“We can either live in a paranoid politically correct world frantically trying not to offend the Hitlers and Mohammeds, and blaming their victims when they kill, or we can be free men and women who have chosen to take the power to defend our rights into our own hands.

While a thousand organizations use the Holocaust as a platform for speeches about tolerance, Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors [Jews Can Shoot] is conducting firearms training… Freedom is not defended with empty idealism easily perverted into appeasement of evil, but with the force of arms.”

Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish blog

All too many of the other great tragedies of history - Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few - were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece... If a few hundred Jewish fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.

Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Silveira v. Lockyer, 2003

Habah l'hargecha hashkem l'hargo -- "If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first."

Commentary

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY: 1911 PATENT’S 111TH ANNIVERSARY

by Doris Wise Montrose on February 19, 2023

“John Moses Browning’s most famous Valentine’s gift to gun owners was U.S. Patent 984,519 for a handgun later known just as the 1911.”
Better than candy and flowers.

John Moses Browning’s most famous Valentine’s gift to gun owners was U.S. Patent 984,519 for a handgun later known just as the 1911.

The 15-page patent application, filed Feb. 17, 1910, included 38 points of claim and three sheets of drawings, building on Browning’s previous 1897 patent (#580,924) for a magazine pistol.

The patent was issued Feb. 14, 1911, and the rest, as they say, is history.

John Browning Patent 984,519 drawing sheet — The profile is instantly recognizable.

John Browning Patent 984,519 drawing sheet — As are the internals

John Browning Patent 984,519 drawing sheet — Functional art in 22 figures.

While Colt first put the 1911 into production as the Government Model for both U.S. military and commercial contracts, other makers soon started producing the pistols during the Great War, a development that repeated itself with the updated M1911A1 during WWII, and unlicensed copies have been floating around since at least the 1920s.

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"All too many of the other great tragedies of history—Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. ... If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars." — Silveira v Lockyer, (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, J. dissenting.)