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.