Burning Conscience Capsule by Kommune (10/29/21)

Edc gun, keep it factory or have it decked out with mods?

So let's have the discussion about whether or not to modify your everyday carry gun. There has been the debate for decades now after aftermarket accessories and upgrades have come out about whether modifying your everyday carry gun will hurt you in court. Granted this only pertains to whether or not you ever have to use your everyday carry gun in self defense.

I honestly don't get why people have such a big issue with modifying or upgrading parts on their everyday carry gun. In my opinion as long as you aren't putting anything hateful or pro death on it then go for it.

Aftermarket triggers ofter are a great first modification as you are able to reduce trigger pull and reset. This allows for quicker and smoother follow-up shots on target. Now who wouldn't want that on an everyday carry gun? You also can get the trigger shoes on a variety of colors so it will add some pizazz to the gun.

Weapon lights allow you to see and confirm your target in low and no light (at night) situations. You should always be able to identify and confirm your target as being a threat before pulling the trigger. How do you do this at low or no light without a pistol light? Some will say get a hand held but I say "why not both?". If I have to draw my pistol I want both hands on it if possible.

Barrels, often aftermarket barrels are indeed an upgrade from the factory barrels. Most aftermarket barrels have better feed ramps, tighter tolerances, better twist rates, and you can add extra length by getting a threaded barrel. This all adds up to added accuracy at further distances. Is this absolutely necessary for better accuracy? No, but why wouldn't you want every bit of accuracy advantages possible?

Magwells, in Facebook groups I've seen this comment a lot "magwells are for race guns and not for edc guns"......what?!?! That makes no sense. The point of a magwell is to allow the user to more effectively insert a magazine (not clip) without looking by creating a funnel effect for the magazine to slide into. This allows for faster reloads. Now if you are getting shot at and needed to reload wouldn't you want to reload as fast as possible? I 100% would.

Red dots, same as magwell I've seen a lot of people say that they're for race guns only. Again this makes no sense. Big brained people out there in the gun community have ran the data between people shooting a pistol with and without a red dot. They have proven that red dots on pistols makes the shooter quicker and more accurate. Red dots aren't going to make you an Olympic gold medal winning shooter by just adding it but the data is there. So again, why wouldn't you want to put more shots on target quicker with less misses?

Painting your gun aka cerakoting it is hugely popular now days. Cerakoting your gun is like getting a tattoo or giving your car, truck, or motorcycle a custom paint job. It adds a person flare or touch to it so why not do it? As long as you're not having skulls and hate symbols painted on then there is absolutely no reason not to.

All in all have the best gun possible in my opinion is a must. You need to train with it though to effectively. Just because you have a Gucci everyday carry gun doesn't mean you'll be a fantastic shooter so go out there and train with it. Get it dirty with carbon, put scratches on it, once you've done thay then do it again.

I also recommend having an insurance company for self defense like Second Call Defense. They are by far the best in the business and the only ones to do the insurance model correctly for firearms/weapons.

Now, where do you get your everyday carry gun modifications / accessories? I get mine mainly from Brownells because they have a humongous inventory. I also use the coupon code "WLS10" to save 10% on all my orders over $150.

Remember to chose dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery everyday!

This is my very first blog post. I plan to do a series focused around my experiences with different firearm projects, the parts I’ve used, both good and bad as well as the various tools that while many times aren’t necessary, they make the end product much easier to produce. Of course my experience is just that, my experience, opinion and knowledge. I am not a professional, although I have a lot of background and depth. So a little background on me…I am a lifelong gun enthusiast…even back to when I was just a young lad at 5 years old, I remember following my dad around on some of his hunting trips. Marveling at the tool for the job, whether it be a shotgun, an old Belgium Browning Auto 5, a rifle like his Marlin 1895 saddle ring .44 magnum or a muzzle loader. I was always interested in what my dad was using to hunt and shoot. Unfortunately I lost my dad in 2017 unexpectedly, but so fortunate as both a child and as an adult to have such great influence from him. Truly would not be who I am today if not for my dad. One of my projects led to him getting a chance to shoot an old Japanese Type I rifle my grandad, his dad had brought back from the Pacific after WW2. That rifle was damaged during the shipment home.

So in my younger days I spent many of my days as a young lad roaming around the woods wearing surplus camouflage and other milsurp items like packs and belts. I even had some bayonets, although in todays society, it’d probably be frowned upon if a youngster was walking around dressed like that with a military bayonet. In high school is was a member of the NJROTC unit and was even part of their air rifle team. We shot postal matches which were a ton of fun. The local National Guard unit had a place set aside for us to shoot our matches. My fascination of all things military led me to join the Navy right after high school. Although my direct position wasn’t with small arms, I did qualify with various small arms such as the M14 and Beretta M9 I’m order to stand watch. I was also a part of the ship’s security force. After leaving the Navy after 9.5 years, my yearning to learn even more about firearms truly blossomed.

I started shooting some matches; service rifle, CMP and Garand matches. Reloading my own ammunition for matches was almost a necessity, so off I went…ordering a Lee Classic turret press from Brownells. I later picked up the infamous Dillon 550 to speed things up. Reloading my own ammunition taught me a lot, especially in regards to quality control and how important it must be. In the case of reloading…we all know what bad quality control can lead to…disastrous results. A gunsmith friend of mine was teaching an AR15 platform armorer and maintenance course in which I attended. I had already been tinkering and building some rifles at this point, so this was only natural to attend. There was never an AR15 task I would shy away from. Often times offering my help to fiends and family to build, modify or troubleshoot an AR only made sense to keep my knowledge base growing. Thoroughly enjoying the aspect of learning anything new that could be learned. So at this present moment, I feel that I have accomplished a lot, but there is still always something new to learn and experience.

For my tools and parts, the very first place I look has been and always be the good folks over at Brownells. I can’t tell you how much I’ve acquired from that great company in Iowa over the years, but it’s hard to look at any of my past projects and not find a part or a tool from a Brownells that has graced it. The majority of the tools that I’ll be discussing in this blog series will also be from Brownells, but I hope to hear from you as well what your experiences are and what tools/parts you recommend. After all, much of the enjoyment I have with the firearms community is learning something new! So sit tight, and I truly hope you can get something out of my experiences.

SMASH OR PASS: Hellboy

[art credit, right:  Mike Mignola]

Please reblog for greater sample size, as per usual!

Propaganda from Mod Ghoul: listen. its fuckin Hellboy. the dude is great, doesn't matter which version (the comics, animated films, Del Toro films, the 2019 film...) He'd be warm and good for cuddling, pls consider him wrapping his tail around ur legs/waist/whatever during cuddles... you can help him file his horns, like... I think that'd be a big sign of trust with him. I could keep going but y'all would get an essay.

Pan American Coffee Bureau, 1948

dude i have a question that might be considered out of pocket but i need your brilliant take on it

i was rewatching the finale last night (because i like to cause myself pain) and i got to the part where aemond said he wanted to make a gift of luke's eye to his mother

so my question is

genuinely, what the hell do you think alicent would have done if aemond returned with luke's fucking eye😭😭😭

lmao welcome to my entirely unrequested character study of aemond. short answer: she'd be horrified, and that scene more than anything speaks to the beautiful fraught asymmetry of alicent and aemond's relationship, palpable and tragic and woefully understudied.

alicent does not desire violence and does not particularly respect violent people. e.g., we can imagine characters who might have been heartened or reassured — even if interspersed with guilt — that larys had been willing to kill to advance their interests. alicent is never shown to appreciate this silver lining; she is deeply remorseful and properly disturbed. the end of the season finds her attempting to stave off catastrophic violence surrounded by men who are effectively unbothered by the thought. aemond is one of these men. he is also her favourite man. i think this breaks her heart a little.

i'll preface this by stating again how much i sympathise with aemond, who is really neither a slick badass — his facade — nor a calculating psychopath — his caricature. aemond spends his childhood awash in a feeling of inescapable, humiliating powerlessness, and everything he becomes is a direct response to this experience, including his unfailing loyalty to his mother, his sole childhood advocate and ally. but aemond clocks alicent's powerlessness, too; and probably at no other time more palpably than during the quarrel at driftmark. viserys leaves her in the lurch; cole backs out when the rubber hits the road. when he tells her i gained a dragon, i don't think he's actually saying it was a fair exchange; clearly he doesn't really feel that way — he's still seeking his revenge years and years later (and fair enough). rather, i think he's telling her — and importantly, telling the people he perceives to be her enemies — we have real power now. we're safe. i got you.

aemond consistently strives to be alicent's one reliable ally. aemond also spends his life trying to make himself more powerful, and, if i were to really speculate, probably hasn't determined within his own heart whether he's done so to protect himself and his mother in the conflict he's seen presaged at driftmark, or in excited anticipation of that conflict as an opportunity to seek revenge. herein we find the crucial difference in how alicent and aemond each perceive safety, and perceive power — alicent thinks safety is found in the absence of violence, and power is the ability to be free from it; aemond seems to believe safety is found in a monopoly on violence and power is the ability to do it. it's entirely unrelated, and not to be insensitive by mixing factual and fictional tragedy, but i think sometimes about something prince harry once said about his childhood experiences watching the press chase and torment princess diana — his frustration knowing he would one day be a man, that he would one day be able to protect her, but not yet — and the anger, the frustration that caused. i append to aemond, though fictional, a very similar pain.

regardless, to whatever end, aemond's intention is to be feared and to be dangerous. he tells cole i don't give a fuck about tourneys for the express purpose of tipping us off: aemond is trying to become as effective as possible at killing real opponents in a real conflict. two things here: first, though aemond may not care for tourneys like the knights Rhaenys calls green as summer grass, he's equally inexperienced; he also doesn't know — cannot know — the true meaning of war or the costs associated. (see, e.g., his crucial misunderstanding of the nature of vhagar.) and second, tragically, though he's probably (if perhaps only partially) done so for her, he's become exactly the kind of man who has left alicent feeling trapped and perpetually terrified. olivia cooke somewhere noted that alicent lives in trepidation surrounded by 'psychopath men', and part of this fear seems to be what these men will do in her name and under the guise of advancing her interests. e.g., she knows larys' murder of lyonel did double duty. Tis only a look of pride, Ser Criston. Larys is the new lord of Harrenhal. to have become somewhat afraid of aemond — apprehensive, at least, of his adult nature — will likely only grow harder on her and harder to ignore. and the same will likely come of aemond's unintentional killing of lucerys, and would come had aemond returned instead with his severed eye: horror at the act; guilt and terror and frustration at the knowledge — however deeply buried — that aemond would have done it not for her, or for their family, but for himself; and that once again, she has been made the unwilling catalyst for the very violence she strives so painfully to prevent.

Виктория Фёдорова / Victoria Fyodorova

Price 8 kop. Publication of the propaganda bureau of Soviet cinema

A 04917 dated February 19, 1968 Tyr. 125,000 copies Moscow printing house of Goznak. Zach 4287.

Виктория Фёдорова Цена 8 коп.Издание бюро пропаганды советского киноискусстваA 04917 от 19/II 1968 г. Тир. 125 000 экз. Московская типография Гознака. Зак 4287.

Portland PR Against Accountability, Demilitarization & Reform

This should come as no surprise to those following the issues of policing & their public relations efforts.

However, this article completely misses any correlation in the rise in police public relations in response to Black Lives Matter, and calls for defunding & accountability of police forces.

“We do not typically use the term public relations.”

— Sgt. Kevin Allen, Portland Police Bureau Strategic Communications Unit

9/11, WTC 7 and Black Eagle Trust: How Bank of New York may have laundered $240 billion

Daily Trivia: Did you know that every year, at least 100 bank teller stormtroopers are killed getting crushed under unsecured stacks of credits during Rebel Scum bank robberies? Now you know.

Moff Jerjerrod forwarded this to me, and I felt it would be irresponsible not to share it here. It's dreadful, isn't it? I cannot believe more people aren't outraged over this.

For my first post I'm going to share my experience with the gen 2 Vortex UH-1.

I've always loved the looks of the UH-1 and bought the gen 1 for a 12.5" suppressed AR15 pistol build. The UH-1 has a cool futuristic Halo style look to it that also provides a very large field of view. This large field of view makes this optic awesome for CQB and any moving target shooting.

One of the only downsides to the UH-1 is that it sits pretty low and in my opinion should be put onto a riser style mount. Personally I chose to mount mine on the Unity FAST Riser. The Unity FAST Riser is a 1/3 cowitness mount.

After running the gen 1 UH-1 on a Unity FAST Riser I upgraded to the gen 2 UH-1. The gen 2 has a slightly larger rear glass, lightning cuts, and is NV compatible. There are other improvements but those three are the most important personally. The NV compatibilities is awesome but while using NVGs the optic without a riser is too low and is extremely difficult to see the retical. So I'm super glad I already the Unity FAST Riser because the combo worked perfectly while using NVGs.

I have done a day and night cqb class with the gen 2 Vortex UH-1 and the class was fantastic with the optic. There were two other people with the same setup and us three did better than a lot of people with Trijicons or EoTechs.

The Vortex UH-1 gen 2 hasn't been as popular as other similar optics but in my opinion it's at the top of the class. The Vortex UH-1 was extremely easy to get on target, identify the target, and always see the retical is all types of light situations. Even some military groups has seen the benefits and has purchased some for small units.

So in short, of you're interested in the Vortex UH-1 gen 2 try to find someone nearby that has one or a range that you can rent one even if it's on a different platform of a firearm. This way you can see for yourself how awesome this holographic optic is. Just like a firearm purchase, never just go off of someone else's recommendation without doing your full research and trying them out for yourself. At the cqb class I let others use my rifle so they could see for themselves why the UH-1 was so good.

If you are thinking about picking one up be sure to consider Brownells as you can use coupon code "WLS10" to save 10% on all orders over $150. You may even find one used. I usually never buy used firearm stuff but Vortex has a superb warranty. So if you buy a used one and it has issues you can send it in to get repaired or replaced (their choice) for free, for forever.

Please let me know if you enjoyed my write up. Also if you have had experience with the Vortex UH-1 (gen 1 or gen 2) please let me know your opinion of it!

Thank you everyone and be sure to follow me on YouTube and Instagram under: "typicalpnwguy".

The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable is a striking historical fiction novel that brings to light the untold tales of women who worked for the OSS (predecessor to the CIA) in World War II. Based on real-life events, this novel illuminates the heroic efforts of women during a time when they were often marginalized and overlooked.

The story follows multilingual newlywed Niki Novotna, who was recruited by the OSS to a team tasked with establishing a secret branch in Rome. The team is a motley crew of artists, forgers and others whose purpose is to craft fake stories and disseminate propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers. And the guidelines for producing the propaganda were chilling:

“Propaganda should not be addressed to the intellectuals but always to the masses... Propaganda should be directed to the emotions rather than to the intellect... Propaganda must be popular and its level must be low enough for it to impress itself on the simplest mind... These were the notions on which the Morale Operations manual was based, all of them lifted from Hitler’s dastardly text.” ― Michelle Gable, The Lipstick Bureau

For more see link in bio.

Pan American Coffee Bureau, 1953

Theme Week: Women in the Workplace 👩‍⚕️

Propaganda

Diana Rigg (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, The Assassination Bureau, A Midsummer Night’s Dream)—Though she may be most famous across the pond for her Game of Thrones-era career, here on her native soil she is an icon of the 60s and female empowerment! Arguably best known for slaying as Emma Peel in The Avengers, her biggest pop culture legacy is definitely playing the only woman Bond truly loved - Tracy di Vincenzo - and absolutely stealing the movie (OHMSS) from under George Lazenby’s nose. The Assassination Bureau is also an extremely fun and underrated period adventure film where her boundless energy and wit is better matched by Oliver Reed. She excelled at playing alluring women with a sense of humour and darker complications underneath. Undoubtedly one of England’s most lovable, intelligent, funny, sexy and unforgettable actresses of all time, I entreat you VOTE PRINCESS DI !!

Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, Hello Dolly)—I love her smile!! I love her nose!! I love her Brooklyn accent!! She's hilarious and gorgeous and real!!! I love her sense of humor! I love her voice!

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Diana Rigg:

"She lived with a director/partner/boyfriend for eight years in the 60s and told the tabloid press '[I have no desire] to be respectable'"

Barbra Streisand propaganda:

"If you want to know why I’m submitting her, you’ll just have to read her 900 page memoir My Name is Barbra. It’ll explain everything!"

Lovely, smart, funny and a GORGEOUS VOICE

have you seen her? she could sing and dance and i love her so much in funny girl

Her most famous movie line is telling herself “Hello Gorgeous,” what else can I say lol. One of the most famous Hollywood divas of our time, who’s still alive and going strong. All of her outfits in Funny Girl are also soooo pretty. Plus she got to act alongside Omar Sharif, who was in the Vintage Men Poll.

She IS the greatest star! Her voice! Her eyes! She has one of the most stunning profiles I've ever seen. Talent in SPADES! (And honestly, as a wlw it's disingenuous to ignore it - a truly beautiful cleavage)

Israel's communications minister is proposing emergency regulations that would allow police to arrest citizens and journalists who publish content deemed to "harm national morale". Under Shlomo Karhi's proposal, those restrictions could be placed upon publications that have been used as a "base for enemy propaganda". Journalists and other citizens could have their homes searched, property seized and could be placed under arrest for speech the government deems undesirable. The proposal comes on the ninth day of fighting between Israel and Palestinian groups, which has killed at least 2,450 Palestinians in Gaza, including 724 children and 458 women. In the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, 56 people have been killed by Israeli fire. Meanwhile, at least 1,300 people have been killed in Israel. Earlier on Sunday, Karhi said he was seeking a possible closure of Al Jazeera's local bureau, accusing the Qatari news station of pro-Hamas incitement and of exposing Israeli soldiers to potential attack from Gaza.