Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Marine Corps Signals Shifts To Army Sniper Rifles, Infantry Carbines
Via Jonathan
The Marine Corps is looking to retire two famous weapons systems that it has used since the Vietnam War in favor of sniper rifles and carbines first adopted by the U.S. Army.
The M40 family of bolt-action rifles was born in the Vietnam War when the Corps decided there was a need to standardize sniper rifles. The Remington 700-based 7.62 NATO-chambered rifle has evolved slowly through a number of minor chassis, optic, and barrel changes over the past five decades which enhanced its accuracy, but never extended its range beyond the 1,000 yards± practical limitations of the 7.62×51 NATO cartridge.
The Marines are looking to address that range deficiency, and while they have made no official statements on what their next sniper rifle will be, the current down-sizing of the military and a push for standardization suggests that the smart bet is on the adoption of the next-generation multi-caliber Remington sniper rifle system now being used by the U.S. Army, the Mk.21 PSR:
The Marine Corps is looking to retire two famous weapons systems that it has used since the Vietnam War in favor of sniper rifles and carbines first adopted by the U.S. Army.
The M40 family of bolt-action rifles was born in the Vietnam War when the Corps decided there was a need to standardize sniper rifles. The Remington 700-based 7.62 NATO-chambered rifle has evolved slowly through a number of minor chassis, optic, and barrel changes over the past five decades which enhanced its accuracy, but never extended its range beyond the 1,000 yards± practical limitations of the 7.62×51 NATO cartridge.
The Marines are looking to address that range deficiency, and while they have made no official statements on what their next sniper rifle will be, the current down-sizing of the military and a push for standardization suggests that the smart bet is on the adoption of the next-generation multi-caliber Remington sniper rifle system now being used by the U.S. Army, the Mk.21 PSR:
More @ Bearing Arms
Panic in Pittsburgh: Media Struggling to Ignore Black Mob Violence
Via comment by Anonymous on Cleveland RTA releases statement about officer who...
Black people in Pittsburgh were feeling poorly about crime: Too many of them were in the news accused of killing, robbing, assaulting, jacking, shooting, stealing, rioting, breaking, burgling, harassing, intimidating, threatening, fighting, throwing, running, stoning, smoking, drinking, escaping, drugging, firing, and destroying.
So in 2011, black leaders got together to do something about it: Not stop the crime. Just stop reporters from letting us know about it.
Because it is a little-known fact of psychology that drawing attention to black crime actually causes more black crime -- which draws more attention, which creates more crime. And on and on until black crime is six, ten, 50, 100 times greater than white and asian crime.
Where it is today.
Black people in Pittsburgh were feeling poorly about crime: Too many of them were in the news accused of killing, robbing, assaulting, jacking, shooting, stealing, rioting, breaking, burgling, harassing, intimidating, threatening, fighting, throwing, running, stoning, smoking, drinking, escaping, drugging, firing, and destroying.
So in 2011, black leaders got together to do something about it: Not stop the crime. Just stop reporters from letting us know about it.
Because it is a little-known fact of psychology that drawing attention to black crime actually causes more black crime -- which draws more attention, which creates more crime. And on and on until black crime is six, ten, 50, 100 times greater than white and asian crime.
Where it is today.
More @ American Thinker
Gun-free zones that never are: They only attract nuts and crazies determined to do evil
Via Jonathan
In the land of the blind, as the saying goes, the one-eyed man is king, and in the land of the disarmed the man with a gun is king. America is once more observing what passes for national mourning over the grim work of a nut acting out some sort of bizarre theory about the collapse of society by randomly shooting people.
In the land of the blind, as the saying goes, the one-eyed man is king, and in the land of the disarmed the man with a gun is king. America is once more observing what passes for national mourning over the grim work of a nut acting out some sort of bizarre theory about the collapse of society by randomly shooting people.
More @ The Washington Times
NC: Comments on Donald Trump's New Amnesty Plan
Mike Scruggs
I am still dissatisfied with the WIMP Republican establishment, and I think Boehner, McConnell, and Priebus have to go before grass roots Republicans and conservatives can have have any confidence in the GOP or any chance for anything but political disaster in 2016. The Republican Party needs to clean up its act. The Donald can see and articulate some of the problems, which is indeed refreshing compared to the silence and lame excuses for tolerating the problems coming from the big-business-big-government RINOs. The sad pity of it, however, is that Trump obviously doesn't know the deeper economic and fiscal problems that go with any amnesty or increases in legal immigration. Trump's plan to send illegal immigrants home and bring them right back as legal is unbelievably shallow, if not deliberately deceptive. Either way, Trump's solution to our immigration problems is just wacko.
Also, as I have said over and over again, just fixing the border will not stop illegal immigration. Almost half of illegal immigrants now come in on legal tourist, work, or student visas, and then skip out and disappear into to whatever job or area they chose.If the border closes, more illegals will learn to abuse our unenforced visa system. Tight control of the border without visa control and workplace E-Verify enforcement would probably only stop about 25 percent of illegal immigration. Making an illegal immigrant legal does not relieve taxpayers of the burden that bringing millions of low-skilled, poorly educated workers into the country, who can never earn enough to pay much in taxes.
Illegal immigrant households use on average $14,300 more in benefits and services annually than they pay in taxes. It actually gets much worse, when newly legalized illegals can claim more benefits. Over the remaining lifetime of amnestied illegal workers, taxpayers would accrue $6.3 Trillion in additional tax liabilities (Heritage Foundation data). Amnesty, illegal immigration, and excessive legal immigration also displace American workers and drive their average wages down over $2,700 per year. The Donald has obviously not done his immigration homework. His plan might sound good to people who have no idea of the costs and dynamics of amnesty and excessive legal immigration, or that amnesties do not stop illegal immigration--they explode and multiply it. The explosion would bankrupt the country.
I think we need to elect people to office who do their homework on issues and stand up for the common good instead of the Chamber of Commerce and Farm Bureau.
Trump's new, thoughtless amnesty plan would have the same effect as the amnesty plans advocated by Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and several others. It is just more immediate and transparently stupid. I am just as disappointed as you are, folks.
Damn, look at all those Confederate Flags...........
I have not decided on a choice for the Republican presidential nomination, but for a few weeks I have been thrilled to see Trump speak the truth about our problems, especially immigration, versus those holding it a taboo subject. But if you watch the Trump interview videos from the last few days, you will see that he has actually caved in the face of liberal criticism. He is now proposing a stupid kind of amnesty, i.e. sending illegals home and bringing most of them right back. His plan is administratively unworkable and obviously based on little research and thinking. American workers, job seekers, and taxpayers would be even worse off than before.I am still dissatisfied with the WIMP Republican establishment, and I think Boehner, McConnell, and Priebus have to go before grass roots Republicans and conservatives can have have any confidence in the GOP or any chance for anything but political disaster in 2016. The Republican Party needs to clean up its act. The Donald can see and articulate some of the problems, which is indeed refreshing compared to the silence and lame excuses for tolerating the problems coming from the big-business-big-government RINOs. The sad pity of it, however, is that Trump obviously doesn't know the deeper economic and fiscal problems that go with any amnesty or increases in legal immigration. Trump's plan to send illegal immigrants home and bring them right back as legal is unbelievably shallow, if not deliberately deceptive. Either way, Trump's solution to our immigration problems is just wacko.
Also, as I have said over and over again, just fixing the border will not stop illegal immigration. Almost half of illegal immigrants now come in on legal tourist, work, or student visas, and then skip out and disappear into to whatever job or area they chose.If the border closes, more illegals will learn to abuse our unenforced visa system. Tight control of the border without visa control and workplace E-Verify enforcement would probably only stop about 25 percent of illegal immigration. Making an illegal immigrant legal does not relieve taxpayers of the burden that bringing millions of low-skilled, poorly educated workers into the country, who can never earn enough to pay much in taxes.
Illegal immigrant households use on average $14,300 more in benefits and services annually than they pay in taxes. It actually gets much worse, when newly legalized illegals can claim more benefits. Over the remaining lifetime of amnestied illegal workers, taxpayers would accrue $6.3 Trillion in additional tax liabilities (Heritage Foundation data). Amnesty, illegal immigration, and excessive legal immigration also displace American workers and drive their average wages down over $2,700 per year. The Donald has obviously not done his immigration homework. His plan might sound good to people who have no idea of the costs and dynamics of amnesty and excessive legal immigration, or that amnesties do not stop illegal immigration--they explode and multiply it. The explosion would bankrupt the country.
I think we need to elect people to office who do their homework on issues and stand up for the common good instead of the Chamber of Commerce and Farm Bureau.
Trump's new, thoughtless amnesty plan would have the same effect as the amnesty plans advocated by Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and several others. It is just more immediate and transparently stupid. I am just as disappointed as you are, folks.
#BlackLivesMatter Activists Want Donald Trump Dead
Via Billy
This threat was posted on Twitter by Swole Pocket Sarah Tuesday evening.
More @ The Gateway Pundit
An Expert That Correctly Called The Last Two Stock Market Crashes Is Now Predicting Another One
Via avordvet
What I am about to share with you is quite stunning. A well-respected financial expert that correctly predicted the last two stock market crashes is now warning that we are right on the verge of the next one. John Hussman is a former professor of economics and international finance at the University of Michigan, and the information in his latest weekly market comment is staggering.
Since 1970, there have only been a handful of times when a combination of market signals that Hussman uses have indicated that a major market peak has been reached. In 1972, 2000 and 2007 each of those peaks was followed by a dramatic stock market crash. Now, for the first time since the last financial crisis, all four of those signals appeared once again during the week of July 17th. If Hussman’s analysis is correct, this could very well mean that the next great stock market crash in the United States is imminent.
What I am about to share with you is quite stunning. A well-respected financial expert that correctly predicted the last two stock market crashes is now warning that we are right on the verge of the next one. John Hussman is a former professor of economics and international finance at the University of Michigan, and the information in his latest weekly market comment is staggering.
Since 1970, there have only been a handful of times when a combination of market signals that Hussman uses have indicated that a major market peak has been reached. In 1972, 2000 and 2007 each of those peaks was followed by a dramatic stock market crash. Now, for the first time since the last financial crisis, all four of those signals appeared once again during the week of July 17th. If Hussman’s analysis is correct, this could very well mean that the next great stock market crash in the United States is imminent.
More @ The Economic Collapse
NC: House conservative seeks John Boehner's ouster
Via Skynet
North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows had heard from leading conservatives that trying to oust Speaker John Boehner right now was a bad idea.
Reps. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), fierce and frequent critics of leadership, thought the move was ill-advised. Some of Meadows’ friends didn’t even see it coming. But just before 6 p.m. Tuesday — a day before the House was set to leave town for its five-week summer recess — Meadows offered a motion to vacate the chair, an extraordinarily rare procedural move that represents the most serious expression of opposition to Boehner’s speakership. If the motion were to pass — most Republicans say it will be hard to cobble together the votes — Boehner would be stripped of the speaker’s gavel, potentially plunging the House of Representatives into chaos.
North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows had heard from leading conservatives that trying to oust Speaker John Boehner right now was a bad idea.
Reps. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), fierce and frequent critics of leadership, thought the move was ill-advised. Some of Meadows’ friends didn’t even see it coming. But just before 6 p.m. Tuesday — a day before the House was set to leave town for its five-week summer recess — Meadows offered a motion to vacate the chair, an extraordinarily rare procedural move that represents the most serious expression of opposition to Boehner’s speakership. If the motion were to pass — most Republicans say it will be hard to cobble together the votes — Boehner would be stripped of the speaker’s gavel, potentially plunging the House of Representatives into chaos.
More @ Politico
MEXICAN ILLEGAL ALIEN Charged in Murderous Crime Spree After Border Patrol Refused to Detain Him
Via comment by Anonymous on New California: Mass Immigration Turning Virginia ...
More American blood on President Barack Obama’s hands.
An admitted illegal alien from Mexico confessed to a crime spree in Ohio on Monday when in a matter of hours he tried to rape his 14-year-old niece in a park, shot and wounded a mother walking a bike path with her children, shot a woman to death in her home and fired his gun at police when they tried to capture him, according to police.
More American blood on President Barack Obama’s hands.
An admitted illegal alien from Mexico confessed to a crime spree in Ohio on Monday when in a matter of hours he tried to rape his 14-year-old niece in a park, shot and wounded a mother walking a bike path with her children, shot a woman to death in her home and fired his gun at police when they tried to capture him, according to police.
More @ The Gateway Pundit
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