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1. This YouTube channel is one of several that is keeping close tabs on the potential flash point that could be Virginia, yet the Movement is growing. This good to have on the radar.

   2nd Amendment Sanctuary Movement Spreads To Another State
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmcKKF6tkOg

   Ammunition, the ‘mostest for the leastest’.

   If the cheap ammo is all you can afford, there are some that are better for self defense than others. In fact, some of these choices I would put high on my cost/benefit ratio as a can do all choice at a rock bottom price. Steel case ammo in AR-15 actions is not the best, yet it will work in a good running rifle that is kept clean. Remember to use a chamber brush to remove the tiny mild steel particles that might be present where the locking lugs, and bolt lugs cam.

   The best round I can find for the lowest cost that is the most accurate, yet creates a respectable wound channel in ballistic gelatin is the 5.56×45 Tula 75 grain FMJ, and surprisingly enough, 1 MOA accuracy in some rifles. If you can step up to the Sierra Match King OTM (Open Tip Match) bullet, you would have one of the best. Of course the price is much higher. For reloaders, the bullet alone, runs around .30 cents, yet there are less expensive choices for reloaders(see link below). Black Hills produces a cartridge with this SMK bullet, that is hard to beat, ideal for those that do not reload. The SMK bullets are probably similar to the less expensive 75 grain Hornardy Amax bullet that are essential soft lead in cased in a thin copper jacket, that even at slow speeds of extended ranges, perform as well as soft point bullets, and bullets designed to expand quickly, such as the Spear Accubond, Nosler Ballistic Tips, or Honady SST bullets. These long and heavy for caliber bullets not only flight straighter, resist the wind, and penetrate better, the longer bullet also tumbles in soft tissue. At the end of the day, energy on target counts, especially in a light round, and 5.56 needs all it can get out passed 100 yards. Ideally, if you can defend at a greater distance than the attacker can accurately return fire, the defender has fire superiority, a priceless advantage. This make the 75 to 77 grain 5.56 bullets of any manufacturer, worth having.

   For reloaders, Midsouth has a sale going:
   https://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/dept/reloading/rifle-bullets/-point-224-dia/75-gr

   Here is a ballistic gelatin test by a popular You Tube channel that specializes in this sort of thing. I believe his analysis is solid. Here is the 75 grain Tula in .223 in action. Price is about .20 cents at SG Ammo at case rates, plus about 25.00 for shipping for the first case.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ESC46wTlhw

2. IHMO, one of the best for up close and personal self defense, a 55 grain bullet for slower twist barrels, slower than 1:7.

   https://www.sgammo.com/node/28356

   1. Thank you for the tips sir. You are a fount of knowledge.

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