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This car was made by Ford in 1965 and was called the Mustang.

This car was made by Ford in 2026 and is also called a Mustang.

They don’t work the same, they don’t look the same, and their only similarity is in the name. No one would claim they are the same car.

Now let’s look at another example.

This rifle was made by Armalite in 1960, they called it the AR-15. It was adopted by the US military and given the designation M-16.:

This rifle was made in 2026 by Daniel Defense and is called an AR15.

Those on the left would tell you that, because they are both called AR-15, they are both the same, and deserve to be banned. As my regular readers already know, there is one key difference. You can see it below, inside the red circle.

That little pin that is inside of the circle seems like an insignificant difference, but it isn’t. That pin is the pin holding the automatic fire control group. Owning a rifle with a hole drilled in that spot is good for 5 years in club Fed for owning an unregistered machine gun.

All of the rifles above were called AR-15. The difference isn’t in the name. It’s that one is a machine gun, and one isn’t. That’s why one is legal and one isn’t. What if I have a rifle of a different caliber, that isn’t a machine gun, and was never called an AR-15? Would that make a difference to them?

This is a DPMS rifle in 7.62mm. Different caliber, different manufacturer, not called AR-15. So this one is fine?

US Military designations, do not change what the weapon is.

The M16 is an AR-15
The M4 is an AR-15
The M27 is an HK416
The M110 is an SR-25
The M18 is a P320
The Mk27 is a Glock 19
The XM7/M7 is an MCX Spear

— AR-15 Project Manager (@AR15_OrdCorps) November 12, 2026

FAA issues a nationwide ground stop for all aircraft nationwide, but gives no reasons as of the time I am typing this.

Be ready for election day.

What is going on in Europe? First France, then the problems in the UK, then:

🚨🇵🇱COUP UNDERWAY IN POLAND!

PM Donald Tusk has just sent police to storm Constitutional Tribunal building in Warsaw in the middle of the night.

Tusk waited until President Karol Nawrocki left the country before ordering the police takeover.

Nawrocki was halfway to Senegal…

— Mario ZNA (@MarioBojic) October 30, 2026

1. Widespread civil unrest and riots in France.

2. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Albania.

3. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Italy.

4. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Spain.

5. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Portugal.

6. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Belgium.

7. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Serbia.

8. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Georgia.

9. Widespread civil unrest and an apparent judicial coup in Poland.

10. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Czechia (including an attempted takeover of the Parliament building).

11. Widespread student protests in Greece.

12. Targeted student protests in Indonesia.

13. Localized violent protests in India.

14. An apparently fraudulent election in Brazil where the presumed presidential election winner was forced to flee the country under threat of arrest by his opponent.

15. The uncovering of a Color Revolution plot in the USA led by embittered former USAID employees and ex-military members.

That’s a lot to be happening all at once, don’t you think? And the USA is having midterm elections next week.

You know, if I was a conspiracy-minded type I might be connecting some dots here.

Chris Pratt’s character in Jurassic World carried a Marlin 1895 in 45-70. At the time, it was listed as the only rifle that could take down a t-rex.

A live fire exercise resulted in high casualty counts, according to reports.

Report from an Army vet:

Accounts from someone on the firing line was it was a shoulder fired HE round that “Dolphined” after it left the tube and went astray. NOT artillery. This round hit a gas well which exploded and flattened the 3 Kill Houses that were full of troops which happened to be in close proximity of the well. Approx 300 troops inside and many waiting outside them. There is nothing but splinters left of them. This also started a major fire that was fed by high winds that swept through the main Bivouac site housing the majority of troops in the field. The amount of injured is staggering and the fatality count IS going to climb as they recover more victims. In my 20+ years in the Army, I have only heard of a dolphining round happening once from a shoulder fired rocket. Not sure what would cause this other than possibly a faulty propellent.

DD Harriman Elon Musk is at it again. This is a shot, taken through the screen on my birdcage as you can tell, of this morning’s launch.

That man is single handedly reviving America’s aspirations of a space program.

As yesterday’s story probably hinted at, I was a bit more reckless and prone to doing stupid things. As further proof, I point you to a post I first made back in 2012 about an incident that occurred back in 1991, where I used the same shotgun as yesterday’s story to confront some teens who claimed to be members of a street gang.

Part two was posted here.

Part Three is found here.

I am a lot more circumspect in my older years, but I also have to say that I still rarely back down from a fight. I’m pretty good at tilting at windmills like that. There have been times that trait of wanting to right wrongs and rescue damsels has cost me. I am glad my current wife moderates my wilder tendencies as much as she does. Even though she did get in my way while I was getting robbed in Las Vegas. We will retell that tale tomorrow.

I have an adblocker. Why? Because of stuff like this:

I get needing advertising money, but taking up HALF of the screen for an ad like this is too much.

Although we have already had our first cool front to bring Autumn into Florida, summer isn’t ready to give up just yet. The humidity today is brutal. When you go outside and take a breath, the air seems to have a thick consistency:

Look at that dew point! Of course it’s cloudy, and the sweat runs off you with nowhere to go. Cooler weather is supposed to arrive this week, and I for one will be happy to see it return.