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Lehigh Defense Giveaway Winner
The Lehigh Defense NRA Show giveaway amassed 224 entries.
Today, I went to http://www.random.org and selected a winner.
Random selection
James C Barcliff Sr, you are the lucky winner. If I do not hear from Mr. Barcliff by May 9, 2014 another winner will be drawn.
Report: Pentagon To Destroy $1Billion In Ammunition
The Pentagon plans to destroy more than $1 billion worth of ammunition although some of those bullets and missiles could still be used by troops, according to the Pentagon and congressional sources.
It’s impossible to know what portion of the arsenal slated for destruction — valued at $1.2 billion by the Pentagon — remains viable because the Defense Department’s inventory systems can’t share data effectively, according to a Government Accountability Office report obtained by USA TODAY.
The result: potential waste of unknown value.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.stripes.com/report-pentagon-to-destroy-1b-in-ammunition-1.280372
NRA-ILA Leadership Forum
1-4p ET / Noon-3p CT
Confirmed speakers: Wayne LaPierre, Governor Bobby Jindal, Governor Mike Penace, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Mitch McConnell, Senator Dan Coats, Senator Rick Santorum, Mark Levin, Adam Vinatieri and Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. More info here: http://www.nraam.org/special-events/nra-ila-leadership-forum.aspx
Late April Contests
Multiple contests added to http://www.weapon-blog.com/gun-giveaway-contests/ today. Some of these new additions expire at the end of the month, so get your entries in while you can.
Not So Rimfire Anymore: 17 WSM AR-15 Given Dramatic Upgrade
MORGAN HILL, Calif., April. 22, 2013 — Franklin Armory, maker of quality AR style firearms, announced today that their F 17-L chambered in .17 Winchester Super Magnum will now include a piston system.
...R.I.P. One AR-15 Rifle – Another 300 Blackout / .223 Kaboom
I’ve read a few stories recently about someone, somewhere, shoving a 300 AAC Blackout cartridge into a .223 / 5.56mm rifle and pulling the trigger – subsequently blowing their gun to bits. Some folks call BS and say it can’t happen as the rifle won’t go into battery and fire.
Well, I’m a believer now, considering a guy 3 lanes down from me blew up his fairly nice looking AR today. In the confusion, I was not able to get the brand of the rifle, but that matters little. Containing 55,000 pounds per square inch of pressure is not in the job description.
Read the rest of the article: http://mygunculture.com/r-i-p-one-ar-15-rifle-another-300-blackout-223-kaboom/
That An AR In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
Heizer Defense PAR1
So rather than carrying even a pocket pistol, I should carry a 1 shot pistol whose barrel is only slightly longer than the round it is chambered for? I don’t quite get the point.
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2530 Yard Shot
Description from http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=faa_1398007067:
A few days ago I took out the 338 Lapua and attempted the 2500 yard shot. So I placed the target at 2530 yards or 1.43 miles away, at that distance the bullet flight time is almost 4.5 seconds! Made a short video that I think you guys will enjoy.
I went out early in the morning to beat the mirage, luckly there was very little wind around 3-4 mph coming from the left, I dialed 2.6 mils Left. I had to dialed the maximum elevation my scope (Nightforce NXS 5.5-22×56 MIL/MIL) had at 27.4 mils then held over 2.5 mils on the reticle to get me to 29.9 mils. I really hope you guys enjoy the video, please comment or ask any questions you may have…….and let me know what you think! Thanks for watching!
Lehigh Defense NRA Show Giveaway
Lehigh Defense has teamed up with The Weapon Blog for a truly incredible giveaway.
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The Five Extra Words
Following the massacre of grammar-school children in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012, high-powered weapons have been used to kill innocent victims in more senseless public incidents. Those killings, however, are only a fragment of the total harm caused by the misuse of firearms. Each year, more than 30,000 people die in the United States in firearm-related incidents. Many of those deaths involve handguns.
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D.C. Investigating Mark Witaschek’S Taxes After Conviction For Muzzleloader Bullet
The District of Columbia has spent almost two years persecuting a good man because they wrongly thought he had guns in the city.
It wasn’t enough to prosecute Mark Witaschek for having one shotgun shell and a box of muzzleloader bullets. After a three-month trial that ended in a conviction, the city started an investigation into the businessman’s taxes.
This abuse of power must end.
On the word of a bitter ex, the police searched Mr. Witaschek’s Georgetown home twice in 2012 looking for guns. They never found the bounty of firearms since Mr. Witaschek, a hunter, keeps his guns at his sister’s home in Virginia.
The D.C. cops went to Sylvia Witaschek’s home in the commonwealth and demanded she show them the guns, but she refused.
The District’s unelected Attorney General Irvin Nathan infamously declined to prosecute NBC’s David Gregory for possession of a “high-capacity” magazine in December 2012, claiming it was not in the interest of public safety.
However, Mr. Nathan refused to drop the ammunitions charges against Mr. Witaschek and instead, sicced two of his prosecutors on the case, which dragged on for 18 months.
The judge did not rule on the shotgun shell, which had misfired at a hunt years ago. The District only allows registered gun owners to possess ammunition.
The Obama Import Ban
It seemed as though we had relative peace and quiet on the 2nd Amendment front after handing Feinstein and her merry band of anti-freedom clowns a smack-down post Sandy Hook. We soundly defeated all attempts by leftists to grab our semi-automatic rifles and standard capacity magazines at the federal level. Sadly, some states enacted new laws in the wake of the tragedy and further encroached on their citizens Constitutionally protected rights, but the rest of us escaped mostly unscathed due to the quick and decisive action of gun owners.
For the most part the gun-grabbers had whimpered off, licking their wounds and were relegated to waiting for the next tragedy to happen so they could spring forth with new gun ban proposals. The latest school attack was perpetrated by a kid Akimbo wielding kitchen knives and that’s just not enough to excite the masses to support new “assault weapons bans” or magazine capacity limits.
Apparently the wait was too much for them to bare, after all, these folks find liberty and the Bill of Rights so distasteful they can only sit quiet for so long. Having an insatiable itch to push something, ANYTHING, forward on the gun-grabbing front, 80 Congresscritters drafted a letter to the gun-grabber in chief calling for him to waive his magical pen and ban all future imports of semi-automa