Men and Weapons: The Quality of Refusal by Bill Buppert

“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost maidenlike, guest in a hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth. The man who combines both characters – the knight – is not a work of nature but of art; of that art which has human beings, instead of canvas or marble, for its medium.”

― C.S. Lewis

“These are the figures of steel whose eagle eyes dart between whirling propellers to pierce the cloud; who dare the hellish crossing through fields of roaring craters, gripped in the chaos of tank engines … men relentlessly saturated with the spirit of battle, men whose urgent wanting discharges itself in a single concentrated and determined release of energy.

As I watch them noiselessly slicing alleyways into barbed wire, digging steps to storm outward, synchronizing luminous watches, finding the North by the stars, the recognition flashes: this is the new man. The pioneers of storm, the elect of central Europe. A whole new race, intelligent, strong, men of will … supple predators straining with energy. They will be architects building on the ruined foundations of the world.”

― Ernst Jünger, Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.

– Robert Heinlein

Publisher’s Note: Happy Birthday, Lysander Spooner, the patron saint of this site.

“Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) is the American individualist anarchist and legal theorist known mainly for setting up a commercial post office in competition with the government and thereby being shut down. But he was also the author of some of the most radical political and economic writings of the 19th century, and continues to have a huge influence on libertarian thinkers today. He was a dedicated opponent of slavery in all its forms — even advocating guerrilla war to stop it — but also a dedicated opponent of the federal invasion of the South and its postwar reconstruction. See Let’s Abolish Government, a collection selected personally by Murray Rothbard as Spooner’s best work.”

Had a great visit with my youngest son, on leave from his posting in Okinawa. Ironically, his first duty station is where was born when I was stationed Torii Station with 1-1 SFG(A). A little sad he is gone but rotates back to the state before the end of the year.

I am also thankful that all three of my boys are chock-full of toxic masculinity and a stirring rebuke to the APA assault on civilizational standards of manhood.

Fuck them.

 …and all my children have a healthy psychosis called Drapetomania. 

Get to the range. -BB 

Here’s what we know: outside of the southern United States which started going after disarmament notions to control black access to guns way before the Federal government stepped in it in 1934 with the infamously ill-conceived National Firearms Act, the US started conducting a low-level three-pronged war (the Executive nodding sagely at the Legislature as they pass bill after bill narrowing and restricting access to firearms by non-government humans and the Federal Courts rubber-stamping odious restriction after odious restriction) against private weapons ownership.

This jobs program for Volstead Amendment enforcers in the Treasury Department was followed by these gems of legislation and judicial brilliance in the 1938 FFA, 1939 US v. Miller, 1968 OCC & SSA and GCA, 1986 FOPA, Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988, Gun-Free School Zones Act (1990), Brady Act (1993), AWB (1994), on and on and on.

Comrade Reagan made a guest appearance when he disarmed California pedestrians with the 1967 Mulford Act after the Black Panthers made him fill his pants when he was busy building a giant bureaucratic state (hiking taxes and legalizing infanticide among other things) in Sacramento and they happened to show up bearing arms at his house of ill-repute in the Governor’s office.

You will note that no such restrictions have emerged for the possession of weapons by our zookeepers in the government. If anything, these hubristic Orcs have accelerated the deployment of arms and munitions to countless agencies. Anyone that wants you disarmed wants to control and/or kill you, usually in that sequence depending on your level of resistance.

My readership know my position on firearms laws and the Second Amendment. My latest screed can be found here. I have written many other jeremiads against the violence brokers in the government. 

“Every one of these infringements is legally stamped and approved by the Federal government tentacled agencies and robed government employees. 

Every one of these infringements is an abridgement of your de jure and de facto right to defend you and yours.

Every one of these would have been a sufficient causus belli for the festivities at Lexington Green on 19 April 1775 and every one of these is a violation of the intent and spirit of the Declaration of Independence for which the Constitution was the tombstone.”

The Second Amendment is dead if it even survived the beginning of the twentieth century when state after state, especially in the south started regulating the fuck out of firearms possession by private citizens while ratcheting up the armories of government employees as exemplified by the Federal Prohibition agents and the infamous beating and bloodying of thousands of WWI pensioners during the Bonus March in 1932.

The aforementioned list of legislative and judicial nonsense in concert with the establishment of sadistic and ill-tempered agencies like the BATFE and all Federal “law enforcement” agencies cements the case that the 2A is merely an inconvenience to the zookeepers presently lording over the host of taxpayers living on the vast American plantation. In case you’ve been living in a cave, you will note the tens of thousands of incidents where the 19,000 law imposement organizations peppering the landscape maimed and killed thousands with government guns.

So here is where it leaves you: you have an Offal Office occupant whose roots are that of a crony capitalist in the Mussolini style of state corporatism melded to a hybrid Northeastern progressive steeped in the soft communist marinade of a New Yorker. Once you grok this, all of his behavior and spinelessness on weapons ownership makes sense.

He imposes a bump stock ban (much cheaper to employ a rubber band than waste your money on that Rube Goldberg contraption) as feel-good nonsense to prove to his supplicants he is doing something. He infamously talked about his enthusiasm for “red flag” laws which are an affront to due process but in the “just-us” system, that is a pipe dream. His co-conspirators (whether they acknowledge it or not since the Republicans are the Mensheviks to the Democrat’s Bolshevik) lurch toward full communism and he happily passes budgets that would make the most ardent democratic socialist blush with envy.

As with most things the Federal government does, this is yet another declaration of war against what should certainly be a private means of defense. The government has already instantiated that the vast coproach armies the Anti-Federalists warned us about are not obligated to protect you in any way from private harm (much less government harm).

“The claim arises from the actions of Cruz, a third party, and not a state actor. Thus, the critical question the Court analyzes is whether defendants had a constitutional duty to protect plaintiffs from the actions of Cruz. 

“As previously stated, for such a duty to exist on the part of defendants, plaintiffs would have to be considered to be in custody.” 

This was just reinforced by the latest declaration of a robed government employee when discussing the normally cowardly behavior of badged Orcs when their lives are really in danger (a rare occurrence).

So let’s get this straight, the coproach infestations that appear to have a license to kill with no repercussions have no obligation whatsoever to protect the very subjects they forcibly extract their salaries and equipment from to lord over like an occupation army. Yet these same armed Leninists and their Chief mouthpieces constantly talk about the new disarmament schemes so their well-fed (most obese “profession” in America) uniformed thugs can go home at the end of their shift. By the way, police have always been overweight.

Mind you, I thank the Gods everyday that the police in America are fat, ill-disciplined and shabby marksmen by trade. Odin knows that the twenty thousand Americans killed by cops since the beginning of this century may have murdered far more in numbers if not so imept and cravenly stupid.

And there is a reason that PoliceOne shut down non-member access to their comments section years ago so that the mundanes wouldn’t see how the cops view the very people they punish and suppress.

So what to do in what appears to be an interregnum of non-stop violations and legislative fiat against private weapons ownership:

• First rule of gun club: don’t talk about gun club

• Buy weapons (off paper if possible)

• Buy ammo (a minimum of 10k rounds per caliber)

• Train like your life depends on it (because it does) and get to the range where you can move and shoot (Fudds will fill their pants)

• Drop all your memberships in the NRA, GOA and the other unicorn-hunting clubs; spend your money on resources and training

• Dry fire like a motherfucker

• Get proper holsters and wear your weapons all the time (even at home)

• Get proper slings you train with; the sling is the ring of rifle power

• Master weapons optics

• Scatter the locations of all your weapons holdings

• Read Unintended Consequences

• Read the history of irregular warfare, take notes and improvise

• Keep your mouth shut

• Last rule of gun club: don’t talk about gun club

The list goes on…

The next conflict will not be fought in five thousand dollars worth of the latest tacti-cool kit from Gucci manufacturers like Dead Bird and Crye; it will be “suit and tie”, bone up on Michael Collins wear.

Read about the exploits of the “yellow vests” in France and the ongoing destruction of speeding cameras throughout France and the implications for surveillance modalities in the US.

Why are the usual suspects now targeting rifles?

I haven’t even touched on all the logical inconsistencies of going after rifles which are a fraction of handgun and bludgeoning deaths annually in America. I’d be pleased to see a detailed breakdown of how many AR rifles, let alone semi-automatic rifles, have been used in killing whether accidental (hunting) or malicious.

But then again.

Why bother, you cannot reason the unreasonable out of positions they employed no logic to get to in the first place. I’ve done the research but now I am much better investing my limited time in ensuring my weapons capability is increased in proficiency and my equipment is optimized.

They are going after cosmetically offensive weapons for one reason they dare not voice: if you wish to turn your country into a aspirational communist abbatoir based on envy, economic illiteracy, secular messianism and a Marxian death cult, you must disarm all the potential corpses to make your dreams come true.

The hard-core adherents have simply leveraged narratives that mask the true intention.

Make it hard. No one is coming to save you. No one.

Resist.

Rinse and repeat.

“We are, each of us, alone. And this is the first law of masculinity. And it is the most important law. Your value is equal to the value which you bring to the tribe. We are not equal. You are not special. Respect is earned, not given. Your brothers will not love you unconditionally for who you are, just being yourself. They will criticise you, push you to your limits, bring out the best in you, and give you their respect when earned. And this isn’t shocking at all. This is common knowledge to any man. Your childhood is over. The boy is dead. It’s time to be a man for the rest of your life.”

― Jack Donovan