What Will The Shiny Pony Do?

I have no illusions about who is going to win the next federal election.  It will be Justin Trudeau - The Shiny Pony.  All fancy hair and no substance.

Liberals are known as the architects of the destruction of self-reliance, moral values and traditional society.  Their creative brain power is unmatched in these areas and I can’t even start to guess what they plan to do.

But I do know they will do something about guns.

I have avoided writing this blog entry for months (hence the huge gap between writings).  I wanted to carefully evaluate The Shiny Pony’s options and present them as competing hypothesis.

1) Handgun Ban.

For all intents and purposes, all handguns are registered.  As an election promise, the Evil Paul Martin proposed a handgun ban as his election promise.  The chance of this succeeding is guaranteed.  (Yes I know there will be smuggled handguns but these are statistically insignificant).

2) Move Semi-Autos to Restricted

This would be less palatable to the population then a handgun ban as many high end hunting guns are semi-auto such as the BAR or collectables such as the Garand.  According to the old registry data, the Garand is the most popular semi-auto gun in Quebec.  As much as I fear this, I think it is the least likely of the hypothesis I propose.

3) New Orders in Council

This does not require any legal changes or votes in the house of commons.  Through an Order in Council (OIC), they can move many evil looking guns into restricted and prohibited classes.  They would almost certainly pick VZ58s, Tavors, XCRs and JR Carbines to move to restricted.  Ironically I predict that the Mini-14 and the CX4 (both used in Canadian school shootings) would be left alone.  I don’t think they would name any gun as prohibited due to the outcry from the Swiss Arms fiasco; even non-gun owners considered that to be an unfair, “dick move” by the RCMP.  Regardless of what guns they move to Restricted, the decision will be based on looks alone and not capability.  (My pump action shotgun (when loaded with 00 buck) can fire 54 projectiles down range before being reloaded and can cut a man in half.  My AR15 can fire 5 projectiles down range before being reloaded and has been shown to be highly ineffective in battlezones such as Mogadishu.)

4) Stop PAL Issuance For Restricted Firearms

It would not piss anyone off as people with the Restricted endorsement would not be affected.  It would only stop new people from getting into handguns.  This is like a handgun ban but spaced out over the long term. It would be acceptable to the Canadian public because no one is really getting screwed.  If you didn’t have and handgun before and now you still can’t have one, has anything really been taken away from you?  The truth is Canadians fear handguns the same way Americans fear rifles.

5) Increase Fees for License Renewal

The Liberals are the Party of the rich and privileged and even Nazi elites were still allowed to own personal firearms.  Making a staggeringly huge fee to renew your license will drive the undesirable poor people away from guns.  According to Liberal philosophy, people are victims of their circumstances and have no free will.  In their mind, denying the poor access to potential weapons will decrease the lethality of the crimes that they are forced to commit.

I think these are all options that are politically viable.  What do you think?  What will he do?

If 0%

If a registry came back into place in Canada or was started in the USA and no-one complied, the registry would still be a success.  That’s right, if 0% of people complied the registry would be a success.

One thing we have learned from the cowardly, teeth chattering, grave dancing, fart-suckers in the anti-gun lobby is their game is a game they plan to play over decades.

When the long gun registry was enacted in 1997 there was an estimated 30-50% compliance (depending on who you talk to).  But the fact that all the guns were not registered is irrelevant.  Every new person coming into the shooting sports was trapped in the registry system.  I was underage in 1997 so I never had the option to “not comply”.  From day one of entering the shooting sports everything I did was tightly monitored and controlled.  I committed no crime but I was more carefully monitored then a convicted crack dealer.

Over the years the spineless gun control advocates knew that time would be on their side.  Those who could have had firearms before the registry would eventually die and leave behind those who were born into the registry.

Eventually  all guns would be either unregistered and buried in PVC tubes (rendering them inert) or registered and ready for confiscation.

People say that the registry was ineffective.  It was not.  It was very effective for if it was left in place, in 20 years time, all guns would be ready for confiscation.  That was the true purpose of the registry; it had nothing to do with crime or safety and as such, was not effective in those roles.

Bond V The United States

I am going to delve a little bit into the realm of American law.  I recently read about a case “Bond V The United States” where a woman attempted to poison her husband.  I will not get into the fine details here as Google is (kind of) your friend.

Although in Canada this would be a clear case of attempted murder, they chose to try her as being in violation of the Chemical Weapons Treaty.  Essentially they substituted federal/state law for international law.  This is still before the courts but it spells ominous things for the people of the United States.  If Bond is found guilty of violating the Chemical Weapons Treaty then it sets a legal precedent for other International laws and treaties to supersede the laws of the United States.  The question is, does the 10th amendment limit her legal charges to the American version of attempted murder or does the 10th amendment not hold and thus the CWT violation and other laws formed from international treaty can be pursued.

If she loses her case, any treaty can be signed and used to bypass the US Constitution and any protections it may offer.  This is key.

The cowardly John Kerry recently signed a treaty regulating the sale and transfer of arms.  (I think you know where I am going with this).  If Bond loses, Obama will finally have the backdoor that he needs to finally eliminate pesky things that prevent the expansion of government powers.  Based on his past exploits with “Fast and the Furious” and his campaign promises we must assume that the Second Amendment is first on his list to destroy.

He has already hinted that measures were being taken to curb gun rights in America.  Fast and the Furious was a failed attempt to generate gun violence in Mexico to make the public more sympathetic to gun control schemes and bans.  It begs the question; what other black psychological operations has he been involved with that he was NOT caught on?  He has shown with his reckless disregard for human life; the serfs are expendable if it advances his blind ideology.

First they will establish a gun registry. The Arms Trade Treaty requires it.  Every country that eliminated gun ownership needed to take this step over a long period; usually 10 to 20 years to get the bulk of the new gun owners trapped in the system.  The Canadian example shows that you do not need even 50% compliance because they are not worried about the 40 and 50 year olds who owned before the registry and refuse to register now, they want the shooters of tomorrow.

The next step is to use that registry to ban classes of guns.  In Canada, people are generally terrified of pistols and view rifles as part of everyday life, hence most pistols are illegal and rifles are largely uncontrolled.  Americans seem to be terrified of rifles but view pistols as a necessity to self protection.  I suspect the American government will first go after rifles much like Canada went after pistols.  A precedent was already set with Bill “The Pimp” Clinton’s Assault Weapons Ban in the 90’s only this time, there will be no sunset clause and with a registry, those guns deemed illegal will be seized.

I always hear Americans saying things like “From my cold dead hands” but the truth is, they will hand over their guns when faced with the destructive forces of done strikes, mechanized infantry and active denial systems.

And this is not just about guns.  Treaty’s signed will allow the government to easily suppress freedom of speech, seize your children, increase your taxes and limit your travel.

So the path to Obama’s socialist “utopia” filled with abject despair, poverty and suffering is being decided right now in the Supreme Court.  It hinges on Bond v The United States.  Either the supremacy of the US Constitution will be upheld or it will be trampled down.

Fukshima Fallout

It is a radical departure from what I normally write about but in my introduction post long ago I did mention I would talk about survival topics.  This is going to be one of those times.

I was reading about the Fukishima #4 reactor.  People with more degrees then me warn that another earthquake measuring 7 or higher would cause catastrophic damage to the reactor releasing massive amounts of radiation and nuclear material in the atmosphere.  One person suggested it would be so severe as to warrant an evacuation of the west coast of North America.

Now, I am not agreeing with this assessment.  I think the evacuation of the west coast is fear mongering at its worst but I also know that reactor is hanging on by shoestrings so I agree that an earthquake of 7 (or even less!) would probably wreck the thing.  The chance of another earthquake at 7 or higher over the next 3 years is 95% - almost certain.

So I started looking into defenses against nuclear contamination.

First nuclear contaminants tend to be heavy elements.  They quickly fall from the sky and are typically not absorbed by the skin.  This means that most nuclear contaminants on the skin can be washed off with soap and water.  The problem comes from inhaling nuclear contaminants and skin absorbsion from the few that can be absorbed.
Let me be clear, once something radioactive enters your body, you can not remove it.  It will forever emit dangerous, cancer causing radiation.

Iodine is one of the major radioactive isotopes created in nuclear power plants.  It can be absorbed through the skin where the thyroid gobbles it all up and stores it.  Luckily the body can process Iodine and there is a preventative measure you can take.  Upon a nuclear event, taking Potassium Iodine will “fill up” your thyroid with non-radioactive iodine causing any excess (such as radioactive iodine) to be expelled.  Excess iodine can lead to serious health problems so taking it in excess could have detrimental health problems.  This is the recommended dosage to “fill” the thyroid.  This would need to be taken a day or two before being exposed to radioactive iodine.  This treatment would be repeated daily until the threat has passed.

Age                            KI in mg per day
Over 12 years old                  130
3 – 12 years old                     65
1 – 36 months old                  32
< 1 month old                        16

Most radioactive isotopes will enter through inhalation; that is, breathing it in.  Once a radioactive element enters your lungs, you can not remove it.  The only thing you can use, in defense, is a gas mask.  Scott air packs are impractical so I would chose a military gas mask or any mask that uses a 40mm carbon filter cartridge like the military uses.  I don’t think an industrial dust mask will work but it is better then nothing if you are in a pinch.  If you do opt to try a dust mask, your eyes will become an entry point and need to be defended as well.

Until a rainfall, stay clean.  Most radioactive isotopes will not absorb through the skin so they can be washed off.  To keep it out of the fibers of my clothes, I plan to use rain gear.  I have no evidence to back up the following statement but I imagine that cuts and scrapes would need to be covered to keep contaminants out of the blood,

When the rain does come, most contaminants will be washed out of the air and end up on the ground and in your water supply.  Filtering water is a topic for another day.

I hope this quick guide will help people in their disaster plans and empower them not to live in fear. 

Stay safe.

Dishonest Gun Show Dealers

There is a dishonest dealer who is claiming that the Military SKS being sold by Specter Arms are a Norinco product.  The Type 56 is built by the Chinese State Arsenal and is marked with a numerical factory marking indicating its point of origin.

Norinco products can be identified with the Norinco gear and spearhead symbol.  It is found on all Norinco products.  Norinco has produced SKS-D and SKS-M out of spare SKS parts.  The quality of these cobbled together firearms varies in quality and features.

This dealer is lying in an attempt to drive customers to his own higher priced rifles.  Don’t be fooled: check the factory stampings on prospective SKS rifles and get the real story.

“I Don’t Want Quality I Want Cheap”

The topic of the S2 has once again appeared on Gunnutz. It was very quickly mentioned that the price was high. It certainly is. The S2 is designed for the masses just like the Porche is; not at all.
It is not for someone who wants to waste the day shooting at cans on grandpa’s farm, it is a tactical trainer designed for precision, weight, function and feel. It is for a professional who is tired of light, flimsy crap made out of structurally weak polymers in third world nations. It is for someone who has pride in Canada and wants a Canadian made product.

Everyone seems to want cheap.  This is why our industry is dying.  Walmarts selling poisoned baby milk from China have spread like a cancer across North America and people enable it!  On CGN a few months ago someone was wanting to get VZ58s built in China because the $800 price tag was too high.  They wanted to see the price at $400.  I had a few choice words for this individual.  He did not want a quality rifle, he wanted tacti-cheap.

A North American manufacturing business can only successfully respond to the “cheap” with the opposite point on the buying spectrum; “Quality”. Sadly this response is a failing defense that appeals to less and less people.  Some North American manufacturers have tried “cheap” with dismal results.  It is sad, we have M1 Garands from WW2 that shoot as well as the day they were made but we have ISSC Mk22 that fail out of the box or the GSG-5 coming apart on the range.  Yet suckers keep buying them… after all they don’t want quality, they want cheap.
 
Finally, I am a one man show; I am a machinist and a gun smith; not a web site designer, not an advertiser.  So I get upset when people complain that the website sucks.  Yes it is simple but at least it works. I am going to lay it out simply: do you want to buy guns from someone like me or someone web savy?  A person is lacking life experience if they allow themselves to be taken by a slick conman with all style and no substance.  A flashy website with sounds, animations, bells and whistles can never fill the gap of real competence where it matters: The Service and the product.

New Techniques

I was at the Calgary gun show this year showing off my wares and a person came over to examine a S2.  He picked it up and shouldered it, grabbing the forend using what I can only describe as the Magpul overgrip method.

This prompted a lively discussion with my helper.  We are in agreement that there are a lot of new shooting methods coming out where an instructor with “Street Cred”, that is someone who has shot at people for a living, comes up with a new idea and markets it as the newest greatest thing.

What I find is that often people invent new things for the sake of inventing new things and use the cognitive fallacy of false attribution (claiming something as the reason for something else when they are in fact there is no causality).

Without naming names, let’s take a trip through inductive reasoning.

Premise 1)
Man trained as part of _______ where he won many harrowing gun battles.

Premise 2)
He used the methods taught to him by that elite unit.  Those methods clearly worked and therefore are proven and workable.

Premise 3)
He comes back to America and develops his own methods to sell to the public.  He uses his past exploits to justify why you should trust his new system.

Conclusion – His fancy new method was never tested in battle.  Its value is therefore called into question as a fighting method.  It may perform on a 3-gun range but can not be proven like his original skill set was.
Why can't he pass on his proven skill set?

Back to the Magpul overgrip method.  It is touted as a way to increase stability.  When I instruct I tell my students, I tell them that the farther they grip the rifle down the forend, the more stability they will gain; it does not matter if they use a forgrip, angled grip or the traditional hand grip. The trade off to gripping farther down the forend, is they will fatigue quicker.  All the Magpul overgrip method does is adds a silly grip to a proven theory and falsely claims the stability benefit as a result.

But if instructors taught what worked and did not invent new stuff they would have a hard time marketing themselves and standing out as a brand.  From a marketing standpoint, I can't blame them; they just want to make money. But from a gunfighting standpoint, I think they are subtly cheating the consumer out of what they should know and what they hope to learn.

I think the moral of the story is don't buy into every silly little method.  Critically ask yourself if these new novel methods actually make you a better gunfighter or if you are simply lining someone else's pockets or worse yet, buying into a cool looking fad.