Archive for February, 2014

New Shelves from Tactical Walls

Tactical Walls

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The More Laws They Pass The More People Will Innovate Around Them

From Times Union on the New York SAFE Act:

“It’s basically an AR-15 without the features,” said James Tresmond, a western New York lawyer representing H&H Firearms, a Lackawanna gun shop that’s seeking to sell such a rifle.”

Thanks to modifications by a Texas-based machine shop, the stripped-down rifle has an adapter that connects the spot where the grip would go to the stock, or portion of the rifle that the shooter braces against her shoulder.

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Professor Nicholas Johnson Discusses His Book: Negroes and the Gun

To see the whole interview from CSPAN click here:

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Head of DHS Says Syria a Threat to U.S. Security

From MilitaryTimes.com:

Johnson said he and other law enforcement and security officials around the world were focused on foreign fighters heading to the bloody war, including those from the United States, Canada and Europe.

U.S. intelligence officials have said a handful of Americans and hundreds of Europeans have already returned to their home countries. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the topic.

Syria isn’t the problem, it’s the people who traveled there and are now in this country.

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USS George Washington (CVN 73)

USS George Washington (CVN 73)

The aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), center-right, leads the George Washington Carrier Strike Group and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships in tactical maneuver training during Annual Exercise (AnnualEx) 13, Nov. 28, 2013. AnnualEx 13 is designed to increase the defensive readiness and interoperability of Japanese and U.S. Naval forces through training in air and sea operations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ricardo R. Guzman

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Britain “Inadvertently” Censors the Web

From: Ars Technica

Your government has inadvertently censored the Web, but it’s working on a “fix”

Two days after Internet porn-blocking campaigner MP Claire Perry announced ISP filters were not overblocking content, the government has announced it is.

In fact it’s such a problem the government is creating a whitelist of sites that should be protected, as well as a system anyone can use to directly report the inadvertent blocking of their site to ISPs or check if their site is affected.

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Privacy at the Olympics

From Silent Circle:

Russian authorities have openly acknowledged that widespread monitoring of phone, Internet and other communications systems is in place during the games and have framed these measures as part of overall security preparedness. Safety and security aside, this degree of persistent surveillance creates severe risks for visitors worried about sensitive personal and business communications being compromised when they keep in touch with colleagues and others from Sochi. There have been a number of stories over the past week warning that visitors and athletes can expect to be hacked, noting “it isn’t a mater of ‘if,” but a matter of ‘when.’”

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Americans Want Less-Strict Gun Laws

From The National Journal:

…the most dramatic rise in dissatisfaction comes from the contingency of Americans who feel gun laws are too strict, rather than from those who think they aren’t strict enough. This percentage jumped to 16 percent this year, a rate that more than triples the 5 percent recorded by Gallup last year. Meanwhile, the percentage of Americans favoring stricter gun laws fell seven points in 2014, from 38 to 31 percent.

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Semi Auto Belt Fed AR Upper

 

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Google Removes Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental

From: EFF

Google told us that the feature had only ever been released by accident — that it was experimental, and that it could break some of the apps policed by it. We are suspicious of this explanation, and do not think that it in any way justifies removing the feature rather than improving it.

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SWAT Magazine March 2014

Articles:

ArmaLite AR-30A1

High Capacity Magazines: SureFire MAG5-60 and MAG5-100

Concealed Carry Tactics

Lone Star Medics

Portable Emergency Generators

Boberg Arms XR9-S

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Revolvr Mobile App Announced

Revolver is currently only available for Android devices.

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SimpliSafe Home Security

CNET recommends the SimpliSafe system for home security.

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New Book On The History Of Blacks And Firearms

The author writes about his book, Negroes and the Gun, in The Washington Post:

Speaking to both fugitives and freemen in 1854, Frederick Douglass advocated, “A good revolver, a steady hand and a determination to shoot down any man attempting to kidnap…. Every slave hunter who meets a bloody death in his infernal business is an argument in favor of the manhood of our race.” Douglass, like others in the early freedom movement, would come to view slavery as basically a state of war.

 

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Android App Warns When You’re Being Watched

From: MIT

Researchers find a way to give Android users prominent warnings when apps are tracking their location.

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