Dean Weingarten has a good find at Ammoland.
Judge Eduardo Ramos, the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, has issued an Opinion & Order that a ban on stun guns is constitutional. A New York State law prohibits the private possession of stun guns and tasers; a New York City law prohibits the possession and selling of stun guns. Judge Ramos has ruled these laws do not infringe on rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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For an Israeli doctor in Italy, “the hospital where he works has also seen positive results from the antiviral drug Remdesivir.” He adds, “One technique he said had yielded dramatic results was to have patients lie on their stomach instead of on their back while on a ventilator. “Suddenly the oxygen level in the blood jumped by hundreds of percents,” he said.
Last Wednesday, we published the success story from Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a board-certified family practitioner in New York, after he successfully treated 350 coronavirus patients with 100 percent success using a cocktail of drugs: hydroxychloroquine, in combination with azithromycin (Z-Pak), an antibiotic to treat secondary infections, and zinc sulfate. Dr. Zelenko said he saw the symptom of shortness of breath resolved within four to six hours after treatment.
Now, Dr. Zelenko provides updates on the treatment after he successfully treated 699 COVID-19 patients in New York. In an exclusive interview with former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, Dr. Vladmir Zelenko shares the results of his latest study, which showed that out of his 699 patients treated, zero patients died, zero patients intubated, and four hospitalizations.
Dr. Zelenko said the whole treatment costs only $20 over a period of 5 days with 100% success. He defines success as “Not to die.” Dr. Zelenko first posted his Facebook video message last week calling on President Trump to “advise the country that they should be taking this medication.”
There are many other success stories about hydroxychloroquine across the country. Last week, Dr. William Grace, an oncologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said they’ve not had a single death in their hospital because of hydroxychloroquine. “Thanks to hydroxychloroquine, we have not had a death in our hospital,’ Dr. Grace said.
Also, in a study conducted by the National Institute of Health (NIH) also confirmed some of Dr. Dr. Zelenko’s findings. The study by NIH showed that Zinc supplementation decreases the morbidity of lower respiratory tract infection in pediatric patients in the developing world. A second study also conducted by NIH titled: “In Vitro Antiviral Activity and Projection of Optimized Dosing Design of Hydroxychloroquine for the Treatment of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),” also showed hydroxychloroquine to be more potent in killing the virus off in vitro (in the test tube and not in the body).
He has participated in an instructive video to explain his position. There is hope with these protocol, but it’s clear from the data and information that the intent isn’t to wait until the patient isn’t responsive to other treatment.
Contrary to that, I’ve mentioned that I am personally aware of one local hospital that takes the position that only a pulmonologist can prescribe these drugs, and then, only as “rescue adjunctive therapy” after ARDS has already begun to occur. In other words, he must wait until it’s too late to invoke this protocol.
Who knows why? Perhaps this is because doctors are slow to accept these protocol, perhaps it’s because they are loath to accept treatment protocol that hasn’t been taught to them in medical school or accepted by the FDA. But for whatever reason, this shows that America still isn’t prepared for this pandemic, and won’t be until doctors are willing to think outside their boxes and listen to others who have gone before them.
Politics may be standing in the way of the health and safety of the public.
The Food and Drug Administration on Sunday issued an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, decades-old malaria drugs championed by President Donald Trump for coronavirus treatment despite scant evidence.
“Scientists in America and around the world have identified multiple potential therapeutics for COVID19, including chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine,” HHS Secretary Alex Azar tweeted on Sunday night, praising Trump and the EUA.
Career scientists have been skeptical of the effort, noting the lack of data on the drugs’ efficacy for coronavirus care and worried that it would siphon medication away from patients who need it for other conditions, calling instead for the agency to pursue its usual clinical trials.
What else would you expect from Politico. “Despite scant evidence.”
Career scientists want to control what is administered to whom, when, under what conditions, and to ensure they get the credit for it.
I’m beginning to smell a rat. My daughter observes to me that the potential side effects are nausea. It isn’t like the drug can kill people when administered under the direction of a health care provider.
Do you think that perhaps some of this is political, and possibly a turf war, with American lives hanging in the balance?
“You will see that I have been authorized to collect all military arms of Pennsylvania at my own expense for the purpose of remodeling, and then to be returned again to regular organized companies,” a June 12, 1861 letter from Maj. O.H. Wheeler to Maj. [unintelligible] Carothers ordered. You are deputized by me to demand and collect from whose hands the same may be found, all military arms both good and bad in the county of [Beaver]… and give receipts.”
A major had the authority to do that? What law or executive or martial law order was passed to allow for the military to compel civilians to surrender their arms? And noting the space where “Beaver” was filled in was a blank on a form letter, was the entire state subject to the order? What about other states in the Union? And people were OK with that?
The way I take David’s article, Lincoln used firearms confiscations from civilians to arm his troops, or at least, he intended to.
To me, there isn’t much difference between that and the mandate to quarter troops. I believe the war of independence was fought over just such reasons as those.
Lineberger anticipates sales will start to fall off with the stay-at-home order. He’ll continue to be open for business as he received assurances from Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger and Tracy Philbeck, chairman of the Gaston County Commissioners, that his business was considered essential.
“We do supply firearms and ammunition to the (local) police departments. We must remain open,” Lineberger said.
To which I responded, “Mr. Lineberger, your business is essential regardless of supplying LEOs. LEOs are citizens, and every citizen has the God-given RKBA. If you didn’t supply a single firearm or round of ammunition to LEOs, your business would still be essential.”
“Notwithstanding any other law, … a municipality may not adopt regulations relating to:
“(1) the transfer, possession, wearing, carrying, ownership, storage, transportation, licensing, or registration of firearms, air guns, knives, ammunition, or firearm or air gun supplies or accessories;
“(2) commerce in firearms, air guns, knives, ammunition, or firearm or air gun supplies or accessories; or
“(3) the discharge of a firearm or air gun at a sport shooting range.”
And that’s righteous, regardless of the locale. The N.C. emergency declaration reads “except that this subdivision does not authorize prohibitions or restrictions on lawfully possessed firearms or ammunition. As used in this subdivision, the term “dangerous weapons and substances” has the same meaning as it does under G.S. 14-288.1. As used in this subdivision, the term “firearm” has the same meaning as it does under G.S. 14-409.39(2).”
This is weaker language than the statute in Texas, probably because of the progressives and their republican slave boys in North Carolina.
But it still reads the way it does, and it would be ripe for litigation should anyone declare gun stores to be closed during “stay at home” orders. Not to mention the fact that it would be wicked.
Reader 41mag sends these pictures, with the warning “we had 3 bobcats come into our backyard over New Years. They’re about the size of large breed dog, bigger than our German Short Haired Pointer.” This is from Arizona, and one of the pictures is from a neighbor’s roof.
SUN CITY, ARIZ. (AP) — A southern Arizona man is recovering after authorities say a coyote bit him in the leg.
The Arizona Daily Star reports the Sun City, Arizona, man was attacked Thursday while he was working on a bike or motorcycle in his garage.
Arizona Game and Fish Department spokesman Mark Hart says the department is looking for a coyote with a hairless tail, likely caused by mange.
Hart says the victim is in the Oro Valley Hospital being treated for rabies as a precaution.
No further information was available.
This is the third coyote-related episode in the Tucson area since February 13.
On Feb. 13, a coyote bit a 77-year-old man on his backyard porch. Later that day, a coyote leaped on an older woman protecting her dog at Arroyo Chico Park in midtown Tucson.
Risks: Health and welfare of your children, health and welfare of you, and health and welfare of your pets. So what’s the issue? Carry. You don’t drive without auto insurance, do you?
@Fred, no, you can’t pet them. They won’t purr at you. They aren’t your friend.
Due to the New York state decision to shutter non-essential businesses as part of the COVID-19 response plan, Kimber Mfg. Inc. has stopped production at its New York facilities.
Production continues at Kimber’s new, state-of-the-art Troy, Alabama manufacturing facility, with the entire line of handguns and long guns being assembled. Due to the large number of parts manufactured in Yonkers and the state-mandated closure in New York, the Troy facility will suspend production on March 31st. “This situation is unfortunate as we were off to an incredible start in gun shipments in 2020 and were running our factories seven days a week.
One commenter says “For the life of me, I cannot understand why any firearm related manufacturer would do business in a state, the government of which is committed to the destruction of that business.”
A Collegedale police officer’s department-issued AR-15 was fired inside the City Hall building last week.
Officer Josh Booth was in the department’s armory at around 9 a.m. when he was “starting to look” at Sgt. Burlon Hayworth’s department-issued AR-15 assault weapon.
The weapon had already been taken apart when Booth received it, Booth wrote in an incident report.
“I attempted to do a weapon check,” he wrote.
But due to a rusted bolt, he was unable to clear the chamber.
Booth then started to put the weapon back together, and as he pushed the pieces together, “it caused the weapon to fire a round that was in the chamber,” Booth wrote.
“The round went through the wall, and into the squad room and hit a cabinet where it was stopped,” he added.
So many failures. Rusted bolt. Chambered round. Handling firearms away from the range like that, or away from at least gunsmiths who could have done this safely.
I suspect the firing pin was protruding out of the bolt and he slapped the upper and lower together with enough force to cause at least a light primer strike.
Boise, ID–When it all hits the fan, we might just head to Idaho. Long known as a solid Second Amendment state, Idaho just raised the bar.
Idaho Governor Brad Little has signed a bill into law that extends the right of Constitutional Carry to all American citizens. The law goes into effect on July 1st, 2020. This means that gun owners don’t have to be residents of Idaho to exercise the right to concealed carry in the state.
This move was spearheaded by the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance, the biggest and most powerful gun group in the state. Headed by Iraqi war veteran Greg Pruett, the organization has a no-holds-barred approach that has forced the conversation on guns to the right for years.
If you think .gov can’t focus on anything else amid the Covid-19 panic, think again. Idaho did it.
Say, how’s that South Carolina constitutional carry / open carry thing coming? Has it been derailed for yet another legislative session by the progs and their panty waist republican slave boys in South Carolina?
In my ongoing coverage and analysis of Covid-19 in America (updated almost daily), I included a much earlier graph with a curve fit, at the time, exponential and with a very high correlation coefficient. The graph from 3/23 looked like this.
The doubling time was computed as:
ln(2) / 0.2988 = 2.32 days
The graph has been unsettled lately, until last night and today. I have received requests to update the curve. I said I would have to jettison the exponential curve fit and go with a polynomial (see original post), and today I did that. The exponential model was massively over-predicting cases going forward and the correlation coefficient had begun to degrade. The revised curve is below.
There is a remarkable difference. The doubling time depends on where you are on the graph. It’s a third-order polynomial. Currently, the doubling time is 4.1 days, versus the value of 2.32 days computed not too many days ago. The correlation coefficient is very high, and the curve is stable and well-behaved.
Here I am not weighing in on or performing analysis of the reasons for this. There could be many, or only one, or some combination of causes. Some readers may posit “social distancing,” others may point out that the testing rate has change because slightly symptomatic patients are not being tested, others may postulate that herd immunity may be playing a factor (i.e., it’s possible that many millions of Americans have already been exposed to and infected with the virus and had little to no problem with it), and still others may postulate that PPEs, hygiene protocol and the reluctance to go to hospitals may be playing a role (my own daughter, a surgical NP and first assist who also has to spend copious time in the ER) observes that numbers of patients entering hospital care is down.
Again, I am making no claim whatsoever as to reasons for this. I am only mathematically modeling this phenomenon, and I can conclusively say that there is a remarkable difference between doubling time and trajectory today and a week ago.
UPDATE:
Per request, this is a picture of the previous exponential fit versus the polynomial fit. It’s QAD (quick and dirty), with no bells and whistles.
With more time I could write Macros to make this much better with various data analytics options, but I’m not paid to do this analysis.
Watch all of this video (it’s long) or my comments will make no sense at all.
Allow me to weigh in a bit. I’ve never seen or heard of this guy (“Caleb” from Gun Nuts Media – I have no idea if that’s his real name or a nom de guerre). I have visited his site once as you’ll see below, and I’ll never visit again.
He impresses me as a spoiled little boy, a narcissist, a child who was never spanked, a liar, and a drama queen who writes click bait for his web site and soap operas for his YouTube channel. He’s much too emotional for my tastes.
If he was never spanked as a child, he certainly was by Paul in this video. He deserved it. I agree with everything Paul said, but even if I had not, there’s a moral issue at stake here. It comes from Leviticus 19:32. “Caleb,” if you need help with exegesis of that, write me a note.
On the issue of revolvers and “hitting” or slapping the ejector rod, I’ve done that as long as I’ve been shooting revolvers. I’ve never had a problem. The only problem I’ve ever had was with a S&W R8 revolver.
It’s tolerances are tight, and it’s very accurate. I’m sure those are related things. I could have taken the time to ream the cylinder a bit and gotten better performance, but there would still be the issue of the forcing cone being so tight against the cylinder.
Within 50 rounds without fail, shooting high power .357 magnum ammunition which of course runs very hot, the metal would expand and cause either (a) the brass to fail to come out of the cylinder (which necessitated me striking the ejector rod pretty hard), or (b) the cylinder seizing against the forcing cone until the gun cooled down.
I dumped the gun. It was a wonderful gun, but I just wanted to shoot more than it would allow without heating up too much. Every other wheel gun I’ve ever shot only had that problem to a much less degree, this one to a much greater degree.
Basically, it’s 2019, and if you aren’t shooting 9mm as a primary pistol cartridge, you need to re-evaluate your life choices. It’s now an undisptued fact that modern 9mm ammo can give ballistic performance on par with 40 S&W, 45 Auto, and pretty much every other handgun cartridge.
“Re-evaluate your life choices.” Being a bit dramatic, are we? If you shoot anything other than 9mm you need to “re-evaluate your life choices.”
Okay, first of all, it’s simply not true. Oh, it may be close for two-legged threats, but it’s certainly not true for four-legged threats. Moreover, if someone happens to shoot .45 ACP or .40 S&W better than 9mm, or .38 Spl better, they should be allowed to shoot whatever works for them without internet know-it-alls telling them not to. Some rounds push, some rounds snap and cause more pronounced muzzle flip.
Either way, I don’t think there’s a nickel’s worth of difference between someone telling you that you shouldn’t be allowed to have such-and-such gun, and someone telling you that you should shoot such-and-such a gun because I say so. Each is a different form of collectivism. I can’t stand collectivists. Mind your own business.
And “Caleb,” grow up, little boy, and quit being a drama queen. Maybe when you do, you can be like Paul.
