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Beauty Of The Second Amendment: 9mm vs .45 ACP
Featuring CZ-75B (top) and CZ 97BD (bottom)
Not for gun haters.
Nikon D800E + Nikon 50mm f/1.2 (manual).
Subject is from back in the days when I did pre-dawn street photography in Chicago. A .32ACP caliber small "pocket" pistol (often used by police themselves as a backup pistol). Never had any occasion to remove it from my pocket. Stowed away in a safe these days. (Entire pistol 5 inches longest diagonal.) Weapon specifically created around the Winchester .32ACP hollow point cartridge which is its only approved ammunition. Cropped to under 3 inches. See companion photo for better perspective. www.flickr.com/gp/blackjackstone/ysEvp5
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" MM theme. Looking down the barrel of a snubnose .38 special revolver. All about the situation and intent I suppose. Weapon held in a vice before a black felt background. Less than 2 1/2 inches. Provocative by intent.
Despite the fact that we have a criminal in The White House who has stolen an election, committed treason, is basically a Russian mobster, and has had affairs and coverups with several prostitutes, we still have to tolerate the onslaught of his daily horrifying policies, decisions, and world views. Just recently, Secretary of Education and destroyer of young souls, Betsy DeVos announced she wants to make federal funds available to arm teachers with guns, As most parents are sending their children back to school this week and next (or did so in the previous couple of weeks), this is the exact opposite of what they want. As an educator, this is also something I can say has really been an anathema to teachers. We went to school to teach children, not to use firearms. Despicable!
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We need to add an amendment that would forbid any of our rights to be cancelled, nullified, ammended, removed or restricted by any treaty with other nations or organizations of nations. We need to do this asap.....
Six shot revolver that is really a lot of fun for plinking cans. It was a pass down from my grandfather and was a very popular model for it's time.
Street art depicting the Statue of Liberty holding a gun in the air. Shoreditch, London, 2017.
Justin
Finally got my M1911 serviced, and after 4 days they got it all the parts replaced sans the firing pin spring, and I finally installed the Recover Tactical grips I got for Christmas.
Photograph published in News Junkie Post and The Duran
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Photograph also published on July,17th 2021 to illustrate the analysis below:
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Also published on 7/20/2021 in Dissident Voice { link below}
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Photograph also published on January 9, 2023 { link below}
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Large sign near the front door of a local restaurant in Alpine, Wyoming. The sign reads:
Guns are welcome on Premises. Please keep weapons holstered unless need arises, in such a case, judicious marksmanship is appreciated.
Strobist: AB800 open behind panel of white faux suede. AB800 with HOBD-W @ 1/4 power camera right. Reflector at 6:00. Triggered by Cybersync.
PART 5. (Yes, you really do need to start at the beginning...)
The final, and most serious issue that has come under scrutiny in the wake of the McDonald shooting, is the so-called Code of Silence among rank and file officers. This is a problem that's not unique to police officers.
If you are a member of any group, you will be inclined to view the actions of any member of that group in a more favorable light than you'd view identical behavior by someone who belongs to a different group. It's human nature.
The lack of cooperation police get from the African American community when investigating gang violence, is a very similar Code of Silence. Violating that particular code by cooperating with a police investigation can indeed have serious repercussions. In fact, it can get you killed.
Of the 468 homicide victims in 2015, eight were justifiable homicides by CPD officers. The other 460 were civilians killed by other civilians, and in most of those homicides, both victim and offender were African American.
The anti-police movement does not want to focus on the 460, they only want to focus on African Americans who were shot and killed by White Police Officers. They also don't want to focus on the Code of Silence within the African American community, allowing the vast majority of those homicides to go unsolved, and allowing those murderers to kill again and again.
The anti-police movement and its partners in the media simply blame police for not solving more homicides, because they "do not have the trust of the community..."
Nevertheless, while recognizing that the Code of Silence is inevitable to some degree, officers of all ranks must be encouraged to do the right thing at all times, and any officers who significantly misrepresented what they had seen during the Laquan McDonald shooting - in order to shield a fellow officer from the full weight of the law - will need to be disciplined. It's too bad, because these are the officers who had done everything right prior to the arrival of Jason Van Dyke, and now they may face serious disciplinary action because their statements don't jive with the video.
In my view, as a former insider who now watches events unfold on television and the internet, the real problem is considerably higher up on the departmental ladder.
Every now and then, the Department throws the book at an officer for some infraction or another, and we get the usual stump-speech about "rotten apples" and the need to save the rest of the barrel.
I'd like to know what happened as the Laquan McDonald video made its way up the chain of command. Our new interim Superintendent has stated publicly that he saw the video within 48 hours of the shooting, in his capacity as head of the Detective division. And what did he do after seeing that video? Apparently nothing of consequence.
You'd think that one of the grown-ups would have rounded up the officers who had given such blatantly contradictory statements about the McDonald shooting, and said "Hey guys, nice try, but this shit ain't gonna fly. Now tell us what really happened." Apparently no one did.
If there is such a thing as a watch-dog within the Department, it is Internal Affairs. It is their job to ferret out those proverbial rotten apples and take appropriate action. Yet, according to the media, the head of Internal Affairs responded to the video by emailing other departments of city government to keep an eye out for any freedom-of-information requests for the Laquan McDonald video, and to let him know right away...
Things like that tell me that the real problem was not the statements of a handful of patrolmen. The problem was that someone high up in city government made the decision that justice should be obstructed, or at least delayed, in order to hold on to their own job and save their own reputation.
If no one ever got their hands on the video, then no harm would have come to any city employees. On the other hand, if the video were to get out and ignite a firestorm, then any patrolmen who might have perjured themselves would make for convenient scapegoats. They could then be disciplined or prosecuted to appease the public and the media.
Whatever will happen to the individuals involved - from Jason Van Dyke up to the Mayor - may take years to play out. I am more concerned about the Department, the law enforcement profession, and the future of Chicago as a world-class city. The demonstrations by the anti-police movement continue - although on a much smaller scale - and the "Only Black Lives Matter" movement continues to spout its nonsense, while violent criminals all over Chicago are emboldened by what they perceive to be a "neutered" Chicago Police Department.
Homicide figures for January of 2016, are nearly double last year's figures, and illegal gun seizures are down because of "reforms" that have been imposed on rank and file officers.
Now the media, which has profited by hyping the "White cops vs. African Americans" storyline, is wagging its collective finger once again, this time accusing police officers of sabotaging the city's revised crime-fighting methodology.
Apparently, no one in the media is aware of the new Investigative Stop Reporting requirements. The new ISR form replaces the Contact Card, which served the same purpose: to document who you stopped and why. That Contact Card had a total of 27 boxes that needed to be filled in. The new ISR form has 95 boxes to be filled in or checked on one side and 47 on the other, plus a half-page narrative section. All that information has to be provided for each person you stop.
If officers stop two cars with four occupants each, or clear two groups of gangbangers from their corner, those officers are done for the day. Assignments these officers are unable to handle because they are tied up filling out ISR forms, will be pushed off on other cars in their sector.
At the same time, citizens who previously would have been allowed to continue on their way after five minutes, must now be detained for the 45 to 60 minutes it may take to fill out a single ISR, all because the ACLU - the self-appointed guardians of liberty - have decided they need all that information on each and everyone of us to make sure that cops are not unlawfully detaining people.
No matter how you slice it, there's only so much officers can do in an 8-hour shift, and, if you triple or quadruple the paperwork requirements for each and every person who is stopped, the net result will be fewer suspicious persons stopped, fewer assignments handled, or both: you do the math.
There's no need to look for sinister plots to sabotage the city's efforts to reduce crime: this is why there were fewer guns recovered, and this is why there were more homicides compared to last year... Fewer guns taken off the street, more homicides, the two go hand in hand.
People who are stopped by police and forced to endure the entire ISR process, are going to be even more poised off with police: they're not going to complain about the ACLU, they're going to bitch about the cops, and the next time an officer motions for them to come over to his squad car, they're going to run like jackrabbits. Then the cops are going to chase them,... and those are precisely the type of situations that can have tragic consequences. Yes, those ISR-forms will be the gifts that keep on giving...
The times, they are definitely a-changing. Police officers are expected to stop the most violent crime wave since the Crack Wars of the early 90's, and now they are told to avoid confrontation, and to retreat when they are challenged. At the same time, civilians with concealed carry permits are ready to step into the breach and take the law into their own hands. What could possibly go wrong, right?
I never did buy into the NRA's interpretation of the Second Amendment, but their vision may yet be realized.
The way I read the Second Amendment, our Founding Fathers intended to give men of property the right to carry a flintlock rifle. There is no mention of a Glock 17 with a 30-round clip. Yet, through a sustained, sophisticated campaign, the NRA has managed to convince the political elite that everyone needs to carry a firearm at all times, because you can not count on the police to come in time to save your ass. Along the way, they have betrayed those same Founding Fathers they love to quote, by driving home the message that you do not need a firearm to help defend your government, but to use that weapon against your own government.
Big city police officers have traditionally opposed concealed carry by civilians, which poses a considerable risk to police officers. Now that Concealed Carry has become the law of the land, and the backlash against law enforcement is in full swing, we are on the verge of creating a society in which the Black Gangster Disciples, the Latin Kings, and thousands of other street gangs across the United States will be the closest thing we have to a 'well-regulated militia."
Right now, Chicago cops have circled the wagons and are trying to do their job as best they can in a decidedly hostile environment. The media, undaunted, continues to run negative stories wherever and whenever they can find them. After a solid two-month barrage of anti-police stories and interviews around the basic premise that Chicago Police Officers are untrustworthy - among other things - they have just conducted a new poll with truly shocking results: they have found that a majority of Chicagoans do not trust the police!
I must say, I am truly shocked. I don't know what we'd do without you guys fighting for truth and justice. Be sure to give yourselves another award...
Molon Labe is a traditional shout of defiance when someone tries to disarm someone else. The literal translation from Greek is "Come! Take!" It is a dare. I'm sorry that so few people recognize the expression and its significance. Some are content to say just "It's Greek to me." If you saw the movie 300, you saw King Leonidas defy the Persian king this way at the Battle of Thermopylae, (480 bce ),
Original Caption: Jack Hilliard, Deer Hunter, Wears His Handgun While Playing Poker at the Hunters' Camp. He Uses It to Kill Rattlesnakes in the Forest, 11/1972
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-3649
Photographer: St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Subjects:
Leakey (Real county, Texas, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
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Desperate to photograph something today, and being stranded at the house; I decided to use the 9mm ammunition for my Ruger LC9 pistol that I call "Uncle Charlie." I poured some of them out on the mirrored top of our coffee table to get some reflection. Believe it or not, Uncle Charlie is a part of my photography equipment many times when I go into the mountain by myself. There is quite an assortment of wild animals that live there, including the druggies that go there to make deals in private. (The last time I went to the waterfall on Stone Mountain near my home, I met a carload of out-of-state "riff-raff" heading up the road there. They were not up there five minutes until they came back).
4/5/2014 Mike Orazzi | Staff
A man open carries a 1911 handgun while listening to Connecticut Citizens Defense League President Scott Wilson during a CCDL gun rights rally at the Connecticut state capitol in Hartford, Saturday April 5, 2014, speaks out against the state's gun control law passed one year ago on April 4, 2013 restricting magazines to 10 rounds and prohibiting the sale of certain semi-automatic firearms, including the AR-15.
Video & Slideshow here: youtu.be/XbILfKZkMbs
Strobist: AB800 open behind panel of white faux suede. AB800 with HOBD-W @ 1/4 power camera left. Reflector camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
Finished the project gun: the Mini Draco (AK-47-style, short barrel, "pistol"). 7.62x39mm. 30rd magazine. I've modified it to include a Hogue AK-47 grip in "Desert Tan" since the original Romanian bakelite grip is terrible. I've added an AK-74 style muzzle brake after cutting off the tack-welded muzzle nut to keep the recoil and rise down, and I've customized the fore-end with my own work since the original wooden "hotdog bun" fore-end was hideous.
[Strobist info: Shot on pegboard, remote flash at top diffused with white plexi, white glossy foam core board at bottom to fill the shadows. Color corrected in PS.]
©2011 David C. Pearson, M.D.
4/30/2014 Mike Orazzi | Staff
This guy is making a statement, solar yellow isn't that bad of a color. I bumped into this Jeep at CCSU in New Britain on Wednesday.
"At least 50 dead, 200 wounded at shooting on Las Vegas Strip" Just remember, Las Vegas, the murderer's rights were protected. There is no constitutional right to live peacefully and in safety. Personally, I'm exhausted by the violence. It will never end...
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
Nikon D600 on Bogen/Manfrotto carbon fiber tripod.
Rokinon/Samyang 8mm f/3.5mm fisheye lens, "shaved" for maximum field on the D600's full-frame sensor.
Built-in interval timer (I messed up the difficult time settings, thus the gaps in the trails, which I've now convinced myself are nice ;-) )
Exposures:
259 exposures of 30 seconds each
Unintentional time gaps between each set of 9 exposures
f/3.5
ISO1600
The exposures were all "stitched" with StarStaX by Marcus Enzweiler, a wonderful free program (give him a little money if you can):
www.markus-enzweiler.de/software/software.html
I then post-processed in Nikon ViewNX 2, a free and decent program for basic image enhancement.
6/21/2013 Mike Orazzi | Staff
PTR Industries Chief Executive Officer Josh Fiorini inside the Bristol gun manufacturing plant on Friday.
Very long video here: youtu.be/fnvMo2mCMvI
Rusty 1955 Steelcraft school bus, built with a Carpenter body model D on what I believe is a 1954 GMC chassis. Date of delivery 11/54.
This 7-window (28 adult passengers or 42 wee ones).
The transmission is a four-speed manual. Brakes are power assisted drums, but steering is manual (unassisted).
The inline six-cylinder gasoline (petrol) engine develops all of a wimpy 115 horsepower (86 kilowatts).
Displacement is 270 cubic inch (4.4 liter).
GVWR is 14,500 pounds (6,577 Kilograms).
Driving it over the mountains will be a chore, to be sure (I think I can!, I think I can!).
A previous owner converted it into a motorhome / RV, complete with propane cylinders, refrigerator, sink, toilet, etc.
It is for sale, at the right price. We'll just have to see how attached to it we've become, depending on offers.
Or, we may get it running some day and drive it 170 miles over the hill to Burning Man, where it will be well suited as a camper / party bus.
The rocket hood ornament is a rare factory option.
“My name is Pocket”. He pointed to the name patch on his leather vest. “Anyone who asks me how I got that name, I tell them that they have to buy me a beer to hear the story.” I wasn’t planning on asking him about the origin of his name, but once he put that enticement in front of me I didn’t even have to think twice.
“You’re on”, I immediately replied. “There’s a place to get a beer right over there.” And so we walked over to the sidewalk cafe.
I had originally spotted Pocket amid the crazy media circus that was the Republican National Convention. The streets of Cleveland were teeming with everything from major media outlets down to individuals working on their personal blog/podcasts. Pocket was with a friend who was being interviewed by one of those outlets. Pocket was standing off to the side and didn’t appear to be part of the interview, so I approached him and struck up a conversation. I eventually requested a portrait, he cordially agreed, I shot him where he stood (I liked the lighting), and this is the resulting portrait. It was after the brief photo shoot that he made the statement regarding the origin of his name.
Once we sat down, Pocket surprised me and did not even order a beer…instead he ordered a lemonade. Soon after, his friend also arrived, and his friend did order a beer. After we all began imbibing our cold beverages, Pocket shared with me the story of his nickname.
The crazy thing is that his name story was not the most interesting thing about our encounter. After we finished our drinks, Pocket and his friend got up to go, and they were immediately approached by another reporter. I initially found this curious, but then I realized the reason that reporters would find them intriguing. Both Pocket and his friend were openly packing heat. They both had side-arms visibly holstered to their belts. You see, in the state of Ohio, it is legal to openly carry guns (provided they are legally registered). This was a major point of concern leading up to the RNC, and many parties thought the governor should suspend the ‘open-carry’ law during the convention…especially since guns are such a hot-button political topic. This issue became one of the many political issues that became part of the fabric of the RNC, and several people came to Cleveland sporting their legal firearms as statement of their second amendment rights. This was the reason that Pocket and his friend had traveled from Michigan to Cleveland.
For what it’s worth, the RNC went off peacefully without any major incidents of violence. I actually witnessed several friendly conversations between the police and those people practicing their second amendment rights. Although I was not aware that Pocket and his friend were armed while we were drinking our beverages, I certainly was not offended nor rattled once I realized. In retrospect, our encounter was probably the most secure I was during the entire time that I spent at the convention downtown.
Oh yeah….the story of Pocket’s name. I will tell you that it was a humorous yarn, and you probably had to be there to entirely appreciate Pocket’s telling of the story. That said, I’m going to tease you and leave it at that. After all, it was not a free story. If you want to hear the story, you will have to buy Pocket a drink when you see him.
Check out the rest of the stranger street portraits in my project at Paco's 100 Strangers Project and find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.
fujifilm GSW690III 6X9 fujinon 65mm f/5.6 wide angle lens + kodak portra kodak portra 160NC. lab: the icon, los angeles, ca. scan: epson V750. exif tags: filmtagger.
Rusty 1955 Steelcraft school bus, built with a Carpenter body model D on what I believe is a 1954 GMC chassis. Date of delivery 11/54.
This 7-window (28 adult passengers or 42 wee ones).
The transmission is a four-speed manual. Brakes are power assisted drums, but steering is manual (unassisted).
The inline six-cylinder gasoline (petrol) engine develops all of a wimpy 115 horsepower (86 kilowatts).
Displacement is 270 cubic inch (4.4 liter).
GVWR is 14,500 pounds (6,577 Kilograms).
Driving it over the mountains will be a chore, to be sure (I think I can!, I think I can!).
A previous owner converted it into a motorhome / RV, complete with propane cylinders, refrigerator, sink, toilet, etc.
It is for sale, at the right price. We'll just have to see how attached to it we've become, depending on offers.
Or, we may get it running some day and drive it 170 miles over the hill to Burning Man, where it will be well suited as a camper / party bus.
The rocket hood ornament is a rare factory option.
The photos in this album are of the property, possessions and projects of a fine older gentleman named Willie Shepherd.
He owns a LARGE property in Lookout, California. It is full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description. My girlfriend Zoe bought a 1955 Carpenter (1954 GMC based) school bus from him, and he towed it the 17 miles to our Ranch with his old tractor on public roads:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vihuX5mIFSA
Photos of the bus can be seen in another set of mine:
www.flickr.com/photos/darronb/sets/72157635098965316/
Willie also renovates and runs old steam engines. For years Willie has been showing and demonstrating his equipment for anyone interested.
Many of the images in this set were 3-exp HDRs, processed with Photomatix. The camera was a Nikon D600.
Here, aiming at you kid, all in the spirit of good all American sportsmanship!
The killing by firearms will never stopped. We are like spoiled children addicted to guns and violence...
Same old cover--just overhauled to keep up with the times (sh...don't change, just gets worse...)
Replica
The pro-NRA group at the March for Our Lives in LA was tiny but vocal. Here's one of their proud representatives.
Me, early 1980s.
A very wee lad with a Mossberg (?) semi-auto .22LR.
Thanks, Dad !
( Note the "United States of Texas" t-shirt. Prophetic ? )
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Scanned from an old print made with a Keystone 126 camera.
My Ruger GP100 .357 Magnum revolver sits atop a "brass bed" of sorts. This is a couple years worth of spent .357 and .38 brass that I have put through this fine firearm. I really enjoy this gun and have gotten quite good with it!
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest all gun violence including the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The mass shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been largely ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley. This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Muller Lathe
Built by
The Bradford Mill Co.
Cincinatti, Ohio
USA
The size is as follows, roughly measured:
Swing over bed: 20"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Four-jaw chuck diameter: 18"
Bed length: 12 feet
Bed width, center to center across the outer two ways: 16”
Maximum workpiece length, center to center: 8 feet
It may have been built in the 1886-1901 era, from what I've learned so far.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description. My girlfriend Zoe bought a 1955 Carpenter (1954 GMC based) school bus from him, and he towed it the 17 miles to our Ranch with his old tractor on public roads:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vihuX5mIFSA
Photos of the bus can be seen in another set of mine:
www.flickr.com/photos/darronb/sets/72157635098965316/
Willie also renovates and runs old steam engines. His tools are basic and in, umm, often less than pretty condition.
I believe he told me that despite its condition, having been outside for many years, this lathe was still in occasional use, wonder of wonders. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to list it for sale soon, online. If nothing else, it makes a magnificent lawn ornament.
Almost all of the images in this set were 3-exp HDRs, processed with Photomatix. The camera was a Nikon D50.
More info on Bradford lathes:
Grand Rapids Riverside Park. Sunday afternoon. July 26, 2009
Would you prefer law abiding citizens, openly carrying a handgun or shady characters that you don't know if they are carrying a handgun?
Second amendment. Check it out.
We have a right to 'openly carry' a registered hand gun in Michigan. Know your rights.