California to Gun Manufacturers: We’ll See Your Innovation and Raise You a Law

Firearm manufacturers work overtime to overcome California’s draconian gun laws. Manufacturers even had to create a different type of magazine release to comply with California regulation, they created the bullet button.

The Bullet Button is a product that allows the shooter to drop a magazine with the use of a tool. It prevents finger manipulation of the mag release, and creates a condition allowable under current individual interpretations of California law.

This does not create a detachable mag situation, but creates an attachable-fixed magazine condition. A bullet tip can be used as the tool, as can any small object such as Allen wrench, or small screwdriver.

This button can not be used with magazines greater than 10 rounds in capacity. To do so in the state of California on an unregistered assault weapon, would be a felony.

The Bullet Button installs in less than a minute, requires no gunsmithing, or cutting on any part of the rifle. The installation is not permanent, and can be reversed just as quickly.

Or you can simply use the business end of a bullet to change a magazine.

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Of course, when California State Senator Leland Yee Ph.D.found out that gun owners can change out magazines fairly easily, the State Senator from San Francisco sprang into action. Via The Truth About Guns:

Reacting to the shocking news that gunmakers actually read the laws the California churns out and design guns around them, all State Senator Leland Yee could manage to sputter was, “When I saw the news I was absolutely horrified.” The gaping loophole that has the poor Senator all aflutter means rifles with bullet buttons – which actually allow a shooter to change out a magazine – are legal in the Golden State. Yes, that sounds pretty basic and magazine releases are legal just about everywhere else in these fifty-seven states. But what works so well for the rest of us doesn’t cut it on the left coast . . .
As the good Senator recently told sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com:

“It is extremely important that individuals in the state of California do not own assault weapons. I mean that is just so crystal clear, there is no debate, no discussion,” said Yee.
That’s why the Senator is introducing a bill to ban the bullet button.

As the father of modern political theory astutely points out:

”You are bound to meet misfortune if you are unarmed because, among other reasons, people despise you….There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed. In the latter case, there will be suspicion on the one hand and contempt on the other, making cooperation impossible.”
~Niccolo Machiavelli

Leftists in California want to ban all guns, this way only criminals will own them.

Scary Chart: Taxmageddon

Via Heritage:

The bulk of Taxmageddon comes from expiration of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, but also means the child tax credit will be cut in half, the Alternative Minimum Tax patches end, the Death Tax returns to its 2001 level, and a handful of new Obamacare tax hikes take effect.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Way to go Congress…

Sunday Morning Links: The Vincent Black Lightning Edition

This is one beautiful bike.

Via Bike EXIF:

For someone who doesn’t like stock Vincents, Jeff Decker builds a mighty fine Black Lightning. He’s a sculptor as well as a bike builder, and his eye for a line is evident with this beautiful salt racer. As these exclusive Horst Roesler shots reveal, Decker has managed to make the Vincent look fast even when it’s standing still on the Bonneville salt flats.

Be sure to check out the rest. Now, on to the links…

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Video sharing will be the next big thing according to MIT Tech Review

Via MIT Tech Review:

Ever since Facebook announced its $1 billion acquisition of the company behind the popular photo-sharing app Instagram last month, the question on every nerd’s lips has been: What will be the next big thing in mobile apps?

For many, the answer is video. Apps like Viddy and Socialcam have picked up steam, gaining users—including pop stars Justin Bieber and Britney Spears—who are shooting and sharing videos with others within the apps and on social networks. Like Instagram, many of these apps also include a number of effects you can use to give your videos an edge, such as filters and background music.

Could be.

However, this is from the same MIT, who’s Economics Department that foisted Ph. D. Paul Krugman upon the world. And, it goes without saying, any institution giving Paul Krugman a degree, of any kind, will do serious damage to your reputation.

A mistake like that is difficult to overcome.

Plus, having Ben Bernanke and Christina Romer on MIT Economics Department alumni roster is not going to help repair their reputation either.

The Freakonomics Guys (And Mark Cuban) Are Catching Up to MCT on College Tuition

Via Freakonomics (5/16/12):

It’s just a matter of time until we see the same meltdown in traditional college education. Like the real estate industry, prices will rise until the market revolts. Then it will be too late. Students will stop taking out the loans traditional Universities expect them to. And when they do tuition will come down. And when prices come down Universities will have to cut costs beyond what they are able to. They will have so many legacy costs, from tenured professors to construction projects to research they will be saddled with legacy costs and debt in much the same way the newspaper industry was. Which will all lead to a de-levering and a de-stabilization of the University system as we know it.

Its like they are reading my mind… Or web page. Via MCT (1/15/12):

One way to drive down the cost of college tuition is getting the government out of the business of student loans. Every time government becomes involved in an economic activity, it becomes more expensive. If government student loans are severely limited and Universities see fewer students attending their hallowed halls of higher learning, cost of tuition will drop in a hurry.

Otherwise, tuition will keep climbing and people like Mary Sue Coleman will continue laughing all the way to the bank.

Glad to see the Freakonomics guys catching up to MCT.

Family Friendly Program in UK to give “advice” on changing nappies, breastfeeding and “baby talk”

Remember, most bad ideas that start in Europe have a tendency to find their way here.

Via the Telegraph (UK):

David Cameron said it was “ludicrous” that parents received more training in how to drive a car than in how to raise children.
A £3.4million digital information service, which begins today, will provide free email alerts and text messages with NHS advice “on everything from teething to tantrums”, Mr Cameron said.

Separate pilot schemes will offer couples with young children free parenting classes and subsidised relationship counselling to help cope with “tiredness” and “mess”.

As part of a series of “family friendly” initiatives unveiled this week, the Prime Minister yesterday gave his strongest signal yet that tax breaks may be offered to families who hire nannies or childminders.

Speaking at a business event in Manchester, he said he was “hugely attracted to the idea of making child care tax allowable”.

Really? How have we been getting along all this time without any official government training to raise children.

Think about all licensed drivers who received more training in how to drive a car than raise children driving on the road today.

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Keeping the government out of the child raising business is best.