Alcatraz isn’t actually inhabitable - not only are the buildings unsafe, but IIRC the island itself is not stable either.
However... there are other islands off the coast in which a prison could be built (cheaper than fixing Alcatraz) and California has plenty of desert in which to put a new prison or twelve.
That’s looking at a further future than they’re looking at now. Right now, they’re way more concerned with the literal billions of dollars in endowments and grants vanishing.
04/29/2024 2:12:24 PM PDT
· 22 of 149 Spktyr
to I want the USA back
The problem is that the unis are being told by their wealthy Jewish (and other) alumni donors that this has to be ended or no more money. The colleges are vacillating, wanting to support anti-Israel causes but not wanting to lose most of their funding.
Because they all get a ‘secure briefing’ wherein they are told to do what the uniparty wants, and get rich, or bad things will happen to their family - or so I’ve heard.
04/14/2024 9:13:08 AM PDT
· 46 of 46 Spktyr
to Reverend Wright
Depends on who made them, but most 9mm 1911s have slides of similar weight to the .45 versions, if not a bit heavier. A lot of them even have the same outer barrel diameter as the .45 versions, just a differently machined breech face, etc.
And these weren’t old missiles near end of life - the first ones we shipped over were - but ones forming the main part of our arsenals. We’re also depleting our arsenals to fulfill those orders you mentioned. Raytheon is already saying it will be years before it can restock.
You do know that as a result of supplying Ukraine, we now have a shortage of numerous missile types as well as artillery projectiles that we can’t make up because of chip shortages?
Raytheon is on record as being able to make *maybe* one missile per day due to said shortages. And that’s not one of each type, that’s *one*.
Problem is, that while that does complicate things for the Russians, they have other sources for petrochemicals that are beyond Ukraine’s reach - so they won’t actually cut said supplies.
04/12/2024 7:51:02 PM PDT
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to Ancesthntr
Not what was implied. The point is that it’s starting to get so bad out there with the media and the Soros DAs that it is becoming increasingly attractive to not stick around after a justified shooting and while leaving the area, to run a file down the barrel a few times and discard it while unobserved, to take that same mini file to the extractor, breech face and firing pin and then swap your spare barrel in, just in case you need the weapon again right away. Then dump the file.
04/12/2024 6:55:03 PM PDT
· 23 of 46 Spktyr
to Manuel OKelley
I’ve been on polymer framed pistols for almost two decades now. :P Converted from 9mm Browning High Powers to Springfield XD45s - minimal retraining required.
That came to a crashing halt not long after. As Vietnam dragged on, increasing numbers of Americans became exposed to the modern 9mm autoloader, and Americans started buying them at home.