Hippie gun cleaning.

It was just a good night to channel my inner hippie tonight. So I broke out the Bushmills (Did hippies drink Bushmills?), put on the 70's peacenik tunes, and sat down to clean guns.

First, the mood music.


Then the Bushmills, on the rocks, because this could go on all night.


First weapon break down:

An Uzi, as simple as it gets. The stripped receiver at top, with the top cover, barrel retaining nut, bolt, trigger pack and retaining pin, mainspring and barrel. Wood stock to the left, because I like shooting it better with the wood stock than with the folding sheet metal one.

(Hey...Woodstock. Gotta be a hippie joke there somewhere.)

The inside of the receiver. Pretty much a stamped metal flat folded to shape, with an ejector welded in and sights added. Any good high school metal shop student could make one.


The bolt. Not much more complex. One solid chunk of steel with a firing pin machined in place. The only removable parts here are the extractor and the pin that holds it in place.


The barrel is really about ten inches long, but you only see 2" when the weapon is assembled. The rest is inside the receiver, going all the way back to the magazine well.


When installed, the bolt rides over the barrel several inches. This is known as a "wrap-around bolt" and it's what makes the Uzi so compact.


Everything is getting brushed and wiped down, then lightly oiled.

Then the trigger pack, enclosed in the pistol grip. The magazine goes up through the grip. Not only does this put the center of balance right over your shooting hand, but it makes mag changes easy under stress with the "hand-finds-hand" muscle memory training.

And again, the mechaism is basic and robust. Relatively few moving parts in here and they're all pretty beefy.

All cleaned and oiled and back together. No tools required for disassembly or reassembly.

This gun was designed in the late 1940's/early 1950's by a man who knew what it was to operate and work on weapons in the field--the legendary Uziel Gal. It's overbuilt and heavy, but it'll outlast any MP-5 or other more modern design precisely because it is a little tank of a subgun.

That one done, let's change the music.


More Bushmills, and grab another dirty weapon.

Break the Browning Hi-Power down by moving the slide back and popping the side stop out right-to-left. Then the slide comes off and the barrel and mainspring come out.

If it looks a lot like a 1911, it should. This was John Browning's last design. He died before ever seeing it in production but you can see a lot of his engineering in it.

The inside of the slide, and the machined barrel locking lugs. It's actually simpler than the 1911 here as there is no barrel bushing or mainspring plug to remove (or pop you in the face if you get careless when trying to re-install it).

Clean and oil the trigger mechanism here.


Then re-install the mainspring and it's guide beneath the barrel. It locks into place a bit better than a 1911, but it can inadvertently be installed upside down. Don't do this.
Wrong:

Right:

See how it's bent in the first one and straight in the second? That makes a difference.

Then the slide goes back on, and the slide stop pushes through the hole in the mainspring guide, and all is right with the world.


Time to put the cleaning gear away because the Bushmills is gone. But I've got two more clean weapons. Cleaner than any hippie, to be sure. As to why hippie music? I dunno. Maybe is has something to do with the duality of man...the Jungian thing.

Or maybe I just felt like it.

The Left's new hero: Scott Olsen.

The leftist blogosphere and left-wing media is now all atwitter over Scott Olsen, a former Marine who served in Iraq before coming home, getting a good corporate job with a software firm, and--inexplicably--joining the unwashed hippie masses in the Oakland Obamaville tent city set up to "Occupy Oakland".

You see, the police were sent in to clear the park because these hippies were urinating and defecating all over it and the hippies decided that it would be way cool to resist, because laying around in your own or someone else's waste sends a message that you're angry because no one will give you a high-paying job. (Maybe it's just me, but would YOU hire some scumbag who came in reeking of BO and human waste to work in your office? I'm telling ya, there's a reason that these dirtbags are unemployed while the majority of the rest of us have decent jobs even in this Obama economy.)

Anyway, the hippies fought back with violence, as leftists always do. They pushed over barricades, they broke windows, they threw things...finally the police were forced to deploy gas and use a bit of muscle to get these cretins out of the park so that it could be cleaned and made sanitary for the rest of the citizens, especially the ones who actually do work and pay taxes. Somehow, in the melee that followed, Scott Olsen was hit in the head by something. The hippies claim that it was a tear gas canister that was fired "right at him", but I personally suspect that he caught a rock or other projectile hurled by one of his own confederates. In any event, scott Olsen is down for the count and the left now has a hero that they are wasting no time exploiting in media stories all around the globe. Ignoring the fact that Olsen was just another well-off white kid who worked for one of those "evil corporations", they seize on his service record as if to somehow make the claim that he's some sort of noble guy, and by extension, imply that they're all noble, too.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Firts off, while I applaud Scott's service to the country, it in no way cloaks him with any special status. He served his hitch and he got out, just as many others have done and will continue to do for as long as we have a military. If anything is noteworthy, it's the fact that his service makes him an almost unquantifiable minority among the suburban savages who are now dancing in his blood. Very, very few of these "Occupy" twits have served or ever will serve, because they're just not that kind of people. They're too lazy, pampered and self-obsessed to ever sign on the dotted line and become part of our military machine. (and then there's that whole haircut and bathing thing that the military insists on...) So he's a novelty to them, not a representative of their demographic. If anything, Olsen would have been more at home on the side of the decent American police officers who were there to deal with the mess that his friends were creating. Many police officers are former military because they, unlike Scott Olsen, wanted to continue to serve and protect their fellow Americans.

But Scott, like many others before him, made some bad decisions. He decided to go hang out among the great unwashed masses, he chose to become a law-enforcement problem instead of being part of the solution, and then he put his melon in the way of something heavy that was moving fast.

So cott got laid out, and the left is ecstatic now. They have a bona-fide "martyr" that they can put on display. Scott the person has no value to them and never did, but Scott the former Marine has plenty, and he will continue to have value right up until the media stops caring about him, at which time they'll abandon him, too.

Granted, if it had not been Scott, it would have been someone else. The left is all about creating sympathetic "victims" among their ranks for public consumptioin. This is why if you look at footage of their events, you will see the crowds peppered with people in wheelchairs and even little children. Those human beings were brought out specifically to gain public attention and sympathy, and if one gets hurt--like Scott Olsen did--so much the better! It's an old ploy that the left routinely engages in, and they'll keep doing it until everyone wises up and starts castigating them and punishing them for bringing their children to these events and placing them in front of trucks or between themselves and lines of police officers.


Scott, thanks for your service and sorry that you got hurt, but honestly, I'm surprised that your service time didn't teach you that stupid is supposed to hurt.

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UPDATE: I retract my thanks and any residual sympathy that I might have had for this loser. Ed Rasimus tipped me to the article on Gateway Pundit (Great job, Jim!) that shows that this loser runs an anti-military website and that he was obviously one of those loser malcontents who couldn't hack serving and lacked the class to just walk away gracefully when his obligation had been fulfilled. I have less respect for this punk than I do for a rat. If a rat ran out in front of my truck I would probably try to avoid crushing it. Scott Olsen...well I'd have to think about that for a few minutes but it would probably come down to expected sheet metal damage and the number of witnesses.

Olsen's clearly a cockroach and I hope that whatever hit him leaves some serious marks. If a police officer did inflict that injury to Olsen and they can identify that officer, I'm sending him a gift card for a nice dinner.

Your tax dollars at work. Recently ransomed leftist hikers now supporting "Occupy" hippies

Someone tell me again why we wasted our money to buy these three leftist twits back from Iran?

Iran Hikers Pick Oakland for Public Debut

Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal took part in the an Occupy Oakland rally at Frank Ogawa plaza. They said they wanted to show their support to the movement taking place in their town.

Up until now Occupy rallies have been mostly economic protests, but the hikers appearance took a turn toward the political. The hikers said they also felt a solidarity with hunger strike going on now in California prisons.

Would someone PLEASE send these three BACK to Iran and get our money back, at least until they learn to appreciate this country and show the appropriate gratitude?

Every time I think that I can't hold these three in any more contempt, they pop up and open their mouths again.

23 hippies arrested in Denver--the names.

Well denver's dirty hippies wanted to protest and make a statement, so me being a nice guy, I'm helping 23 of them out by making sure that a record remains of their names and arrests long after the Denver Post takes the story down. This should give them reason to be proud for some time to come and it should also assist any potential future employers or dates. I know that if I were hiring employees, these folks could just forget about filling out an application for any position that I'd need mature, responsible people for, and God help them if one came around trying to date my son, daughter, sister, etc,.

According to Denver Police and Denver County court records, the 23 people listed below were arrested when law enforcement evicted participants in the Occupy Denver movement on Oct. 14. Most were charged, given a court date, and released with no bond assigned.

-- Jordan Brody, 20, unlawful conduct on public property.

-- Christopher Burkhardt, 27, unlawful conduct on public property.

-- Elisha Capracota, 29, unlawful conduct on public property.

-- Matthew Carlton, 26, unlawful conduct on public property.

-- Cory Donahue, 28, unlawful conduct on public property and resisting arrest, bond set at $1,000.

-- Barbara Gawlowski, 32, harassment.

-- Ryan Hartman, 32, unlawful conduct on public property.

-- Charles Howe, 30, unlawful conduct on public property and resisting arrest, bond set at $1,000.

-- Justin Jeffries, 26, unlawful conduct on public property.

-- Kerri Kellerman, 38, unlawful conduct on public property.

-- Richard Klassen, 23, unlawful conduct on public property.

-- Noah Levine, 19, giving false information and obstruction of a roadway.

-- Scianda Long, 24, unlawful conduct on public property.

-- Vincent Lopez, 24, unlawful conduct on public property.

-- Patrick Marsden, 31, unlawful conduct on public property, bond set at $2,000.

-- Kristopher Norvell, 23, failure to obey a police order.

-- Aaron Petrovich, 40, assault.

-- Tiffany Rosengrant, 24, unlawful conduct on public property.

-- Jonathan Shepard, 27, unlawful conduct on public property and resisting arrest, bond set at $750.

-- Caryn Sodaro, 46, unlawful conduct on public property, bond set at $300.

-- Aaron Stuckner, 23, unlawful conduct on public property and resisting arrest.

-- Heather Turner, 25, Unlawful Conduct on Public Property and Marijuana Possession under 2 oz.

-- Matthew Velasquez, 25, unlawful conduct on public property.

There they are, folks. Twenty-three losers who have absolutely no reason for even existing. While everyone around them is getting up and going to work every day, these losers are just lounging around in their own filth and contributing exactly nothing to society.

The article doesn't report if the hippies were bathed, shaved and given flea dips, but for the sake of the police that had to handle them and the community in general, one can only hope so.

BTW, Caryn...Forty-six years old and still getting arrested by the police? You're not an idealistic kid any more, sweetie. And that's probably why you had to post a cash bond. That's society's way of suggesting that it's time for you to grow up.

And any other bloggers out there, I'd encourage you to follow suit any time you see the name of any of these dirtbag hippies appearing in print following an arrest. If they want to make a public statement so bad, let's be decent and help them own it.

Dirty hippies are now "just like us"? I don't think so!

Well it’s starting.
The hippies, dirtbags “protestors” who claim to be just like the rest of us (other than the fact that they don’t have and won’t take jobs and sit around for days in their own filth and feces, smoking dope and having sex with each other under tarps) are now showing us how they respect the laws “just like the rest of us do.”

In Boston, over 100 have been arrested for trying to set up a camp in a prohibited area and refusing to vacate it.
In New York City, hundreds more are defying the city and refusing to vacate a privately-owned park so that it can be cleaned of their own refuse and offal.
In Denver, hundreds more are refusing to leave a city park that closes at 11PM, and local scumbags “activists” who weren’t even part of the protest group are flocking into the park just to be part of any fight with the police that breaks out.

Yeah, just like you and me.

One unifying factor that defines these shitbirds citizens no matter which liberal city that they are currently infesting is that they have no real message or agenda other than causing mayhem for it’s own sake. This it what the core of these groups are all about, in stark contrast to TEA party groups comprised of ordinary people who have jobs, mortgages and an actual message (stop spending our money). These losers have no real point or focus, which is why the powers-that-be, the puppeteers steering them (Soros and Obama, among others) have to supplement their ranks with paid union organizers, at least during daylight hours when people are paying attention to them. These loser kids can’t even be trusted to run their own protests by the people who are benefitting from their actions. (That would be Obama and every Democrat who worries about their failings being on the front page of the papers every day.)

So unless you are a drug-addled, no-job-having hippie who reeks of B.O. and just shows up places because other smelly hippies are already in those places smoking dope and defecating in public, these people are not like you at all. I know for sure that they’re not like me. You and I, we obey the rules and respect lawful authority. We also provide for ourselves instead of sitting around demanding that others be taxed to pay for their rent, student loans, health care and basic sustenance and that the municipal government agencies and local businesses give them toilets, food, shelter, and pretty much everything else that they want for free. As much as they like to paint themselves as being just like our nation's founders and the civil rights heroes, they're just the opposite. Those people fought for their freedom and independence and these kids are demanding to be more dependent, insisting on a bigger nanny state to run their lives at the expense of other people. Frankly I’m thinking that we’d do better as a nation if we simply rounded them up and shipped the whole lot of them off to North Korea in trade for a few hundred North Koreans who just want to come here and be free and productive.

Hippie Economic Indicator says: "Not Good"

So here I am, driving along and minding my own business--not bothering anybody--when this beat-to-shit little 20 year old Toyota merges onto the highway slightly ahead of me and then moves all the way over into the far left lane despite the fact that there is no one ahead of it in the right lane. Naturally, I'm moving at my usual highway speed, which is slightly below Mach 1, and the Toyota is barely moving fast enough to even be on the hgihway in the first place. So just to let this guy know that he's done something rather thoughtless and potentially dangerous, I give him a bit of high beam and some horn as I pass him on the right, in the lane that he should have just stayed in in the first place.

As I pass him, I can't help but notice his bumper stickers. One says "War is not the answer" and the other one says "Peace now!" in big letters. Yeah, ok...whatever. I keep going. Things to do and all that.

Well surprise, surprise, but when I shift back left to pass a bus in the right lane that I'm coming up on, the Toyota starts flashing it's high beams even though it's still several car-lengths back, and it accelerates to the point where it's now riding my back bumper. I give him a polite but firm courtesy brake check to let him know that he needs to back off a bit, and as soon as we pass the bus, it gets into the right lane next to me and accelerates again until it's alongside me. I look over and I see this guy with unkempt bushy hair and a matching beard, neither of which appear to have been groomed since the late 1980's. He's angrily mouthing something I can't make out and shaking his fist at me. I actually start laughing at the picture of this goofy leftist with an obvious anger-management problem, then I give him the Hawaiian good luck sign and accelerate away from him. But looking at his grooming standards and that POS car, it would appear that the job market's pretty tough these days for applicants with a Liberal Arts graduate degree who probably couldn't pass a drug screen on a bet.

Guide to Hippie Hunting

So I have this neighbor not too far away who is an unapologetic unreconstructed hippie. He's old now, but still wears his gray hair in a ponytail, wears sandals, and has honest-to-God peace symbols on his SUV...right next to the Obama sticker that replaced the Kerry sticker a few years ago. Apparently he never grew out of the 1960's (although the SUV puzzles me) and he's not shy when it comes to voicing his opinions on anything political, from the evil that was George Bush to the lack of any need at all for guns. And to be fair, in true hippie fashion, he refuses to lock his doors or windows, and says that if anyone needs what he has bad enough to break in and steal it, they are welcome to it, because if he (the hippie) cares about the property enough to kill over it, then he doesn't own it, it owns him, and he can't live like that. He is a true believer.

I told him that I could respect that, and I'm putting limit-of-fire stakes up on the edge of his property so that when the zombie hordes or bands of post-Obamacalypse looters are in his yard trying to gain entry to the house, I'll know not to fire on them.

He then asked me why I own guns. I said that I hunt. He asked me what I hunt, and I said "I hunt hippies."
"How do you do that?" he asked. (He's genuinely gullible, too.)
Well it's simple. And I explained, giving him a brief overview of the sport. In response, he bid me good day and stormed back into his house to have a cup of tea.

And to assist all my other usual readers out who might wish to take part in this fun and sometimes profitable hobby, I am publishing here my Guide to Hippie Hunting, 2011 edition.


Habitat
Most hippies today can be found in run-down neighborhoods immediately adjacent to college campuses, or just about anywhere in liberal meccas such as San Francisco, Berkeley, Seattle, or Ann Arbor, Michigan. Look for them around old record stores, grocery co-ops, and head shops. Note that if your state recognizes the fiction of "medical marijuana", stores that sell such will likely be packed with old hippies, but these are generally considered off-limits to hunting as it's just too easy to find them there.


Bait
Hippies respond well to bait. Typically, the smell of burning marijuana or patchouli will draw them in like flies to dead stuff. Also effective: playing CDs of Janis Joplin, Jimmi Hendrix, Bob Dylan or Arlo Guthrie. If you play it, they will come.
Also, putting a sign out front of a store that offers free stuff. Be it free groceries, free clothes, free furniture, or free used toothbrushes, hippies are irresistibly drawn to stuff that they don't have to pay for.
Finally, Hippies crave causes. So if you're yelling "No Blood for Oil, Free Tibet, Free Mumia, or anything that starts with "Hey, Hey, Ho Ho...", you'll get hippies.
And don't overlook drums. If you just beat a drum, hippies will appear and sit in a circle. This makes them laughably easy to catch.

Bag Limit
As the hippie is considered a nuisance creature in every state except California and Massachusetts, there is no bag limit and many localities (usually in the west and the south) will actually pay you a bounty for your dead hippies. Take as many as you want with society's blessing and thanks.

Hunting tips
Remember that Hippies hate cleanliness. If you smell clean, the hippie will notice you and run away. As such, your best chance of success will come if you prepare for the hunt by not bathing for a week or so prior and rubbing some of those nasty hippie oils all over yourself. If you stink, most decent people will notice you but hippies most assuredly will not.

Sportsmanship
It is generally considered poor sportsmanship to drive through their neighborhoods in old multi-colored Volkswagen buses with 60's protest songs playing on the stereo. While effective, it's kind of like driving an ice cream truck through a neighborhood populated with little fat kids.

It's also frowned upon (but not illegal) to have a member of your party enter a known hippie hang-out and yell either "DEA" and "Draft Board Compliance" while other members of the party wait outside the doors and windows, guns at ready.

Catch-and-Release
Some people hunt hippies just for sport and prefer to trap them live then release them back into the wild, usually after forcibly washing them and cutting their hair. This is allowed but practitioners should be advised that it's often very hard for a hippie to regain his place in his former social circle if he shows back up clean with a flat-top haircut and wearing a pair of Dockers and a cardigan sweater. Such hippies are often shunned by former mates and driven out of the commune with cries of "sell-out" and "conformist". Some have been so depressed and disillusioned afterwards that they've actually gone out and gotten jobs and began acquiring material possessions for the first time in their lives.



I'm going over there now and sticking a copy of this under his SUV's windshield wiper.