In Other Bedbug-Related News…

So, I’m cleaning the computer / reloading room because of the damned things, and I’m going through all the stuff I’ve accumulated over the last few years reloading related.

Holy crap, I’ve got a lot of stuff. Just some of what I’ve been surprised by:

1,300 Speer 200 grain .45 Gold Dot projectiles, plus another 200 230 grain Short Barrel GDHP (and I still have 50 of the classic 200 grain “Flying Ashtray” projectiles). I’ve got about 500 Rainier Ballistics 200 grain plated HP’s. But only 1,000 pieces of unprimed brass.

500 pieces of Winchester .38 Super unprimed brass, new in unopened 100 round bags. (I traded my .38 Super in on my Hi Power last year.) Plus about 200 rounds of loaded ammo and another 150 once-fired cases. (Never did find a lot of that brass after shooting it.)

680 pieces of 405 grain Remington .458 jacketed softpoint projectiles and 975 300 grain .458 JHP projectiles, plus another 200 Speer 400 grain SPRN. I think I can feed my .458 SOCOM and .45-70 for a few years.

I should have gone through all this stuff a while back.

The Husband Store

My dad sent me this one, and I had to share.

One day a woman happens upon the store and enters the ground floor.  She is met by a large sign that says “All the men on this floor have jobs.”

“Wow,” she thinks, “that’s a good thing, but hardly sufficient to make them marriage material.” So she gets on the elevator and goes to the second floor.  On this floor she is greeted by a sign that says, “On this floor all the men have jobs and like kids.” 

“That’s great, but I have to wonder what’s on the next floor!” so on she goes.

The sign on the third floor says “On this floor all the men have jobs, like kids and help with housework.”  She doesn’t even bother stepping off the elevator – on to the fourth floor.

“On this floor all the men have jobs, like kids, help with housework and are devastatingly handsome.”  On to floor five!

“On this floor all the men have jobs, like kids, help with the housework, are devastatingly handsome and romantic.”

You know what happens next.

When the elevator doors open on the sixth floor, there is only one light lit, the one that illuminates the sign.  THIS sign says, “You are shopper 33,695,427 to reach this floor.  There are no men on this floor.  This floor serves to illustrate that no matter what, no woman can be pleased.  Thank you for confirming our hypothesis.”

Now across the street, the same man built a Wife Store.  Same six floor design, same rules.  On the first floor the sign says “All the women on this floor love sex.”  On the second floor the sign says “All the women on this floor love sex and have money.”

No one has ever visited floors 3 through 6.

About Damned Time

I have complained on this forum for quite a while about 18 USC 922(g)(1) dating back to 2005.  Recently over at Quora someone asked What would you change about American gun laws? My answer:

It would be simpler to ask “What wouldn’t you change about America’s gun laws?” Other answers here have been interesting, but I think in this case I will answer a slightly different question: “What ONE gun law would you change if you could?”

I would change 18 U.S. Code § 922 (g)(1)

It shall be unlawful for any person who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.

Do you have any idea how many “crimes” are “punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year”? Note that you don’t have to actually be sentenced to “more than one year,” just that the sentence could be more than one year.

Here’s a few examples:

It used to be that “felony” meant:

a crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death.

Now misdemeanors come with possible sentences of two years, and you can be charged with a felony for failing to pay for a movie ticket. And there’s no path to get your rights back.

If I could change nothing else, I’d change that.

Well, it’s being challenged in court, and one of the lawyers challenging it is Alan Gura (h/t to SayUncle for the pointer).  Gura won in the 3rd Circuit, but is also pursuing a similar case in the D.C. District Court.  The government has filed a petition for certoriari to the Supreme Court after their loss in the 3rd Circuit.  Hopefully a good replacement for Scalia will be seated on the Court in time to hear it, should they grant cert.

On an unrelated note, I just realized that this is my first post for 2017.  I guess I really am cutting back.