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2015-10-10 -Land of the Free

This Week In Guns, October 10th, 2015

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Posted by badanov 2015-10-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Wrt Australia: a gun's a clumsy club if you can't find ammo. Leftists don't seem to be very good at long term thinking, but in this case if they hold control long enough they do succeed in disarming the citizens who don't have special connections. Maybe you're OK, but if you want to train your kids to shoot you burn up some of your stockpile.

Posted by James 2015-10-10 11:16|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2015-10-10 11:16|| Front Page Top

#2 No word yet on the protest in Roseburg against President Barak Obama's visit to push gun confiscation.

you know it was a success when his visit to pimp himself and use the victims as props didn't make the headlines. FB had pictures, stories showing the "Obama go home" and "Go GOLF" signs protesters held

Posted by Frank G 2015-10-10 11:18|| 2015-10-10 11:18|| Front Page Top

#3 IOs there ANY gunpowder still made in the USA? Available to private purchasers?

Posted by Glenmore 2015-10-10 13:03|| 2015-10-10 13:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Popular Gunpowder Manufacturers

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-10 13:09|| 2015-10-10 13:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I should have said smokeless powder - indeed there are black powder makers still here. Hodgdon AFAIK re-markets powders from other countries. There is still one US powder plant - in Florida, I think - but I don't know who markets their product.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-10-10 13:18|| 2015-10-10 13:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Yep Glen, Olin at St. Marks. About 20 miles south of me.

Posted by Shipman 2015-10-10 13:32|| 2015-10-10 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Posted back in 2010.

To the best of my information, there are only two plants in the United States that manufacture smokeless propellant to load ammunition for our firearms. All else is imported, from Canada, Scandinavia, Europe, Israel, and Australia primarily.

These two plants are both owned by giant defense and government contractors for whom sales of powder for civilian ammunition consumption is but a tiny fraction of their business.

One is the General Dynamics plant in St. Marks, Florida, which produces for Hodgden, Winchester and others, and the Alliant plant in Connecticut which produces for the Alliant family of companies and for the Lake City Arsenal (currently under Alliant management).

That's why the Montana Shooting Sports Association has crafted a bill for the 2011 Montana legislative session to encourage the production of smokeless powder, primers and brass on a small scale, a scale that should be reproduced on a state-by-state basis.

Montana Shooting Sports Association

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Alliant Powder

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-10 13:37|| 2015-10-10 13:37|| Front Page Top

#8 It seems like consumer powders under the Alliant name come out of the St. Mark's plant (is the CT factory even still running?), which is the last factory in the US; everything else is from overseas. If 'they' can't take away our guns, they are very well-positioned to take away our ammo, including our ability to reload.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-10-10 14:08|| 2015-10-10 14:08|| Front Page Top

#9 If 'they' can't take away our guns, they are very well-positioned to take away our ammo, including our ability to reload.

Isn't USA famous for the amount of powder smuggled across its borders?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-10 14:17|| 2015-10-10 14:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Were ammo to get banned nationwide, Mexican and Russian organized crime would sniff out a new market for ammunition the same way Barky sniffs out a new gold course.

Imagine, though illegal and "unpatriotic", organized crime providing a better product at a lower price.

Posted by badanov 2015-10-10 16:03|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-10-10 16:03|| Front Page Top

#11 BTW: TWIG archives are now up to date.

Posted by badanov 2015-10-10 16:33|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-10-10 16:33|| Front Page Top

#12 If you have not lived in a small rural town, things are close and personal.

So there was a drug deal gone bad, and community didn't know if criminal was:
A)going around shooting debtors/snitches
B) going to fight his way out of being intercepted
C) totally methed out and sooting people who had spiders under their skin or something.

It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, so people are gathered, kids at the playgrounds. From what I heard though is the tavern looked like Paul Revere had rode through town.

Little AAR - all the prep work paid off. Not just range time, but physically going through the motions. These low frequency high risk hard to accurately train for events do get the blood going. Not having to look for things was very reassuring and when the plan went wrong I could handle the problems more efficiently.

What went wrong - don't take equipment for granted. Was manning the Bailey herding geese towards the Motte when I found the holster that was supposed to fit, didn't. Foolish. Embarrassing.

Second, the medical kit is repositioned from the walls to the keep. Figured if the walls can't be held, then help would be difficult and dangerous.

Know reliable sources of information. Be a reliable sources of information. Many people OMGeleventy when they find out when the most dangerous part of the storm has already passed. Make an honest appraisal of the situation.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-10-10 18:30|| 2015-10-10 18:30|| Front Page Top

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