From the start of the Memorial Day weekend through the end of the Labor Day weekend, we tallied a total of 173 homicides and another 717 shot and wounded. In other words it was average despite all the #CrimeIsDown chatter because:
2012: 172
2011: 163
2010: 173
Summer 2013 by the numbers:
173 dead
717 wounded
782 males
107 females
27.6 average age
143 blacks killed
36 teenagers killed
138 killed < 35 years old
19.4% shot-to-kill ratio
7 police involved shootings
59 shot in the head
38 shot & wounded in the ass
Team Englewood lead w/ 18 dead
As Cubs fans have been saying for the last 105 years, wait until next year.
[Al Ahram] Police say four people were shot and maimed when gunfire broke out at an anti-violence vigil in the U.S.
The Charlotte Observer reports that Mothers of Murdered Offspring sponsored the Thursday night vigil. They were calling attention to the death of a man who police say was fatally shot when he tried to rob a convenience store.
Boy howdy, seems like a worthy cause...
Darwin is always a worthy cause.
A police statement says officers were called by someone at the vigil who said a person whipped out a rod and began firing.
Officers found no shooting victims at the scene but learned that each victim had called for help from a different location after the crowd scattered.
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If this continues we're going to have to bring in Mexicans to rob our convenience stores.
The state of California is gearing up to seize legally acquired guns of individuals who have run afoul of the law.
According to David Codrea, the ATF raid on the gun shop where the weapons were purchased that were used in the Sandy Hook massacre was a staged media event. As if nothing Obama's security apparatus does is staged. Bastards.
Chicago's top cop, Garry McCarthy, has threatened to shoot armed citizens even if they are legally licensed to a carry guns in his city. Threats against legally armed individuals: 1; Threats to gangbangers actually murdering others: 0. Way to go, baby. Mayhem! It's the Chicago way!
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol Ammo
.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Polyperformance steel cased, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .39 per round
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: -.02 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory,BVAC reloaded, .29 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000, 500 or 250 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .27 per round (w/ ammo can)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: +.02 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Battle Bag Ammo, Geco Ruag, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Battle Bag Ammo, reloaded, .25 per round
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: -.13 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, BVAC reloaded .37 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 1000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Fiocchi, .41 per round
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.01 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Monarch, steel cased, .38 per round
Cheapest Bulk 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, .40 per round
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: -.10 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition to Go, MFS, .60 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Wideners, Prvi Partizan steel cased, .70 per round
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Firearms for Sale, Wolf WPA, steel core and case, .27 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 1000 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf Polyformance, steel core and case, .27 per round
Cheapest, Brass casing: Ventura Munitions, Fiocchi, .54 per round
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds:Firearms for Sale, Aguila Prime, .08 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 500 rounds: Smokey Mountain Munitions, Winchester, .15 per round
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average price: $1,050 Last Week Avg: $820
California: Bushmaster M-17 Bullpup: $1,200
Texas: Anderson AM-15: $999
New York: Daniel Defense M$ V7: $905
Maryland: Spikes Tactical: $1,300
Florida: Smith & Wesson M&P : $850
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,660 Last Week Avg: $1,554
California: Sig Sauer 716: $1,450 (Same Gun)
Texas: DPMS w/scope: $1,300 (Possibly same Gun)
New York: SCAR 17 (misplaced ad: $1,750)
Maryland: DPMS LR-308B: $2,500 (Same Gun)
Florida: DPM s LR308: $1,300
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $717 Last Week Avg: $737
California: Saiga SGL 26-61: $950
Texas: Century Arms (underfolder): $525
New York: Saiga: $750
Maryland: WASR: $900
Florida: Zastava Pap: $460
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,425 Last Week Avg: $1,425
California: Romak PSL: $1,650 (Same Gun)
Texas: None
New York: None
Maryland: None
Florida: Romak PSL: $1,200 (Prolly same gun as before)
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $571 Last Week Avg: $634
California: Rock Island Armory: $425
Texas: Taurus PT1911: $500
New York: Colt Commander XSE 1911: $700
Maryland: Metro Arms: $580
Florida: Sig Sauer w/ laser: $650
9mm Beretta 92FS Average Price: $481 First Time Listing
California: $475
Texas: $500
New York: None
Maryland: $550
Florida: $400
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
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I wouldn't be overly sympathetic to the gun store, I live in the hellhole of CT and the reporting on this has been selective. The gunstore referred to is Riverview Firearms and while the "raid" may have been a staged media event, the owner certainly deserved to lose his FFL. He had numerous firearms stolen, at least 30+, by an employee and a customer. He also failed in some sales to do the background check required by state & federal law until after the customer had already left with the gun. Also one or more employees sold ammo to people they knew were criminals and let those criminals handle guns.
Hunters in Colorado are lining up for a hot new license: $25 to shoot down a government drone over the village of Deer Trail.
Supporters acknowledge the licenses would be only symbolic, and a town election authorizing them is more than a month away. Still, about 1,000 people have applied for one.
The scheme is part protest against government surveillance and part promotion to get Deer Trail some attention. It's working, at least on the second point. The federal government issued a warning against shooting at drones.
[An Nahar] Aid workers who carried out an emergency mission to the north of strife-torn Central African Republic found villages abandoned and burned, and evidence of widespread rights abuses, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
"The UNHCR team confirmed widespread lawlessness in the region. Local people spoke of physical assaults, extortion, looting, arbitrary arrest and torture by gunnies," said Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
The team traveled to a region some 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of the capital Bangui last week.
"We are, in general, increasingly worried about the civilians caught in the middle of the fighting and who are at the mercy of anyone with a gun," she said, adding it remained unclear who was fighting.
Local communities said the spike in violence in the north may have been in retaliation for a clash last month with civilian groups who were trying to protect their families and property.
Around the town of Paoua in the region, the aid workers came upon a scene of devastation.
"They found seven villages burned to the ground and deserted -- and an eighth village partially burned -- with villagers hiding in the bush," Fleming said.
Residents of Paoua and people who fled to the town to escape fighting told U.N. staff that they were spending the night in the bush for safety reasons and only returning during the day, keeping away from roads to avoid detection, while rain was making living conditions even worse.
Widespread unrest has gripped the country since March, when a coalition of rebel groups known as Seleka deposed president Francois Bozize, who had ruled since a 2003 coup.
Fleming said it was difficult to say how many people had been displaced by fresh violence in recent weeks in the northern region, given security problems and restricted access.
Before the Seleka seized power, the north was home to almost 160,000 people, she noted.
As of Wednesday morning, UNHCR staff had registered 3,020 displaced people in the region around Paoua since fresh violence erupted two weeks ago.
And agency front man Babar Baloch told Agence La Belle France Presse thousands more were believed to have fled from other parts of the nation, adding to the estimated total of at least 206,000 displaced people across the country since December.
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Around the town of Paoua in the region, the aid workers came upon a scene of devastation.
Somebody must've told them that there was a decent restaurant up there...
The United States and China announced Friday they would seek to eliminate some of the world's most potent greenhouse gases through the 1987 Montreal Protocol, the landmark treaty that successfully phased out ozone-depleting substances decades ago.
The move, announced at the Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg, is significant because it provides a clear path for curbing a major contributor to global warming in the near term as world leaders grapple with the more challenging task of cutting carbon dioxide in the coming decades. I though carbon dioxide was THE problem, right after water vapor. Now they tell us there is something else to worry about?
Obama and Xi Jinping said they would work to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) -- a class of chemicals commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners -- through the Montreal Protocol, even as they tried to make progress through the annual climate talks held by the United Nations. Some refrigerant has already been phased out of cars and homes - CFC-12, maybe?
Other G-20 leaders also endorsed the approach Friday in a joint statement. The president of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, a Washington-based nonprofit group, called HFCs "the biggest climate prize available to the world in the next few years." In an e-mail, he estimated that the accord could cut the equivalent of 100 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2050 and would avoid up to nearly 1 degree in global warming. Now we're back to CO2? I am so confused!
The Montreal Protocol succeeded in phasing out nearly 100 chemicals, but an unintended consequence was that it spurred the production of HFCs, which are short-lived and do not damage the ozone but are far more potent greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide. In addition to being used as refrigerants, they are used in insulating foams, solvents and aerosol products. But they are short-lived, breaking down into what, Mr. Journalist? Unless your only purpose in the article was to make an empty suit look presidential.
Left unabated, HFC emissions could grow to nearly 20 percent of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. I wonder what unintended consequences will come out of this action?
Because there are always unintended consequences, which is why God invented engineers.
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...possibly the two of them could agree to personally demonstrate via PPV the positive effects of reducing to zero respiration-induced production of the known greenhouse gas CO2 via auto-erotic asphyxiation...?
Front-page WaPo. Maybe Bezos is having an impact?
Americans are participating in the workforce at the lowest level in 35 years, according to government data released Friday, as lackluster job growth fails to offset the droves of people who have given up looking for work. According to the Labor Department, the economy added a disappointing 169,000 jobs in August. In addition, the government lowered its estimate of the number of jobs created in June and July by 74,000 positions.
The grinding pace of recovery has hollowed out the workforce. Government data showed that only 63.2 percent of working-age Americans have a job or are looking for one, the lowest proportion since 1978. Nearly 90 million people are now considered out of the labor force, up 1.7 million from August 2012. And it only took the WaPo four or five years to report it.
There are demographic trends underlying the decline in the labor force. For much of the past generation, growing numbers of working women boosted its size, but that effect has leveled off. Meanwhile, the first wave of baby boomers is reaching retirement age, while younger workers are staying in school longer before looking for their first job. And WHY are kids staying in school longer? A lack of jobs, perchance?
Many economists believe those shifts cannot fully explain the size of the decline. Research released this spring by two Federal Reserve economists showed that states with the largest drops in unemployment also had bigger declines in the labor force, suggesting the slow pace of recovery is the culprit.
In a remarks Friday while at the Group of 20 summit in Russia, President Obama said he is "determined that the world has confidence in the full faith and credit of the United States." He also touted gains in manufacturing jobs and new regulations aimed at fortifying the nation's banks. We've enlarged the welfare rolls! More people are being assisted by the government! My plan is succeeding!
"We've put more people back to work, but we've also cleared away the rubble of crisis and laid the foundation for stronger and more durable economic growth," he said. Is it a lie if he really believes it?
Sadly, he hasn't the intellectual tools to know the difference.
Still, the recovery may not be strong enough to stand on its own. The Federal Reserve has been pumping $85 billion a month into the economy, but will consider reducing that amount when officials convene for their regular meeting this month.
On Friday, Kansas City Fed President Esther L. George called for scaling back the program by $15 billion. In a separate speech, Chicago Fed President Charles L. Evans was more circumspect, but acknowledged the data has been murky.
Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has said that the central bank will begin paring its stimulus this year, and many investors expect it will start this month. But Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said he believes the August jobs report is evidence that the economy still needs the Fed's help. Aren't the printing presses worn out yet?
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The adult film industry appears to have made a disappointing August jobs report look even worse.
The report shows carnage in the movie business. It lost 22,000 jobs on the month, or nearly 6 percent of its total jobs:
That's a huge drop. It's probably enough to change how analysts see this jobs report, from kinda gloomy to really gloomy. But what's behind it?
The data don't tell us, right away. But news reports would suggest that pornography is a strong possibility.
More specifically, the temporary shutdown of America's adult film industry last month.
In the middle of August, an adult actress, who goes by the name Cameron Bay, tested positive for the HIV virus. That prompted studios to stop filming. A week later, the trade group that called for the shutdown essentially called it off, because all other performers who had worked with Bay tested negative for the virus.
It appears that the shutdown fell in the window when the government was collecting its jobs data for the month. The Labor Department collects employer data in the "pay period including the 12th (of the month), which may or may not correspond directly to the calendar week." Last month, the period that includes the 12th ran through the 24th. That means the shutdown was happening while the government was pulling its numbers together.
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Oh, so it turns out the Modern version of the oldest profession actually matters. Who would have guessed that? I mean, isn't it logical to shut down history's all time A-#1 source of exchange, to improve the economy?
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What the heck, it's been a crash and burn summer for the regular and equally crappy film industry who's only savior is overseas sales. Which seems why Hollyweird has given up on the American market and amplified its usual anti-American political messages.
[Rooters} WARSAW, Sept 4 - Poland said on Wednesday it will transfer to the state many of the assets held by private pension funds, slashing public debt but putting in doubt the future of the multi-billion-euro funds, many of them foreign-owned. They'll be safer and appreciate more rapidly under gov't control, you'll see.
The changes went deeper than many in the market expected and could fuel investor concerns that the government is ditching some business-friendly policies to try to improve its flagging popularity with voters. Deeper changes than expected you say? In Poland as well?
The Polish pension funds' organisation said the changes may be unconstitutional because the government is taking private assets away from them without offering any compensation. Yes, more commonly referred to as theft, and coming soon to a country near you.
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Rangel and others in the US Dem side have floated this balloon here. "We'll confiscate incorporate your funds in an account that will pay you a guaranteed by your tax dollars and credit return that will exceed your private IRA/401K returns since we've cratered the economy Never mind the inflation rate or Social Security/Medicare funds which we've handled just as well"
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Doesn't Poland (and the rest of Europe) have any lampposts left?
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[An Nahar] The president of the Maldives on Friday promised a free and fair election this weekend 18 months after a violent change of leadership shook the Indian Ocean archipelago.
"The atmosphere is ready for free and fair elections," Mohamed Waheed told Agence La Belle France Presse as the candidates standing in the presidential poll wrapped up campaigning in the popular holiday destination.
"I have given an assurance of my government's full support for anyone who wins the election," he added, speaking from the cramped capital of the nation of around 350,000 people.
In February last year, the Maldives' first freely elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, resigned after a mutiny by police which he claimed was a coup orchestrated by former dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
Waheed, who was vice-president under Nasheed, was swiftly sworn in to replace his former boss who continues to call the current administration a "traitor government".
Both men are standing in Saturday's vote, along with Gasim Ibrahim, a wealthy tourist resort tycoon, and Abdulla Yameen, the half-brother of Gayoom.
Nasheed is expected to easily win, but he needs more than 50 percent to avoid a run-off when his opponents would be expected to join together to oppose him.
His opponent in a run-off on September 28 would most likely be Yameen, observers say.
"We are apprehensive that renegade elements within the police and military... might intervene during voting or during counting," Nasheed told a presser on Thursday.
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I figured this was Zero sucking up to the Argies again
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[Breitbart] Updating our earlier report on Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk, a Christian serving in the Air Force whose unit is now commanded by a lesbian: according to Monks complaint filed with his superiors, he was relieved of duty for refusing his commanders order to say he supports gay marriage.
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P2k; do you really think those RINOS in the house ( starting with boner) will stall promotions, especially diversity enabled categories? only straight white males will be held up, all other rainbow elements will get their star ( or next bar)
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P2k; do you really think those RINOS in the house ( starting with boner) will stall promotions, especially diversity enabled categories? .... Posted by USN, Ret
Ladies and gentlemen, the promotion board voting is concluded. Will the recording secretary please read aloud the diversity percentages? Hopefully, we've met our goals and the Personnel Command's guidance.
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The Chairman of the Armed Services committee and the majority thereof have the power. 'Boner' would have to either replace them, likely to cause a revolt cause they're not just handed out like candy, or suspend the rules, the better run around, but that too will have serious repercussions.
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.
[Al Ahram] Police say four people were shot and 
Hunters in Colorado are lining up for a hot new license: $25 to shoot down a government drone over the village of Deer Trail.
The adult film industry appears to have made a disappointing August jobs report look even worse.
[An Nahar] The president of the Maldives on Friday promised a free and fair election this weekend 18 months after a violent change of leadership shook the Indian Ocean archipelago.
