Miguel.GFZ

Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack. Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA. I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed. I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.

Charlottesville mayor: Never let a crisis go to waste.

He asked that the Virginia legislature meet in emergency session to change the law so the city could swiftly take down its Confederate monuments — a request not likely to be granted, according to a spokesman for the governor.S
igner also called for a memorial to honor Heyer and legislation that would allow local authorities to ban “open or concealed carry of weapons” at public events where they might pose a security threat.

Source: Charlottesville mayor: I changed my mind about Confederate monuments – CNN

This is what a Democrat does: Steps on top of a bleeding corpse, claims some sort of Moral high ground and sets out to solve what did not cause a trouble or the death of one of the citizens he was sworn to take care of.

Fr some magical reason, we are to forget that the only death that happened  in Charlottesville was by using a car and the injuries were mostly from the ones on his side of politic using assorted weaponry, none firearms.

But what is so important about banning something that did not cause deaths or injuries? Well, it did interfere with the effective use of speech suppression by Antifa. You see, not even the most dedicated Lefty is willing to sacrifice his life by trying to attack somebody carrying a loaded firearm and might return the favor with the deployment of high velocity lead projectiles.

When the facts don’t follow the International Narrative. (Report on Firearm Commerce in the United States)

It has been a while since I checked the small arms manufacturing numbers for the US. Last time was when the UN and international Gun Control groups were trying to shame us saying we were the Number One exporter of guns and in the billions of dollars so the US should go under the UN Small Weapons control crap.

One thing theses international idiots conveniently forgot to explain is that they were including in those “billions” all weapons systems. That includes items like tanks, missiles, planes, etc. But they needed to do whatever is necessary to further their agenda and we know lying is fundamental.

I lost which blogger posted the latest ATF Report on Firearm Commerce in the United States  (my apologies and hat tip) and although he went for the NFA items, I checked production numbers, exports and imports.

Firearms manufactured (2015): 9,358,661.
Firearms exported (2015):               343,456.
Firearms imported (2015):             3,930,211.

I am giving 2015 numbers because the numbers for 2016 in production are not released until a year after. But these are good enough for display.

1- Only 3.66% of firearms manufactured in the US are exported. The rest are for internal use and enjoyment.
2- We imported 10 times more firearms that exported in 2015.  We imported a total of 5,137,771 firearms in 2016 according to the ATF report.

And the countries we import from?

OK, I thought we were done with Taurus. The Lifetime Warranty alone is what’s keeping Brazil in the red.

It seems Florida slipped to third on overall NFA items if my memory serves right. California is above us by just a thousand items and Texas is number one, specially silencers. with 242,859 and second is Florida with measly 85,998!

We need to step up!

San Antonio: ShotSpotter program stripped from proposed city budget

Via Say Uncle

San Antonio – A program intended to help police officers identify where a shooting happens, get there quicker and ultimately cut down on crime has been stripped from the proposed city budget because city leaders said it’s not effective. It cost the city $270,000 to put ShotSpotters on the city’s crime-ridden east and west sides, but police Chief William McManus said the program’s results don’t match up with its hefty price tag.
“The measure of success for the police department would be arrests and case closures, and we have not seen it at all. We’ve gotten four arrests,” McManus said.

Source: ShotSpotter program stripped from proposed city budget

An expenditure of $270,000 for four arrests. That comes to $67,500 per arrest.

The average salary for a police officer in San Antonio is $47,986 a year.  That is 5 officers that the city could be using.

The problem with ShotSpotter (other than accuracy) is that the company and the cities getting the system, seems to firmly believe shooters will remain in place long enough for the police to arrive and arrest them.

Oh well… it is only taxpayer’s money, right?

How do you know there is a glut in the gun market?

When AR-15s are cheaper than AK Klones.

Go get some guns now., this is the right time. Even AK ammo is down to around $200 per 1K.

This being broke shit ain’t fun.