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3D Printing is Way Scarier Than Plastic Guns

3D Printing is Way Scarier Than Plastic Guns,  By Shelly Palmer is a must read article.  I have a very short excerpt below:

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Now that you know what a 3D printer is, you must also understand that 3D printers are not limited to printing in plastic.  There are 3D printers that print in wood (a mixture of wood particles and binding agent that dries as wood) ceramic, carbon fiber, bronze, iron, steel, cellulose, human tissue (certain body parts for human transplant are grown using 3D printed frameworks) … there are limitations to the range of additive manufacturing materials, but the technology is evolving rapidly.

As for guns … CAD/CAM files (the computer files that 3D printers transform into physical objects one layer at a time) for the .45 caliber M1911 or the 1911A-1 single-action, semi-automatic pistol have been online for years.  In fact, you can find all kinds of CAD/CAMs for all kinds of gun parts, bomb parts, bazooka parts, rocket launcher parts and other deadly weapons online.  These are computer files, like songs or movies or documents or images, they cannot be protected or digitally rights managed (DRM) any better than the entertainment industry has done with its intellectual property.  A file is a file is a file, if someone wants to copy it – it will be copied.  You can’t tell what the file contains unless you open it and, most importantly, there is no way to ban or prohibit the transfer of files.  In this case, the genie is out of the bottle, you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube, the ship has sailed – the files are out there.

Plastic guns?  Seriously.  How about guns printed in steel, guns printed in carbon fiber, guns printed in, you name it – there’s a 3D printer that can print in the medium.  In a world of 3D printers, there is no such thing as gun control – people who are so inclined will print all the guns and ammo they need – untraceable, no serial numbers, no markings about point of origin, no trade marks, nothing!

That’s the dark side of this technology.  However, the benefits of 3D printing are overwhelmingly positive.

(read the full article here, hat tip Instapundit)

 

Benghazi Images

Where was the president and what did he do?

(via Yael, read article here)

It appears Clint Eastwood and the "empty chair" were accurate.

 

Also:

In honor of Hillary Clinton’s Mothers’ Day

(via BookWormRoom article here)

Yes I know, there is already a white, female, blond replacement ambassador for Libya, however the above image is still important.

As Yael states, "Do the math: Benghazi "is Fast and Furious times 1,000".

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Gun News

 

Unmitigated gall

The Washington Times highlights portions of the President’s speech to Mexican students today in Mexico City. Strangely enough, he doesn’t mention the “Fast & Furious” operation which put semi-automatic weapons in the hands of Mexican criminals when he promises the students that he’ll do everything he can to keep US guns from streaming into Mexico from the US;

“Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States,” Mr. Obama said at Mexico’s Anthropology Museum. “I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms. And as president, I swore an oath to uphold that right, and I always will.”

But he drew cheers from Mexicans when he added, “At the same time, as I’ve said in the United States, I will continue to do everything in my power to pass common-sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. That can save lives here in Mexico and back home in the United States. It’s the right thing to do.”

First of all, the guns that have made it to Mexico recently did so under the watchful gaze of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. And 

(continue reading at This Ain't Hell)

 

 

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On Firearms Common Sense: Part I: Ammunition

On Firearms Common Sense:

Part I: Ammunition

By

R.J. Godlewski

© May 1, 2013, All Rights Reserved

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.”

George Washington

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            The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution exists for solely one reason; to keep government – local, state, and federal – honest. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church implies within paragraph #2243, “armed resistance to oppression by political authority” rests as legitimate as long as 1. There is certain, grave, and prolonged violation of fundamental rights; 2. All other means of redress have been exhausted; 3. Such resistance will not provoke worse disorders; 4. There is a well-founded hope of success; and 5. It is impossible reasonably to foresee any better solution. What the Catholic Church teaches, therefore, is that there probably remains a 1-in-a-1,000,000 chance that you may have to fight against oppressive government. What the Progressive Left, however, by endorsing gun control legislation, teaches is that there is zero reason for you to protect yourself against “oppression by political authority”. Again, placing gun control in the hands of governmental authority – legitimate or otherwise – remains akin to placing the combination to the bank vault in the hands of a career thief.

 When our founding fathers (yes, Virginia, they were men back then, so please get over it…) established the Second Amendment, they announced to future generations that individual citizens were inherently more trustworthy than anyone in public office was. In fact, if you consider the entirety of the Constitution, public authority must have grave reasons to distrust you but you can distrust the federal government as you please. In other words, the government works for “We the People” despite the preference for our elected officials to immerse themselves within elitism. What this means, is that – God forbid – should our government go the route of Reign of Terror France, Nazi Germany, or Stalinist Russia, we Americans bear the grave duty of exercising lethal force against such tyranny. It represents common sense in the eyes of Liberty.

The Progressive Left, unfortunately, as diabolical as they act, seeks to convince you that common sense remains irrational. Consider the above photograph. From the left rests cartridges of 5.56x45mm, 6.8 SPC, 7.62x39mm, 7.62x51mm, 7.62x54R, 8mm Mauser, .45 ACP, and .500 S&W Magnum. For comparison, the 5.56mm represents the round used within most M-16 or AR-15 variants. The 7.62x51mm (.308 Winchester caliber) signifies leaving the “assault rifle” rounds and represents the standard NATO cartridge for battle rifles as well as the most popular deer hunting caliber. The 7.62x54R (rimmed) and 8mm Mauser rounds represent cartridges employed within bolt-action rifles of which mine hail from 1943 and ~1953 respectively. The .45 ACP serves my “carry” handgun, capable of carrying 12+1 such rounds and as for the .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum, well, my 5-round revolver serves for hunting such things as grizzly bears up close and personal like.

As you can plainly see, the least powerful rounds belong to those firearms that the Left wishes to declare illegal and the most powerful rounds belong to those firearms that the Progressives – at their most considerate selves – want to restrict you to owning. The .500 S&W will take down anything alive on the planet and the 8mm Mauser will plow through large trees. The fear – as optimized by Progressive Leftist hysterics – is that the smaller rounds permit you to carry more ammunition via those “horrible” 20- and 30- round magazines. However, a little common sense – if somewhat gruesome analogy – suggests that the Left is quite mistaken in their slandering of innocent, inanimate objects. If an 8mm Mauser or .500 S&W bullet, say, can bore through 18 inches of pine, then how much more so could such bullets tear through human flesh? If, gasp, such bullets can pierce five human bodies before losing energy, then, conceivably, the five rounds that the Left would be gracious enough to permit you to own, could still maim and injure upwards of twenty-five individuals before you would have to “reload”.

Of course, this analogy remains ridiculous to say the least. The Boston bombers did more harm to humanity with pressure cookers and hobby electronics than any shooter has committed within the United States. Furthermore, the 9/11 hijackers killed more American civilians with four passenger aircraft than Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy did with complete national militaries. Yet, the Left could not permit you to understand this. Why? Could it be that the Progressives bear more in common with Islamic jihadists, National Socialists, and Communists than they do with “Joe Six Pack” next door? Of course. All tyrants desire to take control of your lives and the very first step remains to rid you of the right – and capability – of picking them off should they violate the five conditions outlined above. And, folks, the first step in this remains to sway you into thinking that their minimalist firearms restrictions remain “common sense” in application. There remains nothing sensible about placing your life into the hands of another – especially anyone who believes that bureaucracy represents intelligence.

Next: Part II: Firearms

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R.J. Godlewski (GOD LESS KEY) is an independent counterterrorism consultant and the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team. He is currently a graduate student of military studies, asymmetrical warfare at American Military University working on his thesis regarding “Targeting Narco-submarine Networks through Deep Penetration, Autonomous Maritime Irregular Warfare Units operating within a Hunter-Killer Role.” He recently completed his graduate certificate in security management and holds a B.A. in intelligence studies, terrorism studies concentration, minor degree in area studies, Middle East as well as an undergraduate certificate in explosive ordnance disposal. He is the author of Skills of the Assassin: Understanding the Tactics of the Professional Killer.

 

Terrorists lived off taxpayers, even father who lives in Dagestan

Exactly how does that work?  Drudge links to several articles about the Boston marathon terrorists, and their Tsarnaev family members, have lived off the backs of American taxpayers since their entry into the United States.  Think about that for a minute.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older, now dead brother, was on welfare, as was his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, a Muslim convert, and their daughter.  The state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services was quick to say that those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits because the wife was working 80 hours a week as a home health aide (while her husband loused around the house and plotted terror?).

"In addition, both of Tsarnaev’s parents received benefits, and accused brother bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were recipients through their parents when they were younger, according to the state."  (The Weekly Standard)

From the beginning it has been reported that the father, who was interviewed by more than one media outlet apparently, lives in Dagestan.  These people are not American citizens, the father does not live in the United States and has not, apparently, for many years.  So how does he receive US welfare?  Something is very wrong here.

 

The state did not say when the Tsarnaevs began receiving benefits. But Health and Human Services spokesman Alec Loftus said the Tsarnaevs “were not receiving transitional assistance benefits at the time of the incident,” a reference to the marathon bombing that killed three and injured 260.

Loftus declined to specify what kinds of benefits and the amount of benefits the family received.  (Boston Herald)

So they say the family was no longer receiving benefits.  Does that mean the ENTIRE family or just Tamerlan?

What about the aunt who lives in Canada?

If you go to the website of the transitional assistance program for Mass. they proudly brag that":

The Department of Transitional Assistance serves one out of every eight people in the Commonwealth

 

The mother is a real winner too.

 

MOTHER: 'I don't care if youngest son killed. I will say Allahu Akbar!'

 

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TEXAS V. TYRANNY: ABBOTT WARNS OBAMA

By Sharon Sebastian

 

America is in a gunfight. The bad guy government wants to disarm the good guy citizens. The battle: tyranny versus freedom. The Obama government has started the bleeding-out of Constitutional rights and protections for all citizens through its ramped-up attacks and erosions of Constitutional amendments. On patrol at the Constitution’s perimeter are leaders like Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, among others, who refuse to back down and bow to totalitarianism.

 

Few Americans are aware of the surprisingly narrow defeat in the Senate, 53-46, of a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty that would have effectively savaged the 2^nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To see which senators voted for the U.N.’s control over American gun rights, read here.

 

The following letter from Texas Attorney General Abbott to President Barack Obama regarding this President’s support of the U.N. treaty over the Constitutional rights of American citizens demonstrates how real leaders, defending America, step forward in times of peril:

 

April 2, 2013

 

Sent via facsimile and U.S. mail

 

Dear Mr. President:

 

The Arms Trade Treaty agreed to today by the United Nations (UN) is a threat to Americans’ Constitutional liberty. I urge you to reject that treaty. If you sign it, and if the U.S. Senate ratifies the treaty, Texas will lead the charge to have the treaty overturned in court as a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

 

America is exceptional in part because our Constitution safeguards our individual liberties — including the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the Second Amendment. During your reelection campaign, you consistently claimed to support Second Amendment rights. Yet the day after you won reelection, you announced your support for the Arms Trade Treaty, a UN agreement on firearms restrictions. That treaty:

WELL DONE, DEMOCRATS

Susan North

 

My friend Bill seems to be on a lot of lists as he forwards me quite of few interesting emails.  This one Well Done, Democrats congratulates the Democrats for their fine work in improving one manufactoring sector – gun manufacture, most of the following is from Guns and Ammo magazine, so in case you missed it you will want to read to the end.

 

 

WOW!!! Can you imagine Obama and  his regime stimulating US business like this and totally without stealing taxpayer's money for stimulus like as was the case with Solyndra, Fisker, GM, GE and many, many others adding billions to the national debt! Amazing talent!

I want the NRA to present Obama with a special citation for his dedicated and highly successful efforts to encourage gun ownership and training in the US.

I THINK WE OWE THE DEMS AN "ATTA-BOY" ON THIS ONE!

Guns and ammo-unbelievable:

My ammo re loader can’t get supplies. I talked to an agent at Ruffin Flag yesterday and she said they had unprecedented orders for pro 2nd Amendment items. Last week she sold 17,000 bumper stickers; one of the most popular (DUE TO THE SHORTAGE OF AMMUNITION, THERE WILL BE NO WARNING SHOTS).  WH

Ever think you would see anything like this in America?


REPORT  FROM GUNS & AMMO MAGAZINE:

S & W:
    Running at Full  capacity making 300+ guns/day-mainly M & P pistols. They are  unable to produce any more guns to help with the  shortages.

RUGER:
    Plans to increase from  75% to 100% in the next 90  days.

On Real War

On Real War

By

R.J. Godlewski

© April 24, 2013, All Rights Reserved.

“I’ve seen nice middle-class kids go through shock training. These nice young people experience that total immersion, then emerge to slit throats with ease, enthusiasm, and great expertise. They have become warriors.” MANUAL OF THE MERCENARY SOLDIER by Paul Balor (Paladin Press, 1988), Page 84

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Total immersion, “shock training” is what separates warriors from soldiers. A form of ‘real world’ training that has not existed within the Western world since the beginning of the industrial age. It may, however, represent what the terrorists who perpetrated the Boston marathon bombing experienced, especially that involving Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. While the media and the public exhaled over the thought of yet other “boy next doors” turning violent, I did not bat an eyelash. Warriors emerge from a literal overnight transformation that shatters their civility and conditions their entire life for the struggle. Even the greatest American “warrior” generally compartmentalizes his life; able to rear a family, attends church, and even appears as a consultant upon the evening news. To compound matters, our warriors rarely enter the field of combat without a vast array of technical support from a highly networked sphere of modern communications, hierarchical orders, and, more often than not, close air support as needed. In the reality of war, America fields soldiers. Little more.

Most of this problem remains our fault. America simply does not desire to turn cold-blooded killing machines lose on the planet, unable to extract them from their “kill or be killed” mentality. Unfortunately, this also means that we cannot understand others, such as the Boston bombers, who can kill without the slightest remorse. The FBI, within its criminal filings against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suggested that the terrorist and his brother did not look in the direction of the explosions, as had the thousands of other individuals in attendance. They suggested that this illustrates the pair’s expectation of events. I noticed something even more disturbing. The terrorists did not even flinch. All soldiers flinch whenever an explosion happens, no matter their experience and training. Even practiced gun owners do so despite, perhaps, having had fired thousands of rounds throughout their life. It represents a basic human reaction. I suspect, for instance, that I could take my Smith & Wesson 500 Magnum^® revolver to any gun range tomorrow and cause everyone to flinch, even if only momentarily.

Senate rejects gun amendment compromise

The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bipartisan amendment that would have expanded background checks on gun purchases, a blow to advocates calling for more strict firearm laws after the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., late last year.

The measure, the product of intense negotiations between Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey and West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, would have extended background check requirements on gun owners. It needed 60 votes to pass, but failed 54-46.

Democratic Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana voted against it. (Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada switched his vote to no at the end, a procedural tactic that allows him to bring it up for a vote later.) In addition to Toomey, Republicans who supported the amendment were Sens. Mark Kirk of Illinois, Susan Collins of Maine and John McCain of Arizona.  (continue at Yahoo News)

GOP caves on gun depate for booze and boat parties?

The Gateway Pundit reports that Booze and Boat Parties Smoothed BiPartisan Gun Deal:

The Washington Times reports the following:

Sen. Mark Kirk says the real driving force behind the gun deal that was hatched by bipartisan work was booze and boat retreats.  (more)

The 16 GOP senators that voted to end debate were:

Lamar Alexander of Tennessee;

Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire;

Richard Burr of North Carolina;

Saxby Chambliss of Georgia;

Tom Coburn of Oklahoma;

Susan Collins of Maine;

Bob Corker of Tennessee;

Jeff Flake of Arizona;

Lindsey Graham of South Carolina;

John Hoeven of North Dakota;

Johnny Isakson of Georgia;

Dean Heller of Nevada;

Mark Kirk of Illinois;

John McCain of Arizona;

Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania;

Roger Wicker of Mississippi.

UPDATE: Here’s a link to the full roll-call vote: