Sipsey Street Irregulars: Look out Elmer, they're coming for you, too. Courtesy of the great Oleg Volk

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Look out Elmer, they're coming for you, too. Courtesy of the great Oleg Volk

Regarding the latest push to ban "sniper rifles," Oleg Volk had already predicted it:

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Anonymous said...: A .303 British sniper rifle?...not the one I had when I was a kid soon after WWII! You could drive nails at 100 yards, but were lucky to hit the barn, much less the barn door at 200 yards! Of course at that time there was one ammo brand in the stores and one size bullet...215 grain..and no Internet to search for something better. Never saw accuracy drop off that much with any other gun.; September 21, 2014 at 11:40 AM
Anonymous said...: Funny that's not what they are saying at all. They are trying to ban a "target acquisition system" originally intended for military use on robots and drones, that has "kinda-sorta" been "tweeked" to ALMOST work on a human operated firearm. At $25000-$50000 dollars US a pop I don't see bubba running out to buy one.; September 21, 2014 at 3:15 PM
MissAnthropy said...: That pic reminds me that my milsurp collection has a glaring absence of an Enfield.; September 21, 2014 at 5:35 PM
Anonymous said...: They really do tell you what they are afraid of don't they?

I wonder why they are so afraid.....

They must be doing something that makes then nervous....; September 21, 2014 at 6:38 PM
Anonymous said...: Anon @ 3:15 PM - you do realize that no matter how expensive that 'target acquisition system is, it STILL takes a human being to make the conscious decision to actually pull the trigger. THAT is the inescapable truth that the hoplophobes (intentionally?) fail to acknowledge - the gun can NOT fire itself - it still takes the human to do that.
That is their intent - to totally ignore the human element....and the responsibility for that human action.; September 21, 2014 at 7:21 PM
Sgt Stryker said...: Sorry friend; but the goal of the fascists is still a ban on the personal ownership of firearms.
III; September 21, 2014 at 8:20 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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