Made it to the range for lunch yesterday. 128 rounds (16 x 8round mags) of 45acp though my Kimber Pro Carry II, plus a few extras just to round things out. Call it 130, max of 135 rounds. Since Walmart has not had 45acp ammo on its shelf’s for months (nor much of anything else) I’m damn glad I reload.
I dropped in and talked to the folks for a bit on the way home, then went for the usual bike ride, sorry Riley I’ll try and take you for a walk twice this weekend. I actually broke down and read a little more of the manual for my new bike odometer and think that I have managed to calibrate it for my tires, though I may just go ahead and do a rollout test on it for “Extra accuracy”.
Using this latest calibration then my route, as modified by the recent (last 3 years) change brought on by the Angles Camp Bypass is actually 17.5 miles, not the 18 and a smidgen that I thought it was.
Bummer. Somehow 18 miles sounds so much longer then 17.5.
That did not take long. Sometime last night or this morning the .Fed “Persuaded” DefCad to stop providing the files needed to guide a 3D printer and make a “Gun” or receiver for one.
Too bad over 100,000 people, world wide, downloaded them first and that torrents have the readily available for anyone who want’s them. Try “The Pirate Bay” and look for DefDist DEFCAD MEGA PACK
Goram Purple-bellies. Pandora’s box has been opened. Might as well try and put tooth paste back in the tube.
The concept was suggested by a Polish military attache in March 1942. The project was assigned to the US Army Joint Psychological Warfare Committee and was designed for the United States Army two months later by the Inland Manufacturing Division of the General Motors Corporation in Dayton, Ohio. Production was undertaken by General Motors Guide Lamp Division to avoid conflicting priorities with Inland Division production of the M1 carbine. The army designated the weapon the Flare Projector Caliber .45 hence the designation FP-45. This was done to disguise the fact that a pistol was being mass produced. The proposed intent was to drop these weapons at concentration camps where internees would pick up these weapons, overcome Nazi Guards, and hopefully liberate the camp. The original engineering drawings label the barrel as “tube”, the trigger as “yoke”, the firing pin as “control rod”, and the trigger guard as “spanner”. The Guide Lamp Division plant in Anderson, Indiana assembled a million of these weapons. The Liberator project took about 6 months from conception to end of production with about 11 weeks of actual manufacturing time, done by 300 workers.
The FP-45 was a crude, single-shot pistol designed to be cheaply and quickly mass produced. The Liberator had just 23 largely stamped and turned steel parts that were cheap and easy to manufacture. It fired a .45 caliber pistol cartridge from an unrifled barrel. Due to the unrifled barrel, it was intended for very close ambush (1-4 yds). Its maximum effective range was only about 25 feet (less than 8 m). At longer range, the bullet would begin to tumble and stray off course.
Unlike the original, steel Liberator, though, Wilson’s weapon is almost entirely plastic: Fifteen of its 16 pieces have been created inside an $8,000 second-hand Stratasys Dimension SST 3D printer, a machine that lays down threads of melted polymer that add up to precisely-shaped solid objects just as easily as a traditional printer lays ink on a page. The only non-printed piece is a common hardware store nail used as its firing pin.
A handgun, “Printed” of plastic on a 3D printer.
Others have printed the Lower Receiver of an AR-15, the “Lower” is the part on a AR-15 that is given a serial # and is in fact “The Gun” for all legal purposes.
Quite predictably Senator Chuck Schumer (BrainDead New York) was found curled up in a corner whimpering and peeing on himself at the thought of all this.
“But that was only a movie, and just this week, it has become reality. We’re facing a situation where anyone — a felon, a terrorist — can open a gun factory in their garage and the weapons they make will be undetectable. It’s stomach-churning.”
Schumer said he is pushing legislation that would extend an existing ban on undetectable weapons to specifically any gun, magazine or firearm component that would not be detectable by walk-through metal detectors.
So under his proposed law 99.9% of all rifles (and pistols) ever made would be illegal because of their wood or plastic stocks or grips.
I get a different vibe from all of this. I’m reminded of the A. E van Vogt story “The Weapon Shops of Isher”
The Right To Buy Arms is the Right to be Free.
Despite the brain-dead or possibly stoned ramblings of Senator Harry Reid (BrainDead Nevada) most of us don’t think the .Gov is “Inherently Good”
In fact I think a good argument can be made that Government is Inherently Bad. And needs to be closely watched and preferably kept weak.
So do your part. Go here and download the files, so that when the day comes you can print your own pistol.
Last Thursday Monika and I drove down (leaving @ 0′dark ugly (aka 4:10 AM)) to Palo Alto for her, long delayed, final surgery*. This one was to remove the expanders and put her silicon gel implants in.
(Not Monika)
Back home just late enough to miss getting Monika’s prescriptions at the pharmacy (closed 35 minutes before we drove through Angles Camp.
As an aside. I want to send a great big thank you, to all you retarded Rubber Neckers on Hwy 580. 50 minutes to go 12 miles. The fire department was putting out a grass fire the size of my backyard next to the highway. But you all got to watch the firemen hold their hoses. I hope it was good for you also.
Next up. I’ve ridden the Murphys-Angles Camp-Murphys loop for the first time this year last month. Actually twice last month and once this month. I’m here to tell you that I felt pretty good after the first trip. Right up until I got back on the bike 2 days later. Damn… I did not realize my butt was that sore. The new odometer I put on the road bike tells me that the route is 17.81 miles. I’ll check it and make sure I got the configuration right, but that is the figure I’ll use for now.
Riley has recovered enough from the bite on his foot to start back on our standard 3 mile walk. This make him very happy.
I started getting the pond going this weekend, I need to pull the pump apart and see if I can fix the leak (probably replace) in the gasket. That and I have to do something about the power cord to the pump. Riley does think the world is his chew toy.
No shooting or even reloading for the last week or so. Bummer.
*Baring complications or minor cosmetic touch ups.
Serial adulterer,convicted perjurer and all around liar.
I would not believe the man on a sunny day if he told me the sun was out. For what it is worth studies have shown that the “Assault Weapons” / Standard Capacity Magazine ban that he touts had little or no effect on crime. For that matter, just what is his “Expertise” in self-defense shooting? I thought that the Vince Foster shooting was ruled a suicide?
“By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia’, the ‘security’ of the nation, and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms’, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason, I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.”
– April, 1960 (Then) Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)
