Police Supply Online

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 03 Jul 2003 12:00:00 GMT

From eardley:

Tell all the Truth

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.

-- Emily Dickinson

From kaba:

"No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim." -- W. Emerson Wright

and:

"Many people mistakenly see weapons as the source of crime rather than a reaction to it. This is rather like blaming your flat tire on the spare you carry in the trunk." -- Mickey Michels

John de Rosier at the Albany (NY) Times Union - We the STRAIGHT People... - cartoon commentary on Bill Frist's proposal for a constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriages. Hehehehe.

Police Supply Online is a mail-order supplier of tactical equipment and police supplies including flashlights, gloves, boots, tasers, stun guns, knives, clothing, batons, holsters, soft air guns, and accessories. These are available from their web site. They also sell uniforms and ammunition via phone orders. Added to my Arms Manufacturers page. I ordered a Berreta 92 soft air gun. This isn't my idea of a real pistol I'd like to own. I want a .44 magnum revolver, a .45 auto pistol, and a lightweight .357 magnum revolver for hot weather concealed carry. I chose the Berreta because it had the highest muzzle velocity of the available spring-powered pistols. I had no idea of the huge world of plastic-pellet-shooting replica firearms. Planet Airsoft will give you an idea.

Jeff Quinn at GunBlast - Smith & Wesson's New .500 Magnum Revolver - Mr. Quinn reviews S&W's newest hand cannon. [gunblast]

Getting the big Five Hundred ready to shoot, I didn't really know what to expect. I have fired many large magnum revolvers and single-shot pistols, but the new Smith was an unknown to me. Stuffing five of the big cartridges into the cylinder is like poking big brass sausages into a stovepipe. Everything about this gun seems oversized, somewhat like it's not even real. It reminds me of the guns seen on the old Saturday morning cartoons; where the coyote pulls a gun out of his pocket that is as big as he is. Anyway, preparing to shoot the new Smith, I donned my shooting glasses and hearing protection, then as a last thought, I grabbed a hard-hat just in case the big gun decided to slap me in the forehead.

Dropping the hammer on the first round, it was readily apparent that something big was happening, but the recoil was nothing like I had expected. In fact, I found the gun to be very controllable, especially with the 275 grain loads. Even the 440 grain hard cast loads, while producing much more power, were not painful to shoot. The ported compensator and soft rubber grips apparently do their jobs very well. While at the NRA Whittington Center in New Mexico, I invited several experienced shooters to try the big Smith, and while a few were a bit reluctant at first, no one found the gun painful to shoot. I have fired some of the latest incarnation of super light pocket .357 magnums, and find them to be more punishing to fire than the Five Hundred. While packing more punch than the original .45/70, and with a fatter bullet, the .500 S&W Magnum is very manageable for an experienced shooter.

Michelle Malkin at World Net Daily - Grateful for Patriot Acts - Ms. Malkin is actually thankful for our new gestapo. Go figure. [stein]

Jeff Head - Dragon's Fury -- The Long March - an excerpt from volume 4 of Mr. Head's World War III novel series. The U.S. captures the Cuban president with the help of a boy who had spent some time in Miami before being kidnapped by the Amerikan government and returned to Cuba (but the names are changed, since this is a work of fiction). This volume is planned for release in November. Volumes 1 through 3 are available for purchase, printed electronically or on dead trees. Recommended.

Thomas L. Knapp at Rational Review - The medicine show (The Life of the Party, Part Six) - why selling the Libertarian Party is fundamentally different than selling RV time shares, or snake oil. [smith2004]

Political ideas are not laundry detergents, hair treatments, aerobic exercise devices or even, believe it or not, self-help programs. They are political ideas. A political party is not a travelling medicine show with a pitchman to raise the ballyhoo, a few shills to work the crowd and a selection of bottled waters that promise to cure carbuncles and revive male potency. It is a political party.

To put a finer point on it, Dale Carnegie did not ghost write "Common Sense" for Tom Paine. Thomas Jefferson did not run the Declaration of Independence past a focus group of average middle-class Americans to "get its negatives down." Zig Ziglar did not work in the west wing of the Lincoln White House. Teddy Roosevelt was not a Double Diamond Amway^® distributor.

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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