In the Federalist Papers (articles 66-68 IIRC) Alexander Hamilton directly addressed that and proposed what he called a "select militia". It was extremely similar to the National Guard, with troops recruited&promoted by the states, who would train regularly, and were subject to mobilization by...
^^^THIS^^^
As was said up thread, winning needs to be defined in terms of realistic objectives and mission creep kept out of the picture.
"Nation building" and establishing a Jeffersonian republic in a place with no experience in democracy beyond a village shura, was bound to fail. The british...
I tried an Alien Gear hybrid and found the screws that held the shell on the backing would come loose and quit the hybrid design (it WAS comfortable).
I'm currently using an IWB kydex holster from NSR Tactical that I carry at 4:00. It connects to the belt with 2 straps using one-way snaps. In...
obama and holder abused the RICO statute to pressure banks into not extending credit to firearms dealers.
They've always abused the the courts and if bidet gets the PLCAA repealed there will be a tsunami of suits
The fact that the anti-gun lobby and it's cronies in gov't would be quick to ban...
All the "already been to war" rifles I was issued were old; worn; cleaned; checked; and reissued. I'm confident that the only limitation of my RRA is that it doesn't have selective fire
I think what you said about not wanting ill will between gun owners can be applied to ammo manufacturers too. soros didn't buy Remington, Vista Outdoors--the owners of Federal--bought Remington's ammo division. I don't see them in the same light as the british corporate bean-counters that bought...
Exactly:
"Once food, water & shelter are obtained, then is a question of SUSTAINABILITY,
How do you replace the food you initially found?
How do you produce enough water to wash with/grow crops/water any livestock, etc?"
Most of the population is urban now, many living in high-rise...
bwframe asked about recent islamist terrorism IN the US.
When the taliban captured kabul a CNN "reporter" said "They're chanting 'death to U.S.' but they seem friendly enough" so you KNOW they won't blame the taliban for making any of their guns evil--not even the soviet ones.
Those assets will only allow the taliban to secure control over afghanistan. They can't even use the aircraft unless the pakistanis arrange a flight school for them.
bidet's Mexican border disaster is a bigger threat in terms of terrorist attacks here
It was about a year ago that an islamist murdered 10, including a LEO in a Denver CO grocery store that was targeted for being Jewish owned, having a large selection of kosher food and a large Jewish clientle
It's already done. By private enterprise. The good news is it is often semi-anonymous and silo'd within the organization or just for marketing purposes. Your grocery store knows more about you then you'd like to think...
Totalitarian states--typically communist--generally choke and destroy their economies so people turn to barter because goods aren't available in official stores or the currency is worthless. But that's just subsisting in a place like venezuela. A barter economy isn't going to develop into...
No question that this push toward a cashless society is all about people-control. Not only will they be able to see what's in our accounts, they'll be able to block unapproved politically incorrect purchases. On the bright side(?) we won't have to file taxes. They'll just in plug our data and...
If you've got gangster gun fights almost every day on your street, it's probably worth renting, just to get out of the line of fire.
If you have to stay, it might be worth organizing with your neighbors to make the neighborhood a MORE hostile enviornment for the thugs.
A little brainstorming...
For now, this is all a speed bump in the supply chain but I'm sure it will--does--have a ripple effect.
A friend sent me a link to a sale at True Shot Gun Club; Tempe AZ. When I went to buy, the price for Blazer Brass 9mm had jumped from .37 to.40 per cartridge. Still a good buy...just sayin'
Peddling cheap chinese crap so w-mart and amazon can get fat while bidet extends unemployment comp by $300/wk (out pricing would be employers) and extending the rent moratorium (driving landlords to bankruptcy) isn't resetting the economy. I doubt that even the actual goal.
Given the way the CCP...