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The NJ AG has repeatedly used the phrase 'bad constitutional law' in reference to the Bruen decision...most recently in the statement he issued above. It's too bad there isn't some higher authority, who can make the final determination as to what is 'good' constitutional law. Oh, wait...guess he wasn't paying attention in class that day.

Phuck Phil.

Powder, .44 dies, 30-06 dies SPF to bossnagy. I think I do have some--let me check and get back to you with details.

Bump! And I've added a pound of H380 powder, which pairs nicely with a number of the rifle-caliber dies I have listed!

S&W axes? Phildo will want you to get a P2P and have a NICS check done.

I've occasionally clipped a GoPro to the brim of my hat when shooting various action matches, and I liked the results. Click the camera on at "Load and make ready", click it off after "Unload and show clear".

I hadn't run the smoker in awhile, so Friday I planned a pork (Boston) butt cook. 15 lbs boneless butt from Costco, more or less following Myron Mixon's recipe. I injected with about a quart of a vinegar/sugar/hot sauce brine, used three different rubs (top, bottom, and on all of the internal surfaces left from the deboning, then smoked over pecan/apple wood, misting periodically with apple juice, for a total of 20 hours. The Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker will run for 3-4 hours unattended, so I didn't lose too much sleep during the overnight portion of the cook. In the morning I wrapped the butts to help them get past the 'stall', and also remembered the 9:22 am shot. That's a tradition at BBQ competitions, but it also works fine at home. . In the last hour I glazed the pork with a sweet + heat BBQ sauce I made based largely on apple butter. I pulled the butts at an internal temp of about 204 F, rested them for 30 minutes, pulled and served. The pulled pork was exceptional; served with homemade slaw and cornbread. And mint juleps at post time for the Derby. Appetizers included jalapeño poppers and bean and cheese quesadillas, also done on the smoker.

I'm not very diligent about flagging my smart-ass posts as satire.

I dunno...shouldn't we wait to see what Dylan Mulvaney endorses?

And the article even mentions there are over 900,000 silencers registered under the National Firearms Act. Also, of the five incidents cited, one used a homemade silencer, one case was a presumed use of a silencer, though none was recovered when the shooter was arrested, and one wasn't a shooting at all, the man was arrested for buying a silencer from an undercover officer. So TWO incidents in which the shooter might not have used a silencer (but still could have used the gun) had this law been in place.

I've learned so many new things from reading the linked article. "Silencers are dangerous weapons'. The devices are also called 'mufflers'. They reduce the 'kickback of a gun'. They increase the ability to 'fire rounds more quickly'. They 'increase shooter's accuracy'. The proposed ban is called the HEAR act, when the I'M DEAF act might be more accurate. And why the hell are there exemptions only for some atomic energy personnel and current and former law enforcement personnel?

One of the instructors in that video, and some other old FBI training videos, is Mark Felt. He later went on to become the #2 guy in the FBI. And later still revealed not long before his death that he'd been Deep Throat, the Watergate informant working with Woodward and Bernstein. Dad went to high school with him.

There are a few things in that article that don't make sense to me, but perhaps someone with better knowledge of armament can comment. They claim black powder is 'used in small quantities in munitions to ignite more powerful explosives', in 'M16 bullets, and 155 mm howitzer shells and Tomahawk and other cruise missiles.' Now I know that's not true for 'M16 bullets', but I have a hard time believing black powder still is used in howitzer shells or cruise missiles. It's not a primary explosive; as far as I know you can't use it to set off charges of TNT or C4 or RDX or other secondary explosives. Also, and this doesn't relate to the explosion in Louisiana, the article says there is only a single source making titanium cases for howitzers. If they are talking about shell casings, wouldn't titanium be a nonsensical choice? Expensive, hard to work with, and won't expand to seal the breach when firing the gun? Still, I was tickled to see that Estes bought the black powder mill in order to keep it going. I burned plenty of black powder in Estes rocket motors when I was younger.

Bumping the post for the charity shoot on Saturday. This is a LOT of fun; shoot as much or as little as you like for a single entry fee; it's a very informal competition, beginner friendly, and food will be served! It's an indoor range, so the crappy Saturday forecast doesn't matter. And what other event includes stages shot from the FBI crouch?

$#!*%!! FJB!!! We plan to buy the retirement home later this year, and we’ve gotta directly subsidize the high-default borrowers? Sonofabitch

I wouldn’t saddle the military or most cops with them, just the protection details for every politician who supports smart guns.

I agree with the alteration idea. A little creative tailoring, and some velcro or magnetic closures, would allow quick access to a concealed weapon...or whatever.

French protests, strikes, walkouts are so weird...and so common. A bunch of years ago I got stranded trying to get to Charles deGaulle airport by train, for a flight out of Paris. I was not stranded because of a general transit strike. I was not stranded because of a railroad strike. No, I was stranded because the workers on JUST THAT ONE TRAIN, that I happened to be on, decided to strike. They pulled it into Gare de Nord station and simply walked away, leaving the train there blocking the platform and tracks. Everything else in and out of the station was still running, but the workers didn't want to move the train I'd been on out of some weird solidarity thing even though they probably had no idea what the workers on the one train had gotten bent out of shape about.. So I missed my flight back home. And Air France was not particularly helpful in getting me on another flight.

So maybe the pro-2A states should outsource their efforts to overturn such bans to corporate counsel for Colt.

Channeling my inner 13-year-old, this whole discussion makes me think of the Austin Powers Fembots. Fembots

How many carry permit applications has the state received? NJ won't say. The Judiciary said they received 11, 298 applications while the courts were still part of the approval process, the State Police another 5,730, which may have overlap with the court's figures, but the AG claims they simply don't know and have no way to track how many total applications have come in. The article notes that in general, NJ won't reveal numbers about guns, crimes, and police disciplinary actions in the state. NJ hasn't issued a Uniform Crime Report since 2020. We don't know how many permit requests have come in, says AG in charge of knowing such things.