Really, I have come to hate the term 'hero'...

...but this, my friend, is what one looks like.

Cody Wilson rides again, doing what he does, which is work that needs to be done.  And my word, does he do it with style.

In the wake of the governor’s veto of the Ghost Gun ban, Wilson’s CNC mill could make untraceable guns all the more accessible. And as the video above shows, Wilson isn’t shying away from that face-off so much as directly confronting gun control advocates. He’s gone as far as applying for a trademark for the term “Ghost Gun,” a move that could limit how gun control advocates are legally able to use it.

“This wouldn’t be worth doing if Kevin de Leόn didn’t know about it,” Wilson says. “What excites me is giving this world to the politicians. Our strategy is to literalize and reify their nightmare, to give them the world they’re talking about.”

One just has to step aside, to make room for all The Awesome in that.  It's hard to imagine a more quintessentially American spirit than Wilson's, and long may he haunt the nightmares of anyone that presumes to rule over others.

So, yeah:  hero.  Brass balls and all.  Large as life and twice as natural.  If the term must be used, then by all means I'll use it where it's deserved.

Nixed personally by Bob Costas?

It's not that I get all misty-eyed at the plight of the "betrayed soldier".  Voluntary fealty to the Beltway brass just doesn't impress me at all, and would seem to carry entirely predictable results from the beginning.  But--provided it's true--I've gotta give Daniel Defense one up on this effort.

It seems that this submission for inclusion as a Super Bowl ad got summarily rejected on account of being insufficiently supportive of what might now be called The Costas Opinion.  Not really much of a surprise there;  the NFL has certainly made its opinion of the grubby masses perfectly clear before, and seems to have been stepping it up with some regularity lately.

And that's what I like about DD's effort here.  It's something, on record now, that lots of people can identify with, that exposes the league's transparent bigotry for what it is.  And aside from replacing the soldier with a true Everyman, it makes an excellent and unapologetic point available for pretty broad consumption.

Good on 'em.

Of course, I'm more of a crank, myself, and I'd have probably gone a little farther.  In this vein, it seems that Colion Noir has got the news too, and personally, I'd prefer to see his response run as the ad:

Nicely done. 

But my real pick for a slot to run during the Super Bowl would still have to be this one:

The Airsoft term for this would be "full metal".

Q.  What's the most awesomest thing about the DEFCAD project?
A.  The idea grows its own tubers.

This is so cool it's going to be hard to think about anything else today.

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Hat tip to the increasingly indispensible Kurt Hofmann.

Ready for another failure, are we?

Hey, look:  thugs will be thugs.

The Department of Defense Trade Controls has “requested” Defense Distributed to remove files associated with its Wiki Weapon Project, an announcement posted on the DEFCAD website today announced.

“#DEFCAD has gone dark at the request of the Department of Defense Trade Controls,” the page announces. “Take it up with the Secretary of State.”

“DEFCAD files are being removed from public access at the request of the US Department of Defense Trade Controls,” a banner at the top of the site explains. “Until further notice, the United States government claims control of the information.”

This development is occurring mere days after the announcement that a complete working 3-D printed firearm, the Liberator, had successfully been built, and follows speculation from earlier today when a “temporarily unavailable” message appeared when trying to access the downloadable files.

No surprise here--this was inevitable at some point--and with all the tools, time and (other people's) wealth at their disposal, chances are they'll succeed in making their example of Cody Wilson and DEFCAD.  No doubt there will be the usual share of jingoistic chest-thumping at the brave and nobly-embiggened takedown of (yet another) uppity peasant.

Yes, Leviathan, it's true:  you truly can crush and destroy whatever individual you like, with your laws, your courts, and your enforcers.  Fret not;  your ability, opportunity and nearly frothing willingness to do this is not in question.  And your propaganda machine, as always, will perform yeoman service in persuading the credulous of your absolute moral authority to do so.

But after all this time, you still haven't got it, have you?  Jeez, it's not like we haven't been here before, throughout human history, and the result is always the same:  you will fail to prevent what you seek to prevent.  Oh, you may well "successfully" destroy people's lives trying, but you can't stop the little people sharing information, no matter how hard you try.  As just one example:  remember the printing press?  You tried to stop that one too, dincha? 

You will fail.

You will fail because you don't understand your adversary.  You don't understand what motivates him.  You have no idea why he resists you.  You think you do, but you don't.  Throughout human history people have always found ways to avoid and resist your ridiculous attempts to control, control, control;  those aggravating plebes do it even when they know that the consequence of being discovered or caught is their own certain death, and yet you still proceed with the same strategies of ban!  confiscate!  destroy!  suppress!  punish!, as though after failing a thousand times they will suddenly work like magic on the thousand-and-first.  As Butler Shaffer is fond of saying, "this time for sure!"

You can even go here, and get everything you need to know about why you will fail now as you have always failed before, spelled out compactly but completely, and still you won't get it.

You will fail.

So, you've chosen Cody Wilson and DEFCAD as your next target.  Since you're going to lose, after you're done destroying him, this seems like a particularly vile and senseless thing to do, but hell, nobody does vile and senseless like you do, so what's new?

Enjoy your "success", while it lasts.  It won't, long.


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Hat tip to David Codrea.

Gad, I love this.

Resistance lives.  Behold, the "Cuomo Mag", parts 1 and 2:

From the comments (I know, YouTube comments and all, but still, this was right there...):

Seriously, how can you not love these guys?


It actually makes me want to dig ARs (and AKs, for that matter) more than I do.  Sorta like I just want to have a reason to patronize Ronnie Barrett.

Keep going, fellas.  Every day it gets better, and people are watching.

Now there's how you do defiance.

First, today, I noticed from Kent McManigal on Facebook that Larken Rose has a new video out.  It's a defiance message, and as usual with Rose the idea is great.  Take a look:

I do love me some Larken Rose.  I love the way he grabs hold of an idea and then uses it to bludgeon the crap out of whatever facile doubts you might have about it.  I love the way he speaks directly and plainly, especially with needed heresies like When Should You Shoot A Cop?, The Tiny Dot and The Jones Plantation.  He is certainly capable of powerful pieces of liberty messaging that need to be confronted by a whole lot of people.

But, with all due respect to Rose, this, my friend, is how you do defiance with style:

"Tastes like Dianne Feinstein's lunch."  Get that man a beer!

Deep tip of the hat to Mike Vanderboegh for pointing that one out.  Awesome.