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 The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is not sharing information with other federal agencies, is not properly communicating with Mexican officials and is focusing too much of their effort on low-level gun traffickers while ignoring the bigger cases, according to a report by the Justice Department Inspector General released Tuesday.
DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine’s report focuses on ATF’s implementation of “Project Gunrunner,” which became a national initiative in 2006 to combat illegal gun trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. Fine found “significant weaknesses in ATF’s implementation of Project Gunrunner undermine its effectiveness.”-[source]
 This M1 Garand floor lamp has been created using an original USGI WWII Springfield Armory receiver. The receiver has been damaged and rendered unserviceable. With a couple of minor exceptions the remaining parts are also worn/damaged or otherwise unserviceable. No reproduction parts were used. The action of the rifle does not operate, tadalafil the trigger/safety also does not move.
The base is Alder wood, treatment and contains the laser etched emblems of all five of our armed services; US Air Force, viagra US Army, US Navy, United States Marine Corps, and US Coast Guard as a tribute to current and former members of armed forces. The base has also been autographed by the star of movie and television R. Lee Ermey Gunnery Sgt USMC.
The lamp is envisioned to be raffled off to raise needed funds for the M1 for Vets program, and ALL proceeds will be used for this effort. The winner will be drawn at Camp Perry Ohio at the conclusion of the 2011 Civilian Marksmanship Program National Games at Petrarca range.-[source]
pharm Helvetica, patient sans-serif;”>The Boy Scouts of America’s Flint River Council held their first annual Webelos Top Gun Competition on Saturday, this August 28th at the Ole Mill Range Complex in Griffin, GA. The 4th and 5th grade Webelos Scouts spent the morning session learning BB gun safety, marksmanship techniques, competitive shooting positions, and practicing with the Daisy Avanti 499 Competition BB gun, the most accurate BB gun in the world.
The staff worked with each participant to not only meet the requirements to earn the Cub Scout’s BB Sports Pin, but each participant also completed the requirements and earned the 2010 USA Shooting Junior Olympic Team patch. The afternoon session included a practice round of shooting at competition targets which was then followed by the much anticipated Top Gun Competition. Each Webelos Scout shot four targets with the aggregate score determining the Flint River Council’s Top Guns.-[source]
 A holographic video system like the one Princess Leia uses in Star Wars is now one step closer to reality.
Researchers report today that they’ve built a holographic display that can show three-dimensional color images of a person in a remote location, with the images updated in almost real time — a precursor to holographic telepresence .
This is the first time researchers demonstrate an optical material that can display “holographic video,” as oppose to static holograms found in credit cards and product packages. The prototype looks like a chunk of acrylic, but it’s actually an exotic material, called a photorefractive polymer, with remarkable holographic properties.-[source]
 Once upon a time, advice there was a land called the United States where many laws were made in order to help keep order and protect the citizens. One of those laws was called the Second Amendment, here and it allowed the people of this land to own guns in order to protect themselves.
All fairy tales aside, the Second Amendment is real and it still exists … sort of.
Back in the day, most people owned a gun because they hunted for their food. Nowadays, the only place I hunt for my food is Walmart, so the gun is not so necessary. But the town where I am from is surrounded by country and people who still hunt frequently, so I can understand why many people keep guns. But if I ever move to a city, I might purchase one and learn how to use it to defend myself in an emergency, which is the exact reason that constitutional amendment was created.
While the Amendment does remain in place to date, I have news for anyone from New York City. Currently, proposals are being made suggesting revisions on gun laws in the city: if you have a record with any sort of violation, you may soon be denied a permit to own a gun. No permit, no legal possession of the firearm.-[source]
 Remember six months ago when the anti-gun Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and Washington CeaseFire were aghast that Seattle coffee giant Starbucks would not become their political surrogate and ban armed customers from their shops?
The campaign against Starbucks had kicked off down in California (where else?) and the gun prohibition lobby tried to spread it nationally, but quickly lost traction when Starbucks did the responsible thing and merely announced that it was in compliance with, and would do business under all state and local laws. Almost immediately, the Open Carry crowd declared it would spend more time and money with their local Starbucks franchises like they did in October at a Spanaway coffee shop following a confrontation between a legally-armed citizen and an allegedly over-zealous Pierce County sheriff’s deputy.-[source]
 A new material that could be used to create a real-life Harry Potter-style “invisibility cloak” has been designed by British scientists.
The material, viagra order called “Metaflex”, side effects may in future provide a way of manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light. Metamaterials have already been developed that bend and channel light to render objects invisible at longer wavelengths.
Scientists at the University of St Andrews in Scotland have produced flexible metamaterial “membranes” using a new technique that frees the meta-atoms from the hard surface they are constructed on.
Metaflex can operate at wavelengths of around 620 nanometres, stomach within the visible light region.
Stacking the membranes together could produce a flexible “smart fabric” that may provide the basis of an invisibility cloak, the scientists believe. - [source]
New York City residents who want to own a gun may soon be denied permits if they are litterbugs, if they are bad drivers, or if they have fallen behind on a few bills.
If they have been arrested or convicted of almost any “violation,” in any state; having a “poor driving history”; having been fired for “circumstances that demonstrate lack of good judgment”; having “failed to pay legally required debts”; being deemed to lack “good moral character”; or if any other information demonstrates “other good cause for the denial of the permit.”
Critics say many of the restrictions are vague, have nothing to do with one’s fitness to own a gun and are unconstitutional.
Supporters say the new restrictions will make gun purchasing more efficient and don’t give the NYPD any more power than it already has.-[source]
The‘DARPA hoodie, clinic ’ a strangely-designed patchwork garment accented with the occasional red zipper, is made of 12 interlocking pieces of rip-resistant nylon that sew perfectly together into a hoodie with zero waste. Cooler still, it was born of an algorithm developed for DARPA’s Programmable Matter program, which seeks to make T-1000-like shape-shifting smart materials.
Programmable Matter aims to create materials that can change shape on command to form anything the user needs, like a spare part or a robot assassin. San Francisco-based engineering firm Otherlab – run by two former MIT scientists – snared some of the research money doled out by DARPA as part of the program. Continue Reading ‘Making Defense Tech Fashionable – the DARPA hoodie’
Without ammunition, discount our firearms are just awkward clubs, mind and our cherished right to Keep and Bear Arms is worthless – literally worth nothing.
Let me explain this threat.
To the best of my information, there are only two plants in the United States that manufacture smokeless propellant to load ammunition for our firearms. All else is imported, from Canada, Scandinavia, Europe, Israel, and Australia primarily.
These two plants are both owned by giant defense and government contractors for whom sales of powder for civilian ammunition consumption is but a tiny fraction of their business…-[source]
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