(Part 3) Top products from r/liberalgunowners

I was just checking into this subreddit to see if anything had ever been posted about whether folks here do IPDA/IPSC, and I find that something was just posted 18 hours ago. That's great, but I'm really puzzled why you posted two completely unrelated topics in the same post? And with a totally non-descriptive title?

I checked out my local IDPA meet's website and they basically said that before you compete you should (1) come and observe, and (2) have attended a training at something like Front Sight Academy.

A 2-day course at Front Sight is $1,000, so there is no way I am doing that, sorry. I'm sure the course is great, but there is nothing they can teach me that is worth $500/day. Anyone know some reputable yet cheaper alternatives?

I am currently waiting for this book to arrive in the mail. Several types of competition interest me in the long run...3-gun, IDPA/IPSC, bullseye, silhouette. Even some long-range rifle competitions (although I'm really a newbie to that type of shooting). But the first type of competition I'd like to get into, say in the next year or two, is definitely defensive pistol (IDPA/IPSC).

I've read a few marksmanship books, I feel that I am progressing to the point that in the near future I will have sufficient basic marksmanship skills to be ready to move from indoor pistol ranges, and shooting at non-moving paper targets from a non-moving position, to shooting at moving targets and/or shooting on the move. That said, I've only been shooting my own gun for a little over a year, so I'm pretty new to all of this. In his book The Perfect Pistol Shot , Albert H. League III states that the goal of a shooter who has the fundamentals of marksmanship down should be

• Three shots in one ragged hole at 7 yards
  
• Three shots within 4 inches at 25 yards
  
• Consistent torso hits on a full-size silhouette at 100 yards
  
  I do all my shooting within 20 yards...usually within 10. I can't say that I always get three shots in one ragged hole at 7 yards, but when I really focus, I can get pretty darn close to that. But that's with about 10 seconds between shots, so even if that accuracy were good enough for IPSC/IDPA (which it probably isn't...), the speed would have to improve by an unbelievable amount.
  
  Would be interested to hear the feedback of anyone who has competed.

I determined a while back that either my basic morality must change (unlikely), or my political position must shift to agree with it. That's how I ended up voluntarist (anarchist) today. I stopped advocating for policies based on what I thought of them at first glance in a vacuum, and started seriously examining my own basic morality, and consequently whether any policies were in conflict with it. Only then did I move on to studies of economics, with which I've become fascinated. For a thorough, yet layman-accessible examination of ethical/moral principle and the legitimacy of the state, I highly recommend Prof. Michael Huemer's The Problem of Political Authority. It is very dispassionate like a good academic publication should be, but I still found it riveting.

So I don't advocate the Libertarian party either, though in my studies I see significant merit to the associated economic policies even aside from their moral benefits. I highly recommend Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson.

I am also against taking one's shirt off on stage during a political convention. However, I of course will not try to stop anyone from becoming as nude as they wish. ;)

Haha, alright, my pitch is over. :)

PBS just had a great documentary on the Panthers called Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution which does a good job of giving a broad and balanced overview of the Panthers. If you want more specific information you can read stuff like [this] (https://www.amazon.com/Taste-Power-Black-Womans-Story/dp/0385471076) or [this] (https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Nationalists-Urban-Rebels-Black/dp/1935554662).

That's a pretty interesting concept.

The prices might be above what OP's considering @ $40+/month.

I'd suggest a trigger lock and giving that key to a family member for safe-keeping. Don't have to tell them what it's for.

I’d say Trump’s election also pulled in a lot of low income white people as well, anxious to make sure their spot in the pecking order (just slightly above people of color) doesn’t move. Basically some people fell for the same line of BS that worked back in the 1800s, when the system held “white” people were better than the Irish immigrants who were still better than black slaves. Read, “Making Whiteness”
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679776206/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_B206Ab58NM6FE

That is, unfortunately, just something you're going to have to accept about the world, unless you want an AI assisted surveillance state that keeps a close eye on who's buying too much piping at Home Depot.

One of the inherent issues with living in a free and open society is that information is easily accessible - take the Army's Improvised Munitions handbook [PDF] [Amazon] [Barnes and Noble].

People have been making guns by hand for a long time. John Moses Browning was discovered by Winchester in 1883, making guns from boxes of scraps in ass-end of nowhere Ogden Utah. In modern times, you can see tribal gunsmiths in Pakistan making unlicensed copies of guns by hand.

In America, we have the additional option of using CNC machines to make guns out of blocks of metal, or 3D printing receivers, a technology which will at some point mature and produce usable products.

The only ways to stop it would be to rigorously clamp down on access to gun plans that, in many cases, are decades old.

It's rather analogous to the many issues we've had with alcohol and drugs. It's not good that people make meth in trailers, but we're an advanced society and it's easy for people to get the information needed to do it. And it's almost impossible to stop, so we try to prevent people from doing it by decriminalizing drugs, encouraging treatments, and addressing the socio-economic issues driving drug abuse.

I dont think those are necessarily incompatible They're relatively competent plotters who don't give a shit about the country and the system is too big and fucked up to change anything for the better.

There's a book called The Systems Bible that tries to explain why organizations and systems full of competent people who want to get the job done still can't actually accomplish any forward progress.

How about this? I have a copy and it's a great book.

According to Prisoners of Geography, a big reason why the US is a superpower is because it stretches from one side of the continent to the other, allowing it to have a presence in both the Atlantic and the Pacific without much trouble. This scenario would, according to the book, make our country far less powerful if it were to come to pass.

The Sovereign Individual explores this concept quite interestingly.

OnX is either phone or GPS based maps. You can get 1 time purchase GPS or a subscription. If that's too expensive now a Gazeteer is a brand of paper maps with ownership info.

Mossberg 500 series is the basic and cheap but good pump shotgun. Remington 870 is another decent one (I own one and no major issues) but quality control has been down lately.

Edit: California gazetteer: California Atlas & Gazetteer https://www.amazon.com/dp/0899333834/

When the DoD Improvised Munitions Handbook is available on amazon for $12 (or on the internet as a free PDF), they're living a double standard.

https://smile.amazon.com/Mauser-Military-Rifles-World-Robert/dp/1440215448?sa-no-redirect=1

Also Negroes with Guns and Negroes and The Gun.

For another view on this I recommend this book. Large pockets of the South were essentially Pagan (Celtic) and traveling preachers were often run out of town with shotguns

Ye' need yerself one ov these!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0005KC7A6/

Here is an article about it. Basically men become more violent when they perceive that they have lower social/economic value than other men. Here is the source book. and here is a podcast about it. please don't kill me for bringing up Jordan Peterson.