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Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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One of the most amazing mistakes that Brett Kimberlin has made in his failed campaign of brass knuckles reputation management was recruiting Bill Schmalfeldt as one of his PR flacks. In addition to being ineffective at promoting Team Kimberlin’s interest, Schmalfeldt has been the source of much of the pointage, laughery, and mockification directed at Kimberlin and his minions. A Derp Brain Photo included in a post six years ago has been one of my favorite examples of Schmalfeldt unforced errors.

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Cabin Boy Bill’s bio says he served during the Viet Nam era as Navy Medical Corpsman and that he did a tour with a Marine Corps unit. Based on that, I assume that he would have qualified with the M16 rifle and that he should still retain at least a passing familiarity with it and the Marines’ standards of safe gun handling.

Schmalfeldt has spent the past couple of days whining about an unfairly cropped photo which he says unjustly portrays him as “crazed and evil.” This image is an unedited copy of one he posted at Breitbart Unmasked.GE

The Four Rules of Gun Safety (as stated by Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC Ret.) are

1. All firearms are always handled as if they were loaded.
2. Never point a firearm at anything you are unwilling to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until the sights are aligned on the target.
4. Be sure of your target.

This picture shows the Cabin Boy violating all four at once.

The picture clearly shows that Bill Schmalfeldt is irresponsible. The Gentle Reader may form his own opinions about “crazed” or “evil.”

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The Cabin Boy™ claimed that the rifle belonged to his step son. If that’s the case, Schmalfeldt was probably breaking the law when that picture was taken. The rifle appears to have a 30-round magazine, and at the time the picture was taken, the maximum legal magazine capacity in Maryland was 20 rounds. While the step son may have bought the magazine while it was still legal and his possession of it might have been grandfathered in, it was not legal for the Cabin Boy™ to have it in his possession.

A Derp Brain Photo

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Cabin Boy Bill’s bio says he served during the Viet Nam era as Navy Medical Corpsman and that he did a tour with a Marine Corps unit. Based on that, I assume that he would have qualified with the M16 rifle and that he should still retain at least a passing familiarity with it and the Marines’ standards of safe gun handling.

Schmalfeldt has spent the past couple of days whining about an unfairly cropped photo which he says unjustly portrays him as “crazed and evil.” This image is an unedited copy of one he posted at Breitbart Unmasked.GE

The Four Rules of Gun Safety (as stated by Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC Ret.) are

1. All firearms are always handled as if they were loaded.
2. Never point a firearm at anything you are unwilling to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until the sights are aligned on the target.
4. Be sure of your target.

This picture shows the Cabin Boy violating all four at once.

The picture clearly shows that Bill Schmalfeldt is irresponsible. The Gentle Reader may form his own opinions about “crazed” or “evil.”

They Let Marines Have Rifles?

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Think Progress has their panties in a knot over a campaign ad that shows a Marine combat veteran holding a rifle. (H/T, @Iowahawkblog).

Perhaps someone should tell these folks that Marines have run for office as both Democrats and Republicans. Here’s a picture of a Marine strapping on a lot more firepower than an M4 carbine. The F8U Crusaders John Glenn flew carried four 20mm Mk12 cannon and had external tie points for air-to-air missiles and/or up to 4,000 lb of bombs.

UPDATE—The distress over the ad comes from the fact that Jesse Kelly is running for Gabrielle Giffords’ seat. I note that before he joined NASA as a Shuttle pilot Representative Giffords’ husband, Captain Mark Kelly (no relation), flew A-6E bombers as a Naval Aviator with 39 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm.

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The 200 Marines who were addressed by SecDef Leon Panetta were ordered to disarm and deposit their weapons outside the tent where the Mr. Panetta spoke.

Huh?

The last time I was in a combat zone was 1972, but things can’t have changed that much. Who in his right mind with concerns about security would not want 200 armed U. S. Marines nearby?

Something’s very wrong here.