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• Don’t Call a ‘Magazine’ a ‘Clip’: We Spoke With an Ex-SEAL About the Difference and Why It’s Important

  January 24, 2013 at 10:46pm

  In reply to sasquatch08.

  Crimped cases are usually dummy rounds.

• Dad Arrested, Strip-Searched After Daughter Draws a Picture of a Gun in School

  February 26, 2012 at 9:40pm

  In reply to JackSprat.

  I hope you Americans cherish and protect your constitution. We Canadians do not share in its protection. Our charter or rights and freedoms gives privileges, not rights. It also points out reasons for which charter rights may be infringed upon. In short, Canadians are not free. Depending on political climate we can be drawn up before human rights tribunals for speaking our mind if it causes someone offense.

  This story demonstrates the plight of Canadians well though. We have an out of control police force. Once upon a time, the police was our friend. Items like the firearms act and years of liberal conditioning in the RCMP though have driving a wedge between the police and the citizen. Now innocent or guilty, the police is to be feared and never to be freely let into your home. In the case of a burglar, you are better (as a former Albertan premier said) to “shoot, shovel, and shut up” than get the police involved.

  Cherish and defend your liberties. The majority of the world in truth, has none.

• ‘We’ve Got to Do the Job’: Former Netanyahu Chief of Staff Says Israeli Strike on Iran ‘Imminent’

  February 19, 2012 at 1:15pm

  In reply to whatthecrazy.

  Im not so sure the US plans to do nothing.

  There are as yet unverified reports from the western states of bunker busters being tested with the booms being explained away as sonic booms by high level aircraft.

  You have three carrier battle groups belonging to the americans and the french carrier battlegroup all in the gulf or operating in the viscinity. Even for the invasion of Iraq i believe there were never more than two.

  We have reports (that the blaze doesnt seem to be picking up) of US troops massing on the islands of Socotra and Masirah. The reports claim tens of thousands in place with a hundred thousand expected by mid April.

  All a coincidence?

• Guess Who Stands to Benefit From President Obama’s Push for Natural Gas?

  January 27, 2012 at 5:22pm

  In reply to WherdaPhukawe.

  Regardless of Soros making money (hes going to make money regardless), Canada and the US really should swap to a CNG fueled vehicle standard. We have TONS of natural gas. Right now, natural gas is so worthless, its almost not economical to get out of the ground unless it is liquids rich. It is super cheap and would pretty much eliminate the need for imports from the middle east and Venezuela. Conversion is cheap on a gas vehicle, I think about 500-1000 dollars. The only thing is the lack of infrastructure at the moment to sustain fleets of vehicles.

• President Obama Rejects Keystone XL Oil Pipeline

  January 18, 2012 at 4:43pm

  In reply to Detroit paperboy.

  Im in the operations end of the oilfield and I can tell you this is all being way over sensationalized. To those concerned about aquifers… I realize that many aspects of the US oilpatch are working at about a 1970′s level of safety and controls vs ours in Canada (though we go overboard), but there are controls available and pipelines (especially of this size and moving this volume) dont run without safeties. In sensitive areas up here we often have an ESD (emergency shut down) valve every kilometer. We have leak detection systems that can monitor pressure fluctuations all along the line and if something ever did break (which is extremely rare and usually involves a line strike) the whole line shuts in and at a maximum you lose only what is in that short leg of line.

  As to selling our oil to China, I honestly hope we do start selling to them. At a minimum its going to take 3 years to build either line. Canada is too dependent on exports to the US right now and its not healthy. We need to diversify to decrease the impact of events in the US on our economy. That said, i hope both are built and we can sell to whoever gives us better price (though ideally we would run build up our own refining infrastructure and then sell the refined product), although we get screwed as far as NAFTA is concerned we are required to export a certain percentage to the US at a fixed rate which sucks for us.

  Regardless neither line will be even begun for at least another year likely

• Check Out the Super Tucano Counterinsurgency Fighter Plane In Action

  January 3, 2012 at 7:40pm

  In reply to abseas.

  Honestly its a smart aircraft to get. You get the mission done minus the fuel cost and likely the maintenance time of an A-10. You are buying a proven, off the shelf, multipurpose piece of equipment rather than spending billions designing the one. For its purpose its really a good pick.

  And to all those comparing it to the P-51, think of this. How many P-51s are around anymore? How much would it cost to modernize the P-51 up to modern avionics standards? How much would it cost to start a factory from scratch and tool the factory to build them?

  Some people are comparing top speeds etc; that’s half the point of using the Super Tuscano. Its not a high speed fighter. Its for close air support, something that I bet any grunt would agree, they would rather be done by an aircraft that is up close, low and slow. Fast enough not to get taken down easily by ground fire but slow enough to put the ordnance on target without fratricide.

• Here Are Two New Russian Guns That Our Troops Could Face On the Battlefield

  December 6, 2011 at 11:18pm

  In reply to Secessionista.

  Looks like a nice system. Machined rather than stamped I see. Much of a weight increase? Repeatable zero? Should be pretty repeatable I guess, looks like it hooks right into the old rear iron hinge.

• Here Are Two New Russian Guns That Our Troops Could Face On the Battlefield

  December 6, 2011 at 10:34pm

  In reply to Secessionista.

  Exactly. I would venture to say across the board, NATO needs to upgrade to the 6.5 Grendel or the 6.8 SPC round so your guys are more capable. In too many situations the strategy is to pin down with pea shooters and call in fire support. The AR-15 platform is still a great platform. I’m not sure any other firearm out there is as customizable. You’ll have your inevitable debate on DI vs Piston but that’s not a big deal.

  The thing I wonder the most is whether they can get a repeatable zero by running the rail on top of the rear dust cover. Ive seen a lot of attempts on similar platforms and very few are capable of maintaining a zero when taken off and put back on. There are some good systems out there but the best ones Ive seen don’t have the rail attached to the dust cover.

• Here Are Two New Russian Guns That Our Troops Could Face On the Battlefield

  December 6, 2011 at 10:18pm

  Hahahahahaha… Its kind of entertaining…. Youve basically got an AK74, a new magazine…. and thats it. Look at the picture of Medvedev aiming it in front of the other guys. You have a Fab Defense front handguard on it (made in israel by the way). Looks like the buttstock is a magpul CTR. The muzzel brake is much larger than it needs to be and id venture to say much heavier. The flashlight on the side is retardedly huge and therefor heavy.

  This is a firearm that starts at 7.28 lbs dry. Thats no optics, no ammunition, nothing. Even without ammunition, all that crap they added on (Eotech 551? + magnifier, vertical foregrip / bipod, flashlight, extra rails…) You now have very conservatively a 9-10 lb firearm. Add ammunition. Looks like their new magazine is polymer so you save weight over the old steel ones there. The ammunition though; I would say 1 magazine of 7.62×39 is about 1-1.5 lbs. Assuming this is in 5.45, lets say its 1.5 lbs for a massive 60 rd magazine.

  In total, you now have a 10-12 lb firearm. Guess what! Thats roughly the weight the old M14 used to run wet.

  What this comes down to, its they dressed up an AK200, which isnt exactly a new design, its just a rehash of an old one, dressed up in all the “tacticool” stuff for a photo-op. You’re still facing the same firearm as you were before with the exception of the optics being mounted on the dust cover now, assuming they can even get a repeatable zero.

• German City Evacuates Half its Residents to Defuse Massive World War II Bomb

  December 4, 2011 at 4:31pm

  Looks to be a British 4000 lb blockbuster. 3000 lbs of Amatol… If they found it, the american 250 lb and the grenade all in one spot, makes you wonder what else is scattered around right below the surface.