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The Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. It is based on a design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at Fabrique Nationale (FN) of Herstal, Belgium. Browning died in 1926, several years before the design was finalized. The Hi-Power is one of the most widely used military pistols of all time,[3] having been used by the armed forces of over 50 countries.[1] The Hi-Power name alluded to the 13-round magazine capacity; almost twice that of contemporary designs such as the Luger or Mauser 1910. The pistol is often referred to as an HP (for "Hi-Power" or "High-Power")[4] or as a GP (for the French term, "Grande Puissance"). The term P-35 is also used, based on the introduction of the pistol in 1935. It is most often called the "Hi-Power", even in Belgium. It is also known as the BAP (Browning Automatic Pistol), particularly in Irish service. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Hi-P...
Posted By: Steve Williams
Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:03PM
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This is a classic military sidearm that's been in production for 78 years. It has never before been banned. Why does she want to ban it now?
Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:35PM
Steve Williams
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Today, Browning Hi-Power pistols are still the standard sidearm of various armies around the world, including Belgium, United Kingdom (L9A1), Ireland (Browning Automatic Pistol or BAP), Australia, Singapore, Argentina (Rosario, FM90, and FM95), and others.
The M-45 is a semi-automatic pistol that fires .45 caliber bullets. The weapon has been the standard issue sidearm of the Force Recon Element of the U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Units since 1985. The M-45 is a magazine fed handgun that weighs less than 2.5 pounds and has an effective range of about 70 meters. Marines have used the M-45 pistol in a number of combat zones ranging from Panama, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 11:04PM
DAVID JOHNSON
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A 45 ACP with 7 round magazine is fine by me. Versus 13 round 9mm. But some people would disagree. I had no idea a 1911 model was still being used in the U.S. forces.
Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 11:56PM
Steve Williams
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David, can you hit the kill zone at 70 meters with one of these?
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 12:03AM
Steve Williams
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Unfortunately, a 1911 pistol definitely has a detachable magazine and one military characteristic.
"Certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one military characteristic."
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 12:10AM
Steve Williams
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Well at least I'll still be able to get a Lady Smith.
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 12:16AM
Steve Williams
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Or maybe I'll get a Model 29.
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 12:25AM
Steve Williams
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WITH A 45 you can hit the target ,,kill shot ,,because of the weight of the bullet ,,a 9 mm would go up as to a 45 will go straight ,,,
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 12:57AM
DAVID JOHNSON
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I'll go for bullet weight every time. Hand-load the 44 Mag with 240 grain JHP at about 1000 fps. In a Model 29 it's quite controllable and accurate.
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 1:12AM
Steve Williams
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i seen that big ass 44 ,,, thats awww clent eastwood ,,killing machine
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 1:26AM
DAVID JOHNSON
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It does a number on gallon milk jugs full of water I know that.
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 1:37AM
Steve Williams
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THE FIGHT IS OVER THOSE 223
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 1:39AM
DAVID JOHNSON
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They'll be the first to go. All those match grade Gold Medals will be next.
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 1:49AM
Steve Williams
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THAT 380 IS NICE wife gun ..good stopping power not to big easy to handle
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 2:14AM
DAVID JOHNSON
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irma its the clips the rounds to much fire power ! i got a 40 glock with a 18 round clip !
also a AR15 with 2./50 round drums SHOOTING 100 ROUNDS IN 45 SECONDS ! ITS THE CLIPS !
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 2:18AM
DAVID JOHNSON
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I like the semi-auto because it's safer. Locked and loaded.
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 2:25AM
Steve Williams
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I LIKE TO SPRAY ...AND THEM STREET SWEEPERS ...HEAVY GAGE BUCK SHOTS !
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 2:31AM
DAVID JOHNSON
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I found the only way I could keep up with my appetite was to roll my own.
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 2:38AM
Steve Williams
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At just $1.41 million a pop.
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 3:46AM
Steve Williams
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Source:
North Bay Bohemian, January 24, 2007
Title: “Senator Feinstein’s Iraq Conflict”
Author: Peter Byrne
http://www.bohemian.com/metro/01.24.07/dia...
Student Researcher: David Abbott, Amanda Spigut, and Ann Marie O’Toole
Faculty Evaluator: David McCuan, Ph.D.
Dianne Feinstein—the ninth wealthiest member of congress—has been beset by monumental ethical conflicts of interest. As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee (MILCON) from 2001 to the end of 2005, Senator Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions of dollars to her husband’s firms.
From 1997 through the end of 2005, Feinstein’s husband Richard C. Blum was a majority shareholder in both URS Corp. and Perini Corp. She lobbied Pentagon officials in public hearings to support defense projects that she favored, some of which already were, or subsequently became, URS or Perini contracts. From 2001 to 2005, URS earned $792 million from military construction and environmental cleanup projects approved by MILCON; Perini earned $759 million from such projects.
In 2000, Perini earned a mere $7 million from federal contracts. After 9/11, Perini was transformed into a major defense contractor. In 2004, the company earned $444 million for military construction work in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as for improving airfields for the US Air Force in Europe and building base infrastructures for the US Navy around the globe. In a remarkable financial recovery, Perini shot from near penury in 1997 to logging gross revenues of $1.7 billion in 2005.
It is estimated that Perini now holds at least $2.5 billion worth of contracts tied to the worldwide expansion of the US military. Its largest Department of Defense contracts are “indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity” or “bundled” contracts carrying guaranteed profit margins. As of May 2006, Perini held a series of bundled contracts awarded by the Army Corps of Engineers for work in the Middle East worth $1.725 billion. Perini has also been awarded an open-ended contract by the US Air Force for military construction and cleaning the environment at closed military bases.
In 2003 hearings, MILCON approved various construction projects at sites where Perini and/or URS are contracted to perform engineering and military construction work. URS’s military construction work in 2000 earned it a mere $24 million. The next year, when Feinstein took over as MILCON chair, military construction earned URS $185 million. On top of that, the company’s architectural and engineering revenue from military construction projects grew from $108,726 in 2000 to $142 million in 2001, more than a thousand-fold increase in a single year.
Beginning in 1997, Michael R. Klein, a top legal adviser to Feinstein and a long-time business partner of Blum’s, routinely informed Feinstein about specific federal projects coming before her in which Perini had a stake. The insider information, Klein said, “was intended to help the senator avoid conflicts of interest.” Although Klein’s admission was intended to defuse the issue, it had the effect of exacerbating it, because in theory, Feinstein would not know the identity of any of the companies that stood to contractually benefit from her approval of specific items in the military construction budget—until Klein told her.
Feinstein’s husband has profited in other ways by his powerful political connections. In March 2002, then-Governor Gray Davis appointed Blum to a twelve-year term as a regent of the University of California, where he used his position as Regent to award millions of dollars in construction contracts to URS and Perini. At the time, he was the principal owner of URS and had substantial interests in Perini. In 2005, Blum divested himself of Perini stock for a considerable profit. He then resigned from the URS board of directors and divested his investment firm of about $220 million in URS stock.1
Citation
1. Peter Byrne, “Blum’s Plums” North Bay Bohemian, February 21, 2007.
UPDATE BY PETER BYRNE
Shortly before my expose of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s conflict of interest was published in January 2007, Feinstein, who had declined to substantively comment upon serious allegations of ethical misconduct as reported in the story, resigned from the Military Construction Subcommittee. I then wrote three follow-ups, including a news column on her resignation, an expose of her husband Richard Blum’s conflict of interest as a regent of the University of California, and an expose of Blum’s business partner, Michael R. Klein. With Blum’s financial backing, Klein, a war contractor, operates a non-profit called The Sunlight Foundation that awards millions of dollars to reporters and government watchdog groups to research government ethics.
In March, right-wing bloggers by the thousands started linking to and commenting upon these stories—agitating for a Congressional investigation of Feinstein. In just two days, the stories got 50,000 online hits. Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh did radio segments on my findings. I declined to appear on their shows, because I do not associate with racist, misogynist, homophobic demagogues. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly invited me to be on his national TV show, but quickly uninvited me after I promised that the first sentence out of my mouth would frame Feinstein as a neoconservative warmonger just like O’Reilly.
As the storm of conservative outrage intensified, Joe Conason, from The Nation Institute, which had commissioned the Feinstein investigation, asked to have the tag thanking the Nation Institute for funding removed from my stories because, he said, Katrina vanden Heuval, The Nation’s editor and publisher, did not want the magazine or its non-profit institute to be positively associated with Limbaugh. I told Conason that not only was I required to credit The Nation Institute under the terms of our contract, but that The Nation’s editors should be proud of the investigation and gratified by the public reaction.
The back story to that encounter is that, in October, vanden Heuvel had abruptly killed the Feinstein story, which had been scheduled to run as a cover feature before the November 2006 election in which Feinstein was up for reelection. The Nation’s investigative editor, Bob Moser, who worked closely with me on the project from start to finish, wrote that I had done a “solid job,” but that the magazine liked to have a political “impact,” and since Feinstein was “not facing a strong challenge for reelection,” they were not going to print the story. Moser added that there was no “smoking gun,” which amazed me, since Klein’s admission that he was funneling defense contracting wish lists developed by Feinstein’s husband’s company directly to the senator, who was in a position to make those wishes come true, was a hot and smoking fact pointing toward corrupt practices. Subsequently, vanden Heuval wrote an editorial praising women leaders of the newly-empowered Democratic Party, including Feinstein: go figure.
I then sold the story to Salon.com, who abruptly killed it right before publication, too. This time the editor’s explanation was that “someone talked to the Sunlight Foundation” and that Salon no longer saw the matter as a serious conflict of interest. So, I pitched the story to Slate, The NewRepublic, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Times and, by way of experiment, to the neoconservative American Spectator and Weekly Standard. Most of the editors praised the reporting, but turned down the story. I cannot help but believe that, considering the precarious balance of power in the post-election Senate, some of these editors were not eager to critique the ethics of a Democrat. As for rejection by the neoconservatives, I theorize that they secretly adore Feinstein, who has consistently supported Bush’s war and homeland security agenda and the illiberal Patriot Act.
So I sold the tale to the North Bay Bohemian, which, along with its sister papers in San Jose and Santa Cruz ran it on the cover—complete with follow-ups. After it appeared, the editors and I received a series of invective-filled emails from war contractor Klein (who is also an attorney) but, since he could show no errors of fact in the story, he did not get the retraction that he apparently wanted. In March, the story crested a Google tidal wave generated by left- and right-wing bloggers wondering why the mainstream media was ignoring the Feinstein scandal. After two dozen newspapers ran a McClatchy wire service article in April observing that no one had found any factual faults in my reporting, the lefty group Media Matters attacked me on its Web site as a right-wing pawn, without even calling me for comment, nor finding any errors in my reporting. I parried their fact-free insults with facts and they were compelled to correct the inaccurate rant.
On April 30, The Hill newspaper in Washington D.C. ran a highly-visible op-ed by a conservative pundit quoting from my story and comparing Feinstein (unfairly) to convicted felon and former Congressman, Duke Cunningham. As the Feinstein investigation gained national traction, mostly outside the realm of the mainstream media, one of Klein’s employees at the Sunlight Foundation posted a “critique” of my story, which was loaded with personal insults, but contained no factual substance. Not coincidentally, Feinstein’s press office distributes, upon request, a similarly-worded “rebuttal,” which insults my personal integrity, finds no factual errors, and does not address the damning fact, reported in the story, that four non-partisan ethics experts based in Washington D.C. found the senator had a conflict of interest after reviewing the results of my investigation.
Also, in April, CodePink and The Raging Grannies held a demonstration in front of the Feinstein-Blum mansion in San Francisco demanding that she return her war profits to the Iraqi people. That was my proudest moment.
Five months after the story was printed, opinion-floggers across the political spectrum continue to loudly ask why the mainstream media has not reported on Feinstein’s ethical problem. Some say that the hurricane of opinion raised by the investigation has killed Feinstein’s chance for a spot on the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket in 2008. Klein has continued to send me e-mails full of verbal abuse, misspellings, and implied threat of lawsuit.
Blissfully, I delete them.
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 4:10AM
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Defense News' annual ranking of the world's top 100 defense firms is dominated by companies that have sizable plants or subsidiaries in San Diego County.
Eight of the top 11 companies on the list have a presence here, ranging from the Northrop Grumman plant in Rancho Bernardo that designs unmanned aerial vehicles to General Dynamics' NASSCO shipyard on the San Diego waterfront. The local units collectively employ at least 20,000 people.
General Atomics, which designs and develops Predator and Sky Warrior UAVs in Poway and Sabre Springs, finished 52nd on the list, with about $1.4 billion in global revenue last year.
The list does not include Spawar Systems Center Pacific, a Navy command that did about $2.7 billion in research and development last year. SSC has more than 4,500 workers in San Diego County, making it one of the largest defense industry employers in Southern California.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/11...
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 4:35AM
Steve Williams
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if its good enough for the FRENCH, i will get 2
Friday, January 18th 2013 at 10:13PM
powell robert
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CAN ANY ONE SAY IT IS TH EGUN CLIPS,NOT THE GUN STLY OR ANY THING ELSE...IT IS THE CLIPS.
NOW SINCE I HAVE THE TWO BIA HEROS I ONW SPOT...SURE WE GOT A BAC RATING BUT THERE IS SOMETING ELSE WE HAVE BEEN AUGHT OUT OF..U-N-I-T-Y SO IF WE WATCH LAWARNCE O YOU WILLSEE WHAT THE UNIFIED BLACK SOCILA NETWORKS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED...THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT IS NOW TRYING TOFIND SOME WAY TO GET THEM NOT TIED WITH THE NRA AFTER WHAT THEY DID TO THE OBAMA GIRLS...
AND AS FARTHER PROOFOF THIS GUESS WHAT...GUN RIGHTS SOULD BE THEIR MAIN THEMES...HELL NO EVEN FOX DON'T WANT TO TOUCH IT AFTER WHAT RUSH LIMBAUG HAS BEEN THROUGH...CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY HAVE NOT GOTTEN TO THE THEME OUR PRESIDENT IS A COWARD HE WILLNOT EVEN FIGHT THE TALABAN...I KND YOU NOT...THE ARE LIKE CONGRESS THE YWNAT THE GUN ISSUE TO DIE..SO GREAT JOB ALL OF HE LEFT SOCIALNETWORKS AND BIA WE WILLGET ANOGHT CHANCE...WE GOT AN A THE LAST TIME AROUND AND I M SO PROUD OF US...
NOWI CAN GET SOME REST...IHAVENOT GOTTEN MUSH SLEEP LATELY.(SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
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