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Large liner lock, black micarta scales. Very sharp, nice action.

this one came out just right.

I’ve never done a button lock before. Some people add a leaf or coil spring in order to make an automatic knife.
Having a third hand would make these much easier to make.

Desert Ironwood finished nicely with some sanding sealer and Teak Oil.

President Trump, whose plans to campaign on a booming economy were ruined by the coronavirus, traveled Tuesday to the southern edge of Arizona to highlight completion of “more than 200 miles of powerful border wall” with Mexico.

He didn’t mention the fine print.

Nearly all 216 miles built since Trump took office replaced outdated or dilapidated fencing. Only about “three miles of new border wall system [have been] constructed in locations where no barriers previously existed,” according to Homeland Security’s June 19 status report on the wall.

The visit to Yuma, and later to Phoenix, marked Trump’s first public appearance since his poorly attended rally Saturday night in Tulsa, Okla., which has sparked speculation by some Republicans that Trump’s campaign needed major retooling.

The campaign had predicted a massive overflow crowd for his first public rally in more than three months, but the indoor arena in Tulsa was two-thirds empty, and Trump was humiliated, according to aides.

He also was angry that his aides had confirmed to the press before the event that six Trump campaign staffers involved in organizing the rally tested positive for COVID-19. (The total is now eight.)

Trump’s scripted attempts to paint a negative portrait of Biden were lost in a torrent of grievances and invective toward the media, China and the coronavirus, not to mention a bizarre reenactment of his tentative walk down a ramp after a commencement address days earlier.

“The most important thing in a campaign is the message. And the most powerful message he needs to develop is what’s wrong with Joe Biden,” said Ari Fleischer, who was White House press secretary under President George W. Bush. “If this election is about the incumbent, chances are Donald Trump will lose.”

On Tuesday, Arizona tallied the most COVID-19 cases of any day yet — 3,591 — and its hospitalization rate set a record for an eighth straight day, casting a heavy shadow on the president’s visit, especially his second event, a speech sponsored by a conservative advocacy group at a Phoenix church.

Trump has sidelined the White House coronavirus task force in recent weeks and spoken of the pandemic as if it had ended, even claiming in Tulsa that he has asked aides to “slow down” testing to keep the overall number of reported cases from rising. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 tops 121,000.

Before leaving the White House on Tuesday, Trump scoffed at his press secretary’s claim that the president’s call to slow testing was meant as a joke.

“I don’t kid,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn. “By having more tests, we find more cases.”

But making the wall a symbol of Trump’s harsh approach to immigration enforcement has drawn scrutiny on the project itself, especially since construction has occurred only on 10% of the border.

Trump tweeted a complaint Monday night after watching a Fox News report on the slow progress, declaring that the wall is “well under construction, fully financed and already over 200 miles long.”

Hat tip to Yahoo News.

I always thought of Obama as the most narcissistic President we have ever had. He was however slick and polished in his delivery and stayed on message constantly.

Trump is a bull shit artist with a deep seated need for love and adoration from everybody he is in contact with. A mafia style loyalty demand, and a thin skin for criticism.

We can do much better, stop being sold snake oil.

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All shooting is at 10 yards with Remington 115 grain 9mm.

The gun violence in Chicago is a favorite topic for both left and right. There were 60 shooting in Chicago over the Fathers Day weekend with 10 dead.

that doesn’t count stabbings, assaults, sexual assaults or domestic violence.

this is the press briefing;

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Now please tell me again how all the protests and rioting aren’t politically motivated.
How the social anger for justice is the real cause

”Larry” Biden:

“Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Biden said with a mask dangling from his ear.

“Because just like television changed the civil rights movement for the better when they saw Bull Connor’s dogs ripping the clothes off of elderly black women who were trying to go to church, and fire hoses ripping the skin off of young kids,” he said.

Bull Connor was a Democrat and Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama.

”Moe” Trump:

President Donald Trump on Friday said that while President Abraham Lincoln — who freed Black people from slavery during the Civil War while also saving the Union — did some good, the “end result” of the 16th president’s actions are “always questionable.”

Trump’s bizarre comment about his fellow Republican came during an interview with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner, in which the president said he had done more for the Black community than any other president, with the possible exception of Lincoln.

“So, I think I’ve done more for the Black community than any other president, and let’s take a pass on Abraham Lincoln, cause, he did good, although it’s always questionable,” Trump told Faulkner

Floyd has a greater impact than MLK death…..

Trump has done more for Blacks than Lincoln freeing the slaves…Lincoln ”questionable”

I’m getting worried about who is going to come after these Yahoo!’s

His right arm seems to not be working correctly. When he is walking down the ramp, his right arm is not swinging at all.

When taking a drink, his right arm can’t get to his mouth without using his left.

I know he’s old, but that’s not normal.

I don’t hold Trump in contempt at all, he is who he has always been
I hold trump brown shirts in contempt. Everything Trump says or does is Gospel. If you don’t agree you’re attacked.

a thinking person can disagree with Trump, a trumpblind follower can’t stand that. Never actually answers anything, trumpblind followers still will fight rather than admit the Rocky poster with Trumps face was doctored. They will forget, ignore, or deflect anything less than adoration and unconditional acceptance. That’s stupid.

there are a great many “lessor evil” voters, nothing wrong with that, I’m not one. I think voting for the lessor evil got us in the spot we are in.
Trump is, in every possible measure, a fiscal and social moderate democrat. If that’s ok with you because he isn’t Biden, go ahead and vote for him.

Every democrat in my lifetime was going to “destroy the constitution and turn America into a third world country, destroy everything good and holy in the country.”
most important election in…..years, decades, lifetime, history of our country, history of the world, etc, etc 

So far we’re still here. The democrooks get as much of their campaign crap done as the Republicans do.
Little to nothing, so why sit on the edge of your seat in fear of losing everything the talking heads tell you (On both sides) that are in “grave and present danger” if xxxxxxxx gets elected.

a trumpblind followers hears about something stupid Trump says and points to ….fakenewsdeepstateswamprinosocialisthillaryliverbidenvotertrumphaterantiamericansadloser

most people will have a moment of awareness. Trump will say something and you will think about it and say…”no, that’s crap”

it may be something you personally know about (how a state Phone call happens, gun laws, building walls on the border) or he may attack someone you know for yourself is a great and America loving leader of men, a person who has a long history of faithful conservatism, a military leader with chops nobody can touch. Getting trashed as everything but a good person.

and the trumpblind will forget years of history of the person and jump in with both feet, branding them with viscous lies and blatant bull crap because…….Trump 

that’s a trumpblind follower and yes, I hold them in contempt.

so should you, because they are making all of us look like mindless morons (a lot like Obama followers were)

that’s my opinion, my viewpoint. I personally know some people trashed for having the balls to disagree with Trump. And had their careers destroyed for serving their country with an egomaniac.

that doesn’t make me a democrat, Biden voter, Hillary lover, socialist, liberal, RINO, swamp, deep state, or any other attack from the ignorant fools.

Trump will not destroy the GOP, the Trumpers might. Because when Trump is out (Jan 2024) he will not fade away and the followers will not vote for anybody without the giant T endorsement. 
splitting the right and maybe giving the Dems power for years. They will cry to the GOP about satisfying them and “winning them back” while comparing every possibility with the Trump scale of MAGAness. 
This conservativeRepublican will not be picking up a hammer and nails to rebuild the bridges they have burned behind them.

They can grow the hell up or buy a subscription to Trump TV, Trump News Network, The Sirius Trump Channel, the Trump podcast network (All expected witching 9 months of retirement from office) And sit ‘n spin for all I care.

we don’t need them, we will recover.
And btw, the vastly overwealming majority of the Republicans in DC and State Capitals can’t wait for this loudmouth POS to be out of office.

take it for what it’s worth, As much as anybody else’s 

John Hawkins

Long story short, Ahmaud Arbery was in a neighborhood in Georgia. Apparently, he walked into an empty house under construction and looked around and then was shortly thereafter seen running down the street. Was he jogging? Was he running for some other reason? We don’t know for sure, but some local geniuses, one of whom was an ex-cop, were alerted to his presence and thought he could be the guy who had stolen something in the area previously. So, they grabbed their guns, got into a couple of pick-up trucks, chased the guy down and cornered him. Some people have tried to deny that they cornered him, but when you’re on foot and armed men are in front and behind you in cars, then move to block your path, that fits the bill. After a man with a shotgun moved into Arbery’s path, there was a struggle for the weapon, and Arbery was shot to death. Then there seems to have been some local corruption that kept the killers from being arrested before trial, but that appears to have been sorted out.

Now, I have seen a few hot takes on Twitter that try to justify this killing in a variety of ways. They’ve called it a “citizen’s arrest,” have said it was justified if Arbery was the one stealing, have said it was justified by Arbery trespassing on a construction site and even claimed that the men that chased him down, cornered him and later shot him to death were acting in self-defense.

Quite frankly, these are all ludicrous ways of looking at it. Just imagine living in a world where any group of yahoos who thinks you MIGHT HAVE committed any crime feels empowered to chase you down the street with guns and then shoot you to death without having to face legal consequences because they were “just defending themselves” if you try to fight back. That’s the bizarro world the people defending this apparently want to live in.

Despite how ridiculous that is, I do get why some people might think that way. They’ve grown up watching cheap and easy gun violence on TV and in the movies. On TV, you take a bullet in the arm, you just wrap it up and go on. It barely even slows you down. Cops blow people away and you never hear from their crying families. There’s no questioning of whether they made the right call. There are no innocent bystanders hit as they spray bullets everywhere. Their friends even get shot to death and 5 minutes later, they seem just fine. Usually, there are no meaningful consequences of any kind. Life just goes on as it did before. That’s not how it works in the real world.

A few years back, I flew to Nevada so I could train at (deleted) which is one of the best firearms training institutes in the United States. Cops train there (one was my partner for part of the time I was there). FBI agents train there. They teachpeople to handle everything from an Uzi to tactical scenarios to defensive driving.

The instructors were RIDICULOUSLY good and as an added bonus, at night we were lectured about WHEN we should use a gun. You might think that people that good with a gun were ready to use one at the drop of a hat. However, that’s not true at all.

In fact, the one thing they hammered into us over and over again is that every time you point a gun at another human being and pull the trigger, it has potentially life-changing consequences. That is EVEN IF YOU’RE RIGHT. Let’s talk about some scenarios they discussed with us.

For example, imagine you’re at an ATM machine. Someone wearing a hoody walks up behind you. You turn around, he says he has a knife in his pocket and will stab you unless you give him all your money. You pull out your gun. He keeps coming forward and you put 2 in his chest. Then, when the cops arrive, you tell them he had a knife, they check him and….there’s nothing. It turns out, he was just bluffing when he claimed he had a knife. Oh, and it also turns out that he’s 15. The next day, the local newspaper runs a story, “Local man shoots unarmed 15-year-old to death.” His parents are demanding you be charged. The police haven’t charged you… yet, but you think they just might and you have to hire a lawyer. It’s expensive, drags on for months and you feel like your reputation is damaged with a lot of people and there’s no way to fix it. Did you have the right to defend yourself? Absolutely. Were you right to shoot the kid in that situation? Yes. It STILL turns your life into a mess.

Imagine another scenario. Someone breaks into your house and confronts you in your living room. You feel like you’re in danger and can’t retreat, so you fire off a shot at him. You don’t hit him and he runs. Everything worked out okay, right? Not so much. Because unfortunately, your shot went through your window, into the neighbor’s window and hit their 5-year-old child between the eyes. Now, the kid is dead. You can almost write the headline in the local paper, can’t you? Then, there’s the civil suit from your neighbors, who used to BBQ with you, but now hate your guts like the rest of the neighborhood. Meanwhile, you can’t sleep at night because you killed a beautiful little child who used to play with your kid and wave at you on your way to work.

Incidentally, this is easier to do than you might think because in a high-pressure situation, your brain often doesn’t work normally. For example, one of the training exercises I went through at Front Sight was held in a house. The assumption was supposed to be that my family was inside, multiple armed men had stormed the building and that there was no time to wait for the police. I had to avoid getting shot, clear the house, kill the bad guys (these were targets holding guns that could be anywhere), and keep my family safe. I had never been in the house before and I went in using LIVE ammo with an instructor directly behind me with his finger through my belt loop. Afterward, when I looked at how I did, my instructor asked why I shot one particular bad guy target through the throat, which was right next to a helpless young hostage, instead of through his face, which was more clear of the innocent victim. Do you know what the answer was? In that highly stressful, you may have to turn the corner and fire at any given moment in any situation… I saw the bad guy and his gun, but I NEVER EVEN SAW HER. She wasn’t a threat, so my mind just blocked her out. If I’d been an inch to the right, I would have put a bullet through her head without even realizing she was there.

So, what’s the point? The point is that you need to be very certain of what you’re doing before you aim a gun at another human being. In fact, our instructors told us that if someone were robbing their living room and they were in the bedroom, they would lock the door and call the police rather than confront them because of the potential ramifications of having to kill someone. Granted, they also said if their wife and kids were on the other side of the house, whoever was robbing their house was going to die. They weren’t risking their family, but they also weren’t going to kill someone over “stuff.”

If you have no choice other than to protect yourself, your family, or other civilians (in, for example, a mass shooter situation), do what you have to do, but make sure that’s the situation you’re in. Don’t look for trouble, don’t shoot unless it’s a life or death situation and whatever you do, don’t be the moron chasing after some guy who MIGHT HAVE committed a minor crime with a gun so you can make a “citizen’s arrest.”

Hat tip to: rightwingnews.com

Ahmaud Arbery & What Professionals Have Told Me About When You Should Shoot a Man