In November, Nevadans went to the polls to destroy their rights in a plebiscite sponsored by Michael Bloomberg. With this new law all three west coast states now have universal background check laws. Just before the election, I would have bet money the measure would not have passed.
Now the FBI said it will not conduct its background check on simple, non-commercial transfers.
The FBI's reason is that the new state law cannot dictate how federal resources are used.
As I mentioned as an inline commentary to a news story about the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram, apparently they are getting plastic AK magazines from somewhere for use in their AKs. The same thing is happening in Yemen, where in a recent photo I saw a plastic magazine in one AK.
Prices for pistol ammunition were steady. Prices for rifle ammunition were steady.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
None.
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (8 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary, FSFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary, FSFP, Brass Casing, reloads, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, TPMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .15 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel casing, .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .34 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .34 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo King, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): Natchez Shooters Suuply, Federal, RNL, .06 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds (2 Box Limit): South Georgia Outdoors, Federal, RNL, .06 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $550 Last Week Avg: $510(+) ($616 (2Q, 2015), $468 (4 Weeks))
California (260, 271): Delton Echo 316 : $750 ($750 (CA: $650 (1Q, 2015)), $400 (2Q, 2016))
Texas (306, 313): Del Ton DT Sport: $500 ($700 (1Q, 2015), $350 (2Q, 2015))
Pennsylvania (154, 160): Smith & Wesson M&P15 Sport: $550 ($700 (2Q, 2015), $300 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (189, 195): Palmetto State Armory: $500 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $415 (3 Weeks))
Florida (445, 445): Anderson Arms: $450 ($650 (2Q, 2015), $380 (1Q, 2015))
#1
So who is making these plastic mags for the jihadis? Are they getting Chinese knockoffs? Whatcha think Chris?
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12/31/2016 0:25 Comments ||
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#2
What made the kid think he's an expert in anything?
According to Wikipedia, Mikhail Kalashnikov began his career as a weapon designer in 1941, while recuperating from a shoulder wound, which he received during the Battle of Bryansk. Kalashnikov himself stated..."I was in the hospital, and a soldier in the bed beside me asked: ‘Why do our soldiers have only one rifle for two or three of our men, when the Germans have automatics?’ So I designed one. I was a soldier, and I created a machine gun for a soldier. It was called an Avtomat Kalashnikova, the automatic weapon of Kalashnikov—AK—and it carried the date of its first manufacture, 1947."
#6
Also want to add that according to my local gun store peeps there was excellent business in handgun sales this Christmas season. Not so much for AR style firearms and their ammo.
[Wapo] Eight years ago, we learned that Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson, would move into the White House with the first family to help with the care of her two young granddaughters. Since then, we have heard little about her and even less from her. Although she has kept a low profile, we can assume she has provided the stability for the Obama girls that has allowed the first couple to do the nation’s business without the push/pull between work and family that so many parents experience.
Grandparents at every socioeconomic level in modern American society step up to nurture their grandchildren. From the neediest to the most powerful in the nation, many adults depend on help from their parents in raising their children. These grandparents deserve our recognition. The Obamas are widely praised as a model family. Surely, Grandma has mattered. So, to quote Simon & Garfunkel: "Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson."
#3
she also freeloaded on vacations on the taxpayers' dime $85 Million
Posted by: Frank G ||
12/31/2016 10:24 Comments ||
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I don't mind her staying with her family. My mother in law has been living with us for several years now. It's either that or a nursing home and the latter is NOT going to happen.
We have more important things to go after Champ about.
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/31/2016 12:18 Comments ||
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#5
A most honorable and noble commitment Dr., and one you obviously fund. My object to Lady Marian is the precedent and probable taxpayer funding.
#7
and Aunt Zeituni. It's the public housing and taxpayer support I get rubbed wrong about
Posted by: Frank G ||
12/31/2016 13:13 Comments ||
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I'm not sure if it's real or fake news, but I heard that Ms. Robinson will get a large pension from the government for her "work" of looking after her grandchildren.
I have no problem with her living at the White House - they probably have room to spare. (Clintons used to rent out the Lincoln Bedroom.) However, if she is getting a pension, it implies that she was getting paid to watch her grandkids, which goes beyond just free room and board.
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#9
Uncle whats-its-name from Boston could have done the same thing, if sober.
That would be Uncle Omar; he did get his job back at that Framingham liquor store after all that hubbub.
[American Lookout] The far left is planning some nasty stuff for Trump’s inauguration. No one on the right did that to Obama but that doesn’t matter to them. The left doesn’t play fair.
In the video below, Trump supporter Roger Stone explains what’s in the works.
Here’s a partial transcript from Real Clear Politics: Roger Stone Infiltrates Planning Session For Inauguration Protesters Planning Violent Disruption. I do want to talk about what is coming in Washington, because it is scary.
We had an operative who infiltrated the J-20 Committee planning session. And let me go through what these folks have in mind, because this is not a benign civilly disobedient protest.
They intend to march from McPherson Square to Columbus [Circle]. They are going to march during the lunch period immediately after the inauguration -- approximately 12:30. Their goal is to "create a sense of crisis."
They are going to harass inaugural visitors as they step off the metro stations. Multiple waves will harass Secret Service checkpoints on the National Mall.
Roving protesters in the crowd will be using drums to break up the program, they are going to launch a pirate radio broadcast. Drones loaded with rockets to attack the parade are under consideration.
#1
Social Media coordinated communications exercise and Inauguration rehearsal or amazing coincidence ?
(CNN) Massive brawls and food-court fights played out at more than a dozen malls across the country in what proved to be a chaotic day after Christmas. Some of the mayhem was captured on social media. The chaos prevented some shoppers from grabbing clothes off clearance racks and returning gifts.
The mall incidents, which ranged from minor melees to mass evacuations, occurred from Colorado to Tennessee and Texas to New Jersey. Police in some cities are investigating the role social media may have played in organizing the disturbances. The motive behind the mall brawls is not yet known.
#2
Do it. The more you do it, the more you piss off everyday normal human americans. The more you reveal how feral and inhuman you are, the greater the following pushback will be.
#4
I do hope to see it in DC and many other mega-city bastions and regional clusters of ill will. Crush the protests and forestall the FEMA war of internment.
[PJ] Trump surrogate Scott Brown gave Secretary of State John Kerry a verbal tongue lashing on Fox Business Wednesday, but "with all due respect" toward his former senate colleague.
Before he laid into Kerry, however, Brown had a few words to say about the Obama administration -- which has been busy setting traps in its waning days to trip up the incoming administration.
"This administration is doing everything it can on their way out the door to put up more and more roadblocks for the incoming administration," he charged, adding, "it's not that different from when Bill Clinton was leaving and he took all the keys off the computers."
"It's always something," Brown complained. "Instead of having a friendly transition and opportunity to consult with the president-elect on what their policies may be....they do the exact opposite."
"I've never seen John Kerry so fired up about anything," Brown continued. "Now he's all fired up about Israel. With all due respect, no one cares what John Kerry says, especially with so many -- so few days left with this administration."
"What they did, I think, was completely inappropriate," he continued. "Israel is our dearest and most reliable ally in the region, and to actually go in and throw them under the bus, with all due respect, I don’t think it’s only harmful now but moving forward."
[The Grauniad] Labelled an international pariah only months ago by Boris Johnson, and warned he would be stuck in a Syrian quagmire by a patronising Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin ends 2016 if not as the undisputed victor, then at least as the man at the centre of decision making.
Reeling from its cold war defeat and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet empire, Moscow was unable to save Yugoslavia from what it termed western aggression. But in the case of Syria, it can claim it has recovered its self-respect. In the process, it has built a brutal reputation for sticking by its friends, understanding the dynamics of the region better than America, and knowing how to use military power to forge diplomatic alliances.
Many will rightly warn that experience in Syria shows ceasefires are fragile and do not lead to peace talks, let alone peace deals. But the unlikely Russian-Turkish peace drive has a propitious backdrop.
No single formula or manual exists for ending a civil war. But a sense of futility born of exhaustion, a decisive change in the military balance, a recasting of the key actors and a shift in the diplomatic alliances are all key ingredients, and in the case of the Syrian civil war all four factors exist.
The military intervention of Russia a year ago saved President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and this month led to the defeat of the rebels in east Aleppo, changing the military balance for good.
Hillary Clinton’s failure to be elected president extinguished the final hope that a more interventionist, strong anti-Russian voice would be heard in the White House. Donald Trump may be an unknown quantity, but given the choice he will back Assad, and not the Saudi-supported rebels. Finally, Assad’s greatest external opponent, Turkey, has for a mixture of reasons – some noble and some self-interested – decided to make its peace with Putin.
Hillary Clinton’s failure to be elected president extinguished the final hope that a more interventionist, strong anti-Russian voice would be heard in the White House. Donald Trump may be an unknown quantity, but given the choice he will back Assad, and not the Saudi-supported rebels. Finally, Assad’s greatest external opponent, Turkey, has for a mixture of reasons – some noble and some self-interested – decided to make its peace with Putin.
It leaves the divided rebels forced back on their own resources, and the Gulf states. Saudi Arabia has discovered for itself in Yemen the price of war, and will not intervene militarily in Syria without US involvement.
Russia is welcoming diplomatic and economic overtures from traditional US allies in the region. Qatar has invested in a $11.5bn deal for a 19.5% stake in Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil producer, even though the company is subject to US and EU sanctions. Eygpt also appears to be close to a new beginning with Moscow. So some of the old road blocks to peace are disappearing.
But that does not mean all is now plain sailing for Russia. For a start Turkey still insists Assad will have to stand down as part of the peace process, the issue that led to previous peace talks to founder. Putin will have to find a formula that eluded the UN’s Syrian peace envoy, Staffan de Mistura, which allows the talks to start with the issue of Assad’s future in effect parked.
The identity of the rebels to be invited to the peace talks will also have to be agreed. That will require Assad to abandon his division of Syria into loyalists and terrorists, requiring Putin to force Assad to accept that he will have to negotiate with rebels that are not linked to Islamic State or Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, which is linked to al-Qaida. US officials believe it is nigh impossible to separate al-Nusra from mainstream rebels.
The identity of the rebels to be invited to the peace talks will also have to be agreed. That will require Assad to abandon his division of Syria into loyalists and terrorists, requiring Putin to force Assad to accept that he will have to negotiate with rebels that are not linked to Islamic State or Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, which is linked to al-Qaida. US officials believe it is nigh impossible to separate al-Nusra from mainstream rebels.
Putin will also struggle to ensure that Iranians feel they have gained sufficient spoils from victory. Iran is already saying its arch-enemy, Saudi Arabia, must not be present at the talks.
Turkey looks like the pivotal state. The US also appears to be in the process of mislaying this vital ally, but it is hard to read how much Ankara will compromise to strike a deal.
Essentially Putin offered Turkey’s president a bargain. In return for allowing the Syrian army to capture Aleppo, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan looks to have been given the opportunity in northern Syria to push back against a Syrian Kurdish federation,even though the US-backed Syrian Kurds have been at the forefront of the fight against Islamic State in Raqqa.
The Kurds were excluded from the UN Geneva peace process, and Putin’s initial peace talks due to take place in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, may also leave the Kurds without a seat at the negotiating table. If so, the Kurds, another bloodied US ally, will feel that the professorial Obama proved to be a lot better at lecturing on the state of the world than actually shaping it. And into that vacuum, Putin has successfully rushed.
#3
Because they have had a salt water port base their for a long time have occupied the country with Syria for a long time and some psycho idiot thought it would behoove the USA to invade a Russian owned vicariously owned country ?
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.
[American Lookout] The far left is planning some nasty stuff for Trump’s inauguration. No one on the right did that to Obama but that doesn’t matter to them. The left doesn’t play fair.
[PJ] Trump surrogate Scott Brown gave Secretary of State John Kerry a verbal tongue lashing on Fox Business Wednesday, but "with all due respect" toward his former senate colleague.
