going out in a blaze of glory like this. My old man (Navy vet in Korea in the 50's) didn't explicitly teach me how to react like this, but I caught his drift. He didn't give a fuck and neither would I.
Posted by: Raj || 05/28/2023 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Choose the hammer not the belt.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/28/2023 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  The fact that these Brahmins are still around saddens me. Eugenics is the antithesis of Christianity.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/28/2023 8:04 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
DeSantis: I Will Be 'Aggressive at Issuing Pardons' to Victims of DOJ Weaponization on Day One

the J6 charade?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  a lot of the convicted will have already served their sentences by Jan 25
Posted by: lord garth || 05/28/2023 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Bullshit.
Liar.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 05/28/2023 1:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Is he talking about the pardons because he believes that the folks were charged and held unjustly or are the pardons just vote seeking? He would have to say enough during the primaries that couldn’t be walked back in the general election to get my vote. I don’t play Rove rope-a-dope.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/28/2023 7:55 Comments || Top||

#4  You won't get day one. The reason the DoJ and FBI are flipping off the House of Representatives is because they know its all rigged for 2024.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/28/2023 8:18 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Exactly correct. They have no fear of justice or accountability. They now own and control the process, the system.

Their absence of concern or fear is indeed telling.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/28/2023 8:29 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
This is Why The Cold M1903 Was The Pistol of Choice for the OSS
[SANDBOX] The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the United States’ first major intelligence apparatus. During World War II, the OSS acted as spies, saboteurs, and intelligence gatherers and were the spymasters of their day. The OSS would go on to become the CIA. The OSS used a variety of weaponry for their operatives. Although it never had an official pistol, if it did, it would be the widely used M1903 Pocket Hammerless.


These days OSS-linked M1903 Pocket Hammerless pistols are quite the collector’s items. I don’t have a U.S. Property marked model with OSS provenance, but I was able to persuade a collector of fine old weapons to let me take his M1903 out to shoot. This hands-on experience gave me a connection with history and made it apparent why OSS operatives preferred the Colt M1903 Pocket Hammerless.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/28/2023 07:06 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I like Colt in the headline. It refers to a gun that has not been logged as used in a crime.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/28/2023 7:25 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Cold to Colt....Repaired while you waited.
Posted by: magpie || 05/28/2023 9:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Bobby Peru in Wild at Heart: "Got a cold steel Smith and Wesson..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/28/2023 10:03 Comments || Top||

#4  I have my Dad's .32 Colt Hammerless he carried as a backup during his WWII service in the Secret Service as a member of FDR's Presidential Detail. Tall guy on the left. He carried it the throughout the war and is still in excellent condition.

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/28/2023 12:21 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ The Colt, not my Dad. He passed in 68!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/28/2023 12:22 Comments || Top||



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