Beretta CX-4 Storm Carbine

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 05 Apr 2003 13:00:00 GMT

The Beretta CX-4 Storm Carbine is one sexy looking rifle! More photos here. Security Arms review by David Lalor here. More photos and expansive coverage at BerettaWEB.com. It can be converted between 9mm, 40 S&W, and 45 ACP by changing the barrel, magazine, and magazine adapter. I didn't see a price anywhere. [highroad]

WOLF Performance Ammunition - Rifle Ammunition - WOLF has added to their product line this year 150 & 168 grain .308 Winchester and 168 grain .30-06 Springfield ammo. Haven't seen any in a store yet, and I couldn't find the .308 ammo in any of the online catalogs I checked. I sent email to ammoman, and was told to ask Wolf directly. I sent email to them, and haven't received a reply.

Harry Browne - Rule-the-World Productions Proudly Presents...Operation Iraqi Freedom - good one from Mr. Browne. Funny even though it's all too true.

See our other Epic Productions, coming soon:
Operation Iranian Freedom
Operation Syrian Freedom
Operation Libyan Freedom
Operation Lebanese Freedom
Operation Zimbabwean Freedom
Operation Philippine Freedom *
Operation Pakistani Freedom
Operation Afghan Freedom III *
...
Due to conflicts of interest, we've had to cancel:
Operation American Freedom

Breaking All the Rules is an interesting looking web site. Good links page. Sartre, the author, maintains a blog.

Jeremy Mayer at The American Prospect - Presidential Quarantine: Why Bush can't leave America -- and why that matters - if GW visited anwhere in the world except regimes where dissent is stifled, he would be met by massive angry demonstrations, and rightly so. [rrnd]

The world's citizens are so helpless in the face of America's military supremacy and unilateral foreign policy that the only way they can express their anger is through civil unrest and boycotts. Even a visit to America's neighbors, Mexico or Canada, would produce scenes of unprecedented anti-American demonstrations.

And those images would matter here at home. In 1960, Kennedy used the anti-Nixon demonstrations abroad to argue that the nation was losing stature in the world. A foreign trip by Bush now would reveal to the average American in pictures -- so vivid that even FOX News couldn't spin them away -- just how bitterly our policies are opposed around the globe.

Timothy Egan at The New York Times - Terrorism Task Force Detains an American Without Charges - Maher Hawash is an American citizen who grew up in Kuwait. He is being held in solitary as a "material witness" by the sub-human nazi commie pinko slugs who have taken over the U.S. government (can you tell I'm angry about this story?). More at warblogging. [whatreallyhappened]

Charlie Reese - Ambivalence Of War - Americans might not be so hawkish if they were shown graphic images of the battle.

But as much as I love Lee and despise Sherman, Sherman was right. The glory of war is all moonshine. It is pure hell. That's why the American networks censor, without even being told, the ugly images of war. That was the case when they decided not to air the pictures of dead Americans that Iraqi television made available and that were broadcast globally by Al-Jazeera, the independent Arab television network.

That was the wrong decision. It is not the job of journalists to protect the sensitivities of people or to participate in American propaganda. Those ugly pictures of young Americans, their faces mutilated by bullets and shrapnel, are the true face of war. That's what war is: death, mutilation and destruction. Why hide from Americans what they wanted? The polls say 70 percent or more support war. Well, you should be willing to look at what you support -- all of it, not just a censored, prettified version of it.

John T. Kennedy at No Treason Blog - Ending Spam - use ecash to charge a small fee for every piece of received mail. Messages that come without the fee attached are rejected by your mail program. This won't end spam, as evidenced by the junk mail in your snail mailbox, but it should decrease the volume and make lots of spammers desist. [notreasonblog]

Kim du Toit - The Gun Thing Part XIII: Rough Men - on your responsibility to defend yourself and your family against attack. And how the antis refuse to realize this basic fact of nature. [kimdutoit]

Let me take this a step further. Many non-gun-owners, like The Mrs. in her earlier life, just aren't aware of the responsibility of a person to defend themselves and their own against the malevolent.

Unfortunately, a great number of people have gone a step further. Not only are they aware of the responsibility, but they have made a conscious effort to evade it. And that evasion lies at the heart of the gun-banners of today. Not content with evading their responsibility for themselves, they want to remove that responsibility from the human condition altogether, to make that evasion easier on their conscience.

Hence the incredible shrillness of the gun-control and gun-confiscation lobby. They grasp at straws to bolster their argument ("child safety", "assault guns", "Wild West shootouts", "cop-killer bullets", anything, regardless of its truth or value) -- because they know that if they fail, their conscience will rebuke them forever for having shirked one of the most primary, and yes, primal, human instincts -- that of self-protection, and protection of one's family and property

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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