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Yesterday I posted In these chaotic times, a brief AR-15 primer and some said that they prefer their AR-10 in .308. I suspect that what they have may actually be a LR308 which is incorrectly called an AR-10. This post is more advanced than the AR-15 primer and discusses the differences between the AR-10 and the LR308: Before we dive into the subject of differentiating different style of AR10 patterns — first, let’s make sure we all know what an AR10 actually is. The AR10, or ArmaLite 10, is a rifle designed around the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge. Developed by Eugene...

Last week James O’Keefe III and Project Veritas released the blockbuster videos exposing voter fraud and ballot harvesting by Ilhan Omar connected political operatives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. James O’Keefe III and Project Veritas tonight released video of an Ilhan Omar connected ballot harvester exchanging $200 for a general election ballot. Last week James teased an upcoming investigation on the Mark Kelly campaign. UPDATE– And here it is. Mark Kelly, like his fellow Democrats, can’t get elected on his real agenda. So Mark Kelly is lying to Arizona voters. James Exposes Democrat Mark Kelly’s true plans to crack down on your...

According to the the report, U.S. government researchers had been conducting “kitten cannibalism” experiments — spending taxpayer dollars to buy cats and other animals from Chinese wet markets and then feeding their tissue to kittens in the U.S. “The currently approved protocol for this project calls for up to 100 kittens to be bred each year at ARS’s Animal Parasitic Disease Laboratory (APDL) in Beltsville, Maryland. At eight weeks old, the kittens are fed raw meat infected with the Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) parasite, and their feces is collected for up to 3 weeks so experimenters can harvest oocysts (eggs)...

A friend of mine showed me something interesting. A commemorative coffee cup from DPMS. The text on it says “May 2012 Record Amount Shipped in 30 Days 13,794 Units.” Think about that. In May of 2012, DMPS made and sold 13,794 AR-15 pattern rifles. That was this month, six years ago. That was a record month, so how many were made in the months before and after? How many have been made since then?

An Oklahoma man uses his AR-15 to kill three armed intruders in his home. A very petite mother chases three burglars out of her home simply by racking the slide of her AR-15. A concealed carry holder, sitting on the front porch of his Houston home, grabs his AR-15 rifle to defend himself against a drive-by-shooting attack — killing two of the goons and hospitalizing the third. Each of these gun owners faced multiple attackers. Each utilized a standard capacity magazine, equipped with multiple rounds. Sounds pretty cut-and-dry, right? Well, herein lies the controversy. Each defender employed a weapon that...

It is public knowledge that the tropical jungles of Vietnam turned the M16 from space-age assault rifle to unreliable junk which got good men killed. The specter of dead servicemen clutching jammed rifles looms large in the cultural consciousness. It is certainly true that the rifle’s issues in Vietnam are taken to hyperbole, even to the extent that they are thought to affect the M16/M4 family almost 50 years later. Seeking to address these deficits, it is beneficial for us to address each issue which plagued the rifle in turn, and its corresponding solution. In so doing, we shall both...

WASHINGTON — A gun-control organization led by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, outlined plans Tuesday to support candidates in at least 11 congressional races this year who have backed efforts in Congress to enact stricter gun control laws. Americans for Responsible Solutions said it will support a slate of nine Democrats and two Republicans in 2014 — and perhaps more. The group has raised about $14.5 million since it was founded in January 2013 and plans to spend money on television and online advertising and direct mail to help the list of mostly incumbent...

Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), the PAC of Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly focused on gun control, is being forced to refund money to contributors after being caught accepting illegal donations.One of the illegal donations was tied to Bette Midler's private family foundation and another to the Rupa and Bharat B. Bhatt Foundation. Midler's foundation gave $10,000 and the Bhatt foundation contributed $5,000.According to The Center For Public Integrity, both donations were "strictly prohibited" by the IRS:

American investors catch a cold from frozen auction-rate securities Last Updated: 11:27pm BST 24/08/2008 Serge Birbrair is just one of hundreds of thousands of Americans stung by the securities market scandal. James Quinn reports All Serge Birbrair wanted to do was to pay his daughter's college fees. For the retiree, who fled the former Soviet Union in 1979, funding his child through university was not only a matter of principle but one of pride. Having saved and invested sensibly for decades, paying the fees should not have been a problem. But that was before he invested in auction-rate securities (ARS),...

New York securities probe widens New York attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, is expanding investigation to include JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Wachovia Suzy Jagger Andrew Cuomo, the New York Attorney General, has renewed his onslaught against America's biggest banks, announcing that he is now pursuing three other financial institutions for compensation from the auction rate securities (ARS) debacle. Mr Cuomo said that he had contacted Wall Street banks JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and the American mortgage lender, Wachovia, and insisted that they begin settlement talks with lawyers representing the state of New York. On Thursday, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch...

About a month ago, I wrote a piece entitled Municipal Bonds The Next Shoe to Drop?, which highlighted the asset class I thought was in the most danger: municipal bonds and the municipal bond closed end fund space in particular. The ARS (Auction Rate Security) market has frozen up since then and the municipal bond market itself has frozen up as a result of insurers like MBIA (MBI), Ambac (ABK) and FGIC’s business models being brought into question. Add to the mix a slowing economy and falling tax receipts as a result of the real estate debacle (which is now...

Washington, D.C., November 27, 2006 – Having successfully turned pieces of giant soybean stalks into charcoal briquettes, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemical engineer Justin Barone now believes they would make good fiberboard and other wood-substitute products as well. ARS geneticist Thomas E. Devine took the plants to Barone after noticing they had a rare ability to stand up straight all season, despite their unusual height of up to 7 feet. Soybean plants often lodge—fall down—as they grow taller. Barone is with the ARS Environmental Management and Byproduct Utilization Laboratory, and Devine is with the ARS Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, both...

Ohio Imam Gets Two Months in Prison By THOMAS J. SHEERAN, Associated Press Writer AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- The leader of Ohio's largest mosque was sentenced Monday to two months in federal prison and four months of house arrest for lying about his connections to terrorist groups when he applied for U.S. citizenship. Palestinian-born Fawaz Damra, imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, could have received up to five years in prison on the charge of obtaining U.S. citizenship in 1994 by providing false information. Prosecutors had requested the maximum sentence, but U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin said he...

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