$49.9 Million US Contract for .300 Winchester Magnum Ammo [1]. That is a significant quantity, but not enough yet to indicate that the US Army will discard the M24 (chambered in .308 Winchester) as their primary sniper rifle.
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Playboy magazine jumps on the 2012 bandwagon [2]. (Read only this re-posted online article and for the sake of your mortal soul don’t read their disgusting, smutty magazine.) OBTW, mention of this article came to SurvivalBlog directly from Liz Sablich, a Junior Publicist with Playboy Enterprises. Do your parents know what you do for a living? These is honest work out there in more wholesome parts of the publishing industry, Liz.
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Reader Zac Z. was the first of several readers to mention that Northwest Territorial Mint (one of our advertisers) has introduced some very clever new “Divisible” Silver bars [3]. “When you need to get out of Dodge quick — easily portable 1-oz. silver bars from Northwest Territorial Mint will have you ready for any emergency! These one of a kind .999-fine silver bars are scored into four sections and have the potential to be split up, making them ideal currency in barter and trade situations.” JWR’s comment: Have chisel, will travel!
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Damon suggested this Wall Street Journal article: The Climate Change Climate Change; The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere [4]