More Reloading

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:00:00 GMT

Bill St. Clair - Neck Resizing for AR-15 Reloading - Everyone told me it wouldn't work to neck-resize my .223 Reminton cases. Wrong! It worked fine for the 20 rounds I fired yesterday afternoon. This article tells how I reload rifle ammo along with couple of case, bullet, and primer pictures and my refutation of this urban legend.

John McCabe at loony dot org - It's not the heat, it's the humidity - humorous commentary on January. Hahaha. [loony]

Jerry Pournelle - Thursday, January 17, 2002 - good commentary on empire and republic. Will move here next week. [pournelle]

I was noodling around in a conference of no great significance, mostly having fun, and said something about Social Security and investments. In the course of some skittles I mentioned that "The purpose of government is to hire and pay government workers."

Bob Wallace at LewRockwell.com - The US as Third-World Nation - where our once-free country is headed. Thanks to an increasingly powerful state. [lew]

As best as I can tell, under a free market two-thirds of the people are middle-class. When there isn't a free market, two-thirds of the people are dirt-poor, and a very small minority (those who have gained control of the State) are Scrooge McDuck-rich. That is what the Third World is: a handful of billionaires and everyone living in shacks.

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My paternal grandfather dropped out of school in the 8th-grade. He spent his life installing wooden-strip floors and finishing them. His wife did some sewing part-time in their home. They raised nine kids and lived a middle-class existence.

This is now impossible in the United States.

How did my grandfather do this? Because taxes and regulations were a fraction of what they are now.

Angel Shamaya at KeepAndBearArms.com - The Federal Trial of Bob Stewart: The Deck is Stacked Against Him - news from the kangaroo court trial of a patriot. The jury was stacked, and the judge is preventing Mr. Stewart from defending himself. [kaba]

Tracy W. Price at The Washington Times - Security blanket - now that airline pilots are allowed by law to have weapons in the cockpit, implementation of this law should move forward quickly, to prevent a repeat of 9/11. [kaba]

Each day, I go through security screening just as my passengers do. My bag is X-rayed to ensure that I left my tweezers and nail clippers at home; I pass through the magnetometer to be certain that I don't have a weapon. Meanwhile, the potential onlooking terrorist smiles to himself, having been reassured that when he breaks into my cockpit with murder on his mind, I will be defenseless. I pass the National Guardsman, with his M-16 at the ready, in case somebody tries to hijack the airport and fly it into a building. Having successfully navigated the security labyrinth and convinced everyone that I am completely incapable of defending my passengers, crew and airplane, I am given complete and unencumbered access to an incredibly dangerous weapon: a large passenger airliner filled with fuel.

By Alec Klein at The Washington Post - AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat - Gag me with a spoon! [cowlix]

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Government doesn't work. Never did. Never will. Can't. But there are lots of good people. Love them.

-- Bill St. Clair

The Atlanta Declaration

Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

-- L. Neil Smith

Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

-- L. Neil Smith

A Penalty Clause for the Bill of Rights

Any official, appointed or elected, at any level of government, who attempts, through legislative act or other means, to nullify, evade, or avoid the provisions of the first ten amendments to this Constitution, or of the Thirteenth Amendment, shall be summarily removed from office, and, upon conviction, deprived of all pay and benefits including pension, and sentenced to imprisonment for life.

-- L. Neil Smith

Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents.

-- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report on gun control laws.

Who is a libertarian?

Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap")

"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim."

-- L. Neil Smith

(Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP")

Why Did It Have to be... Guns?

Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims.

What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

-- L. Neil Smith

Concise

"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you."

-- Mike Vanderboegh

Also from The Atlanta Declaration:

... like going to the bathroom, breathing, eating, sleeping, or making love, it turns out that self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party.

-- L. Neil Smith

This does not mean that "Marijuana should be available by prescription." It means that morphine sulfate should be available in five pound bags at the supermarket for a couple of bucks, like sugar... but probably in a different aisle, to avoid confusion.

-- Vin Suprynowicz

If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

-- Edward Abbey

The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.

-- Bill St. Clair