Springfield Armory 1911A1 TRP Operator® Single Action Semi-Automatic Pistol, 10 mm, 6″ Barrel, Black Matte Armory Kote Finish, VZ Alien Dirty Olive G-10 Grips, Two 8 Round Magazines, Gen 2 Speed Trigger, Front Serrations, Accessory Rail, Octo-Grip Front Strap, Fully Adjustable 3-Dot Tritium Sights, Packed In Range Bag
Smith & Wesson M&P 15 Semi-Automatic Rifle, 223 Rem, 556 NATO, 16″ M4 Barrel with A2 Birdcage Flash Suppressor, Black Finish, Black 6 Position Collapsible Stock, Adjustable Rear Sight, One 30 Round, Additional Side Front Sling Swivel, Removable Carry Handle
KRISS Vector “Super V” SBR (Short Barreled Rifle). Semi-Automatic, chambered in .45 ACP.The world”s lightest, most controllable and most accurate short barrel rifle. The patented KRISS Super V System virtually eliminates felt recoil and muzzle climb.
Magnum Research 1911G Semi-automatic Single Action Full 45 ACP 5 in Steel Black Wood 8Rd 2 Mags Fired Case Fixed Sights DE1911G (DE 1911 45ACP 5 in BLK FS)
Springfield Armory Limited Edition Camp Perry M1A . Semi-automatic rifle, chambered in .308 Win with 22 in barrel. This Camp Perry model has a custom engraved walnut stock and includes a hardshell display case, a canvas bag, one 10Rd magazine and are fitted with Camp Perry Limited Edition adjustable sights.
Weatherby (WBY) Vanguard S2 RC (Range Certified) Bolt Action Rifle, 300 Win, 24″ Barrel, Matte Blue Finish, Green Monte Carlo Stock with Black Spiderwebbing
Sig Sauer Blackwater Special Edition P226 Semi-automatic Double Action, Full Size, 9MM, 4.4″ Barrel, Alloy Frame, Blue Finish, Black Wood Grips with Blackwater Logo
Category: Homefront|Comments Off on Tile and Grout: How Not To Do It To Yourself when you Do It Yourself
You can learn a lot by doing things wrong the first time.
Lessons learned when installing/refinishing tile flooring and walls:
Using a Dremel tool (Model 400 with ceramic tile accessory) is expensive, loud and slow. A DAP grout saw blade is cheap, quiet, fast and very effective. When it is elegance versus brutality, brutality usually wins.
Mixing un-sanded grout before watching (one of many) You-Tube videos to learn ‘how thick’ the grout needs to be prior to application results in re-work. You-Tube is your friend for all kinds of DIY projects. Follow the mixing directions. The ending grout blend consistency should be like a paste that falls from your trowel after three shakes.
Use a grout float and a margin float in corners to apply with pressure at 45 degree angle to the tile lines.
Letting newly-applied grout dry and cure without sponging off the excess within an hour or so is a preview of Dante’s Inferno or like Sisyphus rolling a rock up a hill. Not fun.
Muriatic acid (used for pools, available at Home Depot and swimming pool supply stores) eats grout, stinks like Hell and saves a lot of floor scraping / grout sawing. Used as a clean-up solvent applied with a sponge (see #3 above) it’s a good thing to know about in case you are like me and skip a few installation instructions.
Start new flooring in the center with a chalk line for the first alignment tile. Use polymer spacers to keep the rest of the project square. Rent a water-cooled tile saw to rim the edge pieces at the perimeter.
Do not underestimate the value of a waterproofing grout sealer. I hope to find such a formula that will prevent me from ever having to do this again.
The speech is long — 6,000 words long. One can measure the excellence of the speech by the apoplexy it has induced among the lunatic left. They are intoxicated with impeachment mania. Insofar as Barr articulates a true understanding of “the Resistance” and a profound critique of the administrative state, Barr must be destroyed. I read the speech to reflect the true thoughts of a scholar and experience practitioner at the highest levels of government who feels free — and feels compelled — to speak his mind
Category: Homefront|Comments Off on The Suzuki RM400 Experience
The ultimate dirt bike was the Suzuki 400, fitted with a piston that put the compression ratio above a measurable compression range.
There were two Dont’s with this bike:
Don’t use the kick starter
Don’t use the seat
Using the kick starter resulted (twice) in broken legs. We now use a tow strap to compression-start the beast with a pickup truck.
Sitting on the seat resulted in the bike flipping you off the back when you cranked the throttle. Sitting on the gas tank in front of you gave you a chance to accelerate while remaining in control of the bike.
It was wild.
I remember zooming across a field at about 70 mph and hitting full throttle.
The bike (me on the gas tank, standing on the foot pegs) went vertical and accelerated to about 85 mph.
Good times are often terrifying.
This was a good time!
The Suzuki RM400 was a terrifying beast to ride … but I would do it again, if given a chance!
Category: Homefront, Ingenuity|Comments Off on From Earth to the Moon: The Eagle has Landed
I watched the television coverage of man’s first step on the Moon in 1969 from an Estes Park, Colorado camp ground club house. That step was a moment that defined the potential of America to the World.
Well done, America. I salute you.
No other country on Earth has matched your success.
“A prominent urban myth in North Texas, screaming bridge has been visited by many locals over the decades. From teenagers out having fun to paranormal investigators, the story draws many in search of their own screaming bridge experience. Trying to hear the screams of the departed has been a ritual of passage for many Arlington teens.”
In the mid 1970’s I had heard that legend and still cruised to that area.
Many times.
Once as a passenger in the back seat of my buddy’s Mustang, I had to scream myself to get him to stop our car as were speeding toward the “Death Crossing”.
After dusk you could see the dark horizon, but that night the horizon was moving. What appeared to be the horizon was moving from East to West. We skidded to a stop with only feet to spare to avoid a collision with a freight train.
On another night, I rode with another driver on the same road when he over steered a corner and we rolled his ’66 Plymouth Barracuda in mid-air off the left side of Mosier Valley Road.
With no seat belts, we both experienced weightlessness as the car spun downward – hitting the ground first on it’s passenger side and coming to rest on all four wheels. It was Mark’s first car. And it was totaled. (Sad story after so many years his sister had taken such good care of it before it was his.)
The Death Crossing at Screaming Bridge almost killed me twice.
Thanks to the TheBoneyard.org for researching and posting the origins of the legend.
It was tough to survive being a teenager then; I suspect that it’s not easy now, either.
Thankfully, I can only recall about 8 or 9 near death experiences in my life.
Tijuana is not the murder capital of the world, but it does rank number 5 .
Helpful hints for not being murdered:
Stay away from drugs; drug users; drug traffickers; drugs in general
Do not drink alcohol to excess, and do not visit bars
Do not associate with unknown women in any “after hours” situation
Stay in an area where there is a visible Policia Municipal presence, but do not trust the Policia Municipal or the Policia Federales for your protection.
Do not walk alone; stay with your group
Keep a watch for potential stalkers on your movements; use Surveillance Detection Routines (SDR) to spot potential followers.
Although you may never need it, it is advisable to have a plan and the means to kill everyone in sight if things go pear-shaped.
Category: Guns, Pr0n|Comments Off on Range Report: Ruger Mini-14 Tactical with Trijicon ACOG TA31F and Gemtech SHIEILD Suppressor
Ruger Mini-14 Tactical
A good day at the range with the new Mini-14 Tactical model from Ruger.
It arrived last week, together with a Gemtech SHIELD suppressor and a Gemtech Quick-Mount Flash hider.
All were assembled and carried to my favorite Cabella’s store in Fort Worth for some optics. A Trijicon 4×32 (TA31F) was installed.
Thanks to some bore-sighting assistance at the Alpine shooting range in Ft Worth, I zeroed the sights at 30 yards (using to 300 meter Reticle markings). I then moved to the 100 yard range. The 30 yard zero was confirmed at 100 yards and 20 more rounds were sent down range.
Shot groups varied from three fingers to width-of-hand at 100 yards. Close enough.
With a 100 yard zero, the Trijicon TA31F rifle sight has holdover indicators for 200 to 800 meters. The sight has measurement bars that indicate a standard silhouette target with 19″ shoulder width at various ranges for distance measurement.
Target acquisition is intuitive and fast with this optic and rifle combination.
The next accessories to arrive are the Here’s a pic with the Harris #14 bipod mount and a Harris Benchrest 6-9″ Bi-Pod.
This is now my newest favorite rifle, until the fully automatic AC-556 transfer is approved by the ATF.
Category: Gun Stuff|Comments Off on Quote of the day – Alan Gottlieb, via Joe Huffman’s Place
If a citizen is law-abiding in his home state, he or she is going to be law-abiding in a different state where they might find a firearm they want to buy, but the interstate sales ban prevents that. Citizens can purchase all sorts of other goods across state lines, but why not the one tool that is specifically mentioned and protected by the Constitution’s Second Amendment? That simply defies logic and common sense.
Category: Gun Stuff|Comments Off on Mance case petition to Supreme Court
Here’s the press release, I don’t have the petition for cert. yet. The Mance case is the one challenging GCA 68’s ban on purchases of handguns from FFLs in other states.
More at Of Arms & the Law: https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2018/11/mance_case_peti.php
On a gorgeous Fall morning and afternoon, I had the opportunity to drive all five of my cars.
My Lexus 430 SC, two Honda CRVs; my 1968 Chevy C-10 Custom and my 1965 Shelby AC Cobra.
The Cobra’s clutch wouldn’t let me put it in gear while it was running until I put a few miles on it. (I started the engine in gear to get it going).
As always, the ’65 AC Cobra was a wild and terrifyingly explosive ride; spinning the tires in 2nd gear just by pushing the gas pedal. Chirps the tires in 3rd and 4th after shifts.
It. Is. Awesome.
After today’s run, the hydraulic clutch is now functioning properly. I should take her out more often to keep her limbered up.
Fresh evidence submitted in a major 9/11 lawsuit moving forward against the Saudi Arabian government reveals its embassy in Washington may have funded a “dry run” for the hijackings carried out by two Saudi employees, further reinforcing the claim employees and agents of the kingdom directed and aided the 9/11 hijackers and plotters.
Two years before the airliner attacks, the Saudi Embassy paid for two Saudi nationals, living undercover in the US as students, to fly from Phoenix to Washington “in a dry run for the 9/11 attacks,” alleges the amended complaint filed on behalf of the families of some 1,400 victims who died in the terrorist attacks 16 years ago.
The court filing provides new details that paint “a pattern of both financial and operational support” for the 9/11 conspiracy from official Saudi sources, lawyers for the plaintiffs say. In fact, the Saudi government may have been involved in underwriting the attacks from the earliest stages — including testing cockpit security.
“We’ve long asserted that there were longstanding and close relationships between al Qaeda and the religious components of the Saudi government,” said Sean Carter, the lead attorney for the 9/11 plaintiffs. “This is further evidence of that.”
Lawyers representing Saudi Arabia last month filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which may finally be headed toward trial now that Congress has cleared diplomatic-immunity hurdles. A Manhattan federal judge has asked the 9/11 plaintiffs, represented by lead law firm Cozen O’Connor, to respond to the motion by November.
Citing FBI documents, the complaint alleges that the Saudi students — Mohammed al-Qudhaeein and Hamdan al-Shalawi — were in fact members of “the Kingdom’s network of agents in the US,” and participated in the terrorist conspiracy.
They had trained at al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan at the same time some of the hijackers were there. And while living in Arizona, they had regular contacts with a Saudi hijacker pilot and a senior al Qaeda leader from Saudi now incarcerated at Gitmo. At least one tried to re-enter the US a month before the attacks as a possible muscle hijacker but was denied admission because he appeared on a terrorist watch list.
Qudhaeein and Shalawi both worked for and received money from the Saudi government, with Qudhaeein employed at the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. Shalawi was also “a longtime employee of the Saudi government.” The pair were in “frequent contact” with Saudi officials while in the US, according to the filings.
During a November 1999 America West flight to Washington, Qudhaeein and Shalawi are reported to have tried multiple times to gain access to the cockpit of the plane in an attempt to test flight-deck security in advance of the hijackings.
‘The dry run reveals more of the fingerprints of the Saudi government.’
– Kristen Breitweiser
“After they boarded the plane in Phoenix, they began asking the flight attendants technical questions about the flight that the flight attendants found suspicious,” according to a summary of the FBI case files.
“When the plane was in flight, al-Qudhaeein asked where the bathroom was; one of the flight attendants pointed him to the back of the plane,” it added. “Nevertheless, al-Qudhaeein went to the front of the plane and attempted on two occasions to enter the cockpit.”
The pilots were so spooked by the Saudi passengers and their aggressive behavior that they made an emergency landing in Ohio. On the ground there, police handcuffed them and took them into custody. Though the FBI later questioned them, it decided not to pursue prosecution.
But after the FBI discovered that a suspect in a counterterrorism investigation in Phoenix was driving Shalawi’s car, the bureau opened a counterterrorism case on Shalawi. Then, in November 2000, the FBI received reporting that Shalawi trained at terrorist camps in Afghanistan and had received explosives training to perform attacks on American targets. The bureau also suspected Qudhaeein was a Saudi intelligence agent, based on his frequent contact with Saudi officials.
More, investigators learned that the two Saudis traveled to Washington to attend a symposium hosted by the Saudi Embassy in collaboration with the Institute for Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America, which was chaired by the Saudi ambassador. Before being shut down for terrorist ties, IIASA employed the late al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki as a lecturer. Awlaki ministered to some of the hijackers and helped them obtain housing and IDs.
The FBI also confirmed that Qudhaeein’s and Shalawi’s airline tickets for the pre-9/11 dry run were paid for by the Saudi Embassy.
“The dry run reveals more of the fingerprints of the Saudi government,” said Kristen Breitweiser, one of the New York plaintiffs, whose husband perished at the World Trade Center.
“These guys were Saudi government employees for years and were paid by the Saudi government,” she added. “In fact, the Saudi Embassy paid for their plane tickets for the dry run.”
After the Nov. 19, 1999, incident — which took place less than two months before the first hijackers entered the US — both Saudi men held posts as Saudi government employees at the Imam Muhammad Ibn Saudi Islamic University, the parent of IIASA — “a further indication of their longstanding ties to the Saudi government,” the 9/11 complaint states.
Carter said in an interview that the allegations that the Saudi Embassy sponsored a pre-9/11 dry run — along with charges of other Saudi involvement in the 9/11 plot, from California to Florida — are based on “nearly 5,000 pages of evidence submitted of record and incorporated by reference into the complaint.”
They include “every FBI report that we have been able to obtain,” though hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents related to Saudi terror funding remain secret.
Attempts to reach lawyers representing the Saudi government by phone and email were unsuccessful. However, in last month’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, they argued that the plaintiffs cannot prove the kingdom or its employees directly supported the hijackers.
Sig Sauer Handgun Ammunition, Elite Performance Ball, 9MM, 115 Grain, Full Metal Jacket, Designed for Short Barrel Pistols, Reduces Felt Recoil, 50 Round Box
Sig Sauer, Elite Performance V-Crown Handgun Ammunition, 9MM, 115 Grain, Jacketed Hollow Point, Designed for Short Barrel Pistols, Low Recoil, 20 Round Box
Rossi RB22 Bolt Action Rifle, 22 WMR, 21″ Barrel, Matte Black Finish, Black Synthetic Monte Carlo Stock, One 5 Round Magazine, Hammer Firing System;, Free Float Barrel, No Sights
Rossi RB17 Bolt Action Rifle, 17 HMR, 21″ Barrel, Matte Black Finish, Black Synthetic Monte Carlo Stock, One 5 Round Magazine, Hammer Firing System, Free Float Barrel, No Sights
Windham Weaponry R16SLSFSM-CA Semi-Automatic Rifle, 223 Rem, 556 NATO, 16″ Superlite Barrel, Black Anodized Finish, Mission First Tactical Minimalist Buttstock, One 10 Round Magazine, M4A4 Flat Top Upper Receiver, A2 Suppressor, JT Hellfighter Mod Kit Installed, Direct Impingement, Adjustable Kriss Flip Up Front and Rear Sights
North American Arms Mini Shadow Single Action Revolver, 22 WMR, 1.125″ Barrel, Black PVD Coating Finish, Black Rubber Pebbled Grip, 5 Round Capacity, Fixed Sights, Do not use with PMC Ammunition
North American Arms Mini Shadow Single Action Revolver, 22 LR, 22 WMR, 1.125″ Barrel, 5 Round Capacity, Black PVD Coating Finish, Black Rubber Pebbled Grip, Conversion Cylinder Model, Fixed Sights, Do not use with PMC Ammunition
North American Arms Bug II TALO Single Action Revolver, 22 LR, 22 WMR, 1.5″ Barrel, Stainless Steel Finish, Black Hogue Rubber Grips, 5 Round Capacity, Lockable Metal Case, Special Serial Numbers Starting With TBC00001, XS Dovetailed White Dot Sights, Do not use with PMC Ammunition
North American Arms Single Action Revolver, 22 LR, 5 Round Capacity, 1.125″ Barrel, Black PVD Coating Finish, Black Rubber Pebbled Grip, Fixed Sights, Do not use with PMC Ammunition
Mec-Gar Metal Pistol Magazine for EAA Witness, Tangfolio SF, 9 mm, 17 Round Capacity, Black Anti-Friction Coating
[Will Not Ship to Democrat-controlled hellholes like CA CT HI MA MD NJ NY]
Mec-Gar Metal Pistol Magazine for EAA Witness, Tangfolio LF, 9 mm, 17 Round Capacity, Black Anti-Friction Coating
[Will Not Ship to Democrat-controlled hellholes like CA CT HI MA MD NJ NY]
Walther Pistol Magazine, 9MM, 15 Round Capacity, Includes Grip Extension, Fits PPQ M2 SC, Anti-Friction Coating
[Will Not Ship to Democrat-controlled hellholes like CA CT HI MA MD NJ NY]
Tactical Solutions, EXB Magazine, 22 LR, Holds 10 Rounds, Extended Length Base Pad, Black Finish, Fits Ruger Mark IV 22/45 Pistols Only, Does Not Fit the Ruger 22/45 or Mark III 22/45
Mec-Gar Metal Pistol Magazine for EAA Witness, Tangfolio LF, 10mm Auto, 14 Round Capacity, Black Anti-Friction Coating
[Will Not Ship to Democrat-controlled hellholes like CA CT HI MA MD NJ NY]
Mec-Gar Metal Pistol Magazine for S&W 5900 Series, 9 mm, 17 Round Capacity, Blue Finish
[Will Not Ship to Democrat-controlled hellholes like CA CT HI MA MD NJ NY]
I currently list 13 hand guns with a retail value of $14,393 and 16 long guns with a retail value of $51,231.
Orders are usually available for local pickup or shipment to your FFL in five to seven business days.
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