Needed Items in Country

10 Oct 07

New List of needed items:

Gunner Danny Luke tells me that these items are what he currently needs most and is unable to get his hands on otherwise. He'll probably add other things as time goes on, but this is the current "critical list." This is what he now needs to take care of his Marines.

Shipping from CONUS typically takes ten days.

T50 Arrow staple gun (heavy duty), needed for target construction and repair

T50 Chisel-point staples, 3/8" and 1/2"

Snap link (carabineer) 150 lb strength, black, needed for putting rifle slings together

Bore Snake, 5.56 mm (22 cal), needed for weapons

Nomex flight gloves, "coyote" color, S, M, & L

Cordless, 18V drill and trim-saw with blades, bits, and #2 Phillips bits, needed for range and target maintenance as well as gun positions in isolated areas.

3" and 1 5/8" sheet-rock screws

The Supply System does the best it can, but it is, as always, ponderous and often unresponsive in any kind of timely way. That is where we come in! We don't need anyone's "permission" to do this, and we don't have to convene a 'committee."

I'll stay on top of the situation from my end.

Thanks to everyone!

/John

Comedy of Errors!

10 Oct 07

South African Police are sheepishly acknowledging that 3,856 firearms are currently missing from their own inventory. This is just what they've been forced to admit to. The actual figure is, in all probability, much higher. This is what we can look forward to with universal gun "registration" and " control" by government:

"Police lost many additional firearms during the past year than they did during the one before, says SA's Auditor General. He went on to say that firearm control registers are not properly maintained. Further, compulsory, bi-annual firearms inspections are only rarely actually performed. The audit also found substantial 'inventory discrepancies' between what the police actually have in their stores and what are shown in their records."

Comment: SA AG's own data clearly shows that the very governmental agency that is tasked with the responsibility of controlling legal firearms in civilian hands, itself losses firearms at a rate nearly five times higher than do average, gun-owning citizens!

When naive Liberals flippantly pontificate about "sensible restrictions" of privately-owned firearms, this is the kind of tragi-comical catastrophe we can all logically expect. How would any reasonable person expect anything else?

/John