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Churchill's Secret Army - Auxiliary Units in WW2 - WW2TV plus a link to Atlas Obscura
There Are Hundreds of Secret Underground WWII Bases Hidden in British Forests
One of the definitive websites about the Auxiliary Units a.k.a. Stay Behinds: https://www.staybehinds.com/
The Memories of Major RF "Henry" Hall on the BBC Forums: Auxiliary Units by Major R F "Henry" Hall
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For those wondering, the name of the video is "Your mum is tasty but your dad is yummier :)" in base64 and the pic is from a japanese CD-ROM program called Screensaver Maker 95
The Truth About the AR-15 In One Brief - Washington Gun Law
The Brief in Question: Amicus Brief PDF File
A Houston Drug Cop’s Murder Conviction Highlights the Potentially Deadly Consequences of ‘Testilying’: Similar Scandals Across the Country Suggest the Problem Is Widespread - Ammoland.com
Nearly six years ago, Houston drug cops killed a middle-aged couple, Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, after breaking into their home to serve a search warrant. Last week, a jury convicted Gerald Goines, the former narcotics officer who obtained that no-knock warrant by reporting a heroin purchase that never happened, of felony murder.
Although that outcome was highly unusual, the dishonesty that led to Goines’ prosecution is much more common. When your job involves creating crimes by arranging illegal drug sales, it is not such a big leap to create crimes out of whole cloth, especially if you are convinced your victim is guilty.
Goines targeted Tuttle and Nicholas based on 911 calls from a neighbor, Patricia Garcia, who described them as armed and dangerous drug dealers who had sold her daughter heroin.
Garcia, who did not even have a daughter, later admitted she had made the whole thing up, pleading guilty to federal charges related to her false reports.
In his search warrant affidavit, Goines claimed a confidential informant had bought heroin from a man at 7815 Harding Street, where Tuttle and Nicholas lived. Goines later confessed he had invented that transaction, although he claimed he personally had bought heroin at the house the evening before the raid.
Prosecutors showed that was not true either. They presented evidence that Goines was 20 miles away from the house at the time of the alleged drug purchase and had not visited the location that day.
Click the link to read the whole article: Deadly Consequences of ‘Testilying’
FBI Report Shows Dramatic Violent Crime Drop as 29 States Went Permitless - Ammoland.com
The FBI’s national crime report for 2023 shows a record-breaking decline in murders during a year when the number of states adopting so-called “constitutional carry” rose to 29, undercutting a popular—and obviously false—claim by the gun prohibition lobby that more guns result in more crime.
By no surprise, anti-gunners—including the national media—have ignored that fact. However, the popular HandgunLaw.us website has a complete list of all 29 permitless carry states with the dates their laws became effective.
According to the Brennan Center, “The bureau’s data closely aligns with predictions from independent experts, all of whom estimated steep drops in murders in 2023 and 2024 alike. Indeed, it’s clear that the 2020 murder spike that coincided with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has substantially (but not completely) receded.”
A careful glance at the FBI National Instant Check System raw data for background checks suggests continued strong firearms transactions over the past few years. The FBI report was released a week ago, yet there has not been a lot of national ballyhoo.
Click the link to read the whole article: FBI Report Shows Dramatic Violent Crime Drop
ATF’s Flawed Case Against FRT Triggers: Has ATF Already Lost with Their Losing Argument? - Ammoland.com
NAGR’s Hannah Hill recently pointed out a critical flaw in the ATF’s legal strategy as it tries to defend its position in the Forced Reset Trigger (FRT) case.
In her words, “if the trigger is being engaged multiple times, you’ve conceded that it’s more than one function of the trigger.”
That single observation sums up why the ATF is once again facing an uphill battle in court. Despite already losing six times on this issue, the ATF is trying to reframe its argument—an approach that’s unlikely to hold up.
At the heart of the case is the same question that plagued the ATF’s bump stock ban: how does federal law define a “machinegun”?
The ATF’s oral argument hinges on trying to equate the movements of the shooter’s finger with the mechanical function of the trigger. As Hill points out, the courts—especially the Fifth Circuit—have already rejected this kind of reasoning. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Cargill v. Garland made it clear: the definition of a machine gun revolves around the mechanical function of the trigger, not the shooter’s hand or finger movements.
Shelby Baird Smith, emphasized this very point in the wake of the Cargill decision, stating that the Supreme Court’s ruling “held that a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock does not qualify as a machinegun…such a rifle cannot fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger.’” (Cargill Decision Against ATF Demonstrates Textualism in Action).
Click the link to read the whole article: ATF’s Flawed Case Against FRT Triggers