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The Great Ammunition Myth - The government is not planning a violent putdown of civil unrest.
National Review Online ^ | March 5, 2013 | Charles C. W. Cooke

Posted on 03/05/2013 4:31:55 PM PST by neverdem

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To: Eaker

He’s a self-important cop.


141 posted on 03/07/2013 12:29:45 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Weak.


142 posted on 03/07/2013 12:29:56 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Your cognition, or your voice?


143 posted on 03/07/2013 12:32:15 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

No, your pathetic attempt at an insult. Maybe you do need that tinfoil. Anything might help.


144 posted on 03/07/2013 12:34:52 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: editor-surveyor

Tell me about it.
I was one of the first thousand to buy the SIG P229 in 357SIG when the cartridge debuted. I was also one of the first 500 to get a set of RCBS 357SIG reloading dies and begin reloading it in 1994.

Bullet setback was the first (and continuing) problem. Standard 9mm bullets wouldn’t work unless they were truncated. I had two KaBOOMS!!! that blew off the grips and extractor but I kept on going until 2009.

Speer finally came out with some decent .355 hollow points around 1998, but bullet setback was still an issue. Not to mention the stress on the cases got much worth with even the third reload. The shoulders began to completely collapse and the necks were incapable of holding a case solidly.

It was a fun, punchy round however and would ring a steel plate like nobody’s business, but never fire one without hearing protection.


145 posted on 03/07/2013 1:08:14 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: editor-surveyor; brent13a
He’s a self-important cop.

That never dawned on me considering his incomplete understanding of the nomenclature and cluelessness about the number of rounds in private hands.

146 posted on 03/07/2013 1:47:57 PM PST by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: 1rudeboy
You appear to be confused at who it was that pathetically attempted an insult.
147 posted on 03/07/2013 2:50:06 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
I responded to a another Freeper's specific words. You parachuted in with the personal stuff.

I forgive you for failing to remember. You're retarded.

148 posted on 03/07/2013 3:26:44 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: neverdem

Soooo, is it okay if the average citizen wants to stock up too?


149 posted on 03/07/2013 3:33:26 PM PST by JerseyDvl (Cogito Ergo Doleo Soetoro, ABO and of course FUBO!)
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To: 1rudeboy

You sound like a combination of Richard Nixon and George Stepinawfulstuff.

Did you lose your organ in the war?


150 posted on 03/07/2013 3:39:26 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: MeganC
If Charles Cooke thinks the Social Security Admin and the USDA will be keeping this ammo once delivered, he is a fool.

Over time, this ammo will be consolidated into FBI and DHS magazines. Count on it.

Now the numbers don't look so small now do they?

151 posted on 03/08/2013 12:56:08 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
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To: lurk
And .357 ammo? Wouldn’t we all love to have a few boxes of that stuff in the closet, but we all know those are revolver loads.

The .357 Sig 125 grain is a round made for semi-automatic pistols.

152 posted on 03/08/2013 1:08:51 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
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To: flamberge

I’m sure the actual number of agents is higher than most of us could imagine... But accounting for 90% of all DHS employees would be staggering.


153 posted on 03/08/2013 2:13:50 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: 1rudeboy

“It somewhat ironic that most FReepers would buy 1,000 rounds of ammunition in a heartbeat. And probably brag about it.”

But why would any.one need even hundreds of rounds of ammunition? Isn’t that a scary huge ‘arsenal’? /sarc

I think this info is actually useful in educating against the ammo and magazine limits with some of the reasonable but merely unaware people who think a hundred rounds is a lot.


154 posted on 03/08/2013 10:06:07 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
The estimate for "Armed Federal Agents" includes people who are not counted as employees in the Department of Homeland Security, but are still employees of the Federal Government.

DHS does not (yet) control or manage all of the armed agents.

The overall percentage of armed agents runs from 5% to 45% of total staff for those Agencies that are authorized to have them.

Note also, that DHS and other Agencies employee a significant number of private contractors as "Armed Civilian Contractors". Look for this number to increase.

Contracts with armed private security firms are invariably redacted and obscured with every bureaucratic process available, but it is clear that there are more of them every year, and the dollar volumes appear to be increasing.

155 posted on 03/14/2013 8:14:13 AM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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