Saturday, December 11, 2021

THE DAILY FUDD: E167: "List not endorsed -- VIDEO: '5 of the Best Scout Rifles Available Today.'"

Offered for information, not endorsement. Video includes the M1A Scout Squad, even though "scout rifles" are almost by definition bolt-action. 

For more on the genre, see HERE and TDF 2




TDF INDEX: Cats, Guns, and National Security: THE DAILY FUDD index.  https://catsgunsandnationalsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-daily-fudd-index.html

Friday, December 10, 2021

Why conservatives fail: Article from April 2021: "David Almasi Calls On Conservatives To Become Activist Investors To Target [Bad Guy]."

"I just don’t see it happening. There is a lack of commitment, willpower, and ultimately sacrifice. Most people are too comfortable with the way they are living their lives now to take the fight to woke culture that is infecting America."

David Almasi Calls On Conservatives To Become Activist Investors To Target Disney, Facebook, And Others



This is the weakness of conservatism in general, especially with the infection in recent decades of libertarianism. Putting money and personal... whatever ahead of the Cause. That is why #Federalist46 State action will ultimately be necessary.
This article from 2011 (folks, note the date context before replying) falls in the same vein as your quote above, but then veers from the solution with its Godwinian ending.

The Need For A Militant Conservative Movement - American Thinker

The combined numbers of gays, blacks, unions, and other groups comprising the left fail to outnumber conservatives.  Yet conservatives have suffered defeat after defeat on almost every major issue for decades.  Conservatives have been disorganized and passive, while leftists have been militant and united in their fifty-year quest to destroy every single traditional, bourgeois norm and value in American life -- while smugly enjoying the security and economic prosperity that was created by those very same bourgeois norms and values.

Key member of the Triple Entente of the States* preparing for Federalist 46 action? DeSantis reestablishing FL State Guard.

*The Triple Entente of the States are the three American States moving to lead the charge against the current insurrection led by the illegitimate administration in Washington:
- Florida (home of President Trump; actions by GOV DeSantis);
- Texas (predominate State; has led legal challenges);
- Missouri (leads support of Texas actions; home of CGNS).


DeSantis’ Move to Bolster State Guard Fills Gap for Federal Inaction






Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently announced that the state government would provide more than $100 million in funding to support the existing Florida National Guard and to reestablish a Florida State Guard. The governor’s press release explained that the funding “supports vital emergency response services that the National Guard provides,” and includes resources “to establish the Florida State Guard” which “will enable civilians to be trained in the best emergency response techniques,” making Florida the “23rd state with a state guard recognized by the federal government.

Monday, December 6, 2021

THE DAILY FUDD: E166: "VIDEO: 'This single action Colt can’t fire itself' -- With my important caveat on revolver safety mechanisms."

Regarding revolver safety mechanisms:

Mr. Schneider here misstates slightly the issue of safety mechanisms (or lack thereof) on revolvers. Original Colt revolvers and authentic-to-detail copies, not just "cheap copies," as he said, can be fired by hitting the hammer, due to a lack of internal safety mechanism, such as a transfer bar, generally calling for one chamber to be left empty for the hammer to rest upon. Indeed, I discuss that in TDF 27 (see also TDF 107 for a brighter side to the matter). Some modern copies, such as Rugers, have some sort of disconnect system, making this empty chamber unnecessary.

If indeed this was any factor at all in the Alec Baldwin incident, then it points up the utter foolishness of insisting upon such a level of "authenticity," to the point of low safety, when we have today the technology to so increase safety with a de minimis level of alteration in appearance (and none in operation). This goes for movie guns, Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) guns, or a gun that might be put to actual 2A use (see TDF 31).

Fudd does not mean foolishness. Quite the opposite, actually.


 TDF INDEX: Cats, Guns, and National Security: THE DAILY FUDD index.  https://catsgunsandnationalsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-daily-fudd-index.html