insurgent ammo

INSURGENT AMMO


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From Ure over at www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm we are reminded that even though our Foreigner In Chief has magnanimously allowed Gulf Of Mexico exploratory drilling to resume, all of the companies have long ago packed up their rigs and moved elsewhere. Most likely to Saudi Arabia where the only thing keeping their production from swan diving is the increased off shore drilling. You scoff, convinced that that one country alone of all the oil producing regions on earth can extend drilling from one field far in excess of the standard forty years, magic unicorn glitter blowing out of the wells along with unlimited, unending sweet crude. You can lead the horse to irrefutable facts but you can’t get him to look past his blinders. Just as the US, the globes most explored and drilled area, had to move off shore for even a decreased yield, so does Saudi Arabia. Boys and girls, the stuff is already running out, looking in the rearview mirror. And oil production is a bell curve. Up sharply, and down sharply. I will giggle like a little crack whore when we start the rapid descent and you all look dazed and confused. Well, more likely looking pissed that I didn’t do more to warn you. But, Jim, you only brought up Peak Oil 543 times. If the economy, long the parasite of surplus oil, doesn’t vomit you up first, cheap affordable oil decline will finish off your McMansion Mortgage, SUV driving, latte sipping butt.

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Thinking I might milk a few extra days out of the generator issue, let me be clear on one point. I didn’t NEED the generator. I know better than to rely on petroleum for something so basic as keeping the lights on. I went two and a half years without anything other than solar panels. I WANTED the generator to play at the electronic/microchip tit like the rest of you. It is a luxury. Of course, to also be a tax write off, not that important but definitely a bonus, I will have to start writing on the weekends. I won’t promise anything else at this point other than publishing on Saturdays. I’ll try to get one by this Saturday, but if not for sure on the next one. And each one thereafter. Even at only a 1k watt power, even at only using a gallon a mouth, this is still a gasoline toy. I would never spend the mega-bucks to buy a low-RPM machine, as it would far outlast the oil supply. Solar is a necessity, generators are luxuries.

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The Afghan rebels used to have Lee-Enfield rifles, just about the best battle rifle ever made ( I might argue that the HK-91 is better, combining the Lee’s ruggedness with much better accuracy ). This made sense, the British having larded up the region with the rifles ( India and surrounding area ) prior to their decolonization. Even after their departure the independent Indians still issued them to the police forces ( where US police were issued limp wrested, faggot, Nazi, 9mm Parabellum pistols ). But, come the Soviet invasion, the Enfield’s pretty much gave way to the AK-47. Traded in by troopers wanting opium, captured in battle, and of course bought in Pakistan. I lamented the move, questioning those how who are arguably one of the worlds best insurgents ( courtesy of centuries of repelling invasion, plus everyday clashed between clans- underlining the positive aspects of tribal warfare, but I won’t get started on that again ) could move from a rifle to a carbine ( other than that, both guns have the same positive points- not needing twenty-three after market parts to work in a dirty environment [ hint, hint, the worlds worst gun outside WWII Italian junk jobs, the M16 and family ] ). Well, I was of course blinded by my environment. No excuse, I should know better. But still being surrounded by relative abundance, the simple fact of ammunition being more important than the delivery vehicle didn’t register at the time.

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American ammunition is just as vulnerable to disruption as any other of our products. Large transportation distances combined with decreasing energy. Played out ore fields, even steel and coal. Over reliance on computers, JIT delivery, over compensated CEO’s and other over educated idiots. Powered by utilities and serviced by roads that are all being neglected maintenance wise. High labor costs, mostly due to all the parasites tripling the cost of living, such as lawyers. Now, while some of these, to some degree, might effect foreign ammunition makers, odds are they will still be churning out product long after our domestic source have all closed down ( kind of like our artificial fertilizer produces all by abandoned domestic production in a few short years [ 50% alone in two years, mid decade ] as natural gas and labor costs became unattractive ). In a decreasing energy world, shipping ammunition from overseas doesn’t seem likely, but for one thing. Once our country is depopulated, or at least brought under control, it still offers treasures to other countries. We might have largely depleted our soil, coal, oil and ore, but one must keep in mind that this is all relative. In relation to all the oil we used to pump ( world leading exporter and user both, at one time ), the steel we used to make ( just look at the ship and air fleet we one-time-used in WWII ), the coal we had and the crops we grew, yes, we are largely depleted. But our natural endowment was so large that what is left is still attractive to those needing a lot less. We can’t keep up our lifestyle, no where near it, on what is left. But for someone like, say, oh I don’t know, someone that uses one forth the energy to support four times as many people while leading the world in manufacturing like China, what is left is worth fighting for.

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China won’t attack us. Our nuclear arsenal, plus the logistics tail involved, prohibit that. But once a certain point is passed, as our central fails to hold, they will start applying pressure to the cracks. Such as bribing our insurgents with guns and ammo. This isn’t of course a slam dunk, but it does have a high probability of happening. I’m not saying you should rush out to buy an SKS or AK just because that ammo alone might dry up ( I have enough primers, and hopefully enough brass soon, to reuse the components of carbine rounds, if worse comes to worse so my beloved Enfield will outlast me ). But it is definitely something to think about.

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