Bushnell's new version of its popular Banner riflescope features multi-coated optics for a bright and clear sight picture. They are dry nitrogen filled, 100 percent waterproof, fog proof and shock proof, and have quarter MOA fingertip adjustable windage and elevation knobs. A new rubber-coated fast focus eyepiece allows shooters to conveniently fine-tune the reticle focus. The Banner riflescope family features 12 configurations with a total of 19 models available including scopes for centerfire rifles, rimfires and slug guns. MSRP ranges from $108.95 to $279.95.
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Thought for the week
Being powerful is like being a lady.
If you have to tell people you are,
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Margaret Thatcher
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RWC Group of Tullytown, PA, the exclusive importer of the authentic Concern Kalashnikov Izhmash Saiga line of rifles and shotguns, is now shipping to select distributors. Consumers should be aware that there are many replica AK47s in the market, but only RWC Group offers the genuine Concern Kalashnikov product. This product lineup will include the Saiga IZ132Z (7.62x39mm) rifle. This upgrade features battle-proven and tested Command Arms accessories including an AK47 pistol grip; collapsible butt stock; stock tube; magazine release extension; adjustable cheekpiece; quad Picatinny rail forend; and an ergonomic vertical grip. The upgrade will also include a 30-round, double-stack polymer magazine. There is also a 12-gauge shotgun variant. All products are in full compliance with sanctions that have been recently imposed by the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Due to these importation sanctions, no additional shipments from Russia will be made for the foreseeable future.
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Ergo Grip introduces the Ultra-Lite Z KeyMod and Ultra-Lite S KeyMod hand guard systems. These are significant upgrades for AR carbines that use a Delta ring/front retaining cap. Both models have a full length 1913 Picatinny rail on top and KeyMod accessory slots on the sides and bottom. Designed for performance, versatility and comfort, these new hand guards are a drop-in replacement for the standard plastic hand guards. Machined from 6061-T6 aluminum, the hand guard systems are available hard coat anodized matte black or with a Cerakote finish in Dark Earth or Olive Drab. Installation does not require removing the barrel or any modifications to the rifle. Simply remove the existing hand guards and upgrade to the new system. MSRP: $176.47.
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Editorial
Regulating the Internet
David A. Lombardo
Al Gore notwithstanding, the Internet has been around a pretty long time. I tell people I've been on the Internet since the spring of 1970, and they roll their eyes and walk away, presumably to cast another couple ballots for Governor Quinn. I was a student at the University of Illinois, and it was called DARPANet in those days. It connected some university and Department of Defense research labs. It was all very cool, very cutting edge, and other students were envious.
An outcome of DARPANet was PLATO, a research project studying the unheard-of concept of computer-based training. PLATO was connected to a number of universities all over the world, and I used to talk to Jean online. Jean was a brilliant young research assistant in Paris, and over the months I found I was madly in love. You know, until someone casually mentioned that the name Jean in French is male. He never actually said he was a female, but he sure didn't make it known, and he was definitely receptive to my attention. I may have been the first Internet scam victim in history.
Since then I have fed countless starving children in Ghana; helped a widow dying of cancer distribute her billion dollar inheritance from the late Minister Mugwami Pugnoleotso of Berzerkistan; saved countless whales, spotted owls, dolphins and gerbils from certain, agonizing death and extinction; and been proposed to by dozens of women in unimaginable circumstances who were residing in such hell holes as Nigeria, Berkina Faso, the Philippines and the South side of Chicago. Each only required the cost of an airplane, boat, bus or CTA fare to be in my arms forever. As a side note, regardless of the indigenous language of the person reaching out to me over the Internet, the phrase, "Me love you long time," is universal and cuts across all ethnicities.
Truth be told, despite the tsunami of unmitigated crap, the devious denizens and the plethora of outrageously moronic scams, I think the Internet is one of the greatest inventions in history. It has opened up commerce to parts of the world where you dare not shake someone's left hand and the very mention of the concept of democracy had heretofore been sufficient reason to spend the next 80 years of your life in some gulag clubbing baby seals in the Arctic. In short, the Internet, despite its mighty potholes, is truly the information superhighway and has been doing a pretty darn good job of it since day one. So it is with more than a little concern that I read how our Dear Leader wants to make the Internet safe for us.
On November 10th Obama issued a statement on Net Neutrality that proposed a set of "bright-line rules" to protect the Internet from the predatory, monopolistic service providers who stand to wreak just the sort of havoc Senator Ted Cruz fears from the government. Cruz proffers presidential internet pricing, terms of service and what types of products and services can be delivered, leading to fewer choices, fewer opportunities and higher prices.
Obama objects to the speculation by the Gentleman from the Great State of Texas and stresses, "If you like your content, you can keep your content." He reassured us there will be no "throttling" or intentionally slowing down some content or speeding up others based on the internet service providers' preferences or business interests.
He stressed no one would be a gatekeeper making decisions about who gets access, and, most important, there would never be any cost to use the Internet. He likened it to an essential service such as electricity, water and telephone service. Umm, apparently his digs include utilities, but Mr. President, the rest of us-we pay for that stuff.
Just exactly who will do this policing of the Internet if there's no charge to use it? My bet is within 24 hours of passing such a bill, it will come out that we need money to actually do this, and it's only fair that people pay for what they use, right?
Before you know it, we're being taxed on the Internet. And the next step is clear as day: people with overbites are going to protest some web site put up by the Pinhead People's Party saying people with overbites are only one standard deviation away from being a single-cell life form. Obviously that's unacceptable, so we need to ban that type of speech. Then we need to ban some other type of behavior because we need to protect people, and before you know it-presto! The Internet looks like MSNBC.
The Chosen One apparently doesn't see the irony of taking power away from what he refers to as predatory, monopolistic service providers and giving it to the U. S. Government, the world's largest and most inefficient predatory, monopolistic service provider. Yeah, we should let the government take over the Internet for our own good. What could possibly go wrong with that?
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Feds to investigate Operation Choke Point
Last month a coalition of congressional representatives, led by Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.), requested internal investigators at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) conduct formal inquiries into Operation Choke Point as well as any officials and staff involved in the program. Those requests have recently been granted. Over the past year there have been numerous reports of the abuses of Operation Choke Point, an enforcement program involving the DOJ and the FDIC (among other agencies) that claims to target financial fraud but in reality is being used to choke off banking services to legitimate, although politically-disfavored, businesses. These businesses include retailers of firearms and ammunition, a number of which have found their banking relationships abruptly severed with little or no explanation and without reference to anything the individual businesses did or did not do.
Earlier this year a congressional report based on the examination of nearly 900 internal DOJ documents found that the operation's adverse effect on legitimate businesses was not merely an unintended side-effect but the outcome of a deliberate attempt to target entire business sectors that, while legal, were deemed objectionable by regulators. Many questions about the program remain, including who decided which business sectors should be targeted, the extent of coordination between the agencies involved and who within the Obama administration knew of or encouraged the activity. The forthcoming investigations should hopefully shed light on these and other important issues. What is clear is that the DOJ and the FDIC have a lot of explaining to do. [Source: NRA/ILA]
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New Washington state background check
lives up to worst fears
As is so frequently the case with liberal gun proposals, the authors of Washington State Initiative 594 lied about the true intent and complexity of the bill. Barely two weeks old, the fallout from I-594 has begun.
Under I-594's restrictive language, a person simply handing his or her firearm to another is presumptively required to broker this "transfer" through a gun dealer. This also necessitates the accompanying background check, fee, paperwork, taxes and, in the case of a handgun, state registration. Proponents of the initiative had assured voters that fears of this overreach were exaggerated. Prior to the vote on I-594, Geoff Potter, spokesman for I-594 proponents Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, said I-594 "simply applies the current system of background checks to all sales," but that has already been proven to be false.
As a result of I-594, the Lynden Pioneer Museum has opted to pull eleven loaned WWII rifles currently on display and return these firearms to their collector owners before the "transfer" requirement in I-594 takes effect next month because the law contains no exemptions for firearms loaned for museum displays or loaned for similar educational or cultural institution study or uses. Once the law takes effect, the firearms could not be returned to their owners without the mandatory background checks and all the logistics and expenses that entails. The museum's attorney has stated he would welcome assurances from the state that it would not enforce the law to the detriment of the museum or the owners of the firearms on display. To date, however, no such assurances have been forthcoming. [Source: NRA/ILA] |
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Israel relaxes concealed carry gun laws
Not many people realize it, but Israel has very strict gun laws. But the ever-practical Israelis aren't dogma-bound like their U.S. counterparts. In Israel, fact is fact, end of story. This week Israeli Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch announced a decision to relax the rules governing the carrying of firearms and the issuance of licenses to carry. The move came shortly after the reprehensible slaughter of four Orthodox Jewish men and a police officer in a West Jerusalem Temple by terrorists armed with knives, axes and a gun. The assailants in the attack were shot and killed at the scene by police. Aharonovitch was quoted in an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as stating, "The decision to ease [approving gun permits] is a result of the present need to strengthen the feeling of security for the population, in light of the recent terrorist incidents befalling us."
As the Haaretz article explains, the decision temporarily allows licensed security personnel to take firearms home with them. Further, the criteria for granting firearm licenses has been changed, allowing for people in sufficiently dangerous communities to acquire firearms licenses. Requirements for ex-military personnel and current military reservists have also been eased.
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Florida to allow hunting with suppressors,
Ohio considering
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission has voted unanimously to repeal the state's 57-year ban on hunting with suppressors. Effective immediately, Florida hunters will be allowed to use sound suppressors on firearms while hunting deer, gray squirrels, rabbits, turkey, quail and crows. Florida now joins 32 other states in allowing the use of suppressors for hunting all game animals. Meanwhile a committee of the Ohio State Senate will likely consider legislation next week that would repeal that state's current prohibition on hunting with firearm suppressors. Originally scheduled to be heard this week, consideration was delayed to allow legislators time to gather more information. The measure passed in the Ohio House of Representatives earlier this year. Firearm sound suppressors, or "silencers" as they are sometimes called, are devices which help reduce the noise of gunfire to hearing safe levels when attached to the end of a firearm's barrel. Suppressors are generally nothing more than containment systems with a series of baffles which help contain and re-direct the expanding gasses that exit the end of the firearm's barrel when it is discharged. They are very similar to car mufflers which were, in fact, developed in parallel by the same inventor in the early 1900s. Suppressors help to lessen the sound of the muzzle-blast only. Using suppressors can make shooting firearms safer, more enjoyable and help make shooting ranges more neighborly.
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