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How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster – Los Angeles Times

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How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster – Los Angeles Times

Five thousand miles west of Los Angeles and 500 miles north of the equator, on a far-flung spit of white coral sand in the central Pacific, a massive, aging and weathered concrete dome bobs up and down with the tide.

Here in the Marshall Islands, Runit Dome holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet — or 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools — of U.S.-produced radioactive soil and debris, including lethal amounts of plutonium. Nowhere else has the United States saddled another country with so much of its nuclear waste, a product of its Cold War atomic testing program.

Phil Ochs – The Men Behind the Guns

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Let's drink a toast to the admiral
And here's to the captain bold
And glory more for the commodore
When the deeds of might are told
They stand to the deck through the battle's wreck
When the great shells roar and pound
And never they fear when the foe is near
To lay their orders down

New Generation of Kids Embrace Firearms and Shooting Sports

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New Generation of Kids Embrace Firearms and Shooting Sports

Despite the anti-gun rhetoric you've been hearing from some televised children lately, there is another, unheralded story of kids who have no fear of guns. Recent weeks have seen the media promoting a decidedly anti-gun point of view, with children acting as messengers. These kids have targeted the NRA and gun owners as being complicit in the recent deaths of students at the hands of a mass shooter. It's a corrupt narrative that justifiably has gun owners and Constitutional advocates feeling unduly persecuted. Judging by the media coverage one would think that their anti-gun narrative is the pervasive attitude among school children. It's not. There is another side to the narrative, a side that has many kids embracing firearms and the shooting sports.

GLOCK 17 GEN 5

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Inspecting the build quality and engineering of a Glock 17 gen 5.

Interesting to see how you can engineer a product to be very reliable out of relatively cheaply machined and manufactured materials. Reliability isn't necessarily based on a quality of material used, but the engineering that goes behind it. That said, some of the ways Ave handled that gun while dissembling it had me nervous, even if it was unloaded.

Dick’s CEO Says Anti-Gun Policy Created ‘Quarter-Billion Dollar’ Loss

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Dick’s CEO Says Anti-Gun Policy Created ‘Quarter-Billion Dollar’ Loss

One of those brands was Dick's Sporting Goods, a national retailer with a substantial presence in the both the hunting and shooting markets, which has now lost about $250 million after taking a stance less than two years ago.

CEO Ed Stack decided not only to stop selling certain guns and to hire lobbyists to push for stricter gun-control policies, but he also chose to stop selling firearms to customers under the age of 21 and had the company destroy $5 million of rifle inventory.

October 27, 2018 10:05 pm Update

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“But this land is still troubled by men who have to hate;
They twist away our freedom and twist away our fate.
Law is their weapon, and treason is their cry,
You can stop them if you try. ”


~ Phil Ochs, The Power And Glory