Wow, The Gun Rush Sure is Here!

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Weerd Beard

So I was driving by my local gun shop, which I haven’t set foot in recently. I stocked up on Ammo in November (which I felt like a fool doing due to the election hype, but my Nephew was coming down for a weekend at the range, and I wanted to stock up for him) and then in January I was in permit renewal limbo (your permit is valid for 90 days after it expires so long as the Police are processing your renewal, but gun shops won’t accept an expired permit if you attempt to buy a gun or ammo…Massachusetts sucks like that).

WOW, talk about picked over. There was a ton of random crap that usually just sits on shelves just to fill out the empty pistol case. There was ammo for some calibers, but nothing for .22 or 9×19!

I had a few guns on my wantsy list, none were there. They also had a Enfield “Jungle Carbine” that was in awesome shape. (anybody have one of them? Are they as crappy as some say? Not that it matters as I doubt I’d be able to hustle up any .303 ammo)

Still despite the bare shelves there were guns FLYING out the doors. Also while ammo was expensive (but that’s really just the new reality) the gun prices were all good.

Man, I can’t wait until stuff gets back to normal, I don’t even want to shoot .22 until I know I can buy more!

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Garbage Law

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Weerd Beard

The New York SAFE act claims its first victim…kinda.

A 33-year-old man from western New York state is the first person to be charged under the state’s strict new gun law that was passed in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shootings….According to court documents, the sale included an AR-15, nearly 300 rounds of ammo and six magazines and an AR-10 semi-automatic rifle along with 31 rounds of ammo and one magazine.

During the investigation, prosecutors say, the undercover officer told Wassell that he or she was a convicted felon. Under the SAFE Act, it is illegal to sell an AR-10 to a felon….Prosecutors said they have an audio recording of Wassell allegedly telling the investigator, “this whole felony banned for life thing, it’s stupid.”

The AR-10 was treated as an assault weapon covered by the new gun law because it allegedly had a specific type of pistol grip.

Stings like this really reek of entrapment to me. He sold a gun to a police officer who made some cryptic statements about being a felon. He wasn’t a felon, and he’s allegedly an exempted individual so the sale actually was legal.

Also, yes the AR has a pistol grip…it has an inline stock, so it NEEDS one so the shooter can grip it. Now this case isn’t very clean, but do you feel any safer that this man is facing serious charges?

Of course also selling to a felon is a FEDERAL crime, not just a crime in New York.

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More Anti-Freedom

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Weerd Beard

I like how these anti-freedom turds are claiming Ted Cruz doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Also I like how Joe Scarborough claims to be a “Conservative”. Yeah just like Paul Helmke and Michael Bloomberg are “Conservatives” too.

Sorry he does know what he’s talking about and DID read the decision.

I suspect every one of these jerks read it too, but since they didn’t LIKE what the Court ruled, they simply call anybody who’s honest “Stupid”. Nice!

And this:

Well she still doesn’t know what a “Clip” is, man it takes EFFORT to remain this ignorant, further, what Coroner would allow a mayor or Senator stick their finger in a bullet hole, and what does this accomplish?

Also notice that she still doesn’t address the question on WHY what she’s proposing might be legal. Senator Cruz sure makes a good point that it is indeed an illegal action. You aren’t being “Patronized” Senator Fienstine, you are indeed a stupid, ignorant, and evil person.

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For Them To Dance, There Must Be Blood!

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Micheal Moore wants the dance floor whetted down for his fat-ass:

Filmmaker Michael Moore believes that if photos from December’s Newtown massacre are released, then the National Rifle Association will be finished.

While not explicitly calling for the photos to be published, Moore said on his blog Wednesday that the photos will likely be made public at one point or another. Once they do, Moore said, “it will be the day the debate on gun control will come to an end.”

“How on earth could anyone not spring into action the very next moment after seeing the bullet-riddled bodies of these little boys and girls?” Moore wrote.

Easy, start publishing the morgue photos of all the dead bodies in Chicago or DC to show how “Lovely” the gun control Utopias are! Why don’t we show photos (faces and distinguishing marks blurred) of rape an assault victims, so you can see the potential of a world without “Gun Death”?

Barbaric, isn’t it? Why that’s JUST what you are, Mike. This is why we call them “Blood Dancers”, they can’t motivate their fellow gun-grabbers to accomplish anything on facts or merits, so they must go for crass emotional appeal.

They’re monsters, and they want nothing more than to disarm you, so nothing stands in the way of their monster dreams!

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“Gun Death” Cleric

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Weerd Beard

This one also earns the bad justice tag.

Online activists in Saudi Arabia are calling for harsher punishments for child abuse after reports that a prominent cleric received only a light sentence after confessing to the beating death of his 5-year-old daughter….Saudi media say he was freed last week after serving a short prison term and agreeing to pay $50,000 in “blood money” to avoid a possible death sentence.

Super classy, commit a murder of a child and simply buy your way out. I guess its better than in this country where all they need to do is multiple plea bargains to get a lax sentence.

We need CRIMINAL control, not GUN control.

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My Baby is Blurry

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Weerd Beard

So you all probably know now that the lovely Mrs. Weer’d is with child, and that is in part a reason why this blog hasn’t been getting the usual attention.

So here are the first pix of the Weerdling.

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Man, I hope this baby gets less blurry as time goes on, as the future grandparents don’t have the best eyesight in the world, and such a blurry baby might make things problematic!

Yeah we’re super thrilled and excited, and thanks to all who have given me well-wishes!

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Anti-Freedom

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Weerd Beard

The Constitution doesn’t apply to you!

**UPDATE** They don’t respect the 1st Amendment either!

Anti-Freedom, not anti-gun. They’re banning and proposing confiscation of guns right now because its in the Constitution, they’ll check the other Amendments off the list when they get around to it!

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Two Gun Stories

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Weerd Beard

So we have one story of a murder in Florida:

According to a report from The Florida Times-Union, police said a 22-year-old Florida woman has been arrested and charged with murder for allegedly shooting and killing her ex-boyfriend outside a Florida post office on Sunday.

Post Offices are Federal Buildings, so carrying a gun into the Post Office is a felony, meaning if the victim was armed, the gun was locked safely in his car at best. I wonder if the killer knew this or it was just a coincidence?

Now from Wisconsin where their newly minted concealed carry law is paying off:

Charlie Blackmore was driving home from work at 4:00 a.m. along Lincoln Avenue when he saw something on the sidewalk. Blackmore didn’t realize it was a woman on the ground being kicked in the head and stomach until he got closer.

That’s when he jumped out of his car and sprung into action.

“I said ‘stop’ and he starts coming towards me and that`s when I drew on him. He started getting closer and I said ‘get down on the ground,’” Blackmore said.

Blackmore held his gun on the suspect and called West Allis police. He says several times while waiting for police to arrive, the attacker moved toward him.

“I mean I’ve already made it up in mind that if he came at me I was going to have to take him down and I told him that. I warned him multiple times not to come towards me because he was a big guy and I wasn’t playing around and he didn’t seem like he was playing around,” Blackmore said.

Blackmore says police eventually showed up and had to force the suspect to the ground. They then asked to see Blackmore’s concealed carry permit.

Jay has more on the story. Also Jay’s pissed they demanded the carry permit from the intervening Marine. I’m fine with this, the Police are doing their job, and the Marine was carrying legally, and they only did this after the suspect was under arrest.

What I want to focus on is anti-freedom activists like Joan Peterson talked about how horrible Wisconsin is for allowing their citizens carrying guns. Note that Wisconsin did have open carry, but in cold weather, like it is now, open carry is VERY difficult.

The antis would rather this Marine have been unarmed in this intervention, because the safety of rapists is more important to them!

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Again, Gun Free Zones Kill

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Police have released an analysis of the New Town Shooting:

Sources said that Lanza’s shooting spree lasted less than five minutes and that he fired 152 bullets while making his way through two classrooms in the elementary school. Lanza had hundreds more rounds of ammunition either on him or in the car that he drove to the school….Lanza used a Bushmaster AR-15 semiautomatic rifle to shoot his victims and a pistol to kill himself.

Lanza shot his way into the school through the glass windows at the front entrance and turned left toward the first-grade classrooms. He almost immediately encountered Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Scherlach, who ran into the hallway from a meeting room, which would have been on Lanza’s right. He shot them both to death immediately.

Sources said that the two teachers who were injured were hit by ricochet bullets from that initial burst of gunfire. One teacher was in the meeting room with Hochsprung and Scherlach and was hit in the leg and crawled back into the room and called 911. The second teacher was closing the door to her classroom much farther down the hallway, where Lanza never went, when she was hit in the foot.

Lanza bypassed the first classroom that belonged to Kaitlin Roig, who had closed her door when she heard the original shots fired at the front door. Sources said that Sandy Hook Elementary had only weeks earlier had a lockdown drill and that Roig had not taken down the piece of black construction paper that teachers are instructed to place over the small window in the classroom doors so that no one can look in.

Sounds like he took the path of least resistance to shoot the most people, until police arrived, when he killed himself with ammo to spare. No word on the capacity of the magazines, but that wouldn’t have made much of a difference. His first encounter was the principal, who was unarmed and an easy target. If she had been armed and prepared I doubt we’d ever hear about this story except on gun blogs.

We need to end these state-mandated shooting galleries for lunatics.

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Something I’ve Never Seen Before

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Weerd Beard

A Calico Lobster!

So you think blue lobsters are rare? The New England Aquarium is holding a lobster that’s way rarer than that.

The aquarium in Boston says it has a calico lobster that could be a 1-in-30 million find.

The lobster is dark with bright orange and yellow spots. It was caught off Winter Harbor, Maine, and is being held at the New England Aquarium for the Biomes Marine Biology Center, a science center in Rhode Island.

Aquarium spokesman Tony Lacasse says calico lobsters are quite rare.

Well, while the blue lobsters are rare in the wild, there are several outfits that breed them for display and study. I’ve seen orange lobsters, and I’ve seen a few of the half-and-half morphs as well, I’ve NEVER seen a Calico, pretty cool looking! Follow the links for pictures!

BTW unless the lobster is albino, all lobsters cook down red!

h/t C-90

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