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I just noticed in later versions of the Juarez Horizontes Sur massacre last Friday night a brief accounting of the spent weapons shells the police found at the scene of the crime.
Those caps, as the Mexican term translates, include ammunition for the AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifle,which are the two most common rifles used in the Mexican Drug War. Also found were 5.7mm spent cartridges, which Mexican press routinely call "cop killer" munitions.
With the August 9th robbery of a Chihuahua state police armory of 40 German made G-36 5.56mm assault rifles plus ammunition, a change in terms are probably in order, especially as they apply to the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
A similar change is probably in order for shootings committed with weapons using 5.7mm cartridges as well. As I understand it 5.7mm is used in the P-90 submachine gun by Mexican Special Forces and by Mexican Naval Special forces as well as is use with the Policia Federal, as is the 5.7mm FN pistol,the same weapon used by Major Hassan in Fort Hood terrorist attack a few months ago.
In cases which 9mm spent shells are found I try to as much as the facts permit me to refer to them as 9mm weapons unless the Mexican press writes the weapon used was a pistol, which it will in those cases where witnesses will talk to the press. 9x19mm ammunition is used by a wide array of pistols and in some submachine guns found in Mexican drug crimes, and because of that 9mm weapons means they found a 9x19mm spent cartridge casing at the scene and that is all.
The 7.62x39mm, as far as I know is a cartridge used only by the AK-47 assault rifle and its variants, so anytime those are found I will continue to refer to those as AK-47 assault rifles being used in a crime.
With the .223 caliber, it becomes murky. I never read about 5.56mm cartridges instead of .223, and that matters, because putting 5.56mm rounds through a .223 barrel is not advisable. Almost every crime scene in which a .223 caliber shell is found is referred to as an AR-15 assault rifle, which is a reasonable assumption.
The robbery of the G-35 5.56mm rifles changes things somewhat. One of the rifles were found last week in an abduction case by Mexican Federal agents, and I suspect more will be found before too long, as they are sold to Mexican criminals.
So as much as I can I will refer to those weapons as 5.56mm assault rifles instead of AR-15, since I can find no instances of a pistol using that class of rounds.
One last item: grenades.
I have found two classes of grenades used in Mexican Drug crimes, the hand grenade and the 40mm grenade. Those are bright lines to be sure, but the means of delivery is not.
Under the barrel launchers for the 40mm grenades (M203) for the 5.56mm assault rifles are not very common in Mexico, and I suspect the ones Mexican criminals get are either pilfered from Mexican Army armories or they are imported/stolen from other places. The old venerable M-79 grenade launcher is still is use in police forces worldwide, uncluding Latin American police agencies, as is the HK69 unde the barrel and independent system.
I have read reports in which 40mm grenades were fired from launchers, but without any specifics as to the type of launcher. It could be from any one of those systems.
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The 5.56 is a more powerful round and there is a slight shape difference that requires a specifically chambered 5.56 barrel to shoot 5.56. You can shoot .223 in a 5.56 chamber but generally should not shoot 5.56 in a .223 chamber.
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Actually Hellfish, IIRC, the 5.56 NATO cartridge and the .223 Winc are identical in outward shape. You are correct in that the 5.56 has a higher powder charge making them dangerous in barrels rated for .223 only. 9 out of 10 times they work correctly but you may get disastrous result if you have a critical mis-fire or even a FTE.
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Is this the same with the NATO 7.62 and the .308 Win rounds? I've always been told they are interchangeable.
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7.62x51mm AKA 7.62 NATO is NOT the same as .308 Winchester. The .308 has a much higher permissible chamber pressure than the 7.62 NATO and is in fact dangerous to shoot in a 7.62 NATO rifle. However, 7.62 NATO can safely be shot from a .308 rifle.
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I fail to see how banksters could get an erotic thrill from collapsing their own institutions. Now on the other hand, when they total up the proceeds from the bets they made on the short side...well then, who the hell needs little blue pills?
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When you see something completely wrong like this The bankers who brought the global economy to its knees two years ago may have enjoyed the sensation of losing hundreds of billions of pounds and plunging the world into recession, according to Paul Crosthwaite of Cardiff University. you know the rest of the article is just as likely to be bunkum.
The decision to mess up the economy was made by the regulators who wanted as much credit as possible to cover over the cracks (money velocity problems) caused by their taxation of earnings.
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Banksters didn't lose money in the collapse. You have to understand that only we lost money. It's the same thrill that Tony Montana gets when he hoses down his rivals with an AK-47. The same thrill a wolf gets when it rips out the throat of a sheep.
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what a crock. Only an academic could get paid for such an incredibly stupid "study". Sigh.
Like Gromky said the banksters didn't lose the money, they made it when the packaged and sold the loans. They weren't left holding the bag. But then one would not expect an academic to have such a deep (scoff) level of insight into the crisis.
I suppose on some level, the young buck banksters should have known it was unsustainable and that their jobs could be lost when it all came tumbling down. But that was tomorrow and they were living high for today.
Whatever we paid in taxes for this study was too much. Can we get a refund?
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This is not a conspiracy but, rather, a mathematical certainty. It's also not a surprise. Every San Francisco government official who can do math has known about this calamity for years.
This isn't a uniquely San Franciscan problem. Cities and states across the country are facing a pension and health care meltdown. In fact, compared to many retirement systems nationwide, San Francisco's has been well run. There's no rampant corruption (cough, cough, Bell), and it wasn't spectacularly mismanaged (Achoo! San Diego). Many retirement systems would gladly trade places with this city's.
But that's because, given the chance, those other cities would actually try to solve the problem. What's uniquely San Franciscan about our benefits crisis is that we aren't trying. San Francisco has known about this looming crisis for a decade and gone out of its way to make things worse.
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ANd iff one believes that US-DEBT-TO-GDP-RATIO is now 93% as a number of MSM-Net Analysts claim, + no longer the official 83%, SAN FRAN HAS A MERE/PALTRY 7.0% LEFT OF DEBT EXPANSION VIA $$$ SPENDING To REACH THE MAGICAL 100%.
Or 17% left to reach the magical 110%, becuasde nothing says "SUCCESS" THAN BEING 110.0%-N-HIGHER IN DEBT + RIGHTEOUS BANKRUPTCY.
My friend Cliff Kincaid of America's Survival and yours truly, Trevor Loudon went along to the Green Fest in the Washington DC Convention Center yesterday.
Cliff wanted to challenge two of the Fest's Keynote speakers, former Weather Underground terrorists, turned Obama enablers, turned Green activists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
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Bill and Bernie still have the same terrorist mentality as when they were dangerous narcissistic adolescents. Can we say still $hit for brains after all these years.
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it also pisses off lefties to no end when I suggest that their side of the aisle suffers from a twisted messianic complex...tying anything religous to leftys makes them go apoplectic...
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