That Promised TZP Column On The New Gun Control Bill

It’s about as bad as I expected last night.


GANG-RAPE SAFER COMMUNITIES ACT
Last night, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act text finally dropped. I started to look it over, but stopped out of fear that an anger-induced stroke might get me before I could fall asleep.

Always keep in mind just what “bipartisan” really means.
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The Senate Gun Control Bill Finally Dropped

It’s here>.

I haven’t gone through all of it yet, because if I do it now I’ll be too fucking angry to sleep tonight. I looked at one section, and it already has me so pissed that sleep is going to be an issue anyway.

I need a drink.

Just to get you primed for the full analysis, which I’ll publish at The Zelman Partisans in the morning and link here…

It appears that if you sell a one gun — ever — with the intent of getting money for it, then you’re a dealer and you’ll need an FFL first.

There does not appear to be any exception for sales to friends or family. At a guess, the only “sale” that wouldn’t require an FFL is probably “selling” a gun at a loss in a “buyback” with the intent of getting a gun “off the street.” Remember when I put my rifle up for sale because I wanted money for it (to pay medical bills)? Under this bill, I would have needed to apply and wait months for a license — and pay the licensing fee — just to sell it at would then be a loss to… not be able to pay my bills.

The bill also addresses the so-called “boyfriend loophole,” but if I check it now, I might stroke out.

There is actually a fair chance this will pass, because there are at least eleven dickless Repugnant senators who want to pretend they’re doing something for the children. And with Dimwit control of the House and White House…

Fuck ’em all.

 

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[UPDATE] Uvalde School Door

For lack of further data at this time, I’m gonna have to question whether that door could even be locked. From the inside anyway, as the cops are now claiming.

The gunman then entered adjoining classrooms 111 and 112, walked back into the hallway one time, then reentered the classrooms and locked the door behind him, [Texas DPS Director Steven] McCraw previously said.

He locked it behind himself, really?

Uvalde shooting: Texas DPS officials bring Robb Elementary School door into state capitol ahead of hearing
Texas Department of Public Safety officials brought a door from the Robb Elementary School shooting into the Texas State Capitol on Tuesday morning ahead of a special Senate committee hearing on the tragedy.

Hopefully that isn’t the actual door from the murder scene classroom. But if it is indicative of the door in question, that picture is very interesting. Let’s zoom in.

There is no key slot visible in that door handle; no lock control. That would be fairly typical for the room-side door handle. The key hole would be on the hall-side.

But there’s no way for Bucket O’Chum to lock it behind him. Nor is there a separate locking mechanism visible, and that door section is large enough — and secondary locks are normally installed fairly close to the handle — for one to be visible if one were there.

Uvalde Chief Coward Arredondo has also claimed:

Arredondo described the door to the classroom as one having a steel jamb that is designed to keep attackers in the hallways from forcing themselves in.

No such jam is visible on their prop. And if the door had such a manual jam, what good would keys have done? You could unlock a door, but it would still be jammed. And…

Allegedly, the door outwards into the hall. What sort of door jam or door stop on the inside would keep them from pulling the door open? A cross bar maybe; but I see no indication of that on the prop.

Since fishbait was able to simply open the door — twice — it wasn’t locked, whether that was due to being manually unlocked or malfunctioning.

However, a June 9 CNN report (yeah, take it with a grain of salt) said:

One teacher went to lock the door, but Miah says the shooter was already right there — and shot out the window in the door.

That does support the idea that some sort of lock was there. But it also supports the idea that it was not locked to begin with. During a lockdown.

Why on earth would the cops bring in the door or a prop to demonstrate a door lock without including… well, the lock?

Now, the reason I hope that isn’t the actual door. The real door is evidence. Both in an investigation the Uvalde cops claim is ongoing, and for the inevitable lawsuits.

Added: Yep.

A law enforcement source told the San Antonio Express-News that surveillance footage from Robb Elementary School shows that police made no effort to open the door. The report further states there is reason to believe it may have been unlocked.
[…]
According to the source, investigators believe the shooter who killed 19 children and two teachers at the school could not have locked the door to the connected classrooms from the inside.

 

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I See An Investment Opportunity Here

Canada is about to phase in a total ban on single-use plastics.

Trudeau Liberals begin countdown to ending use of single-use plastics
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said that Canada will ban the importing of certain single-use containers and goods by the year’s end, with bans for the end of next year already planned.

That should work well. TPM helpfully included a link to a previous report that explains just how extensive this ban would finally be.

Cabinet on May 12 listed “all plastic manufactured items” including toys, textiles, kitchen appliances, carpets, bottling and packaging as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. A coalition of oil and chemical companies has challenged the order in Federal Court as “wrong in law” and “based on conjecture, not evidence.”

Everything. Not even just single-use stuff. All of it.

But right off, next time you go to a hospital or doctor’s office take a look at all the sterile instruments and equipment made of plastic. So that it’s disposable. Saves the time, trouble, and expense of autoclaving everything for use and re-use.

If Canada’s totalitarian twits really go through this, invest in autoclave companies, if you’ve got the cash to spare (I know; unlikely these days). There’s going to be a hell of a market for them. And shop around for companies that still manufacture glass and steel medical equipment.

 

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A Too-Well Armed…

…government.

I see some folks are getting excited over the fact that the IRS is stockpiling guns and ammo. I’m not sure why it’s such a surprise, because they been doing that at least since the days of Clinton’s “kinder” IRS.

That’s a problem, yes. But of somewhat more significance to me is this:

Two questions:

1. Why in the hell does the National Institutes of Health have its own police department? What part of seeking “fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability” requires police power and guns? Are they going arrest that fundamental knowledge?

2. And why the hell does the NIH refuse to tell an arm of Congress — their boss — how many guns and how much ammo it has?

You know, if I were to magically become president, every fed agency with its own pocket police would lose ’em. Need someone with a badge? Call the Marshals Service.

And yeah, that would include the FBI.

 

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Wait’ll They Discover The Zelman Partisans

Which I wish they’d do soon; we could use the free advertising.

Via Mom-At-Arms:

I have my issues with JPFO under Gottlieb. But antisemitism isn’t one of them.

Now try us.

 

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BS Headline

I saw this headline and knew there was about a 98% chance it was wrong.

New Hampshire hiker dies of injuries after high-risk snow rescue, officials say
A New Hampshire hiker, who ran into severe weather and texted his wife he would die without help, has succumbed to his injuries after rescuers located him on a mountainous trail in a hypothermic state Saturday night, authorities said.

I lived in New Hampshire for several years, so I kept reading for what I knew I’d find.


The hiker, later identified as 53-year-old Xi Chen, of Andover, Massachusetts


Yep. Not a New Hampshire hiker. Those lost and injured winter hikers needing rescue were almost always from out-of-state. This part is fairly typical, too.

Officials said that multiple other hikers ignored the forecasted weather conditions and instead of turning back or bailing to safer elevations, they pressed on and ultimately called 911 expecting a rescue.

Ignoring forecasts, insufficient gear, no food or water, At least this guy was in an area that has cell coverage. A lot of city folk are shocked to discover no signal in the mountains.

 

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