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During the last presidential election I read somewhere that (IIRC) 68% of NHL players vote republican. But getting any of them to discuss their political leanings was harder than trying to pull whatever teeth they may still possess.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie signs sweeping gun legislation which further restricts firearms. More are on his desk waiting to be signed. Bastards never submit sweeping gun regulations that expands gun ownership. That's why they're fascists.
Washington DC leftist communications firm comes up with a talking points guide to further eroding constitutional rights. Main tactic? Shaming.
Speaking of shaming:
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Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol Ammo
.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: -.02 each (.04 over two weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Polyperformance steel cased, .38 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo steel cased, .36 per round
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Ultramax reloaded .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 250 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .28 per round
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munition, Wolf Polyformance steel case, .29 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded (w/ ammo can), .28 per round
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Fiocchi .49 per round
Cheapest, Bulk 250 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .40 per round
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.07 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition depot, PMC XTAC, .47 per round
Cheapest Bulk 1000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Winchester, .48 per round
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: +.05 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire, Prvi Partizan, .67 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammunition Supply Warehouse, Prvi Partizan steel cased, .64 per round
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Brown Bear, steel core and case, .27 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 500 rounds: Selway Armory, Brown Bear, steel core and case, .26 per round
Cheapest, Brass casing: Ventura Munitions, Fiocchi, .54 per round
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire, Remington, .12 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Remington Thunderbolt, .12 per round
Guns for Private Sale Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average price: $823 Last Week Avg: $1,010
California: DPMS: $700
Texas: Private Build: $800
New York: Bushmaster C15: $950
Maryland: Palmetto State Armory: $900
Florida: DPMS Sportical $765
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $2,089 Last Week Avg: $1,740
California: Sig Sauer 716: $1,700
Texas: Sig Sauer 716 w/scope: $1,550
New York: DPMS LR-308: $980
Maryland: DPMS LRT-SASS /w scope : $2,600 (Same Gun)
Florida: DPMS Mk 12: $1,875
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $820 Last Week Avg: $739
California: Unknown: $800
Texas: Hungarian: $800
New York: CAI M70B1 : $800 (Same Gun)
Maryland: Romanian: $900
Florida: WASR: $799
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,100 Last Week Avg: $1,450
California: Romak PSL: $1,000
Texas: None
New York: None
Maryland: None
Florida: Romak PSL: $1,200 (Same Gun)
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $568 Last Week Avg: $576
California: Springfield, : $500
Texas: Springfield, $650
New York: Remington (Stainless Steel), $675
Maryland: Rock Island Armory, $590
Florida: Tisas: $425
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Okay Rantburg regulars, need some opinions. I got my wife a Walther PK380, which she loves but soon she's planning on a carry permit and she wants something in 9mm now. I'm looking at 2 pistols for her to try if I can find them Ruger's LC9, probably with crimson trace laser on it or Smith & Wessons M&P Shield in 9mm.
But if you can think of any other ones she might like and are good carry, please post em. We want something small so 8 rounds is fine. Besides, both those pistols are relatively cheap so when I get my next gun, H&K45C with the "ergo" grips, I won't be out too much.
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Oh and since my surgery on my strong side shoulder (3rd one in 10 years, im getting too old), I've settled in on a lighter round and a highly consealable pistol - my S&W Guardian in 380 Auto. I still miss my Glock 23c, but after 4-5 rounds, I may as well be throwing the bullets at the target (be more likely to hit it), my shoulder simply doesn't have the strength if I have to go one-handed strong side.
That being said, even a smaller caliber is better than nothing at all. 380 is the lightest/smallest I go. And a .22LR is not much at all, but if it goes bang and they hear the bullet coming, its enough to give most would-be thugs a good enough reason to run away.
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She loves her .380 and unfortunately, she also likes .45 but she wants something between for carry. And if she didn't know I'd whine about coming home and finding all the ammo gone, she'd practice all the time.
The PK380 is a little odd so I'm thinking it's partly a desire for something smoother. None of the gunsmiths will touch it though really. I'm really hoping I can find a range with a P239 for her to try, I think she'd like that. Not sure about the 938, but I'll have her take a look.
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IMO....reliable revolver in 357 Mag like a Ruger SP-101.
True, only five shots, but small, reliable, easy to carry, and you can shoot 38 PSP to practice or if the 357 is more than someone can handle.
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Well, in 9mm, I think the Smith 940 is hard to beat. Reliable, small, fully-shrouded hammer, DA only, and full moon clips for amazing reload times. Did I mention reliable?
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I've got a LC9 for carry. I like it. It came with the laser. I like it too. I did have the battery go dead because a have a soft pocket holster and the little plunger switch keep getting activated. I removed it until I change to a hard shell type. Depending how you carry that might make a difference. Otherwise it has flawlessly fed every round. Its light and fits in my pocket (it's roughly the same as putting my hand in there). They also have a little plastic pinky extension for the magazine that I need. Some of my friends don't like the double action only trigger (paper target bigots) but I thinks its part of the safety with its long pull.
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My Daughter has a .380 It's a beautiful gun, she says she'd rather have a gun she can use.
(I'm proud of My Daughter, 5'-8 1/2" and beautiful, Might weigh 120)
Those of you who cringe at that, It's a 38.
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As OldSpook says; if it's not on you it is of no use. I have all calibers from 444 Schafer to a 22 Short. I carry a Ruger LCP. Much more useful if it's in my pocket than on the dresser.
Note: at 5'6" even a Colt Officers, Ruger SP-101 or Kahr 40 will print on clothing and as a male a purse just doesn't look right ;-). The new 380's are very much preferable and in a real situation you won't even notice the heavy double action.
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Apropos of this topic I led a sanctioned work "team building" event this week at a very nice pistol range.
A great time was had by all on the range but the most important consequence was we had four never before shooters see the light and sign up for basic handgun courses at the end of the evening.
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I carry a .22 , I also have a .38 in the car,(With reloaded hollow points) I'm a dead shot and feel well protected, a .22 is easily concealed, but it's enough,(8 shots If you're concerned) I feel well protected. (
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
08/10/2013 23:42 Comments ||
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Dammit repeating again, moderators please delete the extras, thanks
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
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Exactly Skid. In Maricopa county you can open or concealed carry without a permit making Arizona a great state. The Maricopa Sheriffs are very professional and mostly veterans. The wife's car was stolen and the sheriff that found the car came to my house, at 2AM causing a little event of its own but we got past that, He saw me from the window coming down the stair armed, and still offered to take me to the car so I would not have to pay towing. When our kid was caught doing Chinese fire drills at midnight, he made the kid call us and then sent him home. Both cases they flexed on protocol to make life a little easier. These cops are dealing with full blown drug traffic, human trafficking, and the Mexican cartels. They need all the help and firepower they can carry...
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I live in Montgomery Alabama, a thoroughly Redneck state, recently I broke down in the main drag,and three cops stopped to help, they pushed my truck to the side of the road and called a wrecker before leaving, GOOD PEOPLE.
I thanked them all and walked home. (I live nearby)
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
08/10/2013 23:28 Comments ||
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Maybe he should have been sent tho therapy. Oh, wait, that's only appropriate if you have a "D" after your name. "R's" clean house, whether for political or practical reasons....
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Walker is a Republican and that's why Republicans are losing my support. If I vote at all in the next election it'll be a protest vote for some random third party candidate. What's the point of voting for Republicans when they're every bit as willing to sell us down the river as the Democrats.
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Signs this is a hit peace:
1) this is the Huffington Post - 'nuff said..
2) this refers to illegal aliens as 'undocumented immigrants'.
3) Even though Walker outright FIRED the guy (not 'ask to resign' or 'allow to resign' - FIRED) within 2 HOURS they attempt to smear Walker with the comments.
Personally I think the comment might be a bit over the top but pretty accurate - Liberals think of 'undocumented immigrants' as 'Angels/Jesus' while conservatives, without the rose colored glasses, view 'illegal ALIENS' as the opposite (Devils/Satan).
[An Nahar] U.N. secretary general the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... recommended to the Security Council Friday that sanctions be taken against elements of the Seleka coalition responsible for reprisal attacks in the Central African Republic.
In a report that the Council is supposed take up on Wednesday, Ban said he was deeply concerned by "a total breakdown of law and order" since the rebel coalition took power in March.
"This is unacceptable. The plight of the people of the CAR must be brought to an end," he said.
"I call on the Security Council to consider appropriate options, including the adoption of sanctions or the establishment of a panel of experts, to ensure there is no impunity for perpetrators of gross human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations," he said.
Ban said the restoration of peace and security in Bangui was a priority that required the urgent attention of the international community.
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[An Nahar] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that relations between his country and the United States have not broken down.
"It's clear there is no Cold War that we should expect," Lavrov said of the U.S.-Russian relations after a meeting in Washington. "We shouldn't expect any aggravation."
The White House this week cancelled a planned summit between Obama and Putin next month in Moscow. That's in part because Russia is refusing to return National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to the U.S. to face charges of leaking national security secrets.
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[TechCrunch] Wikipedia calls Bitcoin a cryptocurrency (a currency that relies on cryptography), but now it's official. A federal judge in Texas has declared that Bitcoin is a currency and should therefore be regulated just like U.S. dollars or gold. The ruling represents yet another attempt to regulate Bitcoin transactions, threatening the original purpose of the currency.
While it looks like a recognition that Bitcoins are worth something, the decision threatens once again Bitcoin's utopian concept. As a reminder, the Department of Homeland Security recently issued a seizure warrant on Bitcoin exchange service Mt. Gox because it didn't comply to money transfer regulations.
Because we've discussed the topic here at Rantburg at some length.
[Ynet] Germany's leading telecoms operator said on Friday it would start channeling e-mail traffic exclusively through its domestic servers in response to public outrage over revelations of US spy programs accessing citizens' private messages.
Deutsche Telekom launched the "E-mail made in Germany" initiative after a month of public indignation over reports on intrusive US snooping based on documents leaked by runaway former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
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As per German medias, 'tis possibly the real hidden/covert reason POTUS Obama shut down 19 US Embassies in the ME + North AFrica, NOTSOMUCH AYMAN ZAWAHIRI'S INTERCEPTED MESSAGES???
SAME > Conversely, the Bammer now feels that the Snowden + NSA scandals are winding down or else pose no threat to him politically-legally, HENCE 18 of 19 US EMBASSIES TO BE REOPENED???
After Angela Merkel used it to describe the eurozone crisis, the word 'shitstorm' has now made it officially into German dictionaries. Duden, the German standard lexicon and the nation's equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary, has now recognized the word.
In German it has a slightly different meaning and has come to signify a controversy on the internet rather than the general calamity it represents in English.
Its stamp of approval comes after 'shitstorm' was voted Anglicism of the Year in an annual contest at the University of Hamburg. The jury defined it as 'a public outcry, primarily on the internet, in which arguments mix with threats and insults to reach a critical mass, forcing a reaction.'
The jury said in a statement after the word entered the dictionary: 'Shitstorm fills a gap in the German vocabulary that has become apparent through changes in the culture of public debate.'
Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce tougher asset-disclosure rules.
Expatriates giving up their nationality at U.S. embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought the first-half total to 1,810 compared with 235 for the whole of 2008.
The U.S., the only nation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside, is searching for tax cheats in offshore centers, including Switzerland, as the government tries to curb the budget deficit. Shunned by Swiss and German banks and facing tougher asset-disclosure rules under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, more of the estimated 6 million Americans living overseas are weighing the cost of holding a U.S. passport. In short - United States citizens, residing in a foreign country, are taxed on any income they make from a foreign source - presumable as well as paying foreign taxes (in effect double taxes).
In the meantime almost 50% of people in the US pay no taxes - or get unearned money (EIC).
Not only that but the democrats want Corporations to pay U.S. taxes on profits they may solely in a foreign market. IBM makes computers in Mexico and sells them in Mexico - the Democrats (and their Media and Occutard lackeys) wants a cut of that pie. That happens there will be a whole lot of office space available where corporate headquarters used to be.
With the looming deadline for Fatca, more and more U.S. citizens are becoming aware that they have U.S. tax reporting obligations, said Matthew Ledvina, a U.S. tax lawyer at Anaford AG in Zurich. Once aware, they decide to renounce their U.S. citizenship. Gee... I can't understand why they would renounce their citizenship to avoid the double taxation.
h/t Gates of Vienna
Nationwide spot checks by Greek tax inspectors have found that almost every other business is cheating the taxman in some way, as the debt-hobbled country's authorities struggle to improve revenue collection amid a crippling recession.
[OccupyCorp] Retired Air Force General Michael Hayden, who is also the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) warned that if NSA whistleblower Edward Snowdenski were to be apprehended by the US cyberterrorists would swim ashore and attack. Warning! The enemy is everywhere I tells ya.
Hayden was speaking at a Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) meeting when he decried: Im just trying to illustrate that youve got a group of people out there who make demands, whose demands may not be satisfiable, may not be rational from other points of view, may not be the kinds of things that government can accommodate. Demands? What type of demands? Oh, highly classified demands. I see.
Currently, Hayden is chair of the BPC Electric Grid Cyber Security Initiative (EGCSI) where knowledge of potential one handed cyber hackers who havent talked to the opposite sex in 5 or 6 years are waiting in the wings to strike digital infrastructure in the US. Eunech cyber sleuths, the very, very worst kind.
Under Hayden expanded collection of intelligence on suspects foreign and domestic following the attack on 9/11. Expansion? Did it include MAJ Hasan or the Tsarnaev bros ?
Haydens program entitled Stellar Wind was the code name for a sensitive compartmentalized unit that gathered information for the Presidents Surveillance Program (PSP). Is that the PSP without the PSRP (Personal Security and Reliability Program) ?
Former President George W. Bush was behind the inception of Stellar Wind; however President Barack Obama has expanded the collection of telecommunications with the assistance of the NSA and the furtherance of spying operations such as the PRISM program. The evil Bushitler... behind it all along.
Hayden claims that hacker groups such as LulzSec, Anonymous, and other nihilists, anarchists, Anabaptists [and] activists will respond to any arrest of Snowden. So, much as we want Snowdenski, we'd better just leave him where he is for the next 50 years or so.
He said [Gen Hayden]: If and when our government grabs Edward Snowdenski, and brings him back here to the United States for trial with defense lawyers, Rule of Law, inquiries, new revelations, Fox News, etc, what does this group do? asked Hayden, who also said he was being provocative and illustrative, not predictive. They may want to come after the U.S. government, but frankly, you know, the dot-mil [military networks] stuff is about the hardest target in the United States. So, if they cant create great harm to dot-mil, who are they going after? Who for them are the World Trade Centers? The World Trade Centers, as they were for Al-Qaeda. AQ, World Trade centers, Pearl Harbor, Lusitania, Harper's Ferry, Bull Run, hell fire, anything could happen. You get the picture, eh Jake ?
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.
By Chris Covert
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
After Angela Merkel used it to describe the eurozone crisis, the word 'shitstorm' has now made it officially into German dictionaries. Duden, the German standard lexicon and the nation's equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary, has now recognized the word.
