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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Build your own 9mm SMG
Via hefferman1
The Home Gunsmith
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NEW DOWNLOAD!
The 'BSP' 9mm SMG
They say the best things in life are free ... but not in this case!
Complete plans (including photo's and illustrations) showing the construction process of this 9mm BSP- SMG.
* This firearm design is perhaps the simplest of all improvised SMG' designs.
* Constructed using off the shelf British Standard Pipe fittings and hardware products.
Download plans for free
BSP-SMG Schematic
The Home Gunsmith
VERBATIM
The 'BSP' 9mm SMG
Complete plans (including photo's and illustrations) showing the construction process of this 9mm BSP- SMG.
* This firearm design is perhaps the simplest of all improvised SMG' designs.
* Constructed using off the shelf British Standard Pipe fittings and hardware products.
Download plans for free
Surprise: New insurance fee in Obamacare
Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too. It's a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
The charge, buried in a recent regulation, works out to tens of millions of dollars for the largest companies, employers say. Most of that is likely to be passed on to workers.
Employee benefits lawyer Chantel Sheaks calls it a "sleeper issue" with significant financial consequences, particularly for large employers.
"Especially at a time when we are
facing economic uncertainty, (companies will) be hit with a
multi-million dollar assessment without getting anything back for it,"
said Sheaks, a principal at Buck Consultants, a Xerox subsidiary.
Based on figures provided in the
regulation, employer and individual health plans covering an estimated
190 million Americans could owe the per-person fee.
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Obama’s Jobs Council: ‘State-Run Communism’ Actually ‘Works’
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Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric and Chairman of
the White House Council on Jobs and Competitiveness was interviewed by
Charlie Rose on Bloomberg Television Monday evening. When asked about
China, Immelt praised the Chinese and their centrally planned economy:
CHARLIE ROSE: China is changing. It may
be being stabilized as we speak. What does that mean for China and what
does it mean for the United States? Should it change expectations?
JEFF IMMELT: It is good for China. To a
certain extent, Charlie, 11 percent is unsustainable. You end up getting
too much stimulus or a misallocation of resources. They are much better
off working on a more consumer-based economy, less dependent on
exports. The one thing that actually works, state run communism a bit–
may not be your cup of tea, but their government works.
Auto Bailout Loss Could Exceed $70 Billion
Courtesy of the $83 billion auto bailout - on which we are already poised to lose more than $40 billion - the taxpayers are stuck with 26% stock ownership of General Motors (GM). It could get much worse.
Judge Set to Rule on Case That Could Reverse Auto Bailout
A New York federal judge may rule imminently on a case that could reverse the General Motors bailout and send the company back into bankruptcy....
At issue is a backroom deal hatched by GM to fulfill the Obama administration’s demand for a quick bankruptcy, draining the automaker of nearly all of its cash on hand and leaving it in worse shape than it was when it collapsed in 2009....
On the eve of entering bankruptcy, the company cut a $367 million “lock-up agreement” with several major hedge funds to prevent GM Canada from failing. The agreement ensured that GM could spin-off its liabilities to “old GM,” while using a multi-billion dollar bailout to create a new company....
“(Judge Robert Gerber) has made it very clear that he is greatly dissatisfied with the process,” one analyst told the Washington Free Beacon in October. “He’s basically implying that GM hid it from him and that reopening the sale is a possibility.”...
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US sending 20 brand new F-16s to Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood
The first four jets are to be delivered to Egypt beginning Jan. 22, a source at the naval air base in Fort Worth, where the planes have been undergoing testing, told FoxNews.com. The North African nation already has a fleet of more than 200 of the planes and the latest shipment merely fulfills an order placed two years ago. But given the uncertainty in Cairo, some critics wonder if it is wise to be sending more top gun planes.
“Should an overreaction [by Egypt] spiral into a broader conflict between Egypt and Israel, such a scenario would put U.S. officials in an embarrassing position of having supplied massive amounts of military hardware … to both belligerents,” said Malou Innocent, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute. “Given Washington's fiscal woes, American taxpayers should no longer be Egypt’s major arms supplier.”
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Do you hate a plant more than you love your rights?
Via Oleg Volk
Prohibition of a desired substance or item always causes a black market, unless you have police powers and social controls similar to the German occupation forces in WWII Eastern Europe. (And the fact that even the Nazis were never able to fully suppress the black market for cigarettes and butter despite death penalties for “economic parasites” just shows how nigh-impossible it is to kill that sort of entrepreneurship.)
The reason is simple: government prohibition of a desired good makes that good artificially expensive, and all the profits go to those willing to risk bucking the system. As the Prohibition was an effective price control and profit guarantee for bootleggers, hooch runners, and speakeasies, the current War on Some Drugs serves in the same fashion for pot growers, cocaine smugglers, and meth cooks. The risks are high, but when you pass a law that effectively puts a 10,000% profit margin on a simple plant product, you will always have plenty of people taking the risks involved in its manufacture and distribution. That’s a simple economic fact, and working against it is as pointless as working against gravity.
Prohibition causes huge profit margins for dealers cause turf wars cause violence causes public concern causes calls to “do something” cause gun control. If you’re for prohibition, you are for gun control. That’s irrespective of the substance to be prohibited.I posted that on Facebook yesterday, in response to one of my FB friends posting about the pot legalization law in Colorado. I want to expand on that statement a little, even though in its current form it’s pretty much distilled down into the TL;DR form already.
Prohibition of a desired substance or item always causes a black market, unless you have police powers and social controls similar to the German occupation forces in WWII Eastern Europe. (And the fact that even the Nazis were never able to fully suppress the black market for cigarettes and butter despite death penalties for “economic parasites” just shows how nigh-impossible it is to kill that sort of entrepreneurship.)
The reason is simple: government prohibition of a desired good makes that good artificially expensive, and all the profits go to those willing to risk bucking the system. As the Prohibition was an effective price control and profit guarantee for bootleggers, hooch runners, and speakeasies, the current War on Some Drugs serves in the same fashion for pot growers, cocaine smugglers, and meth cooks. The risks are high, but when you pass a law that effectively puts a 10,000% profit margin on a simple plant product, you will always have plenty of people taking the risks involved in its manufacture and distribution. That’s a simple economic fact, and working against it is as pointless as working against gravity.
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