Articles by Herschel Smith

I didn’t know this was a “myth” to be busted.

News from New Zealand.

The New Zealand Police summarized the newly prohibited firearms as follows:

• Semi-automatic pistols (semi-automatic firearms less that 762mm in overall length) that are not “small” semi-automatic pistols.

• Note: a “small semi-automatic pistol” (excluded) is a semi-automatic pistol that:

• has an overall length of 400 millimetres or less, excluding any silencer, pistol carbine conversion kit, or other muzzle-fitting attachment; and

• has a barrel length of 101 millimetres or more; and

• is capable of firing specified ammunition (ammunition used on pistol shooting ranges approved by the Commissioner) only at a muzzle velocity of 1,600 feet per second or less; and

• is suitable for shooting on a certified pistol range.

• Centrefire pump-action rifles that are capable of being used with a detachable magazine, or that have a non-detachable magazines (tubular or otherwise) that are capable of holding more than 10 cartridges commensurate with that firearm’s chamber size.

First it was long guns, now it’s pistols and believe it or not, repeaters.  Pump action centerfire rifles.

All gun control is wicked has its roots in government fear of the people.  If not for government malfeasance and corruption, they would have no reason to fear the people. The government of New Zealand is literally fearful of the people owning repeaters.

John Guandolo.

In the last week I have seen videos online, interviews on television, and personally experienced on numerous occasions people explaining to me that I must wear a mask “because it’s the rule/mandate/law.”

As we wrote about HERE, in America we are supposed to govern as a REPUBLIC, which means the majority rules while minority rights are respected. In order to do this, there must be a moral standard.

Only just laws can be legislated. No law can be legislated which violates the moral standard of “the Law of Nature and of Nature’s God” legally defined at the time of the founding as “the will of God” and “Holy Scripture.”

Therefore, telling someone they must do something immoral/unjust – something that harms them or infringes on their unalienable rights – per the moral standard “because it’s the law” or because “I’m just following orders” makes one no better than a Nazi gate guard.

I spent ten (10) years as an Advanced Capability Medic in the FBI, and a few years as an EMT prior to that in and out of the Marine Corps. I spent a lot of time in hospitals, on flight/trauma teams, and treated many patients in the U.S. and overseas, worked in surgery, and taught combat medical skills courses in the FBI.

Masks and other protective gear (e.g. glasses) are meant to protect the wearer from blood, vomitus, and other bodily fluids of the patients. Store bought surgical masks are not meant for preventing influenza virus from passing through them. Just read the box.

The cloth masks people are buying with funny pictures and sayings on them or the bandanas are even more useless. Like throwing sand through a chain-link fence, these masks do not stop the covid virus from passing through.

To say masks stop the spread of Covid-19 is a lie, and everyone with the capacity to process information knows it. See Dr. Fauci say it HERE.

The lockdowns and mask mandates are tools of oppression used by totalitarian statists to subdue the population. It appears to be working.

In the past week, I have taken the time to speak with several people who insist I wear a mask. From the grocery store manager, to the manager of a high-end Dallas restaurant, to the usher at church, to the TSA officer, they all say the same thing.

“It’s a rule.”

“It’s a mandate.”

“It’s church policy.”

After relating a recent experience with the TSA, John succinctly sums up America at the moment.

“Stop being a troublemaker.”  “Just get on the train.”

“The secret things belong to Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.”

Deuteronomy 29:29.

Here we have wrapped up in a tidy package both the (a) decretive will of God, and the (b) preceptive will of God.

God decrees (or foreordains) “whatsoever comes to pass” (Westminster Confession of Faith, 3.1).  Why? Because of the counsel of His own will.  Not yours, not mine, not according to anything in the creature, and not according to what he foresaw would happen.

God forbids us to try to see His decretive will.  He calls this sorcery, witchcraft, and idolatry, and such things are to be shunned.

God ordains His law, and that is ours for obedience forever.  He says so in the passage.

Do you see the mistaken notion of the Charismatic movement ideations of trying to pry into the secret things?  Do you see that what God has given us in His Holy word is enough?  Would that Christians work a little harder trying to obey His revealed will and leave His secret will to Him.

“All Scripture is inspire by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.”  2 Timothy 3:16-17

For pleasing God, you don’t need to know what He has decreed and somehow discern it through any means other that the Scripture.  God does not tell you what job to take, what college to attend, or even whom to marry.  Not in a secret voice, not in your prayer closet, not in happenstances, not in getting a “peace” about things (Christians are seldom at peace, and for good reason, we are in a spiritual war).

He gives you rules, laws, requirements, that govern all of the above.  You cannot take a job where you must be dishonest or engage in tyranny.  You cannot cheat homeowners by putting studs on center any measurement but code (or less).  You cannot attend a college where you must deny Him.  And you cannot marry in such a manner as to be unequally yoked.

Scripture is sufficient.

Sola Scriptura.

Ammoland.

For the 2021 legislative session, Representative Bobby Cox (R-19) introduced House Bill 3094 to allow citizens who hold a concealed weapons permit to carry a handgun in the manner they choose. Currently, South Carolina is one of just five states that do not explicitly allow open carry, among them Illinois, New York, and California. Self-defense situations are difficult to predict and everyone has different circumstances. It is unreasonable for the law to impose a one-size-fits-all method of carrying a handgun for self-defense.

Yet another chance.  This has been on the agenda of some patriots for a long time in South Carolina, but alas, they have to fight three lobbies: (1) Columbia, S.C., (2) Greenville, S.C., and (3) Lower State (esp. Charleston, S.C.).

What will happen this time?  Here’s a prediction.  The cowards in South Carolina won’t even let it get to the floor for a vote.  If it does, the progressives have to self identify, and we couldn’t have that, could we?

The text of bill H.R. 127 is up, and boy is it a doozey.  It’s the entire package of awfulness the controllers have wanted forever.

So here are some takeaways for this bill, but I’ll link the FPC summary momentarily.

Federal registration of all firearms.

A national gun registry.

Limitations on types of firearms.

Federally mandated insurance, expensive, and managed by the FedGov (some $800 per year).

Psychological evaluations by state-approved psychologists for approval to purchase firearms.

Those evaluations are extended to family members (including former spouses).

Prohibition of person-to-person transfers.

Prohibition of standard capacity magazines.

From the FPC.

Summary: Establishes a nationwide gun registry that is searchable by the general public, mandates licensing to own or possess a firearm and requires a psychological evaluation prior to obtaining such a license, and institutes magazine & gun bans. 

The bill text is finally out and HR 127 is worse than we were even speculating.

HR 127 establishes a federal firearms registration system that will be accessible by federal, state, and local governments, including the military – even the GENERAL PUBLIC! The system will track the make, model, and serial number of all firearms, their owners, the dates they were acquired, and where they are being stored.

You read that right. HR 127 would make public your most private information to anti-gunners who can then dox, harass or even attack you while knowing full well every intimate detail of your self-defense systems. 

The system will also track firearms loans, including the ID of the loan recipient and for how long it is being loaned. This bill applies retroactively, so current firearms owners will have three months to supply their gun information to the federal government from the bill’s effective date.

HR 127 also establishes a federal licensing requirement. Applicants will have to be at least 21, undergo a NICS check, complete a psychological evaluation, complete 24 hours of firearms training, and pay $800 for firearms insurance from the government.

TRANSLATION: You not only have to PAY the government for the privilege of owning guns already in your possession; you also have to convince an anti-gunner that you deserve to keep your rights!

For the psychological evaluation, a licensed psychologist will interview individuals’ spouses and at least two other family members or associates to “further determine the state of the mental emotional, and relational stability of the individual in relation to firearms.” Licenses will be denied to individuals hospitalized for issues such as depressive episodes; no duration for license disability is specified, and it does not matter whether the individual sought help voluntarily.

And who gets the say in whether you can exercise your fundamental rights: the Attorney General, who will in all likelihood be Merrick Garland – an anti-gun extremist previously nominated to the Supreme Court by Barack Obama.

HR 127 will also establish licensing requirements for the display of antique firearms and for the right to possess “military-style weapons.” To display an antique, applicants have to prove they own an antique firearm, describe how they will display it, and demonstrate that they have “safe” storage for it. To possess a “military-style weapon”, applicants will have to undergo 24 hours of safety and live fire training. It is unclear whether this training is in addition to the base 24 hours of training required to possess firearms and ammunition. “Military-style weapons” are defined as they are under assault weapons bans like those in California and New Jersey – weapons are identified by name or because they possess two or more features found on commonly owned, modern semiautomatic firearms such as an adjustable stock, pistol grip, etc.

Finally, HR 127 also criminalizes the possession of “large-capacity magazines” (those carrying greater than 10 rounds) and “ammunition that is 0.50 caliber or greater.”

Presently, there is no grandfathering clause in this legislation. Meaning you will have to choose between keeping your magazines and being fined and sent to prison.. potentially for decades!

Importantly, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to comply with this legislation. The bill doesn’t even specify how any of these measures will be implemented. Instead, it tasks the Attorney General with creating systems for enforcement while still holding gun owners to ironclad compliance dates.

Reddit/Firearms is discussing this here, here, here, here and here.

I suspect one of the intended consequences of this legislation is that there would be massive noncompliance.  Larger manufacturers like Daniel Defense and Aero Precision would undergo large layoffs and cutbacks, while smaller manufacturers would simply go out of business.

Merely purchasing a firearm from an FFL would involve FedGov paperwork, and noncompliance will involve not purchasing from an FFL.  This would have a large effect on the firearms market – again, all intended.

Shooting Illustrated has an article up on a new Bushnell red dot sight, but I like the newest Burris red dot sight, the FastFire 4.  Thank goodness we don’t have to witness James Reeves in his sickening girly shorts he seems to want to wear for the camera.  He’s sitting behind a table.

Being new, I don’t think the market is exactly saturated with these products at the moment.  This is a Shot Show installment in lieu of the real Shot Show, so I suspect this is the introduction of the release.

As I’ve pointed out before, the SARS-CoC-2 virus began at Fort Detrick, with research on gain of function (GoF) being performed at the University of North Carolina between a professor there and the woman who managed the Wuhan institute of virology.  From there the research went to Harvard, and from there to Canada, where after more research the woman managed to spirit off with the genetic material and the knowledge on making these awful little monsters.  The RCMP opened an investigation of the matter.

Until about 2015 the woman did speeches, spoke at conferences, and made PowerPoint presentations on her work to great applause (especially in China).  Around that time, the whole thing went dark, she no longer made presentations and didn’t speak in public about her work, and the program took on a military role.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is an admixture of SARS and bat-SARS, with HIV in the spike protein.  In fact, Australia concocted their own immunization drug and program, and victims were testing positive for HIV.  So they stopped the program.

Anthony Fauci’s organization, the NIH, knew in 2005 that HCQ was an effective therapeutic for this disease, but fought its use in the U.S. despite the copious studies proving what the NIH had claimed in 2005.  Since then, the number has been expanded to over 230 studies.

All of this information you know from reading the pages of this web site, and you’ve known this information for approximately a year.  It’s nice to see others finally catching on.  Via David Codrea, this article discusses some of the same things.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is “the highest-paid federal government employee in the U.S. – surpassing even the president,” Fox Business reports, with a salary of $417,608 in 2019. This information was not volunteered but came from a Freedom of Information Act request by OpenTheBooks.com. Dr. Fauci also surfaced in a January 24 Fox News Steve Hilton segment, on another theme the wealthy bureaucrat has been reluctant to discuss.

Gain of Function (GOF) research, “improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease,” and as Nidhi Subbaraman explains in Nature, “involves making pathogens more deadly or more transmissible.” The National Institutes of Health banned GOF in 2014 but revived it in 2017, ignoring scientists who warned of the risks.

As Hilton explained, dangerous gain of function research carried on all over the world with funding from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The recipients included the Wuhan Institute of Virology and in 2018, the U.S. State Department warned of risky tests with the bat coronavirus. Despite the warnings, the NIH approved a grant of $3.7 million to the Wuhan Institute. That money was channeled through NIAID, the NIH division Fauci has headed since 1984.

As Angelo Codevilla explains In “Dismounting the COVID Tiger,” documents are emerging that show complicity between Fauci and the development of the virus itself. The documents include. “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” project 1R01A1110964-01, which helpfully provides the costs to American taxpayers. Media sycophants never pressed the evasive Fauci on details, and Congress failed to hold hearings on the Wuhan funding.

In January, 2020, when the virus began to spread, President Trump imposed a ban on travel from China.  Fauci was “was adamantly opposed to the travel ban,” Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro told Miranda Devine of the New York Post. Fauci later agreed that the travel ban saved lives, not the first time he has reversed himself.

Fauci earned a medical degree in 1966 and his bio shows no advanced degrees in molecular biology. In 1968, Fauci hired on with the NIH and 53 years later he’s still the boss at NIAID. For the late Kary Mullis, who earned a PhD in biochemistry from UC Berkeley and in 1993 won a Nobel Prize for invention of the polymerase chain reaction, Dr. Fauci should not even be a government bureaucrat.

“This man thinks you can take a blood sample and stick it in an electron microscope and if it’s got a virus in there, you will know it,” Mullis explained. “He doesn’t understand electron microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine. He should not be in a position like he’s in.”

Anthony Fauci is a criminal and a murderer.  To boot, he’s an incompetent boob and a goober who seems barely able to construct a complete sentence.

But in America, incompetent goobers get rewarded and criminals get rich.

Shooting Illustrated.

Once the ammunition is purchased, where and how it is stored will determine how long it will be viable for its intended use.

Heat and moisture are the two most prevalent enemies of ammunition, followed by chemical contamination.

Temperatures consistently in excess of 150 to 170 degrees Fahrenheit tend to affect the propellant in a negative manner. These temperatures can be reached in car trunks, metal buildings or other uninsulated enclosures subjected to direct sunlight—especially in the southern tiers of the United States.

Anytime ammunition is subjected to continuous exposure to moisture, corrosion is likely to occur, which degrades the performance or disables the usability of the cartridges all together.

Chemical contamination is sometimes the silent killer of ammunition. Although much of today’s quality ammunition is protected by sealant-treated primers and bullets during manufacture, exposure to penetrating oils or cleaning solvents will degrade the sealants over time, thereby neutralizing the priming compound, the propellant or both, rendering the cartridge useless.

Ammoniated solvents used for removing copper from a bore are detrimental to brass cartridge cases, even with minimal exposure. Since brass is 70 percent copper (with the remaining 30 percent being zinc), ammoniated solvents can create a dangerous condition causing the brass to crack without having been fired. This could cause a hazardous pressure release during firing due to the weakened condition of the brass case.

Ammunition storage can be as simple as storing it in a safe area similar in environment to the office within which you work or the home in which you live. Keeping the temperature and humidity levels similar to what is comfortable for you and the family is an easy way to stay well within the range suitable for ammunition storage.

Many individuals who purchase and store quantities of ammunition are served well by storing it in sealed, military-surplus ammunition containers. Kept in a climate controlled, secure location, away from unauthorized personnel, these containers will preserve the ammunition indefinitely.

The reason there is no expiration date on a box of currently manufactured ammunition is because, when stored properly, it is projected to have an unlimited life span.

As an aside, I personally have fired ammunition loaded more than 100 years ago with excellent results. Advancements in primers, powder, cases, projectiles as well as in storage containers and accessories have improved the reliability of ammunition to a point that, properly treated, there is no reason for concern for your ammunition’s longevity.

Use of a sealed container (like a safe) along with desiccant would also help.

It’s nothing but a joke at this point.

Women in the U.S. Army can soon wear nail polish, lipstick and earrings as well as their hair in more natural hairstyles thanks to what the Army calls “major revisions” to its regulations.

In addition to relaxed grooming standards, women in the Army who are breastfeeding or pumping will also have the option to wear an undershirt.

Not to mention what the concept of women in the military, or even worse, combat MOSs, is doing to capabilities, the idea of hair, necklaces or rings on people is absurd in this context.

Every man who has spent time in an industrial setting around rotating and moving equipment knows better.  Hair or anything hanging on your body can get caught and pull you in, decapitating you.  Lanyards to hold IDs and other equipment around your neck has to have a “break-away” strap.

My son told me about one guy in the Marines who ignored that standard, jumped off the back of a truck, and got his ring caught on something, pulling his finger off.

Except that this isn’t really a joke.  It’s real.  The destruction of the U.S. military is nearly complete.

What a gaggle of clowns.