From the "Hoisted on his own petard" files; NY Gun Control activist violates his own law! giggle giggle snort!

A Buffalo, N.Y. community activist who is well known locally for pushing for a highly restrictive 2013 gun control law has been arrested for — wait for it — carrying a gun illegally at a public elementary school.

The arrested gun-control advocate, Dwayne Ferguson, caused quite a scene at Harvey Austin Elementary School

Full story here.

Its always funny when karma bites someone where the sun don't shine. I hope they throw the book at him.


BTW, a petard was a device used as early as the 16th century. A forerunner of the Shaped Charge, a petard was cone shaped, filled with gunpowder and attached to the wall or door of a fortification. A long fuse was lit and upon a successful explosion, would create a hole to breach the defenses.

Petard according to wikipedia.

The Global Warming Southern Blizzard of 2014

No posts in a while. I've been at work, 12 hour shifts. I worked the last 4 days in a row and tonight I go in for 4 more on nights. Gots to do it, folks on welfare or TANF and food stamps depending on me.
I've spent this morning preparing for The Global Warming Southern Blizzard of 2014.

Our kerosene heaters are already in use to cut down on the electric bill but I added 2 more containers full of fuel just in case we lose power or cannot get out.

I also started my 2 gensets and got some extra fuel for them.

 My first generator was not "bought" per se but I traded some work for it. A man I knew needed some pumps built. I proposed that he buy the genset as a business expense and apply it to his taxes and pay me with said genny.

 My father in law scoffed and called me foolish. Two years later we moved out into "the country" across the road from my in-laws. The next year we had a snow storm, 12" fell in our county. Our power was out from about noon on Monday until sometime Fri morning. I kept the house warm with kerosene and with my genset had enough power for the whole house, excluding the heat pump.

 My mother in law would come over and stay with us all day, we had TV, internet, could cook etc. My father in law, stayed home, cooked on a coleman stove that I gave him fuel for and watched TV on a little battery powered B&W portable tv. 

 We've never NEEDED the genny since then but I'm pretty sure it paid for itself that 1 week.

Here's hoping everybody's power stays on and we see each other on the other side of this mess.

Tip Of The Day, cheap flashlights

These little 9 led flashlights can be bought at many stores like Big Lots, Tractor Supply, and auto parts stores. They come with batteries already installed and cost about $10.

I used to pick up some of these once a month. I've got "a few" now so I don't buy them as often anymore.

These are not by any stretch of the imagination super duper tacti-cool lights. But what they ARE is a great light to have 1 each in all of your ammo cans. I don't know about you but I have all sorts of things in ammo cans here at the Secret Extremist Batcave, I even have some ammo in some of my ammo cans.
One day you might have to grab a few of these ammo cans and rush out your door. If you have to do this at night in your pajamas or other sleeping "dress" it might be very nice to have enough light to see which caliber ammo you grabbed or if you have any matches or a compass or whatever.
I also have some of these lights scattered around the house. I've heard that a pistol is what you use to fight your way to your rifle. Well these little lights allow me to get to my big 500 lumen flashlights or to my kerosene lamps in whatever situation comes up if I'm not already near a big light.

Modifying a Berdan case to take Boxer primers.

With all due warnings, this looks like a way to shoot your PSL or Mosin Nagant a little more for a little less.

New .22 Pop Up Target

I bought a new toy a couple of weeks ago at the local Wal Mart. It is a small "pop up" 22lr target.

This little target only cost about $11. It comes with four L shaped rods to anchor it to the ground. The target portion is 9 inches tall and 2.5 inches at the center of the diamond, despite what the box says, and weighs just a couple of pounds.

I was shooting a S&W 15-22 at this target at about 25 yards. The sights on the rifle completely obscured the target. Using a standard .22 with a small ramp or bead and buckhorn type rear sight or especially a red dot or scope optic would allow you to see the reaction to hits much better.

The weight of this little target combined with a light spring allow this target to be folded and tucked into a range or gear bag and carried to your shooting range. The paint does chip but that is because its being shot at, I would chip too. A little rattle can magic will make it shine like new.

IMAO, not a waste of $11.

Victim of Police and Doctors to get $1.6 million

 David Eckert of New Mexico was pulled over last January for the crime of a "rolling stop."  The cops brought a drug dog to the party. Mr Eckert was then taken to a local hospital where, under police orders, the medical personnel probed, x-rayed, and scoped his digestive tract, all against his will. The local taxpayers are now gifting Mr Eckert $1.6 million.
More @ Forbes

 The article doesn't mention how his lawsuit(s) is progressing against the doctors/hospital, THAT CHARGED HIM FOR THESE UNWANTED PROCEDURES!
 Maybe Mr Eckert will be a benevolent employer, as I hope that he is blessed with the indentured servitude of these doctors and the title to the hospital where this happened. All of which is exaggeration and hyperbole but nevertheless.
 Police officers and in this case their contracted medical staff must be held accountable for actions such as this in the future, either by law or some other means.
 This is NOT my natural state of mind. MOST of the time, my first thought is along the lines of, "Hahaha, you (Mr Criminal) shouldn't have done that!" But then I check myself. If they are doing these things to others, they are gonna do them to me too, and probably you.

Chuckie Schumer doesn't like me, the feeling is mutual.

Free Speech: The IRS scandal is not only not over but is getting worse, with a call by New York's senior senator for the already-politicized agency to use its power to tax to destroy the conservative grass-roots movement.

Arguing that the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision allowed Tea Party groups to "funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government," Charles Schumer wants the IRS and other government agencies to take on the Tea Party through their administrative powers.

"It is clear that we will not pass anything legislatively as long as the House of Representatives is in Republican control, but there are many things that can be done administratively by the IRS and other government agencies,"

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/012414-687587-chuck-schumer-targets-the-tea-party.htm?p=full

"Distort the truth?" Like; Benghazi was all about a video, "If you like your insurance/Dr, you can keep it" The NSA is preventing terrorist attacks! (see Boston Marathon bombing and Benghazi attack)