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Project: Assess Firearm & Ammo Needs Without Delay

Guest post by Paul T. Martin

Before you get all worked up – I am not pressing the panic button.  I don’t even own a panic button.

But we could be at the early stage of a potential run on guns and ammo.  If you have specific firearms or ammunition needs, I urge you to remedy those soon.

Please note I am not trading on insider information.  I don’t have access to any.  I am basing this recommendation upon past instances where we saw spikes in demand when violent events filled our news feed.

I don’t spend much time on firearms on this blog, because there are a number of people who cover that subject much better than I do.  What most of them (and their loyal readers) spend little time on, however, is the logistics piece of it.

(N.B.: Much of what follows appeared in a blog post from February 2022 and another one from March 2023.  I have added a few updates.)

In March, NBC News ran this piece entitled “Ukraine is running low on ammo. Europe faces pressure to produce more.”  You need to spend the five minutes it takes to read this entire article.  It is well worth your time.  It does a really good job laying out the situation in Ukraine and the efforts of the EU to ramp up ammunition production. Bloomberg has covered this situation as well.

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MBI Ammunition Review: A Forgotten American Remanufactured Ammo Gem

No matter what your favorite handgun might be, whether it be a Ruger America, Sig Sauer P320, or Glock 19, finding cheap bulk ammo to keep your magazines full is paramount. Many shooters will opt to get their full metal jacket ammo from manufacturers like Blazer Brass, Winchester, Remington, or Tula, but if you haven’t considered MBI then you really should.

Manufactured right here in the good, old US of A, Military Ballistic Industries (MBI) offers high-quality remanufactured ammo for sale at good prices and fast shipping. Although some shooters are wary of using remanufactured ammunition, MBI stands above the rest in their dedication to quality, consistent muzzle velocity (FPS), and muzzle energy.

The result is an excellent round that is perfect for target practice, plinking, and general range work that is available for a fraction of the cost of factory new ammo.

But is MBI ammunition right for you and your prized handguns? In this ammo review, we will take an in depth look at Military Ballistic Industries and help you determine if MBI ammunition is right for you.

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The 4th Turning {lots of wild cards!}

Fear Porn: The 4th Turning

Lots of wild cards in the doom talk about the inevitable “4th Turning” that’s been discussed here.

While fantastic writers (and researchers) like Jim have put forth extremely compelling cases that the 4th Turning is GUARANTEED – Can you really “bank on it?” (like that phrase has lost it’s meaning since banks are now as fragile as a porcelain egg).

Even reliable and experienced folks like Hardscrabble Farmer seem to indicate that we’re all in for a rough time ahead. Honestly, that makes me uneasy as well – because I trust the words of such well-rounded individuals.

But the eternal optimist in me sees a ray of light somewhere in the distance… I do.

Previous 4th Turnings did not have NEARLY the technology OR awareness that today’s society has.

How do you think those “new ingredients” play into the old model of 4th Turnings?

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US Paradrops 50 Tons Of Ammo To Syrian Rebels

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/12/2015 13:04 -0400

As we noted over the weekend, the US has now thrown in the towel on the ill-fated (and that’s putting it lightly) strategy of training Syrian fighters and sending them into battle only to be captured and killed by other Syrian fighters who the US also trained.

The Pentagon’s effort to recruit 5,400 properly “vetted” anti-ISIS rebels by the end of the year ended in tears when the entire world laughed until it cried after word got out that only “four or five” of these fighters were actually still around. The rest are apparently either captured, killed, lost in the desert, or fighting for someone else.

This has cost the US taxpayer somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 million over the last six months.

Because this latest program was such a public embarrassment, the Pentagon had to come up with a new idea to assist Syria’s “freedom fighters” now that they are fleeing under bombardment by the Russian air force only to be cut down by Hezbollah.

The newest plan: helicopter ammo. No, really. The US has now resorted to dropping “tons” of ammo into the middle of nowhere and hoping the “right” people find it. 

No, really.

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