Aero Precision Gets New Owners

The Truth About Guns reports that "Aero Precision Isn’t Dead: New Owners Take Over as Manufacturing Restarts," stating that "[a] source inside Aero Precision confirmed to TTAG that the receivership process has been completed and Aero Precision, Ballistic Advantage, Stag Arms and VG6 are transitioning to a new family investment group" and private-equity firm White Wolf Capital is out. The author adds:

    Whatever you think about Aero Precision specifically, its survival matters to the broader firearms industry.

    Aero became one of the companies that helped move the AR market away from the old model where consumers bought complete rifles and toward the massive build-it-yourself ecosystem we have today.

    For a lot of shooters, an Aero lower became almost the default starting point for an AR build. I’m included in that group. I have an M16A2 clone built on an Aero Precision lower, along with a 10.5-inch M4E1 upper that gets swapped onto a couple of my retro-inspired CAR-15/Mk18 builds. I’ve put plenty of rounds through both over the years and haven’t had an issue with either. 

Shades of Epstein: Hayden Panettiere Trafficked At Age 18

Seems like a rite of passage in Hollywood. From the New York Post: "Haunting Hayden Panettiere interview about being betrayed and sex trafficked at age 18 resurfaces after her death." Key bit:

    A haunting interview in which Hayden Panettiere talked about being betrayed by a friend and sex trafficked to a “very famous man” on a yacht at age 18 has resurfaced after her death on Sunday.

    The troubled actress, who died of suspected cardiac arrest and overdose at age 36, described being “basically told to perform sexual acts” when she was still an up-and-coming child star.

    Panettiere said the unidentified female friend was somebody she “had grown to trust and see as a protector” before she led her onto the boat when she was 18.

    “There was no hints of anything like that happening, so it took me by surprise,” she said.

    Panettiere made the comments on the May 11 episode of Jay Shetty’s podcast, “On Purpose with Jay Shetty.” 

Trebechet Terminal Ballistics

From an article published by Smithsonian Magazine entitled, "A Medieval Man’s Injuries Reminded One Archaeologist of Modern-Day Car Crash Victims. They Turned Out to Be the Work of an English Trebuchet":

    As Jo Buckberry, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Bradford in England, announced at a recent meeting of the Paleopathology Association, a skeleton excavated at the Scottish castle bears more than 160 fractures sustained at or around the time of death, with most of the injuries concentrated on the skull and the ribs. Buckberry argues that the man’s remains represent the first known evidence of trebuchet trauma in the archaeological record.

    “It looks like he was hit from behind by something traveling at a great velocity,” Buckberry tells Science magazine’s Andrew Curry. “The most similar cases I was finding were car crashes and people hit by trains. But how do you get from there to a guy in medieval Scotland? What is large and moving very, very quickly in 1304?”

    The answer, Buckberry concluded after comparing the man’s injuries to other documented cases, was probably a large stone that struck his right shoulder and the back of his head with great force, pinning him to the ground. “The scale of the fractures of his body suggest his death was thankfully instantaneous,” the researcher says to the Daily Mail’s William Hunter. 

VIDEO: Quit Aiming Your Shotgun

This is for those shooting clays or hunting birds, rabbits, etc. Obviously you need to aim a defensive shotgun.  

 VIDEO: "Quit Aiming Your Shotgun! | How to Shotgun 4"
Target Focused Life (6 min.)

VIDEO: Another LDS Church Shooting - Tongan Gang Connection

I'd seen a couple news reports about this shooting, but this video gives more details than either of the news reports, plus analysis. The shooting--like another very early this year--was a gang shooting at a funeral for a Tongan held at an LDS Church. The police had been warned beforehand, and there was a police presence in the area, but the shooting happened anyway. It also serves as another lesson in "diversity is our strength". 

 VIDEO: "Another LDS Church Shooting and the Tongan Crip Connection"
Christian Warrior (26 min.)

VIDEO: What Pulling A Weapon Can Reveal

From the description: "A weapon can mean very different things depending on the person carrying it. For some, it provides confidence they don't have without it. For others, it's about protection, control or intimidation. And in the most dangerous situations, the weapon isn't shown at all—because it isn't there to threaten you. It's there to be used." Hopefully, you are carrying a weapon because it provides you a tactical advantage and not to bolster your confidence or ego. 

 VIDEO: "When MEN Pull a Weapon… It Reveals EVERYTHING"
Fight SCIENCE (8 min.)

Texas Defying Minnesota Request For Extradition?

 According to CBS News, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has his panties in a wad because Texas has not processed his request for extradition of an ICE agent--Christian Castro--accused of shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan national, in the leg in Minneapolis in January. Castro was arrested by Texas Rangers on May 29, but Texas law only allows extradition holds for up to 90 days, so he potentially could soon be released by Texas authorities. 

    Moriarty and Ellison repeatedly stressed that extradition requests are intended to be administrative, and an apparent refusal like Abbott's is extremely rare, if not unprecedented.

    "We have never heard of anything taking this long because it is an administrative process," Moriarty said. "It is not supposed to be controversial."   

But neither, under principles of federalism, are the individual states supposed to merely be different administrative districts.  

Some Things Never Change

An article from JSTOR, "Ancient Rome: A City of Immigrants," discusses an immigrant community adjacent to Rome called Transtiberim ("beyond the Tiber") and includes this bit:

To elites, who provide almost all the written documentation except for funerary inscriptions, Transtiberim was dangerous, déclassé, and working class (to use later jargon). Strange gods were worshipped there—worship of the Syrian goddess Atargatis by “cross-dressing eunuch priests” who practiced ritual castration was banned more than once. The neighborhood was mocked in satires and condemned for its “panhandlers, prostitutes and desperate people with nowhere else to go.” 

Warning: Sharing This Meme Could Get You Arrested In The UK

 

From the Daily Mail: "Former Police Officer Convicted of Sharing ‘Grossly Offensive’ Meme About Islam in Britain." Per the article:

    Retired police officer Stephen Gray, 65, has been found guilty by the Newton Aycliffe magistrates’ court of breaching Section 127(1)(a) of the Communications Act 2003 over a post he reshared on Facebook, which was deemed to be “grossly offensive”.

    According to The Telegraph, Gray was reported to the Durham Constabulary for two Facebook memes by a non-Muslim neighbour of his, whom Gray had previously been in a separate dispute with.

Gray avoided conviction for the first meme because "as it concerned a political issue that had been debated in Parliament." But he was not so lucky with the second:

    The second meme depicted a picture of a man wearing a turban next to some bacon with the caption: “Fun facts about Bacon! People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9-year-old!”

    As the post was not considered to be a political message, but rather critical of a religion, it was found to be “grossly offensive” by the court. For this, Gray was found guilty of violating the Communications Act and was ordered to pay £1,000 in fines and court costs. 

Related: "Afghan man, 45, 'marries girl aged SIX before Taliban intervene... and say he must wait until she is NINE'"--Daily Mail.  

Another (!) Autozone Store Looted In L.A.

The New York Post relates that "Another LA AutoZone looted — days after cops plastered faces of brazen crew across the internet." From the lede:

    Another Los Angeles AutoZone has been hit by looters — just a week after an East LA store was ransacked twice in a single day.

    A group targeted the locaiton at 10013 S. Central Ave. in South Los Angeles around 5:30 a.m. Monday following an alleged street takeover, according to Fox 11.

    The LAPD said several vehicles blocked an intersection during the takeover, while two people were taken into custody. The number of looters involved in the latest burglary remains unclear as cops investigate. 

Photographs of the suspects appear to show Hispanics. How would you deal with a group like this targeting your house or neighborhood after a SHTF event?