From Hershel Smith comes an article on using the AR-15 in a home defense role. Any tool available is good for home defense. In a home setting, if you are lucky enough to get the first shot, you will (or should) be able to fire the last shot as well, if you use a modern semiautomatic rifle.
ARs are loud, as are AK-74s. In the case of home defense, I'd rather suffer the noise in stopping a Bad Guy than to worry about how much of noise my firearm will make.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol ammunition prices were mostly lower. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mostly higher. Prices for used rifles were mostly lower.
Looking at differences between ammunition prices at the end of the 2nd Quarter and the end of the 3rd Quarter (which ends today), ammunition prices seem to be following a slow downward trend. If historical tendencies are followed, by next month ammunition prices should slowly drop until the first of the year, before recovering. Last year at this time, however, was the first time since this column was begun that ammunition prices failed to recover following the first of the year, and stayed lower than they were at the start of autumn.
New Lows:
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Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each (From Q2, 2017: .23 per round, -.02 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes Ammo, Own Brand, RNL, Brass Casing, Reloads .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
(From Q2, 2017: .18 per round, +.02 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammomen, Magtech, FMJFN, Brass Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Octane Munitions, Own Brand, RNFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks) (From Q2, 2017: .15 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Extreme Reloading, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing .14 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Fedarm, Own brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (1Q, 2017) (From Q2, 2017: .24 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes Ammo, Own Brand, FNMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks) (From Q2, 2017: .24 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes Ammo, Own Brand, FNCJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Armscor, FMJ, Brass Casing .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks) (From Q2, 2017: .20 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Men, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017) (From Q1, 2017: .32 per round, Unchanged)
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 (3Q, 2017))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017) (From Q2, 2017: .20 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo King, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: True Caliber, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017) (From Q2, 2017: .54 per round, Unchanged)
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: +.01 Each (From Q2, 2017: .82 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .81 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Winchester, Brass Casing, SP, .82 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q1, 2017: 2.35 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Red River Reloading, American Eagle, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.36 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds : Wholesale Hunter, Federal, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.36 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017) (From Q1, 2017: .04 per round, Unchanged)
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 (2Q, 2017))
[The Hill] President Trump is privately questioning whether having his family members serve in the White House creates too much of a distraction for his administration, according to a new report.
Politico reported on Friday that Trump has been quietly talking to other administration officials as he reconsiders the roles of White House advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
"Baby, you’re getting killed, this is a bad deal," Trump reportedly told Ivanka Trump in a room with other staffers after viewing criticism of his daughter's role in the administration.
Ivanka Trump faced heavy criticism during last July's G20 summit when she briefly sat in for her father at a meeting with world leaders. Trump defended his daughter on Twitter at the time, arguing that the same standard would not exist for Hillary Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton.
"When I left Conference Room for short meetings with Japan and other countries, I asked Ivanka to hold seat. Very standard. Angela M agrees!" Trump tweeted in July. "If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother, as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!"
Kushner, however, is embroiled in a different controversy. The senior White House aide is part of a special counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia over a meeting he attended at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
Although Politico reported that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has been frustrated with Kushner's role at the White House, Kelly responded to the story in a statement to Politico, saying, "Jared is a valued member of the White House staff."
#1
He could never have envisioned how vicious Washington and the 'swamp' could become when challenged. No man in his right mind would want his family to become targets of these people.
#2
Young people are very resilient if supported by their manager. While in my early 20's I was in an incredibly brutal job for 5 full years while none of my middle aged managers could last more than 6 months. I even lobbied to become the manager but they wanted middle aged management.
They should not be cabinet level advisors. Only trusted soldiers.
[DAWN] What the foreign minister has claimed ought to be unremarkable and uncontested. Groups such as the Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... are no allies of this country and their leaders have agendas that are inimical to the rule of law, constitutionality and democracy in Pakistain.
There cannot and should not be space for such groups to operate, either clandestinely or openly, in Pakistain and the state has no business forfeiting the rights and future of the Pak people in the pursuit of some self-defeating strategic goals. What can be debated is the right approach to dismantling the remaining Lion of Islam networks and deradicalising Pak society.
Fears of blowback are not unfounded and where peaceful means can be found, they should be thoroughly explored. Perhaps the government should consider widening the incipient debate to include parliament, the provinces and civil society.
A more inclusive, tolerant Pakistain at peace with its neighbours is first and foremost a victory for the Pak people themselves. Bad choices stem from narrowly confined deliberations. All of Pakistain should be invited to debate the country’s future.
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[SultanKnish] An Army recruit starts off with a salary under $20,000. Thousands of active duty military personnel are on food stamps. Millions of veterans rely on them to feed their families and themselves.
That’s how we treat the best of us. Here’s how we treat the worst of us.
An NFL rookie’s minimum salary is $465,000. And the majority of NFL players are usually bankrupt a few years after retirement because they blew through most of their money. Dozens of NFL players are arrested every year on charges ranging from murder to rape to animal abuse.
2017 was a banner year for the NFL with three times as many arrests as last year.
...It’s no wonder that so many of the NFL’s millionaire scumbags are eager to join Colin Kaepernick’s protests against the justice system by degrading our anthem.
It’s because they’re criminals.
...The only question is why are the rest of us subsidizing it?
...The NFL comes with a pass on property taxes (those are for little people) and taxes in general. Until 2015, the NFL was a non-profit. "Professional football leagues" was actually inserted into the Internal Revenue Code to provide a special non-profit status. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell got paid $44 million in one year. That made him the highest paid non-profit exec in the country.
The entire NFL is an illegal trust. It’s a monopoly that was illegally legalized by Congress.
That monopoly allows the NFL and its teams to cash in on television licensing and team gear. After the NFL uses its illegal monopoly to rip off broadcasters, ESPN rips off cable subscribers.
...The NFL is built on government taking money from people and giving it to the industry. Its leftward tilt isn’t an accident. It’s a calculated move. Who are the folks most likely to bail out an industry? They’re on the left. Not the right. If your monopoly is dying, it’s time to go left and hate America.
Anthem bashing is popular with the left. And it’s very popular with the social justice bloggers who increasingly dominate sports journalism, and not just on ESPN. Hating America will score points with the left. It’ll buy the NFL more protectionism from the media and the 2020 Democrats.
The only question is why do we need the NFL?
Once upon a time there was a football free market. Multiple leagues competed with each other. And the NFL was just one of many. The NFL-AFL merger created a monster monopoly that has worked to crush any independent league through its control over broadcasting and venues.
That's what happened with the United States Football League which won an anti-trust court case against the NFL, but was forced under anyway.
...Before the anthem protests, the NFL was just one of the corrupt legacies of Democrat rule. It’s a reminder of the fact that social justice politics, whether it’s Obama’s "You Didn’t Build That" or Huey Long’s "Share Our Wealth", is nothing more than organized thievery from the working class.
But the NFL is no longer just a corrupt monopoly. Instead it’s becoming a radical anti-American organization that uses its taxpayer-subsidized stadiums and monopoly broadcasting rights to spread hatred toward this country and disrespect to the soldiers who fought and died for it.
America could have tolerated the NFL’s corrupt thievery. But there’s no way Americans should be subsidizing this diseased leftover of Democrat corruption when it spews hate at the United States.
It’s time for the NFL’s anti-trust exemption to go the way of Ma Bell.
Break up the corrupt Democrat monopoly of the NFL and demolish the barriers to the formation of independent leagues by taking on the NFL, ESPN and its broadcasting partners in crime.
It’s time for the NFL to take a knee and for the free market to rise.
One way for Trump as Commander in Chief to take action against the N.F.L. (No Fans Left) is through executive order. He could pass an E.O. saying No active members of the military will participate in fly overs, Honor Guards or advertisement with the National Football League. If he took this tact I'm sure the police departments would also follow suit.
#3
...Both of those are awesome ideas, and I'd love to see the Hall of Fame induction week ceremonies come off with no military support at all. I had a lot of fun the three years I marched in it (hard not to smile while standing behind a car carrying Roger Staubach, Tom Landry, and Don Meredith while they're good naturedly and slightly profanely arguing over who the better player was) but were I in the same place today, I'd at least register a protest myself about having to march in my country's uniform to honor people who don't give a rat's backside about what I'm supposed to be defending.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
09/30/2017 10:43 Comments ||
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#4
Trump should work with congress on the NFLs stock loopholes.
#7
The NFL owners are mostly billionaire virtue signalers. They can afford to take a financial hit indefinitely. The real fun will begin when the player's share of the hit starts to really bite.
#9
Look, they won't even initiate a Grand Jury thingy for Hillary the Harridan, so do we think we will ever see this NFL gravy train come to an end?
And why, then, is the NFL any different from any other outfit that gets either special tax breaks or subsidies? Get rid of them all. Let's start with the lunacy that is ethanol and the price of corn.
#10
Let's start with the lunacy that is ethanol and the price of corn.
1922 - Your gasoline will cost a bit more. Tetraethyl lead will be added to gas to make your automobile run better, more efficiently.
1973 - Your gasoline will cost a bit more. Tetraethyl lead removed from our gasoline to make your automobile engie burn cleaner and more efficiently.
1975 - Your gasoline will cost a bit more, but Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards will improve the average fuel economy of your automobile.
2006 - Your gasoline will cost a bit more, but we're adding ethanol due to the energy crisis. It will help your automobile run more efficiently and cleaner.
#11
Everything that the Dems get control of goes bankrupt. Stay home, barbcue or make popcorn and pop in a great movie in the DVR for Sunday afternoon or watch an old silly B-rated SciFi movie with friends and family.
[Breitbart] In these trying times, Jackie Mason is the Voice of Reason.
In this week’s exclusive clip for Breitbart News, Jackie takes aim at the NFL players who have taken a knee during the pre-game singing of the National Anthem, and the celebrities who fall all over themselves to prove that they support the players.
"How far is this gonna go? You think pretty soon they’ll start holding their noses during the Pledge of Allegiance?" Jackie wonders.
"Did you hear about all these actors who have all this sympathy, and they’re all identifying with everybody who’s down on their knees? They’re walking around, as soon as they see somebody, they get down on their knee," Jackie explains. "You know why? They’re looking for an opportunity to show you how they can’t stand this country. The more money they make, the more they hate this country."
Jackie says that NFL players are really kneeling because they’re "still suffering from discrimination" in the United States.
#1
Or being used like a bunch of political toolbags. "Jackie says that NFL players are really kneeling because they’re "still suffering from discrimination" in the United States. "
[American Thinker] Fresh off the heels of the march on Charlottesville and the destruction of historical monuments in the South by Black Lives Matter, protests are occurring; this time it is against our National Anthem and our flag in stadiums across our country. "Taking the knee" was first introduced by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick about a year ago, but has since gained in momentum as many other black athletes with million-dollar salaries have joined in solidarity with demonstrations against white oppression and racism.
Whites comprise about 75 percent of America's population and they have had just about enough of the offensive accusations, protests, and moral outrage directed at them. Yes, blacks were brought here centuries ago as slaves, but America did not originate slavery nor do we still practice slavery, as do parts of Africa and Muslim nations today. In fact, America fought a civil war to end slavery. It's been over 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation, thus, the fate of today's blacks rests not upon yesterday's slaveholders, but upon today's failed black leadership who have intentionally kept America's blacks on an imaginary plantation through the indoctrination of victimhood. By instilling the notion that blacks today are the victims of white racism and "white privilege", black leadership (Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, and Maxine Waters, to name a few) have created not only an entitlement mentality, but a dependency and helplessness prevalent among young blacks in inner cities throughout the country.
It is not "whitey" who is committing 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders, 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties throughout the United States. Despite comprising only about 15 percent of the population in those counties. 91 percent of blacks are murdered by other blacks. Blacks comprise 10 percent of the population, but commit 42 percent of the robberies and 34 percent of felonies. In a report from the Department of Justice, over a 30-year period between 1980 and 2008, blacks committed half of all homicides in the United States despite comprising only 13 percent of the population.
Furthermore, a 2007 FBI file reports there were 433,934 single-offender victimization crimes against whites by blacks compared to 55,685 crimes committed by whites against blacks -- eight times as many more crimes committed against whites by blacks. Interracial rape is almost exclusively a black on white crime with 14,000 assaults on white woman but not one case of a white sexual assault on a black female.
#1
Blacks spearheaded the removal of Confederate monuments. At the same time blacks are spearheading the disrespect of the flag that flew over the Union forces that defeated the Confederacy and won blacks their freedom from slavery. The flag that flew over the forces that defeated the all white Nazi forces that murdered millions of Jews based on race. The same forces that now fight against radical Islam that believes in the slavery on non-Islamic believers.
This essentially makes the anti-US flag protesters look like idiots on bended knee.
[PJ] This can't be the kind of unity the NFL was hoping for. It appears that the mentally unstable Westboro Baptist clan is thrilled with the NFL and is publicly supporting their decision to trample all over our flag during their pre-game protests.
Contrary to the NFL's constant denial that the #TakeAKnee protests are unpatriotic or disrespectful to our nation, the Westboro cult members, who are known America-haters, see it differently and have found their soulmates in the NFL. Sending a message directly to the NFL and Jerry Jones, the cultists encouraged the continued degradation of our country on prime time.
"Westboro Baptist Church takes a seat for the entirety of the national anthem!" they cheerily posted on Twitter. It's fitting that the most hated cult in America is now supporting the most hated sport. Serendipitous.
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.
