Articles by Herschel Smith

I was watching a History Channel documentary on Nazi Germany, and I knew that there was significant drug abuse among the Nazi high command, but didn’t realize until now just how bad the problem had become.

Basically, the entirety of the Nazi war effort was fueled by Crystal Meth, called Pervitin.  Nazi Germany made hundreds of millions of the tablets during the war, and the Hitler’s military decisions were made while high on Crystal Meth, including the decision to open the Western Front.  Pervitin was handed out like candy just before any major war effort, including the invasion of Russia.

The German soldiers were so hooked on Crystal Meth that their letters home frequently included requests for tablets of Pervitin when their own supplies ran low.  World War II was a war fought on amphetamines, with the initial high and energy and feeling of invincibility, followed by hopeless addiction, paranoia, and eventual psychosis, sleep deprivation and health problems, with the corollary brutality, atrocities and savagery.

If the war hadn’t ended when it did, Nazi “doctors” had begun to fabricate a new drug, a cocktail mixture of Meth, Cocaine and Morphine (called D9) and would have deployed it to troops in the field had not the micro-submariners never returned from their four day missions to explain the effects of the drug.  They all died during missions.  Not even one of the submariners returned after being administered D9.

Even after the war, the East and West German armies continued to be supplied Pervitin, and the German civilian population was hopelessly hooked on Crystal Meth.  World War II cannot be properly understood without understanding the role of drugs on the leaders and soldiers.

This is a very important video, and I encourage Virginia gun owners to watch it all. This has only just begun, and you have a LOT of work ahead.

I have a note of clarification out to the author, and I’ll post his reply if and when I receive it.

David Codrea.

That’s what prospective totalitarian Bloomberg would deny to all minority males under 25, regardless of their worth as individuals. Lumping them all in with that part of the population incapable of self-control is bigotry, and that at its core is collectivist. It’s no surprise that citizen disarmament zealots parrot the same narrative as domestic enemy communists, and accuse Second Amendment advocates of being the ones who are racist — all in the name of “common sense.”

Oppose this dictator at every chance, every venue, every time you enter a voting booth (by opposing pols whom he financially supports), and in your daily discussions with everyone you meet.

He is evil.  He has enough money on the backs of real workers that he can make trouble for us, so make as much trouble for him as you can, any way you can.

From ThiccBoogLine Facebook.

Never heard of them, but you’ve got to hand it to them.  They’re showing spine and fortitude.

Fox News.

In a letter to McCabe attorney Michael Bromwich obtained by Fox News, Justice Department attorney J.P. Cooney said the investigation is now “closed.”

“We write to inform you that, after careful consideration, the government has decided not to pursue criminal charges against your client, Andrew G. McCabe,” Cooney wrote.

The DOJ added: “Based on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the government at this time, we consider the matter closed.”

William Barr recently complained about Trump, saying “I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me,” Barr said.

“To have public statements and tweets made about the department, about people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the department that we’re doing our work with integrity,” he said.

In other words, “You’re getting in the way of the deep state doing its job.”

I just can’t see .243 as an effective deer rifle because of its high velocity (penetration without deposition of energy), but I guess some guys swear by it.

Dean Weingarten writing at Ammoland.

Many who fight hard to infringe on the rights to keep and carry firearms have been allies in the right to keep and carry knives. This creates momentum and precedent to remove infringements on the right to arms generally.

SB 96 in West Virginia has been referred to the House. If it passes a House vote,  it will need to be signed by Governor Jim Justice to become law.

I think Dean meant to say “Many who fight hard against infringements of the RKBA …”  The statement would make better sense that way.

He’s right, we’re natural allies, knife rights and gun rights folks.  But until West Virginia deals with the crooks in its midst, the people are under tyranny.  It’s just local tyranny, not state.  But the state is complicit if they do nothing.

Where is the state AG on Sheriff Steve Deweese, sdeweese@putnamwv.org?  He and his deputies are the crooks I’m talking about.

Recall that one crud, vulgar, obscene Putnam County Sheriff’s Deputy violated a man’s rights guaranteed under the second and fourth amendments by an illegal and unconstitutional detention?

Well, a recent video shows obvious violation of someone’s fourth amendment rights, and attempts to cover it up before the fact.

Sheriff Steve Deweese, sdeweese@putnamwv.org, has a real problem on his hands.  It looks like most if not all of his deputies are crass, lawless thugs and criminals.  Then again, you know what they say.  This typically all comes from the top.  Sheriff Deweese needs to be replaced and then prosecuted along with his deputies.  He looks like he is corrupt to the bone.

David Codrea is responsible for this great find, from David Kopel writing at Reason.

Did the Framers of the Second Amendment consider the possibility that Americans might own firearms with a capacity greater than 10 rounds? Certainly yes. Such arms had been invented two centuries before the Second Amendment, and by 1791, repeating arms, including those capable of firing more than 10 rounds, were well-known in the United States. The history is explained in a Third Circuit amicus brief I coauthored last week.

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Earliest repeating arms: A  repeater is a firearm that can fire more than one shot without having to be reloaded. The first known repeating firearms date back to between 1490 and 1530, with guns that fired 10 consecutive rounds. A 1580 gun could fire 16 shots. Once the user pressed the trigger, these guns would continue to fire until the ammunition was exhausted.

Seventeenth century: By the 1640s, major improvements in repeating arms had been developed. Now, the user could fire just one shot by pressing the trigger, and then fire more shots by pressing the trigger repeatedly. Danish rifles invented by Peter Kalthoff had ammunition capacities ranging from 6 to 30 rounds. During the seventeenth century, Kalthoff repeaters were copied by gunsmiths from London to Moscow.

For the case background and additional discussion on David’s research, consult the article.  He’s done a magnificent job of cataloging all of this.

And he does get to the storied Girandoni air rifle, which I think it would be cool to hold and fire.

So enough from the know-nothing naysayers about how the founders couldn’t have possibly imagined this, or imagined that.  Anyway, consider how ridiculous it would be for the founders, who risked their lives, fortunes, families and reputation, to have rejected whatever they had at their disposal to defeat King George!

And consider how ridiculous is the claim that the founders didn’t intend for citizens to keep and bear arms for the amelioration of tyranny, when that’s exactly what they did and how they managed to do it.

Finally, in my estimation, Kopel’s work goes not just to magazine capacity, but something other than single shot firearms as well.  Read again.  Repeaters.