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Sadly, the natives of Israel can’t have it. While rifle-toting soldiers and reservists are a common sight in Israel, actually buying a modern for personal ownership is nearly impossible for their citizens. And the down side to the issued weapons is that they may be recalled at the whim of the issuing authority.
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Back in 1994-95, David Dyer-Bennet was the main factor behind my increased interest in RKBA. His reasoned explanation of how he saw reality were compelling. He also had the books of RA Heinlein on his side. By 1996, I looked like this — posing with one of his carbines. Some of my first RKBA posters featured him in turn, and he hosted my best sites for several years. Fast-forwarding to present day, David is still an influence in photography and guns.
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Don’t get too excited…it’s an Uzi A semi-auto carbine with a short display-only barrel. The real thing has 16 inches of rifled pipe but only about ten inch sight radius, roughly stamped and welded receiver and a heck of a recoil spring to make up for it being plain blowback. A real uzi is select fire and uses advanced ignition blowback to reduce felt recoil. On the plus side, an Uzi is generally a robust and reliable arm holding 25 or 32 rounds, enough for a small terrorist infestation.
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A very close friend is moving to Madisonville for a new job. She is looking for an apartment or a house for rent and finding little that’s at all nice. Does anyone have suggestions, connections or even rental options that could be forwarded?
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Today, more people take photos with cell phone cameras than with any other kind. Convenience, ubiquity and the ability to post results at once all combine to make the tiny cameras with miniscule sensors more popular than all other types combined. Larger, more professional equipment is far more bulky and more expensive. It also produces immeasurably better results. And yet, for most purposes, cell phone cameras are good enough.
Now imagine that all other cameras are restricted by law to use only in professional studios, certain wilderness areas or private homes. When carried elsewhere, they must be in hard cases with batteries and memory cards removed. Ridiculous? That’s generally the legal status of long guns in the US — far superior to handguns in performance but bulky and very much restricted from daily use.
Under the current circumstances, professional photographers waste little time discussing performance of cell phone cameras. They discuss real professional equipment, lighting, logistics and the generation of visual ideas. The difference between cameras in competing cell phone models are so irrelevant to them as to escape notice. Should better equipment suddenly be restricted or entirely unavailable, the minor differences in the performance of inferior but legal equipment would suddenly come to the fore.
That is why so many people obsess over the kinetic energy, magazine capacity and other features of handguns. Handguns are the wrong weapon for almost every defensive fight — machine guns, grenade launchers and other serious arms are much preferred by military and police who are not under the same legal and logistical restrictions. But absent the right weapons — mainly for legal and logistical reasons — we try to make the best of the poor options. Absent sufficient training as well, we try to substitute improved equipment for insufficient aptitude. It’s a reasonable, if regrettable, approach. A person whose life consists of a job, a family and other interests besides photography or self-defense will still get slightly better results with better gear.
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The extra 1.5″ of barrel length and +1 round of capacity relative to other compact 45s are nice, but it’s the very low felt recoil that I like best about Boberg XR45-S. Plus, it is accurate and works with a wide variety of bullet profiles.
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It seems like every other military rifle design borrows heavily from the AR18 and AR180 design, yet very few of them were built and fewer yet adopted by institutional users.
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While 30-30 was not the first smokeless cartridge in wide use, it was the first one for the US. It’s an indication of the correct approach to small arms that American civilians it before the Army, while in Europe it was the other way around. The USMC and the Navy did adopt the long-forgotten 6mm Lee smokeless round about the same time.
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…for feeding your battle rifle.
from Prvi Partizan
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…but it’s only a PPS43, in the crippled “pistol” form mandated by NFA1934 regulations.
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And support the people who fight for them, GOCRA.
David from Atomic Tactical holding the new Coonan compact .357 autopistol.
With Sig 551A1.
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I haven’t seen sealed battlepacks since the South African 300-rounders. Now PPU is bringing them to the US. They look pretty useful for long-term storage.
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I need a male actor for a short video, someone who would look authoritative and confident speaking about rifles and accessories. The person who was going to work for us is suddenly unavailable.
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4.6x30mm round fires bullets in the 26-42 grain range at 2000-2400fps. Designed to penetrate soft body armor, it produces minimal felt recoil, especially when sound-suppressed. It’s quite easy to keep a 3-6 round burst on a silhouette at 100 meters. Unfortunately, short-barreled weapons with stocks are restricted and taxed, while automatic arms made after 1986 are unavailable to non-government users entirely…almost as if they consider us dangerous savages who cannot be trusted with self-defense arms. That was the policy of the British empire towards its Indian colonial subjects, and it is the preferred policy of certain American politicians to the rest of the country’s population.
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I am looking for coniferous trees, moss, mushrooms, wild berries, something like this photo set.
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Firebird Precision TAC12 (differs from the current TAC12A1 only in the take-down method) with 10-round magazines and EOTech sight.
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This charismatic wood-worker’s shop is right across from Texas Weapon Systems, and she stopped by for a few minutes. The rifle is a Polish Tantal in 5.45mm, with an Aimpoint sight, and Magpul stock, sling and magazine loop. I will be taking range photos with her in November.
