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Archive for category News
Philadelphia “Bans” 3-D Printed Guns
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 4/Dec/2013 08:42
Today, the Philadelphia City Council voted unanimously to ban the manufacturing of guns by 3-D printers, making Philly the first city to do so. Which is interesting, because the author of the bill, Kenyatta Johnson, isn’t aware of of any local gun-printing 3-D printers. â€It’s all pre-emptive,†says Johnson’s director of legislation Steve Cobb. “It’s just based upon internet stuff out there.â€
The first question I have is, how are they going to enforce this? Are they going to issue general warrants to search every house to make sure there are no weapons that have been created? It is obvious that the city council doesn’t know what they are doing. They just want to be seen as doing “something”.
Israelis, Saudis and the Iranian Agreement
“Israelis, Saudis and the Iranian Agreement is republished with permission of Stratfor.”
By George Friedman
A deal between Iran and the P-5+1 (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany) was reached Saturday night. The Iranians agreed to certain limitations on their nuclear program while the P-5+1 agreed to remove certain economic sanctions. The next negotiation, scheduled for six months from now depending on both sides’ adherence to the current agreement, will seek a more permanent resolution. The key players in this were the United States and Iran. The mere fact that the U.S. secretary of state would meet openly with the Iranian foreign minister would have been difficult to imagine a few months ago, and unthinkable at the beginning of the Islamic republic.
The U.S. goal is to eliminate Iran’s nuclear weapons before they are built, without the United States having to take military action to eliminate them. While it is commonly assumed that the United States could eliminate the Iranian nuclear program at will with airstrikes, as with most military actions, doing so would be more difficult and riskier than it might appear at first glance. The United States in effect has now traded a risky and unpredictable air campaign for some controls over the Iranian nuclear program. Read the rest of this entry »
New York: “Turn in your guns.”
From The Washington Times:
New York City authorities have been sending out notices to residents who own guns that now violate new ammunition capability laws, demanding they relinquish their weapons — and even though the notifications may just be standard police procedure, the text is a shocker.
But no one wants to take your guns away, right?
Glamour Editor Thinks Women Defending Themselves Is “Strange”
Her reaction to a statement released be the Independent Women’s Forum was as follows:
Victoria Coley, IWF’s communications director, sent the statement to Glamour Magazine Editor Lauren Lannotti who responded, “Please unsubscribe me to your strange, sensationalizing polemics. Thank you.”
Military Surplus For Police But Not For Civilians
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 30/Nov/2013 08:55
Police departments all over the country are receiving heavily armored MRAPs from the military at the same time the administration is denying the importation of surplus M1 Garands from Korea.
From the AP on police MRAPs:
For police and sheriff’s departments, which have scooped up 165 of the mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPS, since they became available this summer, the price and the ability to deliver shock and awe while serving warrants or dealing with hostage standoffs was just too good to pass up.
Penn & Teller to Perform at SHOT Show 2014
From NSSF:
The dinner will be held in The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, Level 5, Palazzo Ballroom, with the reception starting Tuesday, January 14, at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $115 each or $1,050 for a table of 10. Tables are assigned based on date and time of payment.
Facing Recall CO State Senator Resigns
From Denver Post:
Democratic state Sen. Evie Hudak has resigned her seat to forestall a recall effort launched by constituents who sought to oust her from office for her support of gun-control laws passed by lawmakers last spring.
Hudak’s move ends the recall process, as now a Democratic vacancy committee can appoint someone to fill her seat until 2014.
San Francisco Veteran Police Officers Association Files Lawsuit Against Magazine Ban
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 27/Nov/2013 12:36
From NRA-ILA:
The Second Amendment-based legal challenge is part of a campaign of nationwide litigation filed and supported by a variety of law enforcement officers and associations to confirm that the Second Amendment protects these common standard-capacity magazines for self-defense and sport shooting.
Brownell’s WebBench
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Civilians 29 Times More Likely to be Killed by Police Than Terrorism
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 26/Nov/2013 08:16
From The Free Thought Project:
What went wrong? In the 19070’s SWAT teams were estimated to be used just a few hundred times per year, now we are looking at over 40,000 military style “knock and announce†police raids a year.
Hydrapack Soft Flasks
Collapsible bottles in various sizes from Hydrapack.
The U.S.-Iran Talks: Ideology and Necessity
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 23/Nov/2013 08:58
“The U.S.-Iran Talks: Ideology and Necessity is republished with permission of Stratfor.”
By George Friedman
The talks between Iran and the Western powers have ended but have not failed. They will reconvene next week. That in itself is a dramatic change from the past, when such talks invariably began in failure. In my book The Next Decade, I argued that the United States and Iran would move toward strategic alignment, and I think that is what we are seeing take shape. Of course, there is no guarantee that the talks will yield a settlement or that they will evolve into anything more meaningful. But the mere possibility requires us to consider three questions: Why is this happening now, what would a settlement look like, and how will it affect the region if it happens? Read the rest of this entry »
Repeated attacks hijack huge chunks of Internet traffic.
Posted by Gary in Comms, News, Threat Watch on 22/Nov/2013 14:44
From: Ars Technica
Man-in-the-middle attacks divert data on scale never before seen in the wild.
The hacks, which exploit implicit trust placed in the border gateway protocol used to exchange data between large service providers, affected “major financial institutions, governments, and network service providers” in the US, South Korea, Germany, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Libya, and Iran.