Archive for October, 2013

ATI Now Shipping Raven Packages for the Benelli® M4

Milwaukee – Oct. 29, 2013 – Advanced Technology International (ATI), a leading manufacturer in firearm stocks and accessories, is now shipping the ATI Raven Stock and forend for the Benelli® M4.

The Milwaukee company’s most anticipated product line of 2013, the Benelli M4 Raven packages, provide a new level of user customization to the M4 platform and are now shipping from www.atigunstocks.com.

ATI’s Raven accessories now include an adjustable shotgun stock, forend package with heatshield, magazine tube with magazine tube shroud, and a magazine tube follower. These 5 added accessories can be installed without a gunsmith to make any Benelli M4 922(r) compliant.

An overview of  ATI’s Raven Deluxe Stock Package from SHOT Show can be seen in the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RCKvjJ7gsg

MSRP pricing for the Benelli M4 Raven Stock is $299 and the full Benelli M4 Raven Deluxe Stock and Forend Package is $549.

ATI’s Raven for the Benelli M4 is available for purchase and shipping now from www.atigunstocks.com, select stores will be receiving the Raven in 2013 as well.

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U.S. Foreign Policy from the Founders’ Perspective

U.S. Foreign Policy from the Founders’ Perspective is republished with permission of Stratfor.”

By George Friedman

Last week I discussed how the Founding Fathers might view the American debt crisis and the government shutdown. This week I thought it would be useful to consider how the founders might view foreign policy. I argued that on domestic policy they had clear principles, but unlike their ideology, those principles were never mechanistic or inflexible. For them, principles dictated that a gentleman pays his debts and does not casually increase his debts, the constitutional provision that debt is sometimes necessary notwithstanding. They feared excessive debt and abhorred nonpayment, but their principles were never completely rigid.

Whenever there is a discussion of the guidelines laid down by the founders for American foreign policy, Thomas Jefferson’s admonition to avoid foreign entanglements and alliances is seen as the founding principle. That seems reasonable to me inasmuch as George Washington expressed a similar sentiment. So while there were some who favored France over Britain during the French Revolutionary Wars, the main thrust of American foreign policy was neutrality. The question is: How does this principle guide the United States now? Read the rest of this entry »

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Press Release: Dark Mail Alliance

Today at the Inbox Love conference in Mountain View, CA, Silent Circle along with Ladar Levision, Founder of Lavabit officially announced the creation of the Dark Mail Alliance.

Silent Circle and Lavabit, as privacy innovators have partnered to lead the charge to replace email as we know it today – fundamentally broken from a privacy perspective – we have collaborated in developing a private, next-generation, end-to-end encrypted alternative. Read the rest of this entry »

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An Army Ranger Gives an on Ground Account of the War in Grenada

From: Stephen Trujillo via Micheal Yon

 

Stephen Trujillo was a combat medic with the 2d Ranger Battalion during the invasion of Grenada. Here is his first hand account of key moments in the war.

Stephen Trujillo was a combat medic with the 2d Ranger Battalion during the invasion of Grenada. He was decorated with the Silver Star for gallantry in action, and was cited by President Reagan during the 1984 State of the Union Address. Trujillo later served in Special Forces, and with DEA Operation Snowcap. The following excerpt is from a forthcoming book about Operation Urgent Fury and life in the Rangers.

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This German Is An Amazing Shot

This guy takes out many boar on the run with a bolt gun.

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Legislation To Reimport Korean War era M1s

Interview with Rep. Lummis who introduced the legislation:

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Cartels and Hezbollah

From The Clarion Project:

In 2009, Michael Braun, former Chief of Operations for the Drug Enforcement Agency, said that Hezbollah uses “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels.”

In April 2010, an individual named Jamal Yousef was apprehended in New York City. During interrogation, he admitted to stealing weapons from Iraq for Hezbollah. Yousef alone knew of a Hezbollah stockpile in Mexico that included 100 M-16 assault rifles, 100 AR-15 rifles, 2500 hand grenades, C4 explosives and anti-tank weapons.

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International Police Chief Considers Armed Citizenry

This is comes on the heels of the attack in Kenya.

From ABC News:

Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said today the U.S. and the rest of the democratic world is at a security crossroads in the wake of last month’s deadly al-Shabab attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya – and suggested an answer could be in arming civilians.

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What is a Dictator?

What is a Dictator? is republished with permission of Stratfor.”

By Robert D. Kaplan

What is a dictator, or an authoritarian? I’ll bet you think you know. But perhaps you don’t. Sure, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong were dictators. So were Saddam Hussein and both Hafez and Bashar al Assad. But in many cases the situation is not that simple and stark. In many cases the reality — and the morality — of the situation is far more complex.

Deng Xiaoping was a dictator, right? After all, he was the Communist Party boss of China from 1978 to 1992. He was not elected. He ruled through fear. He approved the massacre of protesters at Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. But he also led China in the direction of a market economy that raised the standard of living and the degree of personal freedoms for more people in a shorter period of time than perhaps ever before in recorded economic history. For that achievement, one could arguably rate Deng as one of the greatest men of the 20th century, on par with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Read the rest of this entry »

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ITS Fatboy Medic Pouch – User Review

From: 420ollie at AR15.com

420ollie photographs and reviews the ITS Tactical Fatboy IFAK

ITS Fatboy IFAK

ITS Fatboy IFAK

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NATO Forward Aircotroller Training

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D.C. Police Above The Law

From The Washington Times:

Using a Freedom of Information Act request, I uncovered emails between the chief, the senator’s (Diane Feinstein) staff and the sergeant at arms office in which they coordinated how to transfer the weapons, without technically breaking laws for which civilians have been jailed.

The D.C. police continue to flaunt the law in service of the Statist Senator Feinstein, while arresting non-violent “criminals” who dare to try and protect themselves from rampant crime in the Capital.

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Company That Created Canada’s Gun Registry Created Obamacare Site

Coincidence?

From Breitbart News:

The failed gun registry was only one of CGI’s many Canadian failures, which included canceled contracts to build health care databases in the provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick. Despite CGI’s checkered record, the Obama administration awarded its U.S. subsidiary, CGI Federal, the $93.7 million contract to build healthcare.gov, part of $678 million in health care services contracts awarded to the company.

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Shooting Drills From A Deck of Cards

From Trident Concepts:

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Head of NSA Out in 2014

From The Guardian:

Alexander has formalized plans to leave by next March or April, while his civilian deputy, Chris Inglis, is due to retire by year’s end, according to US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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