BECAUSE SIZE MATTERS!
Especially when you're packing!
UP FRONT, BECAUSE OUR MEMORIES ARE SHORT, LET’S REVISIT THE CHARLIE KIRK SAGA!
The same Charlie Kirk who loved Israel to the very end according to Erica Kirk - and contrary to the fantasies of evil podcasters and the woman he rejected (CONdace Owens). Kirk never changed his mind.
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BREAKING, covered in the second part is the story of the explosion of firearm ownership in the United States meant for use by the armed citizen, coupled to the now-documented lowest murder rate in 125 years, going back to 1900! At this point in time, given the DOJ and FBI statistics, no one can deny John Lott’s groundbreaking claim made two decades ago that MORE GUNS = LESS CRIME. This observation has been proven in every western nation with a solid, or inbred, gun culture.
See the story below.
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BREAKING: HOW THE U.S. AND ISRAEL STOPPED THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ BLOCKADE BEFORE IT BEGAN - HERE YOU WILL SEE NOT OUT OF THE BOX THINKING. HERE YOU’LL FIND THERE WAS NO BOX!
While still troublesome in the Curve of Hormuz, threatening to shut it down, and insurers are reluctant to cover some of the traffic, Iran lost the ability to make Hormuz into a weapon. It will not, cannot succeed. See the psychological warfare winning, how we destroyed the operators of Iran’s weaponry to lose trust in their army’s ability to fight; how Iran’s Jihadi controllers are lashing out like the wounded and cornered animals that they’ve become, punch drunk, flaying the air in the darkness we have created for them.
WE BROKE IRAN AND DISMANTLED ITS COMMAND STRUCTURE WEEKS AGO…
You will watch the extraordinary disruption of Iran’s military, communications, radar-sensor-vision, and the networking between these all, and Iran’s military, the disruption of them all took place simultaneously before a single shot was fired. The results were predetermined and we knew what these results will be November 7th 2024. The second stage will drop your jaws.
The third, a land invasion, will drop them lower….
Never mind out-of-the-box thinking. There never was a box, was there?
WATCH AN EXTRAORDINARY LESSON IN STRATEGY COMBINED WITH LEAPS IN INTELLIGENCE, EXPLAINED BY THE EXTRAORDINARY MATTI SOSHANI. YOU WILL NEVER SEE COMPARABLE CLARITY ON YOUR EVENING NEWS!
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PROJECT METEOR - AHA, YOU NEVER HEARD OF IT?
Swarms of drones? Without any kinetic energy, confused, not knowing what sex they are like your average progressive, these drones dropped our of the skies like dead seagulls. An entire swarm of these sexually confused Jihadi drones slam into the water at high speed. All these happened before we released the upgraded A10 Warthogs last week. These incredible fighters infused with toxic masculinity and Trumpian hubris, with the A-130 riding shotgun, make mincemeat of anything close to the ground - even convoys of armor, Inshallah!
WHEN THEY ARRIVED IRAN THOUGHT THE WORLD HAD ENDED!
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WATCH YAIR PINTO, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS @ TBN.IL INFORM YOU OF THE NEXT STEP!
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Trump’s decision to fight Iran is historic -- but he needs to finish the job
HE NEEDS TO INVADE TO RID HUMANITY OF A MESSIANIC NUCLEAR DANGER.
We have the size, ask Monica!
All we need is the Trumpian will to win!
IF YOU’RE IN IT; WIN IT!
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SPEAKING OF SIZE, REPORTEDLY AFTER MONICA MASSAGED BILL’S PACKAGE, SHE STARED AT THE CAMERA, SMILED, AND SAID:
Hardly surprised at the outcome, and under pressure, Hillary eventually admitted:
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What Are You Doing on the ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’?
A UN day created by an Islamic leader who called Osama bin Laden a “martyr”.
14 days after a Muslim terrorist shot up a bar in Austin, 8 days after two Muslim terrorists threw IEDs at an anti-Islamization rally in New York City, 7 days after Muslim terrorists bombed the U.S. embassy in Sweden, 3 days after Muslim terrorists attacked a college in Virginia and a Jewish preschool in Michigan, and days after Muslim terrorists bombed a synagogue and school in the Netherlands, politicians marked the ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’.
THEY AWAITED THE ARRIVAL OF THE 12TH IMAM AND A GLOBAL APOCALYPSE
And they call you, Dear Reader, Islamophobic.
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SIZE MATTERS, AND SO DO BRAINS AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
It is literally astonishing what one can buy at America’s adult candy stores these days. Literally hundreds of firearm models, sizes, calibers, and even colors, from just a single manufacturer. Here’s Glock:
In my opinion, European small arms are the best.
This was true for much of the twentieth century. There are too many examples.
However, the 21st suggest American arms are as good, and in certain cases, better.
As it were, because of the liberalization of gun laws in the US during the 21st century, and the consequent restrictions in Europe, massive changes have occurred in the industry. One of these is that crime in these self-same European nations has been skyrocketing and most of the criminals speak Arabic because the logic goes: Europeans, deprived of personal firearms, must be Islamophobic. Was that not as good an explanation as anything?
‘Cologne is every day’: Europe’s rape epidemic - news.com.au
Germany: Violent crime reaches 15-year high - DW
The Biggest Peacetime Crime—and Cover-up—in British History
The Swedish rape crisis is just getting WORSE
Meanwhile, in the United States where guns are being distributed like coupons at supermarkets, crime has plummeted to 125 year lows. Exactly as I had predicted it decades ago.
The experts cannot figure out what did it. I can. Easily.
In other words, any American citizen of appropriate age not a violent felon or one who speaks Jihadi can pack heat. He does not need the permission of a government official whose salary the self-same citizen is paying.
This license which has no expiry date was issued in 1791.
CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES HAS PLUMMETED TO 1900 LEVELS - THE LOWEST IN 125 YEARS! - COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE
AMERICAN THINKER - Let’s have an intelligent conversations about guns - by Andrew G. Benjamin
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The major European firearms companies have relocated factories to the United States. Consequently, they designed their latest offerings on American shores.
Second Is the entry of a number of Turkish (Tisas, Girsan, Canik) and Israeli (IMI, IWI, BUL); excellent weapons of comparable quality at half-to-two-thirds the price.
The latest American designs by the recently relocated European companies are essentially the same and/or as good as their European counterparts, using tools made by the manufacturers in Europe.
European companies therefore benefit from American ingenuity in improving their products, and at the same time, they avoid tariffs.
Interestingly the prices of many firearms had dropped, sometimes you can buy two for one and give your extra firearm to the nearest Jihadi.
There are major American companies that import the European manufactured products, or parts of to be assembled here, and rebrand it with their own signature. Among the well-known are the Springfield (XDs) imports from the Croatian HS, and the CZ brand from the Czech Republic. Both are highly respected here.
Firearms: extra size (meant for competition), full size (service grade), compact, subcompact and micro compact for civilian and police use can be manufactured in the same caliber, they fire the same ammo. At the bottom: The Heckler & Koch 45c on the left was carried by SOCOM’S Seal Team 6 on the mission to take out bin Laden. SOCOM chose this brand for its special operations because their operatives loved the pistol. HKs appear to be 100% reliable. The one on the right is a micro-compact made by the same firm, meant for the civilian market. It is not the smallest of the breed, but close to it. HKs are costly. The Pentagon’s NextGen procurement chose the SIG P-320 for its lower cost, and now soldiers are having trouble with it. In general they hate the pistol, as well as the controversy surrounding it.
Given the size differences however, there’s more to the latest developments. The microcompacts are 1” in width, the service and full size pistols are often 1.25 to 1.4” and are far heavier. The micros, usually worn in an inside-the-waistband holster, can also be pocketable and are today’s preferred civilian and police back-up carry weapon.
The hk416 rifle was used to eliminate the Jewhating Jhadi in, of all places, Islamabad. The soldier put a bullet right between his eyes and his mates dropped his corpse into the ocean as fishbait. I am beginning to wonder about the name of that city.
HK’s are utterly reliable, and are equalled in my estimation only by FN Herstal, the Belgian military and NATO contractor.
The c in the 45c stands for compact. HK ‘subcompacts” are designated by the two letters SK. The microcompact is the smallest and thinnest category. Interestingly, the first of the genre and the smallest of these are made by SIG in many variations. The latecomers, HK’s cc9 and FN Herstal’s REFLEX of Belgium, are now of Georgia, USA.
The FN Reflex, unique for its genre, is a hammer fired - as opposed to the typical (striker fired) micro compact rest of the brands.
The first to manufacture the modern micro compact (meaning with a capacity of more than 6-7 rounds (meaning 10-17 and it was revolutionary indeed for its time), was SIG, the company that invented the “high capacity” iteration. It was invented after the buyout and takeover of the surviving remnant of the Swiss-German brand. SIG was having difficulty with the changing firearms market after the Austrian Glock thoroughly dominated it. Today, SIG, governed by its president Ron Cohen, is the largest, most successful small arms manufacturer on the planet, with arguably the largest variety of products. SIG has also picked up the Pentagon contracts for both sidearms and long arms. It’s export market is enviable. In other words, the firm beat out the competition in tests, partially as a result of good innovation, partially the result of G-d knows what? Or as some might say, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know?
Glock, FN, HK, others, lost. Glock because it isn’t nearly as reliable or as good as its reputation, FN and HK because both cost 30-50% more than a Glock. And SIG won because it lowered its margins to close to zero to dredge Glock prices territory. The fact is, an FN or HK cannot be manufactured for Glock’s prices; a Ferrari cannot be manufactured for the price of a Chevy Camaro; an IWC watch for the price of a Bulova or Hamilton.
What to know: Glock has wrongly been given credit for inventing “Tupperware” frames for firearms - the “plastic” including what SIG uses.
These are not “plastic” in the sense of a Chinese take-out container as some would have it, or “polymer” as others would.
These light frames are made of composites, resins, polymers combined with aramid carbon and glass fibers. For all practical purposes they are as strong as aluminum or steel in normal use - and far lighter.
Actually HK invented the use of these composites decades before Glock got wind of it.
But the word plastic, polymer, to refer to the modern pistol frame, should not suggest that all brands use the same quality of these composites.
They may look alike, but they are not the same. The best (and more expensive) brands presumably use better, tougher, higher integrity composites. I know HK does.
The Austrian Glock is essentially an inferior and cheaply made product that works - and that’s enough for most people.
An Apple watch works too, but some prefer Pateks. And here we get into the older and pricier category.
Credit - Smith & Wesson 640 Pro 5 rounds
Credit - Smith & Wesson 686 Plus 7 rounds @ BELOW
The quality, construction, materials and finish of these two revolvers are outstanding - perfect.
They are American from the historic, legacy company, Smith & Wesson. These don’t use composites or moldings (other than a few smaller MIM - metal injection molding) parts which are suitable for the purpose. These are all stainless steel revolvers, and are heavy, the construction requires CAD, CNC, precision tooling, machining, milling, hand grinding, and hand finishing. They use expensive materials, as these are made from 17-4 pH stainless steel.
The modern semi-automatic pistol represented by HK and FN above are robotic produced mostly with some hand fitting and finishing/tuning. These are mostly mass-produced moldings for the frames with CNC machines making the slides. Most of the small parts are sheet metal and cast metal injection molding parts (MIM).
The fact is that the modern semi-automatic is easy to manufacture with multiple computer milling and (computer coded) CNC equipment, and easy to scale up, and therefore the prices drop. The competition is enormous, dropping prices further.
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
The advantages of revolvers constitute reliability, predictability, and dependability. They are simple machines.
The disadvantages are their lack of capacity, weight, and long reload times.
The FN Herstal REFLEX and the Smith & Wesson 640 are about the same size and weight. Both are easy to conceal and carry. The revolver has 5 rounds. The semiauto has 11-13 with one in the chamber. In other words, it can hold almost three times the ammo of a comparably-sized revolver and chances are it costs significantly less.
The semi-automatic’s high capacity means lots of rounds can be chambered one after the other quickly, and reloads are quick. The disadvantages are many.
These include preference for certain ammo, need to break them in, failure to chamber, failure to feed, failure to eject, failure to extract, and jamming of various kinds such as stove piping.
Semi-automatics could have spring failures and the polymer frames can, on occasion, crack.
The fact is, the price advantages, the availability of a large variety of sizes, calibers and configurations, reliability getting better, make the micro semi-automatic the preference of choice for the armed citizen.
The invention of the modern microcompact doubles down on this preference providing small, light and high capacity weapons for the citizen who contemplates having to take on multiple assailants….as seen here.
One thing one never should have to encounter in a a gun fight is the unpredictability of running out of ammo during the fight. This is why semi-automatics are preferred.
Lastly, if you encounter an armed citizen and by chance ask him, or her, why he or she carries only two firearms, don’t be surprised if he or she replies that carrying eight gets too heavy and difficult to conceal.
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