Friday, August 05, 2005

Kel-Tec has a new model, the SU-16CA, which can (according to their site) be purchased in most states that still have an "assault weapons ban". I wonder if this means California? I'll have to stop by the gun store sometime soon. 11:46:11 PM    comment () # Winchester Rifles & Shotguns - Model 94, Timber - chambered in the manly .450 Marlin caliber. 18" ported barrel, 4-round magazine. Fully-adjutable XS brand ghost ring rear sight. Drilled and tapped for scope mounts. Pachmayr® Decelerator® recoil pad. $610 retail. There's a review in the September 2005 issue of Shooting Times. I'm a Marlin man myself, but I'm tempted. [shooting] [End the War on Freedom] An interesting idea, but that 18" ported barrel is a good way to go deaf, if you ever need to fire it without hearing protection. 6:19:41 PM    comment () It's a good idea to take notes when taking a lot of photos on a trip. That way when your rolls of developed film don't match the notes it's easy to discover that you've accidentally left an exposed roll of slide film in your camera bag instead of taking it to the lab. 5:49:34 PM    comment () # William S. Lind at LewRockwell.com - Modern War Symposium - Mr. Lind attended a symposium on modern war called by a retired USMC colonel. They were discussing how to prevent a fourth generation war in America. Their conclusion? A militia. Other than the idea of paying the militia members with stolen tax dollars, this idea is, of course, a great one. It's not new, however, being the method envisioned by America's Founders back in the eighteenth century. [clairefiles] [End the War on Freedom] It's interesting that Mr. Lind, with his ideas about a militia as a "new service," appears to be arriving at the conclusions of the Founding Fathers without having any awareness of those conclusions. I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials. George Mason 5:22:10 PM    comment () # Tim Peppin at the gateway - Marc Emery must not be extradited - good Canadian editorial on why it would be criminal to give Marc Emery to the apes in the U.S. [google] What does trouble me about Mr Emery's arrest is that it was not initiated by Canadian law enforcement. The investigation and subsequent arrest of Mr Emery was a result of the attentions of the American Drug Enforcement Administration, an agency which is now requesting his extradition. If extradited, he will be tried on charges of conspiracy to distribute marijuana and marijuana seeds, and conspiracy to launder money. Given his unabashed involvement in the legalization movement and the simple existence of a seed distribution company bearing his name, a conviction would be assured. The maximum sentence, when convicted, is life imprisonment. Now I understand that as a sovereign nation, the United States has the right to create and enforce any laws which it chooses, no matter how ludicrous. But Canada has the right--and the obligation--to protect its citizens from persecution deemed injust or excessive. Surely we must admit that in a country which no longer prosecutes the distribution of marijuana seeds, which in many areas willfully neglects to prosecute the traffic of marijuana, and which as a whole is considering its decriminalization, the extradition of a political activist to face some of the harshest prison sentences and conditions on the continent is inconsistent, to put it mildly. [End the War on Freedom] I would add that since Mr. Emery is a Canadian citizen, and has not actually entered to US to break any American laws, this is actually another case of the Feds trying to enforce American law over the entire world. The correct response for the Canadian government is to immediately free Mr. Emery, with a profuse apology and compensation for arrest, and then tell the US government to get lost. 5:16:23 PM    comment () I've been playing around with the "OPML Editor" lately. Among other things, it has its own blogging tool--the results of which can be seen at this OPML blog. 5:10:33 PM    comment () London Bombing Details. Interesting details about the bombs used in the 7/7 London bombings: The NYPD officials said investigators believe the bombers used a peroxide-based explosive called HMDT, or hexamethylene triperoxide diamine. HMDT can be made using ordinary ingredients like hydrogen peroxide (hair bleach), citric acid (a common food preservative) and heat tablets (sometimes used by the military for cooking). [Schneier on Security] That's not all citric acid is common in. I wonder if the KGB is going to start spying on people who drink lots of orange juice... 4:11:58 PM    comment () MARK BRADY: Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the Significance of Hiroshima. I always enjoy reading the British journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft even when I disagree with him. He is exceptionally well read and is consistently one of the most thoughtful and interesting commentators in Britain today. His new essay The Birth of ‘Mere Terror’ is no exception. “Hiroshima wasn't uniquely wicked. It was part of a policy for the mass killing of civilians.” Read the rest of the article here. [Liberty & Power: Group Blog] I've long thought it strange that such a fuss is made about the nukes that were dropped on Japan, as if it was perfectly okay to kill far more people with firebombing raids, just as long as they didn't use The Great Satan nuclear bombs to kill them. 3:41:50 PM    comment ()

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