"Illegally imported, manufactured domestically or even 3D printed from computer files, machine-gun conversion devices -- or 'auto sears' -- offer a way for criminals to convert some types of weapons into fully automatic versions."

"Designed for some semiautomatic pistols, switches easily convert the weapon to a fully automatic machine gun by clipping to the back of the barrel."

"The switch changes the pistol's function by overriding a mechanical armature that would otherwise allow only one shot to be fired at a time."

"When the trigger is pulled, contact between the switch and armature enables all the rounds to be automatically fired without repeatedly squeezing the trigger. Dozens of rounds can be fired in just a few seconds with larger magazines that hold 30 rounds or more."

"Minneapolis and St. Paul police only started tracking switches in the past two years, as reports of shooters spraying high volumes of bullets began to climb. In Minneapolis, officers went from processing 4,678 discharged cartridge casings in 2019 to more than 10,600 each of the last two years."

'An evil arms race': Switch devices are turning more handguns into machine guns

#3dprinting #criminology

wondered when Bilderberg's happening. last year, the 69th bilderberg meeting was around this time last year, a couple days ago. so i look it up, and find

The 2024 Bilderberg, the 70th Bilderberg Meeting, is scheduled to take place from 30 May - 2 June in the Eurostars Suites Mirasierra Hotel in Marid, Spain, as leaked on the internet 3 weeks before the meeting.[1]

on https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bilderberg/2024

#bilderberg #bilderberg2024 #archology #criminology
... should be of interest to anyone interested in #democracy, their (and everybody's) #freedom and #bodilyautonomy and #wealth and #righttoroam and #righttotravel and avoiding #usury and #surveillance and #massspying all sorts of other things they'll be discussing, threatening, and planning.

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ps, a paste of the section with the list of almost certain attendees:

Participants
A pretty safe bet is that most of the below will be at the 2024 Bilderberg, considering that they all attended the 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023 Bilderbergs.

No. Bilderbergs To Date Nationality Description

Paul Achleitner 9 Austria Austrian banker businessman with deep state connections.
José Manuel Barroso 11 Portugal Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission
Zanny Minton Beddoes 7 UK Financial journalist, Bilderberger, IMF economist under Jeffrey Sachs
Mathias Döpfner 11 German CEO of mightiest media group in Germany and Europe, Axel Springer SE, member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee and other transatlantic networks, most notably Atlantik-Brücke. Became billionaire after receiving gift from elderly widow.
Victor Halberstadt 46 Netherlands A professor of economics, with a minimal Wikipedia page, who has attended all Bilderberg meetings since 1975.
Connie Hedegaard 6 Denmark Danish politician, multi-Bilderberger
Alex Karp 10 US CEO of Palantir, Big Data & Surveillance Advocate, Paypal mafia
Ömer Koç 5 Turkey Multi-millionaire Turkish businessman, Koç Holding/Chair
Henry Kravis 26 US Like his wife, Marie-Josée Kravis, a billionaire multi-Bilderberger
Marie-Josée Kravis 31 Canada Like her husband, Henry Kravis, a billionaire multi-Bilderberger
André Kudelski 13 Switzerland Bilderberg Steering Committee businessman
Thomas Leysen 10 Belgium Bilderberg Steering Committee Member. Trilateral Commission.
Craig Mundie 18 US Microsoft. Bilderberg Steering committee member.
Michael O'Leary 7 Eire CEO Ryanair, union buster
Dimitrios Papalexopoulos 10 Greece Greek business leader
John Sawers 8 UK UK diplomat and former Chief of MI6
Radosław Sikorski 6 Poland
UK Polish Bullingdon Bilderberger
Jens Stoltenberg 7 Norway Norwegian Bilderberger, ex PM, Secretary General of NATO.
Peter Thiel[9] 15 German Billion financier, Bilderberger
Marcus Wallenberg (born 1956) 10 Sweden Swedish deep state operative, ex-Bilderberg Steering Committee

[9], my emphasis. ask #rumble pundits if their boss will bring them back a goodie bag. ;)

In his opening remarks in the court session when #AlexMurdaugh got his sentence the judge said something like that of all the murderers who had sat before him he never heard someone who was able or willing to describe the very moment at which they turned into a murderer. I've been finding that thought very interesting ever since, the psychological search for the phenomenological moment in time after which you're a murderer, and before which you weren't: What happens in your mind at this exact moment? Here is someone who tries to give that answer - and yet apparently veeres off in the end. But the text does answer one other question, the one as to my motives:

After all, since meeting #Macarthur and beginning to write about those crimes, I myself had been preoccupied with a similar problem: how does one turn a life [...] into a story?

Because that's what I've been preoccupied with for the past couple of years. Not mine, of course, but life is life, after all.

Btw. I'm pretty sure the answer to the question will be completely banal.

#Guardian #CBS #Criminology #Psychology #Phenomenology #writing

Third time is the charm. Not really #newhere, but after #joindiaspora and #Anjara pods closed, I was invited to Diasp.org by @V. T. Eric Layton. Thanks for the invite!

Looking forward to settling down here.

You will see posts about:

#science #philosophy #music (specially #jazz and #FrankZappa ) #fermentation (specially #WaterKefir and #sourdough ) #HigherEducation #Amsterdam #TheNetherlands (or #Nederland in the local language) plus some #randomthoughts . I have lately been getting into #psychiatry and #criminology has always been an intellectual interest for me. I am of course a user of #Linux but I am not that tech-savy. I do know #R because I teach #statistics . I am also interested in #SASS if you know what that means. I am probably forgetting stuff, but that is enough for now :)

● NEWS ● #JNS #criminology ☞ Understanding the enemy: An interview with Dr. Anat Berko https://www.jns.org/understanding-the-enemy-an-interview-with-dr-anat-berko/