Penny makes Joan look like a freakin' genius

From Baldr Odinson's blog today:

 Penny said...

The point of the post was that America is providing the world, Al Qaeda included, with high-capacity ammunition and that this is all done for the sake of money over the lives of innocent people.

The question of armed police officers is a subject for another day.

The Second Amendment has become a marketing tool for the gun lobby. Americans pay the price in a body count every day and now Norway has added bodies to the altar of the nra.

  

Breivik and Loughner armed themselves with ammunition from the U.S. We should ban the sale and transfer of all high-capacity ammunition as well as the possession of high-capacity ammunition.

Ms. Penny, I would like to point out a few things.  Take a look at my blog banner and you'll see what is called, collectively, ammunition.  The unit of ammunition is the cartridge, or round.  It consists of four parts: bullet, case, powder and primer. The gun's firing pin hits the shock-sensitive primer, which contains a tiny amount of high explosive and sends a stream a sparks through the flash hole of the case, igniting the powder to create high pressure gas which propels the bullet through the bore of the barrel.

To call ammunition "high-capacity" is therefore meaningless.  It's sort of like saying "high horsepower gasoline."  You could forgive a three year old for doing it, but it's an embarassing mistake for a gun ban activist to make three times in one comment.

It is my understanding that the Norwegian killer bought his ammunition locally, not from the US.  In your original blog post that I kindly corrected, you said that the US exported the American made Glock to Norway, then you deleted that and said the US exported "magazine-clips" (whatever those are) to Norway, and now you're claiming the US exported 9mm ammunition to Norway.  Which is it?  Do you understand the differences between a gun, magazine and ammunition?  I'm not sure you do.

In your comment above, I'm guessing - and maybe I'm wrong - that you mean to write "high-capacity magazine," which would begin to make sense, though there's no meaningful distinction between high-capacity and low-capacity mags.  My 8-round .45 caliber 1911 magazines are no more or less deadly than my 18-round Glock magazines.  It takes two seconds for a shooter to load a new mag. 

By the way, a magazine is a tube with a spring that feeds the ammunition in an autoloading pistol.  I shouldn't have assumed you knew that.  You should take the time to learn about the things you want to ban.

My question to you, Penny, is what could you possibly mean by "high-capacity ammunition?"  I would really love for you to describe what you think it is.  Comments here, unlike on Baldr's blog, are unmoderated - anyone can speak up without censorship - so please take a second to respond.

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ETA:
This is just too great.  Anti-gun troll Laci the Dog responded to Penny's comment...

Penny, I don't disagree with you, but I would warn you to be very careful what you say as a more experienced activist in the gun control movement.... Baldur knows where to find me if you need help.

This is basically Laci's way of telling Penny she went full retard with her comment. 

Things not to say at the range

When you're showing off your brand new 6" S&W 686, and I show you my old, well worn Ruger SP101, it's not ideal for you to nod your head and say "Yeah, that's all you need."  :)

Baldr Odinson is a lying, cowardly weasel

Joyce Foundation dimwit Baldr Odinson posted this afternoon about how America needs to prohibit export of Glocks to Norway to prevent future mass shootings.  Yup, you read that right.

I sent a comment Baldr's way, and curiously it went unpublished.  A few hours later I check to see that he's changed this paragraph...

Seventy-four people dead on two continents, killed with guns bought legally from one country:  the United States.

to this...

Seventy-four people dead on two continents, killed with high capacity magazine clips bought legally from one country:  the United States.

He changed the rest of the article from the original assertion - that American-made Glocks killed 68 Norwegians - to his new story that American-made Glock "magazine clips" killed them.   Failure on many levels here, folks.

No retraction, no thanks to MAgunowner for pointing out his blatant misunderstanding of the most fundamental issues at hand.  He just pretended he knew the difference between a pistol and a "magazine clip" all along

Baldr, you have no spine.  Man up and take responsibility for your mistakes.  

Trying to suppress stone-age technology in Boston

Having solved most of the City of Boston's major problems, City Councilors are now seeking to license the sale of knives.

When we mock gun control, we often say that they are trying to suppress a Victorian era technology (steel tubing, simple lockwork, chemical blends of saltpeter/charcoal/sulphur, etc.).  This knife control effort takes that idea up a notch on the silliness ladder.  They're actually trying to suppress the stone age technology of grinding an edge onto a stone.  

If a caveman can fabricate a cutting blade out of items found in nature, I'm sure our public school educated youth can do the same, without having to go through a licensed knife dealer.  Or perhaps, in a stoke of criminal genius, a teenager intent on stabbing a foe will simply borrow one of mom's cooking knives, thereby circumventing the expertly crafted policy of Boston's City Council.

Shady characters on the anti-gun blogs

Why are these guys so keen on content theft? 

It's not too hard to figure out which of the anti-gun blogs I'm talking about here, since there are about three of them in total.  Joan puts out original material in the odd, repetitive style of a ten year-old.  This Baldr fellow writes his own stuff but is too busy fabricating sweet peace trains out of 1/4" ply.  That only leaves one more. 

So, doggies, if you're going to copy and paste lengthy descriptions of historical events to support your anti-liberty agenda, at least cite the websites you're stealing from.  Don't just put others' text inline with yours as if it is your own. 

The stealing says a lot about who these people are.  Be more original. 

Pretty funny WaPo article

First the inevitable confusion between ammunition and magazines: 

Anders Behring Breivik... explained how he acquired the ammunition that he used in the attack: “10 x 30 round magazines – .223 cal at 34 USD per mag.

Big surprise there, as if they're the first people to want to ban something without knowing what that something is. 

But here's the part I like best:

Several other assertions made by Mr. Breivik give credence to his claim that he obtained the high-capacity magazines from a U.S. seller: Mr. Breivik appears to have carried out the attack with a Ruger Mini 14 semiautomatic rifle — the purchase of which he chronicled in the manifesto. The Ruger uses .223-caliber ammunition – the same type meant for the magazines purchased by Mr. Breivik.

I have no idea what the intended meaning of that sentence is, and I doubt the authors do either.  It's just funny to me because it reminds me of a classic Simpsons line:

Homer: It appears the cat burglar has been caught by the very person who was trying to catch him.
Flanders: How ironic. 

Donate to Stan Sokolowski defense fund

In January 2011, determined criminals broke into the highly secure gun vault of Lowell, MA gun collector Stan Sokolowski. 

The Lowell PD has filed charges against the victim for possessing ordinary reloading equipment and components - the very same items I have right now in my own basement.

We have to make sure that Sokolowski beats this charge, which could set a dangerous precedent for the thousands of shooters in Massachusetts who reload their ammo. 

Make a donation to the Reloaders Defense Fund at the Comm2A site today.  It's on us to make sure this doesn't become another bullshit malum prohibitum charge to harass gun owners.