Sunday, May 24, 2015

The NC Outlaw Lewis Redmond - The True Story of an American Hero

Via WRSA

One participant in the Southern Mountains’ Revenue Wars’ of the late 19th and early 20th centuries stands out. He has been described as the most famous man of whom you’ve never heard. He epitomizes Appalachia’s resistance to unjust authority. Not only did he essentially lead a war of evasion of which the likes of John Rambo would be proud, he lived to tell about it. Redmond is a shining example of the state-repellant qualities of the southern mountains.

The man who came to be known as “King of the Moonshiners” life is partially shrouded in myth. Accounts of his life vary greatly, largely because he was a leading cause du jour of fictitious dime novels of the 1870’s and 80’s, but the basic facts of his exploits remain true.

Lewis Redmond was most likely born in the northern corner of Georgia where it meets Western North Carolina on the eve of the War of Northern Aggression in the 1850’s, although some sources claim he was born in Swain County, NC.

More @ ZERO GOV

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Thoughts on the PTR


People throw the phrase ‘battle rifle’ or ‘battle carbine’ around and it always sounds a little…weird…to me. I suppose you may want to differentiate between youre hunting rifle that you knock down deer with and your ‘just in case’ FAL thats sitting in the closet, but ‘battle rifle’ always sounds kinda hokey. But..what else do you call it? Your ‘social rifle’? I usually just call it a ‘rifle’ and, maybe, depending on the context, ‘defensive rifle’. Anyway, Friend Of The Blog, Ryan at TSLRF, has been mulling a .308 defensive rifle. I threw my two cents in and suggested the PTR.

The PTR is a fairly accurate copy of the HK91. There are several copies of HK rifles out there, and there are a few ‘niche’ or ’boutique’ makers who make a very nice (and very expensive) product, but in terms of mass-market stuff its either Century or PTR. My feelings on Century is that it is the ballistic equivalent of treasure hunting at the sight of old outhouses….you might find a jewel once in a while, but most of the time what you find is crap. (Not withstanding their new milled AK which I may have to get two or three of.)

Personally, I rather like the FAL. But economically, if you’re wanting a .308 semiauto for the day the wheels fly of civilization, and you’re on a budget, you would be hard pressed to find a better value.

Eliminating the exotic stuff, here’s the rundown of whats available in .308 these days that fits the bill and isn’t some super-rare oddball thing (like a .308 Galil or Valmet): AR-10, FAL, PTR, M1A and maybe one of the AK-pattern .308s. I’m limiting this discussion to stuff based on platforms that have been around a while…the AR-10 being the newest. Stuff like the KelTec RFB or other gunny-come-lately need to be around for a while so we can see if they have legs or not.

Whats your budget for the gun and it’s necessary gear? Well, let’s say, mmmm, $1250. Let’s also not cheap out and go with the absolute cheapest [rifle/mag/etc] we can find. We want what works. So, while the Century FrankenFAL may be 1/2 the price of a DSA, it is not a contender because it’s simply a crapshoot in terms of its manufacture. LWRC and SIG don’t have anything for less than $1250 at the moment. S&W has some ‘bargain’ AR-10 rifles but nothing on Gunbroker is less than $1250, and while Remington makes one as well I’m holding off on any of their new stuff until they get their act together in terms of QC.

A basic rifle suitable for defensive use, not a target, match or hunting gun:

ISIS Takes Another Major Biblical City (Palmyra) And Begins The Slaughter Of Its Citizens With Rows Of People Beheaded

Via David

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So now ISIS have taken control of the ancient city of Palmyra, biblical Tadmor in Syria. Palmyra (city of palms) or Tadmor is home to some of the world’s most magnificent ruins while government troops have almost entirely withdrawn, leaving the city, its people and its priceless ruins in the hands of ISIS, which after this victory, ISIS now controls half of the entire nation of Syria. This in addition, ISIS took control of Ramadi, a city in Iraq’s Anbar Province while the US military says it is sending 1,000 anti-tank missiles to the Iraqi government following the fall of that city. Who knows, most likely such missiles will also fall in the hand of ISIS since ISIS, as reported in Tadmor, was able to win their victory as a result of using the TOW missiles to take that city.

More @ Shoebat

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 ISIS Holds Massive Military Parade in West Anbar Celebrating Victory in Ramadi …(Where’s the Coalition?)

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The War On Poverty: How to get $75k in benefits for you and your girlfriend.

Via David

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Follow these proven steps:

1. Don’t get married to her.

2. Use your mom’s address to get mail sent to.

3. The guy buys a house.

4. Guy rents out house to his girlfriend who has 2 of his kids.

5. Section 8 will pay 900 a month for a 3 bedroom home.

6. Girlfriend signs up for Obamacare so guy doesn’t have to pay out the butt for family insurance.

7. Girlfriend gets to go to college for free being a single mother.

8. Girlfriend gets 600 a month for food stamps.

9. Girlfriend gets free cell phone.

10. Girlfriend get free utilities.

11. Guy moves into home but uses moms house to get mail sent to.

12. Girlfriend claims one kid and guy claims one kid on taxes. Now you both get to claim head of house hold at $1800 credit.

13. Girlfriend gets disability for being “crazy” or having a “bad back” at $1800 a month and never has to work again.

This plan is perfectly legal and is being executed now by millions of people.

                                                  More @ A Nod To The Gods

Before the Gun, There Was the Gonne

 

What we all have in common here on the Collector's Forum is a passion for firearms. We share in the history, development, implementation and geopolitical consequences.

But before the first gun was shouldered some time in the 15th century, gunpowder had been throwing fire and projectiles for at least 200 years. And an infantry soldier could use a gonne. I won't get into the debate of whether gunpowder was first formulated in China or Europe. Instead, I'd like to show you what I found at a yardsale today.

It appears to be an eight-shot hand gonne (handgonne, hand cannon), which could be utilized by an individual or in tandem. It's well aged piece of cast iron, and missing its handle. The pole could be braced against the ground or another solid object, or held underarm to absorb recoil. This one could be equipped with eight loads of powder, rocks, ceramic, lead or iron shot. It has nine fuse holes, and could be ignited with flame, coals or slow burning match.

Not very accurate, and not meant for long range. But it had to be quite an attention getter when it was first used in battle.

My best google-fu identifies mine as Chinese, and from the late 15th to early 17th century. I may be way off! And anyone with any better information, please be free to add to this early hand cannon topic.

Pics, and thanks for looking.

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Aimpoint PRO Survives House Fire

Via Daily Timewaster

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Paul Riddell had a shitty winter. He lost his Minnesota home to a fire one night this past February.

Thankfully, no one was hurt in the fire. The house was a total loss, though.

“I lost pretty much everything,” he says.

Aside from all his family’s other possessions, he lost three firearms in the blaze. But, he reports his Aimpoint PRO mounted on a Spikes lower/BCM-EAG lightweight upper frankenrifle somehow survived the fire. That’s it in the inset photo of his rifle above, red dot glowing defiantly. Aimpoint found out about it and already swapped it for a brand new optic and with a plan to display the survivor in its museum.

“Here’s a picture of my AR after it was recovered from my house fire after being exposed to the elements for over a month in late February to mid March,” said Riddell. “The rifle was at the core of the fire.”

More @ Recoil

Rand Paul Out Maneuvers Mitch McConnell On Spy Power Extension Bill – (aka NSA Reauthorization)

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Mitch McConnell staged an epic gamble over U.S. spying powers — and lost.

The Republican leader pledged to keep senators in Washington through the weekend to finish work on expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, but Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called his bluff.

Instead, when the smoke cleared in the early hours of Saturday morning, the 2016 presidential contender was the one with bragging rights.

The battle between the two Kentucky Republicans spilled over on the Senate floor, with Paul using procedural tactics to force the chamber into an early Saturday vote. He then used his leverage to kill off McConnell’s repeated attempts to reauthorize the expiring National Security Agency (NSA) programs — first for two months, then for eight days, then for five, then three, then two.

Washington Post’s Waco Account

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The best place to hide a leaf is in a forest. The best place to hide the truth about what happened six days ago in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco is in the river of non sequitars and lies a Minnie Pearl clone named W. Patrick Swanton has been spitting at the press all week.

Swanton is the press officer for the Waco Police Department. On the one hand he promises “transparency.” On the other hand he modestly allows that he is unfazed by the personal danger that a vast and underreported biker threat poses to Texas police, politicians and citizens. Swanton has been the sole, quotable source of information about what happened last week so reporters have had no choice but to quote him. It is either quote Swanton or leave all that blank, white space around the furniture store ads.

Swanton’s refusal to answer the questions people want answered has led to increasingly bizarre speculation. Today’s chuckle of the day, if one can chuckle about this tragedy, is, “A new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Obama regime’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deliberately massacred at least 9 innocent motorcycle enthusiasts on 17 May over fears that one of the clubs participating in a yearly rally in Waco, Texas, could possibly be linked to the Night Wolves.”

It's Not Race That Divides Us, But Culture

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The racialists in power have again called us to an “honest discussion” about race. As they foresee it, this honest discussion will involve those of us who do not practice racism, but are not black, to come forward, confess our inherent racism, and be duly chastised or punished. Dialogue is not going to be part of the process, since non-blacks have already been found guilty, and the president’s jury is not remotely interested in evidence.

The trap in the president’s faux invitation is that it focuses our attention on the wrong component. The emphasis on race assumes too much, but does so because it advances the agenda of dividing us on grand scales, which is more conducive to the illusion of victimhood and the cure of entitlement. To divide by race in the way practiced by the president and the left enables them to hide one set of social realities from scrutiny, while predetermining the fault of another social set, based entirely on the colors of their skin, as long as it is understood that the guilty are not black. How is it possible that two or more groups, coincidentally divided by skin color, live in the same country but do not live in the same reality?

To hear our black, democratically elected president tell it, our dystopian nation is a hellhole of virulent racism. Thus, every thought, word or action that is critical of the president, and those who peddle racial victimhood and entitlement, is inherently racist.

This is the rationale of a leftist, of a simpleton, because there is far too much history and evidence to the contrary to entertain it as serious. No nation on Earth more consciously ensures equality of treatment than ours.

So, if it’s not race that divides us, what is it?  In a word, culture.

WACO II: ‘Richie died, then Diesel, then Dog’: An eyewitness to the Waco biker brawl

Via Charlie "Brock,  I read this in the Washington Post last night.  Considering the source it's an amazing confirmation of what individuals have reported on your blog."


Richie was the first to die, then Diesel, then Dog.

Whatever else they were in life, the men with the biker nicknames were Cossacks, loud and proud and riders in a Texas motorcycle gang. And that’s what got them killed, shot to death in a brawl with a rival gang in the parking lot of a Texas “breastaurant” that advertised hot waitresses and cold beer.

“I saw the first three of our guys fall, and we started running,” said their brother in arms, another Cossack, who said he was there May 17 when the shooting started at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. Nine bikers died, 18 were wounded and more than 170 landed in jail.

The Cossack, president of a North Texas chapter of the motorcycle gang, asked not to be identified because he is now in hiding and said he fears for his life. He is a rare eyewitness speaking publicly about the Waco massacre, one of the worst eruptions of biker-gang violence in U.S. history.

Forrest bust back at Old Live Oak

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Three years after it disappeared, Nathan Bedford Forrest’s bust is back atop a monument erected in his honor at Old Live Oak Cemetery.

Over a decade since the unveiling of the original Forrest bust, a second ceremony was held Saturday by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Friends of Forrest to honor the Civil War general. When the red curtain covering the new monument was removed, cannons were fired and cheers erupted from the crowd of 100 or more.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the general is back,” exclaimed Pat Godwin, president of chapter 53 of the UDC and the Friends of Forrest.

Ferguson Protestors Protesting Again; They Want Their Checks!

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Isn’t this the most delicious irony ever?

Last week, according to the Washington Times, hired protesters who haven’t been paid held a sit-in at the Missourians Organizing for reform Now (MORE) offices and posted a demand letter online. Similarly, protesters with the Black Lives Matter movement have started a #CutTheCheck hashtag and held a sit-in at the offices for the successor group to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in Missouri after the group allegedly stopped paying them. MORE has been paying protestors $5,000 per month to demonstrate in Ferguson.

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14 members of Waco PD involved in bloodbath

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Nothing particularly new, but a good summary.

The owner of the Don Carlos restaurant has already filed a lawsuit against the parent company of the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco.

In the lawsuit, the owner of Don Carlos makes a shocking allegations. He claims that “thousands of rounds of bullets” were fired. He says that his restaurant has multiple bullet holes. He also says that four cars in his parking lot each have multiple bullet holes.

Note that none of the bikers involved are alleged to have used a rifle. Any weapon and ammo used would have been something they had concealed on their person.

Click here to view lawsuit.

What else we know:

At least 22 police officers were already present at the scene to monitor a meeting of the Confederation of Clubs and Independents.

New statements by Sgt Swanton reveal that fourteen members of the Waco police department opened fire. All fourteen have been placed on administrative leave. The police affidavit indicates that at least four of the fatalities were killed by police.

Security video shows most of the 200+ bikers were fleeing for their lives.

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