“We’re a rural county, and a lot of people are gun owners and support the Second Amendment and were not happy with the SAFE Act, and I support all of that,” Smith said. “But I couldn’t take the lead and advise people to break the law.”
“I couldn’t lead it because I took an oath and am here to support people who are for and against the Second Amendment,” Smith said.
Have you ever heard such a cowardly and confused statement? Try to dissect that. ” … I took an oath and am here to support people who are for and against the Second Amendment.”
Where is something like that in any oath he took? When did he take an oath to “support” people who are against the thing to which he was supposed to swear an oath?
Let’s start with a simple definition: Mil-spec is “A document that describes the essential technical requirements for military-unique materiel or substantially modified commercial items. MIL-STD-961 covers the content and format for defense specifications.” In simple terms, mil-spec is a list of standards to which goods sold to the U.S. military must adhere. These standards might apply to truck tires, hats, t-shirts, and yes, firearms and ammunition. There is even a spec that specifies “Requirements for swim fins made of gum rubber for wear by military personnel for swimming purposes and for general utility.” Exciting stuff.
In the munitions context, a standardized “spec” ensures that everyone is armed with firearms that are of equal quality and with interchangeable parts. This simplifies logistics and ensures a basic level of quality. In the marketing world, mil-spec has taken on a life of its own. It is promoted as some sort of gold standard for quality when, in fact, it is a floor rather than a ceiling. The military itself is rarely at the cutting edge of innovation, instead relying on private industry to meet the needs of the force. Just because a product meets the mil-spec doesn’t mean that is the best thing on the block.
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If a firearm truly meets the military specification, we know that it satisfies a baseline standard for quality. If you’ve ever slept in a military sleeping bag, used a military backpack or hiked in military boots, you’ll probably agree that the issued items are rarely the best on the market. The same goes for firearms, which is something that we should all take into account when making our buying decisions. Just because a product is right for the military, doesn’t mean that it is the right choice for you.
Sounds like something I said before. “Don’t slip past these paragraphs, because they explain why “Milspec” is 1:7. It isn’t because 1:7 shoots M193 or M855 more accurately. It’s because of the weight of tracer rounds. As we’ve discussed before, the term Milspec doesn’t mean better, or worse, or anything at all except that it precisely meets the specifications outlined in the purchase order(s), excepting whatever variance notifications they might make on a given batch of guns.”
However, Spartanburg County Chairman, Manning Lynch says he does’t believe it’s necessary because of the support lawmakers have for the second amendment and gun rights in the area.
“I think we’re strong in both the state legislature, the local county council as well as the sheriff of Spartanburg County,” Lynch said.
He says there’s nothing Council can do to strengthen or weaken the protection of the constitution.
“If we got in a situation where we felt like our second amendment rights were under attack, county council would do whatever they could by any means necessary to protect those rights,” Lynch said.
In other words, I’m just not willing to do it right now. Even though a different Sheriff could be in place later, I won’t live forever, and the board won’t be in place forever, there is nothing we can do right now to strengthen protection of your rights.
Or said differently, I’m a coward and don’t really believe what I’m saying right now, I just want all of this to go away.
Hey, do I have any readers in Spartanburg, S.C.? I think you might want to take note of what your board of commissioners is saying.
Hey, and another thing. How’s that campaign to legalize open carry going in S.C.? Any progress? I’m being sarcastic. It’ll never be legalized in S.C. Or California. Or Hawaii. Or New York or New Jersey. How do South Carolinians like being lumped in with those states?
The fires cut road access, which meant towns ran out of fuel and fell low on food. Power to towns was cut and mobile phone services stopped working. So too did the ATMs and EFTPOS services the economy needs to keep running.
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These shortages are no surprise. In Australia, as in most developed countries, food and fuel distribution systems run on a “just in time” model. This approach, originally developed by Japanese car manufacturer Toyota, involves organising supply networks so materials are ordered and received when they are needed.
Such systems remove the need to store excess goods in warehouses, and are undoubtedly efficient. But they are also extremely fragile because there is no redundancy in the system—no Plan B.
We import 90% of our oil—a figure expected to rise to 100% by 2030. Much of that fuel passes through the Straits of Hormuz and then through the Indonesian archipelago. We have few alternative routes.
As East Gippsland and Mallacoota have shown, many other connected systems, such as food distribution networks, are critically dependent on this fragile fuel supply.
A systems engineering approach; redundancy; interconnectedness; single- and common-failure modes; Management Oversight and Risk Tree analysis. These are all tools one could use to design and plan for societal failures. Even an electrical engineering concept like “sneak circuits” or “relay races” would also be useful.
When is the last time you just sat and thought about your own vulnerabilities and dependencies on the society designed by your betters and rulers? And did anything about it?
As he attempts to back up and drive around the golf car blocking the parking lot exist, the school resource officer issues a foul-mouthed warning: ‘You’re gonna get shot, you come another f***ing foot closer to me. You run into me, you’ll get f***ing shot. This is my campus, brother.’
The lesson here isn’t really that many cops are thugs and gang members with badges and court authority who will use any chance to berate, belittle, and lord it over other people like the sociopaths they are. We knew that already.
The real lesson here is that when you send your children to centers of communist indoctrination, the state owns them. The only solution is home schooling.
Hey, how’s that whole oath to the constitution thing coming, Virginia Capital State Police? I noticed that the pols ran like frightened rabbits. I’m sure they’ll be at the head of the stack when SWAT teams go to confiscate guns.
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A frightening situation for a Tulare County family started when they heard banging on their front door at around ten Tuesday night.
“They can hear them yelling ‘Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff’s Office,’ says Tulare County Sheriff’s Lt. Joe Torres. “The victims thought it was odd that it was late hours, so the suspects then forced their way into the living room area, they busted the front door.”
At this point, Torres says the homeowner knew for sure that the people at the door were not sheriff’s deputies, as they weren’t wearing law enforcement uniforms.
That’s when Torres says the homeowner and suspects started shooting at each other.
One suspect was hit in the upper body and died at the scene. The other suspects got away.
The homeowner’s wife, child, and another man were inside the house at the time. Thankfully, nobody was hurt.
I’ve documented two other times this has happened, once in Norfolk, Virginia, and the other time in Houston, Texas. There are doubtless many more examples I haven’t documented. I have observed that “You see, we can’t just lay down and let people screaming “police, police, get on the floor, police, police” … come into our homes without countering those efforts with close quarters battle. Because they may not be police.”
So two sides are now set up to conduct war on one another, the first side being the police who conduct SWAT raids with impunity from prosecution by the government, the second side being the innocent homeowner, victim of a false claim or mistaken identity, and the setup was built by the government itself who refuses to stand down their stupid “war on drugs” and simply follow the constitution.
This is a remarkable video for a number of reasons.
First of all, the cop who conducted the detention is a vile, foul-mouth, nasty, mean individual, who clearly hasn’t the temperament, education or intelligence to be a cop. In my estimation he has the temperament to be a ditch digger, and probably nothing more until he grows up.
But it shouldn’t even have to get that far. West Virginia is not a stop-and-identify state based on every resource I could find on the subject (not that I believe stop-and-identify is constitutional, but it seems to be recognized by the courts in the case of a “Terry Stop” where there is legitimate suspicion of a crime). So the cop broke West Virginia state law. He no more has the right to stop someone and force them to answer questions or provide identification for no reason than I do.
Third, based on what this cop says, he does this all the time. Seriously. Watch the video. Based on what I heard, I think he confessed over video to multiple violations of constitutional rights of citizens of West Virginia.
Your contact information for this is the following.
sdeweese@putnamwv.org (Steve Deweese, Sheriff of Putnam County)
prosecutingattorney@putnamwv.org (Mark A. Sorsaia,Office of the Prosecuting Attorney
Putnam County Judicial Building)
Oh, and by the way, Putnam County is a so-called “Second Amendment Sanctuary” county. It looks to me like Sheriff Deweese isn’t on board with that and needs to be replaced.
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