The Adventures of Picasso, 1978 film

I’d like to watch that film, but can’t find it anywhere. Any leads would be appreciated.

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Keystone 722 review, new on American Shooting Journal


Keystone Adds Rounds With 722

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Father and daughter

Writer David Burkhead and his daughter, illustrator Athena.

 

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Pet firearms to a good home

A friend is moving from Illinois to Tennessee. To finance the move, he’d like to let go of certain surpluses:

  • Gen 3 Glock 30SF with Talon grips, Trijicon Tritium sights + 6 extra Mags $700
    Gen 4 Glock 26 with Talon grips – Truglo Tritium sights + 6 extra mag (3 of them with Pierce finger extensions) $700
  • Henry Survival rifle black .22 + 6 mags and custom sling $300
  • Ithica gun company Ohio M37 – 12G shotgun – walnut stock – fixed barrel, 8 shot, home defense $700

If interested, please ask directly — aptobags@gmail.com  You can see reviews of these guns on Youtube.

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Editors and publishers

Toni Weisskopf, editor at Baen Books.

DeAnna Atwood, publisher at Iron Clad Press.

 

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A Solid Platform for Semi-auto Handgun Optics: new on AllOutdoor

UM Tactical pistol optic mount

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Writer John Ringo

He specializes in writing about bloody mayhem.

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Writer Jack Finley

Jack’s books, mostly science fiction.

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Lawdog

A wonderful storyteller.

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Maschinengewehr 42

A little carbine got him the buzzsaw. Fun to run, less fun to carry. Much harder on the ears.

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If you are at Libertycon, I recommend this workshop

Friday, July 8

Lawyer / Author Amie Gibbons will conduct a 2 hour workshop on law basics for writers. It will include a general outline of criminal, constitutional, and tort law basics (on the writing side), as well as a treatment of intellectual property, copyright and contract law (on the business side). Location: Roosevelt Room at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel.

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Living in Fear. Not Living in Fear. New on AllOutdoor

Salubrious psychological effect of gun ownership by vulnerable populations.

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Liberty 50-grain Civil Defense Ammo: new on AllOutdoor

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Technical clarification

Both Pennsylvania rifle and AR15 were used for hunting in advance of combative use. AR15 was sold to civilians from 1963, a year before the Army adopted it for special operations. Both were much lower in power than typical hunting or military rifles of the day, both for portability and to lower the the cost of powder and lead consumed. At the time when a typical musket was around .70 caliber, hunting rifles hovered between .32 and .45 calibers, with the bullet weight being 1/6 to 1/8 of those used by the military. Likewise, AR15 used 55gr bullets when military .308 and 30-06 used 145gr to 158gr projectiles.

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US Postal service must be really slow…

I was told “the check is in the mail” a couple of months ago, and it hasn’t arrived from Central Florida yet.  Two weeks ago, the same folks told me that they will actually have funds to pay at the end of June. Same result. They seem to be still in business, but I learned that they owe a month or two of salary to much of their staff.

I am about to publish an overview article that covers, in part, their flagship product. Would it be safe to assume the company will be bankrupt by the time the magazine comes out?

UPDATE: And it looks like they are Chapter 11. The owner told me they will re-organize. We’ll see…

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ATF Rule 41F cometh

In one week, new ATF rules (or whims) governing NFA trusts go into effect. I would like to recommend Matthew Bergstrom of Arsenal Attorneys for doing trust re-statements. That way, you will not risk a paperwork violation and be able to continue adding new items to the trust. He did a great job on mine. I know Matthew through joint effort on behalf of Friends of the NRA, so he’s not in it just for the money.

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Need introductions to political publications

My upcoming article and two illustrations took more than three hours of otherwise billable time. Yet, while I’ve been publishing numerous technical reviews, I’ve not found a site or a print publication suitable for my RKBA articles. Any suggestions or connections to titles that would have a budget for political and RKBA commentary? Wider distribution of content is the other half of the appeal.

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The Free State of Jones, movie review

I was pleasantly surprised by how well this film was done. Historic accuracy, near as I can judge, is pretty reasonable. Props, accents, details also seem fairly decent.

Plot: 4/5
Acting: 4/5

Both are just a little flat, but I find no actual fault with either.

Sound design: 4/5
SFX: 5/5 (other than the faces of dead by hanging being entirely too photogenic)
Visuals: 4/5 (good compositions, occasional shots with nothing in focus)
Lighting: 4/5 (realistic but a lot of spotty environmental effects)

The film is definitely engaging. Some over-simplifications of tactics,  but generally quite decent. For a mainstream movie, it’s outright amazing. The older movie Defiance, about Bielski Brothers’ guerilla band, was in the same genre, but The Free State of Jones is a much better done film. Definitely worth seeing in a theater.

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Was it worth it?

For all that America isn’t perfect, we are alone of the former British, French or Spanish colonies to have a shot at retaining personal freedom, at least in some of the states.

 

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Terminology is important

Sturmgewehr 44, the historic “assault rifle”, was a general purpose military weapon, moderately good in several roles but specialized for none. The name was an attempt to make wishful thinking become reality by raising troop morale. Since the generic term “assault rifle” has come to have a specific meaning, those who wish to disarm us have largely substituted their own: “assault weapon”. They apply that term to any item they wish restricted or banned. On the face of it, how could anyone be against banning weapons used to assault others?

We call auto handbrakes either “parking” or “emergency” brake. That’s because their regular use for one of those purposes. If somebody wanted to ban them, they could call them drift brakes and claim that they should be banned for enabling illegal turns.

Similarly, banning of camera could be accomplished by claiming they enable child porn production. Focusing on atypical criminal use and using that as an argument for banning a technology is disingenuous. A camera owners would be going against their own interests if they started referring to their equipment as “child porn makers”. Why should gun owners use the terminology of their foes?

A modern defensive rifle. It’s equipped with a heads-up display, an automatic transmission with manual override, and a muffler, just like a typical car — and for the same reasons.

By intent and by overwhelming frequency of use, our firearms are “counter-assault weapons”, but even that term is too derivative of the enemy terminology. “Defensive” or “self-defense” or “self-protection” arm are all more accurate adjectives, and less encumbered with unintentional negative connotations. The importance of defensive use is in its reluctant employment. Hunting, sports, collecting are all elective activities, while defense of self and others is an obligatory, non-elective use for a firearm.

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