Hiring anti-Semites like General Merrel McPeak. The 2008
Obama for President Co-Chair has an impressive record of blaming
American foreign policy on the “Jewish Lobby.” When asked during an
interview why there’s no peace in the Middle East and he said, “New York
City. Miami. We have a large vote — vote, here in favor of Israel. And
no politician wants to run against it.”
Hiring anti-Semite Zbigniew Brzezinski who warned about the power of the pro-Israel lobby buying congress.
Appointing anti-Semite Chas Freeman who blamed his resignation on the evil Israel lobby (a nicer way of saying Jewish lobby).
First Presidential Medal of Freedom honorees were anti-Semites Bishop Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson. The nicest thing Bishop Desmond Tutu
ever said about Jews was “People are scared in this country [the US],
to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful.” Also that, “the Jews thought they had a monopoly on God.”
Mary Robinson presided over the “World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance,” which turned into a non-stop hate-fest
against Jews and Israel. The conference was so anti-Semitic that then
Secretary of State Colin Powell walked out.
Buddy, tax evader, Al Sharpton led the anti-Semitic pogrom in Crown Heights and incited the anti-Semitic fire bombing of Freddy’s Fashion Mart in Harlem.
Advisor Valerie Jarrett gave the keynote address at an anti-Semitic ISNA
conference, which included discussions on how key Obama aides are
“Israeli,” proving Jews “have control of the world,” or how the
Holocaust is punishment of Jews for being “serially disobedient to
Allah.”
His second Department of Defense appointee Chuck Hagel believes in the nefarious “world wide Jewish conspiracy.” Hagel was once quoted saying, “The political reality is that… the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here.”
After Islamists attacked a Kosher supermarket in Paris one year ago, Obama first insisted it was a random act and not an anti-Semitic act.
Last Friday presented another example of this after the U.S. State Department condemned Israel for allowing homes to be built for Jews to live in that were located west of the Jordan River.
Obama has repeatedly criticized Israel for allowing Jews
to purchase homes (with real money) in East Jerusalem. Yet, Obama have
not identified any other location around the world where he believes
certain people should not be allowed to legally purchase homes with real
money—except for Jews.
On a July 31 phone call Obama
repeatedly stated that opponents of the Iran deal came from the same
“array of forces that got us into the Iraq war,” namely, Jews. Lee
Rosenberg of AIPAC questioned Obama’s statement,
comparing people who object to the Iran deal to those who supported the
invasion of Iraq, that many anti-Semites falsely claim the Jews pushed
Bush into invading Iraq. Who can forget former prime minister Ariel
Sharon’s strong opposition. Sharon urged Bush not to invade Iraq,
arguing correctly that if Saddam were removed, “Iran, a far more
dangerous player, will be rid of its principal enemy and free to pursue
its ambitions of regional hegemony.”
This year at the SIG Sauer booth there was a lot to take in. Some of
their new products for 2016 really stood out, including the updated
SIG716 G2, M400 Scorpion AR pistols, redesigned P210 target pistols and
after a long tease, optics-ready P320 models.
SIG Rifles for 2016
The SIG716 G2 is surprisingly lightweight.
Thanks to a skeletal KeyMod handguard.
The
SIG716 G2 is an updated version of the AR-10-style short-stroke
piston-driven SIG716. It has a heavy-contour 16-inch barrel, chambered
for 7.62 NATO/.308 Winchester, with a modular, monolithic handguard. The
handguard has a flattop rail for optics and sights and KeyMod slots
along the 3, 6 and 9 o’clock positions for grips, lights, pointers and
other accessories.
Unlike the previous-generation model with a
four-position gas block, the G2 now has a simple two-position gas system
for shooting suppressed or unsuppressed, and the rifles all have
suppressor-ready muzzle brakes for use with SIG’s new line of
suppressors.
A short handguard will be offered as well.
They are suppressor-ready.
A
lot of weight-savings tweaks went into the new G2 model. It weighs in
at 9 pounds, two pounds lighter than the old SIG716. SIG will start
shipping the new rifles in February, with MSRPs around $2600.
SIG
is launching a new series of direct-impingement M400-pattern AR pistols
that draws on the look and feel of their Scorpion handguns. They are
launching with two models, a 5.56 NATO/.223 Remington pistol with an
11.5-inch barrel and a 300 AAC Blackout pistol with a 9-inch barrel.
Like the Scorpion handguns, the AR pistols are only offered in flat dark
earth. MSRPs are right at $1400.
SIG Pistols for 2016
Optics-equipped SIG pistols will hit shelves this 2016.
And come with SIG optics installed.
The
optics-ready P320 RX series — so-called for SIG’s Romeo compact reflex
sights — is finally expected to ship this year. P320 RX pistols
will come with a Romeo1 sight mounted to the slide along with a set of raised suppressor sights that cowitness with the optic.
The
Romeo1 features SIG’s MOTAC (Motion Activated Illumination) system
which increases battery life by turning off the red dot when not in use,
and it instantly turns it on when it senses vibration or movement.
Machined from a single billet of magnesium, the Romeo1 is designed to
stand up to serious abuse.
SIG is launching with two models, their
based on their Full-Size and their Compact P320 pistols, and they will
be available with a two-tone or plain black finish. Shipping starts
mid-February with a $799 MSRP — including the Romeo1.
The updated P210 has a surprisingly low MSRP.
This
year SIG is also reintroducing the venerable P210. The announcement is
causing a bit of a stir as the American-made guns are priced
significantly lower than the original German pistols. SIG is kicking
things off with two models, the P210 Classic and P210 Target.
Like
the originals, the new P210 pistols are full-size single-action,
single-stack handguns chambered for 9mm Luger. They have slender frames
and slides with the slide running on rails inside the frame — and are
considered by many to be the best target pistols ever produced by SIG.
The
new SIG P210 shares a lot of features with the more recent P210 Legend
series including the American-style push-button magazine release,
checkered target grips, wide slide serrations, stainless steel
construction and Super Target-style manual thumb safety. Both have
5-inch barrels; the main differences are that The Classic will come with
fixed sights and the Target will have adjustable sights and extra slide
serrations on the front of the slide.
MSRP will be around $1500
for the P210 Target and $1300 for the P210 Classic with availability
expected May of this year. SIG plans to follow up with a 6-inch
longslide version later in June as well as a 4-inch Carry version after
that.
This is just some of what SIG has in the works for this
year. We’ll follow up with news and reviews of SIG’s latest hardware in
detail throughout 2016. Read more at SIG Sauer:http://www.sigsauer.com/
FN
is probably most identified with the guns that it makes for the United
States military. In an effort to allow citizens to enjoy the same
firearm that the military uses minus the full auto funds switch FN has
introduced their military collector series. This series is made up of
the three rifles they currently supply to the government.
I had a
chance to shoot these guns at range day. The M4 performed just as you
would have expected what was a pleasant surprise to me is how long it
had been since I shot a full-sized rifle. The 20 inch M-16 was
remarkably fun to shoot. The M249 was available in both the semiauto and
full auto configurations for range day. If shooting these guns don’t
put a smile on your face there’s something wrong.
FN
15 military collector M4 is a semiautomatic version of the M4 carbine
produced for the military. It is chambered in 5.56X 45 mm, with standard
military front sight and flip up rear sight. It comes to you equipped
with a permanently pinned flash suppressor to get the barrel to a legal
16 inches. The accessory rail forearm includes Knights Armament rail
covers and front pistol grip. As you would expect it also comes with a
mil spec six position stock with two sling mounts and a pistol grip. The
gun is authentic to the point of even having the UID label with QR code
printed below the ejection port on the magazine well.
Next
in this series is the FN 15 military collector M16 this rifle is the
civilian version of the baseline military M-16. This gun is also
equipped nicely with the addition of a 20 inch, alloy steel, button
broached, chrome lined barrel with A2 style compensator. They have also
included the fixed A2 style rifle buttstock for authenticity. You get
all of the G.I. specific accessories that came with the M4, rail covers,
sights and vertical foregrip.
The retail is $1749 for either rifle they are available now.
The
FN M249S is the civilian version of the iconic M249 SAW that the
military has been using since 1988. With the exception of firing only
semiautomatic from a closed bolt it is virtually an identical rifle. It
comes with a 20.5 inch cold hammer Forged, stainless steel machine gun
barrel that allows for quick changes in the field. It will accept M27
linked ammunition belt or standard AR 15 magazines. With the tripod
attached this beast weighs in at 17 pounds and overall length of 40.7
inches.
This gun can be yours for a mere $7999. FN is anxiously awaiting your order.
In an online statement, Stewart Rhodes, founder and president of
Oathkeepers, a “patriot” group of current and former military and law
enforcement officers pledging not to obey orders which they believe
violate the United States Constitution, wrote:
We cannot force ourselves or our
protection on people who do not want it. Dwight and Steven Hammond have
made it clear, through their attorney, that they just want to turn
themselves in and serve out their sentence. And that clear statement of
their intent should be the end of the discussion on this. No patriot
group or individual has the right or the authority to force an armed
stand off on this family, or around them, against their wishes. You
cannot help someone who does not want your help, and who are not willing
and ready to take a hard stand themselves.”
Stewart Rhodes
Rhodes went on to explain:
We went to Bundy Ranch after the Bundy
family directly asked for help in their strong stand, and we went there
specifically to prevent them from being “Waco’d” after we saw clear
preparation and intent by the Feds to use military trained snipers and
Special Forces veteran mercenaries against cowboys and their families.
Likewise, the miners in the Sugar Pine
Mine in Oregon, and the miners in Lincoln, Montana asked for our help
and we went there after seeing a pattern of behavior by the BLM of
intentionally burning occupied cabins, drawing guns on miners, etc. that
caused us to be concerned for the miners’ physical safety, along with
evidence that BLM agents intended to use force to remove the miners from
their claims without due process.
And in Ferguson, Missouri, we asked shop
owners and residents if they wanted our protection, and only after they
said “yes” did we deploy, rifles in hand, to guard them against deadly
arsonists and violent looters. Without their consent, we would have had
no right to go onto their rooftops.
And just this year, in Idaho, our Idaho
Oath Keepers joined with Idaho Three Percenters and other patriots to
stand on the front lawn of a veteran who the VA had decreed “unfit to
handle his own affairs” and therefore prohibited from owning firearms. …
All indicators were that the Bundy’s were
at risk of being killed in a Ruby Ridge or Waco type incident. And that
is why we went (along with many other groups and individuals) after the
Bundy family directly asked for help. And because the whole Bundy
family, and many of their cowboy friends and neighbors were willing to
take a hard stand, with the support of veterans and patriots, they
prevailed, the Feds blinked, and backed off.
That was a clear win for Team Liberty,
while maintaining the moral high ground in the eyes of the great
majority of patriotic Americans – which is exactly why the Feds backed
off. They knew they had overstepped, that the “optics” were bad, and
they had severely underestimated the resolve and resistance, and could
not win without using overwhelming military force, and they knew that if
they tried to use that military force – as many leftists were screaming
for them to do – the military would split at least in half, and many or
most of the current serving trigger pullers in the Marine Corps and
Army infantry would have sided with the resistance – joining all of us
pissed off veterans – in the resulting civil war.
In the Hammond case, there is no clear and
present danger of the family being mass murdered, there is no stand
off, and the family has no intent of starting one…We must respect that
choice. …
Those who intend to try to force this into
some form of modern “Lexington Green” or “Concord Bridge” against the
wishes of the Hammonds and their neighbors need to take a hard look at
the Founders’ example and their wisdom. The Founders, even after the
Boston Massacre, did not immediately take up arms and fight. They gave
the Crown and Parliament plenty of rope to hang themselves and show
their true face to the colonists, and drive more Americans over to the
Patriot cause.
The patriots did not fire on the King’s
troops until General Gage ordered his men to march on Lexington and
Concord to seize Hancock and Adams, and to confiscate guns, cannon,
powder, and food supplies. In other words, the patriot leadership had
the discipline and wisdom to maneuver Gage into attempting wholesale gun
confiscation. And that was the spark that fully justified armed
resistance in they eyes of the greatest number of Americans at the time.
By doing so, they retained the moral high
ground, while also engaging the King’s troops out in patriot dominated
territory, where they were strong, well organized, and vastly
outnumbered the Red Coats, and thus they kicked their ass all the way
back to Boston. They poked Gage into vastly overstepping (and “stepping
on his dick” as we would say today) and by doing so, they started the
Revolution off with a win on all fronts – a military victory, a moral
victory, and a morale victory. THAT is how you kick off a fight. … And
that is how you start off a Revolution.
All of you who are impatient and itching
for a fight, put your thinking caps on, and use your heads. Keep your
cool, and don’t worry, the fight will come to you soon enough. Obama,
and the other anti-gun idiot politicians, such as the Governor of CT,
will not be able to resist the temptation to attempt to violate our
right to bear arms by executive decree, such as barring anyone put on
no-fly list and other “government watch lists” from owning guns – which
would include me…
Clearly, their intent is to eventually put
all of you “dangerous” veterans, patriots, and constitutionalists on
such watch lists, designate you as someone who is barred from owning
guns, and then use that to disarm you, one at a time. And they actually
think we will just roll over and let them do that. …
Let Obama and the other hoplophobes [an
invented term to describe those who fear guns] step on their dicks, with
both feet, with cleats on. And organize local resistance, to help gun
owners, like the old vet in Idaho, who are willing to take a hard stand,
and put your muscle behind that hard stand, on the critical issue of
guns, IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY (the three most important questions you have
to answer are “who’s on your buddy team, who’s on your fire-team, who’s
on your squad”).
Muhammad
Fethullah Gulen heads a global empire of schools and Islamic cultural
centers and is one of Turkey’s most influential spiritual leaders. He
lives in exile in the United States and has 140 charters schools in 26
states.
Muhammad Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish Islamist, writer and preacher with a secret plan for bringing Shariah law to America.
Arguably Turkey’s most influential spiritual leader of the past 50
years, Gülen left that country in the late 1990s and now directs his
cult-like Islamic movement from a guarded compound in the Pocono
Mountains of Pennsylvania.
Part of his empire consists of a thriving network of more than 140
charter schools in 26 states that sell themselves to parents as a
secular and more academically rigorous alternative to public schools.
As the second largest chain of charter schools in the United States,
Gülen schools rake in tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars every
year.
But the schools, which have nondescript names like Horizon Science
Academies in Illinois, Harmony School of Excellence in Washington, D.C.,
and Magnolia Science Academies in California, have long been the
subject of investigations into alleged corruption scandals involving
conflicts of interest, influence peddling and visa abuse. USA Today reported recently that the Gülen faith movement secretly funded 200 overseas trips for congressional lawmakers and staff since 2008.
“Turkish leaders have asked the United States to
extradite Gülen from the remote compound in rural Pennsylvania where he
has lived for 20 years.
The movement has founded hundreds of charter schools across the
United States and around the world, has its own media organizations, and
was deeply entrenched with the Turkish regime until a falling out two
years ago. That led President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to declare Gülen was
running ‘a parallel state’ inside the country with the intent of
undermining the government.”
Critics argue that the schools also covertly engage in Islamic
missionary outreach, usually after-hours or during school
extra-curricular activities.
Anti-Shariah activist Pam Geller says Gülen has been dubbed “the Turkish Khomeini” for a reason.
“It has been widely reported for years that he wants ultimately to
restore the Islamic caliphate in Turkey. That alone should make his
charter schools in the U.S. a subject of law enforcement scrutiny, but
it largely hasn’t,” Geller told WND. “There have been allegations that
funds from these schools have gone to a Turkish Islamization movement,
Hizmet. The U.S. government shouldn’t be funding Gülen’s schools; it
should be investigating them and shutting them down.”
Most of the parents of students who attend Gülen charter schools have
no idea about Gülen’s background as a Turkish Islamist and believer in
civilizational jihad — which is a form of nonviolent jihad focused on
infiltrating and overcoming Western nations over time through
immigration and exploitation of the civil liberties available in those
nations.
But a new book on Gülen and his U.S. schools hopes to blow the lid on his cloak of secrecy.
Clare Lopez, co-author with Christopher Holton of “Gülen and the Gulenist Movement: Turkey’s Islamic Supremacist Cult and its Contributions to Civilizational Jihad,”
says the movement is extremely secretive but there’s no small amount of
information for those willing to dig. She and Holton decided to peel
back the layers. “There
have been many articles and of course the movement itself puts out a
great deal of material and Fethullah Gülen himself is a prolific author
of articles and books,” Lopez told WND.
Lopez, who is vice president of research and analysis for the Center
for Security Policy, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank operated by
former Defense Department analyst Frank Gaffney, said Gulen is
“fundamentally jihadist in outlook,” while promoting orthodox Islamic
tenets within a worldwide movement.
Gulen is also heavily involved in the global interfaith movement,
which seeks to build bridges between the major faiths of Christianity,
Islam and Judaism.
“While not very well known by many Americans he is nevertheless quite
influential and works through the schools, cultural organizations and
the media to promote not only the orthodox teachings of Islam, but also a
positive outlook towards Turkey,” Lopez said. “We’re concerned about
its influence on our children, civic leaders and elected officials.” Listen to Clare Lopez talk about the subject of her new book, the shadowy Gülen movement.
Traditionally the centers of Islam have been based in Saudi Arabia for Sunnis and Iran for Shiites.
But Turkey has always been the wild card. Students of history will
recall that it served as the head of the Ottoman Empire for more than
500 years, but crashed and burned in the aftermath of World War I and
was steered into a more Western mindset by Ataturk.
Under Erdogan's AKP party, however, that has all changed, as documented in the film "End Times Eyewitness" by Christian author and filmmaker Joel Richardson.
Erdogan has overturned the secularized Western influence that had
banned the hijab and the fez in public places and eliminated the many
Shariah-compliant restrictions placed on society. Asylum in American
Gülen's cultural empire, including his schools and media companies,
had a lot to do with the return of Islamist values in Turkey. But Gülen
lost out on the political power struggle and in 1998 fled to the U.S.,
where he was offered asylum.
In the U.S., Gülen schools are not outwardly Islamic. Any influence in that regard is subtle, Lopez said.
Map of Gulen schools and cultural institutions in the United States.
But he has become expert at buying influence from politicians in Washington and in state Capitols.
"There have been many allegations of abuse of the visa system,
kickbacks in salaries, and attempted influencing of school
administrators, parents and teachers, journalists, priests and rabbis,
everyone," Lopez said. Sign the petition! Urge Congress to 'halt Muslim immigration now!'
In 2013 Gülen and Erdogan had a final falling out.
"These are two powerful men each intent on seizing power for
themselves, not that they disagree in any way over the direction to take
Turkey, which is away from the West and toward the neo-Ottoman Islamic
caliphate," Lopez says.
The U.S. gave Gülen legal permanent resident status in 2008, and he is now eligible for citizenship. Soaking the U.S. taxpayer
The amount of public taxpayer money Gulen's charter schools receive
every year runs into the tens of millions. A charter school is
essentially operated like a private school only it receives taxpayer
funding and does not answer to any widely elected school board.
"There's all kinds of charter schools in the U.S. that receive
taxpayer funding and that is how the Gulen movement has developed its
network of schools in the U.S., making them attractive by making them
STEM schools, which parents love," Lopez said.
And when Congress passed the re-authorization of No Child Left Behind
late last year, it included increased funding for taxpayer-funded
charter schools run by unelected boards.
"Gulen Charter Schools exemplify the unconstitutionality of
tax-funded school choice," writes Charlotte Iserbyt, a former education
adviser to President Ronald Reagan, in her blog, "The ABCs of Dumb Down."
"There is no citizen accountability or oversight," Iserbyt says. "No
wonder there is corruption. Those who think that charters are the
solution for Common Core, forget it."
And for all of the taxpayer money flooding into the Gülen schools,
most of the teaching positions go to foreigners who come to the U.S. on
H-1B guest-worker visas from Turkey. This is the visa program that GOP
presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio wants to expand through his
I-Squared bill, tripling the cap on such visas from about 66,000 per
year to 195,000 per year.
"To the best of my knowledge in all the research I've done, I don't
see that the Gülen schools are being accused of teaching Islamic
ideology in the schools, that's not the issue, rather it's the abuse of
H-1B visa system to bring in Turkish teachers instead of hiring
Americans," Lopez said. "There is alleged abuse of the teachers who are
required to kick back a percentage of their salaries, and they do teach a
cultural emphasis on Turkey and Islam." Charges of influence peddling
The schools also are known for offering lavish, all-expenses paid
trips to Turkey for friendly politicians at the state, local and federal
level.
The USA Today investigation accuses the Gülen movement of falsifying its funding of trips for U.S. congressional members.
Lopez said teachers and parents have complained that the schools'
main purpose is to promote a love not only for Turkish culture but
Islam.
"You'll see in the book former teachers or people who've broken away
from the movement who say there is an attempt to inculcate a positive
view of Turkey and Islamic culture," she said. An Islamist with a hidden agenda
Joel Richardson is a Bible teacher, author and documentary filmmaker.
Richardson, the Christian author and filmmaker, said Gülen is without
a doubt an Islamist with an hidden agenda. His strategy mirrors that of
the Muslim Brotherhood, which advocates non-violent civilizational
jihad as the means to infiltrate and influence Western societies.
"In the past, he has made very overt comments about the need to
infiltrate the arteries of the system and so forth," Richardson told
WND. "On the other hand, he is definitely non-violent and has furthered
the idea, popular within some of the Turkish-Islamist movement of
non-violent Islamism."
Erdogan struck harshly against the Gülen movement in Turkey, rooting
numerous Gülen supporters out of the government and throwing them in
prison. Erdogan has called for the U.S. to extradite Gülen for allegedly
subverting the Turkish government.
"In terms of the danger that Gülen represents to the United States, I
would say that five years ago, Gülen and his charter schools were a
bigger concern," Richardson said. "They still need to be defunded by the
U.S. government. Today, however, compared to the much larger dangers we
are facing, including the very real Islamists that Obama has allowed
into the U.S. government, or the very real, very violent Islamists that
have infiltrated the country, Gülen, with his ideological jihad, is a
relatively small fish, in an ever-expanding pond of violent Islamists."
Lopez said the Gülen movement helped drag Turkey back to its Islamic
roots and so his influence should not be under-estimated in the U.S.,
and certainly should not be given taxpayer funding.
"Look what's happened to Turkey, the Islamists were voted in, and
Erdogan is on a neo-Ottoman path to take Turkey back to its roots as a
jihadist state, so I think there is ever good reason to be concerned
about his activities (in the U.S.)," Lopez said.
With all the political
buzz about gun control in the last couple of weeks, it’s important to
separate fact from fiction. AR-15s are often referred to as assault
weapons, when in actuality, they are just a modern version of a
semi-automatic sporting rifle.
The name AR-15 stands for
Armalite Model 15. The abbreviation “AR” has nothing to do with the
term “assault rifle.” True assault rifles, like the M16 and M4 carbine
assault rifles, which are currently in use by the United States
military, are fully automatic-capable firearms. Ownership of such fully
automatic firearms has been severely restricted for civilians since
1934. Modern sporting rifles — AR-based — are semi-automatic firearms,
meaning they shoot one shot per trigger pull. The action of modern
sporting rifles is similar to other semi-automatic firearms, including
semi-automatic shotguns commonly used for duck hunting or semi-automatic
.22 rifles often used for introducing kids to guns. Modern sporting
rifles look different than your grandpa’s gun but likely function the
same way.
The AR
platform is becoming more and more common among hunters across the
country because of their durability, accuracy and ability to be
customized. While the issue of limited caliber choice does currently
remain, the days of widespread calibers across the AR platform are near.
A lot of the
misconception of the AR-15 lies in the fact that these sporting rifles
look like the rifles we see soldiers and law enforcement carrying. The
trend of transitioning military style rifles into the modern shooting
world has been going on for centuries. As military technology has
advanced weaponry, civilian sporting firearms have become more
dependable, more ergonomically correct and therefore better for hunters
interested in equipment that helps them make ethical shots.
“Because of my
military background, I am most comfortable using an AR as a hunting
rifle. The body style is what I’m used. I do a lot of hog hunting at
night, so I appreciate the ability to add a light to the picatinny rail.
My AR is just a modern semi-automatic sporting rifle that looks and
feels like the rifle I carried as a Marine,” retired Marine Kevin Reese
said.
The ease of
customizing ARs is the greatest appeal of the platform. Not only can you
easily add accessories, but you can also switch upper receivers to
change the caliber of the rifle. Actually, you can change and customize
just about every part of an AR, including the handguard, trigger, grip,
sights, magazine, stock and more. Once you have customized the necessary
parts, you start adding accessories like lights, optics and slings.
“The biggest
advantage of the AR platform is the modularity of the gun. ARs can be
customized for personal preferences, such as color, barrel length,
stock/forearm configurations and caliber. You can easily switch uppers”
receivers, “having one for varmint hunting, one for big-game hunting and
another for target shooting while maintaining the exact same fit and
feel of your rifle,” said Matt Kinamore, product manager at Battenfeld
Technologies.
ARs can be
overwhelming to newcomers. There are a lot of parts and some fancy
terms. Once you have a basic comprehension, though, it’s easy to start
understanding what goes where and how you can customize that part.
Another great
appeal of ARs is the ease of cleaning and maintenance. These rifles
break down quickly and are easy to put back together. You can remove
most of the major parts without tools, and for the parts that do require
tools, a number of manufacturers are producing specialty items that
make every part of an AR cleaning job a breeze.
Misinformation
is being used in an attempt to infringe upon the rights of law-abiding
gun owners. Don’t let the appearance of AR platform rifles lead you to
believe they are more than what they actually are, which is a modern
version of the traditional semi-automatic sporting rifle.
As the U.S. engages in a national debate over the militarization of
the police, federal data shows that government agencies charged with
largely administrative roles are spending tens of millions of taxpayer
dollars to purchase SWAT and military-style equipment.
Since FY
2006, 44 traditionally administrative agencies have spent over $71
million on items like body armor, riot helmets and shields, cannon
launchers and police firearms and ammunition, according to federal
spending data from watchdog group OpenTheBooks.com.
This
comes in addition to the $330 million spent on such equipment in that
period by traditional law enforcement agencies like the FBI, Secret Service and Drug Enforcement Administration.
Some examples of the purchases include: • Nearly
$2 million spent by the Department of Veterans Affairs on riot helmets,
defender shields, body armor, a “milo return fire cannon system,”
armored mobile shields, Kevlar blankets, tactical gear and equipment for
crowd control.
• Over $300,000 spent by the Food and Drug Administration on “ballistic vests and carriers” in fiscal 2014. • Over $200,000 on body armor spent by the Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama administration years, versus just $30,000 in the three previous fiscal years. • More than $28,000 by the Smithsonian Institution on body armor for its “zoo police and security officers” in fiscal 2012.
Spending watchdogs say these examples, highlighted in an upcoming oversight report by OpenTheBooks.com titled “Arming of the Federal Agencies,” point to a trend of duplicitous federal law enforcement agencies run amok.
“Spending
$71.1 million on body armor outside of traditional law enforcement
agencies raises troubling questions. It’s no surprise Gallup found that
nearly 50 percent of Americans believe the federal government is a
threat to their liberty,” said Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpenTheBooks.com and author of the oversight report.
“Living
in D.C., one gets a sense of the growing police power of the federal
government when you increasingly see official cars emblazoned with
‘fill-in-the-blank-agency Police Service’ for obscure bureaucracies
you’ve hardly even heard of,” said Chris Edwards, a budget analyst at
the Cato Institute.
For spending tens of millions of dollars on body armor and other protective gear for duplicative police forces, the VA, EPA,
FDA and 41 other administrative agencies win this week’s Golden Hammer,
a weekly distinction awarded by The Washington Times highlighting
examples of wasteful federal spending.
“When agencies like the
Bureau of Public Debt and Small Business Administration are spending
money on body armor and bulletproof vests, it is an indicator of bloat
in those agencies’ budgets and the wasteful incentive to spend every
dime before the fiscal year-end,” Mr. Edwards said.
Federal
agencies employ roughly 120,000 full-time officers authorized to carry
guns and make arrests, according to a June 2012 report from the Bureau
of Justice Statistics.
Administrative agencies with special police like the EPA,
IRS and NOAA argue that their officers, just like other law enforcement
officers, always face the potential for physical confrontation and must
therefore be armed and ready.
Other agencies are required by Congress to have their own officers.
“Under
the law (38 USC 902) VA police officers are appointed and trained to
enforce Federal law within the Department’s jurisdiction. Because they
are in every VA Medical Center, and the properties are Federally owned,
the officers are the first responders to active threat incidents, civil
disturbances or similar incidents,” a spokesman for the VA said in a
statement to The Washington Times. “Facilities do receive excellent
support from local police agencies, but our guys will be the first to
respond.”
In a statement to The Times, a spokeswoman for the FDA said the agency’s
Office of Criminal Investigations employs special agents that have the
authority to obtain and execute arrest and search warrants, carry
firearms and gather evidence to enforce U.S. criminal law on matters
relating to the FDA.
“OCI provides its special agents with
numerous resources to support investigations OCI Special Agents are
dedicated to protecting the health and welfare of the public by
investigating criminal allegations falling within the jurisdiction of
the FDA,” the spokeswoman said.
Some agencies like the EPA,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management have
come under fire in recent years for conducting raid-like operations with
heavily armed agents. In 2013 armed EPA officers raided the town of Chicken, Alaska. The agency said the raid was conducted to look for possible violations of the Clean Water Act.
The EPA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In some cases Congress might require an agency to install its own police force when federal authorities won’t take on the job.
According
to Paul Larkin, a senior legal research fellow at The Heritage
Foundation and a former special agent in charge with the EPA criminal enforcement program, the FBI
was asked to take on the role of environmental law enforcement in 1986,
but the bureau turned down the job, citing its newly added
responsibilities in the war on drugs.
He added that administrative
agencies also have an incentive to create their own police forces
because it provides them the authority to bring criminal charges against
someone that will not cooperate in a civil settlement on a special
interest matter, like environmental violations.
“We have too many
federal agencies with law enforcement authorities. If you’re going to
give somebody law enforcement authorities, there are certain expenses
that come with it. The problem is that we have given law enforcement
authority to far too many different agencies,” Mr. Larkin said.
He
argued that administrative federal agencies should not handle their own
criminal investigations, but should transfer those probes to the U.S.
Marshals Service.
Several reports from the Government
Accountability Office have highlighted concerns with the growing number
of law enforcement officers at federal agencies over the year.
In 1996 32 agencies employed 4,262 law enforcement personnel, an increase of 70 percent since 1987, according to a GAO report.
A
2006 GAO report showed there were 25,000 sworn officers in smaller
government agencies, excluding departments commonly associated with
crime-fighting.
And that number has continued to balloon despite growing criticism.
Sightings of a mysterious, ghostly cat-like figure baffle East Texans
A
cat-like figure roaming pastures and tree lines near Hughes Springs,
Texas, is believed to be an albino mountain lion by some. Photo:
Courtesy of KLTV
Cattle have been reported injured or missing amid reports of a large,
ghostly cat-like figure roaming the pastures and tree lines along Farm
Road 130 near Hughes Springs, Texas, according to KLTV.
Landowner Mitchell Cox, who captured the huge cat on cellphone video
from about 50 yards away, believes it’s an albino mountain lion, one of
the rarest sights in nature.
“When I first saw the white animal, the first thing I thought was, it was a dog,” Cox told KLTV.
Biologists at Texas A&M Overton tell KLTV that it’s unlikely a
mountain lion would be moving around and being seen during daylight
hours, so they believe it’s a very large domesticated cat until more
evidence proves otherwise.
“No,” Cox told KLTV. “That’s too big for a house cat.”
His video appears to substantiate his claim, as the white cat-like
figure is seen leaping over a six-foot-wide creek. The fact livestock
have been missing adds to the mounting evidence of an albino mountain
lion.
Here’s KLTV’s report, which includes the video:
“The cat jumps across about a six-foot creek there,” investigator
Hershel Stroman of the Morris County Sheriff’s Office told KLTV. “At
first, my initial thought was it was an edited video, but upon seeing it
and talking to people, I believe it’s true: a white albino mountain
lion.
“I’ve seen mountain lions around this area, but never a white one.”
It is true that mountain lions are stealthy. They tend to see you
before you see them if indeed you ever see them. But how stealthy can an
albino mountain lion be?
Cox isn’t the only one to have seen the white cat-like figure. His other neighbors have, too.
“Our kids come in the house all the time saying they seen a big cat,
and we just passed it off as a big field cat,” Jerry Dorough told KLTV.
“It’s too scary,” added Amy Dorough.
No doubt, the day will come when the true identity of the ghostly,
cat-like figure is positively identified. Hopefully without incident.
After a two-week trial, Dwight and Steven Hammond were convicted by
jury. They were sentenced in October to five years in prison for
committing arson on federal land in 2001 and 2006. The pair had been
sentenced and served time previously, but on appeal a federal judge
ruled that their initial sentences had been too short.
In the 2001
incident, the men, who had leased grazing rights to the land for their
cattle, said they had started the fires on their own land to try to
prevent the spread of an invasive species of plant, and that the fire
had inadvertently burned onto public land. Prosecutors said the fire
consumed 139 acres of public land, and was set in an attempt to hide
evidence after the men were part of a hunting party that illegally
killed several deer on the federal land.
In 2006, the Hammonds
allegedly set a “back fire” meant to protect their land after a series
of lightning storms had started a fire on the federal property.
Prosecutors said that fire then spread onto the federal land.
The
SIG716 G2 is an updated version of the AR-10-style short-stroke
piston-driven SIG716. It has a heavy-contour 16-inch barrel, chambered
for 7.62 NATO/.308 Winchester, with a modular, monolithic handguard. The
handguard has a flattop rail for optics and sights and KeyMod slots
along the 3, 6 and 9 o’clock positions for grips, lights, pointers and
other accessories.
The
optics-ready P320 RX series — so-called for SIG’s Romeo compact reflex
sights — is finally expected to ship this year. P320 RX pistols
will come with a Romeo1 sight mounted to the slide along with a set of raised suppressor sights that cowitness with the optic.
This
year SIG is also reintroducing the venerable P210. The announcement is
causing a bit of a stir as the American-made guns are priced
significantly lower than the original German pistols. SIG is kicking
things off with two models, the P210 Classic and P210 Target.
Rhodes went on to explain:
“There
have been many articles and of course the movement itself puts out a
great deal of material and Fethullah Gülen himself is a prolific author
of articles and books,” Lopez told WND.
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