Broad Ripple Music and Art Fair

Three days of peace, love and art.

Dayton Hamvention III

Dayton Hamvention II

Roberta X peruses a variable....er, variator.

Dayton Hamvention

Thirteen Shotguns, Two Revolvers, Six Bayonets and a Flare Gun

1948 bicycle.

Why is next week special?

Here's a hint.

And by day...

...same place as last night.

Milepost 27 on the W&OD Trail

Riding home about 10 PM, just me and the critters (deer, rabbits, fox and the occasional skunk.) And about as dark as dark can get.

Doing My Patriotic Duty

Just received ten 20-round magazines from Brownells.

Centered

Finally got this scope centered properly. I had to bring the torque wrench to the range and make several adjustments, but finally it's centered properly at 100 yds. without touching the scope adjustment knobs. At 100 yds., the reticle posts appear to be nearly an inch wide, so even aiming from a bench, like I did here, is a bit of a challenge.

On a slightly sadder note, this sign was on the door Saturday afternoon.

A Brit Joins The NRA

No clue. No clue at all.

They have a cursory look at my driving licence, then ask me to select my weapon. I've no idea. "A small one. For an idiot," I offer.

What I get is a 45 that shoots nine-millimetre bullets (mostly in the wrong direction, it turns out, but that's me not the gun). It's alarmingly heavy and complicated. Even loading the weapon requires thumb strength and dexterity I seem to lack. After the fourth time of showing me how it is done, my guide loses patience. "You left-handed?" he asks. "Or just retarded?"

The NRA Wins Again

That's the title of this screed in the New Yorker.

Ha!

But they say it like it's a BAD thing...

First Rabbi Into Buchenwald

That's Rabbi Schacter on the left.

He died last week at the age of 95. Obit in the NYT:

The smoke was still rising as Rabbi Herschel Schacter rode through the gates of Buchenwald. 

It was April 11, 1945, and Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army had liberated the concentration camp scarcely an hour before. Rabbi Schacter, who was attached to the Third Army’s VIII Corps, was the first Jewish chaplain to enter in its wake. 

Easy Listening

Second Amendment scholar Joyce Lee Malcolm appears on PBS:

I've read her books but never seen her on TV. It's great that she was on PBS, too, instead of preaching to the choir. She very calmly and very effectively makes the points that need to be made about the AWB and magazine limits and the Heller case.

Pork Dillingers, Anyone?

Liartown.

h/t boing-boing.

French Maid With A .50 BMG

Don't mess with her.

h/t The Gun Wire.

Semiautomatics For The People

This graphic is sheer genius.

Support The Boulder Airlift! Keep 'em flyin'!

h/t No Lawyers - Only Guns And Money

Where Form 4473s Go To Die

Caption: "Cindy VanDyne scanning records from a gun retailer in 2010 at the A.T.F.’s National Tracing Center in Martinsburg, W.Va"

NYT.

Today's Tie...

...Comes to us from Cox's of Waco.

Busy Morning

Trying to burn up the Capitol Hill phone lines. Called Sen. Kaine, Sen. Warner, Rep. Wolf and Rep. Cantor (Majority Leader) and spoke with their people. Told 'em I'm opposed to:

• New gun control laws
• An assault weapons ban
• Limits on magazine capacity
• Universal background checks
• Gun registration

Had only the option of leaving a voicemail on Speaker Boehner's line.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's line was busy; tried it twice and couldn't get through.