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Posted on April 14, 2014 by Weerd Beard

This is a really great review.

What makes it great is he’s examining it between three separate guns, so I think the assessment that the design is flawed. Now I wouldn’t say that just from his first video:

Anything mass-produced at a good price will have units that suck. Its just the nature of the beast, sometimes a unit won’t run, or will have problems. When you want to shave the price you do it by not extensively testing or fitting all the units. Instead you only test every X unit, or randomly test a few units every batch or amount of time. This will detect problems, but it might not catch every bad unit that leaves.

Now this goes for EVERYTHING! When I bought my Ford Edge the entertainment system didn’t work. Now I don’t hold that against Ford, either they didn’t test my unit before it left the factory, or something broke in transit. I did complain and refused to accept the vehicle until it was made 100% and the dealer did that, and gave me a car to drive until they fixed it. Same goes with guns, talk to anybody in a gun shop. They’ll get a unit from a great line that is just messed up. They simply send it back and get a new unit.

Still when we’re talking about three completely different guns, now we’re seeing a trend, and that does NOT bode well for the R51. This doesn’t effect me, despite this being a gun I will likely be able to own in Massachusetts because I frankly don’t care for the design even if it works perfectly. There are just guns that are better suited for me. Still this gun was NOT designed for me, and sadly those people, such as lefties, or people with less hand strength won’t be able to take good advantage of this gun.

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Great Post on Deadly Force

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Weerd Beard

A good watch

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Does the Sixth Amendment Apply?

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Weerd Beard

Here’s an interesting story from Maine:

For what could be the first time in Maine, a judge has stripped a criminal defendant of his constitutional right to have an attorney and has ordered the man to represent himself at his trial.

…But the judge in the case, Justice Thomas Warren, said Nisbet’s behavior and the fact that he has gone through five court-appointed lawyers since his arrest in 2011 has left “no other alternative” than to order Nisbet to represent himself.

The judge issued the order last month after Nisbet’s most recent attorneys, Jon Gale and Neale Duffett, sought to withdraw from the case, claiming in a motion that Nisbet threatened Gale while they met with him in the Cumberland County Jail on Feb. 26.

According to the motion, Nisbet told them, “I don’t care if I get 15 years, when I get out, I will be outside your house with a high-powered BB gun and I will take your eye out. I’m not getting life. I’ll never forget. I’m coming after you when I get out.”

Nisbet says he never threatened Gale with violence, and that the attorneys invented the story as a way to get out of the case after he refused to plead guilty and threatened to sue them. Neither Gale nor Duffett has sought to have Nisbet charged with making a threat.

I actually have met the defendant. I went to elementary school with his cousin, and I think he was at a few of his birthday parties. That’s the extent of my memories of him. My mother knows his mother, and her account is that this story is not surprising. I certainly don’t recognize him from his mug shots and from the press photos, but years of hard-living really has changed his face from the kid I played with.

Still I strongly disagree with how the reporter started this case. The judge has NOT deprived him of appointed counsel, he has to date had FIVE appointed lawyers, only the most recent pair have stated their reason for withdrawing, but that last reason is reason enough to not work with him. If he’s threatened bodily harm to his counsel that’s reason enough for the lawyers to withdraw. He wasn’t denied his 6th Amendment right, he’s essentially REFUSED it.

In this country you have the right to request a state appointed attorney in a criminal case, but that is NOT in violation of the 14th Amendment on part of the counselors.

I almost want to see if this case goes to the Maine supreme court, as Maine has never ruled on a case like this.

Also interesting that a violent felon and admitted drug addict seems to think the police are out to frame him for armed robbery. Yeah, cops just get bored and look for a junkie to frame.

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“Gun Death” Baptism

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Weerd Beard

This is a sad one:

he U.S. Coast Guard and local county rescue teams have called off the search for a man who was swept out to sea while assisting a pastor in a baptism at a beach in Guadalupe, Calif., according to local media

Sad that somebody would lose their life conducting a simple religious ceremony. Still nature can be a harsh mistress, and the sea is the worst of them all.

Still not a “Gun Death”

H/t Wallphone

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One of My Favorite Movie Trivia Bits!

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Weerd Beard

The Tom Selleck pick as Indiana Jones (Also Danny DeVito was slated to play Sallah rather than John Rhys-Davies)

Still they missed my favorite: Ronald Regan as Rick Blane in Casablanca! Had Dutch done as well as Bogey did (and Really, as a short, bald, and craggy dude who was until then known to play only toughs rather than romantic leads, I suspect the studios all thought this was a better casting) He probably would have just continued to act rather than bother with Politics.

Good Stuff!

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Pat Pats!

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Weerd Beard

Love this!

It is NOT ok to NOT pat a dog EVER!!!!

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“Gun Death” Drunk Driver

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Weerd Beard

What would be called a “Mass Murder” if a gun was used…but one wasn’t.

Irving police have charged a mother with two counts of intoxication manslaughter after police say she was behind the wheel in a crash that killed two of her children and injured two other children and herself.

…“They are only estimates at the moment; it could be anywhere from 60-70 miles per hour, up to 90-100 miles per hour, but the investigation is still in the early stages,” Irving Police Officer James McLellan said on Sunday.

Hey, but “Progressives” own cars, and occasionally drink, so just ban those icky guns!

H/t Bob

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“Gun Death” Domestic Stabbing

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Weerd Beard

No guns here:

A northeastern Ohio man has been convicted of stabbing his wife to death in front of their two children.

The couple’s 10-year-old daughter called police as it was happening, saying “my dad is murdering my mom.”

Remember, guns make domestic murder “Too Easy”, except when it doesn’t.

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More “Red Team” Fail When it Comes to Guns

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Weerd Beard

I’m just amazed when anti-gun people attempt to understand the pro-gun side:

First comes the bizarre “Locked in a Room” scenario. I use a very similar one when discussing gun rights with people. My scenario goes like this: You are going to be locked in a small room for four hours with one other person. Choice #1. A multi-time convicted felon for violent offenses with a rusty screwdriver in his pocket. Or Choice #2, me with a fully loaded M249 SAW. Which would they choose? Never had anybody pick option one. Why? Well because I’m proven to be a non-violent and generally friendly guy. The fact that I have a loaded machine gun with me doesn’t change it a bit. Really their biggest risk is I’ll prop that SAW up against the wall and talk them to death while I kill time waiting for the door to open. The convicted felon is KNOWN to be dangerous, god forbid you so much as LOOK at him wrong, he might pull out that screwdriver!

Cenk’s argument doesn’t even address the people, its just four people and four guns. Even with his one-gun scenario it really doesn’t clarify that. Hell on the night that Osama Bin Laden was killed I was sitting in a hotel room in Pittsburgh with about 10 people and on the table were about 8 loaded guns, there were more guns in holsters around the room. What happened? Well we talked all night and had a great time. Now throw in the scenario where there are NO guns, but a few of the people in the room are known violent offenders. The chances of NOBODY getting hurt (of course not any by guns) gets VERY close to 100%. It really just doesn’t make any sense, but Cenk thinks it explains us. Yeah…

Of course he cites Kellerman, incorrectly at that, which might explain why he’s hanging his hat on this. Except it isn’t true.

Then comes in the woman talking about “gun skills”.

Watch this video:

A woman with a rusty-as-hell Hi-Point carbine fending off armed home invaders. I’m sorry, but if your cheap-ass gun is THAT rusty you aren’t taking it to the range much, and obviously her skills don’t include knowing how to clean and maintain it. I have guns that are DECADES older than the COMPANY hi-point that are still in perfect working condition, this gun rusted from pure neglect…yet it was still more than enough to save this woman.

Really the big take-away is Cenk is talking about how he “Understands” us, but in his whole panel he doesn’t have a single pro-gun person, or even somebody who knows a single thing about guns.

I’m sure he could have contacted SOMEBODY…hell if he contacted me (my information is on my “about” page) I would have gone on.

Again, antis don’t understand us because they don’t WANT to understand us. Instead they want to build the best strawman they can find to knock it down.

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