Meskwaki Nation Police Department – Iowa -(Ammoland.com)- Our Iowa Firearms Coalition President, Dave Funk, is known for what he calls “Funkisms” among certain circles. I can usually keep up when he breaks them off on me or others when I’m present, but every now and then he drops one so fast I have to take a minute to build the images in my mind that support what he’s said. Everyone else is done laughing by the time I get it. But, that’s the nature of living and working out in the country and rarely venturing into the city, I guess….
Recently some photos of a homemade firearm, (images below) AKA Ghost Gun, from Meskwaki Nation Police Department near Tama, Iowa, were posted along with some information. This is just a few miles from my personal farm, and the post got my full attention. Iowa Firearms Coalition’s team discussed this, and immediately President Dave tossed a Funkism into the conversation:
“Just like capital always seeking the lowest cost of production, evil will always find a way to gain an advantage over good.” ~ Dave Funk
Unlike a few others I’ve heard from him, this particular Funkism range true, loud, and clear. I thought to myself, with all this hyperbole and nonsense coming from our Nation’s President about “Ghost Guns” and his militarization of the ATF to pound the law-abiding, what is being lost here?
The answer is simple… THE TRUTH. If a bad guy wants to do harm, he’ll do it.
I just finished watching “800 Meters” on Netflix, where the terrorist plots slid sideways when part of the terror cell blew themselves up accidentally. Did that stop the rest of the cell? No. The terrorists rented vans and stole cars and drove over people.
Why, oh why, do we consistently grind all the good guys into the dirt with layer upon layer of useless laws, regulations, ordinances, and rules when only WE follow the laws?
If you’re a felon prohibited from firearm ownership, and you’re this determined to get your hands on a firearm, we can all agree the law is worthless to them. So why strip you and me from our rights when this is the truth of the matter? President Biden is doing this to homemade firearms, Ghost Guns, and is the same unAmerican nonsense his ilk have done to things like this for years. They’re successfully propagandizing them and lying. That’s right, I said LYING. There IS NO GUN SHOW LOOPHOLE and there never was. But a good portion of the public thinks that is a true category because we’ve heard it all so often. The same moniker applies to the term “Ghost Gun” as if a homemade firearm in the hands of a completely law-abiding American is somehow a bad thing.
These pictures prove the lengths a felon will go to get his hands on something he’s barred from. Yet you and I are paying the price when the crazies and dangerous political class among us seek to tear our liberties, literally, from our hands… Resist the nonsense, seek the truth. Gun control is a myth. Pray the good guys win out and get engaged with your ethical and moral 2A groups.
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“Why, oh why, do we consistently grind all the good guys into the dirt with layer upon layer of useless laws, regulations, ordinances, and rules when only WE follow the laws?”
You’re coming at it from the wrong direction, or perhaps asking the wrong question.
To some in government, if you have or want a gun, YOU ARE, BY THEIR DEFINITION, NOT A GOOD GUY.
More accurately, if you aren’t a member of the liberal elite or one of their security details and you want a firearm for your personal use… you are not a good guy.
It is all about control.
Silly, silly, DDS. Politicians with laws never stop bad guys with guns. They only control the good guys, which is their true agenda. The late Col Jeff Cooper commented in 1958, “Killing is a matter of will, not means. You cannot control the intent by passing laws about the means.” Controlling the good guys is just one feature of politicians’ laws. He also postulated, “That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants. “ Ole Jeffy was hot, “One… Read more »
It’s on the hammer, “the United States of America quarter dollar”
that is the tax stamp
Would that make it a “quarter bore”……..
USA Quarter looks the same as on the hammer.
I can no,t the picture is too low rez, maybe thats his idea of stimpling for a non slip grip? Lol
One can only hope when one confronts a bad guy they are armed with such a firearm.
Years ago, when I was still on the job, I used to alternately laugh and take comfort in guns we took off of gang bangers. One more than one occasion, it was a Sig, 9mm or 40, with a magazine capacity of between 12 and 15 rounds. The guns were always stolen but the comforting thing was so many were loaded with only 3 or 4 cartridges in the magazine and none in the chamber. I guess you use a lot of ammo up firing your gun in the air so everyone in your hood knows you have a gun,… Read more »
Wow, interesting insight. Thanks for your service.
Easy, Grigori……Mama’s welfare check be late so they be short on buuuullets.
However, sadly, luck often trumps practiced. I’d rather be lucky than good any day. But, just in case luck doesn’t show up, I practice, ’cause I find the more I practice, the more regularly luck shows up.
“Gun Control” has NEVER been about “keeping guns out of the hands of criminals” – it’s always been about CONTROL. Control of the good people who actually have a moral compass and might do something against a corrupt and vile State’s oppression of those good people.
With all of the blatant lawlessness that goes on in our “governments” right in front of our faces, they can pass anything they want – but that won’t make it legitimate.
“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” ~ T. Jefferson
I want one!
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I know!
I want to see the police demonstrate this firearm. Also, I guess that a Felon does not have the right to defend himself and his family? BullHockey!!!
A Felon does have a right to defend their Family just not with a firearm.
Oh, that is a meaningful defense.
Good info. Thanks. People are still reacting to the big freeze. Generac must be making a fortune in Texas. I have three generators, and have nine propane cylinders in the basement.
I did not know that. I don’t think that they are leaking because I don’t smell anything when I go down the basement. It will be no trick at all to relocate them, they are light.
I have a 500 gal outside that powers about half of out stuff. Electric does the other half.
Not only yes, but hell yes!!
Did you read The Great Reset, by G. Beck? Sounds like you have…….or you are way smarter than me, which wouldn’t take too much…Rest my case..
The Great Reset is absolutely enlitening. (spelling) I urge everyone who reads to get a copy, available at most libraries, and give it a spin. The reset is about the new world order coming to a local anything and everywhere. I’m on the chapter where he is telling the truth about energy costs versus clean energy and the green world of the elitists, their hopes and plans for control of you and me and everyone. Piglosi is almost totally invested in and we are all paying China and Germany to wreak havoc with our economy. That right there is ‘The… Read more »
100% wrong.
The felon chose to relinquish that option when he chose to become a felon. That is all. Class dismissed.
Violating many firearm laws results in a felony. If someone chooses to “not comply” they may become a felon. What is your classroom instruction regarding those felons – do they get what they deserve?
For example if LEOSA is finally abolished and a retired LEO still carries while visiting in a state he is not legally allowed to carry and he is arrested, do you dismiss that as his choice to become a felon?
No, government thugs chose to violate the rights of free persons.
I just can not intellectually get behind a federal statute that turns a felony conviction into a life sentence. Had the state law prescribed a life sentence, then the state judge would have given him a life sentence.
A federal statute that adds a life time proscription without benefit of a federal trial and judge is a violation of the 10th Amendment, and the convict’s 4th, 5th, 6th, and Second Amendment civil rights.
The GCA’s life time cancellation of Second Amendment Civil Rights is something that never occurred in American law prior to 1968.
I prefer pre-1900s where most felonies were in thge realm of capital punishment. You had a chance for an appeal based on true merit, not today’s system when motions to halt the execution are arbitrarily thrown into the system, often trying the courts up for decades over Micky Mouse Minutia items.
Just think what that would accomplish for prison overcrowding.
Yes, the assurance of quick and certain punishment! I can not disagree.
https://www.ammoland.com/2022/04/iowa-homemade-space-gat-gun-confiscated-smith-methson/#comment-2932324 Prohibited status for “felons” doesn’t cut real crime, it cuts gun ownership. These laws can be, are, and are intended to be used against decent Americans, not just violent mens rea criminals. Gun grabbers can’t wait to make you a “felon” for a “crime” that should be legal & was legal 100 years ago, if you’re not already. It’s sad how many 2A advocates further the enemy’s agenda & assumptions. If we can trust a felon with access to guns, it’s a menace to trust him with cars, fertilizer, knives, poison. He’ll have access to those and guns, illegal… Read more »
Didn’t have the finances for a black powder ? lol
As a youngster, I remember making better looking ‘zip guns’ with copper tubing using .22 shorts to shoot rats along there railroad tracks.
Well. in his defense, he was left unsupervised, and it is just the first prototype. Been there, done that. V2.0 refinement in the wings.
……………………………………………………the rolling-flip-up-Safety and the driver-bit firing pin!!!
A magazine, maybe Ballistic or Recoil or other such, recently ran a really detailed article how to build a double-barreled 12ga shoty……barrel length at your discretion. Many aren’t old enough to recall the “zip” guns young thugy greasers used to make in the 50s……1950s….no, I can’t speak to the 1850s.
First a convicted felon that says it all, Next if only he put his talents to better use maybe he would have been making a good salary in the firearms business. Gives new meaning to untraceable
This things makes me laugh so much that I’d pay $1000.00 for it. I can just me bringing it out at the range, and the Safety Guy’s reaction. “Cease Fire, Clear the Range, Call the Bomb Squad”. I’d get a lifetime ban, but it might be worth it.
If I had a space gun like that put in my face, I do not know if I would laugh cringe, or cry. then try to explain to the person holding it, and tell them are you sure you want to pull that trigger it might kill us both it doesn’t look very safe but I would guess that is the point of it all, long as it works. Some people in this world just want to create carnage no mater what the cost, and truthfully that is costing good people their rights. Gun control sucks. I don’t remember it… Read more »