Why Do Gangbangers Shoot Their Guns Sideways?

Real answer: Because they don't know how to shoot.

Politically correct answer: Because they are unwittingly using a "flash sight picture" aiming technique, albeit, incorrectly.

Review of the SOG Tactical Tomahawk...

... over at the Survivalist Blog.

Building a Survival Kit

Daily Survival is publishing (re-publishing) a series on building a small, portable survival kit. First part here.

Spain's Tax Revenues Tumble

At least, according to this story, the tax revenue from corporations:

Spain's corporate tax take has tumbled by almost two thirds from pre-crisis levels as small businesses fail and a growing number of big corporations seek profits abroad to compensate for the prolonged downturn at home.

It should be considered a natural law that socialist governments always kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

U.S. Birth Rates Continue to Decline

... although not as much as in the prior few years.

_The birth rate for single women fell for the third straight year, dropping by 3 percent from 2010 to 2011. The birth rate for married women, however, rose 1 percent. In most cases, married women are older and more financially secure.

_The birth rate for Hispanic women dropped a whopping 6 percent. But it declined only 2 percent for black women, stayed the same for whites and actually rose a bit for Asian-American and Pacific Islanders.

_Birth rates fell again for women in their early 20s, down 5 percent from 2010 - the lowest mark for women in that age group since 1940, when comprehensive national birth records were first compiled. For women in their late 20s, birth rates fell 1 percent.

_But birth rates held steady for women in their early 30s, and rose for moms ages 35 and older. Experts say that's not surprising: Older women generally have better jobs or financial security, and are more sensitive to the ticking away of their biological clocks.

_Birth rates for teen moms have been falling since 1991 and hit another historic low. The number of teen births last year - about 330,000 - was the fewest in one year since 1946. The teen birth rate fell 8 percent, and at 31 per 1,000 girls ages 15 through 19 was the lowest recorded in more than seven decades.

Additional Thoughts on How Israel Could Attack Iran

Apparently I was not the only person to consider the use of nuclear weapons. J.D. Longstreet writes at the Canada Free Press:

Without backup from the US, Israel must now decide between a nuclear or non-nuclear attack on Iran. A non-nuclear attack will mean loss of Israeli aircraft and men, and, we are assured, only setback Iran’s nuclear program two, maybe three, years.

On the other hand, a single nuclear-tipped Israeli Jericho-3 missile exploding high in Iran’s atmosphere emitting an electro-magnetic pulse, is capable of setting back Iran’s nuclear program for DECADES with virtually no loss of Israeli lives, or aircraft, leaving the IAF at home—ready and able—to defend the people of Israel and deal with Iran’s proxy armies to Israel’s north and south.

Yes, there is a problem of collateral damage from an EMP blast over Iran. My guess is that the armada of allied warships standing off Iran’s shore would be dead in the water, at least until all their electronics were replaced.

Which option would you choose?

The point is—there are no easy solutions. And as tough as it is today—it will only get worse as Iran closes in on the bomb.

Netanyahu served notice to the world, Thursday, at the UN that, as difficult as it may be, Israel is going to do whatever it has to do to survive.

The world should expect no less.

North and South Korea Close to War?

The Telegraph reports: "A senior North Korean diplomat warned a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York that 'a spark of fire could set off a thermonuclear war' on the Korean Peninsula." Read the whole thing.

More Photos of Detroit's Ruins

... at the Daily Mail.

Univision's Reporting on Fast and Furious

Ignored by the U.S. mainline media, "Fast and Furious" is finally getting the coverage it deserves through Univision. Bob Owens at PJ Media writes:

On Sunday night, Spanish-language station Univision— one of the only networks to provide critical coverage of President Obama’s failures in office instead of cream-puff interviews — broke open the Fast and Furious investigation, revealing new evidence of weapons smuggling and displaying shocking new images of the bloody aftermath of the government-supported gun-smuggling program.

The Univision report undermines the integrity of the recently released DOJ inspector general report on Operation Fast and Furious, already heavily criticized as an attempt to whitewash criminal activity within the Obama administration.

The hour-long Univision report revealed the existence of another 57 guns recovered by Mexican authorities, including some of those used in the mass-murder at a party just one year after Obama’s inauguration . . . .
These 57 recovered weapons discovered are in addition to the 122 weapons referenced in a congressional report. . . .  It is even more disturbing to know that American Department of Justice officials knew that most of the weapons walked over the border would only be discarded by the police and recovered by Mexican authorities after they were used in a crime, and that they were indifferent to the body count being racked up, callously noting that to make an omelet, eggs had to be broken.

Univision pulled no punches in describing the horrors of the Villas de Salvarcar massacre, even showing a graphic pool of blood reminiscent of the iconic Normandy D-Day invasion scene in the classic World War II film The Big Red One.

The report also shed more light on a fact that many in the media have attempted to ignore — namely, that Operation Fast and Furious was not the only federal gun-walking operation providing weapons to criminals at this time.

Operation Castaway, run with the same bloody-minded approach as Operation Fast and Furious, provided more than 1,000 guns to cartels via the Tampa ATF. Those guns leaked out across Honduras, Colombia, and Venezuela, according to the U.S. veteran who smuggled some of the weapons, Hugh Crumpler:

“When the ATF stopped me, they told me the guns were going to cartels,” Hugh Crumpler, a Vietnam veteran turned arms trafficker, told Univision News. “The ATF knew before I knew and had been following me for a considerable length of time. They could not have followed me for two months like they said they did, and not know the guns were going somewhere, and not want for that to be happening.”

Univision also uncovered evidence of weapons being smuggled from Texas: two gun-smuggling programs similar to Fast and Furious are rumored to have put thousands of additional weapons in the cartels’ hands in operations larger than Fast and Furious. ... The Department of Justice has denied the existence of such programs, despite the physical evidence of guns recovered suggesting otherwise. While the Univision report focused on guns the DOJ ran to Mexican cartels, there is enough evidence to suggest other Obama administration-sanctioned gun-walking plots arming domestic criminal gangs, such as the so-called Gangwalker plot in Indiana, which supplied Chicago street gangs, and similar rumored operations in California, North Carolina, northern Florida, and elsewhere, which provided weapons to gangs in U.S. cities. Nor has the Univision report focused on weapons that have found their way to cartels via the State Department or the Department of Defense.

Ever since Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea broke the story of Obama administration gun-walking, critics have been noting that this is the biggest, bloodiest scandal in U.S. presidential history.

Despite a concerted effort by the mainstream media to ignore the story and the Obama administration’s attempt to stonewall investigators, this story seems to be catching fire.

More on Univisions reporting here.

I have two observations. (1) It appears that Univision waited for the Congressional report to come out before releasing this story. The "white wash" in the Congressional report is even more damning because of the timing. (2) Because this reporting is coming through a Spanish language news service, it will have a much greater impact on Hispanic voters than if it had come through the regular media.

Good Deal on Egyption AKM Parts Kits

If you are thinking of trying to build a 7.62x39mm AK, Atlantic Firearms currently has Egyptian Maadi parts kits for $219, which includes accessories such as an oil can, cleaning kit, magazine pouch and bayonet. (Obviously, you have to buy the barrel and receiver separately). They also have chrome-lined U.S. made barrels (with the gas port already drilled) available for $95. While this may not sound like a great deal at first glance, the day of $70 kits (with barrels) is long past--this is about as good as it gets anymore.

It is my understanding that these were kits exported by Egypt for the Serbian/Croatian conflicts, and so most of these kits are from brand new, never used weapons. Because they were manufactured for export, there is no guarantee that the kits will have Arabic markings. But, while there is no guarantee of matching serial numbers, the reports on the firearms boards from people that have ordered kits is that they have been receiving kits with matching parts.