Reader Mark H. sent: Data on MRE Shelf Life Dictates Shorter Shelf Life –New Chart
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What Is An “Assault Rifle”? – You’ve Probably Been Lied To. Starting a 5:55, watch him transform a humble Mini-14 into something “Evil” looking–at least in the eyes of Chuckie Schumer and Dianne Feinstein. But we must remember that outward appearances are meaningless: Esse quam videri. (Translated: “To be rather than to seem.”) That should be our byword, whether we are judging the looks of a rifle, or the looks of people. Just because a rifle is black doesn’t make it evil. And just because someone has a different skin color doesn’t make them any better or any worse than you, either.
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Peter S. sent: New York State Sets Up Gun Snitch Line With $500 Award
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The two children of American Civil War veterans who are still receiving soldiers’ pensions nearly 150 years after war ended. (Ronald Reagan was right, when he said: “The closest thing to immortality on this Earth is a federal government program.”)
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H.L. sent: Obama presses Congress to vote on assault weapons ban. JWR’s Comment: If congress votes down the magazine ban bills, I anticipate BHO soon issuing an Executive Order that would ban the importation of any magazine that can hold more than 10 cartridges, except for police or military use. I urge my readers to stock up on full capacity magazines, especially for any guns that are imported, such as Glock, SIG, HK, Taurus, Tavor, et cetera.]