As in the last massacre, the left most helpfully has been pushing the public mind to accept gun confiscation as a goal they have had all along. I never really looked upon it as such, but Rantburger Silentbrick characterized it as a call for slavery. My only beef is that compared with the way things should be under a constitutional republic, we are all already slaves; it is now a matter of degree of how much more the government and their enablers can take. Right now, it is just money and civil rights, but the direction they are going suggests guns and blood are what they are after.
The main reason for referencing the discussion is this gem from a commenter:
The greatest paradigm shift required is a willingness to allow commanders to actually command an action from the air. All too often company commanders are forced to develop situational awareness solely through situation reports submitted by subordinate units. Fire force commanders could talk to, as well as see, their troops. Consequently, they were able to achieve the tempo necessary to outmaneuver and defeat an elusive enemy similar to the type Marines faced during Operation RESTORE HOPE. We would be remiss if we failed to study the modern conflict of the Rhodesian War and ignored the lessons learned.
Read the entire comment. It is a summary of an article on how Rhodesian light infantry dealt with a hostile guerrilla movement through the use of light infantry tactics. Capture the links as well. They have a number of good resources both on the history of light infantry and some data on tactics.
This matters because at Sipsey Street Irregulars there was a reference to a gun shop that was shut down because of violations of ATF rules. What the ATF did was to take information from the FFL and give it to the New York State Police, so that they could check those lists against lists of ARs that are required to be registered under the SAFE Act. The Form 4473 from which this data was collected is supposed to be destroyed within 24 hours after the background check is complete, but ATF rules, as I understand it, require FFLs to post the data to a separate book so that ATF agents can see them. Apparently no rule exists that disallows the ATF from passing that information to local authorities, but I seriously doubt that the rule that requires destruction of the form 4473 was intended to be used to allow that information to be passed on in any other form.
As that matter stands now, about 200 firearms owners in New York have been contacted and told to turn in their firearms (ARs) so federal prosecutors can use them as evidence. The notification that went to the owners did not say whether the owners would get their guns back, but I suspect that any transfer would require another background check. Maybe through a friendlier FFL.
Mike Vanderboegh said that this could be the spark that sets off a civil war, but I doubt it. A conflict will only arise if those gun owners refuse to turn over their guns.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition and rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for .223 55 grain ammunition jumped 10 percent higher from last week, much the same prices did last year at this time. Because of all the gun/AR-banning talk coming out of Washington and their media enablers, it is hard to tell if the jump is seasonal (due to Christmas) or because of fears of a frisky federal government. Time will tell if prices continue to hold throughout the year as they did last time banning M-855 ammunition was being considered. If prices drop after Christmas, then I can speculate that the jump will be seasonal.
Also consider this note from last week (quoting): Note, also that the price for .223 55 grain ammunition is the lowest it has been since last year at $0.21 per round.
Prices for used pistols and for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, FMJ, Brass, Reloads, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Blok Tactical, Store Brand, TMJ, Reloads, .24 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, +.02 Each After Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, RNFP, Brass, Factory Seconds, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammunition Planet, Store Brand, FMJ, Brass, Reloads; .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .16 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2015))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .34 per round (From Last Week: -.10 Each (!))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: TrueCaliber.com, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds (10 Box Limit): Ammomen, Federal Gold Medal, RNL .08 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds (5 Box Limit): Target Sports USA, Aguila, RNL, .08 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
Used Gun of the Week: (California) DPMS Chambered in .223 Remington
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I agree that in a sense we are already slaves, but at this point we still have the ability and means to flip the apple cart and burn it to the ground. We have not reached the point yet were it is the only option left to us besides a literal collar. I still have some slim hope that we can chart a new course without going to the ammo box instead of the ballot box.
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As that matter stands now, about 200 firearms owners in New York have been contacted and told to turn in their firearms (ARs) so federal prosecutors can use them as evidence. The notification that went to the owners did not say whether the owners would get their guns back, but I suspect that any transfer would require another background check. Maybe through a friendlier FFL.
I have not heard of reports of resistance to the AR return request. Are owners complying? Doubtful they will ever see their AR again.
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A coda, as it were:
I’ll add in a few things, to the readers, based on comments from the True Light Infantry post. First things first, I think a lot of folks missed the larger message. It was in part very much a critique of the current state of affairs in the US Infantry, but also a different viewpoint that seems to never get attention- the fact that most of you are not soldiers, and that groups of people who are not soldiers have been beating professional soldiers for a good while now. Second, the nation of today will not be the nation of tomorrow. The regional political landscape ten years from now very well could look completely different, and new nations may very well form as a result of balkanization. That’s not for me to say, but it surely is in the realm of possibility. Regional armies will arise as a result, and many of the challenges the Rhodesians faced will also face the breakaway states. They performed admirably given limited resources and a world who turned their backs on them. Your job is to learn absolutely everything you can now and make yourself and those close to you the absolute best at whatever it is they have to offer.
[ARABNEWS] Russian Sherlocks on Friday charged ex-oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky with organizing the 1998 murder of a mayor in Siberia, ratcheting up their campaign against the exiled former Yukos boss.
"As a result of investigative work, we managed to obtain new information and in light of this, it was decided on Dec. 11, 2015, to prosecute Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a defendant for... the organization of murder," Russia's powerful Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Investigators announced in June that they were reopening a criminal probe into the 1998 murder of Vladimir Petukhov, the mayor of oil-producing Nefteyugansk city, saying that Khodorkovsky -- then the head of the now-defunct oil giant Yukos -- may have ordered the killing.
Former Yukos security chief, Alexei Pichugin, is already serving a life term for the mayor's murder and Sherlocks said Friday that "not one important decision was taken at Yukos without Khodorkovsky's order."
Khodorkovsky, who now lives in London, has claimed that the new probe into the mayor's murder was ordered personally by President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... .
Once Russia's richest man, he spent a decade in prison on charges of tax evasion, fraud and embezzlement, which he blames on a political vendetta by Putin.
In late 2013 he was unexpectedly released and flown out of the country after a presidential pardon. After intially pledging to stay out of politics, he has once again become an outspoken critic of Putin.
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It's a stay out of politics like you agreed to when I released you message from Putin.
From an interview in London with the Financial Times last year:
As we finish our coffees, I ask Khodorkovsky if he fears for his own safety; he is leaving alone, with no bodyguards in sight. “I understand that decisions about me are taken by only one man. This, of course, provides me with a certain level of protection,” he says.
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Worth the read (and the look) if you can take the grease... Just a sample... [IMAGES.DAWN] Is there any grub as deliciously medieval as a burger? It is, after all, a hunk of cooked meat, caught between two slabs of bread, and held together by a splatter of sauces and some greens. Made well, it has the potential to gratify the brain with a slow seduction of the taste buds. Prepared poorly though, and it feels like a bare-knuckled blow from a morning star.
Pakistan’s love affair with the burger has been interesting to observe. Visiting the country as a teenager over twenty years ago, I found street food dominated by the usual desi fare such as kebab rolls, bun kebabs, biryani, chaat, and the like, yet few eateries aside from the legendary Mr. Burger and a handful of other restaurants offered a good burger. In fact, Pakistanis at this time developed an aversion to the western meal.
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"The sauce is so heavy, in fact, that the burger usually crumbles half-way through, leaving my face left looking like that of a performer in a Japanese fetish video."
nice
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[ARABNEWS] Catholics should not try to convert Jews and should work with them to fight anti-Semitism, the Vatican said in a new document that drew the Church further away from the strained relations of the past.
Christianity and Judaism are intertwined and God never annulled his covenant with the Jewish people, said the document from the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with Jews.
"The Church is therefore obliged to view evangelization to Jews, who believe in the one God, in a different manner from that to people of other religions and world views," it said.
It also said Catholics should be particularly sensitive to the significance to Jews of the Shoah, the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, and pledged "to do all that is possible with our Jewish friends to repel anti-Semitic tendencies."
"A Christian can never be an anti-Semite, especially because of the Jewish roots of Christianity," it said.
The document coincided with the 50th anniversary of a revolutionary Vatican statement that repudiated the concept of collective Jewish guilt for Jesus' death and launched a theological dialogue that traditionalists have rejected.
They feel there should be a so-called "Jewish mission" to convert Jews, a senior Vatican official said.
"In concrete terms this means that the Catholic Church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed toward Jews," said the document, adding that there was a "principled rejection of an institutional Jewish mission."
A Vatican expert in Catholic-Jewish dialogue said it was the first time a repudiation of active conversion of Jews had been so clearly stated in a Vatican document.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ‐ The co-chair of the Colorado Springs chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union resigned on Friday after posting on Facebook that he would shoot Donald Trump supporters before election day.
Loring Wirbel told The Gazette the post was not meant to be taken seriously, but he acknowledged it could be seen as offensive.
"It was intended totally as a joke," he said.
To quote Daffy Duck: "Ho-ho. Ha-ha. It is to laugh. Ho-ho."
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...And had the worst case scenario happened - some deranged nutcase shot a Trump supporter or campaign worker - it would have been blamed on 'Trump's incendiary rhetoric'....
Mike
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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.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[IMAGES.DAWN] Is there any grub as deliciously medieval as a burger? It is, after all, a hunk of cooked meat, caught between two slabs of bread, and held together by a splatter of sauces and some greens. Made well, it has the potential to gratify the brain with a slow seduction of the taste buds. Prepared poorly though, and it feels like a bare-knuckled blow from a morning star.
