AR-15 .223 vs Mil-Spec 5.56mm Chambers

Posted on March 15, 2014 by DRenegade
.223 Rem vs. 5.56mm Nato

.223 Rem vs. 5.56mm Nato

by Jerry Kraus

What is the biggest difference between AR-15 .223 and Mil-Spec 5.56mm chambers? Most people do not know; they say, “I think you can shoot both kinds of ammo through either one, right?”

Then, they buy an AR-15 and start to get more educated. Frequently, they later have regrets they did not get the AR with a chamber they wanted because they did not know what to ask.

We are going to cover the major options in AR-15 chambers, including Mil-Spec chambers and the benefits of each. I am going to limit this to .223 Rem. and 5.56mm chambers and will address ARs with other calibers, such as .308 (7.62×51 NATO), in the future.

There are three types of chambers in the M16/M4/AR-15/MSR family of rifles, but most people think there are only two.

  • The first is the Mil-Spec 5.56mm chamber, which is used in the M16 and M4.
  • The second is the .223 chamber, the most common chamber in AR-15 rifles, although you can get AR-15s with a 5.56mm chamber (why you would want that is very interesting and I go into that in detail below).
  • The third is a .223 Match chamber, which is used in AR-15s by serious competitive AR-15 shooters.

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The NC court cost scam

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Bill Shuey

Recently, I was stopped by a NC highway patrolman because I had neglected (forgotten) to fasten my seatbelt. When I gave him my driver’s license, registration, and insurance information, he was about 18 inches from my face.

My driver’s license is from Florida and depicts me wearing glasses. When one reads the reverse of the driver’s license there is a driving restriction —“Corrective lens required.” The young trooper had my license for some five minutes and when he returned the document, along with the citation for failing to wear a seatbelt, he rested his arms on my door window opening and was about 12 inches from my face.

I was not wearing glasses and without corrective lenses my vision deficiency is greater than 20/250 in each eye. In the United States, one is considered “legally blind” if one’s best corrected visual acuity (meaning one’s best corrected vision with eyeglasses or contact lenses) is 20/200 or lower. At the time I was not wearing glasses or contact lenses!

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Lindsey Williams Global Currency Reset 2014

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u12Vpd293w#t=3150s

Start at 52 minutes 30 seconds

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Russian companies withdraw billions from west, say Moscow bankers

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

Russian companies are pulling billions out of western banks, fearful that any US sanctions over the Crimean crisis could lead to an asset freeze, according to bankers in Moscow.

Sberbank and VTB, Russia’s giant partly state-owned banks, as well as industrial companies, such as energy group Lukoil, are among those repatriating cash from western lenders with operations in the US. VTB has also cancelled a planned US investor summit next month, according to bankers.

The flight comes as last-ditch diplomatic talks between Russia’s foreign minister and the US secretary of state to resolve the tensions in Ukraine ended without an agreement.

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Russia says intercepted US drone over Crimea: arms group

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

A United States surveillance drone has been intercepted above the Ukranian region of Crimea, a Russian state arms and technology group said Friday.

“The drone was flying at about 4,000 metres (12,000 feet) and was virtually invisible from the ground. It was possible to break the link with US operators with complex radio-electronic” technology, said Rostec in a statement.

The drone fell “almost intact into the hands of self-defence forces” added Rostec, which said it had manufactured the equipment used to down the aircraft, but did not specify who was operating it.

“Judging by its identification number, UAV MQ-5B belonged to the 66th American Reconnaissance Brigade, based in Bavaria,” Rostec said on its website, which also carried a picture of what it said was the captured drone.

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Do you feel safe with this child in charge?

David DeGerolamo

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Cantor Releases Updated Report on ‘Imperial Presidency’

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

AP

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) updated his report on the “imperial presidency” on Thursday, adding to the dozens of examples of executive overreach by the Obama administration.

“Our Founders created a series of checks and balances for our democracy to prevent any one of the three branches of government from becoming too powerful,” Cantor said. “Today, this system is under threat as the executive branch continues to bypass Congress and use executive action to promote its own agenda.”

Cantor says Obamacare is the greatest example of the administration’s “blatant disregard for the rule of law.”

The updated report cites 24 instances where the administration delayed or changed the implementation of Obamacare, which were documented by the Washington Post.

Cantor calls the law a “2,000-plus page behemoth that contained hundreds of prescriptive mandates and hard deadlines,” which he says the administration is ignoring. The list includes delays of the employer mandate, subsidy verification requirements, insurance deadlines, and two extensions that let states continue to use high-risk pools.

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It Begins: Foreigners Sell A Record Amount – Over $100 Billion – Of Treasurys Held By The Fed

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

A month ago we reported that according to much delayed TIC data, China had just dumped the second-largest amount of US Treasurys in history. The problem, of course, with this data is that it is stale and delayed. For a much better, and up to date, indicator of what foreigners are doing with US Treasurys in near real time, the bond watchers keep track of a far less known data series, called “Treasury Securities Held in Custody for Foreign Official and International Accounts” because it shows what foreigners are doing with their Treasury securities held, as the name suggest, in custody by the Fed. So here it goes: in the just reported latest data, for the week ended March 12, Treasurys held in custody by the Fed dropped to $2.855 trillion: a drop of $104.5 billion. This was the biggest drop of Treasurys held by the Fed on record, i.e., foreigners were really busy selling.

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Bill Gertz discuss the Chinese Military Stealing F-35 Secrets

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pS7Gwfu48I

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Latest Estimate of Illegal Alien Population Exceeds Unemployed

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

UnemploymentThe Pew Research Center’s latest estimate of the number of illegal aliens residing in the United States—11.7 million as of March 2012–was less than the approximately 12.5 million people whom the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated were unemployed in the United States in the average month of 2012.

However, it exceeds the approximately 11.46 million people whom BLS says were unemployed in the average month of 2013.

Pew released its latest report on the “unauthorized immigrant” population on Sept. 23, 2013. Headlined “Population Decline of Unauthorized Immigrants Stalls, May Have Reversed,” it estimated that the illegal alien population in the United States in March 2012 was 11.7 million.

“The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. climbed steadily from 1990 to 2007, when it peaked at 12.2 million people,” said the Pew report. “The trend of annual increases averaging more than 500,000 per year then changed abruptly as the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. fell in 2008 and 2009, reversing a pattern of gains that had prevailed for decades.”

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Out of the Mouths of Babes

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

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Here’s an article on America’s obsession with income inequality…from 1952

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

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The below article entitled “The Age of Envy” was published in Newsweek on December 29, 1952 on the pervasive feeling of envy that lay at the core of numerous policies being put forth under the guise of “inequality of income and wealth.”

It was written by free-market journalist Henry Hazlitt, best known for his classic “Economics in One Lesson,” and excerpted from a collection of his Newsweek articles from 1946 to 1966. All emphasis is ours.

…Envy has been an attribute of human nature from the dawn of history. But it has always hitherto been regarded as a sin. Ovid thought it “the meanest of the vices.” The Bible calls it a “rottenness of the bones.” “From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness,” says the Book of Common Prayer, “Good Lord deliver us.”

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h/t Lucy D

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Egyptian Woman’s Message to Obama: Shut Up, We Will Not Restore Morsi

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtFeoup7p74

h/t John P

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The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on North Carolinians (2014)

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

After a brief hiatus that coincided with the worst of the economic recession, North Carolina’s illegal alien population is on the rise again. There are about 410,000 illegal aliens in the state, 25,000 (6.5%) more than in 2007. This concentration of illegal aliens — 4.3 percent of the overall population — is higher than the national average of 3.9 percent, and ranks North Carolina as the 11th most impacted state in the country.

Illegal immigration costs North Carolina taxpayers about $2 billion per year. That amounts to about $578 for every household headed by a native-born or naturalized U.S. citizen.

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Collectivism means force, no matter which way you slice it

Posted on March 14, 2014 by DRenegade

The Venezuelan people marched through the streets of Caracas this last weekend, banging empty pots, in what is called the “empty pots march,” because the country is running out of food. The march, accompanied by many violent protests over the last month, are a symptom of the socialist regime lead by President Nicolás Maduro.

What should we call this amazing social blight?

The Cato Institute’s Daniel Mitchell rehearses all the names: statism, liberalism, socialism, fascism.

I have a list of my own:

  1. Socialism: nationalization of the means of production.
  2. Communism: socialism plus death camps.
  3. Racism: government by and for “our kind.”
  4. Fascism: racism plus death camps.
  5. Corporatism: conspiracy of big business and big government.
  6. Liberalism: conspiracy of best and brightest and big government.
  7. Progressivism: liberals in the 1 percent that think they are the 99 percent.
  8. Obamacare: liberalism plus death panels.

What is the point of boiling down names of left-leaning movements?

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h/t John P

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Lakota Indian Promotes New Digital Currency, Mazacoin

Posted on March 13, 2014 by DRenegade

Most countries are casting a suspicious eye toward bitcoin and viewing cryptocurrencies as a potential threat. But one Lakota Indian hopes his nation will take a different approach: he hopes to make a digital currency the tribe’s official currency.

It’s called mazacoin, and the man who developed it, Payu Harris, wants to make it the official currency of the Lakota Nation, a semi-autonomous North American Indian reservation in South Dakota. Officially launched in February, its market cap of $3.3 million places it 20th among alternative currencies (there are more than 200 “alt-coins,” although most have marginal significance).

Official adoption by the Lakota Nation would be a big development in the world of virtual currencies, because until now, the storyline for bitcoin alternatives has been  about a small group of technophiles playing with a shiny new toy. But to Mr. Harris, the idea of a national currency represents something for which he’s been striving for a long time: independence.

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