Big Country Expat

Greetings and Salutations!
Was out sick after eating some dodgy Hindu Food the other night. Both Gretchen and myself were doing our own personal imitation of AT-4 Rocket Launchers, namely ‘bazooka barfing’ out the front, and then rushing to the bathroom for the ‘backblast’.

The tummies are doing better but I had to bang out of Glorious People’s Tractor factor an hour after I got there. Spent most of the day sweating out the “ugh” so to speak. I DID have one cool thing today that showed up in the mail however!

One of you donated a gift to the “Big Country Museum of Mayhem” that showed up today. Sapper went to walk the doggos and came in and told me a package had shown up. It was a 2 foot cube. Basic cardboard but he was struggling to balance it what with the two dogs on the leads. “It’s heavy dude!” so I got up and sure enough… WOW. Like almost a 30 pound box!

When I opened it, much to my delight and surprise was a pair of TA-312A Field Telephones!

Both of them appear to be in magnificent shape.
The note said that they worked when they were last tested. Seem his Granddad had brought them back from Vietnam, and no one in the fam wanted them, so he donated them to me.

How cool is that?

Besides the awesome addition to the Museum, a TA-312 has a LOT of uses if things go sideways. Having a field phone allows you to have cabled non-interceptable communications, and as long as the wire strands aren’t cut or tapped, you’ve got a nice closed loop commo system.

For those of you non-military folks, a TA-312 is an Analog Field Telephone that was put into production after World War 2. It utilizes either 2 D Cell Batteries, called the BA-30 in military nomenclature and is a hardwired phone that can be used in a one-on-one closed telephone circuit, or be used in a larger Plain Old Telephone System or POTS which used a military switchboard and a wider use in units across an area of operations.

Now on these two, the battery compartments are clean of any corrosion, which was and still is a problem with these things. Troops forget to pull the batteries which corrode, and then rot the internals, so a LOT of them on the surplus market are nonfunctional because of just that. As you can see:

BOTH of mine are just like that… ZERO corrosion or even signs of it. Both battery compartment gaskets are like new, and tight too, which is a bonus.

The TA-312 was used from the 1950s through the 1980s. Replaced by the TA-838 which is the current (2003) analog field phone. And yep, they’re STILL in use. This is one of those Army products that’s made to be indestructible and last forever.

The operation of these requires a roll of two-strand shielded wire called WD-1 that’s on half a mile long rolls.

Those are the small rolls that are usually issued to platoon sized elements. In our TOW platoon, we had One 312 per truck, and one roll of wire between each two trucks. We’d then run a wire from truck to truck so we had comms that didn’t require us to use our radios, which could be used to triangulate our position IF the bad guys were looking for us.

Radio Direction Finding has been a BIG THING in the Krain. Between handheld Motorolas or their Russian/Krainian counterparts and the like, both sides use RDF to find and fire up the other side with Artillery to great effect. Having a wired Field Telephone negates that hazard, which is why these are sooooo cool in my book.

Like as in an End of the World or Without Rule of Law scenario, running a phone to a lookout and back to the radio watch means NOT having a radio going that could be picked up if the potential hostiles in your area are monitoring communications with a broadband scanner. If they can’t hear you, then they might not know you’re there, or that you have eyes on them, or are even coordinating action against them.

These are all good things.

It’s funny… I’ve actually been negotiating with a Fren on Twatter who’s got a German World War Two field phone that HIS either Great Granddad or Granddad brought back when he came home from the war. Now I do know that that’d be compatible with the TA-312 because WE essentially took the same exact design, and MADE the 312 from the German one. If I manage to get that hammered out, well that’s going to be an AWESOME addition as well, as well as add another potential comm unit if things go even MOAR pear shaped.

That’s the parts breakdown.
It’s really easy to use. I also know that the two I have are the newer/later models as they have a little LED bar-light that’s connected to the ‘bat binding post’

That’s the LED off hook indicator. This is a warning that the handset is not “on hook”.   Warning people nearby that the phone is live and anything they say can be heard along the line as these are sound-based…

SO yeah.
Ended the day on a great note to say the least.

Now as it is, the rest of the world?
Don’t really know. I do know that the Propaganda Spin Machine is in overdrive on ALL sides, and that’s to be expected. I was just glad to wake up and see that OrangeManBad, despite the rhetoric and shit that’s been blasted out there has not so far gotten us absolutely involved via direct action. I’m beginning to think that Satanyahoo when he said that OMB had essentially set up all the Iranian Leadership for a fall, that it was bullshit, and that it pissed off OMB. I mean really…

Can you imagine being someone trying to negotiate with the Iranian High Command?

(calls Iranian High Command)
“Nice to meet you, Mr. Iranian General. The terms as previously laid out are…”

WHAM!
(Phone disconnect sound here)

“FUUUUUUUUCK!” (waits one day to resume calling)

“Okay, Mr. Next Iranian General, the terms as laid out with your predecessor’s predecessor are…”

WHAM!
(Phone disconnect sound here again)

“GOD DAMNIT ISRAEL! CAN YOU JUST LET ME FINISH THE SENTENCE?”

Now the latest is that he’s said that he’s looking at making a decision on whether to bomb or not bomb in two weeks? That’s cold and brilliant. And the reason?

What’s not being said is that for every missile Iran is lobbing, it takes between 10-20 counter-battery missiles (and yeah PLURAL) at between $200 and up to $1 million at throw to shoot down… and Hypersonics? Those have been unstoppable despite claims to the contrary.

They, like out DDS’s off the coast of Yemen ran out of ammunition pretty quickly. I think the Izzies are too now.

My take? I think the Izzies were counting on a HUUUUGE counterstrike after their initial hit on the 14th. Per the news:

…and that “Holocaust-y Level” of deaths in that counterstrike would have been the motivator to get the US to jump in with both feet (blindly per usual) and do “Our Master’s Bidding” per usual. H/T to Simplicius76 for the screenshots.

Instead?
Weeeeell now. Two weeks?
Do the Izzies even have two weeks worth of ammo left?
They’re going to be in deep shit if this’s true

Even with the US trying to resupply them, to the point of diverting the ammo that was meant to keep the Krainians in the fight, I’d have to say, per that released/leaked TS Documentation by that National Guardsman last year, that now?

I’d guess OUR cupboard is bare AF by now.

Despite all the “Rah Rah! we’re rebuilding our DotMil Infrastructure” bullshit, as far as -I- have heard and known, there’s nothing outside of what we’ve alreadybeen doing which is trying desperately to ramp up our domestic production of Artillery Shells… and even THAT has been fraught with all sorts of bureaucratic bullshit and problems.

I’m laughing about this mind you.

“What if they threw a war, and nobody showed up?”

Looks like it might go that way. Too many people are ‘bowing out’ on this one. Twitter, which in the past was a ravening horde of Leftwing Thought Policing has even gotten on the “We won’t die for Israel” bandwagon. Despite the folks who still try and hold a grudge for what happened in 1979 when the Shah got overthrown and the US Embassy got hemmed up for 444 days, I say they don’t know their history very well…

The enmity between the US and Iran started in 1953, when under the guise of being worried about communism, the CIA and Brits overthrew the legally elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. MI6 and the CIA then installed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Ostensibly about creeping communism, which was the favorite bugaboo of the time, it was really about Big Mo wanting to nationalize the Iranian Oil Production, and keep the profits for the Iranian People so to speak… whether that would have worked or if he’d have done like ALL the rest of the Middle Eastern leadershit did and still does (namely keep the profits for himself and his close associates) remains a question lost to time.

The fact is the Brits and BP, British Petroleum were pretty pissed off on getting freezed out of a cut of the action, as THEY were the ones who initially set up the Iranian Oil biz. From what I’ve read and studied, Big Mo was “The Man in Iran” and really loved by the population, so when the figurehead Shah was ‘installed’ via a coup, well… the people weren’t happy about it. The Brits were the motivators behind it, and used the CIA as the muscle, and the Iranians never forgave us for that.

Say what you want, but I lived with these people, and let me tell you… Babylonians (Iraqis) or Persians (Iranian)? They have loooooong memories and blood feud is literally deeply imbued in their cultures. This shit runs deep.

It got worse when the Shah went “Full Dictator” and was essentially the same sort of asshole Saddam was in Iraq. Torture, Executions, Disappearances and the like became the norm under the Shah. It was when the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini showed that things went pear-shaped, the Shah bailed and we got left holding the bag so to speak… A

And unfortunately, because of the shitty education system we have here in the States, OUR people have no fucking clue just why and how justified the Iranians are in being pissed off at the US for fucking them over forever and a damned day.

All our folks, including the majority of Boomercons remember is the embarrassing Hostage Crisis and the Failed Rescue Attempt which was NOT the Iranian’s fault (although the parading our our guys dead was not cool). Iran didn’t help throughout the 80s blowing up our folks whenever they saw a chance, and it’s been a lo-key back and forth ever since.

Before it was Britain manipulating the whole shebang.
Now it’s the Izzies.

So no matter what, we’re damned if we do, and damned if we don’t. They even trotted out the late Shah’s Son to give a recorded speech calling on “All Right Thinking Iranians to Rise Up Against The Mullahs” and, as one would have expected, landed like a wet shart after a night of drinking cheap beer.

What the strikes did was the exact opposite.

The Mullahs, while having issues with the younger generations wanting more access to the world and a slacking off of Sharia Law, have now been empowered by a wave of nationalism. AGAIN our intel agencies done went and screwed the pooch, as well as the Izzies, who look like the fucking clowns that they are, and instead of an overthrow, the Iranian People, as a whole, are now digging in for the long haul.

And considering the size of the country?
Ain’t no way to stop the Iranians IF they decide to end this. The only way to stop them IF they decide to go ‘all in’ is “canned sunshine” from the Izzies, and at that point? All bets are off.

In fact I would not doubt that as we speak, they’re putting together a Nuke right now. Lord knows they got the materials… and in their case, they may not have had one before, but any bets under the latest circumstances that they probably have one now or will have one within a week or two?

I’m not taking those odds.

So let me know your thoughts.
And By the way, Happy Juneteenth.
It’s nice to see that THIS year at least, it hasn’t been shoved down our fucking throats like it was in years past.
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Whelp yesterday’s discussion here was pretty good. It would seem that I don’t have any Lawyers who’re willing to speak out about the subject of “homebrewed” toys. Not that I blame them around this here place… this’s a rough neighborhood and under surveillance if the statistics are reading correctly.

LOTS of pings from the Virginia Area of Operations on the regular so to speak, as well as… well… I should say until a few nights ago, from Israel. Unless some of you clowns are VPN’ing out of Tel Aviv that is.

Tonight there’s like NO Middle Eastern Visitors in the house, or at least so far.
Things that make you go Hmmmn…

Aye that…

Methinks they are either too busy or the RUMINT about the Unit 8200 Mossad HQ taking a solid Hypersonic hit is real.

Either way…

Now as to clarifying what exactly the current legislation means in regards to the ‘WHY’ of my question. It is, from what I can read, as well as from what I’ve watched on the GunTuber’s channels, is that the repeal of the National Firearms Act excise taxes on suppressors/short barrel rifles/short barreled shotguns/and AOWs. This means two things.

1) It literally does what it means. That is it repeals and removes the odious $200 Tax Stamp nominally (for now) required to purchase a suppressor/short barrel rifle/short barreled shotgun/and AOW. The biggest obstacle to buying one of these happy-fun-time toys is getting the tax stamp. It’s a particularly loooong and punishing set of steps to get what amounts to a ‘checkbox’ for you to own and possess an “NFA” item. Literally getting the stamp is part of the punishment so to speak. Back in the day, said punishment (as I explained) was financial more than anything else. Now? It’s a time-thing as the ATF seemed to willfully and intentionally d-r-a-g out he process which made your average purchaser think twice about buying on.

2) And then: By removing the stamp, and declaring them the same as a “firearm or firearm accessory” in purchasing it, you ONLY have to do a ‘standard Form 4473’ to get approval to buy it. Depending on your background check, this can take as little as 30 minutes, or like in my case, a day as the “Imperial Entanglements” tend to make my purchases a wee bit more difficult. Ergo: by ‘declassifying’ them as ‘firearm or firearm accessories’ that means that you can “homebrew your own” so to speak.

Now with that explained, I have to describe the various forms involved. A standard Form 4473 is used during the purchase of a firearm. The short version is that a Form 4473’s (also known as a Firearms Transaction Record) “primary purpose is to document the purchase or transfer of a firearm from a licensed dealer (FFL) to a purchaser, and to ensure compliance with federal laws regarding firearm sales. This form acts as a record of the transaction, verifying the buyer’s identity, eligibility to purchase, and the specific firearm involved.”

This is not a “registration” per se.
Leastways that’s what the Feds say.

HOWEVER a Form 4473 DOES record the transaction, and notes the purchase and IF the person that is purchasing the firearm is NOT a “prohibited person” per the ATF and Federal Law via the NCIS check that they perform. NCIS stands for National Instant Criminal Background Check System. If you pass that OR already have a concealed carry license in your state (if applicable), then you’re good to go.

So this means that

THEORETICALLY the 4473 is NOT supposed to be a ‘registry’.
The Form 4473 serves as Legal Documentation for the purchase of your weapon. A completed and properly maintained Form 4473 serves as legal documentation of the firearm transfer and is retained by the FFL for a specified period.  Per the ATF, that period?

The dealer must keep the Form 4473 on file for the lifetime of the FFL, and is required to surrender the log book to the ATF upon retirement from the firearms business. The ATF is allowed to inspect, as well as request a copy of, the Form 4473 from the dealer during the course of a criminal investigation.

And mind you, they do.

An example from personal experience:

I had a run-in tangentially with the ATF when a rifle I had sold turned up in a crime in Miami. I had sold one of the NCOs an AR that I had built back when I was an armorer. Like 5 years later, I got a call from GunGirl to come down to the shop, as there were “people with badges who wanted to talk to me.”

She gave me the low-down via text so that I didn’t freak and to allow me to prepare, and I immediately grabbed my paperwork. I thankfully, as I do with any of my sales, kept a copy of the sales receipt, as well as a copy of the dudes drivers license, which I require when I do a ‘person-to-person’ transfer juuuuuust to cover my ass. The reader who won my Ishapore?

Yep. I got a receipt AND a copy of his license.

You positively have to do this when even possibly dealing with the Imperials. To do anything less would be retarded. Like them.

I was fine… TBH the ATF guys in question were OK.
Surprised the fuck out of me.
I expected Jackboots and Blackjacks.
I gave them what then wanted, and that was it.

A while later, I got word from GunGirl. Seems that they went and chased down this NCO, who in turn had sold it a year later, to a guy who from what I heard had reported it ‘stolen.’ It was ‘off the radar’ until not long after THAT, it turned up after a Mass Shooting in Miami (which sucks).

At least I can say I dindu nuffin. They (the ATF) HAD gotten the ‘trace back’ to the manufacturer via the serial number, who in turn said “…we sold it to GunGirl’s shop”, and then they had checked her 4473s, and found lil ole Me.

It wasn’t like they pulled up a gun registry and knew -I- was the owner of the rifle initially. In fact it wasn’t even the rifle, as I had built this one and it was a Carbon Fiber lower I had tried out and purely hated… which is why I sold the fucker.

It had too much ‘flex’ in the lower… it made me realize the majority of rifles due to their size need to be made of of metal, unlike a Glock or ‘other’ handgun. That’s just my opinion man…

So anyways, The ATF? They had to do the good old fashion “chase the lead down” police work. For which TBH proved that they didn’t have a National Registry as they had to actually go to GunGirl, and ask “who bought this?” So no, (FOR NOW) there’s no centralized gun registry.

Which leads me to my ORIGINAL HYPOTHESIS.

Now because they’re changing the status of the suppressors/short barrel rifles/short barreled shotguns/and AOWs, and ONLY requiring a Form 4473 and since there is NO official “gun registry” well then… since an 80% rifle/pistol that you make at home DO NOT NEED a 4473, wouldn’t it be reasonable to think that since they’re getting rid of the tax stamp requirement which requires a Form 4 to get, that a “homebrewed” suppressor/short barrel rifle/short barreled shotgun/and AOW would be EXEMPT from any filing requirement?

I do.

See… the Form 4 is what you need to get your Tax Stamp.

THAT then creates a TAX RECORD which IS a registry of sorts.

Now, to “homebrew” a ‘toy’? Currently one needs an ATF Form 5320.1 which is better known as a “Form 1” which is a form for the “Application to Make and Register a Firearm”. It is used by individuals who are not licensed Federal Firearms Licensees (FFL) to manufacture or modify National Firearms Act (NFA) firearms. This includes items like silencers (suppressors), short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), and Any Other Weapons (AOWs). 

To MY line of thought:
Since they’re essentially removing the NFA Classification for suppressors/short barrel rifles/short barreled shotguns/and AOWs in order to get rid of the tax, which thereby eliminates the need for a Form 4, wouldn’t it follow that this would ALSO invalidate the need for one to fill out a Form 1?

I mean if they’re no longer NFA Items, well then so much for any forms at all as building a firearm at home REQUIRES NO PAPERWORK WHATSOEVER?

Why require a form to build something that’s no longer an NFA Item?
Right?
Maybe it’s a case of wishful thinking
But I do that a lot.

I mean they might still require a Form 1, but those were intended to ADD THEM to the Tax Stamp Requirement, which according to the potential new ruling, means that there would be no Tax Requirement hence eliminating the Form 1, as well as the Form 4. It’s going to be interesting to say the least.

Like I said, I’m not a lawyer and have ZERO interest in being the test case for this. To me this’s a purely mental exercise. That and I also DO look forward to cheaper and more plentiful ‘toys’ out there to purchase. The main reason I haven’t bought any of the above is that the price range is, as I stated last night, extortionist in my opinion. As I stated before, I just know Palmetto State is positively drooling at the thought of this happening.

So let me know your ideas and thoughts now that I’ve expanded on it. Maybe you have better ideas or insights?

More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
So besides all the other international crap going on all day, all night 24-7 because “Israel”!!! and “Iran”!!! it seems that the OrangeManBad Bill AKA “The Big Bootiful Bill” got tweaked by the Senate Finance Committee to fully repeal the NFA on some ‘stuff’…

Said update came via Gun Owners of America via this tweet:

🚨BREAKING🚨

The @SenFinance Cmte. has improved the One Big Beautiful Bill to FULLY REPEAL the National Firearms Act excise taxes on:

✅Suppressors
✅Short-Barreled Rifles
✅Short-Barreled Shotguns
✅Any other Weapons

This is a massive victory for the Second Amendment!

— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) June 16, 2025

Cool that they seem to be finally getting past the whole argument about hushpuppies and sbrs. I fully expected that the addition on the short barreled shotties would get on there no problem, as the laws regarding those ‘types’ of toys have slacked off ever since a guy I know, “RA Bear”, managed to come up with and slip under the ATF radar, what’s now known as the Mossberg “Shockwave”

My buddy “Bear” essentially and without going too deep into it, kept going back to the ATF asking “Hey, if I do this is this cool?” to which the ATF in all it’s genius went “Yeah, sure, why not?”.

He did this so many times that by the time he got done, that eventually and ‘all of a sudden’ a pistol-gripped 14.3in barreled shotty with an overall length of 26.8 inches (much to the horror of the slow-on-the-uptake ATF tards) was now legal across the board.

Now granted, I’m oversimplifying the whole thing like a mother, but you catch my drift. Those bad boys, and MANY others are now ‘common use’ so that particular barn door wasn’t getting closed anytime soon.

For that matter, ALL of them fun-time toys listed are now going to be legal. The only requirement is that IF you buy one, you have to fill out a standard 4473 like you do when you purchase any other rifle/pistol.

Which leads me to the crux of my legal question.

Now we’ve seen, and found out over the past few years that the ATF went after 80% firearms HARD. In fact that’s an understatement. They’ve ALSO have gone after home-made 3D printed weapons as well. LOTS of court cases, most of which ended up being found in the “Favor of Freedom” so to speak…

HOWEVER, due to the LONG HISTORY of “Guns in America” and the damned near sacrosanct ability for common ‘Muricans! to make their own guns at home, without interference and the like from overzealous DotGov Minions and Karens, my question is this:

If it’s legal to “homebrew” so to speak in the vernacular, a home-made 3D Printed or complete an 80% handgun and or rifle, WITHOUT DOTGOV PERMISSION OR PAPERWORK then, by extent, wouldn’t the same exact legality apply to “homebrewed” hushpuppies and all the rest of the happy-time fun toys???

It’s an interesting concept.

I, for one, am NOT willing to be the ‘test case’ in regards to this. I’ve had enough “Imperial Entanglements” over the past few years, so pardon the pun, but I’m gun-shy LOL. That being said however, to my mind and critical thinking, that by repealing any and all tax stamps and/or registration of and for suppressors/short barrel rifles/short barreled shotguns/and AOWs that then there is no stopping someone from building their own right?

I mean an SBR?

Hell… I owned (until the Tragic Canoe Accident of 2022) what are currently considered “AR Pistols”… I had ‘braces’ on them. However, IF I were to ‘replace the brace’ on them with a M-4 standard Folding stock, it then becomes a “Homebrewed” (so to speak) SBR. If one were to buy a 10.75 inch “Colt Commando” barreled upper and slap it on your pseudo-M-4 lower? BOOM! SBR. Oh so many examples!

Buy a $125 dollar H&R “Granny Clampett” side-by-side 12 gauge and saw it down? Short Barreled Sawed Off Shotgun. And as an aside BTW: Not that I’d EVER recommend ever doing THAT… I had a fren in the 1st Cav who did exactly that… he sawed a 12 Gauge Double Barrel side-by-side down to maybe 12 inches? And then he sawed the buttstock down and practically off… he wanted to make and try a “Mad Max” 12ga. Pistol… let me tell you… LOUD AF and utterly useless unless the person you’re aiming at is within 10 feet. The spread of pellets was retardedly wide… plus the recoil was brutal. Anywho…

My line of reasoning I –think- is solid.
And no, I have NOT seen anyone openly positing this theory.

By the elimination of these items from the National Firearms Act, and now considering them as “firearms” ONLY and having them classed as such that you ONLY need to file a 4473 to buy one, wouldn’t it follow that if you make your own, then there’s no need for any paperwork?

JUST like an 80% home built pistol/rifle or 3D printed?

Like I said, a question for the Legal Eagles out there.

I mean the $200 tax stamp, when initially put in place in I believe 1934, that was the equivalent of $4,797.99 in todays money. Consider this: The average national salary in 1934 was $1,368!!!! SO a $200 tax stamp was not just prohibitive, it was an OUTRAGEOUS amount at the time!!! 14% of your YEARLY SALARY! So, of course, that only allowed the extraordinarily wealthy and/or criminal class (which in truth are pretty much the same fucking thing) could afford such nice things.

In fact, IF this is the case, we might actually see the price of a hushpuppy FINALLY drop to a reasonable price, as demand will go through the roof, as will production. This means a boon to the folks who can ramp up production for a quality suppressor without totally porking the consumer, as I find a LOT of the companies out here using the existing NFA artificial bottleneck as a means to keep the price point elevated to the stratosphere.

Palmetto State will be LIT over this, you watch.

And ‘homebrewing’?
Oh… that’ll be the new hawtness. I guarantee it.
LOTS of 3D print files for baffles out there and with the newer metal sintering 3D printers? Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah….

Go figure.
So your thoughts on this interesting conundrum?
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
So the bastards finally shut down my Google AdSense shekels.

What kills me is they say I had “excessive policy violations”

“Dangerous and/or Derogatory commentary”

Excessive? Like I think in the past year I’ve had maybe 5 violations, and surprise surprise… guess what and or who I was critical of and that they probably had issue(s) with?

Yeah…
This is my shocked face.
I appealed it of course and wrote essentially the 1st Amendment still exists, but I’m sure somewhere in the ‘fine print’ there’s a specific rule about criticizing the Jews. I mean more of an annoyance although the $200+/- I made via the ads was a nice padding monthly. One I did NOT count on…

Not these days.
Although this past few months Ye Olde ‘Zon Links for the MREs helped significantly. Or will I should say. The problem with the associates program is it take like 3 months to see a payout. Meaning the few items people clicked on and bought via my links that I got this pay-period (provided I made enough to even get paid… there’s a $100 threshold) well that payment is from March. Which means my April/May June ‘stuff’ won’t pay until like maybe starting in August.

The House ALWAYS wins right?

So not much commentary on the current Middle Eastern Dumbasshattery except to say I personally think Nutjobyayhoo bit off a wee too much this time, and IF OrangeManBad doesn’t jump in to help, then it might get very “canned sunshiny” as they’ve put themselves in a very tight corner. The Izzies are very overstretched right now.

Everyone and their brother thought the Iranians were going to do what they did last time, which was some minor performative tit-for-ta strikes, but instead? They appear to being ‘going for broke’ and the fact that Nutjobyayhoo first begged for US assistance (as they can’t hit the really deep shelters that the Iranians have) AND THEN came out with the “The Iranians directly threatened to Kill OrangeManBad!”

Which is about as transparent as you can get. “Help us do this thing or we JFK you there OMB!” Personally, not our circus, not our monkeys, despite ALL the warmongering that’s being pushed. I will say one thing that people haven’t notcied yet though and it’s this:

Yep.
They either slink back to Tel Aviv, tail between legs OR they lie, and never get to use the “Iranians Got Nukes (or are about to again!)

A Catch-22.

Hence why I think ‘canned sunshine’ might be on the menu, and they’ll spin it as a “Look! The Iranian defective nuclear weapon went off as they were getting ready to fire it at us!!!” as the Israeli DotMil and DotGov are NOT exactly known for stepping down and admitting that they fucked up.

FFS they keep saying that there’s only 7 known dead from ALL them hypersonic missile strikes. Just looking at a few of the post-strike pictures?

Some of those buildings are just wrecked like a motherfucker. Others are far worse. And before anyone tries to say “But but but… they were in Bomb Shelters!~!~!” I’d say maybe but when the Iranians launched the strike, the videos and initial reports were that the Izzies were ‘asleep at the wheel’ and that the “Iron Dome” failed pretty spectacularly. I’d say they’re modeling their bodycount like the Krainian Kasualty Korpse Kount… if’n you don’t count ’em, then they ain’t dead.

Add on that it tunes out a LOT of the ‘civilian buildings’ hit had ‘Iron Dome’ launchers either on top of the building (thereby making it a legit target) or, like their BIG underground Headquarters?

Well, it’s built under a fucking Hospital

JUST like Hamas put theirs under a Hospital, and because of that, the Izzies justified blowing it the fuck up, so no, I do NOT want to hear any kvetching and whining when the Iranians drop their version of a Khinzal on it and waste all the patients and Docs there.

So anyways… that’s MY take on that crap.
And as far as the “No Kings” march here locally?
Geez… it looked like they emptied out all the Geriatric Wards and dropped ’em all off in a BIG parking lot off of Bloomingdale. Nothing but really old has-been Hippies trying to relive the “glory days”… I swear I heard at one point a chant of “Hey Ho! Nixon has got to go!”

Uhhhhh….
Wow… just wow.

Now on a happier note.
Literally!
I found something very important to me that I thought had been lost a waaaays back. A souvenir from my 2004 Baghdad Tour. I had gotten word that there were a bunch of pretty well known (and some not-so-well known) cartoonists that had gotten a tour of the Al Faw Palace while doing the USO thing, and were doing a meet and greet.

Peter over at Bayou Renaissance Man occasionally puts up one of my favorite cartoonists, Steve Pastis, who does “Pearls Before Swine” This being todays strip:

Now in 2004, Pastis was a pretty new cartoonist. He’d been around nationally for about 2? maybe 3 years at that point? Per the wiki: “On January 7, 2002, Pearls was running in approximately 150 papers.” He started in 2001 so yeah, I was right… anyways…

When I got in the main hall where they were doing the meet and greet, when I saw him, I was pretty pleased as I love his work. His cartoons never fail to crack me up. His line was like non-existent for whatever reason,. so I actually got to go up and shoot the shit with him for a few. He’s a really cool guy IRL. And for that matter, he offered to draw me a cartoon right then and there. Shocked the Hell out of me let me tell you! He asked what I’d like, so the first thing that popped into my head was “A drunk Larry!”

Now for anyone who’s ever read ‘Pearls’ Larry the Crocodile and his son are regulars in the strip. He’s frequently shit-faced and hilariously stupid. SO as we chatted, he whipped this out for me:

As my movie Guy Dan Monroe would say “How cool is that!?!”
BTW go check out Dan’s channel… LOTS of great videos there! HIGHLY recommend if you’re GenX and a bit of a geek like me.

I framed it in that free-floating style because I think it looks best that way. There’s also a wee bit of a blood stain on it down in the lower right… no idea how or when it got a drip on it, but “Iraq” and “My dumbass” means I probably cut myself and was showing off the drawing to a friend. I’m just so tickled to have found it. And it’s still in pretty damned good shape, considering the provenance.

I thought I’d lost it years ago.
Of all places it was halfway behind a door and bureau and positively encased in dust and dust bunnies. So a positive end to an otherwise shitty weekend. Not for nothing we had ‘issues’ around here again with Gretchen’s parents… it’s unfortunate but eh… Old Age comes to us all… we just got to deal with it.

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!

You knew it was coming.
What people didn’t see coming including the Izzies and the United States was Iran coming out of the corner, swinging haymakers or in this case, throwing a shit-ton of ballistic missiles at Tel Aviv.

My Goodness!

Over on twitter DotMil Twatters have pretty much all been having the “Well… these tweets didn’t age well…” after the fact. The majority of them ALL seemed to take the stance that the Iranians were going to roll over and show their nuts like a dog who’s lost the fight…

Instead they got a wounded and angry bunch of Persians who’ve decided to take a few more swings at their enemies. Me? I wasn’t sure as for the most part its ALL performative theater. I mean FFS the HEAD of the Al Quds Brigade? General Suliman Al-Snakbar or whatever the Hell his name is was deep cover a spy for the Izzys ALL ALONG!!! The Izzys put out on Twitter (of course) that this Honcho had been successfully Exfilled from Iran riiiight before the shit hit the fan.

H/T to Old Jack’s Spirit on Twitter for giving me this…

Any wonder how the Izzys have been able to pull off so many of the so-called “Intelligence Coups” that they have over the past few years? It helps when the Head Honcho of their enemies has been “on the payroll” forever and a day… Al Quds being Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF). Theoretical Bad Asses but either way, call them the Iranian “Praetorians” if anything… they’re the power behind the Mullahs.

So now it would seem we’re at a ‘wait and see’ sort of thing. Word is s-l-o-w-l-y leaking out that yes, the US and OrangeManBad did know about this, and willingly aided and abetted them in this bullshit. Which means again we’re doing the whole “Die for Israel” thing….
AGAIN.

So because of this, I’m doing a full on battery check and test and recharge of ALL my rechargeables. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you do the same. At least while we STILL have available power right?? I’am also testing all my comms systems and realigning what works, and doesn’t work.

You should too.

Anyways…
It means that they’re prepping us… As you may have noticed, just like clockwork as this happened we saw a a few months right after we started seeing MASSIVE advertisements aimed primarily at Southern White Males to get them to join the DotMil.

And unfortunately, it worked.

The Army, for the first time in like forever, made and/or exceeded their recruiting efforts to get men into the pipeline to die in the Middle East for a bunch of ungrateful curs.

What part of (to paraphrase) “”Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Soldiers for Israel” did you not understand?

Like I said last night.

“Tell you what… IF and only IF in the past ten years (or even the past 60 years FFS) they even tried to build a SINGLE monument dedicated to the sacrifices that the American Infantryman had done to save their worthless jew (sic) asses during the Holohoax, I might feel differently.”

Big Country espousing on Jewish Lack of Gratitude, 2025

It’s one of my BIGGEST Complaints.

I don’t know if you are aware, (as we have a LOT of newbies here due to my sudden new readers from the Twitterverse) but here in the United States, there are approximately over 300 Museums and or Memorials to the Holocaust in the untied States currently.

Per the Goolag AI:

States with prominent Holocaust memorials and museums are: 

• Arizona
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia
• Washington
• Washington, D.C.
• Wisconsin 

States with a higher concentration of memorials include:

• California: Wikipedia lists several memorials and museums in California.
• Florida: Florida is home to the Florida Holocaust Museum, one of the largest in the US.
• New Jersey: Wikipedia lists several memorials and museums in New Jersey.
• New York: Wikipedia lists several memorials and museums in New York, including the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
• Ohio: Ohio has several significant memorials and museums.
• Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is home to the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center, among others.
• Texas: Texas has several Holocaust museums, including one in Dallas and Houston.

Mind you I looked it up for Florida… there’s 14 LARGE memorials to the Holocaust here in this state.

A curious thing don’t you think?

WHY Is what I ask…

I mean, after all, WE were the ones, along with the Soviets, who STOPPED the ‘Holocaust’ and ‘rescued’ all them poor bastards who were supposedly there. I mean WHY???

WE were the ones who saved them and yet we have to continually buld memorials as if it was OUR fault??? Even Germany doesn’t have this many memorials for fucks sakes.

Nope….
It’s a humiliation and submission ritual.
They know it, and now, maybe some of YOU now know it.

And knowing is half the battle.

Now for one, I am NOT going to deny that -something- happened. I’ve visited some of the locations and yeah…something happened… in fact TBH Mauthausen? THAT motherfucker genuinely had some bad shit happen there… I could feel it. Unlike Birkenau. The vibe at Birkenau was like a summer camp so to speak, which sounds fucked up, but you had to be there yannow? On the other hand? Mauthausen was another level spooky so to speak… the Dead ‘talked there’ so to speak… I could hear them I swear…

However…

That isn’t the point I’m trying to get at…

What personally ‘steams my clams’ so to speak… what really grinds the fuck out of my gears is the utter lack of memorials to the United States Troops and the Soviet Troops who DIED in the rescue of their worthless and UTTERLY ungrateful asses.

Not. A. Single. Memorial. paid for, nor even situated in Israel for ALL the guys from BOTH major ‘players’ who fought in World War Two, who because of the efforts and their sacrifices, allowed them the ability for them to go out now and fully commit genocide against the Palestinian People without fear of repercussion.

And Nope… not a big fan of the Palestinians as a group either. I don’t care who did what to whom but them brainwashing their kids at such young ages to embrace “martyrdom” and the bullshit they push? That shit is right up there on my “shit that’s fucked up, and you get what you fucked deserve” because of it…

As far as -I’m- concerned?

We need to cut ALL the $$$ off period fucking point fucking blank to the ENTIRE Area of Operations. Cut them ALL off AND if we had even a modicum of self respect, tell them both to fuck off, thanks for all the Gefilte fish and Hummus, and lots of luck in the future… write if you get work. We got bigger issues here.

But

All them sex videos of our politicians either fucking little kids or, even worse, depending on who you listen to, our politicians participating in some of the most depraved and dark shit that humans are capable of doing, and well….

You get where we’re at right now.

Go figure right?

So let’s go on and change over to another more pleasant and favorite subject of mine.
FOOD.
Namely Dinner Tonight:

It looks like a regular meal amiright?

No so mucho. The steak is a gift from Sailor Steve. Every once in a great while, I’ll get a notification that he’s sent me a ‘care package’ as he appreciates my writing and entertaining adventures. He usually sends it to me after I get a ‘kick in the balls’ metaphorically speaking. In this case, it was a Snake River Farms care package that he got on sale… (I hope!) as it had some pork chops (the most tender infidel meat-pork chops I’ve even had in my life) and then, a genuine Waygu Beef Flank Steak, as seen above and below:

Now, flank is a pure bitch to cook properly.

Somehow, someway, I managed to do it, and NOT fuck it up. As you can see, it came out a perfect medium rare which is the all-around preference for everyone in the house. I used my Ninja XL Air Fryer set to “grill”:

We, (Gretchen and myself) with the brother-in-law had bought this together for Gretchen’s Mom and Da for a gift… can’t remember if it was the anniversary gift or Christmas… either way Mom didn’t want it, and BIL was like “You guys keep it!” so hey… I got like a $300 (at the time) top end grill/air fryer out of the deal.

I’ve learned how to master it.
As seen, I knocked cooking that Flank Steak out of the fucking park tonight man… PERFECTLY done. 3 minutes at 400 degrees flipped at a minute and a half, and then flipped again… total flips was 4. Two on each side for about a minute and a half all on each with a LOT of monitoring… together so figure 6 minutes in all… Then I pulled it, wrapped it in foil, and let it set for 5 minutes, then carved it.

OMG

Sooooooooooo tender.
And to be honest, it was a BIG cut of meat… like a slab…
So we have leftovers. Those are going to be chopped up and made into a Waygu-based Soba Soup that I’ve made in the past, but I didn’t have genuine Waygu. I could also tell it was genuine Waygu in that you could see the smol pockets of creamy fat alllll the way through the cut of the meat… which added to the flavor… and man, Now that I have some real meat? Oh Hell yeah… I might even make eggrolls and dumplings with rice as sides…

I love me some cooking… I really do.

So that’s tonights rant and rave.
It’s pouring rain here right now… might put a damper on the potential festivities tomorrow. And Father’s Day is Sunday… Gretchen’s Dad wants me to visit… I’ve not been visiting as DC is living there, and I want to avoid the overwhelming urge to give into my base instincts and shoot that bitch out of hand, as she is oh so richly deserving of… But it IS Father’s Day, and he’s disowned one out of the two legit sons he has, and Adopted me, so I sort of have to go… dammit.

So that’s my weekend in a nutshell.
Hope yours is good.
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Well it appears that Nut-Job-Yay-Hoo finally decided to cross the retard-i-con and launch an attack against the non-existent Iranian Nookular Vepons…

See Pavlov Chekov for a definition…
That and “Nookular Vessels”… Jes’ Sayin’

Considering that the Yids have been saying that the Iranians have been this close to making a Nooklear weapon for… oh shit… we’re going on what now? 20… 25 years? Yeeeeeeah the legitimacy of that claim went out the window a while back.

In reality?

It’s that the Genocide against the Paleo-stinians has gone sideways. Not for nothing, but the Pal-ee’s have been rather reticent in facing reality, in that unfortunately, they are not going to keep their ‘homeland’… not since the world views them as lower than homeless Mexicans in the “grand scheme of things”… I personally grew up with a PLO fighter as sort of a stand-in “Older Brother” but even back then, I knew they were doomed.

No Money.

No Power.

No Influence.

Sound familiar? It’s just like Middle America these days.

Anyways… tonights bullshit?
If I had to make the call as to –why– it’s because Nut-job-Yay-Hoo is in some serious deep political shit at home. About two? maybe three? days ago the IDF (Izzy Defense Force) lost like 12 dudes in an ambush. Hamas managed to launch a state of the art Russian Anti-Armor Missile that hit a troop truck and pretty much vaporized 12 goons on board.

Add on that he’s also under fire for essentially allowing the October 7th attacks because otherwise, he was going to be indicted for corruption along with his wife and therefore managed to avoid the charges? Yeah… must be nice…

Wag the Dog Much?

Between his having to draft the otherwise undraftable “Ultra-Orthodox Jews” and the losses that have been piling up in a a major way, He’s got to overwhelming overextend (In My Humble Opinion) and kick shit off into another unwinnable war against Iran.

Now
Mind you, I’m in no way an cheerleader for the High Head weird beards in Charge of Iran. I’m purely a realist and the fact is? The Izzys, outside of utilizing their ‘supposed nukes’ don’t have a leg to stand on.

Let’s be realistic

So far, they’ve taken 40% fatal casualties against what isn’t even considered a “peer on peer” opponent… Hell the IDF keeps saying that this is a rag-tag bunch of ‘rando-terrorists’ as they say in their media, when the reality is that they seem to doing a pretty dammed good job of wasting Izzys.

So now?

Looks like they went “Full Retard”

Well.. tonight makes me wonder just what in the fuck is going on?

Seems that so far they managed to kill the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is their version of “Special Operations”

Now, not sure about you
But hitting the head of the IRGC doesn’t seem like an ‘anti-nook’ strike to me… Granted this guy might be worthy of taking a hit, but in this case that they’re ‘pre-emptively’ attempting to hit nookular sites?

Nah… I’m not buying it.

I mean at this point?

For twenty plus years the fucking Izzys have been positively screaming that :”IRAN WILL HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPINS THAT THEY WILL USE WITHIN ‘X’ AMOUNT OF YEARS!!!!” At this point? Seriously? Are you fucking kidding me!?!

A fucking wound-up 38 year old wine and cat aunt is MOR believable at this point. The fucking Jews have lost all credibility internationally at this point

The ENTIRE concept of “concentration camps” goes completely out the window when we see, in real time, pictures of 5-6 month old babies bleeding out due to Israeli Airstrikes in what were supposed to be “safe areas”… never mind the Jew Media “talking heads” laughing about it.

Yeah… I visited Mauthausen… as well as Auschwitz…

It impacted me back then as it was designed to

HOWEVER: Years later, with utilizing my ability to have and use ACTUAKL “critical thinking”, as well as what we’re seeing now? All I can say is, as far as what we’re seeing now is “What would your ancestors think of you now?”

Yeeeeah.
Considering just how many of the October 7th casualties have NOW been attributed to “intentional friendly fire” and how many of the pictures released have turned out to be “bad propaganda”?

And now?
We appear to be on yet again the cusp of ANOTHER “War for The Jews” i.e. ‘some war that costs US everything, benefits THEM everything, and leaves us “holding the bag” per usual….

I, for one am tired of it
And the piles of shoes?

Tell you what… IF and only IF in the past ten years they even tried to build a monument dedicated to the sacrifices that the American Infantryman had done to save their worthless jew asses during the Holohoax, I might feel differently.

IF they had done that one teeny tiny thing I MIGHT have been willing to support them. But since they haven’t, won’t and can’t? Then fuck ’em

Let them die
The ungrateful curs that they are.

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
So since we’re going over the various ‘things’ that appear to be on the horizon, I’m going to cover a few tools/things one might want to think about having on-hand in case of upcoming ‘spicytime’.

As we saw in Summer of Love v1.0, there were several examples of ‘teh stoopid’ happening nationwide. Now granted, we’re seeing what -I- personally think is a ‘practice run’… as Aesop said, what we’re seeing is mostly being hyped up by the Usual Suspects, the Ministries of Lies and Propaganda and the Useless DemoncRats who’re doing and saying anything they can in a performative way to smear OrangeManBad. In reality, it’s not that large and area that the ‘mostly peaceful but fiery’ riots/protests have been happening in.

This might be just a test to see how people and OMB react.
So far it’s looking good so to speak
All the ‘right people’ like Cockgobblin’ Nuisance, AKA The Hairgel Cuck and the Commie Mayor Maobass are literally crying on TV, so yeah… things are looking good.

All we need now is for OMB to issue Letters of Marque and let us go out and have fun, no bag limit and ears and scalps for proof… or even better:

Yeah.

Interestingly however it the very fact that none of the areas that matter so to speak have been threatened. The ‘wealthy’ parts of town? Not so much. This’s why I’m thinking this’s a practice run to see what reaction(s) from OMB and both at the State and Federal Levels. We know for certain that despite the attempts of the higher higher police and Mayoral levels, the cops on the street, while being relatively controlled (in that they have NOT used lethal force in instances where they were more than able to legally do so) they are still not taking a lot of shit from the freaks and fucktard brigade.

I will say that I am surprised by how few and low the number of arrests that have been reported so far. Now it just may be that the cops, LAPD in particular are aware that any bust they perform? It’s probably going be a ‘catch and release’ sort of thing, outside of some of the more egregious assaults on the cops… I mean -why- bother if the Judge “Let ‘Em Loose” Bruce is on the bench and the prosecutors are more interested in busting the cops instead of the rioters?

Seeing some of the the rock throwing/molotov videos?
ESPECIALLY at the 101 Overpass when that cop took two BIG rocks to the squash? How and why a sniper didn’t pot the fuckers dropping them amazes me. Shit, I’d have mag dumped up onto the bridge, and fuck collateral damage.

Dropping a boulder like that in Florida, that’s a forcible felony and you DO NOT have to be a cop to use lethal force to stop one from happening.

Florida Statute Section 8, 776.08 Forcible felony.—“Forcible felony” means treason; murder; manslaughter; sexual battery; carjacking; home-invasion robbery; robbery; burglary; arson; kidnapping; aggravated assault; aggravated battery; aggravated stalking; aircraft piracy; unlawful throwing, placing, or discharging of a destructive device or bomb; and any other felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any individual.

You can smoke someone who’s in the middle of doing any of the above. ESPECIALLY if your the target of said forcible felony.

So as the Late Great Ole Remus said “Stay Away From Crowds”, one does unfortunately find oneself in a position where YOU may not want to BE in the crowd, but are, due to circumstances beyond your control, just might get ‘stuck like Chuck’ in one… Like in the case of the blocked roads that these clowns seem to be oh so fond performing their street theater on.

So since the majority of us do not want to find ourselves being stuck in such a situation, well I have some ideas on non-lethal ways of assisting in getting the fuck out of Dodge if needs be. Now the Amazon links I’m putting here -do- feed me a taste as an Associate, and the others, not so much, but hey… either way do your own research.

The Zon just happens to be the most convenient method in many cases, so YMMV. I will say however in researching these tonight, unlike a few months ago, a lot of the items I personally keep in my EDC bag are not longer available, and some of them, for whatever reason are not shipping to my area any longer!!! The error being:

Which I find highly sus as these are things that not even two months ago I bought and had shipped here, specifically the bear mace and some Sabre CS grenades. I’ll link them either way, and you can see if they’ll ship to you… let me know in the comments.

Now MY kit has two things that always ride with me in a pouch on my lil get-home bag. These are one can of Sabre Red Dye CS in an aerosol grenade form, and the other, a Enola Gaye EG18X ring pull High Density Black Smoke grenade.

The EG18X series smoke grenades were made primarily for Airsoft. You can find them (IF they’re in stock that is) on Airsoft websites. However, there’s usually a HAZMAT fee between $30 and $50, so keep it in mind if you choose to buy. I bought the majority of mine in bulk a ways back just because reasons and all…

I did find this one that IS in stock but as they say, a wee mite pricy for me these days:

The “Cloud Maker 75” which is the BIG DADDY of all f the Enola Gaye smoke grenades. Here’s a chart to compare the various cloud sizes:

I’ve personally used the WP40 and the EG18X and yep. Those are pretty accurate cloud sizes… good for a quick concealment if needed. I have NOT tried the CM75 but if it hold true, man, that’s a blanket of smoke right there. The link for the CM75 is HERE Now interestingly, that link it to a skydiving supply store of all things… so maybe that’s why they have them in stock, as otherwise? I can’t find them anywhere. Of course the $105 HAZMAT fee is a bit extreme but hey… if you got it right?

Now -regular- EG18X smokes can be found in stock HERE which is a paintball supply house, and they have a large selection, but mostly in 10 packs or more for $200 and up… the only tactical color they have a 10 pack of is the black smoke, so… make of it what you will.

Now the Sabre CS grenades? Not sure where to find them these days. eBay is a good spot:

These function like a ‘bug bomb’

You shake the hell out of it to mix it, as it’s got a lil ball inside like a can of spray paint, and to ‘fire it’ you push down on the little tab on top, which locks it in the ‘on’ position:

It then pours out a 1.33% Major Capsacinoids and 10% 0% oleoresin capsicum.
As the brochure says:

“Once activated, the canister deploys steady cloud of Sabre’s powerful Red, 10% oleoresin capsicum, formula at a rate of 0.36 oz of OC per second. The canister will cover 22,000 cubic feet in 60 seconds, leaving all inhabitants disoriented and immobilized for safe and efficient extraction.”

It also has a UV dye in it so you can later ID any perps who get caught up in the ‘cloud of pain.’

In a situation where you might get hemmed up at a roadblock or getting close to being surrounded by a bunch of fucktards, BEFORE you get surrounded, crack open the window to your car, toss the smoke first, then the OC/CS.

Mind you DO NOT do this if ALREADY SURROUNDED by tards!

DO NOT BREAK ‘CONTAINMENT’ so to speak.

“Never get out of the Boat” – Chef, “Apocalypse Now”
Getting out of the boat is a bad thing.
Just ask Chef…
Oops… you can’t Kurtz cut his fucking head off…
Got the idea?

So otherwise, there ARE other non-lethal things you can have on hand IF the Zon will ship to you. One is a smol version of LAPD’s toy they’ve been using with great and joyous abandon is a Pepperball Gun:

Link HERE
C02 Powered, 7 Shot Magazine.

Not sure how good it is, but I do know the brand is good, so YMMV. CS Ammo for it is HERE and believe it or not, “Rubber Bullets” for it are HERE. OR, if you’re feeling really salty they have aluminum .68 caliber balls HERE!

Man, I bet those fuckers hurt!!!

Now if you want a larger sprayer, they have this BIG honking Sabre Sprayer:

Link for that HERE

That’s almost a firehose sized can… useful to a point… just remember if you use ANY of these, keep in mind which direction the wind is blowing, as the last thing you want to have happen is to dose yourself with your own gas so to speak.

Lastly is the Bear Spray

Shit that’ll knock a bear away is definitely going to fuck up a person. Link for that is HERE

Now if anyone asks, there’s some question as to the purchase of the EG18Xs and whatnot, because for whatever reason, the BATF under the AutoPen Prez three years ago tried to regulate the hell out of existence any and all possession of ‘smoke and/or pyrotechnic devices’ that they deemed to be ‘military style’. Per a lot of the discussions on the reddit Paintball boards, the majority concluded that the ATF, having gotten their metaphoric heads handed to them over the pistol brace ban, were desperate for a political “win” to continue to justify their existence.

In the end, they ended up specifically granting an exemption to the Enola Gaye company, which tells me -someone- ‘greased the correct palm’ as they are no longer regulated nor do you need any special licensing to buy/sell or possess them.

Seriously… fuck those guys.
Bunch of killjoys and dog killers.

So that’s a wrap for tonight’s examples of ‘shit might might want/need’ for the upcoming dumbasshattery.

More Later
Big Country

…sayeth the Man in the Mask with a SMLE w/Bayonet…
Jes’ Sayin’

Greetings and Salutations!
Well… got to say I found it hilarious when some of the fucktards looked up today and saw Marine Sea Cobras flying overhead:

Moments in time where you know a couple of the smarter Rioters went “Perhaps we fucked up?” and got the fuck out of Dodge ASAP.

It’s all fun and games until the Gunships are aloft.

700 Marines…
I also saw on Twitter that mysterious pallets of Crayons were now being left in strategic locations around the area of operations… probably a distraction…

Feed the Jarheads, fill them up on the Red and Greens ones, and they might not eat the rioters… Good fucking luck to that is what I say.

Go figure.
But one thing I have noticed is even the 79th Infantry has been getting respect from the various rioters and demonstrators. “Respect” in that as soon as the guys in Multicams with M-4s show up, the fuckers turn tail and take to their heels mighty damned quickly.

Which is how it should be.

I can’t find the clip, but a BUNCH of screaming retards were facing off against a bunch of LAPD, throwing shit… screaming… the usual. It was getting pretty confrontational, and a rock or two was thrown towards the cops. That must have been a signal, because all of a sudden, from behind the two lines of cops, a phalanx of Troops with M-4s mags in the well stepped forward and holy shit!

That line of retards?
“Sorry… Sorry! Didn’t mean nuthin’! Our bad! We’ll be leaving now, please don’t shoot us!” and backed the fuck right the fuck off. Which is, as I said before, is as it should be.

Run you fuckers.
Live in fear and terror.
“You get what you fucking deserve”

LARP as a “revolutionary” and hey, die like one when the gloves come off and belt-feds become en-vogue. Now… for those interested…

I’m planning on doing some intel-gathering possibly on Saturday. For this, as mentioned before, those who might be interested in doing the same, I suggest checking out THIS website. It’s pretty damned cool. It has a interactive GUI (graphic user interface) that allows you to modify the pass so that you can buy it as you want it to look:

Now, by clicking on the various fields, you can customize it to suit your own needs as I’ve done in the one below:

So easy, even a caveman or Infantryman like myself can do it.

As you can also see, you can even change the QR Code to a bar code and even how it gets ‘translated’ if scanned:

EVERYTHING on this is adjustable…

And this’s just a press pass… there’s a boatload of other templates… and once you’re done? Simply use the snipping tool:

And ‘snip’ the ID Card as closely to the borders as you can get:

The reasoning for this is when you go to print, you need to select the image size as 2X3 in. (wallet), and then select “print to fit”

which as you can see, when printed, will give you damned near a perfect ID Card sized printout:

I suggest using a high quality photo paper and a Hi-Rez print, but that’s just me.

Once you have it, cut it out very carefully. I suggest/highly recommend using a straight edge and exacto or a paper cutter if you have one available. Once it’s cut out, get it laminated. An ID Pouch and lanyard can also assist in presenting the ‘proper picture’ so to speak…

And there it is… your very own Press Pass… very useful for getting in and around various potentially hostile Areas of Operation if needs be.

Hope you enjoyed my concise on this one.

I find that this sort of ‘thing’ is helpful in an infiltration like one may or may not have in mind. Another note also: IF you are to go and utilize such methods, I recommend hitting the laminated final product with a 2500 grit sandpaper very carefully and very lightly so as to NOT have a shiny new badge that screams “Hey this’s brand fucking new!!!” to any security types that may or may not be checking IDs… SLIGHTLY worn will at least give you a wee bit more legitimacy.

A lot of these leftist orgs are pretty fucking paranoid… so keep that in mind when doing an area study. Just my two cents on this.

So otherwise… I’m not sure if Gretchen is going to allow me to go ‘play’… she’s a bit of a worry-wart in regards to ops like this… either way… I’ll figure it out. So until tomorrow.
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
So I’m not going to go too in-depth for the fun times happening vis-a-vis our Soros Funded and Inspired Fuckery that’s going on over in what DeadDad used to call “the shaky side” i.e. Commiefornia. He called it that due to a visit he had yeeeeears before even I had been born, and his New England born-and-raised ass experienced a few smol tremors which wigged him out.

Nope. All that ‘political theater’ is just the start.

Seems that there’s supposed to be a BIG national ‘movement/protest’ this coming Saturday. I got the info off of Twitter, and went and checked the primary website that’s ‘supposedly’ behind the organization of this shit. It’s “No Kings” so to speak… as in OrangeManBad is a king or something? Fucking retards.

The website is HERE

What I did find (besides HUUUUUGE amounts of delusions of grandeur and mental illness) is a MAP showing sort-of-kind of WHERE ALLLLLLLL these ‘protests’ are supposed to happen. The link to that is HERE

Now, checking my OWN Area of Operations, I found the following in the overall Tampa Area:

And then, in drilling down, there’s two in my immediate area:

The one in Riverview being a ‘private address’ which needs a ‘sign up’ which I’m not willing to do to find out where ‘teh stoopid’ is supposedly taking place. I mean I may unless one of y’all with burner accounts to heh heh burn want to do me a solid and leave the addy in the comments, I’d appreciate it.

I do know this’s a prime opportunity to go out and get intel on the local OPFOR however. Those who’re going to show up have cars with plates… showing up with a Press Pass and a relatively decent camera rig that looks like what a photographer would have gives one a certain amount of cover to do counter-surveillance.

I read pretty much the entirety of the website.

The TL;DR is that it’s backed by the ACLU (surprise surprise!) and even Harvard has some grubby mitts in there. They’re also being provided by the following companies (for a fee of course) Total Event Insurance, The Philadelphia Insurance Companies, and Three Arbor. I respectfully say that if you’re doing business with any of these companies, PULL THE FUCKING PLUG on them and let them know exactly why you’re doing so.

I also put that up on Twitter meself to see what happens:

the No Kings Protest is being held on Saturday June 14th. They're also being provided by the following companies (for a fee of course) Total Event Insurance, The Philadelphia Insurance Companies, and Three Arbor.

— BigCountryExpat (@BigCountryExpat) June 9, 2025

I ain’t got shit for a following, but hey… feel free to assist.

Not sure if anything around here is ackchully going to happen however. The illegals here tend to stay very low-key as they know that one step over the line, and not only will the county hem them the fuck up, but us locals? Yeeeeah, we’re oh so over the whole “Summer of Love 2.0” that it’s be purely a damned shame if’n we had to go all 1860s on their asses.

Block the roads and play ‘break my windows’ in Florida or pick up a rock… a “Forcible Felony” can be met with lethal force. Some of us positively look forward to such shenanigans. The blaqs tried that shit in Ybor back during the first “Summer of Love” and ambushed some Hillsborough County Deputies, to which the Sherriff declared ‘lethal open season’ on retards and niggers… they as expected, quieted down very quickly.

And don’t even get me started on “That’s all the bullets they had” Sherriff Grady Judd over in Polk County. He’d probably hand out awards for marksmanship for each rioter kil’t.

Either way, Head On a Swivel Saturday.

ADDENDUM!!!

Gee…
Seems -someone- found out who’s running nokings.org:

Meet two of the prime suspects for organizing and funding the LA riots , two RADICAL COMMUNISTS, Leah Greenburg and Ezra Levin, both atheist COMMUNISTS, these two pathetic creatures are co-founders of the radical foundation "Indivisible" They are also behind the radical Anti… pic.twitter.com/6WXJBewUfG

— Hatton, America is back (@jnottah) June 9, 2025

FFS…
Again, say it with me:

They have to be possibly the most stupid group of people to have ever existed on the planet… Do you want a pogrom? ‘Cos that’s how you get a pogrom!
>Le Sigh<

Continuing on… it seems that Ivan is running roughshod over what remains of the Krainian Defensive lines. MASSIVE breakthroughs according to the Krainians themselves. Sumy in particular, and I’ve heard some other areas as well…

It seems that despite using MASSIVE amounts of drones, the Krainians just can’t stop the Russians advance. Apparently they’ve been primarily utilizing drones in a defensive way, using them to decimate the Russians as they attempt to cross the vast open ground between villages.

“Speed is life” per one of the Russians I saw interviewed on Telegraph. He was one of the ‘stormtroopers’ who’s main job is to ride in on cheap Chineseum Motorcross bikes across the open steppe? and do a ‘close and destroy’ on the Krainian fixed positions. This action (of course) after the Russians drop their FAB bombs on said aforementioned positions. FAB stands for Fugasnaya Aviatsionnaya Bomba or in translation, “high-explosive aerial bomb(s)”.

If there’s one thing Ivan has in excess is good old fashion aerial “dumb bombs”. An example from OUR side in World War Two as seen below:

Now, unlike Ivan, the US shall we say drifted away from ‘traditional’ dumb bombs. What we currently have are (courtesy the Wiki) are as follows:

Mark 82 (500 lb):A low-drag general purpose bomb, part of the U.S. Mark 80 series. These bombs can be converted into “smart bombs” with JDAM guidance kits. 

Mark 84 (2,000 lb):A larger general purpose bomb that can be used as a warhead for precision-guided munitions like GBU-10/GBU-24/GBU-27 Paveway laser-guided bombs, GBU-15 electro-optical bomb, or GBU-31 JDAM. 

M117 (750 lb):Another general purpose bomb that can be used by the US armed forces and allies. 

And we (more than likely) don’t have a lot of those laying around like Ivan does. Let’s face it… Ivan doesn’t throw anything away as we’ve personally seen in our various purchases of “the year 1952” marked “Spam Cans” of 7.62x39mm or 7.62x51R. There are reasons that for a while WE, the gun loving 2A Folks of the US managed to get a deal on former Ivan and Warsaw Pact ammo post-Cold War… call it a ‘peace dividend’ if you will. The Russians/Soviets had square miles of spare ammo they’d built up in the Cold War…

However, dumb bombs?
They couldn’t sell those to us civvies dammit…
And because of that?
Welllllll Ivan’s got a shit-pot of them:

LOTS of ‘flavors’ as opposed to our rather limited stocks…

The current favorite they use is the FAB-3000.
They strap a programmable set of wings on them, and loft them with great accuracy at their intended target. I suppose that it depends on just how pissed off they are depends on just which FAB they lob at you…

I’ve watched videos of one of the FAB-3000’s hitting…

It ain’t pretty.
THREE METRIC TONS of High Explosive!

One hit a reinforced apartment building the Krainians were in, and when the smoke cleared, all the Russian needed was a squeegee and some Windex to clean up after…

So after a MASSIVE preparatory bombing with the FABs, Ivan sends out the Motorbike Brigade so to speak right after the FABs do the ‘rock ’em-sock ’em’ thing… they get in close, and then start taking Krainian positions all the while calling in Danger Close Artillery on precise targets, once they have eyes on the objective… the objective more than likely reduced to some major smoking rubble.

While those guys are fucking around in front, behind them the in-reserve mechanized troops catch rides with Armor Support and head in to reinforce the positions to keep the positions. The tracks usually go up, dump reinforcements, and ammo, and then roll to the rear to get more troops.

The entire time that movement is going on, the first wave of Motorbike troops start getting relieved by the now-fresh Mech Troops who just arrived. Who in turn get relieved/reinforced by the now majority Mechanized troops with Armor Support.

Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

And despite the narrative to the contrary
It’s working.
So maybe we need to drop one of the small-ish ones on a cluster of ‘tards in L.A.?
Wouldn’t bother me.

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
My Brother From Another Mike Hendrix of Cold Fury is in dire need of an assist!

Mike has had some deadly serious health issues again and is in need of some help.

He’s now in full on Lieutenant Dan mode as his remaining leg had to get chopped, and he’s unfortunately racking up some serious medical bills.

Tactical Hermit put it best:

I haven’t been able to get ahold of his as of yet, but I’ll update you as we go.

As far as some of y’all been trying to get ahold of me, I left the phone at home last night. Gretchen and I took an overnight staycation at a Resort in Ybor City… a room off the pool on the roof of one of the cooler buildings… hot tub alllll night, and the pool all morning/afternoon today.

I’m mite roasted from it… I’m so white SPF100 doesn’t barely help at all.
So More Later
Big Country