Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
Did you hear about the protests in San Francisco this week after a cop shot a man who was armed with “only a pellet gun/replica gun?” No? Maybe because the dead guy was white. Protests of defensive wrongdoing don’t hold water when (a), the defenders were justified, and (b) the protesters are bigots.
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NYC cop killings Tax-evading gun-banning “reverend” Al Sharpton refused to be upstaged by a cop killer who assassinated two New York City police officers on a Saturday, and held a press conference on that Sunday to tell the members of the compliant news media that he’s receiving death threats and hate emails. Gee, I wonder why? Protesters at a Sharpton-led
Litigation by the Only Ones Some retired Washington, D.C. corrections officers are suing the Dept. of Corrections for refusing to issue the necessary approvals to qualify them to carry firearms nationwide under the 2004 federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act. But the Act itself is a farce. All law-abiding citizens have the right to bear arms, regardless of what job
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The US Army Marksmanship Unit’s .264 USA intermediate cartridge (details). Source (page 72, also includes the .277 USA cartridge)
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Beretta is apparently scrambling to try to keep its US military pistol contract in the face of the Army’s ongoing Modular Handgun System (MHS) competition to replace the existing M9 pistol. Some say Beretta is a shoo-in to win the competition with it’s revised M9, due to cost and logistics. But we wonder why even have a competition if the
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Barrett Firearms has signed a contract to export rifles to the Ukrainian state-run defense company Ukroboronprom. From SputnikNews: KIEV, December 12 (Sputnik) – The Ukrainian state-run defense concern Ukroboronprom said Friday its subsidiary Ukrinmash had signed a deal on small arms delivery with US Barrett Firearms. “The representatives of company Ukrinmash – the leading exporter of the Ukroboronprom state concern
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The Department of Treasury is seeking to order survival kits for all of its employees nationwide who oversee the federal banking system, according to a new solicitation. The emergency supplies would be for every employee at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which conducts on-site reviews of banks throughout the country. Bank inspectors. That’s about 3,814 people.
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Apparently its official. Or at least more official than the constant reports we’ve received for the last 25 years. The Pentagon has announced it will actively seek a new manufacturing contract to replace the Beretta M9 as the primary sidearm of the US military. The Pentagon will formally issue the Modular Handgun System solicitation in January.
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