Red – Death of Me
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Here’s another from RobertaX.
Here’s a question, why was he still employed as a police officer during that time if he was harassing and stalking a woman? I guess the IMPD believes in giving predators every advantage.
State Sponsored Criminal #383: Craig Ratcliff
Because an officer of the law stalking a someone is perfectly acceptable and while we disarm the general public we should leave them with their badge and gun to use against their victim.*
*Note, I don’t like how many of the DV laws work for this reason amongst others. It is too easy to use against someone who is actually innocent and is often used as a tactic to harass someone through the legal system, but the futility is obvious when some how when a cop does it he’s special.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
So I got an email from a friend this afternoon pointing me to a particular government document. He told me to check out the new additions at the end. We had both filled them out previously while at the NROTC Unit, and while I try to keep mine up to date in case it’s need for a future employment opportunity, the last time I looked at the form was in 2009 updating information after buying our house.
Well it has gone from 13 pages to 127 pages since the last I looked, but what is most interesting is the addition of Section 29.
That wasn’t too bad but I started laughing hysterically when I arrived at 29.5.
Tell me, how can one work for the DEA, FBI or god forbid the ATF and honestly answer that question with a “No”? Doubly entertaining is this is a form geared towards protecting national security. So the question of your association record is really this:
Have you EVER been a member of an organization that advocates or practices commission of acts of force or violence to discourage others from exercising their rights under the U.S. Constitution or any state of the United States with the specific intent to further such action? Any organization that is a part of, or under the direct guidance of the US Government is excepted.
Think about it, any law enforcement agency that has turned the other way when caught physically assaulting people lawfully exercising their rights is guilty of that violation. Our government, more specifically people in its employ, has gone well beyond he limitations set out within the Constitution, yet they are exempted from being held accountable for their abuses. Most entertaining though is the ATF and Operation Fast and Furious since it meets the definition provided by them in almost a textbook fashion.
What I find most entertaining is I have no doubt that should the day ever come I need to file this paper work I know this blog will be scavenged and the interviewer will use this commentary against me. The DHS for example has classified me as a possible terrorist through numerous methods even though I have never associated with, thought about or attempted an act of terrorism. Yet a real act of terrorism is merely PTSD and I’m the real threat.
Yeah that realization stopped any laughter and humor I was feeling from the irony. It is becoming more and more obvious that the government is doing everything it can to further the wedge between itself and the people. I need a drink.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
While there are still some details to sort out, it’s pretty clear that making weapons at home using 3-D printers from commonly available materials is going to become much more commonplace in the near future. In fact, as 3-D printing technology matures, materials feedstock improves, and designs for weapons proliferate, we might soon see the day when nearly everyone will be able to print the weapons of their choice in the numbers they desire, all within the privacy of their own homes.
John Robb – A Working Assault Rifle Made With a 3-D Printer
Popular Science (7/26/2012)
[When even Popular Science is admitting the obvious we all see, it makes me ponder how much longer our opponents will remain in denial. Every once in a while we see glimmers of anger.
I will say this right now though. There will be no bargaining. We will not negotiate with those who would deprive us our rights. Their attitude towards us has been scorched earth, if only by piece meal. It has been us who have compromised historically, no more. It is time to sweep these people into the dust bin of history with the likes of other bigots throughout history. -B]
ht Sebastian
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Even less surprising is the fact that the officers also destroyed the surveillance equipment. Tell me, why would an officer do that? My immediate guess is to steal pot without evidence against him for own personal use. There’s only one reason cops destroy surveillance equipment and that is to make sure they’re not recorded when they’re breaking the law.
Overall this is nothing more than state level cronyism when you see the following:
State Sponsored Criminal #381:
Because honest up right cops just don’t like being recorded right? I mean they’re honest so they don’t need to be recorded, they’re just doing their job right?
h/t Uncle
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Yesterday was the USPSA match in which I was the Match Director. I designed all the stages and picked out the qualifier. Overall I was looking forward to it. Mainly because one of the stages was going to be the first stage I ever designed.
We got a bit of video of me shooting that stage.
I laugh because someone was glad that I was pissed for “forcing them to shoot this monstrosity” except everyone I talked to loved it and wanted to shoot it again. In hindsight I should have thought of a way to run it backwards. If you’re wondering about the outburst at the end I looked at the target and saw I broke the perf on a no shoot at the end of the course.
However I’m saddened we didn’t get video of probably the most important thing that happened on that stage. It happened while the RO was scoring my stage and I was standing right there. I’m sad I didn’t even take a picture of it.
You see that white guy in the middle. Yeah I shot the little bastard because he wasn’t smart enough to get out-of-the-way. I drilled two A’s into T2, 2 A’s in to T1, and barely nicked the perf on the No Shoot. When the RO came through he called Alpha Charlie on the target. He thought I was outside the perf. I promptly stopped him and said, “Name redacted, That should be 2 Alpha, 1 No Shoot.” He looked at the target again and said, “holy crap you’re right.” The funniest thing is, I didn’t even think twice about it, it was immediate and without thought.
Now I know some of you will think that some how that was in my favor, it was not. Here’s how the score for that breaks down, if it had been an Alpha-Charlie, I would have gotten 7 points. With a 2-Alpha, No shoot I get 0 points. The No Shoot is –10 points, each A is a 5. If I was a little less ethically inclined I could have taken a 7 point boost on my score for that stage.
It’s not worth it at all. I’m in this for fun and you know what, if I have to cheat to have fun I’m doing it all wrong. If I want to stand up on the top of the hill and say I won, by god I want to be proud of how I got there.
I was really sad when I had to call a FTE for the RO I caught as a shooter ran through. I had actually hoped he was the first guy to just skip the body and take the head shots at an earlier position. He shot the steel and forgot to hit the other target.
Here’s the match stages, both the descriptions and the Google Sketch Up files. If you want to use them at your local club feel free to do so. Just give me credit and I’ll be happy.
That particular stage is 30 Minutes or Less. It started off being just 30 shots but when I redesigned it to fit in our bays and equipment list I ended up adding a target.
Another interesting story was from the standard I created 4×3. I designed it specifically so the shooter would have a choice between which hand to use at which distance. I ended up walking up just after they finished reading the stage description and two of the main shooters shot it strong hand closest, then weak hand when further away. I promptly recheck the stage description which says the following:
String 1. Upon start signal from behind F1 engage targets T1-T4 freestyle with one shot each. Perform a mandatory reload and reengage T1-T4 one hand only.
String 2. Upon start signal from behind F2 engage targets T1-T4 freestyle with one shot each. Perform a mandatory reload and reengage T1-T4 with one shot each with the opposite hand.
I thought about it for a minute and promptly talked to the two guys who read the briefing and had shot. In the back of my head I kind of chuckled at the thought of shooting the course of fire weak hand forward, strong hand rear, but I knew it would immediately cause an uproar. So I clarified it for everyone and we re-shot those shooters at the end.
I still kind of wanted to hear the collective groan after I shot the course and then read the description for everyone. If you are into USPSA, learn this now, pick up the description yourself and read it before shooting. Others may have misinterpreted the rules.
I will say I guess Jigsaw was right when she said I was an honest shooter.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Wonderful video from Reason TV the truth behind the gun rights debate.
I find this a great addition to go along with this video I’ve used numerous times previously:
Then again, most of these people who fall into the irrational panic state don’t seem to understand the benefit of discussion occurring while you’re calm and rational. Their coping mechanism for tragedy is to “Do Something,” even if that something actually causes more people to die they feel better because the did something.
I did see a video this weekend and I think I’m going to have to get together with some friends and script out a response.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
I have done some not too bright things around explosives. Last week a particular individual did something incredibly stupid.
Initially I was going to just leave it at the comment I made over at Caleb’s place. Then there was this incident brought to my attention by Lyle. That gave me the inkling to do a post, then Weer’d posted the video of what exactly happened in the FPS Russia incident. After watching the video I had to pick my jaw up off the floor at this idiocy.
First a note, do not recreate anything in this video, if you survive it will be either because of blind dumb luck or because God has a soft spot for you and your idiocy.
If you want to skip to 4:46 to save yourself 4 minutes and 46 seconds of pure garbage.
Does anyone see what he did wrong there? Anyone? Bueller?
He violated the first rule of explosives. He placed something between him and the explosive. You see when you detonate an explosive inside of something it propels the surrounding material out at extremely high velocity. This is the basic principle behind a pipe bomb. The pipe itself becomes extra shrapnel in the explosion.
This is why when we Idaho Stress test an object we ALWAYS place the explosives in front of the target. We never place the object in front of the explosive, that is how you take shrapnel to the face.
This is serious and this isn’t a joke. That camera man is lucky he isn’t dead or more seriously injured right now. Just because the object is larger in size doesn’t mean that it’s safe. What is a safe distance then? Lets use the 2008 toilet as an example.
We shot that toilet from approximately 400 yards away. When I say we in this case, I mean the entire shooting line. We found pieces of that toilet well over 100 yards away. Note we found them in a field meaning they had to be big enough to be easily seen above the grass.
We can also look at the pumpkin examples.
I know we had approximately 6 lbs inside the large pumpkin in the second video. We found chunks, not bits, 125 yards away. Many of those chunks were also relatively light in weight and had a lower B.C. In that case we were shooting from about 30 yards, however it should be noted the object was not metal or dense in nature. Metal merely rips and turns in to shrapnel which is nothing more than a knife flying through the air.
Given those above examples, I honestly wouldn’t blow anything up that had metal in it from within 200 yards, and due to my love of cushion, I’d double it to 400 for extra safety.
Joe, Ry, and I all almost made this fatal mistake by accident. That is a wonderful example of how much power and force there is behind explosives and why you really need to pay attention. So please, if you want to go out and play with explosives, pay attention and pay heed to the first rule:
Never Place Anything Between You and The Explosive.
Remember to be careful out there and use your head. Sometimes well all forget to think things through, but the more you think about it, the better off you’ll be in the long run.
Update: Ry just posted a reminder of the results of an experiment he and Lyle did. Note what it did to the steel and how far it went.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
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