Sipsey Street Irregulars: Procurement politics.

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Procurement politics.

Army Delays Effort to Replace M9 9mm Pistol

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Dakota said...: The way the military procures things is one of the most sickening travesties ... trusting them is like sending my 2 year old grandson to milk the cow. Ever read the way they screwed us out of the Stoner 63A? Oh, and how they were told not to buy a certain gun powder for the M16 rifle and they did it anyway because that was their buddies. A lot of soldiers died in Vietnam because of that little stunt. The entire history of the U S procurement shitheads has been littered with many incidents like that and has cost lives because of it.

I am gonna stir up a hornets nest here I suppose but I don't give a damn. They say they want a more powerful cartridge than the 9MM. Well that is OK I guess althoug I will take a 9MM any day over a 40 S&W. Why, because of penetration, period! My caliber is of course the 45 ACP and it is a great cartridge and always will be. I have carried one my entire adult life. There are only 2 other calibers that impress me for handgun power and penetration.... the 10 MM which is a power house, accurate and can fit more in the mag than the 45 ACP. If being subsonic is important the 45 ACP goes to the head of the class and probably stays there as all the others are not subsonic.

I found out something the other day about another handgun caliber that is starting to catch on here in America, the 7.62 X 25. Don't laugh too loud, this is a very potent caliber and I was very surprised to find out that it is the "only" handgun caliber to penetrate the G I current issue helmet. Yup 357, 44 Mag, 45 ACP, all tested, and the little 7.62X25 did what none of the others could.

So which one do you suppose they will pick .... why the 40 S&W of course!!!; January 24, 2015 at 4:57 PM

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I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Procurement politics.

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