All outward appearances are that New York, in the wake of electing the most leftwing politician in America will soon begin staggering to catch up with Chicago in shootings and general mayhem. The cop shootings appear to be just a warmup act for what's coming. The good news is that the New York state legislature will begin passing even more restrictive gun laws this coming year. It's good news because of the comedy effect of watching high functioning individuals at the centers of power in New York wonder aloud why even more people die from guns in the wake of even more draconian laws.
Driving the need to steal personal property and murder people who resist, is journalism such as this article, which said that a man who threatened police was arrested, and in which a subsequent search found an "arsenal" in his house. That's one and a half guns if you count a Jimenez 9mm as half a gun, as I would. Oh, and the guy was found with less than 10 rounds of ammunition and one gun magazine. He must feel better now. He can't be prosecuted under New York's SAFE act.
Helping out in seizing guns and murdering those who resist are the folks who created this ad. You'll note how subtly the makers are encouraging informants within a family, but missed among all the whining from the right about how the kid would be arrested and charged in today's hysterical antigun atmosphere, is that the kid's father is noticeably absent. A kid of that age should have had at least a grounding in how to safely handle a firearm, and to regard the firearm as an option for self defense. And since it didn't come from mom, it would have to come from dad.
Speaking of gun safety, here is a video of a squib load, where a bullet fails to exit a gun barrel and is stuck in the barrel.
Watching video constantly about the war in southeastern Ukraine, I heard that the 7.62x39 round is still used by the Russian Army, and that the 5.45x39mm is still standard issue. The Russian Army has begun testing on two more rifles, one 5.45x39mm and the other 7.62x39.
Paraphrasing Rick Blaine, we'll always have Texas.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for rifle ammunition were steady, while prices for pistol ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used rifles were mixed while prices for used pistols were lower across the board.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Target Sports USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .28 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: I.Q. Metals, Store brand, FMJ, reloads, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LAX ammunition, Store brand, reloads, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (17 Weeks)(!!))
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, Steel Cased, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Kinetic Munitions, Black Munitions, reloads, FMJ, .18 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Fiocchi, JHP, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store Brand, reloads, .36 per round (From Last Week: +.02 Each)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (11 Weeks)(!!)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Silver Bear, steel cased, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Silver Bear, steel cased, .45 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (28 Weeks)(!!!))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Brown Bear, steel case, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammomen, Remington Thunderbolt, RNL, .08 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds: South Georgia Outdoors, CCI Subsonic (?!), .08 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
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AK-12 looks interesting - picatinny rails over under and sides (including foregrip), controlled recoil, modern adjustable and foldable stock, improved accuracy (tho with an AK, thats a pretty low bar to begin with). It dresses up with nearly as many gadgets as an M-4
News says that the civilian make comes in .223 Rem (basically 5.56 NATO) as well as 5.45x39. I wonder if they'll make an export model in 7.62x39 - maybe even a civilian version (whidh would sell in the US pretty well)?
Interesting footnote - An experimental self lubricating nano-composite coating is also being tested on the AK-12 rifle... Talk about making it even more neglect-proof!
The Public Endangerment Ad requires a log in, but from what bits and pieces I am aware of, there is so much going wrong it is hard to begin. But yeah, the idea stream is snitching.
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My idea of a Yuletide conversation starter. All weapons are from a different manufacturer for the period and at least 70 years old except the Harrington & Richardson and International Harvester Garands.
Nicaragua has announced the start of work on a $50 billion shipping canal, an infrastructure project backed by China that aims to rival Panama's waterway and revitalise the economy of the second-poorest country in the Americas. The groundbreaking was largely symbolic, as work began on a road designed to accommodate machinery needed to build a port for the canal on the Central American country's Pacific coast.
Nicaragua's government says the proposed 172-mile canal, due to be operational by around 2020, would raise annual economic growth to more than 10 per cent. The canal could also give China a major foothold in Central America, a region long dominated by the United States, which completed the Panama Canal a century ago.
Construction of the new waterway will be run by Hong Kong-based HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co Ltd (HKND Group), which is controlled by Wang Jing, a little-known Chinese telecom mogul well connected to China's political elite.
Flanked by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who is a current former Marxist guerrilla thug leader, Wang Jing said the tender for the preliminary design of the project would be offered by the end of the first quarter of 2015, by which time an environmental impact study would also be finished.
By the end of the third quarter, excavation work would begin, with a tender for the design of the locks due by the end of the year, he said.
More than a year since it was first announced, the project faces widespread scepticism, with questions still open about who will provide financing, how seriously it will affect Lake Nicaragua and how much land will be expropriated for it.
"Given how much this will cost, it's hard to take a stance on whether it will happen or not until there is a signal whether that money is available or not," said Greg Miller at consultancy IHS Maritime.
Earlier, Nicaraguan presidential spokesman Paul Oquist said feasibility studies, including a McKinsey report that experts say will define interest in financing the canal, had been delayed by changes to the route and would be ready by April. Oquist said the "core financing" would come from public and private Chinese money, without giving a percentage.
But he added that Nicaragua is seeking international funding and rejected the idea that China will bankroll the project worth roughly four times Nicaraguan gross domestic product.
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As like China's THREE GORGES project + its planned more massive follow-on, there are many concerns about how this Canal will affect Nicaragua's only freshwater lake + villages which depend on it for their sustenance. Many poor or low-income Nicaraguans repor do not trust their Govt. to replace their lands + jobs wid ones that are par or better that those that will be lost wid this project.
FYI there are Perts whom believe that Three Gorges is responsible for the mysterious draining of various lakes-n-seas outside of China proper.
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Nicaraguans repor do not trust their Govt. to replace their lands + jobs wid ones that are par or better that those that will be lost wid this project.
Well gosh Joe, if you can't trust Danny Ortega and Wang Jing.....
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IIRC the Nicaragua canal route was the original first choice but for political reasons Panama was chosen. And it has been planned as a 'sea-level' route for something like 50 years.
Also IIRC, the route is exactly along a major San Andreas-style fault zone.
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This will be an unmitigated disaster---environmentally, economically, and in construction. Plus being exposed on the route to active faults. It will only be completed if the Chinese govt funds it and it's future massive cost overruns. A great partnership---the Chinese govt and Daniel Ortega. A match made in hell on the backs of the Nicaraguan people.
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The world's two largest credit and debit card companies, Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc , said on Friday they could no longer support bank cards being used in Crimea, following U.S. sanctions imposed earlier this month.
The United States last Friday prohibited U.S.-registered companies from investing in Crimea or providing services to firms operating there, among sanctions imposed over Russia's annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine.
Visa said in a statement that the sanctions meant it could not offer Visa-branded products and services to Crimea.
"We can no longer support card issuing and merchant/ATM acquiring services in Crimea," it said.
Competitor MasterCard also said that it had to suspend operations with bank cards in Crimea due to the sanctions.
[AnNahar] Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels swapped hundreds of prisoners on Friday as part of a new push for peace that came despite Kiev's decision to cut off key transport links to breakaway Crimea.
The prisoner exchange on a dark and isolated stretch of a road north of the devastated eastern rebel stronghold of Donetsk unfolded as negotiators from both sides held video talks on Skype at reviving stalled negotiations.
A round mediated by European and Russian envoys in the Belarussian capital Minsk on Wednesday was due to have been followed by a final one on Friday at which a comprehensive peace accord was signed.
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Ukraine's state rail company Ukrzaliznytsia said on Friday it would suspend passenger and cargo train services to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in March, due to security concerns.
"In order to ensure the safety of passengers ... (the railway) will cut the route of trains to Crimea off at Novooleksiyvka and Kherson," it said in a statement, referring to two towns on the Ukrainian mainland near Crimea.
Russia annexation of Crimea pushed relations between Moscow and the West to their lowest point since the Cold War, and a month later a separatist uprising began in eastern Ukraine.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] North Korea called President Barack Obama Dreams of My Sainted Father... "a monkey" and blamed the US on Saturday for shutting down its internet services amid the hacking row over The Interview.
North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy depicting an liquidation of its leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... . After Sony Pictures initially called off the release in a decision criticised by Obama, the movie has opened this week.
On Saturday, the North's powerful National Defence Commission, the country's top governing body led by Kim, said that Obama was behind the release of The Interview. It described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary.
"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," an unidentified front man at the commission's policy department said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
He also accused Washington for intermittent outages of North Korean websites this week, after the US had promised to respond to the Sony hack.
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"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds...."
Zoological pejoratives aside, it's an incorrect assumption. He's actually on their side.
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My friends and I take strong acceptation to the remarks regarding The President of the United States, what ever the North Korean media may have said on behalf of their government, the President is not part of our genetic pool.
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[AnNahar] The United States has sent a second missile defense radar system to Japan, the Pentagon said Friday.
The new Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance system (AN/TPY-2) aims to "enhance sensor coverage for ballistic missile defense of Japan and the U.S. homeland," the Defense Department said in a statement.
The United States has said it wanted its allies to enhance their missile defenses to help protect against a belligerent North Korea.
And perhaps one day China, should the country survive in its current form that long.
North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile program is a major security concern in the Pacific region and beyond.
"We will continue to emphasize the importance of developing regional ballistic missile defense systems," Joints Chief of Staff vice-chairman James Winnefeld said earlier this year, emphasizing that cooperation would "result in better performance than individual countries acting alone."
"This is a very politically sensitive topic for several of our regional allies, but progress in this area would only increase our confidence in the face of persistent North Korean provocations," he added.
Dubbed the Kyogamisaki Communications Site, the new radar will be located in Kyogamisaki, some 375 miles (600 kilometers) west of Tokyo. The existing radar system is in Shariki, in northern Japan.
The facility was tested and constructed in Japan by the US military in cooperation with Japan, the Pentagon said.
A civil rights organization is defending the free-speech rights of a Christian group that hates Islam, saying its members were unfairly removed from the Arab International Festival in Dearborn in 2012.
In a legal brief filed this month, attorneys with the Michigan branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said that Wayne County sheriff's deputies violated the First Amendment by ordering a group of Christian evangelists from California called the Bible Believers to leave or face citations for disorderly conduct.
While the ACLU attorneys disagree with the message of the Bible Believers, they agree that their rights were violated.
"By ordering the Bible Believers to leave the Festival or else be cited for disorderly conduct, (Wayne County Sheriff's deputies) violated the Bible Believers' free speech rights under the First Amendment," the ACLU said in their friend-of-the court brief. When "even offensive speech takes place in a public forum, police must take reasonable steps to protect speakers faced with a violent audience."
The ACLU said the festival attendees are to blame for the violence, not the Bible Believers, who were peaceful and did not incite violence.
While the Bible Believers' speech was "highly offensive and needlessly antagonistic ... unpleasant and disturbing ... it must be tolerated in a free and diverse society such as ours," the ACLU said.
[AnNahar] Raunchy comedy "The Interview" took in one million dollars in its limited release opening day, Sony Studios said Friday, after the film was turned away by major theaters.
"The limited release, in under 10 percent of the amount of theaters originally planned, featured numerous sellouts and a first-day gross over $1 million," said Rory Bruer, global distribution president from Sony Pictures.
After initially planning to halt release of the film that sparked an international incident, "The Interview" opened in about 300 cinemas, mostly small independent theaters, December 25.
The film was also released online for rental or purchase.
Major US theater chains announced last week that they would not show the film after threats from hackers who claimed a cyber attack of Sony Studios.
The low-brow comedy featuring Seth Rogen and James Franco revolves around the fictional liquidation of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. It infuriated North Korea, who the US has blamed for the cyber attack.
"Considering the incredibly challenging circumstances, we are extremely grateful to the people all over the country who came out to experience 'The Interview' on the first day of its unconventional release," Bruer said in a statement.
The film played to packed theaters across the US, with many viewers coming out to make a statement about free speech.
Online services for Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox gaming consoles, which had decided to release the film online, went down Thursday, allegedly attacked by hackers.
A file sharing website reported the film had been illegally downloaded over 750,000 times.
Online views of the film had not yet been released.
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Kim Jong-Un, if nothing else it would appear he's a pretty good movie critic. Of course making a comedic movie about one of the most repressive communist regimes in modern history has the desired effect of making the Champ look like a staunch, First Amendment advocate and winner.
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.
Ukraine's state rail company Ukrzaliznytsia said on Friday it would suspend passenger and cargo train services to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in March, due to security concerns.
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