Seen over Clayton Cramer.: I Hope You Prepared (claytonecramer.blogspot.com)

Vista Outdoor, a parent company to many firearms businesses, told Newsweek that it will substantially increase its ammunition prices due to “an anticipated global shortage of gunpowder.”

The Minnesota-based company confirmed the authenticity of a December 1 letter sent to customers that it would go ahead with an across-the-board increase of its ammunition and gunpowder prices on January 1.

“Due to world events our suppliers have notified us of unprecedented demand for and an anticipated global shortage of gunpowder, and thus has increased our prices substantially,” Vice President of Sales, Sporting Products Brett Nelson said in the letter. “We must therefore raise our pricing to help offset those increases.”

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• Shotshell: 1-7 percent

• Rifle: 1-7 percent

• Handgun: 1-5 percent

• 22LR/Shorts: 1-5 percent

• WMR/HMR: 1-7 percent

• Primers: 5 percent

• Alliant Powder: 10 percent (limited availability).

Ammo Prices Set to Rise ‘Substantially’ (newsweek.com)

I did ask for 9mm both practice and practice bulk for Christmas.  I guess adding more reloading powder and rifle primers should be included.

And dies for 5.56 and .458 SOCOM for the BiL’s reloads. I have to keep him supplied.

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An introduction to how to mess up big time when reloading. Remember, don’t trust me. Read the instructions in your reloading guides, your press and die instructions. Follow their instructions.
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The wonderful thing about reloading is the amount of control you can get over the process of creating the “perfect” load for your firearm. The negative thing about reloading is that a mistake can send you to the hospital, or worse, the morgue.

Every “regular” cartridge has a SAAMI specification for it. The SAAMI specification includes the dimensions of the chamber and the pressures for each cartridge. The SAAMI specifications also include how to perform tests.

In general, we do not have the equipment to perform the tests that would give us objective insight into what our loads are doing. Everything we have to work with is measured after the bullet leaves the barrel. This includes velocity, grouping, and other objective measurements of the results of our load.

Unfortunately, there are many aspects of the reloading process that can change velocity or groupings.

What we cannot measure is the pressure inside the chamber. This is the critical measurement.

Here are a few of the pressure measurements from the SAAMI specifications.

When we purchase a “modern” firearm, we are told that the firearm can safely chamber and fire rounds that meet SAAMI specifications. In the US, that is done by manufacturers not wanting to be sued.

When the gun banners scream about “only gun manufactures are protected from being sued”, they are lying. If you purchase a modern firearm and use only reputable ammunition, and that firearm “explodes”, the manufacturer can be sued. And rightly so.

In other countries, they go a bit further.

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We have another 2A case going to conference with the Supreme Court. It will be sent to conference on January 5th. This is a challenge out of Illinois regarding how the Illinois supreme court is a bought and paid for political entity of the governor.

We are waiting for word from the Supreme Court on the Bevis v. Naperville application for emergency relief. That might even be out by the end of the day.

I hope you have been enjoying my data dump regarding reloading. There have been some great comments. Thank you to all that have interacted.

Please leave us a comment.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WTVF) — A popular grocery store, abandoned in 2021, is creating bigger problems in one neighborhood.

Dr. Janet Colson, who teaches nutrition at MTSU, said she worries the closed-down Kroger along Middle Tennessee Boulevard in Murfreesboro created a ‘food desert’.

“It’s the low income people that are being left out,” explained Dr. Colson. “There’s not a grocery store that has a variety of healthy foods for a mile.”

“I remember how convenient it was, it was close,” said Rickey Haymer, who lives in the area. “[I] have to drive further, pay a little bit more, it’s an inconvenience now.”

For those who don’t have a car or another way to get around, that’s a close to 40-minute walk.

“They walk down this hazardous road called Braydenville Pike…or if they want to take an Uber, can you imagine the cost of an Uber?” asked Dr. Colson.

Possible ‘food desert’ in Murfreesboro may hurt low-income families (newschannel5.com)

I know the area and use to go shopping with the missus at that particular store back when we were dating. We figured we (I) could cook better and cheaper meals than the offering of many local restaurants and neither of us was into the “going out” every weekend.

And yes, the area is not affluent, but even though there is an inescapable truth that somehow the good doctor has failed to grasp: Barring natural disaster, any store remains open as long as the community surrounding it does business with it. If this Kroger store closed its doors after decades of being in that location, it very likely means the community started to go shopping at other stores which provide a better deal.

“But Miguel! Them poor people without cars! What are they going to do?”

There is this thing called Public Transportation. And the funny thing is that if you were not inconvenienced to walk to that Kroger, going to Walmart should not be a problem.

That is route MR (Mercury) of the local public transportation system. The red arrow indicates where the Kroger store used to be and the purple arrow points the location of the Walmart Supercenter. Is it as convenient as driving yourself? No, but beats walking by a very long margin, especially in inclement weather. And it is not that expensive either: A buck a trip unless you qualify for discounts or “buy” trips in bulk.

Again, is it a perfectly convenient solution? No, but there are no assurances in life. If you are too proud to take public transportation, then it is your issue, not mine or Kroger’s or anybody else’s.  Then again, I believe this article is just the official “we feel for the community and want to help” website stuffer which increase tenfold during the Holidays.  Tales of woe to make you feel guilty for celebrating Christmas and assorted Socialist shit like that.

SPRING HILL, Tenn. (WSMV) – People in the Southern Springs Retirement Community are upset about the possibility of a fire station replacing their old sales center.

Jim Elliott is part of the petition opposing the station. As of Thursday, they had received 550 signatures. He lives just ten feet away from the potential site.

He says when he purchased his new home in October, developers never mentioned the possibility of a fire station.

“The noise and the traffic would be really bad. And we just feel like there’s many other spots in Spring Hill that they could put another fire department,” Elliott said.

Backlash from Southern Springs community over potential fire station (wsmv.com)

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This is a neighborhood where the need for quick emergency response should be a priority in the minds of the people living there. But you want to go NIMBY?

I hope they are successful, and the Fire Station is built somewhere else, and as far as possible that way the residents can stroke out and die in peace and silence.

In an email sent to TechCrunch late on Saturday, 23andMe spokesperson Katie Watson confirmed that hackers accessed the personal information of about 5.5 million people who opted-in to 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature, which allows customers to automatically share some of their data with others. The stolen data included the person’s name, birth year, relationship labels, the percentage of DNA shared with relatives, ancestry reports and self-reported location.

23andMe also confirmed that another group of about 1.4 million people who opted-in to DNA Relatives also “had their Family Tree profile information accessed,” which includes display names, relationship labels, birth year, self-reported location and whether the user decided to share their information, the spokesperson said. (23andMe declared part of its email as “on background,” which requires that both parties agree to the terms in advance. TechCrunch is printing the reply as we were given no opportunity to reject the terms.)

23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users | TechCrunch

Who does not know by now that anybody with cash can access the information millions of people paid the company to have access to? DNA companies actually have done better than social media in that sense because people actually pay to be the product to be sold.

Oh well.

This video has gone viral of three people at Farley’s East Coffee House harassing and intimidating a elderly Jewish customer.

A Jewish woman is refused entry into a bathroom after complaining about anti-Semitic graffiti in it at Farley's East Coffee House in Oakland, CA.pic.twitter.com/Bf2Sut2qEQ

— Leftism (@LeftismForU) December 7, 2023

Mike Tyson famously said: “Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”

That’s 100% accurate.

You know these people say horrible antisemitic shit on X and TikTok and Facebook.

Since they never faced and real consequences for that, they felt emboldened to treat an elderly Jewish woman this way.

Look at this guy:

That pudgy stupid fuck is a bulky to old ladies because he’s a bulky online.

It’s obvious nobody has ever made his front teeth touch the back of his throat for saying shit, and he desperately needs it.

I guarantee you that the overwhelming majority of these Leftist antisemites would pipe down and stop harassing Jews if they caught a good shot to the gob.