Getting ready 3
Jan23
Onward!
OK, so…. the video I posted yesterday started a firestorm of comments. Almost all of them agreeing with my assessment that this kind of horseshit is absolutely beyond the pale.
Um. Yeah. You might want to strap in on this one. With a heavy belt. Grab a beer, light a smoke, and get really situated before clicking on this:
Last night, CA legislators had an emergency rewrite to a bill to OUTLAW GHOST GUNS.
I’ve said before, and I’ll say again: I grew up in SoCal, and I got the fuck out of there as fast as I could when I realized the place is just plain fucking crazy.
Fuck California.
And if they try to do this in your state, FREAK OUT AND BREAK SHIT, MOTHERFUCKERS.
Man, I wish there was a modern band had the same feel as Suicidal.
There will be a lot of instant criminals, how many people have a old firearm sitting around from before 1968 that has no serial number?
Funny…it’s been more than 15 years and I can still sing along with ST’s How Can I Laugh Tomorrow?
So, you actually CAN do the milling with a drill press? Everywhere else I’ve looked at 80% receivers seems to suggest that you really need a proper mill for the required precision.
Technically, but it’s one of those things that is so absurdly hard to do and tends to have such lousy results that nobody does it. But … Yeah, you could. Harbor Freight sells an X/Y vise that you can attach to the base of a drill press, and depending on the press you can attach milling bits to sorta kinda get good results. The area above the trigger group is generally the worst bit.
Would SERIOUSLY recommend you get a proper machinist to do the milling.
Unless you yourself are a skilled machinist, the chances of turning a blank reciever into a hunk of scrap metal is very high – especially if all you have is an x/y vise, a drill press, and some milling bits.
Did they put in the carve out for Hollywood?
Doesn’t matter if they did or not – Hollywood and the Press, always get a pass in CA. Unless you’re one of those rare ‘neo-con’ types, in which case, no pass for you!
Not always. As I recall, Mark Wahlberg was quite annoyed while filming a movie when he found that he was only allowed to hold a non-firing prop while the rest of the cast used live guns (with blanks, of course). His muzzle blast etc were all added in post-production. That is one of the few examples where Hollywood seems to have been held to the law in any significant degree, though.
So, the man’s WW2 Japanese rifle will need a serial number? No, I refuse to deface a historical firearm because some ninny thinks I should, to “keep everyone safe”. Screw that. Maybe it’s time to leave, even though I love my town and neighborhood and finally own my own home. *sigh* I loathe the way this state has developed. It wasn’t always like this.
How selfish of you! I’m sure thousands of Arisakas are used in murders every year. I hear they’re a favorite in drive-bys, and commonly used in school shootings as well. Clearly, you need to engrave numbers on it, which will render it incapable of doing harm. Won’t you think of the children?
On an unrelated note: your name wouldn’t happen to be a Phoenix Wright reference, would it?
Thanks. I couldn’t remember what the make of the rifle was. It’s a family heirloom now, and has been handed down from the man’s grandfather, to his father, and now to him. It’s in quite good shape.
I don’t know who or what Phoenix Wright is, sorry.
Phoenix Wright is a series of video games; there’s a character named April May who shows up at one point.
And, yeah, I’d move that rifle anywhere else. It’s a piece of history, and there’s no reason to vandalize it just because somebody is writing another overly-broad law to solve a non-existent problem.
When discussing relocation with my wife, there are always a few states where I absolutely refuse to make my home, no matter what. At the top of that list are New York, Hawai’i, and California.
Was just having a similar conversation with a friend of mine; a conversation about what it would take to get me to move to California. I conceded I’d be willing to live there for one year for $50 million.
But I’d have to be allowed to live on the very edge – next to a state that allowed me to do all of those evil things that our benevolent protectors in $tate Government have protected poor little under-educated, under-intelligent, over-regulated me from being able to do.
You should probably add Maryland to that list, as well.
Pitty me; economically forced to re-locate to the People’s Republic of Maryland. 🙁
The reasons to not live in Kalifornia are just staking on top of themselves at this point.
Stacking*
No, I think you were right the first time….
We in Arizona may need a border fence along the Colorado River soon.
I’m looking forward to the day that AZ declares it lawful to plink Cali gov officials from our side of the fence….
At some point very early in the American colonial days, during the time that Rhode Island was populated by people considered heretics by Bostonians, a law was passed in Massachusetts allowing you to shoot somebody crossing the RI/MA border on Sunday. That law stayed on the books for a very long time; IIRC, it was repealed about 30 years ago.
Third Generation Native Son of the Left-Coast State. Have lived there off and on at various times over the years, mostly for reasons professional. No longer. None of my children were born ther, and God willing, none of my grand children will be born there, either.
That place is just bad for your soul.
I’m a second generation Californian, born and bred. I successfully escaped some years ago, but was brought back by circumstance. While I love my town and my neighborhood, today’s comic has turned my attention to escaping again. If the man can get a good paying job outside the state, it might be time to sell the house, donate stuff to charity, and pack up what’s left. After my mother’s passing this past year, I no longer have a personal “anchor” here. I think it’s time to go where I’m not waiting for the confiscation squad to knock on my door.
I still have a few family left in-state, but mostly they’re of my elders’ generation, and none left there of my generation have children – I think we’ve mostly shaken the native soil from our feet, and are much the better for it. The next generation is Cali-Free.
It’s funny because I’ve been sober at every burn I’ve been to over the last decade.
Except the one where I brought a fiddle to a knife fight. Apparently tequila makes me knock people out.