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I have all the raw materials in hand, as well as the motor and power supply. The 5 mm drive belt material is somewhere in the reloading supplies. It is the material I used to make a replacement belt for the wet tumbler when the original, 20-year-old belt broke. Is this a commercial design? No. The…

The Seventh Circuit court ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bruen and decided that Illinois did nothing wrong when they held their Bruen tantrum to bass PICA. The case got dumped back in Judge McGlynn’s lap. The plaintiffs filed motions for things to help The People. Judge McGlynn denied them, but in writing that denial…

There was a time when I had the luxury of going shopping for movies and music every Friday. The family would get in the car, and we would drive over to Circuit City and look through the new movie releases. As we were looking through the movies, I heard a nice five string quartet on…

Welcome to the beginning of another year of crisis. One and a half years after the Supreme Court issued their opinion in the Bruen case, not a single Second Amendment challenge has been resolved. Every state that had Draconian infringements now has worse infringements. After Bruen I was hoping to get a permit to carry…

My original router was Vyatta running on a virtual machine on at PC. 100baseT connections I upgraded that to an EdgeRouter X by Ubiquiti. The base software was built on Vyatta. The EdgeRouter X is dual core 800Mhz MIPS cpu with 4 (or 5?) Gig-E ports. The EdgeRouter X was unable to keep up with…

(1100 words) My friend, Jim, use to tell me, “Never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.” Does anybody who reads this blog believer that Rob Bonta actually believes the stuff he peddles about every California infringement being “constitutional?” Who here believes that Judge Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit and his…

I hope you all had a great Holiday Season. Thank you to all of our readers. You are what keeps us going. Well, at least me. I’m hoping for some short articles this weekend (yeah, AWA, you wouldn’t know a short article if it bit you in the arse.) There are some interesting cases moving…

There have been many comments talking about progressive presses and other ways of accelerating the reloading process. Before you can decide which path you are going to take, you need to consider exactly what your needs are. When I was commuting to one of my clients once a week, I would go to the range…

(Word 4400> Choose what you are going to reload I will be reloading 5.56×45, 9×19, and .45 ACP. Acquire The Tools You Need Get your reloading Bible(s)!!!! Because this is my first time reloading, I chose the Lee Precision Anniversary Challenger Kit. This gets me a single stage press, powder scale, some brass prep tools,…

One of my favorite Christmas Albums