In case you were wondering, waiting on the court to decide in favor of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, you'll be waiting a long time. The courts have long been in the thrall of gun fascists.
Quoth Hillary: "...at the rate we're going, we're going to have so many people with guns everywhere, fully licensed, fully validated in settings like movie theaters where shootings have arisen over seemingly mundane things like loud gum chewing or cellphone use."
Not if we can avoid it...
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly lower while prices for rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for both used rifles were mixed while prices for used pistols were higher across the board.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: OD Green Supply, CCI-Blazer, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Jack Ross Ammunition, Store Brand, Reloaded, .32 per round (-.01 from Last week)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Manventure Outpost, Ultramax, reloaded, .27 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store Brand, reloaded, .27 per round (-.01 From Last Week after unchanged for Six Weeks)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: OD Green Supply, Mag Tech, FMJ, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munition, Store Brand, reloaded, RN, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, CCI Blazer, JHP, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 Rounds: Freedom Munitions, New, .50 per round (From last week: +.12 Each (!) after Unchanged for Two Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: OD Green Supply, Tulammo, steel cased, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .27 per round (from Last Week: +.01)
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged After -.15 Each Previous Week
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .47 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Random Discounted ARs, Wolf WPA, steel cased, .52 per round (From last week: Unchanged )
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Wolf, steel case, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Wolf, steel case, .21 per round (Unchanged from Last Week (Five Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.04 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: FG Ammo, Remington Thunderbolt, RNL, .14 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Ammo Fast, Eley Sport, RNL, .12 per round (Unchanged From Last Week (Three Weeks))
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $652 Last Week Avg: $645 (+)
California (186): Mixed Build: $600
Texas (295): Bushmaster: $800
Pennsylvania (151): Armalite: $700
Virgina (196): Palmetto State Armory: $620
Florida (400): Anderson: $540 (!)
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,290 Last Week Avg: $1,340 (-)
California (59): DPMS: $1,400
Texas (69): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,250
Pennsylvania (34): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,199 (Same Gun)
Virginia (44): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,400
Florida (86): Sig Sauer: $1,200
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $586 Last Week Avg: $625 (-)
California (44): Saiga: $525 (!)
Texas (48): CAI: $675 (Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (62): Saiga: $540 (!)
Virginia (67): WASR: $650 (Same Gun)
Florida (121): Saiga: $540
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $2,850 Last Week Avg: $1,300 (+)
California (8): Romak PSL: $1,300 (Same Gun)
Texas (): None Available
Pennsylvania (): None Available
Virginia (2): Romak PSL: $1,200
Florida(4): Russian SVD (Original): $3,200
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $505 Last Week Avg: $455(+)
California (153): Rock Island Armory Citadel 1911: $500
Texas (226): Rock Island Armory: $425
Pennsylvania (166): Girsan Railed 1911: $450 (Same Gun)
Virginia (156): Para Ordnance 1911: $650
Florida (368): Charles Daly: $500 (Same Gun, lower price)
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $415 Last Week Avg: $391(+)
California (121): Glock 17: $475 (Same Gun)
Texas (313): Smith & Wesson 910: $400
Pennsylvania (175): Glock 19: $400
Virginia (242): Glock 17: $400
Florida (464): Smith & Wesson M&P 9C: $400
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $430 Last Week Avg: $405 (+)
California (82): Glock 23: $470
Texas (152): Glock 22: $400
Pennsylvania (126): Glock 27: $450
Virginia (99): Glock 22: $400
Florida (181):Glock 27: $425
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Not properly tweaked? BLM, AgraSWAT and MRAPs for cops (those are tanks to you leftists out there) are eroding any good faith messaging by gun grabbers.
[Yahoo] Scientists leading the fight against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome say the next critical front will be understanding how the virus behaves in people with milder infections, who may be spreading the illness without being aware they have it.
Establishing that may be critical to stopping the spread of MERS, which emerged in the Middle East in 2012 and has so far infected more than 500 patients in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... alone. It kills about 30 percent of those who are infected.
It is becoming increasingly clear that people can be infected with MERS without developing severe respiratory disease, said Dr David Swerdlow, who heads the MERS response team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A CDC study published earlier this week looked at some of the first cases of MERS that occurred in Jordan in 2012.
Initially, only two people in that outbreak were thought to have MERS. When CDC disease detectives used more sensitive tests that looked for MERS antibodies among hospital workers, they found another seven people had contracted MERS and survived it.
MERS Mariam or MERS Mohammed? Typhoid Mary had nothing on them, especially with the Haj coming up.
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As I understand the vectors of virus transmission, multiple low grade exposures should be as dangerous as a single 'hot' exposure. (The theory is, intensity of initial exposure is the key item.) Naturally, there's no 'double blind' tests on the subject, just recurring unexplained events that might be caused by pretty much anything.
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[AnNahar] A Gulf rights group has called for the release of thousands of prisoners of conscience in the oil-rich Gulf states as it marked what it called Gulf Detainees Day to highlight their plight.
The Gulf monarchies do not allow political parties and criticism of rulers can easily land someone in jail.
"We call for the release of prisoners and detainees who have been put behind bars for simply expressing their opinion," Anwar al-Rasheed, head of the Gulf Forum for Civil Societies, said Thursday night.
Rasheed said there are "between 30,000 and 40,000 opinion prisoners and detainees," in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, which groups Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and United Arab Emirates.
He said the numbers are based on data compiled by Gulf rights activists, international organizations and rights groups.
The overwhelming majority of the prisoners are held in Saudi Arabia followed by Bahrain, Rasheed said.
Rasheed said his group has arranged with a number of lawyers from Europe and the United States to form a legal team to visit prisons in Gulf states when governments allow it.
The detainees include doctors, teachers, writers, parliamentarians, activists, politicians and others, according to the group.
Rasheed even spoke of cases in which prisoners have remained in jail even after serving their terms. In other instances, he said people have been stripped of their basic rights, including a ban on travel, after they were released.
Last October, rights group Amnesia Amnesty International accused Saudi Arabia of "arbitrary arrests and detention, unfair trials, torture and other ill-treatment over the past four years."
This March, it said "prisoners of conscience" in Bahrain were still behind bars three years after a month-long Shiite-led uprising was crashed by security forces.
And this week, it said prominent UAE human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... lawyer Mohammed al-Roken, was in solitary confinement and risks torture.
Roken was one of 69 people tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for 15 years last July for plotting to overthrow the regime. A total of 94 people were tried, 13 of them women.
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A Gulf Iranian funded and backed "rights" group has called for the release of thousands of Shiite Iranian tools prisoners of conscience in the oil-rich Gulf states as it marked what it called Gulf Detainees Day to highlight their plight and inability to foment trouble.
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[Russia Beyond The Headlines] After lengthy deliberations, Russia has finally agreed to take part in the construction of the canal, which promises to become a major transport route in the Western Hemisphere. Thus, the U.S. will lose a considerable part of control over a territory which, thanks to the Panama Canal, has been under its control. International agreements suffer the whims of the governments involved.
This is on the front page of the Dallas Morning News, but I couldn't find it at the website. The government has identified the errors, which are the result of discrepancies in income listings on insurance applications and those on file with the Internal Revenue Service, but has been unable to fix the problem, according to the report. So folks - unexpectedly - lied about their income to qualify for bigger subsidies, and the IRS cross-check caught them. Maybe. Maybe some are IRS blunders, others simple keypunch errors. Maybe. Good thing we're hiring 15,000 more IRS agents to enforce O'care!
Since income information is used to determine subsidy eligibility under the law, the federal government may be paying insurance subsidies that are too generous or not enough for more than 1 million Americans with income discrepancies. I predict the ol' 80-20 rule - 80% lied and are getting too much and 20% made an error and are not getting enough of my tax dollars. According to the 'law'.
Only a fraction of consumers notified about the discrepancies have responded to federal health officials' requests to submit pay stubs or other proof of their income. Supporting the ol' 80-20 rule!
According to internal documents obtained by the newspaper, income discrepancies exist on 1.1 million to 1.5 million out of nearly 4 million applications containing inconsistencies. So another way to say it would be "the errors are uncountable". OTOH, this is some sort of confirmation that at least 4 million have signed up!
Filled out the application, at any rate. It doesn't comfirm then they continued by sending in a check.
Because technology does not exist to match income "proof" with applications, officials plan to start the work of sorting out inaccurate incomes and subsidies by hand starting this summer. Maybe 15,000 new IRS agents is just the tip of the iceberg? Revenue neutral, you said?
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O'Care explained:
1. In order to insure the uninsured, we first have to un-insure the insured.
2. Next, we require the newly un-insured to be re-insured.
3. To re-insure the newly un-insured, they are required to pay extra charges to be re-insured.
4. The extra charges are required so that the original insured, who became un-insured, and then became re-insured, can pay enough extra so that the original un-insured can be insured, free of charge to them.
(This is called “redistribution of wealth” … or, by its more common name, SOCIALISM.)
[Al Arabiya] Video footage emerged on Friday of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's car being attacked by an angry mob, as the premier visited the town of Soma where a mining disaster killed over 300 people.
Around the same time, amateur footage showed him and his bodyguards retreating in a supermarket after crowds began shouting "murderer!" and "Thief!" -- with some claiming the footage shows him punching a mourner
Life gets ever more exciting in the capital of the former Byzantine empire. And the Times of Israel notes that in the video footage can be seen:
“Why are you running away, Israeli spawn?” Recep Tayyip Erdogan is heard yelling at a protester in video footage circulated by the opposition Sozcu newspaper, using an expression considered a curse in Turkish.
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[Ynet] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the newly-elected prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, congratulating him for his victory in the elections in the country.
The two agreed to work to deepen cooperation between the two countries.
Modi is a part of a small group of Indian politicians that visited Israel and publicly back it.
[Ynet] Following Egyptian army's operations against Rafah tunnels, Israel's restrictions on transfer of construction supplies, Gazoo Strip industry left in shambles with 180,000 unemployed persons.
And the West Bank has an official 280,000 unemployed. Emigration must be starting to look good in both of the Territories...
The ousting of the Moslem Brüderbund administration in Egypt has not only led to the political isolation of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, government in Gazoo, but has also taken its toll on the Strip's economy, which is in the midst of a severe economic crisis.
The Paleostinian Central Bureau of Statistics has reported that unemployment in the Strip has surged in the first quarter of 2014 to 41 percent, the highest rate since 2009. The number of unemployed persons stands at 180,000 people.
A year ago, in the first quarter of 2013, the rate of unemployment was 30 percent -- meaning, the rate has increased by 11 percent in just one year.
The steepest decline in the number of employed workers was seen in the construction industry. The industry is undergoing a deep crisis as a result of the Egyptian army's ongoing operation over the past year against the tunnels in the Rafah area, which has brought to a steep drop in the amount of goods smuggled from Egypt through the Philadelphi Route.
The industry was also hurt also by Israel's decision seven months ago to impose severe restrictions on the transfer of construction supplies into the Strip, and to restrict the sale of construction materials to international aid organizations that operate in Gazoo, following the exposure of tunnels close to Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha. Hamas forces had used concrete in these tunnels to prevent their collapse.
The closure of the tunnels in the Philadelphi Route, through which goods were smuggled (there is a distinction between tunnels through which weapons were smuggled and tunnels that were used to smuggle goods), induced a crisis among additional civilian industries.
According to the data, until the end of the first half of 2013 -- even before the closure of the tunnels in Rafah -- 24,000 people were employed in the construction industry. Today, 7,000 people are employed in the field. The rate of unemployment among young people is 58 percent.
Information Department Director at Gisha -- Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, Iman Jabbour, explained that the market in the Strip is unable to absorb more workers under the current conditions.
"Despite the increase in the number of people in the workforce and in the numbers of job seekers and of the employed, unemployment continues to grow, because the current market in Gazoo is not able to absorb more workers," he said.
"This is another troubling sign that the economy in the Strip cannot exist without any connection to the outside world, as a result of a blanket ban on selling goods from the Gazoo Strip to Israel and to the West Bank, combined with the critical damage that the construction industry is suffering in the Strip," Jabbour added.
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Damn life's a bitch ain't it?
I was so hoping this year's celebrations would put much cement in the Nakabar-tank. But no, same as last year, nothing.
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The industry was also hurt also by Israel's decision seven months ago to impose severe restrictions on the transfer of construction supplies into the Strip
particularly small diameter (<120mm) metal tubing. Those bastards
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Well, they don't seem to need sewer pipes of 100 mm diameter. Sheet steel goes to rocket fins, so they will not get much of that material. They do not need greenhouses, so there is nothing else to do but pound sand.
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[AnNahar] Around 1,000 Iranians staged a rally on Friday to demand that the government fully enforce obligatory rules that women be veiled in public.
That many? Golly.
The demonstrators, both men and women, protested in central Tehran, carrying placards and chanting that the authorities "must stop the spread of vice" and enforce the hijab.
A defining feature of Iran's interpretation of Islamic law since the 1979 revolution, hijab obliges women to cover their hair and much of their body in loose clothing when outside, regardless of their religion.
Hijab is among the practices that religious leaders and more traditional and conservative Iranians fear are being targeted by a so-called "soft war" launched by the West against Iran's Islamic values.
A dedicated "morality police" has long handed out fines, verbal notices or even tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! women it considers are not observing the rules properly.
Despite such measures, the protesters on Friday wanted more responsibility and action from the government of President Hassan Rouhani, who has expressed a desire to expand social freedoms -- to the disapproval of hardliners.
"In some parts of the city, the veils are coming off right now and the full violation of hijab can be witnessed," Hojjatoleslam Kazem Sediqi said in a Friday prayers speech at Tehran University, shortly before the planned rally.
It was unclear whether Sediqi was implicitly referring to a recent online campaign by thousands of Iranian women who posted pictures of themselves flouting the dress code inside the country.
More than 200,000 have used the Facebook page "Stealthy Freedoms of Women in Iran," launched to spark a debate on whether women should have the right to choose to wear the hijab.
The campaign is yet to generate a reaction from the government.
Last week, thousands of religious conservatives held an unauthorized protest in Tehran, urging the government to confront the violation of hijab rules.
[Daily Caller] The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced its top health official's "resignation" Friday despite the fact that he was already scheduled to retire in 2014 and has a replacement lined up, records reveal. Strange, when someone on active duty in the military faces an inquiry or investigation, all personnel actions to include retirement are usually 'flagged' [postponed] until the inquiry is completed.
VA Secretary Eric Shinseki accepted Friday the "resignation" of Under Secretary for Health Affairs Robert Petzel amid a growing scandal about VA secret waiting lists and deadly wait times for veterans.
"Today, I accepted the resignation of Dr. Robert Petzel, Under Secretary for Health in the Department of Veterans Affairs," Shinseki said in a statement. "As we know from the Veteran community, most Veterans are satisfied with the quality of their VA health care, but we must do more to improve timely access to that care."
But Petzel was already scheduled to retire. Hey Dr. Bob, would you mind taking one for the team ?
[PJ Media] WASHINGTON -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki insisted today that he's "mad as hell" about the wait list scandal and reported deaths of dozens of veterans seeking care, but his undersecretary suggested that VA employees who cooked the books might not even lose their jobs.
Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) stressed that he wanted to save a hearing on the scandal for a later date, and instead declared the hearing should be about "what is going well and what is not going well" in VA healthcare. "Going well" is what is EXPECTED! The dead veteran factor needs immediate scrutiny and a legal finding.
And from Hot Air, a seventh VA hospital with a secret waiting list.
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If you are a Vet and you go to a VA hospital...you are ...stupid and ( like Kerry said ) if you actually once HAD anything to offer you would have gotten a "real" job.
You want to know what the people in Washington DC think of you?
Go over there and lay in the corner and wait to die.
No?
I must have just imagined it then.
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As Barbra Walters week draws to a close, it's always great to see Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon and supporting our veterans.
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When so called "performance objectives" include targeted a numeric [see the veteran within 14 days], failure to meet the 'objective' can have adverse career impacts to include salary and promotion.
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Millions for Marie Antoinette the first family and entourage junkets to China et al, but not one penny more for the VA care of veterans*. You know where these people stand and believe, not by their words, but by their actions - you peasants.
* if you don't have the staff, you can outsource it, if you have the money. America this is the one payer healthcare the socialists want you to have (exempting their top 5 percent of course, as always).
Amid contrived outrage over Benghazi and the improving fortunes of its healthcare reform, the Obama administration could be facing a genuine scandal about its treatment of military veterans that has the potential to attract broad political condemnation of its competence.
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This, along with the purchase of so much ammo, guns and submachine guns is the government answer to the civilians arming themselves to the teeth recently.
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Nah, they can just request a transfer from the ME stocks that the DoD is downsizing (along with everything else), if they haven't already. If someone knew where to look, I wouldn't be surprised if the paperwork has already been done.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The government has identified the errors, which are the result of discrepancies in income listings on insurance applications and those on file with the Internal Revenue Service, but has been unable to fix the problem, according to the report.
[AnNahar] Around 1,000 Iranians staged a rally on Friday to demand that the government fully enforce obligatory rules that women be veiled in public.
As Barbra Walters week draws to a close, it's always great to see Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon and supporting our veterans. 
