Housekeeping Note: I've added a notation on the line for each gun in each state denoting the highest number of that category available for private sale. I suspect this number will go down some in the coming months, but you never know what will happen in a complex market environment such as used firearms for private sale.
Erudite former special operations blogger Hognose died a few weeks ago of a massive heart attack, but thankfully the Weapons Man blog lives on. Mentioned recently is the author's contention that the usual statistic of 300 million firearms owned by US citizens is actually double, possibly as high as 660 million firearms. You can read their explication here.
Pistol ammunition prices were mixed. Rifle ammunition prices were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were higher across the board.
New Lows:
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Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo 2 U, CCI, FMJ, Brass Casing, .20 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 (5 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 (5 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Patriot Outfitters Guns, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Barnaul, FMJ, Steel Casing, .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round (From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes Ammo, Own Brand, FP, Brass Casing, Reloads .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Western Arms & Ammo, Own Brand, TMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammomen, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2Q, 2017))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
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 (2 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo King, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After 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: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .82 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Winchester, Brass Casing, SP, .87 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: -.18 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Federal Eagle, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Wholesale Hunter, Federal American Eagle, Brass Casing, HP, 2.36 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks))
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Wow! A 0.460 BB gun. One should not have a need for a suppressor with this gun. I've got a little Beeman Tempest single shot air gun but it's about as much fun as one can have with his/her clothes on. I've used in inside the house in a little shooting gallery set-up and in the backyard. It helps keep the shooting skills sharp.
#3
Look, I love Ambrose, and got the audio of Undaunted Courage.
16 hour round trip. Didn't get past St. Louis. Narrator, text, whatever, had to take breaks to keep from dozing.
It isn't bad; it is very detailed. Driving across the high plains after two days of celebration is not the ideal time to contemplate choices and changes in provisions. Like I said: 16 hours. St. Louis.
[Business Insider] Being rich is really about two things.
In my Rich Habits Study, I interviewed 233 wealthy individuals (177 of whom were self-made millionaires) with at least $160,000 in annual gross income and $3.2 million in net assets. I found that becoming and staying rich tends to come from two actions:
1. Accumulating wealth.
2. Keeping the wealth you've accumulated.
The first step, getting rich, requires that you forge certain specific habits that make getting rich possible. In my book "Change Your Habits Change Your Life," I share some of the stories about how these self-made millionaires accumulated their wealth, but some of the most important Rich Habits for accumulating wealth include:
Pursuing daily growth. Daily self-improvement is a hallmark of self-made millionaires. They read at least 30 minutes a day to gain knowledge. They also devote significant time every day to practicing and perfecting their skills.
#1
Not to be confused with personal behaviors that include -
1. Alcohol and drug abuse
2. procreating before having the means to put food on the table, clothes on your back and a roof over your own head.
3. blowing off education opportunities
4. doing what kept your sperm and egg donor, their sperm and egg donors, and their sperm and egg donors, poor.
Part of being rich is comprehending that so many of us are the 1 percenters of history, let alone the world, and stop falling for all the cons others push to sell you envy and guilt.
[Hot Air] In Warsaw, as Ed Morrissey points out, Trump offered leaders from Poland and numerous other European countries long-term LNG deals to diversify their supplies and avoid creating undesirable political leverage with a certain large country to the East that has not hesitated to cut off natural gas supplies for political reasons.
Trump didn’t mention that nation. He didn’t have to. It contains six letters beginning with R and ending with a.
"America stands ready," Trump declared at a news conference, "to help Poland and other European nations diversify their energy supplies, so that you can never be held hostage to a single supplier."
In previous years, Russia has turned off natural gas exports to certain countries whose policies displeased Putin. This approach of Trump’s is another part of his tougher talk on trade, which seems to be working, as we wrote here.
Liquefied natural gas exports are a key part of this president’s energy program and trade policy, which he intends to use to help balance trade deficits and exert favorable leverage on trading partners, China, for instance, where the U.S. buys $300 billion more per year than it sells.
The United States has had an insatiable appetite for energy imports over the years. But thanks to the technical developments of fracking that tap into previously unreachable sources, the U.S. now has an immense abundance of natural gas.
It can be moved, of course, through pipelines domestically or, in special conversion facilities deeply chilled, exported in liquid form and then returned to a gaseous state by foreign customers.
By an amazing coincidence, the first massive load of U.S. LNG is due to dock in Britain Saturday. Another landed in Poland last month. Lithuania expects one soon, all among some two dozen new nation customers around the globe.
It’s all from the first LNG conversion facility in Sabine Pass, Louisiana, an $11 billion plant. Five more such plants are under construction and four others fully permitted. Each facility produces both construction and permanent jobs and, according to one analysis, some $20 billion per year in value-added economic activity. If memory serves, more new jobs fit with Trump’s economic plans too.
Additionally, natural gas burns cleaner than coal. So, the effects of fuel-switching both domestically and abroad are substantial on greenhouse gas emissions and conventional air pollutants, even without a Paris accord.
LNG export deals are privately negotiated. But Trump is so eager to push them, he jokingly offered Thursday to work out a deal on the spot with Polish President Andrzej Duda. "I think we can enter a contract for LNG within the next 15 minutes," Trump said. "Do you have anybody available to negotiate?"
Duda laughed, but saw contracts soon between the Polish government and U.S. companies. "I believe that after the conclusion of those negotiations, there will be a long-term contract for U.S. LNG deliveries to our LNG terminal," he said.
#3
LNG is significantly higher cost than pipeline gas, but it's good to have at least some alternative supply, whether against political, mechanical failure or natural disaster risks. Available sources are West Australia, West Africa, or Qatar. Limiting factors are regassification facilities (lots of NIMBYism there) and tanker shortages.
I post this because I have family and friends in Illinois.
From TFA
[DanielJMitchell] Looking at this grim situation, the state legislature decided it had to act.
Unfortunately, the politicians in Springfield decided that action meant stepping on the accelerator while driving in the wrong direction. Democrats in the state legislature (joined by some big-government Republicans, just like in Kansas) just overrode Governor Rauner’s veto and imposed a huge tax hike on a state that already has one of the nation’s highest tax burdens.
This will hasten the state’s collapse. See more at the link
#1
In 2014 it was estimated that every household in the state of Illinois would have to pay $88,000.00 to bail out underfunded Public Sector Unions plus all other underfunded obligations at that time. The double barrel effect is that both the state and the city of Chicago are deep in the red. Not sure what the number is per household in 2017.
#2
When the pension checks start bouncing Florida and Nevada will feel the impact. With no state taxes, sunny weather.... Florida and Nevada attract many 'young' Chicago retirees.
#3
A swirling drain graphic is appropriate for Illinois now.
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#4
The financial problems of Illinois go back to the 1950's. One of the contributors (and there are many) was the consolidation of school districts, the establishment of mega-schools, busing, and the educational bureaucracies that accompany large consolidated schools.
#6
And the state constitution that says that retirees' benefits cannot be cut. No matter what. So if the fire departments, police departments, current teachers all have to be laid off, because ALL of the money goes to pay pension benefits - oh, well.
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#7
..change the constitution. Where's the graft in that. Instead just indenture the rest of the population. Serfdom to unions.
[Don Surber] Forgive me for imposing upon the president's magnificent speech in Warsaw my 24-hour rule on commenting on breaking news. This rule is generally placed only on crime stories, but I thought his words worthy of something more than a gee-whiz-that-was-a-great-speech post.
Upon further review I was correct, for the president answered a question that has puzzled the nation for many years:
Why do they hate us?
A student goes to school to major in public policy or education or social psychology. She graduates, decides to become a teacher herself. Goes through all the hoops, does all the theses, and finally becomes a public school teacher or a professor at some local community college.
When she finally gets to her goal, she finds out that a guy who owns the local plumbing business or a small chain of shoe stores makes several times her salary. Suffused with anger, she tells herself, "How can this be? I'm SO much smarter than those guys, I worked SO hard to get where I am, and those morons are making a lot more than I do! It's not fair, I deserve to be the one who makes the most money and has the most stuff! THIS CAPITALIST SYSTEM IS WRONG!"
Never for a moment does she consider that there might not be anything wrong with the system, that maybe her smarts aren't so great, and maybe what she does isn't so damned special, and maybe her neighbors making thousands of independent decisions are a better way of allocating and directing where money goes in society than a few stuck up "educators" using the power of the state to force people to give the most money to educators.
Nations can act in the same way. From where I sit, many people in European countries are a lot like the woman in my example. "It's just plain wrong", they tell themselves, "that those crass, gun toting, God-believing, coarse, ignoramus Americans have done so well, so much better than us". The left in those countries, of course, but others as well.
Too often we get caught up in the weeds when it comes to motivations. Nearly all of the time look to economics and you'll find your answer.
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The core of why they hate us is honestly very simple. In their heart, they know they are inferior. They are weak, add nothing of value to the human race and are too afraid to change so instead they will happily drill holes in the bottom of the boat to sink us all so nobody realizes they are weak, spineless vermin unworthy of the race of humanity.
[American Thinker] Black Lives Matter used the Fourth of July for its denigration of "racist" America. Accusations of American racism typically begin with references to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, although they do not end there. While the indictment is popular among those who disdain America, most people know less about the slave trade than the intensity of their contempt for America and white people would seem to indicate.
A majority of "white America" are descendants of people who came to America during the great waves of European immigration from 1880 to 1924. Over a hundred million white Americans trace their ancestry to immigrants who passed through Ellis Island, which didn’t open until 1900. Most white Americans are descendants from people who came to these shores long after slavery was extinguished.
The indictment of all white people for the evil of slavery because they share skin color with slave owners is an indulgence in absurdity. We are told not to judge all Muslims as terrorists or all blacks responsible for the crimes of individual blacks. Yet, for whites, the collective guilt is unending. It is propagated in our universities under the now theological dictates of white privilege and white guilt.
The Eastern and Southern Europeans who came here primarily during the period of 1880-1924 had no participation in the slave trade except to have had some of their forbearers taken as slaves by Muslim slavers from North Africa and the Ottoman Empire. For over two hundred years, during the mid-1600s to the 1830s, Barbary Muslims trafficked in white European Christians. The Ottoman Muslims trafficking in White Christian slavery started even earlier, in the 15th century. All in all, Muslims enslaved more than two million white European Christians.
Barbary slavers nearly depopulated the coastal villages of Southern Europe and went as far north as Iceland and Scotland to conduct slave raids. Ottoman Turks went into Russia to procure slaves.
#1
My forebears arrived on American shores after the Civil War was over. Regardless of race peddlers' arguments to the contrary, I feel no guilt for anything that happened before...
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#2
I dare say most Americans held captive, kidnapped, suffering impressment, cast into slavery in foreign lands have historically longed to return to their native soil and freedom.
Those here in the States claiming slave origins and heritages from the Niger Delta, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, West Central Africa (Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola) and elsewhere, seem to.possess little or no longing to return to native lands.
#6
I'll agree to reparation payments. Here's the deal:
1. You surrender US citizenship
2. You take your check
3. You leave the US.
4. You may not visit or apply for citizenship here. EVER. Any attempt carries automatic death penalty.
I have zero guilt for anything that happened outside of my life. You wanna play the victim game, I'm sure my family was slaves to the Roman Empire far longer than yours was so FOAD.
#7
I lived in Lomé, Togo for 2 years. There are 2 main ethnic groups - the Kabye in the north and the Ewe in the south. While the Kabye were (and still are) more warrior-like, it was the Ewe that sold the Kabye to the slavers after capturing them. 400 hundred years later the Kabye are still talking about what the Ewe did to them.
BLM - I had a direct descendant die flighting for the Blue at Chickamauga. Mom's side didn't get here until the 1890s. Every generation has served this nation including mom and dad (USAF), brother (101st), other brother (USMC) and me (USMC).
I don't owe you squat.
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Moved to Opinion because Richard Fernandez is a columnist.
The Fisher Body Plant in Detroit
[PJMedia] David Gerlenter writing in the Wall Street Journal says something self-evidently true. The Left seems to have won every single culture battle fought.
Although the right reads the left, the left rarely reads the right. Why should it, when the left owns American culture? Nearly every university, newspaper, TV network, Hollywood studio, publisher, education school and museum in the nation. The left wrapped up the culture war two generations ago. Throughout my own adult lifetime, the right has never made one significant move against the liberal culture machine.
The late Andrew Breitbart noticed the same thing. Observing that "politics is downstream from culture" he argued the Left has made us the villains of our own stories.
Our lives -- indeed, our very species -- has storytelling wound into our DNA. ... Popular culture is delivered to us in the form of story via books, TV, film, music, video games, and new media. ...
Thus we come to politics ... the vast majority of those with the power of content creation are Liberals. ... Liberals control story. ...What is some of that messaging? Think about movies and TV. Corporations are evil -- using unwitting poor Africans for pharmaceutical testing (Constant Gardener) or dumping toxic chemicals into nature (Erin Brockovich, A Civil Action) or responsible for the end of mankind (Rise of the Planet of the Apes). American soldiers are bloodthirsty lawbreaking maniacs (Any military film). The CIA conducts illegal, secret operations that have nothing to do with protecting America. Radical Muslim terrorists are never villains. Trial lawyers are crusading do-gooders. David Letterman and Saturday Night Live ridicule the Right 95% of the time. Jon Stewart pretends to be centrist, but in fact jumps all over the Right far more often than the Left.
Liberal political candidates are the embodiments of those Liberal tenets. The goal is to associate them in voter minds via the vehicle of popular culture.
Even before Breitbart's warning there was Orwell who understood that the Left's ultimate ability was to uproot the past and plant their chosen seed for the future. His famous dictum "he who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past" is an unsurpassed indictment of groupthink totalitarianism. There seemed no doubt they would succeed. Within its bubble the Left's control of culture is so absolute they can watch 1984 without realizing it's about them....more
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.
[Hot Air] In Warsaw, as Ed Morrissey points out, Trump offered leaders from Poland and numerous other European countries long-term LNG deals to diversify their supplies and avoid creating undesirable political leverage with a certain large country to the East that has not hesitated to cut off natural gas supplies for political reasons.
