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No Exceptions

December 15, 2022 Kim du Toit Anti-Gun Nannies, Law and Order, The Gun Thing

Not so much fun when it affects you personally, is it?

Oregon police are worried that if Ballot Measure 114 (BM 114) is allowed to take effect it may limit them to ten-round magazines and force them to get a permit in order to carry their firearms off-duty.

Among other things, BM 114 bans magazines holding more than ten rounds and requires residents to get a permit before being allowed to own a gun.

BM 114 contains an exemption for officers on duty, but there is confusion as to what hoops officers might have jump through in order to be armed and to maintain a standard number of rounds in their firearms when they are off-duty.

As the title of this post suggests: no fucking exceptions. Let cops and other government officials have to live under the bullshit laws that affect all citizens.

Even better would be if Oregon cops (of all jurisdictions) just come right out and say flatly that they’re not going to enforce any of this crap.

But they won’t, of course, and some “supplemental” law is going to be passed which carves out an exemption for law enforcement officers and deputies.

You heard it here first.

A Limey In San Antonio

December 15, 2022 Kim du Toit The Gun Thing

I’ve watched the lanky Jonny Carter on many an occasion, but this, his first trip to the U.S., was all kinds of fun to watch.

For those who don’t know the tall Englishman’s background, Jonny is a first-class shotgunner and a man who not only loves his craft, but knows his guns — and his obvious enjoyment of the Gun Thing makes for lovely entertainment. (I first talked about him earlier this year.)

He lands in New York (!), and heads to the Beretta store in Manhattan. (I don’t know why he would, when he’s already toured the factory in Brescia, but clearly the man can’t resist a shotgun.)

Then, after a little fun time with a Garand and M1 Carbine, it’s off to the main event in San Antonio. Enjoy Part 1, and then the Nationals. (What I found really interesting was his reaction to American shotgun ammo — way too much recoil for his taste.)

And then he makes the haj to Gordy’s in Houston, where even he’s impressed by the fine shotgun collection.

Watch, and enjoy. He certainly did.

There’s about four hours of viewing for y’all, just in these links — and there would be far worse ways to spend a morning.

And just for the record, I absolutely hate the way Jonny’s bespoke shotgun looks; that pistol grip? Ugh.

Slow News Days

December 14, 2022 Kim du Toit Housekeeping

Now that the mid-term elections are over (no comment), the news is not only slow but boring. That fat little swindler has been arrested, Elon’s causing all sorts of shit with Twitter (excellent)… and that’s about it.

I’ve also been laid low (again) with that same flu I had back in the fall, which means I don’t have the energy to peel a frigging banana.

Accordingly, all you will see on this website for the next couple-three days will be pics of cars, women, guns, and anything else that grabs my fleeting attention or causes an outburst of ungovernable rage.

Hmmm… okay, so pretty much as normal, except no thoughtful essays. Whatever.

3 Unnecessary Driving Skills

December 14, 2022 Kim du Toit 3 Inexplicable Things, Drive Time

…in these here modern times:

Driving a manual transmission. I’m not saying that the near-disappearance of the stick shift is a good thing — anything but — but it seems that most automobile owners today are quite comfortable with being steerers rather than drivers.

Parallel parking. Other than in city streets, almost all parking spots are adjacent and not parallel. I don’t remember in which state this happened (Pennsyvania?), but a woman sued the state’s driver’s code which mandated parallel parking proficiency, saying (quite rightly) that her inability to parallel park was a burden on nobody but herself, and any inconvenience suffered because she would have to drive around looking for non-parallel parking would be hers alone. The judge agreed, and the rule was set aside. I don’t know whether that’s spread to other states.

Reversing ability. It seems that almost every car these days comes equipped with some kind of rearview camera and a warning system which beeps when you’re about to reverse into something. I have to say that this modern geegaw is one that I heartily approve of, especially for Old Pharttes like myself for whom turning around in the seat is no longer the simple task that it once was. (My 2013 VW Tiguan doesn’t have such a thing, and I wish it did.)

Feel free to add your ideas of other unnecessary driving skills, in Comments.

Quote Of The Day

December 14, 2022 Kim du Toit QOTD

From Taki:

“A nation is judged by the manner in which it treats those who have sacrificed for its birth and growth, and today’s America is the worst example of this principle. Its founding fathers are insulted daily by race hustlers, its history altered to suit today’s fashions, its monuments torn down by con artists and louts hoping to enrich themselves by their vile acts. America is now a country as loathsome as the Soviet Union once was, with the midnight knock at the door replaced by the cancellation of anyone who dares utter a word against the sexual freaks and their enablers in Washington, D.C.”

And you really need to read the whole article from which this quote was drawn.

Rear View

December 14, 2022 Kim du Toit Gratuitous Chick Pics

The problem with all this self-promotion on Teh Intarwebz nowadays is that people — young women especially — have no clue about how to present themselves to the camera.

Marilyn Monroe, for example, was told early on in her career that she had an unattractive full smile (her teeth were a little too big, and a “big” smile showed her upper gum):

…which is why, in just about every MM pic, you only see half-smiles, or else head-thrown back poses (which foreshorten the teeth and hide the upper gum):