Chris Cheng Speaks Before Congress

Last month, Top Shot champion Chris Cheng had the opportunity to testify before the US Senate Judiciary Committee about the importance of gun rights for all Americans, and how gun prohibition laws are discriminatory.

 

“Are we going to let the criminal minority take away the rights of the majority, which are supposed to be guaranteed to us by our Constitution? I am against H.R. 8 and 1446 because they represent a threat to the public safety of Asian Americans and all Americans who have an imminent need to defend themselves.” 

Mr. Cheng is also a member of the Board of Directors for Operation Blazing Sword - Pink Pistols. While he was not speaking in such a capacity, we are nevertheless extremely pleased by the message he brought and the truth he spoke to Congress, and we are proud to have him as a key member of our organization. When he said "I am a gay American and have been happily married to my husband of five and a half years. Today we see a rise in attacks against Asian Americans, but tomorrow I might be back here talking about the persistent, on-going violence against LGBTQ Americans [...] I will continue speaking out against hate and violence in all forms, and I encourage all Americans to participate in what should be a simple, universal condemnation of hatred and violence. We should not be afraid of saying that we will not tolerate it, that it is unacceptable, and that it must stop." he spoke for all of us. 

We are indebted to Mr. Cheng for all he has done for us and for the Second Amendment. 

Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 149: Always Look on the Bright Side of Executive Actions

                          

In This Episode

• Erin and Weer’d discuss David Hogg "pillow fight" loss and Joe Biden's proposed Executive Actions on gun control;
• Weer'd brings us a lengthy fisk of prospective ATF Director David Chipman;
• and David gives us his reflections on Passover and what it means for gun owners.

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Show Notes

Show Notes:

• America, Meet Tony Fauci. HIV/AIDS Activists Have Known Him a Long Time
• David Hogg is giving up pillow entrepreneurship and returning to gun-control activism. His company Good Pillow aimed to rival the MyPillow brand.
• FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Initial Actions to Address the Gun Violence Public Health Epidemic
• Fact-checking Biden's speech announcing new executive actions on gun control
• Operation Blazing Sword - Pink Pistols’ Statement Regarding Biden’s Executive Orders on Guns
• Liberal Gun Club: Biden’s Executive Actions

Weer’d Audio Fisk:

• Deadline Detroit Interviews David Chipman Ex-ATF  Senior Policy Advisor for Giffords
• Biden To Nominate Gun Control Advocate, Law Enforcement Veteran To Lead ATF
• Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 021
• Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 101
• Royal Nunsuch
• Biden ATF pick Chipman made false claims about shot-down choppers at Waco massacre
• David Chipman Resume (PDF)
• ACP-The Bloomberg Conspiracy
• Ask a Mortician-What the Waco Bodies Revealed About the Siege
• Portland Car Bomb Plot
• Report Details ATF's Use Of Mentally Disabled In Gun Stings
• Weer’d World- Coburn Background Check Bill
• UK police find 'sophisticated' illegal gun factory
• Canada Tried Registering Long Guns -- And Gave Up
• Blog Fisk Of Moms Demand Action on the Virginia 2A Rally
• Only Guns and Money: Chipman Is Delusional! 

Gun Lovers and Other Strangers:

• My Favorite Year
• What Is a Seder
• Passover Seder
• Haggadah
• A Brief History of the Haggadah
• Torah
• What is Torah
• LawDog’s Cake Analogy
  • Text form
  • Cartoon form
• The Sad Off

V5 Loresheet: Father Dmitri

 How do I explain this other than by saying "Here's another thing I made for V5. If you don't play it won't make any sense to you"? I'll give it a try, though.

In V5, Loresheets are a special kind of background that you can buy for your character that links them into the setting of the game. For example, if your Vampire was related to someone important, or possessed special knowledge, or was connected politically, that could be represented with a Loresheet. Think of it as "More powerful than a typical background, less powerful than a Discipline."

Look, it'll make sense in a moment. 

Last week my GM concluded the Vampire: the Masquerade game which we began in the fall of 2019. It concluded because, well, my character had basically "won at unlife"; he'd accomplished everything I'd wanted him to accomplish and I felt bad for making the GM throw 404 errors by coming up with completely unexpected actions and/or out-politicking him. 

(Look, I know it sounds like a brag, but I was literally playing V:tM when my GM was in diapers and, well, I am quite wickedly creative and creatively wicked. To his credit, he never asked me to go easy on him and in fact challenged me to do my worst. Which I did.)

So when Father Dmitri Ignatiev, my character, saved the city for the umpteenth time and was in a position of unassailable power and privilege, I figured it was time to retire him to NPC status and hand my sheet to the GM so that my character could be a quest-giver and pain in the ass to future players. 

And then I thought "I'd like to make a Loresheet for him, based on my actions within the game and with the abilities reflective of who he was." So I did, and my GM approved it. 

Some of this may not make sense. I'll try to explain more when I post Dmitri's character sheet.

There is also a PDF version on Drive here. 

Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 148: Low Energy, Many Segments

                          

In This Episode

• Erin and Weer’d have had a rough week, so we  skip the main topic to go heavy on the segments.
• Sean has a response to our commentary on the Rob Pincus and Dan Gross Ammoland article;
• David talks about the new Tennessee constitutional carry bill and what they got right,
• with Oddball following right behind with some commentary on what they got wrong;
• finally, Xander talks web security, phishing scams, and how it relates to our gun rights.

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Show Notes

Sean Sorrentino:

• PA Gun Blog - It's a Tactic
• Rob Pincus and Dan Gross Article on Ammoland
• Game theory and guns
• Dan Gross at 2A Rally for Your Rights
• Weer’d World - Look at Their Reaction

David and Oddball:

• House Bill 0786
• Senate Bill 0765
• TN Handgun Carry Permit Application
• TN Handgun Permit Fees
• TN Handgun Permit Eligibility Requirements

Xander’s Independent Thoughts:

• Phishing Dark Waters
• Social Engineering Podcast

OBS-PP's Statement on Biden's Executive Orders

While our members are free to believe what they wish, Operation Blazing Sword - Pink Pistols finds gun control to be historically rooted in racism and even today it disproportionately affects those who need armed self-defense the most: members of minority populations, be they racial, gender, sexual, ethnic, or religious minorities.

Furthermore, attaching the words 'common sense' to gun bans does not make them any more palatable, and we consider them just as offensive and just as unconstitutional as bans on same-sex marriage. Operation Blazing Sword - Pink Pistols supports gun rights and queer rights, not specific political narratives.

Signed,
Erin Palette
Founder and President, Operation Blazing Sword
National Coordinator, Pink Pistols

Note: If you wish to link to this statement, please use this link to our official website. Thank you. 

Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 147: The Great Big Round Table of News

                         

In This Episode

This is an ACP Round Table.   Join Erin, Weer'd, David, and Oddball as we discuss:

• Rob Pincus and Dan Gross' controversial Ammoland article;
• Hunter Biden's revolver and problematic 4473;
• the Spree Killing in Boulder, and the store's unfortunate policy on guns;
• and the various Appeals Court cases challenging the Bumpstock Ban and the right to Open Carry.

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Show Notes

• Guns in America: Ending the Culture War & Starting a Productive Conversation
• Huh? Rob Pincus calls for expanded background checks, gun control and then says he didn't
• Secret Service inserted itself into the case of Hunter Biden's gun
• King Soopers asks open-carry customers to leave guns at home
• The Colorado attack is the 7th mass shooting in 7 days in the US
• LawDog’s Cake Analogy: Text form
• Cartoon form
• 9th Circuit Upholds Hawaii Laws Against Open Carry Of Firearms
• Aposhian v. Barr
• Cargill v. Barr

The Gaki (V:tM 3rd edition)

Last week, I rolled a Natural 20 in real life. 

Over the past 6 months or so I've been looking for things which I wrote online 15-20 years ago, and while I've managed to track down most of them through the Internet Archive and backups of old mailing lists, there was one thing I couldn't find, and thought I would never find, because I thought I never shared it with anyone outside of my private gaming group. I had tried everything I could think of to find it and had resigned myself to it being lost to the mists of time. 

Last week I was Up Too Damn Late and the thought occurred to me to Google a specific text string. I knew that it wouldn't work, of course -- everything else had failed, so would this succeed? -- but I could honestly say I'd tried everything I could think of to find it. 

The first two Google hits were my missing creation: a writeup of the Gaki (a Japanese vampire) as a clan for Vampire: the Masquerade, written between 2001 and 2003. (Yes, I know about Kindred of the East. I never cared for it, mainly because V:tM is deeply rooted in Biblical mythology and KotE isn't. I also didn't much like the version of the Gaki which first appeared in the original 1992 World of Darkness sourcebook, but I used that as a jumping-off point.)

Have you ever read something and realized just how young the author was? This gives me a strange combination sensation of nostalgia, deja vu, and "Oh, you sweet summer child," because I was in my late 20s when I wrote this, and it shows. It's not just a matter of "I would have done this differently," although that's definitely part of it; there's also the fact that this piece feels like it's trying so hard to do everything right by explaining everything, instead of leaving things vague so that GMs can incorporate it into their games. Plus, it has that old White Wolf conceit of "Supernaturals did everything important in the world, so if you reference real world events there needs to be a supernatural link explaining how or why." It even has the obligatory Kewl New Discipline that every new bloodline needed to draw the players. 

At any rate, here's what I wrote 20 years ago. I'm showing it to you now so that when I update the Gaki for V5, you can see the difference between my writing styles of the then and now.