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It is my assertion, and time will tell, that the most common sporting firearm in the world caused the most death and damage in Aurora, CO.  That firearm is not the AR-15, it is the venerable 12 gauge shotgun, loaded with buckshot loads.Those who have never operated a firearm have little understanding of how firearms function.  Such fundamentals as bolt ac...

In October, a foreign national named Mike Fikri purchased a one-way plane ticket from Cairo to Miami, where he rented a condo. Over the previous few weeks, he’d made a number of large withdrawals from a Russian bank account and placed repeated calls to a few people in Syria. More recently, he rented a truck, drove to Orlando, and visited Walt Disney World...

A Yemeni security official says gunmen loyal to ousted Yemeni ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh seized a security building near the Interior Ministry in the capital for a few hours before vacating it.The official says the gunmen were sent by a former security official and a relative of Saleh. After taking over the building in Sanaa, they blocked off the airport hi...

Japan's defence minister on Friday warned Tokyo could send troops to a chain of East China Sea islands at the centre of a territorial row with China if the simmering dispute escalated.Satoshi Morimoto said Tokyo's position had not changed, but confirmed that it would use force to defend the islands known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chines...

North Korea's military vowed a new and unusually specific threat to its neighbors, saying it would reduce South Korea "to ashes" in less than four minutes.The statement, released Monday when programming was interrupted on North Korea's state TV by a special report, comes amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.Earlier this month, Nort...

Malware can be a major pain for anyone with a computer or mobile device, as it can lead to security risks like identity theft. But when a virus targets a nuclear facility, the stakes are much much higher. According to a report on security site F-Secure, Iran's nuclear energy group — called the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, or AEOI for short — is...

Indian security forces shot dead four rioters Tuesday, taking the death toll from ethnic violence in India's remote northeast to 26, police officials said.Police issued shoot-on-sight orders late Monday in an attempt to quell ethnic violence in Assam state, after rioters burnt shops and houses and attacked rival gangs."Four people were killed in t...

Yesterday, the government of the UK took delivery of their first F-35B.  Minister of Defense Philip Hammond said :   “This hugely capable combat aircraft is now officially British and in the hands of our expert pilots.” Key words?  “Hugely capable combat aircraft”.   It is how “hugely capable” the F-35 is that seems to somehow not have been transmitted we...

A fascinating paper written on the development and future applications of laser weapons within our military.http://americanintel...-laser-weapons/

From "The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes". Federal Edition. Collected and Edited by Paul Leicester Ford.Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, May 28, 1816Monticello, May 28, 1816.Dear Sir,--On my return from a long journey and considerable absence from home, I found here the copy of your Enquiry into the principles of our government, which...