I have said several times in the past few months that the left is gunning for the rest of us. From the Anti-Fa fake grassroot movement to lone individuals, progressives want blood in buckets and they are willing to use firearms to make it flow. It is clear to me we are as close to open warfare as we have ever been as a nation.
The choice of weapons in the Virginia shootout is what has been called the Cockroach of War Weapons. For its caliber (7.62x39 AK), the SKS is the cheapest semiautomatic available. It is a forerunner to the AK, a WWII vintage weapon. Shown at the Gun of the Week is a nice photo of a Chinese-made, paratrooper model SKS.
I have yet to read much about how the shooter did his deed. If he had a standard SKS, he could only shoot 10 rounds before being forced to reload from a stripper clip. The shooter was not terribly familiar with firearms operation, it is clear because of the low rounds hit to rounds fired ratio, about one to 10. He could have had an SKS one modified to take special 30 and 40 round magazines.
If he fired only the SKS (and not the 9mm pistol it is said he had with him) and he fired 50 rounds, as the story stands now, he would have reloaded a total of five times. If he was receiving fire as he was doing this, it would explain the great amount of time he spent committing his crime, trying to reload as he was hearing pistol rounds fired in his direction. That will rattle even professionals such as kops.
Author Matt Bracken said if it were a shooter with range time, the body count were have been much higher.
Pistol ammunition prices were steady. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mostly higher. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
The .223/5.56mm AR rifle continued its downward slide, falling to $435 average nationwide for used rifles for private sale. It is unknown just how far these rifles will fall in price, and how manufacturers will deal with such a decline. The decline is indicative of rifles that were made and registered as new with the ATF, and not rifles that were made for private use.
New Lows:
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic): Virginia: DPMS: $400
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: J&G Sales, Own Brand, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, RNFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes Ammo, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, FP, Brass Casing, Reloads .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .83 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Winchester, Brass Casing, SP, .87 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds:Bud's Gun Shop, Federal Eagle, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.35 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Wholesale Hunter, Federal American Eagle, Brass Casing, HP, 2.43 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Men, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
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Author Matt Bracken said if it were a shooter with range time, the body count were have been much higher.
Thank goodness Hogdkinson did not have more experience or range time; otherwise what Braken said would be true.
It does seem like many on the left are hell-bent on anarchy and violence just for the sake of chaos and violence. They have nothing to offer in the way of ideas. What they offer is Venezuela.
[CBS] Illinois residents may feel some solidarity with the likes of Puerto Rico and Detroit.
A financial crunch is spiraling into a serious problem for Illinois lawmakers, prompting some observers to wonder if the state might make history by becoming the first to go bankrupt. At the moment, it's impossible for a state to file for bankruptcy protection, which is only afforded to counties and municipalities like Detroit.
Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection could be extended to states if Congress took up the issue, although Stanford Law School professor Michael McConnell noted in an article last year that he believed the precedents are iffy for extending the option to states. Nevertheless, Illinois is in a serious financial pickle, which is why radical options such as bankruptcy are being floated as potential solutions.
Ratings agency Moody's Investor Service earlier this month downgraded Illinois' general obligation bonds to its lowest investment grade rating, citing the state's growing pile of unpaid bills and its mounting pension deficit. Illinois, by the way, has the lowest credit rating of any state. Lower ratings mean higher borrowing costs, since lenders view such borrowers as riskier bets.
"Legislative gridlock has sidetracked efforts not only to address pension needs but also to achieve fiscal balance, allowing a backlog of bills to approach $15 billion, or about 40 percent of the state's operating budget," the agency noted.
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They cannot even keep their roadside rest stops open. There are MANY on this map which were closed years ago, but not listed. Notice the locations of the ones listed (Red-X = closed). All in downstate locations, all Republican enclaves.
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Illinois is already defaulting on its financial obligations and more of the same is on the way, due to mathematics. Bankruptcy would be like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
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...Something I've seen pop up over the last few days is the idea that if a state manages to go bankrupt, then they are no longer a state and revert to territorial status.
I like the idea myself, and there are apparently a fair number of reasons it's legally possible, but Lord alone knows the upheaval that would come from one of the bluest of blue states suddenly coming under Federal control.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
06/17/2017 6:57 Comments ||
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In Africa and Latin America, countries that suffer financial ruin have invariably resorted to nationalization of resources, industry, and property. Blaming neighboring states is also a mandatory component.
Asset seizure is done subtly at first, through taxation under the guise of fairness and equity redistribution. Inflation and monetary devaluation quickly follow. Out of a fear of coups d'état, military and political purges oftentimes also follow. Keep an eye on events as they unfold.
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Might note, that in territorial status, the Feds can carve up multiple states from one and/or transfer parts to neighboring states. Wonder how the non-Chicago part of the state would feel about that?
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So they could give Cook County (including Chicago) to Detroit? Yummy!
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06/17/2017 9:50 Comments ||
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Supposedly on Friday a "Dear Contractor" letter and email went out to all state contractors in Illinois notifying them to cease all state highway work as of July 1 unless safety requirements yada yada...(a long list of who to contact for exceptions followed. Would you trust them?)
Multi State Lottery (Powerball & MegaMillion) announced they were terminating business in Illinois as on July 1 as well.
Evidently the rats have gained control of the lifeboats.
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#10 So they could give Cook County (including Chicago) to Detroit?
Or Puerto Rico. Is the name Commonwealth of Failed States already taken?
Levin, a former New York City cop who studies domestic extremism as the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, was documenting a Klan rally in Anaheim, California, when a counterprotest suddenly took a violent swing -- forcing Levin to physically place himself between a Klansman and a furious, anti-fascist mob that seemed ready to kill...
"I think we’re in a time when we can’t ignore the extremism from the Left," said Oren Segal, the director of the Center on Extremism, an arm of the Anti-Defamation League. Over the past few months, the ADL, which hosts regular seminars on homegrown extremism for law enforcement officials, has begun warning of the rising threat posed by far-left groups, most recently at a seminar just this past Sunday. "When we have anti-fascist counterprotests -- not that they are the same as white supremacists -- that can ratchet up the violence at these events, and it means we can see people who are violent on their own be attracted to that," Segal said. "I hate to say it, but it feels inevitable."...
Levin is worried about it too: The embrace by the far left of tactics that were previously the purview of the far right means the level of political tension in the country can only go up. "I’ve been going up and down the state of California meeting with law enforcement officials about this. I’m very concerned about it," he said. "What we’re seeing is the democratization of extremism and the tactics of radicalism. I’ve been warning about this, and nobody gave a shit."
Somewhere in the middle of the article, Vice points out that violence is nothing new on the far left. In the 1960s groups like the Weather Underground ran domestic terror campaigns. That history seems relevant in light of the two shootings of police officers--one in Dallas and one in Baton Rouge--by black radicals last year. The Baton Rouge shooter was a black separatist who apparently admired Huey Newton. The shooter also praised the actions of Dallas shooter Micah Xavier Johnson. Johnson was a fan of a litany of far-left extremist groups who wanted to kill white police officers.
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I think they are just now starting to realize the fascists are no longer controllable and I also think they are beginning to see what will happen to them if they don't try to pull back a bit.
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat - Will Rogers
That was then, but this is now. They have been taken over by cornered and dangerous people, are organized, well-funded and desperate. This summer could be really ugly.
[Free Beacon] Liberals have no problem defending al Qaeda--but draw the line at Ivanka Trump.
Jamie Gorelick is a Democratic super-lawyer and former Clinton Justice Department official who made millions of dollars underwriting subprime mortgages at Fannie Mae before leaving the taxpayer-backed mortgage securities firm in 2003. Now she is a partner at WilmerHale, where lawyers charge up to $1,250 an hour and her corner office provides, according to the Washington Post, a "breathtaking" view of the capital. A graduate of Harvard (magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School (cum laude), the 67-year-old Gorelick is a credentialed member of the Washington establishment, of the cognitive elite, even, some might say, of the Deep State.
Or at least she was until recently. Gorelick, the Post reports, has made a very bad boo-boo. Among the clients paying her exorbitant fees, you see, are Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. And for this crime, the Post continues, her liberal friends have cast Gorelick out and formed a "No Jamies Club."
No one raised a fuss when this paragon of virtue repped BP, the Clinton Foundation, and the student loan industry. But the Trumps are just--so--icky. Democratic consultant Hilary Rosen, for example, posted a Tweet suggesting Gorelick is "complicit" in whatever nasty things the Trump family stands accused of doing this morning. A former Clinton speechwriter tells the Post, "Representing Jared and Ivanka is a case of pushing the ethical envelope." Other "longtime friends of Gorelick contacted for this article," the Post goes on, "offered complimentary comments about her on the record, and then, after asking if they could make other remarks without attribution, bashed their colleagues to smithereens."
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...Something that bothers me is that Ms. Gorelick was something of a bigwig in the Clinton Justice Department and whose actions went a long way towards insuring the 9/11 crew could do their job without interference from those pesky guys at the FBI.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
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WAPO, like the NYTs is an organ of the left and the deep state. WAPO
These outlets are used to discredit whoever opposes the Party line. Our tax money used against us?
[American Thinker] Pop the champagne corks, set off the fireworks, former FBI Director, James Comey nixed the "Russian collusion." In his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey cleared President Trump of all charges ‐ no collusion, no conspiracy, no investigation, no there there.
Yay! It's over. The Russian conspiracy nonsense is finally debunked. Whew!
Does anyone else see the insanity here ‐ that we celebrate when the president is cleared of phony charges, that we breathe a sigh of relief when the fired FBI director fails to establish an obstruction of justice charge?
Does anyone wonder why we anxiously watch each inane congressional hearing to see if the left gets the goods to pull off its coup, why we wake up each morning terrified that the insurgents have hit their mark, found something, anything they can use to depose a duly elected president?
We are watching, in real-time, a palace revolution, an overt effort to remove the president of the United States. Just as James Comey proudly admitted he leaked privileged communication to the press, so these insurgents brazenly brag that they want to harm the president, to impeach him, to overthrow our government. The American people seem shockingly oblivious to the looming danger.
How did we get here? Well, let's give credit where credit's due: the left has its ducks in a row. Leftists are carrying out a carefully planned, well executed plot to take control of our government.
Oh, it's not soldiers bursting through the White House gates to forcefully remove the president, or, as the left says, not yet. No, they're using a form of behavior therapy, systematic desensitization, to numb the American people to their insurgence.
Systematic desensitization is a technique used to treat phobias. The patient, while relaxed, is exposed to progressively more frightening aspects of his phobia. For instance, treatment for arachnophobia, fear of spiders, might start by showing the phobic an image of a spider. The patient employs relaxation techniques while exposed to the image until he overcomes his anxiety. Next, a real spider may be introduced, far away, in a cage. After the person accepts that exposure, the spider is taken out of the cage and moved closer and closer until the patient is able to hold a live spider in his hand.
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Congress, corporate and social media, activist courts, and a contingent in our intelligence community unite to form a cabal (a conspiratorial group of plotters). This cabal uses this desensitization technique to condition us to overcome our fear of losing our freedom, of a disappearing democracy.
Using this technique, the cabal does something wrong, illegal, or unconstitutional – behavior that's a threat to our republic.
This cabal of insurgents criminals ought to be fearful of Americans when they finally get fed up with this charade parading as justice.
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When that reckoning comes, they should remember that it was they who crushed every shred of mercy, compassion and empathy out of us. It was they who hardened our souls that this reckoning will not be like the last, where both sides could see and understand honor between them. This is war to the knife, no mercy, no quarter.
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.
[Free Beacon] Liberals have no problem defending al Qaeda--but draw the line at Ivanka Trump.
