Even a broken calendar is right once a year

Inflation is still at levels not seen in generations, the Drums Of Ban are beating louder after some shootings in California, and that darn Chinese-caused pandemic keeps hanging in there. Just another day here in clownworld.

I need to do a detailed inventory of magazines. I know how much I have recorded in the Preponomicon, but every so often I pick up a case or two of Glock or AR mags and just heave the box on top of the pile and forget about it. The spreadsheets say I have several hundred mags but it’s probably off by two or three hundred mags.

In addition to the whole will-they-or-wont-they regarding magazines and ”assault weapons’, I need to pick up a couple spare sets of armour. For some reason, the colossal idiots that come up with these gun bans tend to lump body armour into the mix. It’s only a matter of time before the ability to own things like body armour becomes known as ‘a loophole’ that needs to be closed with ‘reasonable’ and ‘common sense’ ‘safety laws’.

Isn’t it fascinating how the language is evolving in this highly politicized environment we’re living in. A gun ban/prohibition is a ‘gun safety’ issue. And it’s always described as ‘reasonable’ and ‘common sense’. Thus, if this ‘gun safety’ law is reasonable and common sense, opposition to it is unreasonable and nonsensical. The fact that you were allowed to own these items isn’t because there was no law preventing it, but rather because there was a ”loophole’ in the law that didn’t keep you from it.

Words have meaning. When you control the narrative…the terms and definitions…you can craft the narrative to favor your cause (or disfavor someone elses). This is why those two buzzwords ‘common sense’ and ‘reasonable’ are always thrown into any sound bite about new legislation.

If you’ve read the blog for any amount of time, you know that I’ve been predicting a new ‘assault weapons’ ban practically since the last one expired. I genuinely believe it’s coming, but on a long enough timeline every prediction has a 100% fulfilment rate.

Still… I very seldom feel foolish buying ‘extra’ mags or ‘extra’ guns.

8 thoughts on “Even a broken calendar is right once a year

  1. It’s not a “gun buyback”.

    You can’t buy ‘back, something you didn’t sell or give away. Call it what is: compensated confiscation,

    Similarly, the are ‘normal capacity’ or ‘standard capacity’ magazines.

  2. Here in Illinois, I loaded up on mags and upper and lower receivers before the ban thinking I was pretty well covered, but now can’t find anyone to ship any parts at all to the state. So I agree with you. It’s only a matter of time before it’s nationwide.

    • Hopefully we wil get the craziness overturned without too much spicyness and a proper Constitutional Carry law forced on the can’t help themselves hopolophobes. Just ordered small parts to see the limits of what could ship and less than a upper seemed ok.

  3. Some things here that many people don’t or refuse to understand. First let’s look at Roe V Wade. And Gay marriage. The Supreme Court had no jurisdictional purview in either case.
    Abortion isn’t mentioned in the Constitution nor even defined. It’s a states issue as defined in the 10th amendment.
    The 2nd ammendment is different. It is in the Constitution. As such the state’s cannot enact laws that restrict or infringe on that guaranteed right.
    The courts overstepped in both Roe and Gay marriage. They had to business making decisions on social issues.
    The state’s as well have no right to interfere with any ammendment in the Bill of Rights.
    Unfortunately these lines have been blurred through the years by activist judges legislating from the bench. And state legislatures in response to activist governors attempting to interfer with the Federal Constitution. Everything has become assbackwards as a result.
    The court has been very good of late on 2A issues. But you have the Governor of New York flipping the double middle digits to the court and doing what she wants to. The same with No Neck Pritzger in Illinois. My Governor who is a total halfwit.
    Until the Federal courts begin holding these state officials in contempt this will continue.
    A good place to start would be to revisit Sullivan vrs The New York Times. That descion established a bar that was so impossibly high in order to prove intentional malice that the press can say whatever the hell they want and not worry about being sued for lible or slander.
    The current Chief Justice ” Pretty Boy” John Roberts is a lousy Chief Justice. He worries more about his social calender the the Constitution and holding true to his oath to protect and defend. He insisted the court abandon their responsibilities and requirements under Article 2 which requires the Court to intervene in election issues as they did in the 2000 election by taking Bush V Gore and making the proper desicion.
    If the second ammendment goes. So will the rest. Right now nothing will happen legislatively because the Republicans have the House. Biden’s ATF can try their Nazi inspired edicts. But the courts are slapping those down with surpring regularity.
    As a wise man once said.
    ” The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance”.
    And so we must hold these bastards accountable. Because the tree of Liberty has to be refresed from time to time by the blood of tyrants and patriots. It’s our choice.

    • Most Americans do not realize that the first 9 Amendments to the Constitution were only applicable to the federal government in DC and the federal territories until the passage of the 14th Amendment. Prior to the 14th, States governments were governed only by their state Constitutions, not the federal. The federal government had zero authority to intervene in state affairs prior to the 14th. Both the Heller and McDonald decisions by SCOTUS actually used the 14th (due process clause) to link back to the 2nd to establish an individual’s right to keep and bear arms in the states and federal district/territories. Now you know the rest of the story!!!

  4. I have sincerely prayed that it won’t come to this, but the framers did say ” –That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on …”

  5. Me thinks that Zero has a few Rush babies posting on here. At least they are from my generation when it wasn’t verboten to teach government and the Constitution.
    It is a sad commentary on the education system that nearly three quarters of our population cannot name the three branches of government. Cannot name at least one Supreme Court Justices. And have no idea who George Washington was. Funny there. They carry his picture on the 25 cent piece and the dollar bill. As a civil war reenactor for 23 years I know from experience that history is not being taught properly. What is being taught is a bastardized version of woke history and the screwy ideas of the left. Who really know nothing.

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