Bear Bussjaeger

Someone finally noticed the “semi-auto problem.”

Besides The Zelman Partisans, that is.

New column.

GUN CONTROL 2021?
The Machine Gun Nest has pieced together all the elements of a potential semiautomatic rifle ban in 2021. They have discovered the dangerous precedent of allowing the ATF to redefine words to make inanimate bits of plastic into machineguns, paperweights into firearms, and pistols into rifles. Why, all this adds up to making semiautos into machineguns because they’re easily converted.
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“What’s going on in 2021” maybe wouldn’t have been such a problem if more people had paid attention to what was going on in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. More attention than ridiculing those of us warning about “Bump Stock Hill” anyway.

If it comes across as cynical and discouraged, that’s because I am.

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What about their regular jobs?

So Georgia Gov. Kemp is deploying the Guard.

Kemp sending in Georgia National Guard to fight COVID-19 surge
With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations still on the rise in Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp deployed the Georgia National Guard Tuesday to hospitals across the state, including the Southeast Georgia Health System in Brunswick.

Kemp announced that 105 members of the Guard with medical training will head to 10 hospitals.

“These guardsmen will assist our frontline health-care workers as they provide quality medical care during the current increase in cases and hospitalizations,” the governor said.

Why do I suspect these medically trained folks were already assisting frontline health-care workers in their regular jobs, and Kemp is taking them away from them?

Antigen Case Hypothesis

A month ago, I took note of the increase in so-called “breakthrough” COVID cases among the pseudo-vaccinated. I also noticed that in Georgia around half of the “cases” being reported were “antigen cases.” That set my mind to buzzing.

To recap: An antigen test checks for antigens; in the case of SARS-CoV-2, spike proteins.

The three SAS-CoV-2 pseudo-vaccines allowed in the US are not true vaccines (a small sample of a pathogen, not enough to make one ill, but sufficient for the immune system to see and produce antibodies for). These pseudo-vax use mRNA (Pfizer, Moderna) or DNA (Janssen) to hijack cell ribosomes to produce a SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which at last the immune system targets as in conventional vaccines.

Do you see the possible issue? Will getting pseudo-vaxxed cause you to pop positive on an antigen test? Could increasing vaccinations acccount for some of those alleged breakthrough cases?

When I compared vaccines administered by date administered to antigen cases by date of onset, I saw a possible rough correlation. Surges in vaccinations led surges in antigen cases by 10-28 days.

Hypothesis: The recent surge in cases was led by a surge in vaccinations by 10-28 days. Much of the case surge is actually increased vaccination.

And here is where we stand today.

Unlike the previous instances of possible correlation, there’s no clearcut surge and decline in either antigen cases or vaccination. Both continued to increase. But, the current increase in vaccinations began July 5, 2021.

The current increase in antigen cases started July 12, 2021 (7 days after vax started), and really kicked into gear July 19 (14 days after vax).

Hypothesis not proven. But darned if I think it’s disproven either.

Frickin’ Microsoft Thought Police

A while back, my email provider decided to move their service to Microsoft Outlook. It sucks. Turns out Outlook filters my spam for me, like it or not. You can’t turn it off. I have to log in a couple of times a day to check the spam filter.

And what it considers spam… Early on, it might have been a coincidence, but it just get more glaringly obvious by the day.

Spam: firearm-related groups and companies (including those replying to my emails), conservative groups and individuals, Christian groups. GOP. Stuff I’ve whitelisted still gets blocked.

Not-Spam: Swalwell and Newsom fundraisers, the DNC, any leftwing outfit.

Yet another reason I need cash for my own paid hosting.

I think I’m entitled to an opinion on this one.

As an American of Irish and German heritage, who was raised Catholic…

THE WOKES ARE TRYING TO CANCEL NOTRE DAME’S LEPRECHAUN MASCOT
The wokes at the Indy Star couldn’t wait to fire off a message to Notre Dame to get comment over a recent survey that found the Fighting Irish mascot as the fourth-most offensive college football mascot.

… allow me to tell these thought policing pisswits to go fuck themselves and the horse they rode in on.

I wonder how many of these weasels’ social media feeds are annually littered with images and videos of them appropriating Irish cultural every Saint Patrick’s Day.

Added: If you’d like to share your own thought with that pseudo-reporter, her email address is dbenbow@indystar.com. Be as polite — or not — as you deem appropriate.

Treason?

A few days ago, Vin Suprinowicz wondered

What if it wasn’t incompetence? What if it was . . . treason?
Thanks to Joe Biden, it appears the Open-Borders globalists will now see one of their big dreams come true – 100,000 Afghans, many of them military-age males taught by “Sharia law” that women should be slaves and should never be allowed to learn to read, who firmly believe U.S. taxpayers should support them and provide them with free whores while they plan which of our major cities or landmarks to blow up next – will now be airlifted out of Kabul AHEAD OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENS TRAPPED THERE, and promptly air-dropped into Middle America WITHOUT BEING VETTED FOR ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENTS, OR EVEN CHECKED FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE!

When it comes to most politicians, I usually find it easier to attribute horrific decisions to stupidity and incompetence, rather than evil. Folks like Schumer being exceptions to that, naturally. And Biden clearly is senile.

But today…

1. BREAKING: US Military Has Started Withdrawing From Afghanistan – Biden Turns His Back on Thousands of Americans Stranded Behind Enemy Lines

2. NEW: US Embassy Issues Last Alert For US Citizens to Leave Afghanistan Or They’re on Their Own – Then Recalls it 30 Minutes Later

OK, we might still be in the incompetent senility range, but then there was this:

3. DNC: “President Biden Defies Expectations (AGAIN), Delivers Results in Afghanistan”

It’s the last that says he did exactly what was wanted. The DNC is congratulating him on a job well done in abandoning citizens, and turning over hundreds of thousands of weapons to terrorists. As for the latter, consider Vin’s point.

“Given that all the electronic systems on those aircraft are presumably fully functional — IFF, targeting systems, electronic countermeasures, terrain radar, look-down-shoot-down — what’s their current cash value to China, Russia, or Iran?

Back in my mil days, even when we weren’t expecting to be overrun, or have to abandon gear, we still had contigencies already set up so that we could destroy or demil stuff quickly. It was normal, standard: Sledge hammer? Check. Burn barrel? Check. Pliers to yank those channel elements? Check.

Demilling gear was understood. Usually. One time, a unit did a big radio network upgrade, and turned their old handheld radios over to DRMO. But the guy running it had never done that before. He hadn’t pulled the channel units, meaning whoever bought those at auction would know a lot of freqs and exactly who is using. Myself and an airman zipped over to DRMO, found the radios, and spent the afternoon demilling dozens of units.

But no one thought of that when pulling out of Afghanistan?

And the DNC thinks that’s wonderful?

Added: Crap. Now add in this.

Psaki Says Civilian Evacuations From Afghanistan will Stop Before August 31 to Wind Down Military Presence
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday confirmed that Joe Biden will stop evacuating Americans before August 31 to wind down military presence.

You think the election fraud in 2020 was bad?

You ain’t seen nothing yet.

Pelosi changed House rules to combine the $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion Green New Deal “budget” bill into a single vote. Formal national bankruptcy, here we come.

Reports say the — already too small — military force in Afghanistan is being drawn down. The thousands of Americans still stranded fucked there? Yeah, fucked. I’m sure the Taliban wouldn’t think of killing them with any of the hundreds of thousands of weapons Biden left for them.

The backlash from this is going to be incredible. The Dims are going to need Fulton County-scale fraud in damned near every precinct in the country, just overcome the vote-’em-out tidal wave.

I have three more election reform proposals:

1. Revoke any laws against otherwise lawful carry at voting locations.

2. Make “They barred observers” an affirmative defense for shooting election officials.

3. Make barring observers, or other election fraud a capital offense.

“Fingers are triggers.”

Cannot wait to see the ATF explain that in a non-Ninth Circuit court.

New column at The Zelman Partisans.

RARE BREED TRIGGERS FIGHTING BACK
I recently noted that the ATF has deemed the FRT-15 semiautomatic trigger is a machinegun. Rare Breed Triggers president Lawrence DeMonico is pushing back.