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Saturday, June 25, 2016
NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS VOLUME 23, NUMBER 25
American Legends
American Legends
Medal of Honor recipient Clint Romesha recalls unit taking back embattled outpost in Afghanistan
Clint Romesha became a legend in 2009 after he led the charge against a monstrous Taliban attack in Afghanistan, rallying his fellow soldiers to regain control of their camp after ...
Blown out of the sky: Pilot's 'miracle' survival after stealth fighter was shot down
Dale Zelko thought he was a goner when his jet was shot down over Serbia.
'Just a soldier doing my job,' says hero who tackled suicide bomber in Afghanistan
Florent Groberg tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan and lived to tell about it.
Black Hawk Down, Rangers to the rescue: Soldier recalls deadly battle
When U.S. Army Ranger Keni Thomas was writing a letter to his mother during a day off in Somalia, he had no idea he'd soon be involved in a deadly battle.
Green Beret Dillon Behr reflects on deadly ambush: 'I thought I was going to die'
Even after Dillon Behr was wounded, he kept fighting the enemy.Huge loss for Obama Administration
Press ? for keyboaNHuge loss for Obama Administration
Breaking news: Obama’s illegal executive amnesty remains blocked by a Supreme Court tie! Bypassing Congress was an unauthorized abuse of presidential power that trampled the Constitution.
Once again, Texas has led the fight for the Constitution, and, once again, Texas has defeated this lawless president.
President Obama issued an executive action granting amnesty to millions. When we challenged President Obama's executive amnesty in court—my final lawsuit as your Attorney General, 25 other states joined our fight, and the president's plans were halted in court.
Can you help us make sure Texas continues to lead—continues to stay red this election season?
President Obama issued an executive action granting amnesty to millions. When we challenged President Obama's executive amnesty in court—my final lawsuit as your Attorney General, 25 other states joined our fight, and the president's plans were halted in court.
Can you help us make sure Texas continues to lead—continues to stay red this election season?
We’ve won for now. But we’re one election—and one bad Supreme Court appointee—from seeing the Constitution turned on its head.
Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling was a 4 – 4 tie. A liberal appointee from Hillary Clinton could completely tip the scales towards lawlessness in America.
And she’s coming after Texas.
Just days ago, Hillary Clinton told reporters that she’s focused on winning Texas this November.
Doug, we simply cannot let that happen. We MUST hold the line. A Hillary Clinton win in Texas guarantees a Hillary Clinton presidency.
President Obama himself admitted that he is not a king who can unilaterally change and write immigration laws. Yesterday’s ruling is a victory for the Rule of Law, the Constitution, and all law-abiding Americans—including the millions of immigrants who came to America following the Rule of Law.
But we must remain ever-vigilant to preserve the very foundation our country was built upon.
This fight is not over. Obama’s administration desperately fought our lawsuit every step of the way. And every time, we won, dealing him what some have suggested the “biggest legal loss of his presidency.” But you can be sure that Hillary Clinton would take up the president’s mantle of lawlessness.
Help us keep Texas red up and down the ballot. We need to keep Texas leading—protecting the Constitution. The saying “As Texas goes, so goes the nation” is an apt reminder this year, especially with yesterday’s ruling. You can continue to be the difference in helping Texas leading the nation.
We must protect this historic ruling. While Obama’s reign is almost over, it’s clear that Hillary will be even worse if she is elected President.
Sincerely,
Greg Abbott
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Obama’s Message to Americans: You Can’t Handle the Truth
Obama’s Message to Americans: You Can’t Handle the Truth
by Alex Griswold | 3:56 pm, June 20th, 2016
The Barack Obama administration has long refused to called radicals who commit terrorism in the name of Islam “radical Islamic terrorists,” arguing that the term is inaccurate. But this instance was almost a parody of that hypersensitivity. It felt less like a national leader respecting the feelings of a religious minority and more like the executive branch covering up the politically inconvenient.
Given that FBI director James Coney was openly talking about the killer’s pledge to ISIS last week, the original omission appeared to be a new policy that was drafted some time after the president went on national television and blasted those who say the words “radical Islam.” The redactions were unprecedented, an indication that either ISIS or more broadly radical Islam had received its own special accommodation from the FBI.
Make no mistake: this was an order that came from the top. The day before the transcript was released, Obama’s Attorney General Loretta Lynch
made the rounds on the Sunday talk shows to explain the redactions. The
explanations offered by Lynch were contradictory: on one show, she said
the edits were made to prevent spreading the terrorist’s message, on another, it was to “avoid revictimizing”
those wounded in the attacks. That latter argument in particular is
unbelievably weak: it could be used to justify withholding any
information about any crime ever. But that the official behind the
decision can’t even seem to get her story straight telegraphs that
neither are the White House’s actual concern at all.
Obama hinted at his real motivation in his speech last week.We’re starting to see where this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness about who exactly we’re fighting, where this can lead us. We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States to bar all Muslims from emigrating to America. We hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests that entire religious communities are complicit in violence. Where does this stop? The Orlando killer, one of the San Bernardino killers, the Fort Hood killer — they were all U.S. citizens.Translation: the avoidance of terms like “radical Islam” has little to do with its concern that it will inflame Muslims as Obama so often claims. It instead has everything to do with the fact that it will inflame non-Muslim Americans into oppressing their Muslims peers. Everyday Americans can’t hear their president acknowledge the truth about organizations like ISIS because they’ll all turn into terrible bigots (or worse: vote Republican).
It should go without saying that Obama’s fears are more than little insulting to the average American’s intelligence. Most Americans, most Muslims, most Democrats, most Republicans– most everyone, really– is perfectly capable of understanding that the vast, vast majority of Muslims are not radicalized and pose no threat to Americans citizens. They also recognize that there is a slim minority that has openly declared war on the West and actively carries out terror attacks on a regular basis. Obama seems to seriously believe that acknowledging the latter will lead people reject the former, even though millions hold both beliefs simultaneously.
It’s also laughably arrogant. 92% of the population believes “radical Islamic terrorism” is a serious threat to the United States, a number that naturally includes the vast majority of Democrats. This is an argument the President and have allies have already lost, but continue to fight under the belief that Obama is just so darn influential and well-spoken he can charm every American into believing 2 + 2 = 5. When even your hand-chosen successor reverses herself and says she has no problem saying “radical Islamism,” maybe it’s time to throw in the towel.
But most dangerously, it’s
inconsistently applied. Obama and the FBI never shied away from
recognizing the motivations of white supremacists like the Charleston
shooter or Christian extremists like the Planned Parenthood shooter.
There seems to be no other radical movement where the administration
worries about potential backlash from naming the perpetrators. It’s only
when it comes to Islam that the American people suddenly can’t be
trusted to understand nuance.
Taken alone, this whole incident would just be a cause to
chuckle at the administration’s tone deafness and it’s spineless retreat
within hours. But within just the past six months we’ve had
countless stories about the unusual steps the Obama administration has
take to hide information from the American public:- White House staffer Ben Rhodes spoke to The New York Times and bragged about how the White House deceived reporters and the public about the timeline of the Iran deal. While the negotiations actually began with the madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the administration told the public it began after his ouster to make the other party seem more reasonable.
- When confronted by Fox News’ James Rosen in 2013, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki tacitly admitted they lied to him in 2011 about the Iranian negotiations and strongly suggested the White House would lie to reporters if they wanted to keep negotiations secret.
- The State Department scrubbed the video of the aforementioned 2013 press briefing. That scrubbing was originally explained as a “glitch,” something that anyone who watched the video could have seen was an obvious lie. When they admitted the edits were intentional, the State Department said that they didn’t know who ordered the edit and they had no interest in investigating further.
- The White House translation of the French president’s mention of “Islamist terrorism” at a summit coincidentally cut out just before and after that phrase. When asked to explain the omission, the White House blamed another “glitch.”
- When giving a White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest refused to say that no administration official has ever lied about the Iran deal (probably after mishearing a question). When the White House transcript for those remarks was released, the relevant portion had been excised. Sadly, no “glitch” is blamed: instead the White House argues that Earnest’s remark was “inaudible,” inadvertently revealing that they hire the legally deaf to transcribe their briefings.
Obama argues that the fight over the term “radical Islam” is a pointless one, but the same logic also drove the administration’s decision to hide serious concerns from the American public, including the fact that they were negotiating with Iranian hardliners. There were few-to-no sensitive national security concerns that would have been implicated by telling Americans about the negotiations back in 2011. The only concern was that if Americans knew, they’d be understandably skeptical and try to scuttle any deal.
In short, the administration was worried Americans were just too stupid
to handle the fact that were speaking with Ahmadinejad. Rather than
embracing the truth and trying to explain their position, they assumed
Americans weren’t sophisticated enough to understand delicate foreign
policy issues and kept them in the dark. There was a complete lack of
self awareness that maybe the reason they wouldn’t be able to convince
Americans that negotiating with a genocidal dictator was a good idea was
because it wasn’t. Instead, they found themselves invoking Principal Skinner: “Am I so out of touch? No… it’s the children who are wrong.”
The ultimate farce is that in defense of his record, Barack
Obama consistently swears that his is the “most transparent
administration in history.” I’m sure he had a different meaning of
“transparent” in mind, but he’s certainly correct.Paul Ryan: ‘Preposterous’ to Remove ISIS Pledge From Orlando Shooter’s 911 Transcript
Paul Ryan: ‘Preposterous’ to Remove ISIS Pledge From Orlando Shooter’s 911 Transcript
by Alex Griswold | 11:58 am, June 20th, 2016
“My name is I pledge of allegiance to [omitted],” reads the transcript released by the FBI. “I pledge allegiance to [omitted] may God protect him, on behalf of [omitted].” Press reports at the time indicate that the omitted sections were likely pledges to ISIS and its leader.
“Selectively editing this transcript is preposterous,” reads the statement released by Ryan’s office. “We know the shooter was a radical Islamist extremist inspired by ISIS. We also know he intentionally targeted the LGBT community. The administration should release the full, unredacted transcript so the public is clear-eyed about who did this and why.”
Monday, June 20, 2016
Isis beheads 4-year-old girl then forces mother to soak hands in her blood after 'swearing to Allah'
Isis beheads 4-year-old girl then forces mother to soak hands in her blood after 'swearing to Allah'
The extremists are renowned for their shocking punishments meted out by their feared al-Hisbah police who enforce their strict version of Sharia Law on the towns and cities they conquer. Often the punishments are handed out for seemingly minor infringements and their latest example shows just how brutal they can be.
According to reports, a jihadist overheard a mother 'swear to Allah' that she would behead her daughter if she did not return home from playing. Instead of ignoring the throw-away remark the woman was reported for what she said.
It was decided that as she 'swore to god' she should carry out the act. The mother however refused to kill her child so the jihadists decapitated the defenceless little girl as 'punishment' for her mother's behaviour.
Not content with taking the child's life they then forced the mother to soak her hands in the girl's blood after she died. The shocking tale was revealed by a woman who escaped from the terrorists who told the story to the Iran-based Al Alam International News Channel
She said: "A mother told her four-year daughter to go home and she refused. And then the mother told her unintentionally 'go home and I swear to God that I will behead you if you don't'."
"But they beheaded the little girl and soaked her mother's hands in her daughter's blood," the woman added. The woman, who wished to remain anonymous through fear of reprisals, told the news agency that the beheading took place in the notorious al-Naeem square.
The square is said to be filled with the heads of those slaughtered by jihadists who have become adept at scaring civilians into submission. "They rape women, take children to war, loot houses and threaten people in Raqqa with beheadings if they don't agree with their daughters' marriage with the Isis members," the woman continued.
Although the woman's story could not be confirmed by the IBTimes UK, a number of other similar petty executions have been reported from their self-declared caliphate. Only last week the extremists crucified three men in the street after giving them 70 lashes as punishment for breaking their Ramadan fast.
AK Pattern 10″ Entry Shotgun – The Fostech Origin-12 Takes Saiga Mags
AK Pattern 10″ Entry Shotgun – The Fostech Origin-12 Takes Saiga Mags
The 10″-barreled Fostech Origin-12 is an AK-based 12-gauge that makes for an amazing entry shotgun.
The author ran the Fostech in his full kit and found it to be easy to maneuver in tight spaces and around corners.
Building around the AK has traditionally provided some stumbling blocks. Controls are less than left-hand friendly, safeties can be hard to reach and adding rails is costly and complicated. Most out-of-the-box guns are rudimentary, requiring substantial upgrades. Imported magazines are restricted in capacity, with aftermarket designs being less than optimal.
SPECS
CHAMBERING: 12 ga., 2¾ inch
BARREL: 10 inches
OA LENGTH: 30 inches
WEIGHT: 6 pounds
STOCK: AR-style collapsible, folding
ACTION: Gas-operated, semi-auto
FINISH: Matte black
CAPACITY: Detachable box magazines and drums
MSRP: $2,600
Several companies have tried to address these issues, but short of what amounts to a custom build they can be difficult to deal with. High-dollar custom shotguns are great, with many dedicated to the 3-Gun gaming world. However, few are designed to be modular with the tactical user in mind.
Fostech has come up with an interesting design that seems to address these issues. Built in the USA, import restrictions don’t apply. Coupled with a number of upgrades designed around years of requests from users, the Origin -12 a refreshing change. Available in a standard length with an 18.5″ barrel, it can also be had as a short 10″-barreled shotgun.
Long & Short of It
Fostech’s
Origin-12 is incredibly modular, making it easy to set up exactly how
you need for any given mission. Shown with 18.5″ barrel assembly.
They work, but it turns a pretty soft-shooting shotgun into a shoulder-fired jackhammer. Training becomes costly and painful, and most end up languishing in a safe. It’s a ton of money to spend on a gun you will probably never use. Fostech’s unique design makes the process simple and painless and their gas system allows operation with lighter loads.
You can order the Origin as an SBS from Fostech with the usual transfer times to your dealer, then to you. You can also start with the standard version, complete the appropriate NFA paperwork and register your existing 18.5”. As a Title 2 manufacturer, it’s a simple matter of filling out a form for me.
Swapping out barrels takes a minute or two. Remove the barrel pin, slide off the long barrel and reverse the process. Done! No gunsmithing needed. No fitting; just makes sure it all lines up, perform a function check and head to the range! Since many 3-Gun competitions have restrictions on barrel length, it also allows you to switch back to the long barrel easily.
Radical Design
The
gas port regulator above the barrel can be adjusted easily by hand or
with an expended shotshell. The hand guard is part of the barrel module
assembly.
Gas is adjusted using a ported gas plug allowing you to bleed off gas as needed with heavier loads. It is restricted to 2.75” shells, which keeps it a tad shorter and lighter. Using standard Saiga/Vepr threads, the barrel will accept flash hiders, muzzle brakes or standoffs for these guns. Fluted and constructed of high-strength steel, the barrel is light with an attractive look. Installation and removal is easy; just slide it over the op rod on the lower and lock it in place using the barrel pin. It makes cleaning a breeze.
Controls are ambidextrous and easily reachable with either hand. Ambidextrous safeties allow access with the thumb or first finger of either hand in any position. A forward non-reciprocating, left-side charging handle sits forward of the receiver. The top cover is high-strength polymer and includes a rail that mates up to the hand guard rail. The magazines are rock solid and built very strong, using polymer bodies and steel feed lips. Insertion is straight up and in, and they are available in 5-, 8- and 10-round capacities. Also available are 20- and 30-round drums.
The
Origin-12 provides an ambidextrous safety along with well-designed bolt
and magazine releases that can be accessed without removing your
control hand.
An AR-style stock slides over a buffer tube attached to a super strong folding mechanism. Using the standard stock, it folds flat on the left side of the shotgun, and the shotgun can be fired in this condition. Polymer flip up sights are included and co-witnessed my Shield red dot sight perfectly. Shield’s RDS is proving to be robust and easy to use for me, making it perfect for a shotgun.
The stock folds easily along the left-side of the receiver and provides a very compact package.
An oversized charging handle allowed for positive loads, reloads and charging when gloves were used.
Range Time
With a short length of pull and short barrel, the 10″ Origin-12 was handy, controllable, and easy to use with a plate carrier.
The Origin-12 with the short 10” barrel was better than most. Attaching a King Armory KA1212 BR breaching brake was step one for me. It extends the barrel out a bit for safety, but more importantly it’s made of hardened steel. It’s not just a cosmetic attachment. The KA1212 provides excellent flash suppression and recoil reduction, and can even tighten some patterns. Using a square no-snag tooth design, it locks into doors for breaching without tearing up your gear. I have used this same muzzle device on numerous door breaches on a few other shotguns and it remains one of the strongest on the market.
Using light 1,150 fps loads with the gas at full-tilt, the SBR worked most of the time. Clean, oiled and pressed very tightly into the shoulder, it ran pretty consistently. Running dirty and with a loose shoulder, and it was less than reliable. Given most short-barreled AK shotguns won’t run this at all, it was a good start. Moving up to the 1,200 to 1,250 fps loads improved things. Keeping it tight to the shoulder, it ran most of the time, ejecting hulls a couple feet from the port. After a couple hundred rounds it would fail to eject on occasion.
The author found that when loaded with suitably powerful rounds, the Origin-12 would run like a top.
Patterning was similar to most shotguns. Quality tactical buckshot holds the pellets in the wad for a short distance after leaving the barrel. It makes the barrel length less meaningful. My tightest pattern with the Hornady was 4.75 inches at 20 yards, keeping well within the preferred size of a “fist.” From 5 to 15 yards it produced just one large hole.
Some Thoughts
Fostech has done a great job on the controls. Accessing the safety from any ready position with either hand was easy. It was possible to operate it exactly the same as my AR rifles. They included an oversized charging handle on this one and it was really easy to access when needed. Since it does not reciprocate, it does not interfere.
Shield’s SIS red dot sight stays in place through barrel changes and never came out of zero or loose.
Magazines insert straight in, locking into place. It took a bit more pressure, but they inserted when full on a closed bolt. If you are using marginal ammunition in terms of cycling, you will want to download one round. With the buckshot it worked great.
Bottom Line
Short-barreled shotguns are great for tactical use, and the Fostech is excellent in this role. Not only can you use a red dot sight with ease, the supplied sights are usable by anyone used to an AR. The barrel module includes rails for easy attachment of lights or lasers. Made in America, none of the annoying 922r import restrictions apply. You can use the AR stock of your choice, making it possible to facilitate a good sling.
The 10″-barreled Origin-12 is a compact and powerful tactical shotgun ready for entry duty.
The Origin-12 can be equipped with an 18.5″ barrel assembly in a matter of minutes.
For more information, visit http://fostechoutdoors.com/
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