Episode 67: Red Flag Laws, Part 2
Mar 08, 2023
Show notesOppose this, donât promote it!
Oh, we werenât done with Red Flag laws the last time. Ohhhhh, no! Weâre going to give you some concrete examples of why theyâre bad news. I know, they look so benign on paperâŠuntil you start actually reading the paper. Then youâll see the danger of them.
Thatâs what weâre going to be discussing here. No matter what sort of propaganda terms the antis use to try to promote them, they are among the most un-Liberal, un-American things Iâve seen in a while. We cannot support these monstrosities, and Iâm going to explain why.
Yeah, Iâm gonna get racial here, too. This will, and does, disproportionally affect people of color, and especially Black people. No, âGranny Goodnessâ does *NOT* know best!
Or so the Native Americans were told, anywayâŠ.
On the contrary, instead of âRed Flagâ laws that attack our liberty, we should be advocating for what theyâve got in Vermont, another largely Liberal state. We call it, âVermont Carryâ for very good reason. The other name for it is âConstitutional Carryâ. By either name, itâs a good idea that helps to *preserve* our liberty, and we Liberals, especially, should be for it!
Episode 66: A Tragic School Shooting, and âRed Flagâ Laws
Jan 11, 2023
Show notesâRed Flagâ gun laws?
A six-year-old little boy brought a loaded gun to school and shot a teacher just this last Friday. Iâm sure you heard or read about this on the news. Like probably all of you, I am in shock at how this could happen. That teacher, Abby Zwerner, age 25, is still in the hospital in serious, but stable, condition. I think we all hope for Abbyâs swift and complete recovery.
How the hell could this happen? What drives a six-year-old child to take a loaded gun to school and shoot a teacher with it? I know, people are crying out for the blood of the parents, and I get it. Weâre going to talk about that. We didnât have this kind of thing happening when I was in school, and Iâm not that old. It wasnât that long ago. What is happening today where that kind of thingâA SIX YEAR OLDâcould do this??
Granny Goodness knows best!
There are also calls for increased âRed Flagâ laws in the wake of this horrible event. Iâve been looking up Red Flag lawsâŠand while we need to solve the problems that lead to shootings, this is not a good âsolutionâ. Weâre going to discuss why, specifically. Yeah, weâre going to go into some detail.
Episode 65: Two cartridges for hunting season, and the Mosin reburbishment project
Dec 22, 2022
Show notes.30-06 and .308 Win cartridges
The advantages of reloading your own cartridges are numerous. Two of the ones that I happen to enjoy are the .308 Winchester and the .30-06 Springfield. Now, any discussion of these two cartridges usually ends up in a holy war of Ford/Chevy/Dodge proportions. Thatâs not what Iâm after here. We will discuss the capabilities of these two cartridges, since theyâre so wildly popular. I happen to favor the .30-06 by a bit, but I also reload, shoot, and enjoy the .308 Win as well. The first segment will be .30-06. The second segment will be about the .308 Win.
Finnish Mosin M39
Then, we get to the ongoing Mosin-Nagant project. This is a Chinese-made barreled receiver (stripped) with essentially a sewer-pipe-like barrel (meaning: there was virtually no rifling left). I took this Mosin and am in the process of saving it, turning into something that I hope will be great. When you run across an old milsurp rifle that hasnât been treated very well, itâs OK to do a total refurbishment and modernization. Itâs not âbubbaâingâ a rifle at all in such a situation. In this case, Iâm going for sort of a âFinnish M39 with a strong American accentâ sort of rebuild. And yes, the rifle is getting *totally* rebuilt. New barrel, new bluing, scope mount, and more.
Episode 64: Recovery from Censorship, New Shooters, and New Reloading Manuals, Oh My!
Dec 04, 2022
Show notesCensorship Hurts Liberty
CensorshipâŠwe saw it during the horrible McCarthy era back in the 1950âs and the âHouse Un-American Activities Committeeâ (HUAC). I had hoped weâd never see it again. But it appears we have been seeing it for the last couple of years. And at last, it even happened to me.
The Liberalâs Gun Corner got bumped off the Internet, apparently because my provider didnât like that it was getting popular, at least not with another Liberal promoting the 2A. Weâre going to talk about that, because we need to be reminded that this is not Stalinâs Soviet Union, Kim Il Sungâs (or his grandson, Kim Jong Unâs) North Korea, or any other dictatorial regime. This is the United States of America, where ideas are supposed to be freely expressed, even you donât agree with them! We are having a major problem with that right now, folksâŠand THATâS BAD. VERY, VERY BAD. Yeah, weâre gonna talk about this!
We also discuss how to help new shooters so that they might want to continue exploring the sport of marksmanship. Itâs important not to inadvertently end up scaring people away from it, even though weâre well-intentioned. Weâll discuss that as well.
America Means Civil Liberties, Patriotism Means Defending Them
And finally, there are new editions of two popular reloading manuals out there, namely Lymanâs Reloading Manual, 51st Edition, and Modern Reloading, Second Edition, 2021 Update. There are some changes in these books that you should be aware of if youâre thinking about reloading, or if youâre an experienced reloader.
But Iâll tell you thisâŠno matter how hard they try, no matter how long it might take me to get this podcast back onlineâŠIâm not letting the forces of censorship win; that is definitely not who I am. This is America.
Episode 63: Independence Day, Texas Goes Constitutional Carry, and the Benefits of All-Steel Handguns
Jul 05, 2021
Show notesThe celebration of a free nation
Happy Birthday, United States of America. Today is our 245th birthday as a nation. We declared our independence from Great Britain on this day in the year 1776. I will always love you because you are my nation and also the greatest nation thatâs ever existed.
Texas has recently gone Constitutional Carry. Thatâs a good thingâŠunless youâre a Democrat who I call âMissy Annâ JohnsonâŠbecause of something she said about us. She calls Constitutional Carry âWild West Pimp Styleâ. Well, as offensive a set of racial dog-whistles as that isâŠI have decided, as have many other gun owners, to instead revel in it. Constitutional Carry is now hereby referred to as, âWild West Pimp Style!â Thank you, âMissy Annâ Johnson, for this wonderful Internet meme.
WILD WEST PIMP STYLE!! Can ya dig it?
And finallyâŠwe go into the benefits of the all-steel handguns. We talked about the more recent âplasticâ guns, the Glock-type guns, and theyâre very good. So are the traditional wood-and-steel models. Whichever you end up choosing, make sure that it feels comfortable for you. Not your âexpert gun buddyâ, not the gun magazinesâŠbut *YOU*. Thatâs what we did, and we benefited from that choice.
May the USA continue to prosper and thrive for another 245 years, and beyondâŠ.
Episode 62: The advantages of polymer-framed guns, and how the NRA can come back from its troubles
May 19, 2021
Show notesThe canonical âTupperware pistolââŠmillions and millions served!
âPolymer gunsâ vs. âall steel gunsââŠFord/Chevy/DodgeâŠJesus, Mohammed, or BuddhaâŠjust a few of the various âholy warsâ in our world. Well, I cannot speak much to the others, but âpolymerâ vs. âall-steelâ, that one I can help out with! Turns out both are good stuff, so weâre going to talk about the goodness of Glock-style polymer pistols. Next episode, weâll do the same for the more old-school, all-steel models, âcause theyâre good too.
Yep, weâre going to talk about these folks. Just keep an open mind, thatâs all I ask.
And in case you havenât noticed, the NRA is under some serious pressure at the moment. Itâs legal pressure from the anti-Second Amendment activists in New York Stateâs governmentâŠand this time, they might actually have a case. The NRA is in serious danger now of being dissolved by the Attorney General of New York State. We will discuss what the NRA needs to do to save itself, and why it should be saved. If they do it right, they can come back stronger than they ever were.
Episode 61: Who Ya Gonna Call? Ghost-Gunners! A discussion on So-Called âGhost-Gunsâ
May 04, 2021
Show notesWho ya gonna call?
The antis have a new target besides âA-Salt Weppenzâ. We always knew they would, and now we know what it is.
Itâs the home-built gun, the do-it-yourself gun. The antis want to prevent us from being able to do what many people throughout the history of this country have done: build our own firearms. Yes, this is a time-honored activity in our country, and lots of people do so. People do this with various types of firearms.
But the antis want to demonize that now, by calling our home-builds by a new negative-marketing term. That term is, âghost gunsâ. California officials have even home builds effectively illegal, and the antis now want to make that nationwide. Given the anti-2A majorities currently in the Congress, and the anti-2A current Presidential Administration, this could actually happen. Weâve got to make it clear that weâll be watching in 2022.
What we do this time is deconstruct, dissect, and debunk their pseudo-arguments against home-built guns. We did it with Eric âFast âNâ Furiousâ Holder. We did it with Hollywoodâs âsuggestionsâ for how to portray firearms. And now we do it with the one who first coined the term âghost gunââŠCalifornia State Senator Kevin de Leon. The antis at the Federal level are using his pseudo-arguments to try to push a Federal-level ban.
As always, we present a distinct case for our position and argue with factsâŠand we mean actual facts here at the Liberalâs Gun Corner.
This is a right, not a privilege.
The LiberalâŠor the Libertarian?
Apr 18, 2021
Show notesNothing says âlibertyâ like Lady Liberty herself!
âCowboy T, you sound a lot like a Libertarian!â
Yep, itâs come up again. It always comes up. Even Mark Levin said it recently, a few weeks ago. Perhaps itâs time to have that discussion, since itâs been a bit over eight years since we touched on it. My Conservative brothers and sisters really donât seem to like the âLâ wordâŠespecially when itâs coming out of a pro-Second-Amendment activist such as myself.
The short version: I am in fact a Liberal, not a Libertarian. And here, I will explain why, specifically, that is the case. Weâre going to discuss the difference.
With that said, we Liberals most certainly should be collaborating with our Libertarian brothers and sisters far, far more than we do. Turns out weâre natural allies in quite a few areas. We donât do that right now; matter of fact, we tend to effectively tell âem, âtalk to the handâ and brush them off. We shouldnât do that. And I will explain why that is the case, as well.
Episode 59: Gun Bans: My Fellow Liberals, Our âBabyâ Has Some Serious Ugliness that We Need to AddressâŠ.
Apr 01, 2021
Show notesThe end goalâŠ.
I wish todayâs post were just an âApril Foolsâ joke. Sadly, it isnât. Far from it.
If thereâs anything that nobody wants to hear, itâs that their baby has some ugliness.
As Liberals, we believe in the Constitution. We believe in liberty. Thatâs why the whole LGBTQ+ rights movement resonates so strongly with so many of us. Itâs why we chafeâat least, publiclyâwhen we hear of racism. And itâs why we recoil so strongly when someone whoâs not part of âusâ, especially a Conservative Republican, aims a criticism at us.
Itâs just as important for us to recognize problems with our own âhouseâ, or our own âbabyâ, if you will. And we do have a problem with our âbabyâ that we need to address. Many of us Liberals did and do vote for the Democrats, for various reasons. Problem: now that theyâre in power at the Federal level, they are likewise going after not just the First Amendment, but also the Second Amendment. Theyâre apparently even willing to seriously consider getting rid of the Senate filibuster, from all accounts, in order to do it. Weâve got to address that.
How does this happen? Thatâs what weâre going to talk about this time. Weâre also going to discuss what to do about it.
âŠwhat happens when âonly the police and military have gunsâ. Is this really what we want?
Episode 58: A case for Liberals, Especially Racial Minorities, to Support Constitutional CarryâŠESPECIALLY NOW!!
Mar 21, 2021
Show notesAnd you really think we donât need guns? Letâs see you face this guy and his pals without one!
Tennessee may become the 19th State to enact âConstitutional Carryâ. That means you donât need a permit from the government to carry a gun. Thatâs how it used to be before the end of the Civil War and the Black Codes. Constitutional Carryâalso known as Vermont Carry since Vermontâs been doing it for 230 years nowâis celebrated by some, but itâs got some others concerned. Some of those folks are racial minoritiesâŠspecifically, Black Americans in Memphis.
I would like to present my case, as a Liberal, for why Constitutional Carry is actually a very good thing, especially for us racial minorities. Especially for Liberals. So, youâre going to get, well, the âMinority Reportâ here on Constitutional Carry!
We also go into perhaps why so many of us Liberals donât have much problem voting for those who promote gun control. I think I have a reasonably good understanding of why that happens, so we cover that topic, too.
Closely related to this subject, another Liberal named âQueer Armorerâ did a video on why gun control is bad news, especially for racial minorities. Iâve watched it, and itâs actually pretty accurate. Worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpB1km71iw
CNN liked to say, âWe Go There!â during President Trumpâs Administration. Well, they ainât the only ones. So do weâŠrest assured.
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Weâre going to give you some concrete examples of why theyâre bad news. I know, they look so benign on paperâŠuntil you start actually reading the paper. Then youâll see the danger of them.
