Sipsey Street Irregulars: Last US lead smelter closure highlights need to rescind bullet material limits

Monday, November 11, 2013

Last US lead smelter closure highlights need to rescind bullet material limits

The other problem, of course, is that if oath-breaking cops pick the wrong side in a government's war on the people, some dark day in the future, the restoration of our Republic will require the people's ability stop them, no matter what they are wearing. Oh--one more problem: "must not be made of tungsten (for example)" is an impossible fit with shall not be infringed.

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SWIFT said...: Government should not be in the extortion business. Putting a $100,000,000 price tag, to maintain your business, is extortion. Numerous government agencies engage in extortion to exert power over Americans. The EPA just happens to be one of the worst, especially under this administration. Due to my age, none of this will effect me much, but future generations of Americans will live in a completely totalitarian police state, more sinister than the former East Germany. What a sad, despicable, state of affairs we leave our children and grandchildren, because our generation failed to act. And no, I no longer believe in the ballot box!; November 11, 2013 at 6:09 AM
Anonymous said...: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saboted_light_armor_penetrator

With creativity and care, I've heard rumors this concept can be used to tweak the performance characteristics of saboted shotgun slugs.

Rumor also has it the results are impressive.; November 11, 2013 at 11:56 AM
Anonymous said...: As any machinist knows Tungsten Carbide is more dense than Lead (SG 14.3 vs 11.3) and heaps of neat cylinders lay about as broken Carbide cutters.

Far harder than steel and easily ground to a point on one end in a CNC cutter grinder for accuracy.

Sit them in sabots to ride down rifling and not much less than M1 Abrahams armour can stop them.

III; November 11, 2013 at 4:26 PM
Charles N. Steele said...: Lead can still be purchased from abroad. However...

Under Dodd-Frank Sec. 1502 one has to be able to certify that foreign sources have no connection with conflict materials. If a firm buys lead from foreign sources, it will have to be able to show that the foreign source complies with Dodd-Frank S 1502... even though lead isn't a conflict mineral. It will be easy to shut off imports of lead.; November 14, 2013 at 8:25 PM

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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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