NZ DF Buys 43 BUSHMASTER PMVs

Ron Mark is well pleased  to announce the purchase of 43 BUSHMASTER PMVs from Australia.

I don't know which variant we are getting or if they will be fitted with the run flat tyres or potable cold water storage for the crews.

These vehicles have a tough V shaped bottom & can cruise at 100 kph on their 7.2 litre diesel engine - and are bigger, tougher and all round stronger than 'LAVs'. - Range around 800 km.

Read all about it here - 124 pages:
https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ad-aspi/2019-12/The%20Bushmaster_from%20concept%20to%20combat.pdf?QDYuS1qI3O4nSPaZ7NBfrSlK6gLVpyz1

or Link to Wikipedia page:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmaster_Protected_Mobility_Vehicle

He reckons they will cost over 100 Million Dollars so double that & wait and see - but good gear for our fighting teams is worth paying Thales Australia for ..

This Is A Dutch One 

.. Even The Poms Have Bought Some:

They should be good.

Marty K.

Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves .. Politicians Are In Charge:

Cher sang her #1 hit song Gypsys Tramps & Thieves backed by "The Wrecking Crew" long ago in 1971 - as a bit of a come-back effort - perfectly listing the bunch of politicians that have risen to power in the last 50 years.

She will have known that the song was originally called "Gypsys, Tramps & White Trash" when first written by songwriter Bob Stone .. which also applies to our western political scene.

America, U K - Australia, Canada, & New Zealand voters seem to promote and support the greediest dregs from the murky pits-of-power into government ..

Tod Muller - Hamish Walker - and 66 y.o public relations manipulator Michelle Boag all rushed to fess-up to privacy breach's as soon as the Labour Govt announced that a Queen's Council had been called in to head an official Enquiry into the current breach of privacy.

Boag

Southern National MP Walker has also boosted his status by a racist e-mail saying "These people are possibly heading for Dunedin, Invercargill and Queenstown from India, Pakistan and Korea,"

I'd be repeating myself if I was to observe that the scum rises to the top with the cream - but there's less cream there nowadays than when we used to get our milk from gentle Jerseys.

This Is How The Government Sees Voters:

Why do the ordinary  vacuous orange  voters  consistently support greedy liars and put them in charge of their children's futures ... it's beyond my logical explanation - unless it's because they actually BELIEVE all the lies?

The NZ Islamic Women's Council is proving to be a breath of fresh air by releasing their submission to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch Mosque Attacks .. this advance statement accusing the Police & other Government Depts of repeatedly ignoring their concerns may well cause the politicians to adjust or redact what they carefully planned to say when the Royal Commission releases it's report into Tarrant's foul racist killings of March 15 2019.

Politicians of both sides were hurriedly joined by police and their Association in the rush to demonise Licensed Firearms Owners as being the root cause of this and all other evil in the land. - It was clearly stated that GUNS & their owners were to blame for the 51 deaths ... unless of course it was the governments own policies and cuts to police funding that resulted in Tarrant being armed & not being properly vetted by negligent police.

- We truly don't have to vote by the Team Colours .. if you think about where we have arrived - POLICIES are what matters. - AND the old crowd of career politicians need to be uprooted from their perks and privileges.

Time to  act  NOW.

Marty K.

U S Army TRINITY - Nukes Now Seventy-Five Years Old:

At 05.29 on July 16 1945 the United States Army detonated the first ever nuclear device-bomb in the Jornada del Muerto desert New Mexico .. now part of the White Sands Missile Range.

The Trinity Gadget was officially called a Y-1561 Device.

TRINITY GADGET .. about to be armed

with the Tamper Plug close to Lehr's left knee:

Two solid metal half spheres of plutonium-gallium alloy - silver plated - were driven together by two different types of High Explosive to prompt SUPER CRITICALITY.

The two hemispheres together weighed 6.19 kilos (all they had available) and interestingly - the plutonium's radio-activity warmed it up to around 40 C just sitting there.

Going ... At 16 micro seconds

GOING ..

GONE.

Oppenheimer said he named it Trinity from a poem called Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness ..

As West and East

In all flatt Maps—and I am one—are one,

So death doth touch the Resurrection.

Marty K.

PRE Trauma Stress Dis-Order: Teaching Teachers Judgement or Hysteria:

I've just learned of a Northland NZ school teacher who locked an 11 y.o. boy into a room - rang his parents and demanded that she remove him immediately from the school or she would call the police .. because he was observed playing with a yellow plastic toy gun similar to that below.

Now accepting that the story as told is correct - I would suggest that the parent should have rang 111 and requested that Emergency Services attend the school to restrain, sedate, and treat the teacher suffering from stress & having a likely as yet un-diagnosed mental illness.

Now I'd like to point out that I write this as a firm & long term PACIFIST. - I oppose all warfare - and the Weapons of Mass Destruction .. particularly the Nuclear Warheads held by big Governments to threaten-oppress us all. - Surely all decent folk must oppose the slaughter of our families?

.. However that does not mean that I am some sort of 'wet dribble' - I sincerely want to bring back the DEATH PENALTY for undoubted murderers like that Australian 'mosque killer' Tarrant & would be happy to add him to the 60 million who depart worldwide any year.

- Might 'Pre Trauma Stress Dis-Order' be a new condition .. or just a p.c. term for cowering fear or anxiety?

I've also heard a radio interview titled something like "Listen to Your Inner Voices" - but I'd suggest that we all ignore our inner emotional voices - & rather research the issues for THE FACTS & science to guide our lives.

I did use the word Aberrant - linking it to 'Deluded' and 'Demented' regarding those poor people who have been so trained to fear lawful firearms and now suffer pre-trauma stress at the mere thought of a pop-gun.

NO LAWFUL SHOOTING HERE?

To the official training given teachers you need to add their life experience. - Increasingly this may be urban - because two thirds of we hominids now grow in CITIES & the only contact with guns in these concrete tips is from media violence & crime.

If our modern society is so corrupted and warped in it's structures as to feed our children with killer video games while bombarding the parents with pschologically crafted advertising & marketing - mixed with reality TV bollocks - it doesn't surprise me that the lower half of the IQ pool can be deluded .. while some of the upper side of the bell curve choose options based on their own demented emotional prejudices.
- Crap in .. CRAP OUT.

- Mind you .. Is stupidity an illness? .. is 'disadvantaged' now the rule? - "I have a disadvantaged intellect." .. perhaps 'impaired' might be the latest p.c. approved term.

We didn't seem to have people with 'behavioural problems' roaming the streets after the 1950s war years - they likely were hospitalised and helped. - There was a kid at infants school who had permanent candles of green snot descending from his nose .. but he was moved elsewhere for care.

Surely there should be some law that forbids the deliberate telling of lies for profit .. such as in Parliamentary Privilege or in marketing claims?

Such Pretty Stones .. Their "frequencies" Must be good for you ...

All that nonsense about Astrology and health-giving crystals - homeopathy, palmistry, and all the other for-profit fakery - could and should be made criminal offences .. except it might limit the money making taking of so many predatory folk and politicians who feed off the gullible.

- Surely now that we have introduced laws about 'Hate Speech' - which basically is the telling of lies about skin colour or religion .. we could stop people from selling water as homeopathic medical treatment or from claiming that their branded yellow grease "spread" tastes the same as butter or olive oil. - 'Poor Peoples Butter' or Margarine is  grey coloured  hydrogenated oil that is bleached then dyed yellow - with around 20% water added.

A return to fact basics and honest claims .. without all the plastic packaging and marketing lies is long overdue .. perhaps licensed firearm's owner Nicole McKee of  act  might introduce such an honesty bill into Parliament when she takes-up her seat.

Why do we pay people to lie to us?

** My bullets never miss - hitting with the power of  Nukes at the speed of light **

Marty K.
Link:
https://www.westernjournal.com/new-zealand-gun-crime-hits-10-year-high-strict-gun-confiscation/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=conservativetribune&utm_content=2020-06-20&utm_campaign=manualpost&fbclid=IwAR0LHrjZGoqWzXWKJqTYNpJrJb1Mi9bLX-zFibOZzZ04uVNrJ__P7o4I90A

The Stars Made Me Do It:

You score 20 points if you can say Anthropomorphism out loud and clearl (.. I can't)

This is the desire to give human characteristics to animals and other stuff .. much used in marketing.

According to some bloke called Franchi - this is what 'MUSIC' looked like 400 years ago:

Music - Nice Fiddle - Shame About The Face.

It seems we have a psychological need to anthropomorphise or personify stuff that we don't understand to help us cope with it-them.

- So it's the same emotional need inside that prompts old ladies to think that their lovely hungry cat loves them as is the need by some to explain that the wonders & vastness of the Universe all come from some 'god' or other who supposedly made it all for their personal benefit - complete with the aspirational life plan of plucking a harp while floating on a cloud after passing through the Pearly Gates - with all the 60 million other departed souls queuing-up outside every year.

The latest 'Carry Gun' ammunition from SPEER that is optimised for effective performance from shorter barrels - manages to print it's packaging without any mention that it is SUB-SONIC 9 mm ammo ..

High Performance LOW VELOCITY Cartridges.

I'm not saying that this round is bad .. just that it's marketing is dishonest.

Why do we accept this crap? - Commercial salespersons - astrologists,  christians, jewish and islamics, psychics - all psychology trained marketing professionals make top money from conditioning the minds of the gullible into paying them for their offerings..

.. "Isn't it good that the nice man is showing me something that I need?"

Make no mistake - WE pay for it all - all that printed packaging rubbish and "Ad-Breaks" every ten minutes cost consumers extra dollars on anything we buy - even if you refused to watch the adverts and throw away the annoying packaging. - "They" don't pay for it - WE do

Marty K.

Second Shots:

So how many of you excel at "Double Taps"?  - Come on be honest ... moi I can pull the trigger way faster than I can get the recoiling gun back onto target - which means most of the time - the second hurried shot fired is a round into the outer zones.

- Sounds impressive though .. No big deal if it's two-two or re-loads eh - but if it comes out of a factory box with colourful images of the latest wonder expanding projectiles - you're going to get home with a lighter purse or wallet. - Better to take a little more time aiming while you repeat after me "FRONT SIGHT - FRONT SIGHT ..."

The very BEST Way To Make Fast "Double-Tap "Snake Eyes" Is To Load Your Own DUPLEX Rounds Each with TWO Projectiles .. Except Jacinda & NZ Police Have Made That PROHIBITED AMMUNITION:

FIVE Shots .. TEN Magnum Holes - Before Recent NZ Law Changes.

Anyway - The story is "if at first you don't succeed - try - try - & try again"

- So I have actually got my #1 MAB-D slide locking back using the safety switch ... after EIGHT  second attempts involving disassembly and careful work with a fine file on four separate contact faces & re-assembly .. Have you noticed that it's always the last thing that you try that works? 😈

Both of my vintage MAB Model D's NOW lock-back-open to show clear ..

The "SAFETY" switch - which I prefer to call "the danger switch' now manages the useful function of holding the slide open on both firearms.

Treat all guns as loaded at all times. Never point any gun at ANYTHING you don't want to destroy.

I have also file-adjusted the rear sight notches so that I can see the front blade alignment through my specs ... and have also lowered & squared the front blade of #1 and re-blued using Birchwood Casey   Perma Blue  paste.

Note: I see that one U S gunsmith charges $25 to widen your sight notch.

Original Sights on left - Enlarged (& Re-Blued) On Right:

- sorry about 'rubbish photos' But I have limited skills eh.

The first bought gun had three nasty small 'dings' on the worn blue of the front face of the trigger guard .. much improved now by using P1200 emery paper and the bluing paste .. So of-course I'm now thinking that the lightly speckled rust and scratched/worn blue of the slide might be worth a try ?? - Hmm - how good is that perma-blue?

A small aside .. It was interesting to see that the back/hidden face of the safety lever was stamped with the last two digits of the serial number. - But it was also strange(ish) that both of these Banque de France 7.65 mm pistols had the front sight top profile ground or filed under the bluing at an angle 'off-square'. - How often would you reckon that French bank guard pistols might have been fired?

- So next trip to the range involves test firing both post-war .32" pistols again to see just exactly where they now impact on target .. getting closer to the middle I hope.

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Ah, - a second shot at 'Knock-Down Power' .. I was rearranging my Gun Digests in their bookshelf and took a look at my oldest one from 1962 - there on page 57 Warren Page writes KNOCK DOWN NOTHING .. where he points-out that a two ton motorcar WILL knock down most U S animals while a 200 grain bullet can never manage that - whatever it's velocity. - If hit properly .. they fall down under gravity.

They had science way back even then in 1962.

- Have you ever noticed how making rolled-oats porridge shines-up the inside of a stainless steel pan - provided you didn't burn it black by having it on the heat for too long?

- Life is extra good eh.

Marty K.

Aberrant Anti-gun 'BANNERS':

I like to start my posts on a lighter topic - so your starter question today - for 10 points is .. How many people die worldwide every year? .. I'll tell you later.

I learned another new word ... ABERRANT .. it means something like 'deviating from typical or normal patterns'.

- I was considering other words to deluded & demented for describing the anti-gun campaigners' emotional scripts and cant.

You see these "Banners" seek to label any citizen interested in skill at arms as being a potential killer playing with weapons designed to murder innocent people.

.. This needs them to completely discount the wild harvesting of natural seasonal foods, crop protection - pest control - precision target shooting sports competition, - self-defence - Law Enforcement - Peace Keeping and Defence Forces ..

Apart from the factually FALSE assumptions therein ... the Banners make a 1984 type "Double-Speak" leap to exempt their own Police Forces and three or four branches of their national Military from also being 'killing machines' ... which of course they specifically are.

A typical anti-gun campaigner first has to personify a neutral inanimate tool as Dangerous & 'EVIL' and then label it's owner also as evil by association.

Henry Big Boy X Model Black Polymer Gun:

Politicians eagerly grasping at any opening to deny reality spotted that modern firearms are coloured BLACK .. an "evil colour" - and coined the label BLACK RIFLES to separate them from the good rifles as used by "White Hat Heroes".

- Modern firearms use moulded polymers to replace heavier wooden stocks and these plastics contain UV stabilisers and carbon black to stop UV sunlight degradation known as 'phototendering' 

That is why they are coloured black .. not because they are evil.

Psychologists need to study these Gun Banners and determine just how they justify choosing to reverse logic and falsify and ignore facts in order to project nonsense as wisdom. - Surely this is 'a maladaptive coping mechanism' for their mental stress?

I see other examples of reversed logic lately .. it seems to be currently fashionable.

- Take school classes & classrooms - Kids get restless when required to sit quietly and learn .. the traditional remedy was to enforce behavioural restraint and discipline for short periods with play breaks at intervals. 

- The new pattern seems to be to allow free movement and distraction from learning and to even encourage this wandering by removing desks and dividing walls between classes while the teacher ignores these free-range ferals and tries to teach any static children at rest. This weird corruption of the education process is no doubt encouraged because it is cheaper to produce school buildings with less structural divisions and furniture.

Recently Prohibited firearms here in NZ have been labelled as Military STYLED Semi Autos (MSSA's). - As a mere retired fork-lift driver - I'd like to ask what has style got to do with anything related to criminal violence or racist terrorism? .. The answer is that the word 'style' is what adds our sporting firearms to inclusion with military selective-fire weapons .. by means of their use of plastic furniture as grips, guards & stocks.

Ah ., The number of DEATHS WORLDWIDE every year is around 60 MILLION per YEAR.

Marty K.