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How rare? Pretty freakin' rare.   Got a pair of 'em. My son wanted the one that matched the last two digits of his birth year. Just trigger kits for them thus far. Watching and waiting for uppers.

Sure would be interested again if they decide to do this again. . . . a chance to get a pair of uppers and a pair of BCGs to go with the two TGO lowers I got.  Too much at once the first time around. 

Motion-activated singing bass apparently scared off would-be burglar at Minnesota bait shop   ROCHESTER, MINN. – Big Mouth Billy Bass apparently got the best of a would-be burglar in Minnesota.   Authorities in Rochester say the motion-activated singing fish apparently scared off an intruder who tried to break into the Hooked on Fishing bait and tackle shop.   The novelty bass had been hung near the door and would start singing "Take Me to the River" whenever someone entered the shop. The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office says the fish was found on the floor after the intruder knocked it down while breaking the door to get in late Sunday or early Monday.   Sgt. Tom Claymon tells the Star Tribune (http://strib.mn/1itbp3W) the would-be burglar left without stealing anything, including cash that had been left in "a very visible spot."   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/05/motion-activated-singing-bass-apparently-scared-off-would-be-burglar-at/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fnational+%28Internal+-+US+Latest+-+Text%29

Things that make you go . . . hmmmmmm . . . From the article: The sponges work fast: In just 15 seconds, they expand to fill the entire wound cavity, creating enough pressure to stop heavy bleeding. And because the sponges cling to moist surfaces, they aren’t pushed back out of the body by gushing blood. “By the time you even put a bandage over the wound, the bleeding has already stopped,” Steinbaugh says. How A Simple New Invention Seals A Gunshot Wound In 15 Seconds An Oregon startup has developed a pocket-size device that uses tiny sponges to stop bleeding fast. By Rose Pastore XStat When a soldier is shot on the battlefield, the emergency treatment can seem as brutal as the injury itself. A medic must pack gauze directly into the wound cavity, sometimes as deep as 5 inches into the body, to stop bleeding from an artery. It’s an agonizing process that doesn't always work--if bleeding hasn't stopped after three minutes of applying direct pressure, the medic must pull out all the gauze and start over again. It’s so painful, “you take the guy’s gun away first,” says former U.S. Army Special Operations medic John Steinbaugh. Even with this emergency treatment, many soldiers still bleed to death; hemorrhage is a leading cause of death on the battlefield. "Gauze bandages just don't work for anything serious," says Steinbaugh, who tended to injured soldiers during more than a dozen deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. When Steinbaugh retired in April 2012 after a head injury, he joined an Oregon-based startup called RevMedx, a small group of veterans, scientists, and engineers who were working on a better way to stop bleeding. XStat, before and after RevMedx recently asked the FDA to approve a pocket-size invention: a modified syringe that injects specially coated sponges into wounds. Called XStat, the device could boost survival and spare injured soldiers from additional pain by plugging wounds faster and more efficiently than gauze. The team’s early efforts were inspired by Fix-a-Flat foam for repairing tires. “That’s what we pictured as the perfect solution: something you could spray in, it would expand, and bleeding stops,” says Steinbaugh. “But we found that blood pressure is so high, blood would wash the foam right out.” So the team tried a new idea: sponges. They bought some ordinary sponges from a hardware store and cut them into 1-centimeter circles, a size and shape they chose on a whim but later would discover were ideal for filling wounds. Then, they injected the bits of sponge into an animal injury. “The bleeding stopped,” says Steinbaugh. “Our eyes lit up. We knew we were onto something.” After seeing early prototypes, the U.S. Army gave the team $5 million to develop a finished product. But kitchen sponges aren’t exactly safe to inject into the body. The final material would need to be sterile, biocompatible, and fast-expanding. The team settled on a sponge made from wood pulp and coated with chitosan, a blood-clotting, antimicrobial substance that comes from shrimp shells. To ensure that no sponges would be left inside the body accidentally, they added X-shaped markers that make each sponge visible on an x-ray image. “By the time you put a bandage over the wound, the bleeding has already stopped.” The sponges work fast: In just 15 seconds, they expand to fill the entire wound cavity, creating enough pressure to stop heavy bleeding. And because the sponges cling to moist surfaces, they aren’t pushed back out of the body by gushing blood. “By the time you even put a bandage over the wound, the bleeding has already stopped,” Steinbaugh says. Getting the sponges into a wound, however, proved to be tricky. On the battlefield, medics must carry all their gear with them, along with heavy body armor. RevMedx needed a lightweight, compact way to get the sponges deep into an injury. The team designed a 30 millimeter-diameter, polycarbonate syringe that stores with the handle inside to save space. To use the applicator, a medic pulls out the handle, inserts the cylinder into the wound, and then pushes the plunger back down to inject the sponges as close to the artery as possible. XStat sponges Three single-use XStat applicators would replace five bulky rolls of gauze in a medic’s kit. RevMedx also designed a smaller version of the applicator, with a diameter of 12 millimeters, for narrower injuries. Each XStat will likely cost about $100, Steinbaugh says, but the price may go down as RevMedx boosts manufacturing. If the FDA approves XStat, it will be the first battlefield dressing created specifically for deep, narrow wounds. Gauze, the standard treatment for gunshot and shrapnel injuries, is only approved by the FDA for external use, but “everyone knows that if you get shot, you have to pack gauze into the wound,” says Steinbaugh. When RevMedx submitted its application to the FDA, the U.S. Army attached a cover letter requesting expedited approval. According to Steinbaugh, RevMedx and the military are now in final discussions with the FDA. Last summer, RevMedx and Oregon Health and Science University won a seed grant, sponsored by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to develop a version of XStat to stop postpartum bleeding. In the future, RevMedx hopes to create biodegradable sponges that don’t have to be removed from the body. To cover large injuries, like those caused by land mines, the team is working on an expanding gauze made of the same material as XStat sponges. “I spent the whole war on terror in the Middle East, so I know what a medic needs when someone has been shot, ” Steinbaugh says. “I’ve treated lots of guys who would have benefitted from this product. That’s what drives me.” Rose Pastore is an assistant editor at Popular Science. Follow her on Twitter at @RosePastore. http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/how-simple-new-invention-seals-gunshot-wound-15-seconds

The RCBS book, the Speer book, is really pretty good. Also, the images and the setup match your gear, so you'd be a leg up.   IMHO, you should read the front piece of the book before you begin, as well as the spec pages for the calibers you will reload.

You guys are brutal.    Provenance matters. A lot.

They have the freedom to scalp and we have the freedom to diss them on it.

Mexico legalizes vigilantes, nabs cartel leader   By: E. Eduardo Castillo and Mark Stevens   MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico essentially legalized the country's growing "self-defense" groups Monday, while also announcing that security forces had captured one of the four top leaders of the Knights Templar drug cartel, which the vigilante groups have been fighting for the last year.   The twin announcements may help the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto find a way out of an embarrassing situation in the western state of Michoacan, where vigilantes began rising up last February against the Knights Templar reign of terror and extortion after police and troops failed to stop the abuses.The government said it had reached an agreement with vigilante leaders to incorporate the armed civilian groups into old and largely forgotten quasi-military units called the Rural Defense Corps. Vigilante groups estimate their numbers at 20,000 men under arms.   "The self-defense forces will become institutionalized, when they are integrated into the Rural Defense Corps," the Interior Department said in a statement. Police and soldiers already largely tolerate, and in some cases even work with, the vigilantes, many of whom are armed with assault rifles that civilians are not allowed to carry.   Vigilante leaders will have to submit a list of their members to the Defense Department, and the army will apparently oversee the groups, which the government said "will be temporary." They will be allowed to keep their weapons as long as they register them with the army.   The military will give the groups "all the means necessary for communications, operations and movement," according to the agreement. The vigilante leaders, who include farmers, ranchers and some professionals, gathered Monday to discuss the agreement, but it was not yet clear for them what it would imply. It wasn't known if the army would offer anyone salaries.   Misael Gonzalez, a leader of the self-defense force in the town of Coalcoman, said leaders had accepted the government proposal. But the nuts-and-bolts "are still not well defined," he added. "We won't start working on the mechanisms until tomorrow."   Vigilante leader Hipolito Mora said in a television interview that the agreement also allows those who qualify to join local police forces. "The majority of us want to get into the police ... I never imagined myself dressed as a policeman, but the situation is driving me to put on a uniform."   Latin America has been bruised by experiences with quasi-military forces, with such tolerated or legally recognized groups being blamed for rights abuses in Guatemala and Colombia in the past.   While the cartel may be on its way out, "there shouldn't be abuses by those who come after, there shouldn't be what we would call a witch hunt; there should be reconciliation," said the Rev. Javier Cortes, part of a team of priests in the Roman Catholic diocese of Apatzingan who have publicly denounced abuses by the Knights Templar.   Before dawn on Monday, soldiers and police arrested one of the cartel's top leaders, Dionicio Loya Plancarte, alias "El Tio," or The Uncle. (The Interior Department spells his first name with an "s," but the Attorney General's Office and U.S. authorities spell it with a "c.")   National Public Safety System secretary Monte Rubido said the feared drug lord was arrested without a shot being fired. He said federal forces found Loya Plancarte in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan, "hiding in a closet" and accompanied only by 16-year-old boy.   The 58-year-old Loya Plancarte had a 30-million peso ($2.25 million) reward on his head from the Mexican government for drug, organized crime and money-laundering charges. He was considered one of the country's three dozen most-wanted drug lords in the late 2000s.   The Knights Templar ruled many parts of Michoacan with an iron fist, demanding extortion payments from businesses, farmers and workers, but the self-defense groups have gained ground against the cartel in recent months. Federal police and army troops were dispatched to bring peace to the troubled region, but the vigilantes have demanded the arrest of the cartel's major leaders before they lay down their guns.   Ramon Contreras, an activist in the vigilante movement from the town of La Ruana, which was the first to rise up against the Knights Templar, said the arrest "means a lot" to the vigilantes, but added that they won't rest until they see all the top bosses arrested.   Contreras voiced a common belief that the man who founded the cartel under the name La Familia Michoacana, Nazario Moreno, alias "El Chayo," is still alive, despite the government's statement in 2010 that he had been killed in a shootout with federal forces.   "He's still alive; there's proof he's still alive," Contreras said.   Loya Plancarte got his nickname, "The Uncle," because he is believed to be the uncle of another top Knights Templar leader, Enrique Plancarte Solis.   Loya Plancarte joined Plancarte Solis and Servando Gomez in forming the Knights Templar after the purported death of Nazario Moreno. A local journalist from Michoacan recounted watching when Loya Plancarte led a sort of pilgrimage to a shrine erected to Nazario Moreno and had his assistants hand out 500-peso ($37) bills to people who attended.       https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-legalizes-vigilantes-nabs-cartel-leader-001339749.html?.tsrc=attmp

The T-shirts and the Ball Caps in the picture look as if they may be "A Uniform" under the International Law of Armed Conflict. If they have Colonels, Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, First Sergeants, Sergeants and Privates, that goes along way toward "a well-regulated militia. They are marching in the streets in two reasonably organized columns. I wish I could read the logos on the ball caps and T-shirts. These basic "uniforms" also suggest community support from merchants and well . . . T-Shirt printers and such.

A coupla SF A Teams would go along way . . .   As well as a submarine delivery or three ala WWII Liberation of the Philippines.

  . . . thrown in the Duck River, huh?   Do you believe that? According to who? Is there video of the gun throwing? Does this sound a mite improbable? Is it possible that one of their thug buddies is still 'holding' them? Or that a less than perfect popo's got a new heater? Inquiring minds wanna know . . .

Things that make you go . . . hmmmmmmm . . .     Vigilantes Take Control of 8 Communities in Southern Mexico   CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – Hundreds of armed men belonging to community self-defense groups occupied eight small towns near Chilpancingo, capital of the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, and detained a dozen suspected extortionists, a spokesperson for the vigilantes said. The action was taken due to the “federal government’s poor response” in ensuring the security of the state’s inhabitants, Gonzalo Torres, a coordinator of the Citizen Safety and Justice System, or SSyJC, organization, said Friday. The vigilantes said they seized control of the towns, all part of the municipality of Chilpancingo, because their residents are the victims of criminal gangs that extort and kidnap business owners. The SSyJC was founded in Jan. 4, 2013, in the town of Ayutla de los Libres to combat the criminal outfits and has since extended its reach to communities located near the cities of Acapulco and Chilpancingo. “Our presence here is because citizens in this area asked us to come, because they’re tired of there being extortions, payment of protection money and kidnappings every day,” Torres said. Roughly 500 inhabitants of the town of Ocotito gathered Friday in the main square to express their support for the community self-defense groups in their struggle against the Los Rojos gang, the former armed wing of the now-defunct Beltran Leyva cartel. The vigilantes are patrolling the streets and also maintaining checkpoints on the federal highway linking Chilpancingo and Acapulco. Chilpancingo Mayor Mario Moreno acknowledged that the community self-defense groups already control the towns of Cajeles, Buena Vista, El Rincon, Mohoneras, Dos Caminos, Carrizal, La Haciendita and Ocotito, local media reported. But he said his government was in talks with their leaders and hoped an agreement could be reached this weekend. Community self-defense groups and community police forces have also been formed in more than a dozen of the 113 municipalities in the neighboring state of Michoacan. A federal offensive in that western state began Jan. 13 with an attempt to forcibly disarm militias that arose to defend communities from the Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) cartel, but after four people died in a confrontation with soldiers, the Mexican government changed tack in favor of cooperation with the vigilantes. Mistrust persists, however, and the militias, who get financial backing from business owners tired of paying protection money to the Templarios, say they will hand over their weapons and stand down only after the entire cartel leadership is behind bars.       http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=14091&ArticleId=1521817

  Done. The picture and this whole thread is a URL in an e-mail at corporate. Step and repeat. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. Squeak on!

I sent a note and this url thread to Walmart Investor relations and am expecting a call-back.   Here's the link, if you are so inclined:   https://corporate.walmart.com/contact-us/store-corporate-feedback

Pro-Obama books at Barnes & Noble often get similar treatment . . .

  Ruger SR-762 is .308 . . .    http://www.ruger.com/products/sr762/models.html   Street price is less than list, but still more than your target of $1500.   It's SR-556 little sister is an awesome weapon. I'd be torn between the 308 Ruger SR-762 and the .308 Springfield Armory M1A Socom 16 if I was starting fresh . . .

Ruger SR-762 would top out over your budget by a few hundred. Love its older smaller sister the SR556.   Have an M1A Socom 16 and love it. A lot of guns go Bang! Socom 16 goes B A N G ! !

Awesome animated graphic!       http://animagraffs.com/how-a-handgun-works-1911-45/

To Summarize:   1. Don't open the door.   2. Arm up. They might force the door.   3. Observe through the peep-hole for I.D. details.   4. Call the law. Make a detailed report. Let the Law sort it out.

Well,   That reminds me, it's time to renew my NRA membership and buy a few hundred rounds of .223.   I'll be sure to watch this after Whiney-stein stops making movies with unrestrained gunfire, and fires all his armed bodyguards.    I imagine it will be the self-parody gun version of "Reefer Madness" and will play in a loop at the next NRA Convention.

This just gets more and more stupid:   Police: Broken child's toy led to Smyrna murder-suicide   Posted: Jan 16, 2014 8:52 PM CST   Updated: Jan 17, 2014 7:37 PM CST     Reported by Nancy Amons - email     SMYRNA, TN (WSMV) -   An argument over a broken toy was apparently what started a family fight that ended with two people dead Thursday night in Smyrna.   Kayleigh DuPont called 911 from her cell phone, but the operator never heard any cries for help. When officers arrived at the Village Lake Apartments to check out the 911 call, they found two bodies in the upstairs bathroom.   Smyrna police say the 28-year-old mother had been shot and killed by her future brother-in-law, who then took his own life.   Family members and police tell Channel 4 News trouble had been brewing in the family for weeks.   Now, a boy who is about to turn 2 years old is without a mother. He was found unharmed downstairs by the arriving officers.   What pushed Justin Bennett, 32, to kill his future sister-in-law, then himself? Police and family members believe he was upset with DuPont for pressing charges against his father, Timothy Bennett.   Timothy Bennett said he and DuPont had a fight the day after Christmas when she was mad that her son's toy train was broken. "So what - it's just a toy," Timothy Bennett told Channel 4 News.   On Tuesday, DuPont took out a restraining order against her father-in-law to be.   "The Bennett man who is passed away, from our determination, became consumed with this," said Smyrna Police Kevin Arnold. DuPont's brother in England said the woman's fiance, Jason, is now caring for their son, Jacoby. Jason Bennett tonight is mourning not only his fiance but also his own brother.   "When they brought that child out last night, and here is this 2-year-old with a pacifier in his mouth, and to think that his life is impacted forever, just over something stupid and silly," Arnold said.   The chief of police said there had been an earlier incident at the home, also involving domestic violence.   DuPont's brother said Jason Bennett was not home at the time this was all happening. He was on business in Kentucky.   Copyright 2014 WSMV (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved.       http://www.wsmv.com/story/24477231/two-found-dead-in-smyrna

And also:   Smyrna Police: 2 Killed In Apparent Murder-Suicide   Posted: Jan 16, 2014 10:35 PM CST Updated: Jan 17, 2014 8:46 AM CST   SYMRNA, Tenn. – Smyrna Police said the shooting deaths of a man and a woman at an apartment complex on Thursday night appeared to be a murder-suicide.   Police said they received a hang up call to 911 around 7:20 p.m. from an apartment at the Village Lake Apartments on Village Lake Drive.   When officers arrived at the home, the front door had been kicked open. They found a 2-year-old child walking around unharmed.   Officers then discovered two bodies in a locked, upstairs bathroom. Police identified them as 28-year-old Kayleigh Dupont and 32-year-old Justin Bennett. Bennett was the brother of Dupont's boyfriend, who police said was at work at the time of the shootings.   The preliminary investigation indicated that Bennett kicked in the front door, confronted Dupont in the bathroom, and shot her. Police said he then shot himself.    Police said they believe the shootings stemmed from a domestic violence call at the home on Tuesday.   "A lot of this stemmed from -- there was a domestic situation there on the 14th of January with the grandfather of Kayleigh's child was arrested for domestic assault," said Smyrna Police Chief Kevin Arnold.   No other details were released.    The investigation was ongoing. Police will try to enhance the 911 tape to see who made the call, and determine if anyone else may have been involved.   The child, who belonged to Dupont, was placed into protective custody.     http://www.newschannel5.com/story/24477804/police-2-killed-in-apparent-murder-suicide

Morning update:   Smyrna Police Chief: Fatal shooting being investigated as murder-suicide; small child found in home   Smyrna Police came upon a grisly scene Thursday night when responding to a 911 hangup call at a Village Lake Drive town home. A man and a woman were found dead with “wounds consistent with gun shots,” said Smyrna Police Chief Kevin Arnold.   A child was also found unhurt in the home, Arnold told The Daily News Journal, but he would not release the child’s name or gender.   At about 6:30 a.m. today, Arnold issued the following press release.   “At 7:20pm on January 16th, 2014 the Smyrna Police Department received a 911 hang up call from 117 Village Lake Drive. Officers responded and found that the front door had been kicked open.   When officers entered the home they found a small child, approximately 2 to 3 years of age, that was walking around unharmed. The child was secured by an officer and then officers cleared the home.   Found in an upstairs bathroom was Kayleigh Dupont, 28 years of age, and Justin Bennett, 32 years of age. Ms. Dupont and Mr. Bennett were both deceased.   An investigation was begin by crime scene personnel and detectives and they have concluded that Mr. Bennett entered the home by kicking in the front door and then confronted Ms. Dupont in the bathroom where he shot her.   He then turned the weapon on himself. At this point in time the investigation has revealed that this stemmed from a domestic violence call that this department answered on January 14th at this residence.   The investigation will resume this morning ... The child that was in the home was Ms. Dupont’s child and it was in protective custody as of early this morning.”   http://www.dnj.com/article/20140117/NEWS01/301170014/Smyrna-Police-Chief-Fatal-shooting-being-investigated-murder-suicide-small-child-found-home

Two found dead in Smyrna   Posted: Jan 16, 2014 8:52 PM CST Updated: Jan 16, 2014 9:45 PM CST   Reported by Nancy Amons - email       SMYRNA, TN (WSMV) -   Two people were found dead inside a Smyrna residence by police investigating a 911 hang-up.   Smyrna police Chief Kevin Arnold confirmed officers found a woman who had been shot and a man believed to have been shot at an apartment on Village Lake Drive.   "Officers arrived and found two individuals deceased," said Arnold.   Arnold said his department received the 911 hang-up call about 7:20 p.m.   Authorities said there were children at the home at the time of the shooting. Those children are now in custody of the Department of Childrens Services.   http://www.wsmv.com/story/24477231/two-shot-dead-in-smyrna

Austin is a liberal enclave because the libs went out of their way to register the 50,000 idiot children at the University of Texas at Austin as dems. Their votes are bought off with bike paths and parks and the developer-influenced City Council runs the city any old way it wants to.