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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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Faulkner County follies: Who needs an $11,000 sniper rifle?

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David Forward said...: Maybe someone is resurrecting the Clinton gang -- circa 1980s -- comprising of a mix of mafia, CIA, DEA and foreign drug cartels...hell, maybe they're looking to escalate that highly successful Fast and Furious program and have to set up a major air freight distribution operation. The .50 cal will monitor operational security from afar....or it's just typical misuse of tax payer money for more play toys for politicians....
dol/lal; September 26, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Scott J said...: Volk had a post about a cheaper .50 I was unaware of: http://olegvolk.net/blog/2012/09/24/leader-50-finally-enters-productions/

That might actually be reachable for me in a year or two.; September 26, 2012 at 9:34 PM
Anonymous said...: I remember reading about a Vickers representative in the 1920's presenting an AA weapon to some asian government representatives. The Chinese representative asked for a repeat of the rate of fire and cost per round. When the numbers, which escape me at the moment, were stated the Chinese man said: "This gun fires much too rapidly for China.

Places like "Cheaper Than Dirt" and "ShotgunNews" regularly run ads for new and milsurp .50 BMG rounds at around $5.00 per pop. Like a Ford GT40 or a P-51 Mustang, for most of us a Barret is way cool to look at but strictly in the dream world when it comes to ownership.

Come on, Dutchman6! If I dropped one off at your house as a present today, after all the excitement and wrapping paper were cleared away, how would you and Rosie feed the damn thing?; September 27, 2012 at 8:10 AM
indyjonesouthere said...: One commentor said it should only be used for hostage situations. I agree, politicians are holding us hostage for the corporatists and the FSA.; September 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Ed said...: Go for lighter and less costly - Serbu Firearms BFG-50A:

http://www.serbu.com/50bmg/semi_auto.php

I have cycled a bolt on one - SWEET!; September 29, 2012 at 12:51 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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