Quotes of the Week

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
– Frederic Bastiat

A nation that expects gov't... to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life & liberty
–William Niskanen

The plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery.
– Alan Watts

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed... by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins.
– H.L. Mencken

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us.
– Oscar Wilde

The mob has many heads, but no brains.
– Thomas Fuller

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
– Irving Kristol

Random Saturday

It has been a long damn week for the Miller Meister.

My Spring Allergies kicked in this week, dammit. You'd think I could have one damn week where I could drive with the windows open. Plus it's not fair to have snow on the ground AND a high pollen count.

One of my surveillance cameras is down. You don't realize how useful the things are until you don't have it.

I discovered what happens this week when you try to shoot .300 Blackout in an AR-15 piped for .223. Nothing. More later on this.

I need another Glock 17. Two is one and all that.

Hillery Clinton wasn't able to use two email accounts and she wants to be president? Does not pass the sniff test.

Weekly Comic Wednesdays are very popular around here. Maybe when I retire it will become daily.

Yes. I'd like to retire. NOW!

--Need more coffee...

Hunting Vacation Option

I know a lot of shooters and a lot of hunters. Even beg game hunters.

If you have the coin for a serious big game, multi-species, North American, hunt you need to check out Best Value Hunts.

Here is the kind of hunts BVH specializes in: Whitetail Deer, Mule & Blacktail Deer, Elk, Pronghorn, Bear, Caribou, Moose, Sheep, Mountain Goat, Cougar, Lynx, Bobcat, Bison and Muskox.

You deserve that big hunt vacation.

I know Michael Haiss, the Hunting Consultant that runs the show over there. He's a great guy. Tell him JB Miller sent you over!

--Just thinking about it is making me hungry...

RIP: Terry Pratchett

Sir Terry Prachett has died at age 66.

Terry brought a lot of pleasure into my life. There are very few books that have literally made me laugh out loud.

Damn.

Night Watch was the first of his books that I read. I tore though the rest after that.

--Rest in Peace

Weekly Comic Wednesday

Someone Blinked

Once the police union called out the White House on their claim that the ban would not have any affect on police safety, we knew that the ban had essentially become dead in the water.

The overwhelming support from both sides of the aisle (and from both chambers) to overturn this proposed ban put a ton of pressure on the ATF and the White House to justify their decision. They gambled on the idea that it would protect police, and their gamble failed.

To date the ATF received over 80,000 comments during the open comment period. Overwhelmingly most of the comments were against the proposed ban – and no doubt the ATF got a very stern earful from the American people.

--The whole thing was silly.

3 Gun System

This weekend one of my buddies from college visited. He brought his 22 year old son with him.

Of course I took them to the range. He loved it.They both did.

This kids mom is a RABID anti-gun crazy person. Insane. She thinks the best reaction to bullying is to not fight back. ever.

She is going to be pissed when she finds out her son is now planning a 3 gun system of his own. A Glock 9mm, a Rem 870 and an AR15.

--It's a good start...

Quotes of the Week

In DC that is true. In VA I carry one every day, legally.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us.
– Oscar Wilde

The mob has many heads, but no brains.
– Thomas Fuller

Democracy is little more than Mob Rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
– Walter E. Williams

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical.
– Ludwig von Mises

The mob is the mother of tyrants.
– Diogenes

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
– Friedrich Hayek

No idiots were hurt while making this video.

There is a class of guys that for some reason take dares and do dumb shit on video for you tube.

Shooting a 20mm is cool. Being irresponsible with it, not so much.



--Be sure of your target and what's behind it... for miles...

Snow

Got to shovel snow.

I'll post later... dammit. Sick of this winter.

Court denies stay in Mance v. Holder

In VA the impact of this case will be a little different.

The appeals will happen but now it's looks like just a matter of time before you can legally buy a gun in any state. The thing is, Mance v. Holder will cause thousands of people to flow into Virginia from Maryland, DC, and other places that hate people and doesn't want them to be able to protect themselves.

Virginia Arms in Manassas

--This will also make the Gunshows in VA more crowded. I Like It!

Weekly Comic Wednesday

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/hillary-clinton-private-e-mail-account-897531

RIP: Leonard Nimoy

I got to meet Leonard Nimoy in 2009.

He was the keynote speaker at a computer security conference I was attending for work.

He talked about his life, his career, Star Trek and nothing about computer security.

Best Keynote EVER.

He just told a lot of stories like we were all sitting around his dining room table. Except the story about his magic power.

He told us that he had discovered he had the ability to make cameras flash. Then he held up his hand.

My camera flashed...

He was really great. There were a thousand nerds in that room. He hung out to sign autographs, stand for photos and shake hands with EVERYONE that wanted to meet him. It took hours. We found out later the organizers had not asked him to do that. He was funny, humble gracious and will be missed.

I followed him on Twitter I will close with his final post:

Random Mondays

Random Gun Porn

The Blog machine is empty we now have a random thought Monday!

It's going to be a busy week for me because of work. The ice out there is not helping.

I have some new accessories to install on various firearms. Blog posts will follow.

Still waiting for both of my suppressors paperwork to arrive.

I have begun setting up a Gun Trust for my NFA items. More on that later.

I will be going to the range this weekend with a college buddy if the weather allows it. Who am I kidding? I will be going to the range this weekend even if he doesn't magange to get here!

--Need to get more coffee and roll.

Quotes of the Week

“The duty of a Patriot is to protect his country from its government.”
– Thomas Paine

The mob is the mother of tyrants.
– Diogenes

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
– Ayn Rand

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
– Friedrich Hayek

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
– Murray N. Rothbard

There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
– Ludwig von Mises

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
– Hilaire Belloc

Inherent vice of capitalism: unequal sharing of the blessings. Inherent blessing of socialism: equal sharing of misery.
–Winston Churchill