Housekeeping note: California's firearms market has been destroyed by state level legislation, all with the stroke of a pen and with the full assent of state and federal courts, all without the minimum standard for passing laws: consent of the governed.
Because of that this column will no longer monitor firearms prices in California. At the start of the year, I will shift to monitoring Arizona, since the left has taken over the firearms markets of all three west coast states.
There is good news. A trip to the rifle range in 36F weather was successful, relatively speaking. 360 rounds of 5.45x39 fired. One jam. In case you didn't read about the last time, I had four jams, all of which I attributed to marginal ammunition.. It could be better, but I'll take the improvement any day.
This time I practiced for the first time using a chest rig to switch magazines, at least for the first 6 magazines fired. I understand its utility in allowing the shooter to carry extra rounds and to allow the rifleman the time to reload. This new gear will take to getting used to. Instead of sitting at a bench rest to fire, changing firing positions from standing to crouched.
Firearms trainer James Yaeger has come under fire for his training practices. This video which has been distributed on Facebook shows one element of his fighting pistol class.
Yaeger has a different style in his training practices. His explanation for the activity shown in the video is that in a shooting situation, you will be forced to deal with others around you when you draw to fire. One individual in one of the Facebook gun groups I follow said (paraphrasing): This may work for the high testosterone crowd Yaeger trains, but it won't work for everyone else.
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly steady. Prices for rifle ammunition were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were mostly higher.
New Lows:
None. It should be noted here that last week I missed a new low in Virginia for AR-15 rifles.
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: -.01 Each 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: +.02 Each
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks) Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary, FSFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .15 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 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 (8 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks) Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo King, Wolf, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo King, Wolf, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 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 (3 Weeks)
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 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 (2 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): Ammomen, Federal, RNL, .06 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds: Ammomen Federal, RNL, .06 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
[Breitbart] Britain’s Prince of Wales has spoken out on national radio in an appeal for persecuted Christians and minorities across the world, but the Royal also moved to criticise "populist groups".
Speaking on Thought for the Day, a short early morning slot on BBC Radio 4 dedicated to faith issues, the son of Britain’s reigning Monarch urged listeners to think of persecuted religious figures -- singling out Jesus Christ and Muhammad -- this Christmas. He said:
Normally at Christmas we think of the Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. I wonder though if this year we might remember how the story of the nativity unfolds, with the fleeing of the holy family to escape violent persecution. And we might also remember that when the prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina he was seeking the freedom for himself and his followers to worship.
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With all the mohammedans now in Londonistan, tis your typical butt kissing liberal politician at the expense of Christianity. You won't hear trash like him say positives about Christians on a muslim holiday.
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One day the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England.
a morose, muslim-fancying bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts
who evidently thinks that the sovereignty so many of his subjects gave their lives to defend in World War II is no longer worth a fig.
Let's not forget that together with the Saudi royal family, Prince Charles supported the mosque in North London that acted as host and incubator to Richard "Shoe Bomber" Reid, the hook-handed Abu Hamza al-Masri, and several other unsavory customers.
So his judgement in these matters is a little off.
It was only Christopher Hitchens who had the words to properly make fun of this idiot. Long live Queen Elizabeth.
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Oh, I'll think about them all right. Every time I see another bomb go off and hear the explosion accompanied by the deafening silence of the rest of Islam.
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I think of Mohammed all the time. That copy of the Quran that CAIR gave me a few months after 9/11 sits on my office floor. Every time I need to get a current year file or adjust the window blinds, I have to step on it, sometimes with both feet.
[NYPOST] The last few years, we’ve seen the creation of safe spaces, though they’re usually for protecting fragile leftists from disagreeable thoughts and arguments. Lunatic men badgering women on planes in front of their kids apparently is fair play -- if that mother is related to a Republican you don’t like.
The irony, of course, is that Ivanka Trump is someone liberals should be thankful to have in the incoming president’s inner circle. She’s certainly no partisan right-winger, and in fact has thus far during the transition been taking point on issues like climate change (she even met with Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, and crazed sex poodle Al Gore) and paid family leave. Why the rage at her?
The Trump hate has gone around the bend when the family of the president-elect is gleefully harassed.
The buzzword following Trump’s victory has been "normalization" -- as if simply by pretending he isn’t president, then he won’t be. Katy Waldman had a piece in Slate on Wednesday noting that media, charged with covering the incoming administration, is doing its best on that front: "Wary of ’normalizing’ the president-elect, yet condemned to document the perturbingly normal processes by which he is coming into power, journalists seem to have gone into full dissociative mode."
This disassociation isn’t convincing the millions of Americans who voted for Trump that he’s any less legitimate. It hasn’t taken away any of the president’s power, or changed one of his policies. It’s just made liberals look more rude and out of touch.
The left is trying to turn the whole country into a liberal safe space -- safe for them, dangerous for anyone who disagrees with them. They’ve lost their minds.
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The last few years, we’ve seen the creation of safe spaces, though they’re usually for protecting fragile leftists from disagreeable thoughts and arguments
. . . before that insidious force called logic has a chance to take hold.
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other". - Abraham Lincoln
Socialism is slavery as the plantation system writ large. We're about to enter the Bleeding Kansas period.
[DAWN] COLD-blooded mass murder -- even by the standards of violence to which Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... has been subjected over the last few decades, it is a chilling confession, provided, of course, it was not made under duress. What makes it even more horrific is that the man who has admitted to the crime belongs to a major political party that has been a coalition partner on both national and provincial levels. Abdul Rehman, alias Bhola, a former MQM sector in-charge, confessed on Thursday before a judicial magistrate to his involvement in the Baldia factory fire case, claiming he acted on instructions from his political masters. According to the suspect, he, along with an accomplice, set the multistorey garment factory ablaze on Sept 11, 2012, at the behest of the then MQM Tanzeemi Committee chief Hammad Siddiqui because the factory owners had refused to pay the protection money demanded. Over 250 factory workers were burned alive in the inferno, the deadliest industrial disaster in Pakistain’s history.
Abdul Rehman’s confession blows the lid off the workings of the MQM, down to the very sector and unit level upon which the party was organised in its areas of influence. The MQM used fear and intimidation to enforce its vice-like grip over Pakistain’s largest city; that much was well known. But the latest revelation illustrates the ruthlessness with which it pursued its objectives, and the impunity that it believed it enjoyed to achieve them. If party leaders could go so far as to order arson at a place where it was obvious that hundreds would die an agonising death trapped behind locked doors, one may well ask: what else were they capable of? The venality of the MQM’s krazed killer element is no longer in any doubt. They must be brought to book, and every allegation against them and their partners in crime investigated.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the truth is that the political machinations of the establishment -- not to mention the competing agendas of the different groups that comprise it -- and its penchant for playing off one ’asset’ against another, have much to do with the MQM’s rise, its dominance and subsequent factionalisation. Now that the ghastly details of the party’s criminal acts are coming to light, impartiality and due process are all the more critical: without them, even compelling evidence can be presented by the perpetrators as political victimisation. Finally, this is also an hour of reckoning for those who have been affiliated with the MQM for decades and who still aspire to represent the people of this country. Certainly, they have distanced themselves from party supremo the increasingly corpulentAltaf Hussain ..The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him,he may be a Hutt... -- whether tacitly or otherwise, but undeniably for opportunistic reasons -- since the crackdown against the MQM began. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... that does not absolve them of responsibility for the crimes committed by the MQM. Instead of more lies and prevarication, the people of Karachi, in particular, deserve an apology.
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[Breitbart] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the description of Facebook as a media outlet, but added that it does not operate like a "traditional" media company.
In a Facebook video interview with company COO Sheryl Sandberg, Zuckerberg said that Facebook was a "new kind of platform" and therefore "not a traditional media company."
"It’s not a traditional technology company. It’s not a traditional media company," he said. "You know, we build technology and we feel responsible for how it’s used. We don’t write the news that people read on the platform, but at the same time we also know that we do a lot more than just distribute the news, and we’re an important part of the public discourse."
It is the first time Zuckerberg has described Facebook as a "media company," having previously rejected the label. When asked by a young man whether he planned on becoming a news editor, the CEO said that Facebook was a "tech company, not a media company."
Zuckerberg’s comments come amid rising concern of politically biased moderation of Facebook’s content, after the company last week announced plans to start marking "fake news" with warning labels, with the help of partisan fact checkers such as Snopes and Politifact.
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Well, suckerpurge's operation is going to censor the news as it sees fit and the consuming cohort is self selecting. I don't think it's as big a problem as it's made out to be, but that doesn't mean it isn't a problem.
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Were he alive, George Orwell's head would be exploding.
#3
This isn't all that different than what he was doing a few months ago; he's just getting outsiders to make the decision for him, thus he gets to pretend his hands are clean.
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Declare it a utility, nationalize it (paying $1.00 in compensation), re-privatize shortly before the end of Trump's term(s) by selling to someone decent.
Do the same with the rest of SocMed.
Dirty pool?
Sure.
After the last eight years, I no longer give a shit about Marquess of Queensberry rules.
[Liberal Society] In a farewell interview, Barack Obama the president slammed Fox News and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. The president also pointed out how they manipulated the American people into thinking that President Obama was a bad president.
Barack Obama told Ta-Nehisi Coates: ‘In 2008 I was never subjected to the kind of concentrated vilification of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, the whole conservative-media ecosystem, and so as a consequence, even for my first two years as a senator [of Illinois] I was polling at 70 percent.’
‘[T]hey weren’t seeing some image of me as trying to take away their stuff and give it to black people, and coddle criminals, and all the stereotypes of not just African American politicians but liberal politicians. You started to see that kind of prism being established towards the end of the 2008 race, particularly once Sarah Palin was the nominee. And obviously almost immediately after I was elected, it was deployed in full force. And it had an impact in terms of how a large portion of white voters would see me.’
‘And what that speaks to—and this is something I still strongly believe—is that the suspicion between races, the way it can manifest itself in politics, in part comes out of people’s daily interactions and the fact that we’re segregated by communities, and by schools, and our churches, and people’s memories passed down through generations.’
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He has a very pedestrian view of conservatives (i.e., normal Americans) if all he can keep saying is 'Rush Limbaugh / Fox News' whenever he tries to explain away his failures.
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In 2008 he says he wasn't vilified by Fox & Limbaugh - because they had not yet seen his policies and actions. He didn't change color from 2008 to 2016, so one must assume the 'vilification' in 2016 is not about race.
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because they had not yet seen his policies and actions
Some of us had, Glenmore. Some of us already knew what would be in store for Americans. It's actually been much worse than what I figured he could get away with.
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Good bye.
Yes you'll be rich,
But you'll still be you, asshole.
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.
[Breitbart] Britain’s Prince of Wales has spoken out on national radio in an appeal for persecuted Christians and minorities across the world, but the Royal also moved to criticise "populist groups".
[Liberal Society] In a farewell interview, Barack Obama the president slammed Fox News and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. The president also pointed out how they manipulated the American people into thinking that President Obama was a bad president.
