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*Fudd
Slang term for a “casual” gun owner; eg; a person who typically only owns guns for hunting or shotgun sports and does not truly believe in the true premise of the second amendment.
These people also generally treat owners/users of so called “non sporting” firearms like handguns or semiautomatic rifles with unwarranted scorn or contempt.
‘Partisan’ Stefano Candela known by his nickname ‘Eolo’, in his village of Piemonte, a region of Italy bordering France and Switzerland.
The region sits at the foot of the Alps in northernmost Italy. Photo was taken in October, 1944.
A lot of us joke about the weirdness that comes out of California, but I’ve seen some really odd stuff. For example, anti-gun lawmakers removing laws specifically meant to reduce “gun crime.” That’s just one example, though, and you see it when you look at a specific context, namely that they’re not necessarily anti-crime but anti-gun owners. At least, that’s my take on it.
However, earlier this week, we had an official make a very odd admission on Twitter.
Now, for most of us, the name John Hamasaki means less than jack squat. For San Franciscans, though, his name means something. He’s one of the city’s police commissioners.
That’s right. He’s admitting that guns save lives.
And he didn’t react well to people who thought he might have been joking.
Now, let’s evaluate this for a moment. The NYPD confiscated a firearm from a 17-year-old, someone far too young to legally possess a firearm. In swoops a San Francisco police commissioner to tell them that while that might make things safer, it might also cost that 17-year-old his life because he doesn’t have the means to protect himself.
This is someone who was actually breaking the law when found with the firearm.
What Hamasaki is doing is apparently arguing that such people should be permitted to carry their firearms because it may solely be for self-defense.
Meanwhile, San Francisco and the entire state of California are downright hostile to law-abiding citizens trying to get firearms, and here we have a San Francisco police commissioner openly stating that a firearm in the hands of someone who can’t legally have one may just be for self-defense.
Well…ain’t that special?
Of course, he’s not incorrect. Much like we law-abiding types, criminals also carry guns for protection. They fear for their life as well. One major difference, though, is that they’re often doing something that will run them afoul of other armed people who are likely to decide to shoot them.
Most of us don’t make those kinds of enemies.
My question of Hamasaki is whether or not he will speak out against the draconian gun restrictions that exist in the state of California, particularly the conceal carry licensing system that makes it virtually impossible for a law-abiding citizen to get such a permit. After all, if he can advocate in favor of a 17-year-old kid in New York carrying a gun, surely he can advocate for law-abiding citizens in his city and state, right?
Somehow, I doubt he will.
See, unfortunately, the stance of so many people in our larger cities is that anything a criminal does should be explained away. These are the people advocating for no bail to put bad people back on the streets while also advocating for taking our guns. I’m sorry, but how does that work?
As Hamasaki noted, guns save lives. However, they don’t just save the lives of some punk in New York or San Francisco. They save the lives of law-abiding citizens who just want to be left alone from criminals who refuse to respect that desire.
What is the reason that we prepare? What is our ultimate justification for what we’re doing?
If you watch “Doomsday Preppers” or some other show on TV, the answer would seem to be that it’s because we’re crazy. They selected people and edited the clips to make them look crazy, which led to years of people laughing at preparedness.
This last year has changed the public perception of preparedness.
So, then, why do we do it?
The ultimate reason, when you break it down completely, is FREEDOM. We prepare so that we are SELF RELIANT and don’t have to trust anyone else to come to our rescue. The evidence is clear in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the midwest floods, and the Texas weather outages, that the government is going ride over the hill to save you about an hour after you’ve already died.
How does this view of being self-reliant match up with the Ultimate Tactical Handbook?
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves
Be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1
Seems clear: Be self-reliant. You are your own rescuer, protector, and provider.
When you look at the riots over the spring and summer of 2020, you will realize that the police are not coming to protect you. In fact, the Supreme Court case of Castle Rock v Gonzales says they have no duty to protect you. In Portland, when both the far right and the far left faced off in the streets, the Portland Police Bureau admitted that they were not capable of protecting the city when the two factions fought each other. This will be more common in 2021, so be prepared to fend for yourself.
When people in New Orleans relied on the government to come to their rescue, they found that rather than feeding everyone, the government’s first response was to go door-to-door and seize 551 firearms, all of which were lawfully owned. Then they forcibly relocated people to the SuperDome, where they were actually at greater risk. There was a shortage of food & water at the SuperDome, and crime was rampant inside.
So, again, relying on ourselves is good, but not merely good enough.
Let’s say I lived in New Orleans, and I had stored up 120 days of food and water, I had secured my house, obtained personal protection firearms, and had my own generator. Sounds prepared, right?
Well, on day 4, while I was getting ready to make lunch, our good friend General Russell Honore and his troops arrived at my house and demanded entry. They flashed emergency orders, and seized my firearms for “security & safekeeping”, then declared that they were seizing my food and generator under the emergency order. They then put me and my family in a truck and drove us to the SuperDome.
Did my preparedness help?
Inside the SuperDome, food and water began to run out and the National Guard began to ration it. Recovered bodies from the surrounding area began to pile up, and in an emergency, live people plus a lot of dead bodies equals illness. Three people died inside the SuperDome from various causes. Does that sound like people you should rely on?
What does this mean for preparedness folks who live in a city and plan on “bugging in”? I can’t answer that for YOU, but for me, if I had remained in the city, and the government showed up, I’d follow Galations 5:1 and not let myself be burdened with a yoke of slavery. Relying on someone else to feed, house, and protect you is SLAVERY.
The best advice I can give is to have a plan that allows you to either hide yourself and your gear effectively, or a plan that allows you to leave undetected in a hurry. The best of both worlds is to have hidden most of your supplies and have the means to leave quickly and hide for a day or two, until you can come back safely.
In Clay Martin’s excellent book on urban preparedness, Concrete Jungle, he describes how to do these things, and I highly recommend it (see link below).
If you plan on bugging in, you need to start NOW on Operational Security (OPSEC). Telling the world all about your preparations will make you a target. Many people think “My neighbors won’t take my stuff” or “My Facebook friends would never steal from me”. Those people underestimate the power of hunger. Hungry people, or people with children on the edge of starvation, will act very differently than they do now. They may show up and demand food, or band together and take food.
Even worse, when the troops take them to a relocation camp, and offer them extra food in exchange for reporting “hoarders” or “people hiding guns”, people WILL report you, if they know.
In preparedness, I see lots of people talking about how, after an event, when bugging in, they’ll fortify their house. A fortified house looks like a fortified house. When hungry people, or people intent on looting, see a fortified house, they think “there’s good stuff in there”. It’s far better to make your house look unoccupied or unremarkable in any way.
I know, folks like us love to fly our American flag right next to the “Come and Take It” flag. We are already seeing ANTIFA target houses flying either of those flags, so what do you think will happen post-event? Oh, you’ll take it down then, after the event and when the WROL situation exists?
What if I told you that the left is already preparing for mass violence, and recording addresses they suspect? THEY ARE.
This last weekend, the Young Social Democrat Association had booths set up in Washington state. There was literature on the tables about setting up “Community Emergency Response Teams”. These teams would be comprised of armed personnel for “community self-defense” as well as medics. Do you think you’re part of the community they’ll defend?
It’s interesting that they avoided using the term “militia”, but an armed “community self defense” group is INDEED a militia.
They told these groups to form and begin establishing “safe houses” and gathering information. By gathering information, they mean identifying anyone who isn’t a radical socialist for “redistribution”. Make no mistake, their preparedness plan is to seize your supplies and redistribute them to each other. They are already forcibly taking over neighborhoods and buildings, and we aren’t even fully into a WROL situation.
Keep your bug-in location as low-key as possible, and if a WROL situation develops, take the same position as The Rooftop Koreans did, and be ready to defend your stuff.
During the LA Riots of 1992, the Korean business community suffered the most loses. Over 2,300 businesses owned by Koreans were destroyed (half of all property damage). When they realized that the police wouldn’t be able to get help to them for over a week, the Rooftop Koreans banded together, armed themselves and began manning the roofs of their business. For several days they exchanged gunfire with looters, but they didn’t lose anymore buildings. Not a single Korean was charged with a crime.
Keep your preparations low key, have a way to hide them, and retain your ability to move out quickly, even if it’s only temporarily. Retain also the ability to defend yourself.
Operational Security means making sure that only the people who need to know are aware of your plans. This applies to every area of life, not just preparedness. Americans put a ridiculous amount of information on social media for everyone to see. People brag about leaving for a two-week vacation, not realizing the OPSEC error in telling people that your home is now unoccupied and you are out of the country.
Make sure you keep your circle of people who know your preparedness plans small. If you join a mutual aid group (see, I didn’t say militia or community self defense team), keep the group small. You need enough people in your group to be able to band together and defend each other, but not so many that a full leadership organization is required. Once you set up some type of large hierarchy, the potential exists for one person to force others to give things up.
Remember our goal, self-reliance and individual freedom.
But, every group needs leader, so what do we do? We take a lesson from the military organizations of 1700s. In the 1700s, and most of the 1800s, military units elected their officers. In a small, 4-5 family mutual aid organization, that’s a simple and effective way to handle it.
In a WROL situation, there won’t be any “lone wolf” people after 30 days. Find a group of like minded people and organize now.
I hope this helped you remember why we prepare, and gave you some ideas for be self-reliant. Most importantly, I hope it inspired you to remember that we ARE a free people, and the government doesn’t really have the authority to tell us where we can go and how many of us can gather at once.
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Let’s face a few facts. The faceless bureaucrats who are determined to disarm law abiding citizens are not doing so because they are “Nice People” concerned about you or I being the victim of a crook with a gun.
Their Friends in the media who miss no opportunity to churn out the lies, myths and misinformation that have, in the eyes of many, demonised gun owners do not do so because they wish to disarm the local ‘Drug lord’. They do so because they see the private ownership of firearms as a threat to their own power base and an obstacle in the way of their ‘New world order’ mentality. An Orwellian society, nanny state, surveillance society, call it what you wish, they are all part of the same despotic ideas that have, in the last century alone, lead Europe twice down the path of dictatorship and destruction. An armed society is the ‘safety net’, a last wall of defence, the people possess (Possessed?) against the ‘Big brother’ nightmare many see being created all around us. No wonder those with ill intent would like to see the people disarmed!
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Some people may find such rhetoric distasteful but it is a truth some find harder to swallow than the cosy ideas we are brainwashed into thinking make our society safer by those who wish to control what we believe, think and do. Some naive individuals adhere to the view that only the police and army should have access to firearms. I call that a police state mentality and a very dangerous mentality at that. History is littered with examples of regimes around the world that have first disarmed their own citizens, always behind the smoke screen of ‘law and order’ and then proceeded to commit atrocities or all out genocide against their own unarmed and helpless citizens. In such circumstances, the ability of the private individual to build his own homemade/improvised gun, or perhaps go into full scale underground arms manufacture, maybe of even greater importance.
My own view is that the gun not only belongs in the hands of the agents of the state (they can never be disarmed) but in the hands of the people as a whole. This is the surest way of maintaining the correct balance of power between state and citizen. The mad rush of government to create a ‘gun free’ Utopia will not, of course, have any effect on the crime rate. The criminal, by definition, does not obey the law and is therefore unaffected by any anti firearms legislation. Gun control will, however, create more and more victims of violent crime as long as we allow ourselves to be disarmed behind the smokescreen of ‘Crime control’. This is the unpalatable truth you will never read in the media or hear from any politically correct politician.
Unfortunately, while we continue to allow the media anti gun propaganda mills to churn out their lies, myths and misinformation we will continue to see the destruction of the ancient liberties and freedoms once securely enshrined under the “Common laws of England”.
When any government deprives a citizen of his freedom or property, the individual must take action to publicise his grievances. To this end, I hope to illustrate in the following pages, the futility of gun control, and that no amount of arbitrary legislation can ever prevent those wanting firearms from owning them. The individual who has the ability to construct his own homemade gun can never be permanently disarmed by any level of gun control legislation.
So as to allow you to get a ‘feel’ for the subject of homemade guns, the following pages illustrate how a reasonably light weight and portable homemade Machine gun was assembled from readily available ‘Off the shelf’ materials and components. No lathe or milling machine was required or used.
The firearm that can truthfully be described as “a homemade gun” should be one built using the type of hand tools and materials that the average individual could easily acquire.
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Adopted by the British Army in 1871, the .577-450 Martini-Henry was a modification of the .577 Snider Cartridge that was reduced down to .45 caliber. Specifically designed to be used in the new Martini-Henry rifle, the .577-450 Martini-Henry cartridge was used by soldiers and hunters in the British Empire for many decades.
Though the cartridge is now obsolete and has since fallen out of use, the .577-450 can still be an effective hunting cartridge under certain circumstances.
When the British Army adopted the Martini-Henry rifle, it was the first rifle that they had ever adopted that was originally designed as a breechloader. The rifle, along with the accompanying .577-450 cartridge, was an instant success due to its rapid rate of fire and long effective range.
Two loads were originally produced for the cartridge: a rifle load and a carbine load. The rifle load fired a 480-grain lead bullet propelled by 85 grains of black powder to reach a velocity of approximately 1,350 fps. The carbine load, designed for use by the cavalry and artillery in their Martini-Henry carbines, fired a 410 grain bullet pushed by 71 grains of black powder.
Though the cartridge is now obsolete and has since fallen out of use, the .577-450 can still be an effective hunting cartridge under certain circumstances.
When the British Army adopted the Martini-Henry rifle, it was the first rifle that they had ever adopted that was originally designed as a breechloader. The rifle, along with the accompanying .577-450 cartridge, was an instant success due to its rapid rate of fire and long effective range.
Two loads were originally produced for the cartridge: a rifle load and a carbine load. The rifle load fired a 480-grain lead bullet propelled by 85 grains of black powder to reach a velocity of approximately 1,350 fps. The carbine load, designed for use by the cavalry and artillery in their Martini-Henry carbines, fired a 410 grain bullet pushed by 71 grains of black powder.
The .577-450 cartridge was originally designed with a rolled brass case (left center). However, these cartridges were difficult to extract from a hot, dirty chamber, as would be common under heavy combat conditions. To improve their reliability, the case was changed to the more modern drawn brass case (right center), which was much less prone to jamming.
The British Army used the .577-450 Martini-Henry all over their empire for the next few decades. The cartridge was accurate out to around 400 yards under normal conditions, or potentially as far as 1,000 yards when used by an expert rifleman under ideal conditions.
In addition to the impressive accuracy and range of the cartridge, the large, soft bullets fired by the .577-450 were also known for causing devastating wounds.
The rifle and cartridge became very famous during the Zulu War, specifically at the Battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift. In addition to use in Africa, the Martini-Henry was also utilized extensively by the British in Asia, especially in India and Afghanistan (where thousands of “Khyber Pass” copies were illicitly produced).
Though officially withdrawn from front-line service with the British Army in 1889, the Martini-Henry was used by various reserve and police forces for many decades, and thousands of the rifles can still be found in former British colonies all over the world.
.577-450 Martini-Henry Loads
Due to the age of the cartridge, factory .577-450 Martini-Henry ammunition can be very difficult to obtain. It is possible to find the occasional box of factory-loaded ammunition at gun shows and on the Internet. It is usually very expensive on the rare occasion when you do find it.
Because of the difficulty obtaining factory ammunition, hand-loading the .577-450 is the way to go. Though hand-loading the. 577-450 Martini-Henry is not for the faint of heart, it is certainly possible and the components and tools that you need are available.
Finding brass is relatively easy: Jamison Brass & Ammunition produces and sells good quality Boxer-primed .577-450 Martini-Henry cases. It is also not too challenging (or expensive) to find appropriately sized reloading dies.
Finding bullets is a little more difficult. Even though the bullet is nominally .45 caliber, the cartridge was originally designed to use paper patched bullets, so the bore is actually slightly larger than .45 caliber. Because of this, very few Martini-Henry rifles will accurately fire the .458 diameter bullets designed for the .45-70 Government (below) and similar rifles because they are too small to engage the rifling without a paper patch.
Further complicating the situation is the fact that the actual bore diameter of a Martini-Henry rifle varies between models and even manufacturers. That being said, if you want to shoot loads without a paper patch, the bullet generally needs to be between .463 and .468 caliber (.466 diameter bullets are the perfect size for my Martini-Henry).
To be certain of the proper bullet size, you need to measure the bore of your particular rifle. Once you do that, there are manufacturers that will be happy to produce a custom bullet or bullet cast for you.
Fortunately, there is a fair amount of reloading data using both smokeless and black powder for the .577-450 Martini-Henry available online. So, once you’ve gone through all of the hassle of finding all of the appropriate components, it’s not too hard to find loads that closely mimic the performance of the original loads that the British used in the 1800s.
Additionally, if your rifle is in good shape, and you are using appropriately sized bullets, the .577-450 can be a very accurate cartridge.
Hunting With the .577-450 Martini-Henry
Even though finding .577-450 Martini-Henry ammunition can be a real hassle, it can be an extremely effective hunting cartridge. Since the cartridge enjoyed such widespread use in the British Army, it should not be surprising that it has also been used extensively used by hunters all over the British Empire as well. Virtually every species of big game in the world from antelope to tiger to elephant has been successfully taken by hunters using the .577-450 Martini-Henry over the years.
John “Pondoro” Taylor famously used the .577-450 Martini-Henry to hunt elephant and Cape Buffalo for a short period of time at the beginning of his career. While it certainly worked for him, I would not recommend using the .577-450 on thick skinned dangerous game. The cartridge is a much better choice on smaller game like deer, feral hogs, black bear, and most species of African plains game.
I’ve personally used the .577/450 Martini-Henry to take a kudu, warthog, and springbok. I was using a 400gr Hawk custom bullet fired at 1,520 feet per second, which was quite effective on all three animals. The bullet exited the warthog and springbok, but I recovered the bullet from the kudu. As you can see below, it did not expand very well, probably due to the velocity being too low. However, all three animals were taken cleanly and only ran a short distance after the shot.
Even though the .577-450 can be a capable performer at long range, it is better to only take shots at relatively close range (where bullet drop is minimal) when using it for hunting. At 50 to 150 yards, it can even be effective on large animals like elk, moose and eland. Also, since it fires a heavy-sized bullet at a slow to moderate velocity, the .577-450 does not produce large amounts of ruined, blood shot meat like high-velocity cartridges do.
While the cartridge has fallen by the wayside in recent years, the .577-450 Martini-Henry can still be a great cartridge for hunting many species of big game. Finding ammunition can be a chore, but the cartridge is still a solid performer under the right conditions.
Countless hunters all over the world have taken many different species of exotic game with the .577-450 Martini-Henry since it was first developed nearly 150 years ago. There is no reason why you can’t do the same thing with this unique and storied cartridge