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I’m having trouble making comments show. I’m not sure why.

I have been absent from writing for a while. I have been trying to finish a paper for publication and presentation at a nuclear engineering conference. It has been time consuming. By the way, other than Joe and Wes, not many of you have asked about my status.

However, I wanted to mention a few things. I will be more frequent with deletion of comments in the future. This sidebar activity of the professional paper has been a good a welcome relief from what has become the burden of this web site.

Concerning the post Of Fools and Fudds, most of the comments are unthinking and conveyance of stupid memes (like “we’re not going to vote our way out of this”). Meanwhile, the SAF has to take up a legal fight with the U.S. Virgin Islands over possible new gun control, the Firearms Policy Coalition and Gun Owners of America have to take up all sorts of fights with virtually everyone in America over their new efforts at gun control – in the courts, no less, not where the fight should be, or at least not where the first line of defense should be. And in Virginia, the VCDL has to take up the fight in Virginia via the courts. But local prosecutors and some (not all) Sheriffs who refuse to enforce the new Virginia gun ban is incomplete. Sheriffs refusing the enforce confiscation can’t force FFLs to sell guns to anyone.

So while gun owners sit on comfortable couches and parrot stupid memes rather than vote, communists around the country become elected to office and make it more difficult to exercise God given rights. Apparently, only the communists understand politics. But it’s not about you. It’s about your progeny and those who come after you. While you may have the firearms and ammunition you want or think you need, the young ones who come behind us now must fight to procure them and the training to use them. Whether AR confiscations occur in Virginia or not, they cannot be purchased in light of the new laws. Neither can anyone procure them from adjacent states even under the current rules because no FFL will sell to Virginia residents.

I call it laziness, and I’m right. Leaving this to the courts is stupid and lethargic. I have never said that the ballot box was the last option. It’s the first option before the jury box and ammunition box. With the number of gun owners in America who do not vote (into the millions), we could be the most powerful lobby in the country. Rather, we have become a laughingstock while we circle the wagons and make it even worse for ourselves.

But Christ made His position plain. If you can’t be faithful in the small things, He will not even give you the opportunity to be faithful in the larger things (Luke 16:10-13). Quod erat demonstrandum.

I’m not stupid, and neither are you. I think through these things and I expect you to do the same. In the comments, don’t speak back to me like you think I’m stupid.

First up, SilencerCo’s view of the hearing protection act. I like it when people honestly answer questions.

Fully support the HPA

— SilencerCo (@silencerco) May 16, 2025

Second, David asks why anyone would care about this because he sees it as unlikely that it will ever make it to the president’s desk. That may be true, but if nothing else, I want to call out traitors for who they are and try my best to prevent them from claiming success if all they do is decrease the tax stamp fee. And if they want me to grovel for crumbs that fall from the master’s table, I’ll throw the crumbs back in their face.

On that front, it looks like maybe we’ve been successful. I send X posts out virtually every day reminding members of the ways and means committee that they need to pass the HPA in full.

Because Friday’s vote failed to pass the bill through the House, the budget committee will reconvene on Sunday to hash out a bill that will most likely pass. Hopes are high due to the outpouring from the gun community that Section 2 of the HPA will be included. This change would mean that suppressors would be removed from the NFA. Those at AmmoLand News have spoken to in the House are confident that the HPA will be included in the new text. The SHORT Act also has a shot of being included, but that is far from certain.

As for Silencer Central’s view, I think it’s abundantly clear where they stand.

He is Risen!

Happy Easter. Go worship Him.

New York Court Holds Stun Gun Ban Not Unconstitutional, in Contravention of Caetano.

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Odd one, this is. But I would bet that with a good cleaning and a bit of oil, all four would have functioned flawlessly.

For the record, that white stuff he was asking about is Aluminum corrosion in salt water. Corrosion is a slightly different mechanism that rust, but it can still damage components.

But as I made my way through his video, it occurred to me that looking for what made the guns fail, he looked everywhere but where he needed: the buffer tube.

Standing tall and proud, as they should.

A group of coal miners from West Virginia have finished building a road from Big Chimney in under a week.

A road that North Carolina Government Officials said would take several months to a year for them to do. #appalachianstrong pic.twitter.com/Y5E9BWbcAM

— Appalachian Liberty (@Liberty_Xtreme) October 26, 2024

Here is what Chimney Rock looked liked during the flooding.

Here is an arial view of the road they built.

Here is the report.

Blue-collar workers prevailed over bureaucracy in Hurricane Helene-ravaged North Carolina by rebuilding a highway at breakneck speed on their own terms – allowing residents to finally return home.

Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave and Chimney Rock washed away by Helene.

Chimney Rock residents who fled the hurricane one month ago will now be able to return home for the first time within a few days, months earlier than they expected.

“The river swallowed the road, so I haven’t been home since the hurricane,” Robin Phillips, 49, told The Post.

“The West Virginia boys have moved the mountains. All of the roads were just gone, until now. It’s nothing short of miraculous.

“I haven’t been to my house since the flood but I know very soon I’ll be able to. Without their help, who knows, it would be months before I could access our house.”

Phillips and her husband also run a campground in Chimney Rock, she said. They have not been able to assess the state of their business since the hurricane came through.

“For a small community like ours without many residents, that could easily get overlooked, it’s unreal what they’re doing,” she said of the miners’ effort.

The Post previously spoke to “sole survivors” from Chimney Rock, who expected to spend a year on the open road until road access to their home was restored.

On Friday, The Post watched while the miners balanced a bulldozer and two excavators on the banks of the newly-widened Broad River to shift the final 20-ton granite boulder into place to restore access between the two towns.

The miners, who were all volunteering their time, were too sheepish about building a highway without legal permission to speak on the record.

Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), North Carolina Department of Transportation and the local Sheriff’s office all visited the site but turned a blind eye to the unsanctioned build.

Logan Campbell, 37, a volunteer from Mississippi, said the miners embodied the American spirit.

“To see this many wonderful men, women, all races, different political views, none of that matters at all in these situations,” he told The Post.

“Weak people don’t show up for s–t like this, and if they do they don’t last long.

“It’s such a heartwarming thing to see amidst all the heartbreak.

“It gives you so much hope for the American we all want to believe in and the America we want our children to experience.”

Campbell and his friend Dan Lewis, 41, have been sleeping in tents for the past 17 days volunteering for the residents in the hardest hit towns.

“Different road crews came in and said ‘it’s not doable, the people who live between Bat Cave and Chimney Rock will be trapped in all winter,” said Lewis, who traveled to North Carolina from Oklahoma.

“The DOT (North Carolina Department of Transportation) said ‘yeah, we’ll send some engineers down here and assess the situation.’

“Then the West Virginia boys came in and said, ‘We’ll have this road punched in in about three days.’ No s–t,” he recalled.

“The Army Corps of Engineers took a look and said they’d send some surveyors and engineers, the same thing the DOT said pretty much. I told them you might as well not waste your time because the West Virginia guys will have this road built before you finish your paperwork,” Lewis continued.

“It’s a miracle. It’s unfathomable what has happened in the past few days.

Many in the area still feel abandoned by FEMA and other emergency responders.

Bat Cave resident Curtis McCart – who appeared on The Post’s cover in the immediate wake of Helene – said he still has not received any FEMA aid, but that the agency has set up in the fire department to help residents work on their claims.

“This area got left alone. I rode my horse around and talked to people who haven’t seen any officials,” Lewis told The Post.

Hey, my state of North Carolina indemnifies engineers for volunteer services performed during emergencies. If they need a PE to come look at it and put a seal on it, I’m available.

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