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Dr. Fauci is on another one of his publicity tours, this time in DC with Mayor Muriel Bowser to guilt poor people into taking his experimental jab.

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Modern humans have been around for thousands of years, so guns are a relatively new tool. The first firearm goes back to around the 10th century in China, where fire lances used bamboo and gunpowder to launch spears. Now, there are numerous types of guns for various recreational uses, with hunting among the top activities. Rifles have been the gun of choice for hunters for nearly 300 years. How did the modern hunting rifle make it here?

1. Pennsylvania Rifle

Nowadays, the standard for hunting rifles centers around models like the current hunting rifle from Christensen Arms. But to understand rifles in 2023, you’ll have to go back to the early 1700s.

North America was growing with European settlers from England, France, Spain and more. Though, the Germans inspired the first rifle — the Pennsylvania rifle. This firearm was an upgrade over the musket because it had a much better range. The Pennsylvania rifle drew inspiration from jäger rifles used in German hunting, which started at around 54 inches long but could expand to over 6 feet.

2. Medad Hills’ Long Rifle

The Pennsylvania rifle — also known as the Kentucky rifle — was successful in the American colonies and led to similar models in the 18th century. For example, gunsmith Medad Hills crafted fowling pieces for hunting. Hills produced guns in Connecticut and helped hunters by creating long-barreled guns for increased accuracy. He later served in the Revolutionary War and made muskets for Connecticut in 1776.

3. Plains Rifles

After the Revolutionary War, rifle manufacturing began to take off in the United States, starting with the plains rifles. The new Americans began to expand westward and used plains rifles on the flat lands. Also known as the Hawken rifle, the plains rifle was shorter than its Pennsylvania predecessor but had a larger caliber, typically starting at .50. They were popular among hunters and trappers who needed to take down large animals from a distance.

4. Winchester 1876

A few decades later, the country broke out into a civil war. This era used military rifles from manufacturers like Springfield. However, it wasn’t until after the war that you’d see the hunting rifle that would inspire hunting rifles for decades.

Winchester was critical for late 19th-century rifles, starting with its 1876 model. This rifle was among the most high-powered yet for hunters. The Winchester 1876 was among the earliest repeaters and it had powerful capabilities with sizable ammunition — the intense bullets were necessary to take down large game like buffalo.

5. Winchester 1895

The success of the 1876 model led Winchester to create the 1895. This rifle was a repeater that featured smokeless rounds. Unlike its predecessors, the 1895 model was innovative because it included a box magazine below the action. It may be less powerful than models today, but it was incredibly potent for the time.

6. Winchester Model 70

Fast forward a bit to 1936. The country was in the Great Depression, but Winchester still produced excellent hunting rifles. Hunters called the Model 70 from Winchester the rifleman’s rifle, taking inspiration from Mauser, the German manufacturer. Winchester made the rifle with a controlled feed until 1964 before switching to a push feed and it still makes variations of the Model 70 today.

7. Marlin 336 (1948)

After World War II, Marlin introduced the 336 model as a successor to its 1893 rifle. It’s a lever-action rifle your grandfather may have owned to go deer hunting. Its specs may vary, but you’ll typically see it with a .30 or .35 caliber. The barrel can be as short as 20 inches or extend to 24 inches long. Marlin no longer makes the 336, but, Ruger — who purchased Marlin — plans to bring it back in 2023.

8. Remington 700 (1962)

1962 saw what could be the best hunting rifle ever made — the Remington Model 700. This rifle is the most popular bolt-action firearm, with over five million sold since its inception. In the last 60 years, Remington has made numerous variations to keep up with modern demand. This model is famous for its pair of dual-opposed lugs and a recessed bolt face.

The Remington 700 became the hunting rifle of choice for many across America, leading to its adoption by the U.S. military and law enforcement. Remington also makes 700s for the police — the 700P. The manufacturer makes the M24 and M49 sniper rifles for the military based on the 700.

The Evolution of Hunting Rifles

Rifles have come a long way since the beginning. Imagine picking up a Pennsylvania rifle and comparing it to your Mauser 18 Savanna. The hunting rifle helped settlers and early Americans hunt and sustain themselves and the evolution has led to the great rifles you know today, like the Remington 700.

The post How Has the Hunting Rifle Evolved Over the Last 300 Years? appeared first on AllOutdoor.com.

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Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide. Leo Morachiolli didn’t start the fire, but he did an impressive job covering Billy Joel’s wordy 1989 hit, adding fuel to the inferno with his hard-edged guitar and gravelly vocals. If you’re waiting for Joel to update the song for the 21st century, don’t hold your breath.

The Awesomer

composer require rakibdevs/openweather-laravel-api

'providers' => [
    // ...
    RakibDevs\Weather\WeatherServiceProvider::class,
],
'aliases' => [
    //...
    'Weather' => RakibDevs\Weather\Weather::class,	
];

OPENWAETHER_API_KEY=
OPENWAETHER_API_LANG=en

	$ php artisan vendor:publish

	return [
	    'api_key' 	        => env('OPENWAETHER_API_KEY', ''),
    	    'onecall_api_version' => '2.5',
            'historical_api_version' => '2.5',
            'forecast_api_version' => '2.5',
            'polution_api_version' => '2.5',
            'geo_api_version' => '1.0',
	    'lang' 		=> env('OPENWAETHER_API_LANG', 'en'),
	    'date_format'       => 'm/d/Y',
	    'time_format'       => 'h:i A',
	    'day_format'        => 'l',
	    'temp_format'       => 'c'         // c for celcius, f for farenheit, k for kelvin
	];

use RakibDevs\Weather\Weather;

$wt = new Weather();

$info = $wt->getCurrentByCity('dhaka');    // Get current weather by city name

// By city name
$info = $wt->getCurrentByCity('dhaka'); 

// By city ID - download list of city id here http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/
$info = $wt->getCurrentByCity(1185241); 

// By Zip Code - string with country code 
$info = $wt->getCurrentByZip('94040,us');  // If no country code specified, us will be default

// By coordinates : latitude and longitude
$info = $wt->getCurrentByCord(23.7104, 90.4074);

{
  "coord": {
    "lon": 90.4074
    "lat": 23.7104
  }
  "weather":[
    0 => { 
      "id": 721
      "main": "Haze"
      "description": "haze"
      "icon": "50d"
    }
  ]
  "base": "stations"
  "main": {
    "temp": 26
    "feels_like": 25.42
    "temp_min": 26
    "temp_max": 26
    "pressure": 1009
    "humidity": 57
  }
  "visibility": 3500
  "wind": {
    "speed": 4.12
    "deg": 280
  }
  "clouds": {
    "all": 85
  }
  "dt": "01/09/2021 04:16 PM"
  "sys": {
    "type": 1
    "id": 9145
    "country": "BD"
    "sunrise": "01/09/2021 06:42 AM"
    "sunset": "01/09/2021 05:28 PM"
  }
  "timezone": 21600
  "id": 1185241
  "name": "Dhaka"
  "cod": 200
}

// By coordinates : latitude and longitude
$info = $wt->getOneCallByCord(23.7104, 90.4074);

// By city name
$info = $wt->get3HourlyByCity('dhaka'); 

// By city ID - download list of city id here http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/
$info = $wt->get3HourlyByCity(1185241); 

// By Zip Code - string with country code 
$info = $wt->get3HourlyByZip('94040,us');  // If no country code specified, us will be default

// By coordinates : latitude and longitude
$info = $wt->get3HourlyByCord(23.7104, 90.4074);

// By coordinates : latitude, longitude and date
$info = $wt->getHistoryByCord(23.7104, 90.4074, '2020-01-09');

// By coordinates : latitude, longitude and date
$info = $wt->getAirPollutionByCord(23.7104, 90.4074);

// By city name
$info = $wt->getGeoByCity('dhaka');

// By coordinates : latitude, longitude and date
$info = $wt->getGeoByCity(23.7104, 90.4074);

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Found on Gab (clickit to biggit):

I had to laugh at the instructions.

I’ve been present when an elephant that was destroying crops was shot near an African village.  The villagers swarmed the carcass, armed with machetes, axes and other edged instruments, and proceeded to have a gigantic meat-eating binge that lasted three days.  They dismembered that carcass from inside and out, literally:  some people crawled inside the belly cavity and cut their way out, while others stood on the ribs and cut their way in.  When an errant machete blade from one side or the other cut into someone on the other side of the skin, there were screams of outrage and anger;  but mostly they were too busy eating (yes, even raw meat!) to care.

At the end of three days, all that was left were the remains of the entrails, and the huge bones of the elephant skeleton.  Sixty-odd villagers had eaten until they bulged (literally):  their stomachs were so distended I was surprised they could still move.  Of course, in African heat, with no refrigeration available, the meat had already spoiled by the third day, but they ate and ate and ate so as to waste as little as possible of the precious nutrition deposited on their doorsteps by the Game Department.

Perhaps they should have tried this recipe . . .

Peter

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Redditor arcedup works in a steel mill and wanted to test out the video capabilities of their phone. While they were at it, they captured this wonderfully satisfying clip of molten hot steel being turned into a coiled rod. Is it wrong that we want to make the world’s largest Slinky with it?

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B.L.U.F. An analysis/opinion of the State’s attempt to move certain arms out from the protection of the Second Amendment.

This is a long running argument from the anti-gun rights people. The gist is always of the “this modern thing didn’t exist in 1791 so it isn’t covered by the second amendment.” These same people are saying this on phones, computers, The Internet, which the firmly believe are covered under the first Amendment, even though those things would not have been known at the time of the founding.

The question is legitimate, so lets take it to an extreme.

Are Nuclear Weapons Protected Arms Under the Second Amendment?

Hagar reported to me that she often times has discussions with anti-gun people and they will ask something like “Well, do you think people should be able to own nuclear weapons!?!?!?”

She reports that most of them are shocked when she replies in the affirmative “Yes, they should be able to legally own nuclear weapons.” There is more to our discussion, I’ll get to that later.

Here we have the short of it [w]eapons of offence, or armour of defence.Id, citing Samuel Johnson’s dictionary of 1773

Are “nuclear weapons” weapons of offence? Yes, by the clear text of the Second Amendment supported by multiple sources at the time of the ratification of the Bill of Rights.

But nuclear weapons were not in existence at the time of the founding and the Founding Fathers could not have anticipated the horrific destructive power of such weapons. Again, Justice Scalia answers us.

Under the instructions given by the Supreme Court in Heller it is clear that nuclear weapons are arms.

But the argument goes on that the arm must be “bearable” to be considered covered under the Second Amendment. We know from historical fact that this was not the understanding at the time of the founding. We know this because many civilians owned cannon and even warships. In fact the US Government was known to issue sanctions to warship owners to have them engage in combat on the high seas with the enemies of the United States.

Justice Scalia addresses this issue. He is addressing the question in Heller in regards to individual right vs. collective right so his analysis is not a direct answer for us.

This leaves the question slightly open as to the question of size limitations on arms that are protected by the Second Amendment. We know that Heller clearly states that pistols and other handguns are. This has been extended to the sorts of long guns and shotguns that can be shouldered. It has been extended to weapons that are too heavy to shoulder but can be fired by one man from a bipod. I.e. a .50 cal semi-auto or bolt action rifle.

What about crew served weapons? Is a 60mm M224A1 mortar covered? How about the 81mm M252A1? How about the 120mm M120/M121, are they covered?

If those are covered are the M119 105mm Howitzer covered and the M777 155mm Howitzer? Or even the M110 Self-Propelled Howitzer. Those are huge. Are they covered?

The answer to all of that seems to be “yes”. The text of the Second Amendment does extend to “arms” that can not be carried by just one man but must instead have some other way of conveyance. It seems clear that a 16″ 3 Gun turret from a Wisconsin class Battleship would be covered arms.

From this, it seems clear that nuclear weapons are covered under the Second Amendment.

What laws are constitutional in regards to nuclear weapons?

According to the Constitution the answer is shall not be infringed According to the Supreme Court, there are acceptable regulations and limitations on the right to keep and bear arms.

…is neither a regulatory straightjacket nor a regulatory blank check… which leads to the question of when it the analogical reasoning within the limits? That is not relevant here.

This allows the state to raise the question of what laws are consistent with Nation’s historical tradition of firearm(arms) regulation.

So far the state has not been able to produce any law, in my opinion, from the correct time period that supports the banning of a class of weapon.

What they have been able to do is to find multiple laws regarding fire safety in regards to gunpowder. I submit that since the possibilities of a radiation mishap does exist and that does not infringe on your ability to keep and bear the nuclear weapon, that the state could have storage requirements that are for safety purposes.

Note, when I say “safety purposes” that doesn’t mean stuff like “It must be kept disassembled with its fissionable materials in a different county.” It means things like radiation sensors that are tested and monitored. Containers that are designed to low radiation leakage to a reasonable level and so forth.

In my opinion this type of safety law would fall within the text, history and tradition requirements of both Heller and Bruen.

Currently, the Supreme Court has put another limitation on what arms are covered within the scope of the Second Amendment.

[T]hose in common use for lawful purposesHeller is the phrase that much of our current litigation is founded on. If an arm is in common use for lawful purposes then that arm is not “Unusual”.

This links back to …finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.Id. at P. 2786 is the other part of this.

What this means is that nuclear weapons fail “in common use for lawful purposes” so they are unusual weapons and they are also “dangerous” which means that laws from the founding that prohibited carrying “dangerous and unusual” weapons can be used to justify carry regulations in regards to nuclear weapons today.

More to come.

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wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install terraform

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
 
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/jammy64"
  config.vm.hostname = "kbouzidi"

  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
      apt update &&  hostname -I
     
  SHELL
 
  config.vm.network "private_network", type: "dhcp"

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
   
  end
   
end

ssh-copy-id user@targetIP

git clone git@github.com:Safemood/terraform-php-stack.git

cd terraform-php-stack
cp terraform.tfvars.example terraform.tfvars

├── main.tf
├── modules
│   ├── install_dependencies
│   │   ├── configure.sh
│   │   ├── main.tf
│   │   └── variables.tf
│   ├── install_node
│   │   ├── main.tf
│   │   └── variables.tf
│   ├── install_mysql
│   │   ├── create_db.sh
│   │   ├── main.tf
│   │   └── variables.tf
│   ├── install_nginx
│   │   ├── default.tftpl
│   │   ├── main.tf
│   │   └── variables.tf
│   ├── install_php
│   │   ├── main.tf
│   │   ├── php.ini
│   │   ├── setup.sh
│   │   └── variables.tf
│   └── setup_app
│       ├── main.tf
│		├── .env.tftpl
│       └── variables.tf
├── terraform.tfvars.example

ssh_host            = "target ip"
ssh_user            = "ssh user"
ssh_key             = "private_key path"
php_version         = "8.2"
webmaster_email     = "example@test.com"
mysql_root_password = "crazySecurePassword"
git_repo            = "git@github.com:laravel/laravel"
db_connexion        = "mysql"
db_host             = "localhost"
db_port             = "3306"
db_name             = "kbouzidi"
db_user             = "safemood"
db_password         = "terraform"
domain_name         = "kbouzidi.com"
app_env             = "production"
app_debug           = false
scheme              = "http"  // 'https' will auto assign ssl certificates to your domain
stack_modules       = ["dependencies", "node", "nginx", "php", "app", "mysql"] // dependencies","mysql", "nginx", "php","app" , "node"
system_dependencies = "git tmux vim zip unzip htop fail2ban"
installation_steps = [
  # Set Folder Permissions
  "sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache",
  "sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache",
  # Installation
  "composer install --optimize-autoloader --no-dev",
  "php artisan key:generate --force",
  "php artisan storage:link --force",
  "php artisan migrate --seed --force",
  "sudo php artisan optimize:clear",
  "npm install && npm run build",
  "php artisan optimize"
]

terraform init // only the first time
terraform apply 
// or if you know what your doing 💥
terraform apply --auto-approve

terraform destroy 

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