Archive for August, 2012

NSSF President Re-appointed to Wildlife Hunting Heritage Conservation Council

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today named Stephen L. Sanetti, president and CEO of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), to serve a second term on the Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council (WHHCC). Sanetti is one of 18 people to be appointed to the council, an advisory group established in 2010 that will help to promote and preserve America’s hunting heritage for future generations.

“I am honored again to be named to this council by Secretary Salazar and Secretary Vilsack,” said Sanetti. “I look forward to working with the other distinguished appointees to secure the successful future of America’s hunting and recreational shooting sports heritage. I commend Secretary Salazar and Secretary Vilsack for continuing this council and its important work.” Read the rest of this entry »

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California Tries to Ban More Guns

From NRA-ILA:

Senate Bill 249, as amended, would make a small but profound change to the definition in state law of what constitutes a detachable magazine for a semi-automatic firearm.  By doing so, as many as one million semi-automatic rifles (with a “bullet button” or other magazine locking device), which were legally sold in California over the last twelve years, would become illegal on July 1, 2013.  If you’re one of the hundreds-of-thousands of Californians who purchased one of these modern sporting rifles (a centerfire semi-automatic rifle with a magazine locking device that prevents detachment of the magazine without a bullet or tool) since 2000, your firearm will have to be surrendered or may be confiscated.

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Todd Jarrett on Holsters

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Special NRA Membership for Military, LE and First Responders

The NRA is offering a special premium membership to those who put themselves in harm’s way.

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House Sues Atty. General Over Fast and Furious

From ABCNews:

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has filed a civil contempt of Congress lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder in an effort to enforce a subpoena to obtain internal Justice Department memos about the botched ATF Fast and Furious gun-trafficking operation.

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Tactical Hand Signals

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Seven U.S. Soldiers Killed in Helicopter Crash – Afghanistan

Brig. Gen. Günter Katz, spokesperson for Headquarters, International Security Assistance Forces, gives a statement announcing a helicopter crash in Kandahar province, Afghanistan which resulted in the death of seven U.S. soldiers, three members of Afghan National Security forces and one Afghan civilian interpreter.

Read more: http://www.dvidshub.net/video/152068/helicopter-crash-announcement-bg-katz#.UC_Rpol5mc0#ixzz23v71TxYK

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Todd Jarrett – Engaging Moving Targets

Todd Jarrett – Engaging Moving Targets

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Lone Wolf G9 9mm Lower Reciever With 5.7x28mm AR57 Upper

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Ironkey S200 Flash Drive Review

From: Healthy Passwords

Ironkey S200 Flash Drive Review from 2011.

Ironkey

The security industry has long considered Ironkey to be “the” premiere flash drive. We wondered how user-friendly Ironkey would be for non-technical users, so we decided to evaluate the drive from a non-technical perspective.

Ironkey Features

  1. Military-grade Hardware Encryption.
  2. Waterproof.
  3. Support for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
  4. Portable Application Support (Apps living and running only on flash drive).
  5. Identity Manager for Password Management. (Windows Only)
  6. Verisign Identity Protection Built into Identity Manager. (Windows Only)
  7. Secure Sessions Service to encrypt browser traffic. (Windows Only)
  8. Self-Destruct after 10 consecutive invalid password attempts (just erases flash).
  9. Online management account to backup Identity Manager records. (Windows Only)
  10. Optional ability to reset hardware password online.

more

 

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The iPhone Has Passed a Key Security Threshold

From: Technology Review

At the heart of Apple’s security architecture is the Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm (AES), a data-scrambling system published in 1998 and adopted as a U.S. government standard in 2001. After more than a decade of exhaustive analysis, AES is widely regarded as unbreakable. The algorithm is so strong that no computer imaginable for the foreseeable future—even a quantum computer—would be able to crack a truly random 256-bit AES key. The National Security Agency has approved AES-256 for storing top-secret data.

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FBI Seeks Info on Robbers

FBI Seeks Serial Bank Robber

Aug. 14, 2012
– Cleveland

FBI Seeks Man Who Robbed U.S. Bank Branch in Roseville

Aug. 14, 2012
– Minneapolis

Robbery of TCF Bank Branch in Denver

Aug. 15, 2012
– Denver

FBI Seeks Cold Shoulder Bandit

Aug. 15, 2012
– Denver

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Assad May Step Down

According to Big Peace and Russian reports, Syrian President Assad may be planning to step down:

According to reports coming out of Russia, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is prepared to step down. The reports indicate the turning point came when Assad’s brother suffered significant injuries “in the blast that killed several key regime officials in Damascus last month.”

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The All-Seeing Blimp

The US Army has recently become interested in long term battlefield surveillance. One of the results of this is a blimp called LEMV (Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle).

From Defense Industry Daily:

The rise of modern terrorism, sharply increasing costs to recruit and equip professional soldiers, and issues of energy security, are forcing 2 imperatives on modern armies. Modern militaries need to be able to watch wide areas for very long periods of time. Not just minutes, or even hours any more, but days if necessary. The second imperative, beyond the need for that persistent, unblinking stare up high in the air, is the need to field aerial platforms whose operating costs won’t bankrupt the budget.

 

Video from New Jersey test flight Aug 8th, 2012:

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Uncle Ted Comments on Bill O’Reilly’s Misinformation

Bill O’Reilly made some egregious errors last week when discussing what type of weapons one can buy. He used AK-47, machine gun and “heavy weapon” (whatever that is) all interchangeably, confusing the issue.

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