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I’ve ordered a Bowers CAC .45 caliber suppressor for it, and a (used) Lage m10/9 slow fire upper receiver for it. The Lage I should get next week and it was only fired about 50 rounds. Beats having to wait 3-5 months for one, plus it was several hundred dollars less. Not a bad deal. I’m still on the list for the AMP10, when it comes in I’ll see which one I like and sell the other, probably.

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My wonderful wife has decided that for my birthday this year I should get a machinegun. Who am I to argue with that?

So…

Anyone have a SWD M11/9mm for sale? Used or new in box is fine. I’ll be getting a Lage Max-31 upper for it, and a Lage .22 conversion, so if you have those for sale too I’ll buy them also. Machineguns aren’t fun without suppressors, so I’ll be looking for one of those, too. If it’s converted to use Uzi mags or Sten mags, that’s cool, too.

If you’ve got one for sale, or know where one is, let me know please!

falfiles at gandalf23 dot com

Thanks!

EDITED TO ADD:
Found one!
decided to go with a M10 in .45acp. I’ve always wanted a Thompson. This isn’t one, but it’s closeish. Sorta. Also I can get conversion uppers to shoot 9mm through sten mags, suomi 71 round drum mags!, 7.62×25mm, and 12 gauge! Also .22LR.

I’m on the wait list for the AMP 10 upper, which allows use of Suomi drums. It’s got a removeable magwell, so that it can be converted to 7.62×25mm and 12 gauge! Also maybe they’ll come out with a version that accepts Thompson mags.

I went ahead and ordered 10 Suomi drums and 10 Grease Gun mags, since they’ll work in the gun as is (with a different mag catch, which I ordered).

Thanks!

knívleysur maður er lívleysur maður!

“Knifeless man is lifeless man.”-Viking proverb

Today is Holocaust Rememberence Day.

Which should also be called “Remember why we never ever ever let the government take away our firearms because the only reason to take them from law abiding people is so that they can then round up and shoot the now unarmed people without getting shot themselves” day.

Remember this when people say you don’t need a gun because the government will protect you. Who do you think the government was, then? It was the Nazis, and the policeman/soldier shooting this woman and child had “lawful” orders to do so. He was not some whackjob just killing people randomly! He was doing this as a small part of a much larger governmental bureaucracy solely tasked with destroying as many Jews, and fags, and Gypsies, and the mentally retarded, and communists, and any other “undesirables,” as possible.

Six million Jews were killed. Including these guys. Notice there is a young boy there, too. Yup, sure is good that this family had no eeeevil guns in their house, right? Think! They might’ve shot themselves in the foot or something! Much, much better to be disarmed when the Gestapo comes a callin’, right?

I think this guy wishes he’d had a gun, don’t you? Even if he didn’t kill any of the Nazis who broke into his house and rounded him and his family up, maybe he would’ve wounded one. And even if _he_ didn’t, might not his neighbor have killed one? Or two? And if enough Jews, fags, Gypsies, communists and other “undesirables” had done so, how quickly would the Nazis have run out of soldiers willing to go drag them out of their homes in the middle of the night? Look at what 250ish people did in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

So remember.

And Never. Again.

Never!

I replaced the coil two weeks ago, and the truck appears to be working fine, but can I trust it?

So I took the coil to Autozone and had them check it out. All they did was check the resistance, I’m not sure if there are other tests you can do on a coil, and they said it was within the norms, so it’s ok.

Well, crap!

Guess I should replace the distributor, too, huh?

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Little update on the Ditch Witch (trencher):

Never did find the right manual for it.

Used the trencher to level the site for our above ground pool last summer, then didn’t use it again till a couple of weeks ago. Expanded the area of level ground for a newer, larger above ground pool this year, and leveled some spots for some small sheds. Worked fine for everything I used it for, except that the dang battery kept dying between uses. Will use it to run power out to the new sheds and the current shed later this summer, probably.

Then a co-worker of my dad needed to borrow it to trench 600 feet. Luckily he and his dad run a small engine repair shop, because it needed a lot more work than I thought it did.

The oil in the pan wouldn’t even come out the drain hole when he unscrewed it. He had to stick a screwdriver into the hole to poke a hole in the junk in the bottom of the oil pan. One of the hydraulic hoses broke. Oil bath air cleaner was really fully of junk. Carburetor (it appeared new) was full of junk. The control lever on the lower right bottom of the dash was stuck. I remember a control lever/knob that we couldn’t move. He took it apart, cleaned it up, oiled it and guess what-it now works and controls the speed when trenching. They greased all the fittings. He said it used a LOT of gas, but not much oil. He didn’t smell gas in the oil which is very good. He said it didn’t look like the machine had a lot of hours of use on it. It should last a lifetime. The points looked new. He hasn’t tried to find out why the battery goes down. He thinks it is the voltage regulator but didn’t have time to check it out.

He said he trenched about 500 ft out of the 600 he needed to trench. It did great. He was digging about 30″ deep in wet black clay. He has ordered a new oil filter and will install that and change the oil again this week. They drained most of the hydraulic fluid and replaced it-it was murky looking which means it had water in it. They also changed the hydraulic filter.

So I’m pretty happy to have lent it to him as now I’m getting back a trencher in tip top shape!

Wonder if he needs to borrow a 1976 Ford F-150?

“They put me with an ex-Mossad [Israeli Secret Service Agent]…He put a GPS on my car and jumped me out of a hair salon. He gave me a blue gun, and so any time we saw a blue gun … if he jumped us out of any place, we’d have to pull the blue gun, and if we didn’t pull it before the other guy did then we lost. And I lost. He wanted to kidnap me, but Steven Soderbergh said that was a little excessive.” –Gina Carano on how director Steven Soderberg trained her for her upcoming movie, Haywire.

The trailer looks good.

So my truck has had problems for the last two weeks or so.

Two Saturdays ago we picked up lumber from the yard, drove it home, and then it would not start. The starter solenoid would not even click. Lights worked, so I ruled out the battery. I replaced the solenoid the next day, and it started. yay!

But then the next morning it would not start again, it would not even click.

So I bought a rebuilt starter, and decided to swap it out this past Saturday.

But, the headers were in the way, and even if I could get the starter out, or take off the headers, I could not get to the third bolt on the starter. I have no idea how you get to it. And then we noticed that the lights were not working. So I tried to jump the battery, and nothing. Tried to charge it, nothing. The battery was purchased a year ago in January 2011.

Two days of trying to return the battery back to Autozone later, I have a new battery. The first store said “yeah, it’s f’d up, we’ll replace it…oh you didn’t buy it? tough shit, the warranty is not transferable.” On a one year old battery. Huh. So I get the info from the guy I bought the truck from, and go to a second store. They think the battery just needs a charge, so 1.5 hours later I leave the store with a charged battery, that is dead by the next morning. So I go back to the first store (it’s closer) and give them the previous owner’s info as if it is mine and they swap it out. Although it’s a red one and not a gold one. Whatever. At least I have a new battery. Get back home, install it, still get no click.

So I get it towed to the mechanic.

They replaced the ignition, and messed around with the wiring, and now it works.

But they didn’t replace the starter like I asked them to, and they didn’t inspect it, like I asked them to do. So I’m happy, but annoyed.

Canadian oil is supposedly worse for the environment, so stopping the Keystone pipeline will help the planet. Umm…how?

Instead of moving the oil in a safe way and being processed in US refineries operating under EPA regulations, the oil will now be transported across the (Canadian) Rockies where it will be loaded onto giant tankers and shipped across the Pacific where it will be refined in China which has basically no environmental regulations in place.

Please let me know how the Chinese alternative is better for the Earth. ‘Cause the Canadian PM said if the pipeline is not built to the US, it’ll be built to the Pacific and they’ll load it up on tankers heading to China. It’s going to be sold no matter what, why not let it be refined here?

The EFF has a nice .pdf explaining, in one page, what’s wrong with SOPA (and PIPA).

Google has a nice .pdf on SOPA and PIPA, too.

45-70 caliber. No idea how much it’ll cost. I imagine quite a bit. But damn, it does look pretty.

It’d be nice if they came out with .38/.357 and .22 calibers, for cheaper shooting. Although I guess if you can afford the gun you can afford the ammo. But 45-70 goes for >$1.50 a round!

SOPA in the House, and PIPA, in the Senate, basically do the same thing. Both need to be stopped.

Here’s the text of PIPA .

We’re having enough problems with people/corporations abusing the DMCA, and here comes along a new set of laws that will expand the potential for abuse a million fold!

Read up on SOPA and PIPA if you ghaven’t already heard of them.

They do suck ass.

Basically, I’ll not be able to blog, ever again if they pass.

If I publish a link to a website, and anywhere on any page on that website, or it’s domain even, is a copyright-infringing thing, then I have violated the law by linking to them. For example, I have a link over on the right to “The Smallest Majority” who is hosted on blogspot.com. So if anyone on blogspot has any copyright infringing stuff (say, someone writes out the lyrics to the song “Happy Birthday to you”), or is alleged to have any, then I have broken the law. Three allegations of infringement, and the domain is confiscated by the government, and put on a blacklist all othe ISPs will have to use.

What
the
Fuck?

Sadly, a Texan is driving force behind SOPA. Lamar Smith. Representative Smith is a douche bag for sponsoring this bill.

Shoot Smart

The idea of a combat shirt is that a tshirt is comfortable under your armor and since it’s underneath the armor/webgear, it can be a nice moisture wicking lightweight and comfortable material instead of being made out of scratchy thick hot stuff like BDUs are, but it is not a uniform/BDU, so it’s not made of nice tough materials to protect your arms, nor are they usually camoflague, and most tshirts don’t have collars to protect your neck from armor/webgear nor do they have pockets on the sleeves. So you cut up a BDU shirt and cut up and t-shirt and combine the two and you have a $200 combat shirt.

A French tailor who is making combat shirts for French soldier heading to A’Stan does them a little differently. Instead of sewing the t-shirt to the BDU shirt, he leaves the t-shirt alone and cuts the BDU shirt off just above the pecks. Like a bolero.

So now if the tshirt gets ripped or something you don’t have to trash the whole thing, and it’s washable and you don’t have to worry about the stitches coming loose in the wash, and you have the collar and sleeves of the BDU shirt without having to stitch them to the tshirt and worry about those stitches, especially when things are strapped to your shoulders and such. And it takes up less room in a ruck having three tshirts and one bolero vs. three combat shirts. Also it’s lots less expensive.

Seems like a good idea, and certainly do-able by most people.

Bought a truck the other day. It’s a 1976 Ford F-150 Ranger XLT extended cab. I think it has all the chrome possible to get on it. It’s older than my wife by four years! But, the engine (390) has about 10,000 miles on it and the transmission (C6, about as bulletproof a transmission as Ford ever made) has about 3,000 miles on it. Did have to add a choke, and do some work on the steering, and more work to come on the steering, but aside from that it’s great! Bought a headache rack & rails the other day, need to do a little welding on them this weekend. Going to hunt around at the junkyard for some shoulder belts, a turn indicator (the existing glass works, but it’s cracked), and a few other minor things (I have a list, just not with me).

“House Committee to vote on CCW Reciprocity Soon!

So, GOA members, please be looking for the latest mailing from GOA headquarters which should begin arriving this week. And please take the enclosed postcard and send it to your Representative. Then, take the extra two postcards and have pro-gun family members and friends send them, as well. That will multiply your efforts by 200%.“

reading the new tom Clancy book, got to this section:

“He stood near the van’s hood and tapped on his iPhone to bring up the Airline Identifier application that he’d downloaded from iTunes for $4.99. He pointed it at the plane flying just overhead, one that had taken off before their target, and the application correctly identified the airline, the flight number, the speed, the destination, the distance from Samad, and more. While the software wasn’t always accurate, and while Samad felt certain that the next flight coming would be theirs, he’d instructed all the other teams to be doubly sure that they had the correct flight. Rahmani had been very specific about that, because at the designated time, a sleeper agent aboard each plane—a man who was going to martyr himself—would read a statement to the passengers. These men didn’t need to hide explosive liquids inside travel-sized containers while trying to comply with the 3-1-1 rule for liquids. They could board the plane completely naked and still deliver their message. The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was powerless to stop them while they had Allah’s will on their side. Moreover, the sleepers would instruct passengers to turn their camera-equipped cell phones back on and record what happened. That video would be released to the American public, either through e-mail, streamed directly to the Web, or after being recovered from the wreckage.”

Really hits home the ridiculousness of the security at airports.

Some folks have asked why S&P downgraded. This makes it very easy to see…

• U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
• Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000
• New debt: $1,650,000,000,000
• National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
• Recent budget cut: $38,500,000,000

Let’s remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget:

• Annual family income: $21,700
• Money the family spent: $38,200
• New debt on the credit card: $16,500
• Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
• Total budget cuts: $385