In other news, Trump made a cryptic post on Truth Social, stating “Some of you guys are alright. Don’t go to major sporting events in the next two weeks if you’re in the southwest.”
It is unclear what the President meant by this. However, it should be noted that President Trump has not been presented with an NFL Peace Prize, and may not feel obligated to think purely of peace.
You can make one with home depot parts if you needed to.
Not really. You could shove some freeze plugs from the auto parts store into a capped length of iron pipe from the hardware store, but the tap to thread it onto a muzzle isn’t something you’ll find in either store. And good luck getting all the holes to line up if you’re trying to do it with a hand drill or a drill press. In the end, you’d have a real piece of shit, weighing down the front of your gun for little benefit.
You’d be better off not bothering until the local machine shop starts selling nice ones, along with full-auto conversions.
Even in areas of the US where AR-15s are restricted, it is usually possible to purchase one in a neutered configuration, which can be returned to standard configuration if you’re so inclined.
There are other box-magazine fed intermediate-cartridge semi-automatic rifles that are a better choice than a 12ga shotgun, and don’t run afoul of assault weapons bans, such as the Mini-14 and SKS.
A pump action shotgun is better than nothing, but it is most suitable for hunting ducks and deer.
Shotguns are not a good buy. A standard 12 gauge has significantly more recoil than typical rifles, a lower rate of fire, significantly less range, smaller magazine capacity, and lower reliability due to the construction of the ammunition. It is also completely ineffective against hard armor plates that are now ubiquitous.
Suppressors are cool, but they’re not all that useful. Most people would not have them, so hearing protection would still be required. Simple foam ear plugs are the most effective, and very cheap. Electronic muffs with a pass-thru microphone and speaker system can be had for as little as $50, allowing you to hear everything around you other than the gunshots.
The purchase order for someone trying to make themselves a player in a democracy, is a semi-auto rifle, preferably an AR-15, a dozen magazines, ammunition, electronic muffs. Following that, a sling, an optic, a way to carry magazines on your body, ceramic armor plates. You can consider a pistol, a baton, around the time you’re getting a first aid kit, a radio, a helmet.
the administration cant subdue one medium sized midwestern city.
They’re not trying to. In fact, they are explicitly trying not to. The whole point of the rapid expansion of ICE, the untrained government thugs, the unlawful tactics, is to instigate violence. So Trump can declare martial law, and deploy the military against the citizenry. They’re not trying to hide it, Trump himself keeps talking about declaring martial law, there’s no reason to not be aware.
It’s also a simple fact, sustained by history, that America sucks beyond badly at occupying conquered territories. Iraq, anyone? Afghanistan anyone?
Why do you assume it would be an occupation? I think you should consider how effectively the United States colonized its own territory while exterminating the indigenous population, and then consider that Greenlanders are, in fact, red Injuns.
You can shine a light through the eggshell to see what’s inside. It’s called candling.
I used to live near an egg farm. A commercial supplier, but they had a little stand by the road where they did direct sales. They sold all the grades of eggs you don’t see in stores, by the flat. One of the options was double yolkers. Occasionally you’d find a triple.
If the MN National Guard take any action against ICE, that is insurrection. Trump would have the legal right and duty to send in the US Army to suppress it.
Do you believe Governor Walz has decided he’s ready to start the Second American Civil War? Because if you don’t, then the only reason Walz has to call up the National Guard is to suppress citizens, with explicit orders to do nothing that interferes with ICE.
It’s obvious bait, but ignoring the trap won’t cause the hunter to abandon the hunt.
We’re far past the point of a nonviolent solution.
”I was at home that day. I heard the gunshots, the horns, I came outside, and I ran into someone who shouted at me: ‘She’s been murdered,’" recounted Letitia Meyer, who lives in the predominantly Latino neighborhood. “Since then, I’ve been coming here every day, and I’ve joined the ICE observer groups to defend our neighbors. ICE didn’t expect this, for us to be as organized as we are, but we’ve been through this before.” It was just a few blocks from here that George Floyd was killed by a police officer in 2020, a murder that sparked the largest anti-racist protest movement in the United States in decades.
The entire point of what ICE is doing is to incite rioting in a Democrat-controlled city in a Democrat-controlled state, to manufacture a crisis to provide an excuse to expand Federal power. What ICE didn’t expect was how passive people are. Running around with rape whistles screaming “Fuck you” isn’t something that scares these thugs.
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Steampunk is all about direct steam power. Before the harnessing of electricity confined steam to electric plants.
Electromechanical technology was well developed prior to the invention of the transistor, and remained widely employed through the 1970s, when microcontrollers started replacing it.