Important to note that the proposed rule is defective at its base:
Summary
The Department of Justice (Department) proposes to amend the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives regulations to clarify that “bump fire” stocks, slide-fire devices, and devices with certain similar characteristics (bump-stock-type devices) are “machineguns” as defined by the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) and the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA), because such devices allow a shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger. Specifically, these devices convert an otherwise semiautomatic firearm into a machinegun by functioning as a self-acting or self-regulating mechanism that harnesses the recoil energy of the semiautomatic firearm in a manner that allows the trigger to reset and continue firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger by the shooter. Hence, a semiautomatic firearm to which a bump-stock-type device is attached is able to produce automatic fire with a single pull of the trigger. With limited exceptions, primarily as to government agencies, the GCA makes it unlawful for any person to transfer or possess a machinegun unless it was lawfully possessed prior to the effective date of the statute.
The problem with the rule is that bump fire stocks don't use one trigger pull to initiate rapid fire. The rifle is fired rapidly with one shot per trigger pull, not one pull for several shots.
How this rule will be passed without addressing the contradiction in the rule itself, I have zero idea. All I know is that if this becomes rule at some point, once challenged in court it should be thrown out.
Pistol ammunition prices were steady. Rifle ammunition prices were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were mostly higher. Prices for used rifles were lower.
New Lows:
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I am writing this to you, after the fact obviously, to review the last several months of operations in the war none of us foresaw just two years ago.
Background and Discussion: As you recall, we were in some disarray after the departure of your predecessor, Mr. Tillerson, and you asked all of us for our own take on the situation in Korea, especially with the appointment of Mr. Bolton coinciding as it did with your own appointment and the President’s initiation to meet with Mr. Kim.
As we all know, Kim met with President-Chairman Xi in March of that year and there was much speculation as to what passed between them. Reality only became clear, however after the President’s earth-shaking meeting with Kim and President Moon of S. Korea in Seoul. This was followed, not long after, by the Pyongyang Protocol in August, wherein all three leaders announced the demilitarization of the peninsula with the withdrawal of all US forces and the institution of a UN-led mission with a regime of inspections to ensure the dismantling of Kim’s nuclear weapons programs.
This ‐ of course ‐ stunned everyone, as did the Nobel Peace Prize shared by Kim, Trump, and Moon the following year. But as you know, as these high profile events took place, China was on the move. We now know, through various sources, some from your former Agency colleagues, that China had long been displeased with Kim. What we did not know was that Kim had reneged on an ultra-secret deal with his other enabler, Mr. Putin of Russia.
Kim had met secretly, even in secret from his own government, with Russian agents prior to going to Beijing, assuring them that he would do nothing to compromise Russia’s ongoing support for his nefarious programs, including his weapons program, which Russia was secretly paying for and assisting with.
It now appears he was duplicitous in the extreme. There is no way to understand what happened absent that conclusion. He turned right around and cut a secret deal with China.
Thus, when he publicly announced on CNN in November 2019 that he was stepping down as leader and asking China to enter the nation to secure it from the Russians, it shocked everyone. Russia? We all shook our heads, how did that happen? They were not even on our radar scope.
When the NRO informed us of a Russian military build-up in the summer of 2019 in the Russian Far East Military District, we puzzled as to what was going on. Was Russia going to help the North invade the South as in 1950? Except this time in the winter? Of course global warming has made that all a bit easier, but still, the weather was atrocious.
Imagine our shock, as well as yours, when Kim fled to Harbin on his special train at the same time as the PLA crossed the border in great numbers. We had completely missed the Chinese build-up, which they had been secretly doing since, it appears now, mid-2015. Slowly increasing their border forces and inserting PLA operatives into Manchurian cities and factories. The landing of the three Chinese Marine divisions (about which we knew absolutely nothing) south of the Imjin in North Korean territory was equally shocking.
However, it was the Russia invasion along the Korean-Russian border that surprised everyone most, and the use of the Russian submarine fleet in a guerre de courseagainst the Chinese shipping. Who knew that the PLAN was so ineffective at anti-submarine warfare? Also, the cyber attacks that paralyzed Chinese C4ISR systems was that "cyber Pearl Harbor" that we have all been worrying about. Thus the ham-handed Chinese efforts to turn their forces northeast and deal with the Russian incursion.
It was fortuitous that we had evacuated most US personnel from the peninsula before hostilities began and that the Russian actions, once they became apparent, allowed us to get a NEO quickly accomplished of as many Americans as would leave, although we estimate there are still 30,000 Americans still in South Korea. From our vantage point and that of our Japanese allies, who are helping us monitor military events closely along with our national assets, it appears that the Sino-Russian war will not end anytime soon. It is still extremely dangerous for US shipping to attempt to navigate the declared Russian exclusion zones in the Sea of Japan, Tsushima Strait, and Yellow Sea. It appears, in fact, that the Russians intend to expand the war by making limited incursions into Manchuria and Mongolia, just as they did prior to World War II, or so my staff historian tells me. Our Agency chief of station has related that it appears the Russians are transferring their most seasoned combat forces in the Baltics and Ukraine to this theater, which perhaps explains the recent ceasefire the Ukrainian government signed at Khirkiv (Kharkov) with Putin’s representatives.
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it shocked everyone. Russia? We all shook our heads, how did that happen? They were not even on our radar scope.
Could insert something very like this in almost any future news report on NK.
#2
This is dumb. Just someone projecting Russophobia.
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They've been at war in the past, no reason it couldn't happen again. Putin seems more interested in reassembling the USSR, though.
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This is a pretty stupid scenario. Russia doesn't have the money to fight China. It also doesn't have the equipment. In 4th gen fighters alone, Russia has 500 fighters to China's 800+. China's economy is 10x Russia's. Economically-speaking, this would be like a rerun of the Pacific War with Russia in the role of Japan, and China in the role of Uncle Sam. Except China doesn't have to cross an ocean to fight Russia.
#5
As I expected, the website Task and Purpose contributes articles to HuffPo. Putin is a Russian imperialist, but he'd be nuts to take on China. And the Chinese are just as likely to end up fighting South Korea if they enter the North. Putin's goals in the Far East are very likely defensive - as in hold the Russian Far East and Mongolia against any Chinese offensives, which will come in the fullness of time, given that Chinese territorial goals are like matryoshka dolls.
[CBS] "That's What They Did In The Soviet Union, 'Show Me The Man, And I'll Find You The Crime'"
Civil Liberties attorney Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday that he is fearful of the criminalization of political differences in today’s discourse and that he doesn’t think special counsels are the right way to approach criminal justice.
Dershowitz spoke to CBS 11 political reporter Jack Fink about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to affect the outcome of the 2016 election.
"I think the investigation should end and I think the Congress should appoint a special non-partisan commission," said Dershowitz. He said he thinks a Congressional committee would be too partisan.
"That’s the way it’s done in other western democracies," he continued. "They don’t appoint a special counsel and tell them to ’Get that guy...’ that’s what they did in the Soviet Union. Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the KGB said to Stalin, ’Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime!'" That’s what special counsel does."
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[Breitbart via USSA News - Tea Party Conservative] Progressive insurance, a major publicly traded company, has decided to pull ads off Laura Ingraham’s radio programs, Breitbart News can confirm. In addition to the news of the decision to pull the ads, Progressive‐through an ad placement firm‐at least partially defined what qualifies as a reason to pull Progressive ads off the air of a certain program: "Controversial programming." Even so, despite coining that term for this, Progressive refused to further define what it means by "controversial programming."
A media ad-buying-and-placement firm for Progressive insurance notified radio affiliates on Friday morning to stop airing ads on or near Ingraham’s programming.
"DO NOT AIR ANY PROGRESSIVE SPOTS IN OR ADJACENT TO ANY CONTROVERSIAL PROGRAMMING, SPECIFICALLY LAURA INGRAHAM PROGRAMMING, IN THE WEEK OF 4/2," Ad Large Media wrote on behalf of Progressive to radio affiliates nationwide on Friday morning in an email subsequently obtained by Breitbart News.
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The childrens' crusade's 15 minutes was up, then Ingraham had to go and be a jerk. 15 more minutes!! Ingraham is more proof that people who get into "the best schools" (ie people who test well) are not necessarily all that smart. Again, I am glad I don't pay for FoxNews (or any of the others) so I'm not paying her salary.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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They don't call that company "Progressive" for nothing. "Controversial programming" is whatever doesn't match the well-known leftist tendencies of the insiders at the company. Don't know why they were advertising there in the first place.
[National Review] Here’s why the Left is so upset about that new census question.
The Commerce Department has announced that a question will be added to the 2020 Census asking about respondents’ citizenship status. Democrats have responded with fury, and twelve states, led by California, will be suing to stop the change. While their argument is that the question will discourage illegal immigrants from participating in the survey, there is another, related reason why the urban elites who now dominate the Democratic party are afraid of this simple question.
With this question, the 2020 Census will better quantify the extent to which immigration, including illegal immigration, gives Democrats disproportionate political power ‐ despite the fact that immigrants themselves are not allowed to vote. This happens because seats in the House, and consequently Electoral College votes as well, are given out based on the total number of people residing in a state.
California illustrates the problem. While the Census Bureau stopped asking about citizenship on the main Census form in 1960, it has continued to ask about it in other surveys. One of these, the American Community Survey, shows that the non-citizen proportion of the population in the states varies widely, ranging from 14 percent in California to less than 1 percent in West Virginia. Based on these estimates, California, the first sanctuary state, has five or six more members of the House than it would if House seats were based on citizen population alone.
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As has been pointed out, as long as it's all nicey-nicey, votee-votee, yeah blue urban areas punch above their weight. When the power goes out and the trucks of foodstuffs stop rolling in from the hinterlands it's not a pretty picture.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Representation really ought to be based on population of citizens; that change would be a Constitutional amendment I could support.
#3
Who says immigrants are not allowed to vote - legal or illegal - particularly in California. Nothing stops them and they are strongly encouraged to.
#4
There is an army of illegals headed this way through Mexico.
Let me splain how this is done. A shadow gov headed by Barack Obama who shacks up a few blocks from the White House in cahoots with the Dim party is running ads in Central America, the same ads that ran with the DACA push. They promise all is well.
And it is, because Trump just signed the budget that funds this crap. So it is not the White House that is in charge, it is the house a few blocks from the White House that is in charge, of the army headed this way, and those already here. It is all about building power and consolidating power against real Americans.
[Townhall] Four Republican congressman hold nothing back in dishing about their gripes with Washington in a new video series that will be released on Facebook next week.
Reps. Tom Garrett (R-Va.), Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Dave Brat (R-Va.) and Rod Blum (R-Iowa) each tell their stories about fighting the system in a trailer for "The Swamp," which was obtained by The Hill.
In the 2:25 clip, the congressmen show what goes on behind the scenes in Washington, taking on former House Speaker John Boehner and former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor by name.
Blum, for example, spoke of a time Boehner scolded him.
"[Boehner] pointed to me and said, ’I just want you to know around here, we don't reward bad behavior,’" Blum says. "This is bullshit. You know, I'm a grown adult who’s accomplished something in life ‐ I don't need you telling me what is right or wrong."
Cantor’s defeat was also highlighted.
"The machine said, 'No, you can't run for that seat,' and I said, 'I don't understand this machine thing,'" Brat says about the 2014 GOP primary. Continues. Continued on Page 47
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"All decisions are made at the top." Yes, we sort of gathered that.
"All my life I tried to go up in society, where everything higher up was legal. But the higher I go, the crookeder it becomes. Where the hell does it end?"
[PJ] A lot of people made a lot of bad predictions during the 2016 election, myself included. As election day loomed, I tried to mentally prepare myself for the horror of a Hillary Clinton presidency. I assumed it was bound to happen, no matter which of the two completely unacceptable major party candidates got my vote. (Neither one did. I ended up writing in Larry Hovis.) So I was immensely relieved to wake up the next morning to learn that she had lost.
To a man.
Again.
We avoided the worst-case scenario, in favor of the second-worst-case scenario. We wouldn't have to listen to that voice for the next 4-8 years. Finally, Hillary could waddle off to the woods, or crawl into a vat of Chardonnay, or find some other way to fill that void in her soul. Finally, she'd stop belligerently scolding America all the time.
Once again, I was completely wrong. No matter what happened on Nov. 8, 2016, there is no timeline in the multiverse where Hillary Clinton will ever, ever stop yapping. And I say... let her!
Judy Kurtz, The Hill:
"I was really struck by how people said that to me ‐ you know, mostly people in the press, for whatever reason ‐ mostly, ’Go away, go away,’" Clinton said Thursday during an event at Rutgers University.
"And I had one of the young people who works for me go back and do a bit of research. They never said that to any man who was not elected. I was kind of struck by that," Clinton said.
I'm trying to remember any previous presidential candidate who lost and then spent the next 18 months hobbling around complaining about it to anybody with a camera and a microphone. I don't recall any previous Oval Office-loser who wrote a book about it, literally titled What Happened. Nope, all those previous washouts managed to move on dot org. Hell, even Al Gore quit whining about it after the first year or so! He just ate everything in sight, made movies about how your carbon footprint is destroying the planet, and flew around on private jets between his various mansions.
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We wouldn't have to listen to that voice for the next 4-8 years.
I doubt that actually. The 9/11/16 incident showed that Hillary is likely suffering from some chronic progresive neurological condition.
A Hillary presidency would have been agonizing, with long poorly explained absences from the public eye.
The de-facto President would have been Kaine or perhaps Abedin/Weiner. It would have resembled Wilson's second term, only this time in the nuclear age.
Brace yourself for a stampede of public figures all claiming to be King’s greatest admirer
as April 4th marks 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr was murdered in Memphis. Benny Huang, who has written about MLK before, declares that he will not pretend
to be one of them. Unlike a lot of conservatives I wouldn’t be caught dead trying to co-opt MLK and his undeserved aura of moral superiority.
Not that King didn’t have a lot of nice things to say. I can support the sentiment behind his "I Have a Dream" speech despite the fact that it was co-written by King’s Communist Party handler. I firmly believe that we should judge people by the content of their character not the color of their skin.
But King did not. He simply mouthed those vapid words because he was trying to persuade a majority-white nation to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an unconstitutional monstrosity that turned out to be even worse than its critics had predicted. King’s tactical appeal to colorblindness was destined to be tossed aside the moment he achieved his short-term policy goals.
As the recognized advocate for America’s only substantial racial minority, MLK vowed to resolve the race issue once and for all in return for a few small concessions: our property rights, our right to free association, our free speech rights, and our right not to be subjected to involuntary servitude.
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Just think - when there actually were communists everywhere you looked in the USA, everyone thought Red baiters were nuts. Now, the anti-anti-communists see Russians everywhere. Yin / Yang? Ouroboros? Stronger dope?
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Perhaps the 50th year mark will herald the release and publication of the FBI secret MLK files.
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#3 And, if we're going there, I'd like to have truth about Joe McCarthy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-03-31 01:27
The truth has been out for some time now - McCarthy may have been a drunken, paranoid idiot...but he was right. If I may, let me refer you to an amazing book called The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew and Vasily Mitrokhin. It is damning enough that some efforts were made to suppress it before publication here and in the UK.
Mike
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The truth has been out for some time now Many of the real traitors McCarthy was concerned about, and also ignorant of, retired from their positions with the US government & lived off their pensions to a ripe old age, until they moved on to that Gulag in the Sky. We don't don't know who many (or maybe most) of them really were.
[Mercer at WND] As individuals, we want the best doctors treating and operating on us, the best pilots flying the airplanes we board, the best engineers designing the bridges we cross, the best scientists inventing and bringing to market the medicines and potions we ingest.
Yet the American Idiocracy is moving to equate merit-based institutions with institutionalized racism.
Tucker Carlson, likely the only merit-based hiree at Fox News, recently divulged that a member of the Trump administration was overheard (by a thought-police plant) expressing a preference for merit-based recruits for his department.
Egad, and what next!
Google, a tool of the Idiocracy, appears to have scrubbed its search of this latest episode in "The Closing of the American Mind." However, it’s no secret that the education system already excludes the most naturally gifted, independent-minded individuals from fields in which they’d excel.
Race preferences notwithstanding, requirements for social activism of the right kind, for volunteerism and worldviews of the left kind, for working exclusively toward the best grades: These are things girls do better than boys.
In any event, when the best-person-for-the-job ethos gives way to racial and gender window dressing and to the enforcement of politically pleasing perspectives, things start to fall apart.
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[Townhall] In a recent Spanish-language interview to promote his new book "Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era," veteran Univision anchor Jorge Ramos expressed his desire to return home to Mexico "for a while," saying: "I would like to return to the country I left."
The prologue of Ramos’s book sheds some light on why he might feel that way:
"There are times when I feel like a stranger in this country where I’ve spent more than half my life. I’m not complaining, and it’s not for lack of opportunity. But it is something of a disappointment. I never would have imagined that after having spent thirty-five years in the United States, I would still be a stranger to so many. But that’s how it is."
After expressing his gratitude that he has been able to enjoy the fruits of free speech and a free press as an American citizen, Ramos clarified the importance of his Mexican heritage:
"[N]one of this erases where I came from. I was born and raised in Mexico, and I will never cease to be Mexican. I love the solidarity of the Mexican people; it is a wonderful nation, one in which you will never feel alone, with a magical and incomparable history."
In contrast, Ramos sees America as a more hostile and hateful place after Trump’s election:
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...Don't let the puerta hit you in the culo on the way out, Jorge.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
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Whore-gay Anos...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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For me, the best part of the last election (besides Hillary not being Prez) was seeing Jorge frog-marched out of a press conference for being a jerk.
#9
All that hate and hostility is coming from you and your left-wing bretheren Jorgie-boy. So why don't you take yourself and all you Hollywood friends that promised to leave and find yourselves a pleasant Unicorn paradise. I'm sure there's one somewhere.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.