I think BRCC was trying to make a statement about never trying to profit from any kind of tragedy and folks have just twisted it all out of proportion.
They didn't endorse or condemn Kyle's actions, but if you listen to what Mat and others from the BRCC realm have actually said about it in various podcasts they hate that it happened but have said the videos show the kid was obviously defending his life.
Sorry guys, but I'm just not ready to throw BRCC under the bus yet.
They've openly spoken in favor of and done a lot for the veteran community by highlighting true heroes and in today's "cancel culture" environment I'm not going to drag them for not wanting to profit off a kid having to kill people trying to kill him.
BRCC is on our side.
That's a Kenosha Kyle Special! Smart purchase!
I have one of the first M&P-15 rifles, the ones that didn't come with a dust cover or forward-assist.
Fired a few thousand rounds through it with no issues.
I put on an EOtech red dot, BCM comp, and a Magpul stock, handguard, grip, 2-point QD sling, & forward grip to mimic what I used overseas for easier familiarity.
Then I swapped out the BCG with a Nickel-Boron coated one and a NiB-coated hammer (a NiB-coated BCG will eventually wear down a regular steel hammer) just for shiggles and because I got tired of having "rifle-cleaning in the company area" Army flashbacks. Takes about a minute to clean the BCG now.
It all rides in a locked steel security drawer in the back of the SUV along with a plate carrier, spare mags, and IFAK "just in case" the apocalypse breaks out or ANTIFA tries to come back after they were beaten out of town last time.
Lin Wood already has his own court case open on this with a Georgia voter to stop certification due to fraud.
That case was recently dismissed out-of-hand and he's already announced he's appealing it to the 11th circuit.
Guess who's in charge of reviewing all 11th Circuit cases that eventually get sent to SCOTUS to see if they'll take it up?
JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS!
[dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnn!]
"Hello, Joe. Betcha didn't expect to see me again, did you?"
I really liked Crenshaw and he was on his way to greatness...until he subtly endorsed red flag laws.
Fuck that and fuck him now.
The man's supposedly a Texan yet somehow doesn't understand that the right to bear arms pretty much the #1 issue for real Texans.
Now watch as he decries his detractors as hot being willing to listen to "The Other Side".
No, Dan, fuck that - we've been listening to "The Other Side" rip our rights away for decades now.
No more fucking compromise and no more listening to gun grabbers.
Repeal the entire NFA now. I want suppressors made so legal that they're sold in blister packs on end caps at Walmart and Target for $20 each.
Since paper ballots are just B&W and not individually serialized nor contain any type of anti-copy security markings at all they're easy enough to manufacture and/or print already filled out.
They've literally been doing this in big cities since the days of the first laser printers.
Desertion would be the last resort. Most would just hamper their own units and make them become "combat ineffective" and non-deployable.
Easy enough to do with armor units - just blow the packs in the M1A1s, M113A3s, M577s, M88s, and M2 BFVs. All tankers know how to blow their packs since they're basically diesel-powered turbine engines and fragile.
"Lose" any replacement tracks and parts. "Fail" gunnery quals. "Fail" small arms quals. Large amounts of soldiers "sick" due to Chinese virus.
They'd just sit there on their installations in a non-deployable state being "busy" fixing all those "deficiencies".
I remember when the 82nd failed their deployment readiness back in '97 resulting in some of us pulling a double-deployment in Bosnia.
It's why the main HQs road on Tuzla Main had two 1AD signs back-to-back with dates of deployment there.
Now if command started giving unlawful orders and/or detaining officers and NCOs left and right for that, well, you'd see internal military coups going on across affected installations at which point they'd continue to sit on their own installations.
That's because General Officer promotions are handled by Congress.
Anyone who gets their star immediately starts thinking about getting on the JCOS for further promotions and those all require Congressional approval.
In other words, if they want to get promoted and not get drummed out as a one-star, they have to kiss Congress' collective asses.
Case in point, COL Gregory Fontenot, Commander, 1st BDE, 1st AD.
When Christiane Amanpour reported live on CNN back in '96 that COL Fontenot told some black soldiers to be careful outside the wire because the Serbs were racist, it completely tanked his career because he was told in private by the high command that he wasn't going to get his star when a star was pretty much guaranteed because he was kicking ass in Bosnia doing something the U.S. military had never done before.
Until then, it was just a small story in the anti-military NYT that for all intents and purposes went virtually unreported because it wasn't a story.
But Bitchine Amanpour was bored and wanted a "hot story" so she made a mountain out of a molehill.
We promptly kicked Amanpour's ass off Camp Kime and banned her from all military installations.
When Fox News finally hit AFN on AFRTS satellites, all DFAC TVs in Germany across the entire 1st Armored Division instantly switched from CNN to Fox News and for the most part haven't switched back...well, until Newsmax gets their own channel on AFN. (write your congress critter!)
When COL Fontenot returned from Bosnia with the Ready First Combat Team to Ayers Kaserne in Germany in December 1996 his retirement ceremony was in the summer of 1997.
COL Fontenot was an excellent leader, officer, and a gentleman. I was proud to have served under him.
And for those of us who were there, we'll never forgot what CNN did and we'll never forgive Christiane Amanpour.
READY FIRST! BANDITS DO NOT FAIL THOSE WITH WHOM THEY SERVE!
This. As soon as the search keywords "Dominion", "Hammer", and "Scorecard" in relation to the election hit the internet, the CIA knew they would be in trouble.
The FBI headquarters needs to be moved to Topeka, KS and the CIA HQs moved to North Dakota.
And then start moving all federal agency HQs out into rural America. Make these civil servants actually have to live and work among actual Americans that give a damn about their country.
Lin Wood's got a pretty good history of success.
Sure, we all know he helped the Covington kid with his lawsuit, and is helping Kenosha Kyle but few seem to remember that he also helped successfully defend Richard Jewel and won several libel/defamation suits for him.
Lin Wood's famous in legal circles.
Comments like that made by POLITICIANS in public do nothing but encourage the crazies on their side inside local, state, and federal government agencies and Silicon Valley to just keep going after conservatives.
That's why in February I'm bailing out of society and going off-grid and land-mobile, never staying in any one location longer than a week or two.
Going to see some natural parks, visit some monuments, and stay pretty much innawoods as much as possible.
As long as I'm left alone, everything's fine. Might even get that memoir of my military days written.
But don't leave me alone...well, welcome to irregular insurgent warfare and no one's going to like that at all.
I've already won.