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U.S.

Skyrocketing ammo sales, blame the government!

01 July 2016 (17:53 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Tir 1395/25 Ramadan 1437/27 Jia-Wu 4714

A new study shows ammunition sales in the United States have skyrocketed to the point where 48.9% of ammo is imported from other countries, and that counts only the imports that come in by ship!

Main stream U.S. news media are blaming individual gun owners, but wait a minute, what about all those record level ammo purchases by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security?

Of course the research company that made the survey is based in anti-2nd Amendment New York City, it’s called Panjiva, a “trade data company” founded in 2006.  It should be noted that Panjiva uses ‘third party sources’ for their info, and it supposedly traced only shipments by boat into the U.S.

In 2012, Business Insider revealed that Homeland Security (DHS) was buying 175-million rounds of .223 caliber (5.56mm, used in AR-15/M16/M4 type assault rifles) and 450 million rounds of a special made .40 caliber Smith & Wesson bullet for pistols.

In 2013, Associated Press revealed that DHS was buying 1.6-billion rounds of ammo!

In February 2014, the Government Accounting Office claimed the DHS had reduced the amount of ammo purchases since 2009, but also revealed that “DHS’s ammunition purchases over the 6-year period equates to an average of 1,200 rounds purchased per firearm-carrying agent or officer per year.”

In 2015, a federal government contracting site revealed that DHS/Customs and Boarder Protection wanted to buy “….approximately 12,600,000 (12.6 million) rounds of .223 Rem training ammunition per year, totaling 62,500,000 (62.5 million) over the life of the contract.” 

There’s speculation that federal government hoarding of ammo is causing ammo shortages for gun owning citizens:

U.S. Air Force PARADROPS 50 TONNES OF AMMO TO ISLAMIC STATE!

GOT AMMO? EAST IDAHO RUNNING OUT OF BULLETS!

U.S. MADE MILITARY PARTS & AMMO BEING DISAPPEARED BY ISRAELI  DEALERS!

U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY HORDES LETHAL AMMO, YOU ARE THE TARGET! “It simply does not make sense that they would need so much ammunition. If the United States was ever invaded, it would be the job of the U.S. military to defend the country.”

14,000 ROUNDS OF M16/M4 AMMO MISSING FROM U.S. MILITARY BASE!

U.S. CITIZEN ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING 3,500 ROUNDS OF AMMO INTO MEXICO

Idaho

No permit needed: Concealed Carry Idaho!

01 July 2016 (15:00 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Tir 1395/25 Ramadan 1437/27 Jia-Wu 4714

Beginning today Idahoans can now carry a concealed gun without a permit.  Don’t confuse this with the Open Carry law that’s been in effect for more than a hundred years.

Also, it’s been legal to Conceal Carry outside city limits, but now the new law says it’s legal to permit-less Conceal Carry inside city limits.  (I was amazed by how even our local Idaho TV news media made it sound like this new law is the first time anybody could publicly carry a gun)

KOA CAMPGROUND TRIES TO TAKE AWAY IDAHO RANCHER’S RIGHT TO OPEN CARRY GUNS ON HIS OWN PROPERTY!

Idaho

Boise Fire update: 2500 acres, still burning

30 June 2016 (12:54 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714

Fire investigators now consider the illegal use of fireworks as the cause of a fire that’s now burned more than 1-thousand and 12 hectares (2-thousand 5-hundred acres).

The ‘Table Rock’ fire started about midnight, near the Wild Horse subdivision, but stopped short of the Harris Ranch residential subdivision.  As soon as daylight came airstrikes were launched by water dropping helicopters, R/C drones should not be flown in the affected area.  The fire departments of Eagle, Meridian, Star and Boise, along with federal Bureau of Land Management, confronted the blaze.  The fire is 60% contained.

Idaho

Boise Fire update: Chubbuck Allstate already hit with fire claims!

30 June 2016 (04:42 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714

As Boise area news media confirming at least four “structures” burned, inside unnamed sources at the Allstate insurance call center, in Chubbuck, reporting to Blind Bat News that numerous claims for fire damage have already come in.

The Table Rock Fire east of boise is still burning.

Idaho

Boise Fire update: Mortars to blame?

30 June 2016 (04:14 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714

“There were people up there shooting off fireworks;  mortars, the ones that will go up in the air.”-Taylor Kemp, telling Boise news media that he saw people setting off fireworks despite a burn ban.  Kemp says the perpetrators ran as soon as the fire started.

In the above pic you can barely see the white Table Rock Cross has survived the inferno.  A KBOI videographer reported that one explosion was a home that had been burning.

Moonrise over Table Rock Fire.  Aryssa May Hutchins explained that the fire started just east of  important federal and state government structures: Idaho Botanical Garden, Millennium Seed Bank, Idaho State Archives.

Idaho

Boise fire update : Victims confirm explosions!

30 June 2016 (03:36 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714

“When we first woke up, there were huge flames. All the trees in the foothills right in front of us are gone, completely.”-Dawn Green, resident of East Barber Drive to KTVB

“I just heard two or three huge explosions and I’m seeing big, big billowing black smoke going into the air! I’ve seen fire crews stage on top of Table Rock for a long time, and right now that fire is moving up the hill toward Table Rock, also moving down toward the city as well.”-Carolyn Holly, former KTVB anchor who lives in the area

Reports that the Wild Horse ranch is on fire.  At least one home completely engulfed in flames, four ‘structures’ on fire. Estimated 324 hectares (800 acres) burned in the past three hours.  U.S. Bureau of Land Management says the flames are moving eastward away from homes.

Aryssa May Hutchins reports that fire fighters are defending the lighted Table Rock Cross statue.  More dry lighting strikes.

Idaho

Multiple fires east of Boise, now 800 acres burned!

30 June 2016 (03:06 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714

“Smoke just got really bright from the south fire.”-Aryssa May Hutchins reporting

The capital of Idaho, Boise, has seen numerous home fires and wild fires in the area since the start of June.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently declared several western Idaho counties Drought Disaster Areas.  Aryssa May Hutchins reports that it looks as if the fire has spread and split into at least two wildfires; northeast and southeast of Boise, after a dry lightning storm went through earlier.

The above pic shows the ‘northeast’ fire on the left, ‘southeast’ fire on the right.

‘Northeast’ fire spreading.

Another pic showing the fire splitting into two.

POCATELLO CHARLOTTE FIRE UPDATE: 80% CONTAINED. VULTURE/DESPERATE CONTRACTORS ALREADY DESCENDING.

POCATELLO BURNING! EVACUATIONS!

Idaho

More explosions in Boise fire

30 June 2016 (02:52 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714

“The whole damn hill is embers! But the cross is still there.”-Aryssa May Hutchins reporting three more large explosions in the ‘Table Rock’ fires (multiple fires now) on the east side of Boise.  Several smaller explosions heard from the ‘southern’ fire.

Idaho

Boise : “Explosions” of Fire

30 June 2016 (02:24 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714

Possibly lightning started fire east of Boise, Idaho, along the city boundaries where East Table Rock Road turns into East Wild Horse Lane.  Local news reports say at least 202 hectares (5-hundred acres) burned, at this point.  Voluntary evacuations of homes in the area underway.

Pics by Aryssa May Hutchins, who reports witnessing a “large building” going up in flames.  In the pic below you can see a white crucifix on the left, that’s the Table Rock Cross statue near the fire.  Aryssa May Hutchins also reports large “explosions” of fire near the top of the foothills.