Articles by Herschel Smith

Results are about as I expected they would be.  I still want at least one of each.

Dean Weingarten.

In the cabin, there was a gun rack. David’s father left four guns hanging on it when he went to fight the fire. There was a double-barreled LC Smith 12 gauge shotgun; a surplus O3-A3 Springfield .30-06, sporterized by Sedgely; a Remington model 721 .300 H&H Magnum; and a Winchester model 61 pump-action .22 rifle. David’s father kept the .22 loaded for when it was necessary to dispatch a porcupine (porcupines do enormous damage to timber) or to harvest a grouse for the pot.

[ … ]

She screamed at the bear, to get out and grabbed the little Winchester .22 pump from the gun rack. She knew it was loaded.

David looked at his mother. She had the .22 rifle in her hands. She screamed at the bear again. Get Out!

The bear ignored the screams and started working its way in through the window.

David’s mother stopped screaming. She brought the rifle to her shoulder and started shooting.

[ … ]

David’s mother explained what had happened. The two men loaded the .30-06 and the .300 H&H Magnum and followed the blood trail.

There, behind the woodshed, was the bear, dead, only 30 yards from the kitchen window.

David watched his father and brother skin out the bear. As he watched, his father pointed to the wounds his mother had inflicted on the bear with the .22 Winchester model 61 pump-gun.

One shot went into the upper left jaw. Another shot went through the left eye. A third shot was just above the left eye. A fourth shot was in the nose, and a fifth shot was just below the right side of the jaw, in the neck, cutting the carotid artery on the right side. That shot was fatal. Blood had squirted from the artery, spraying the kitchen sink, the window frame, and on to the porch. The blood trail was heavy, and lead to the dead bear behind the woodshed.

A bear’s brain is located low, between and behind the eyes. A shot to or above the eye will often miss the brain.

That was a mighty fine shot, but I’ll tell you what.  I’d much rather have a large bore gun for large predators.

Smart ass collectivist who hates home schooling.

I know that math stuff is hard for “JournoLists.”  If you can’t solve a differential equation, you might want to begin by adding and subtracting numbers.

David Codrea.

“Should you choose to classify such a firearm as a ‘Destructive Device’ under CFR 479.11 the firearms mentioned in the ATF article also have a barrel diameter of greater than one half inch (12 gauge being approximately .69 inches),” Savage continued, revealing how TF had closed the door on that alternative as well. “The Destructive Device definition does exempt shotguns, however since the firearms described in the article are neither rifles nor shotguns … I would remind you, I would NOT be changing bore diameter of the firearm that is neither a rifle nor a shotgun mentioned in the article. Making such a classification would appear most arbitrary and capricious given the facts at hand.”

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“Marty Ewer used to own Shockwave Industries.” Savage explains. “I gave Marty my letter as he was making a birds head grip so that a factory 14″ barrel could be purchased and installed legally. He later sold the trade name shockwave to Mossberg and retired.”

“For what it’s worth, I also approached Mossberg and was rebuffed,” Savage adds. “I posted the letters on several gun boards and gave it to anyone who wanted to make them.”

Historic Arms, LLC developed the first firearm taking advantage of “the rules” and received the first ATF approval. All I ask is that we don’t forget Len Savage’s contribution and his name.

After discussing this with Len several years ago, I wrote Mossberg and asked to speak to their attorney.  To my surprise, he called me within minutes.

His discussions with me were interesting and he defended the use of the term “firearm.”  I’ve never told him so, but congratulations to Len on this victory.

Len is one of the very good guys, and I’m proud to know him.  I wish he could have gotten some scratch out of this.

NRO.

We identified only a single outbreak in an outdoor environment, which involved two cases. The first salient feature of the 318 identified outbreaks that involved three or more cases is that they all occurred in indoor environments. Although this finding was expected, its significance has not been well recognised by the community and by policy makers. Indoors is where our lives and work are in modern civilisation. The transmission of respiratory infections such as SARS-CoV-2 from the infected to the susceptible is an indoor phenomenon.

And yet governors across the country are closing parks.

The CDC failed to ensure enough PPEs were available for a pandemic.  The CDC failed to develop good models for things just like this.  The CDC failed to “war game” such an outbreak.  The CDC failed to tell the truth about all of this for many months.

The CDC continues to give false information and bad recommendations to the public.  The CDC cannot even keep the models up-to-date and correct.  The CDC begged for more money to study racism and “gun violence.”  The CDC failed to shut down experimentation on this very bug at UNC, Harvard, and in Canada, and failed to warn others about what was happening.  The CDC fails to incorporate consideration for a completely failed economy in their calculus and its cost to human lives.

The CDC cannot agree on a therapeutic, even though they recommended the very thing for treatment that’s working now, Hydroxychloroquine, back in 2005, and are now denying that this very therapeutic works.  The CDC continues to be an impediment to progress on this, not a catalyst for success.

Because the CDC is full of ne’er-do-wells, morons, rubes, hicks, rednecks, idiots and awful people.

So when I went on this rant with my daughter this afternoon, she responded: “Well, you keep calling them idiots, and I think you’re ignoring the fact that this could be the result of intentional and nefarious behavior on their part.”

That’s my daughter.  Good girl.  The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

News from Florida.

Citing the Stand Your Ground law, the Fifth District Court of Appeals dismissed the longstanding charges against a Port St. John man accused of shooting a Brevard County Sheriff’s deputy during a botched arrest in front of his home in 2015.

The decision, issued Wednesday, ends the prosecution of John DeRossett, 60, on the attempted premeditated first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer while discharging a firearm, News 6 partner Florida Today reported.

DeRossett spent nearly five years at the Brevard County Jail Complex in Sharpes as he awaited a trial. He was allowed to leave on bond in March.

“The appellate decision is better than a jury acquittal. An acquittal only means not guilty. This order means that John is innocent, that his actions were justified, and that he never should have been arrested in the first place. It’s a total vindication,” said Michael Panella, DeRossett’s Orlando-based attorney.

“Great, great. Thank God. Thank Jesus. Thank everybody, thank you. You just don’t know, how it feels, you know? I’m trying to hold the tears back,” DeRossett said in a statement issued to Florida Today.

Florida Today reached out to Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey for comment, but no statements have been released.

The appellate court found that DeRosset, whose attorneys argued that he did not know he was firing at deputies, was entitled to protect his home against what he thought was a threat.

Prosecutors and Brevard County sheriff’s investigators said DeRossett opened fire at deputies who were arresting his niece on a prostitution charge.

DeRossett’s attorney’s argued that he did not know who the men were confronting his niece and that he was responding to her screams for help at the front door.

The shooting took place as the sheriff’s office investigated reports of prostitution taking place at the home Mary Ellis DeRossett, 47, shared with her uncle, DeRossett.

Good.  Now in order to close the loop on this ordeal, throw the district attorney who jailed him in prison for five years.

Listen.  I don’t care who you are or what your claim to authority is.  You don’t do something in or near another man’s home without specific and explicit approval from the head of the household.  Not someone who happens to live there – the head of the household.

I don’t care what this woman did.  The cops didn’t talk to the head of the household.  Maybe next time they should knock, ask to speak to the head of the household, and explain their position.

If the man thought his niece was under threat, he had a right to shoot, regardless of who was at the door.

TTAG.

The defendants in Parsons v. Colt et al. asked a federal district court to dismiss the lawsuit. On April 10, 2020, US District Court judge Andrew P. Gordon (Obama appointee) refused to dismiss the plaintiffs’ wrongful death claim. The case will now move forward in Nevada state courts.

Gordon used a set of lies regarding the design and history of the AR platform to rationalize his finding that the manufacturers somehow knew they were making arms that could easily be converted to machineguns, despite the fact that even the ATF claimed otherwise, until they changed their pseudo-minds in late 2017 (and didn’t make it retroactively official until 2019).

Carl then cites from the ruling, made by an Obama-appointed judge.

26 U.S.C. § 5845. Nevada’s definition of “machine gun” mirrors the federal definition. NRS § 202.253. The ATF has defined “designed to shoot” to include “those weapons which have not previously functioned as machineguns but possess design features which facilitate full automatic fire by simple modification or elimination of existing component parts.” ATF Ruling 82-2.

I read the judgment.  It’s as bad as Carl is suggesting in one way, but not in another.  First, the good news.  This isn’t a ruling that is determinative for Nevada.  He is only referring this to the Nevada supreme court.  See the final two pages of the ruling.

Now for the bad news.  If this indeed goes against the plaintiffs, that’s big trouble.  It might not be so in states other than Nevada (can you imagine this happening in Idaho or Texas?), but this is a wrongful death lawsuit, and it could cost big.

The suit is against Daniel Defense (and other manufacturers) and Sportsman’s Warehouse.  What happens now if you want to buy a Daniel Defense rifle?

The cost goes up due to [a] legal expenses, and [b] awards.  That’s the whole intent behind this.

Newsletter 027 (T.L. Davis).

Had things not been state ordered, what I think would have happened is those who could remain at home and still do their jobs remotely, would have. Schools could have gone online and actually should have long ago, with parent-approved curriculum, rather than the state-ordered curriculum that makes our children accept liberal and communist principles in order to pass their classes and graduate. Online higher education has been effective for nearly a generation.

Church, on the other hand, is not the same. It is a Christian expectation that those of the flock will gather together. Matthew 18:20 says: “Where two or three gather in my name, I am with them.” Common sense can dictate the distance one keeps from others or the judicious use of self-mitigating practices. But, common sense is the one thing the liberal and communist education curriculums try desperately to eradicate. Communism doesn’t work logically, to common sense it is irrational so common sense is the one thing that must be done away with.

The Apostles declared that they must obey God rather than man.  A congregation of believers doesn’t cease to exist because they don’t meet once a week, and at the moment the church in suffering these rules with patience and forebearance.

But there must come an end to this, and that, very soon.  We must not forsake the assembling together that the writer of Hebrews discussed (I believe to be Apollos, some theologians believe Paul).

But it does, in rifles.  There are plenty of them, and good ones.

In the comments he had to amend (refine or clarify) what he was saying to indicate handguns.