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I WANTED TO KEEP THIS SPECIFIC BLOGGER MOSTLY GUN RELATED BUT CURRENT EVENTS MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT. WE ARE IMPLODING FROM WITHIN. AMMUNITION IS SCARCE AND UP 23% IN COST AND CLIMBING AND SPECIFIC GUNS ARE VERY HARD TO FIND. ITS IN MY OPINION ALL BY DEVINE INTERVENTION. THEY CREATED "GAZASTAN" AND NOW THAT IS ANOTHER NIGHTMARE FOR US.

PLEASE READ LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26, VERSE 19 AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING. WHEN G-D TALKS ABOUT THE SKY BEING LIKE IRON THAT MEANS NO RAIN, WHEN G-D TALKS ABOUT THE EARTH SHALL BE LIKE BRASS OR COPPER THAT MEANS NOTHING WILL GROW. WE HAVE NOT WON A MAJOR WAR SINCE WWII.

THE KEY IS BASRA IN IRAQ, THIS IS THE TRIGGER POINT AND THERE WILL BE A SLAUGHTER FOR G-D IN BASRA AS IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 34, VERSE 6. READ IT NOW. EVERYONE WANTS TO CONTROL "BASRA", THE BRITS ARE LEAVING BASRA AND THEN THERE WILL BE NO AUTHORITY. YOU CAN NOT MAKE A THEOCRACY INTO A DEMOCRACY. THESE PEOPLE WANT A WORLD CALIPHATE GOVERNMENT TO BE CONTROLLED BY ISLAM.

STARTING JUNE 15, 2007 ACCORDING TO MY ASTROLLOGY FRIEND STACEY DEAN THERE WILL BE 3 WEEKS OF CHAOS AND ITS CALLED MERCURY RETROGRADE. THIS IS NOTHING TO TAKE LIGHTLY.

ASK YOUR SELF WHY HASN'T SHARON OF ISRAEL THE LAST WARRIOR BEEN BURIED YET, HES BRAIN DEAD. ALL JEWS MUST BURY WITHIN 24 HOURS. I AM JUST GIVING YOU SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. WHAT IS GOING ON ??

I URGE YOU TO PREPARE FOR HARD TIMES NOW. BUY RELOADING EQUIPMENT FOR PEACE OF MIND IF NOTHING ELSE. IT WOULD ONLY COST YOU ABOUT TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A BASIC SINGLE STAGE SETUP. YOU WOULD HAVE YOUR VERY OWN AMMUNITION FACTORY.

OUR ENEMIES ARE WITHIN OUR BORDERS AND THAT IS MY OPINION. WE HAVE LEADERSHIP THAT HAS AN AGENDA AND IT DOES NOT SEEM TO INCLUDE YOU AND ME. IT REMINDS ME OF THE TOWER OF BABEL WHERE G-D STARTED TO CHANGE EVERYONES LANGUAGE. WE HAVE THAT SITUATION NOW.

I READ THE HOLY BIBLE EVERY DAY. I AM QUITE RELIGOUS.

IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 17, VERSE 1, IT SAYS DAMASCUS WILL BECOME A RUINUS HEAP AND WILL NO LONGER EXIST. THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED YET.


I WILL ONLY KEEP THIS POST UP FOR A DAY OR TWO AND GO BACK TO GUN RELATED TOPICS. I SUGGEST YOU REALIZE WHAT WE FACE AND START TO PREPARE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. THE ENEMY IS WITHIN.

TJ
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Republicans abandoning Bush

NBC/WSJ poll: President’s, Congress’ ratings drop to lowest levels ever

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Survey says: America is grumpy June 13: The country is grumpy, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which shows a 15-year low on whether Americans think the country is on the right track, and an all-time low in President Bush's approval rating. NBC's Tim Russert reports.

15-17 John Edwards campaigns in Iowa 18 Hillary Clinton fundraises in New Jersey John McCain fundraises in Boston, Mass. 18-19 Duncan Hunter campaigns in South Carolina 18-20 Campaign for America's Future conference in D.C. 18-21 Sam Brownback campaigns in Iowa 19 Special election for Georgia's 10th U.S. House district President Bush meets with Israeli P.M. Ehud Olmert in D.C. 19-20 John McCain fundraises in Florida 20 Barack Obama fundraises in Youngstown, Ohio 21 Joe Lieberman hosts a fundraiser for Susan Collins in Washington, D.C. President Bush headlines a fundraiser for Jeff Sessions in Mobile, Ala. John McCain fundraises in St. Paul, Minn. Sam Brownback campaigns in Iowa AFL-CIO town hall with Bill Richardson Phoenix, Ariz. Seersucker Thursday in the U.S. Senate 22 John McCain fundraises in Brookville, N.Y. 22-26 75th Annual Conference of Mayors in Los Angeles 23 Duncan Hunter fundraises in San Diego, Calif. 24 Barack Obama fundraises in San Antonio, Texas 24-25 John McCain fundraises in South Carolina 25 Tommy Thompson headlines a fundraiser for New Hampshire & Vermont Republicans in Hanover, N.H. 25 Hillary Clinton fundraises in Chicago 26 Special election primary for California's 37th U.S. House district John McCain fundraises in Virginia & Washington, D.C. 27 Bill Richardson speaks at the Center for National Policy in D.C. Tony Blair's last day as prime minister John McCain fundraises in New York Fred Thompson headlines a fundraiser for South Carolina Republicans in Columbia 28 Democratic presidential forum at Howard University John McCain fundraises in Pittsburgh, Pa. Fred Thompson headlines a fundraiser for New Hampshire Republicans in Bedford 29 Barack Obama fundraises in Minneapolis, Minn. 30 Iowa Christian Alliance & Iowans for Tax Relief hold a presidential forum in Des Moines Last day of the 2nd quarter of presidential fundraising JULY 2007 2 Nashville mayoral election ACORN's Democratic presidential forum in Philadelphia, Pa. 7 Al Gore's global warming concerts 7-12 NAACP's annual convention in Detroit 8 Bill Richardson campaigns in New Hampshire AUGUST 2007 7 Mississippi gubernatorial primary 11 Iowa GOP presidential straw poll in Ames, Iowa 16 Possible Illinois GOP presidential straw poll 19 Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa 21 Special election for California's 37th U.S. House district 23 Indigenous Democratic Network's presidential forum in Cabazon, Calif. 31 Texas GOP holds a 2008 straw poll in Fort Worth SEPTEMBER 2007 1 Texas GOP holds a 2008 straw poll in Fort Worth 7-9 California Republicans' state convention 11 Baltimore mayoral primary 16 Tom Harkin's Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa 24 Bill Clinton chairs the Little Rock Nine 50th Anniversary Gala 26-28 Florida Democrats' state convention and possible straw poll 26 MSNBC airs a Democratic presidential debate from Hanover, N.H. 27 Republican presidential forum at Morgan State University MSNBC airs a Republican presidential debate from Hanover, N.H. OCTOBER 2007 2 Salt Lake City mayoral primary 4 Memphis mayoral election 16 Special election for Massachusetts' 5th U.S. House district 20 Louisiana gubernatorial primary 21 GOP presidential debate in Orlando, Florida NOVEMBER 2007 2 2008 Democratic presidential candidate debate in Las Vegas 6 Gubernatorial elections in Kentucky & Mississippi Mayoral primary in Houston and mayoral elections in Philadelphia & San Francisco MSNBC telecasts a GOP presidential debate at Iowa State Univ. 10 Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson Jackson Dinner fundraiser in Cedar Rapids, Iowa 17 Louisiana gubernatorial runoff JANUARY 2008 5 2008 Republican presidential debate in Johnston, Iowa 6 2008 Democratic presidential debate in Johnston, Iowa 14 Iowa caucuses 15 2008 Democratic presidential candidate debate in Las Vegas 19 Nevada Democratic caucuses 23 Republican presidential debate in Florida 24 Democratic presidential debate in Florida 29 South Carolina Democratic primary FEBRUARY 2008 2 South Carolina Republican primary AUGUST 2008 25-28 Democratic National Convention in Denver SEPTEMBER 2008 1-4 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul NOVEMBER 2008 4 Election Day

By Mark Murray

Deputy political director

NBC News

Updated: 7:05 p.m. CT June 13, 2007

Mark Murray Deputy political director

WASHINGTON - As President Bush attempts to revive the controversial immigration reform bill he supports, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that Republicans are abandoning the president, which has dropped his job-approval rating below 30 percent -- his lowest mark ever in the survey.

But he isn’t the only one whose support is on the decline in the poll. Congress’ approval rating has plummeted eight points, bringing it below even Bush’s. And just one in five believe the country is on the right track, which is the lowest number on this question in nearly 15 years.

Republican pollster Neil Newhouse, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, argues that these numbers have crossed below the political “Mendoza line,” referring to the feeble .200 batting-average mark in baseball. “With the mood of the country dropping below 20, and the president’s approval below 30, both are candidates for a sort of political Mendoza line,” he says.

In the poll, Bush’s approval rating is at just 29 percent. It’s a drop of six points since April, and it represents his lowest mark ever on this question in the NBC/Journal poll.

Democratic pollster Jay Campbell, who works with Hart, attributes this decline to Republicans. Back in April, 75 percent of Republicans approved of Bush’s job performance, compared with 21 percent who disapproved. Now, only 62 percent of Republican approve, versus 32 percent who disapprove.

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The Regime Against the Nation

by Patrick J. Buchanan (More by this author)

Posted: 06/12/2007

Last week, in one of the great uprisings of modern politics, Middle America rose up and body-slammed the national establishment.

The Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty for 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens, and for the businesses that have hired them -- a bill backed by La Raza and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post -- went down to crushing defeat.

Majority Leader Harry Reid fell 15 votes short (45 to 50) of shutting off debate. Like the rout of the Dubai ports deal, the victory was achieved by a firestorm of public protest, reflected in millions of phone calls and e-mails, and citizens marching to town meetings.

The capital's capitulation to the country was unprecedented and astonishing. Not two weeks earlier, the amnesty provision of the bill had been supported by more than 60 senators.

But opponents of this bill, which would reward mass criminality with mass amnesty and eventual U.S. citizenship, ought not rest.

For President Bush is coming back to resuscitate the monster, and this bill has more support in the Senate than the 45 votes it got Thursday. Some Republicans and Democrats who voted not to shut off debate are privately committed to amnesty, if they can be given political cover and face-saving amendments to take home.

Sen. John Kyl is not necessarily wrong when he says, "All we have to do on the Republican side is sit down with those who have amendments, get those amendments in a reasonable package, not too many, but enough so all of the members can say they had their chance."

Kyl reads his party right. For the GOP is the political instrument of K Street and Corporate America -- the folks who fund the party and finance the campaigns. And the No. 1 issue of Corporate America is Bush-Kennedy-McCain. For not only does it give blanket amnesty to businesses for hiring illegals, it legalizes the illegals and ensures Corporate America an endless supply of cheap immigrant labor.

The fundamental reason this bill is not dead is that its authors and backers will never quit. For this legislation is part of a larger agenda of a large slice of America's economic and political elite.

What is that agenda?

They have a vision of a world where not only capital and goods but people move freely across borders. Indeed, borders disappear. It is a vision of a "deep integration" of the United States, Canada and Mexico in a North American Union, modeled on the European Union and tied together by super-highways and railroads, where crossing from Mexico into the United States would be as easy as crossing from Virginia into Maryland. It is about the merger of nations into larger transnational entitles and, ultimately, global governance.

This immigration bill is but a piece of a great global project already far advanced. In 1993, a majority of Americans opposed the NAFTA trade deal with Mexico because they did not believe the propaganda and feared that, as Henry Kissinger said, it represented the architecture of a new world order.

More than a dozen years have elapsed. And the results? Contrary to the promises, our trade surplus with Mexico did not grow. It vanished. In 13 years, we have run $500 billion in trade deficits with Mexico. Last year's $60 billion was the largest ever. Mexico now exports more cars, trucks and auto parts to the United States than we export to the world.

What NAFTA did was enable U.S. companies to close their plants here, fire their American workers, and move their factories and jobs to Mexico, while Mexico continued to export its poor to the United States.

What is the hidden agenda of the global companies, which evolved out of what were once great American companies?

They want a limitless supply of low-wage immigrant labor and an end to penalties for hiring illegals. They want the freedom to shut factories here and move them to nations where wages are low, benefits nonexistent and regulations lax. They want to be able to move products back to the United States free of charge. They want to be rid of their American workers, but keep their American consumers.

They want to be able to go out to Asia and hire bright kids and bring them to the United States to replace middle-age U.S. workers who cost too much. They want to be able to outsource their white-collar jobs to India at a fraction of the wages they pay Americans.

It is about globalism -- and about greed. And, as the Bible says, love of money is the root of all evil. But they have a problem. The nation has begun to awaken to the reality that the vision of the global corporation and the transnational elite cannot be realized without the death of the American republic. And so they are in a fight that is long overdue.

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Hamas on the verge of controlling Gaza Strip

Two Gaza buildings taken, so Rafah; Israel accused of killing children

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LOU DOBBS

Dobbs: Give it a rest, Mr. President

POSTED: 9:29 a.m. EDT, June 13, 2007

By Lou Dobbs
CNN

Editor's note: Lou Dobbs' commentary appears weekly on CNN.com.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Bush is building his legacy, adding another unfortunate line of hollow bravado to his rhetorical repertoire. To "Mission accomplished," "Bring it on," "Wanted: Dead or alive," and of course, "I earned ... political capital, and now I intend to spend it," he has added "I'll see you at the bill signing," referring to his own ill-considered push for so-called comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

Bush emerged from a midday meeting with Republican senators on Capitol Hill to declare, "We've got to convince the American people this bill is the best way to enforce our border."

No, Mr. President, someone you trust and respect must convince you that kind of tortured reasoning should never be exposed before cameras and microphones. Isn't there anyone in this administration with the guts to say, "Give it a rest, Mr. President"?

Sen. Jeff Sessions came close when he said, "He needs to back off." This president desperately needs to be reminded that he is the president of all Americans and not just of corporate interests and socio-ethnocentric special interest groups.

In what other country would citizens be treated to the spectacle of the president and the Senate focusing on the desires of 12 million to 20 million people who had crossed the nation's borders illegally, committed document fraud, and in many cases identity theft, overstayed their visas and demanded, not asked, full forgiveness for their trespasses?

Illegal aliens and their advocates, both liberal and conservative, possess such an overwhelming sense of entitlement that they demand not only legal status, but also that the government leave the borders wide open so that other illegals could follow as well, while offering not so much as an "I'm sorry" or a "Thank you."

This bill would be disastrous public policy and devastate millions of American workers and their families, taxpayers and any semblance of national security. Yet even in defeat, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, one of the reform bill's chief architects, declared: "Doing nothing is totally unacceptable." Like the senator, Bush says the status quo is unacceptable.

The president and the senator are wrong. It is the sham legislation they support that is totally unacceptable. But if Bush and Kennedy sincerely desire resolution to our illegal immigration and border security crises, I'd like to try to help. But a word of caution, if I may, to our elected officials: Resolution of these crises will require honesty, directness and an absolute commitment to the national interest and the common good of our citizens. Here are what I consider to be the essential guiding principles for any substantive reform:

First, fully secure our borders and ports. Without that security, there can be no control of immigration and, therefore, no meaningful reform of immigration law.

Second, enforce existing immigration laws, and that includes the prosecution of the employers of illegal aliens. As Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, put it, illegal employers are the magnet that draws illegal aliens across our border. Enforcing the law against illegal employers and illegal aliens at large in the country will mean bolstering, in all respects, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Third, the government should fund, equip and hire the people necessary to man the Citizenship and Immigration Services. To do so will ensure that the agency is capable of fully executing and administering lawful immigration into the United States and eliminating the shameful backlog of millions of people who are seeking legal entry into this country.

Those three steps are necessary to the security of the nation and the effective administration and enforcement of existing immigration laws. Those steps should be considered non-negotiable conditions precedent to any change or reform of existing immigration law.

At the same time, the president and Congress should order exhaustive studies of the economic, social and fiscal effects of the leading proposals to change immigration law, and foremost in their consideration should be the well-being of American workers and their families.

The president and Congress should begin the process of thoughtful reform of our immigration laws. Public hearings should be held throughout the nation. The American people should be heard in every region of the country, and fact-finding should be rigorous and thorough. The process will be time-consuming and demand much of our congressmen and senators, their staffs and relevant executive agencies.

The importance of securing borders and ports and reforming our immigration laws is profound, and that security is fundamental to the future of our nation. That future can be realized only with a complete commitment to a comprehensive legislative process of absolute transparency and open public forums in which our elected officials hear the voices of the people they represent. American citizens deserve no less.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.

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Republicans who voted against amnesty this year & last year:
Allard (R-CO), Bond (R-MO), Bunning (R-KY), Burr (R-NC), Chambliss (R-GA), Coburn (R-OK), Crapo (R-ID), DeMint (R-SC), Dole (R-NC), Ensign (R-NV), Grassley (R-IA), Inhofe (R-OK), Isakson (R-GA), Roberts (R-KS), Sessions (R-AL), Shelby (R-AL), Sununu (R-NH), Thune (R-SD), and Vitter (R-LA)

Republicans who voted FOR the amnesty last year, but voted against it this year:
Alexander (R-TN), Bennett (R-UT), Cochran (R-MS),Coleman (R-MN), Collins (R-ME), Cornyn (R-TX), Craig (R-ID), Domenici (R-NM), Gregg (R-NH), Hatch (R-UT), Hutchison (R-TX), Kyl (R-AZ), Lott (R-MS), McConnell (R-KY), Murkowski (R-AK) Smith (R-OR), Snowe (R-ME), Stevens (R-AK), and Warner (R-VA)

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The Regime Against the Nation

by Patrick J. Buchanan (More by this author)

Posted: 06/12/2007

Last week, in one of the great uprisings of modern politics, Middle America rose up and body-slammed the national establishment.

The Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty for 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens, and for the businesses that have hired them -- a bill backed by La Raza and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post -- went down to crushing defeat.

Majority Leader Harry Reid fell 15 votes short (45 to 50) of shutting off debate. Like the rout of the Dubai ports deal, the victory was achieved by a firestorm of public protest, reflected in millions of phone calls and e-mails, and citizens marching to town meetings.

The capital's capitulation to the country was unprecedented and astonishing. Not two weeks earlier, the amnesty provision of the bill had been supported by more than 60 senators.

But opponents of this bill, which would reward mass criminality with mass amnesty and eventual U.S. citizenship, ought not rest.

For President Bush is coming back to resuscitate the monster, and this bill has more support in the Senate than the 45 votes it got Thursday. Some Republicans and Democrats who voted not to shut off debate are privately committed to amnesty, if they can be given political cover and face-saving amendments to take home.

Sen. John Kyl is not necessarily wrong when he says, "All we have to do on the Republican side is sit down with those who have amendments, get those amendments in a reasonable package, not too many, but enough so all of the members can say they had their chance."

Kyl reads his party right. For the GOP is the political instrument of K Street and Corporate America -- the folks who fund the party and finance the campaigns. And the No. 1 issue of Corporate America is Bush-Kennedy-McCain. For not only does it give blanket amnesty to businesses for hiring illegals, it legalizes the illegals and ensures Corporate America an endless supply of cheap immigrant labor.

The fundamental reason this bill is not dead is that its authors and backers will never quit. For this legislation is part of a larger agenda of a large slice of America's economic and political elite.

What is that agenda?

They have a vision of a world where not only capital and goods but people move freely across borders. Indeed, borders disappear. It is a vision of a "deep integration" of the United States, Canada and Mexico in a North American Union, modeled on the European Union and tied together by super-highways and railroads, where crossing from Mexico into the United States would be as easy as crossing from Virginia into Maryland. It is about the merger of nations into larger transnational entitles and, ultimately, global governance.

This immigration bill is but a piece of a great global project already far advanced. In 1993, a majority of Americans opposed the NAFTA trade deal with Mexico because they did not believe the propaganda and feared that, as Henry Kissinger said, it represented the architecture of a new world order.

More than a dozen years have elapsed. And the results? Contrary to the promises, our trade surplus with Mexico did not grow. It vanished. In 13 years, we have run $500 billion in trade deficits with Mexico. Last year's $60 billion was the largest ever. Mexico now exports more cars, trucks and auto parts to the United States than we export to the world.

What NAFTA did was enable U.S. companies to close their plants here, fire their American workers, and move their factories and jobs to Mexico, while Mexico continued to export its poor to the United States.

What is the hidden agenda of the global companies, which evolved out of what were once great American companies?

They want a limitless supply of low-wage immigrant labor and an end to penalties for hiring illegals. They want the freedom to shut factories here and move them to nations where wages are low, benefits nonexistent and regulations lax. They want to be able to move products back to the United States free of charge. They want to be rid of their American workers, but keep their American consumers.

They want to be able to go out to Asia and hire bright kids and bring them to the United States to replace middle-age U.S. workers who cost too much. They want to be able to outsource their white-collar jobs to India at a fraction of the wages they pay Americans.

It is about globalism -- and about greed. And, as the Bible says, love of money is the root of all evil. But they have a problem. The nation has begun to awaken to the reality that the vision of the global corporation and the transnational elite cannot be realized without the death of the American republic. And so they are in a fight that is long overdue.

BHP by Stephen Camp

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I shot a friend's Browning Hi Power 9mm and liked it. Would it make a good self-defense gun? I've heard that 9mm is too weak for self-protection. I like the gun, but not the caliber. There are factors besides caliber in determining what makes a "good" self-defense handgun. Reliability is the first thing, regardless of caliber, and the Browning Hi Power has proven itself an extremely reliable pistol. If you are not comfortable with "Condition One" or "Cocked-and-Locked," the Hi Power would not be a good choice for your self-defense pistol. I am very aware that some folks prefer to carry with the hammer down on a chambered round or with the chamber empty and a full magazine, but I cannot recommend anything except Condition One for any single-action automatic. It's more dangerous to lower the hammer on a pistol having a round in the barrel than the perceived danger in having one with the hammer at full cock. Trying to cock the pistol under the stress of attack while possibly in a physical struggle will probably result in the pistol being dropped are too slow into action. Carrying in Condition Three (barrel empty/magazine full) assumes that you'll have both hands free and uninjured when the attack comes. This cannot be counted upon in my opinion. While the Hi Power is certainly "safe" in any of these carry modes, only Condition One allows for instant readiness with but one hand if necessary.

The "9mm vs .45" debate is one that will still be raging when we're all dust. While I do believe that in its better loads, the 9mm equals or surpasses some of the larger caliber's loads, the better loads in the .45 ACP is probably more effective shot per shot, assuming equal placement.

It's been my observation that there is probably not much difference between either if you get good hits, and spare me the "hit 'em in the little finger and the forty-five will knock them down." That is simply not true and never has been. It is physically impossible, and I won't argue it here. Those who believe it can do so or do their own independent research to prove to themselves that this old wives' tale is just that! This is not to say that the .45 ACP is not a really good defensive round, only that no commonly used defensive handgun round has the "knock down" effect attributed to the .45 ACP. Still, if looking at the better loads in each caliber, the bigger one probably does have the edge.

If caliber effectiveness is the main criteria for you in your search for a "good" defense gun, you might want to look at calibers other than 9mm. As has been mentioned, .45 ACP can be more effective as can .357 SIG, .40 S&W, and probably .357 magnum in some loads. The question is, "How much more effective?" I don't believe that there is much difference in terminal effect with any of these calibers, assuming that you can hit a coffee saucer size area about midway up the sternum. If you are comfortable with Condition One carry, like the Hi Power and can get off accurate shots with it, then I believe you have a "good" defensive handgun… for you! It might not be for the next guy.

The 9mm/.45 debate is one that will continue as it has for decades. Given equal reliability and a competent user, either will serve well.

During my years as a police officer, I'm personally aware of cases in which both 9mm and .45 worked very well and others in which neither had particularly stunning success.

I do think that the 9mm is more ammunition-dependent for "effectiveness" than the forty-five, but also believe that there are plenty of good to great factory loads available for it. Personally, I'd feel quite secure with a Hi Power loaded with Federal 115-grain JHP, Remington 115-grain JHP +P, or Winchester "Ranger T" 127-grain +P+. The latter is probably the best overall expanding 9mm load available for self-protection. The other two frequently fail to expand after passing through 4 layers of denim before striking 10% ballistic gelatin blocks. So what? This is designated as "worst case scenario" testing by the folks doing such things and it is a good thing when a round does well in bare gelatin and the same after passing through the denim, but assuming that it does not expand, does that mean that it's totally ineffective? I think not. While I do not agree that 9mm and .45 ball are equivalent, I do believe that there's not as much difference as might have once been believed. I'll bet they're within 8 or 10% of each other, not the 50% spread as opined in the past. I do think the forty-five comes out on top with FMJ. I'll bet a hard ball round through the heart or aorta with either caliber will have a pretty telling effect on your opponent.

What it boils down to in my view is to pick a "decent" caliber and gun and learn to shoot it. You and the handgun actually make the weapon and if you cannot handle the handgun effectively, its caliber is moot. For many of us, the Hi Power is the weapon we handle best at speed. We've practiced with it and find that we can score quick, accurate hits from a pistol we're comfortable carrying cocked and locked and are willing to devote the time and practice to make sure that our competence matches the gun's capability.

It is true that there have been well-publicized failures with the 9mm. Now that .45 ACP is being more used in the police community, I'll bet we see more with that caliber as well. Neither of these handguns has enough "power" to put a determined adversary down for physical reasons. The admittedly few men I've seen shot did not instantly drop like a lead weight; there can be a few seconds delay and during that time an excited shooter can put quite a few more rounds into the target. Were they necessary? In some cases, yes, but in others, the suspect probably would have gone on down without them, but the end result is usually, "Man, I told you 9mm was no good. It took five hits to put that bad guy down."

Let the situation be reversed where a good shooter put 5 rounds of forty-five into a felon and the result is likely, "Whew. It took five rounds of forty-five to knock that guy down. Just think if I'd been using a 9mm?" With good ammunition and equivalent hits, I'll bet the difference between the two scenarios is nil.

If you think the Hi Power's the way to go strictly because of magazine capacity, I'd counsel you to rethink this position. Unless you're expecting a wave of enemies at one time, it's been my observation that the first few shots are the ones with which you'll solve your problem … or be beyond caring. The 1911 and other .45 ACP pistols having 7, 8, or 9 shots carry ample ammo in my opinion before reloading is needed. That the Hi Power 9mm (with Pre-ban original capacity magazines) holds 14 is not a bad thing, but it's not as much of an advantage for the civilian defense scenario as might initially be believed.

For myself, the Hi Power points well, feels good, and has proven itself to "work well in the dark." It's a simple design that is prone to few problems over the long-term with but a minimal amount of care, and I'm secure with 9mm. Others choose to go with the Hi Power for protection, but prefer .40 S&W for caliber. No problem here and I think the 10 + 1 ammo capability is plenty. It probably is more effective in its better loads, but the difference just won't be "day and night."

There are some mighty effective .45 ACP rounds available as shown by the Corbon PowRball (left) and Winchester's LE "Ranger T" 230-grain JHP. These were recovered from water and were both fired from a 5" 1911.

I recall a police firearms qualification some years ago in which a fellow officer had a less than spectacular (and less than passing) score with his 1911. He remarked, "That's OK. I only have to hit 'em in the shoulder and they'll drop." He then went on to disparage my 9mm although he somehow forgot to remark about the score. I find both the .45 ACP and the 9mm to be "easy" to shoot in terms of recoil; I like and trust both, but still believe that the most important factor is the willingness of the user to actually shoot another person and have the ability to get telling shots off quickly under stress. Caliber is secondary when speaking of 9mm, .357 SIG, .40, or .45 in my opinion. Skill and tactics are more important.

Winchester's LE "Ranger T" 127-grain +P+ is probably the best defensive 9mm round on the market.

Federal 9BP 115-grain JHP is the lower, expanded bullet. It did have jacket separation, but is widely available and easy on guns. The Winchester 127-grain +P+ will penetrate deeper and under more adverse conditions, but is the 9BP less effective because the better bullet exists?

So, will the Browning Hi Power 9mm make a "good" defense gun for you? It primarily depends on you.

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WALTHER "PP" by Stephen Camp

A Critical Look at the Walther PP Pistol

By Stephen Camp

www.hipowersandhandguns.com

The Walther Polezei Pistole was introduced in 1929 and originally chambered in .32 ACP. It's also available in .380 ACP and has been made in other calibers such as .22 long rifle and .25 ACP. Without question the design was successful and it remains a popular pistol today. It spawned the shorter PPK a couple of years later which is merely the same platform having a shorter barrel/slide assembly and a shorter butt. This sacrifices 1 round from the PP's 7-round capacity in .380 ACP. In .32 ACP, the count similarly drops by one from the larger pistol's 8-round magazine.

The top pistol is in .380 while the lower one is chambered for .32 ACP. The .380 was purchased new. The .32 was bought used from a friend needing money. The older .32 has the better double-action and is much more pleasant to shoot. I find the sights much better regulated for POA = POI on the .32 than the .380.

The Walther PP-series are conventional DA/SA semiautomatic pistols. They have the slide-mounted decocking system that's been emulated on so many other pistols. When a round is chambered a small pin protrudes at the rear of the slide above the hammer indicating such. Some have reported that this can break or cause possible feeding problems. I have not seen it in using perhaps half-a-dozen of the PP's and PPK/S guns over the years, nor with the two US-made PPK pistols I owned.

Here you can see the single-side decocker that also prevents the hammer being moved rearward and dropping. It acts as a safety in that regard. Above an in front of the ring hammer you can see the loaded chamber indicator pin exposed. This is how it looks with a round chambered. Just in front of the Sile checkered wood grip is the magazine release.

The Walther PP in any caliber is straight blowback. In other words when the gun's fired the barrel does not move rearward with the slide until chamber pressure diminishes. The only thing retarding the slide is its weight, the recoil spring and the mainspring.

Characteristics:

Action: blowback with conventional double/single action

Weight: 23.5 ounces

Construction: all steel

Length: 6.7"

Width: 0.851" across the slide

Barrel Length: 3.86"

Magazine Safety: no

Magazine Capacity: 7 rounds in .380 ACP, 8 in .22 and .32 ACP

Safeties: decocker, hammer block until the trigger is pressed completely rearward, loaded chamber indicator and inertial firing pin

Sights: fixed with the front sight integral to the slide and the rear sight mounted via conventional dovetail. Newer versions have a white dot in a slightly wider front sight and a single white bar below the notch in the rear sight. The older guns have plain black front sights with the "U" notch in the rear.

Trigger: grooved on newer pistols and smooth on the older ones

Stocks: black checkered plastic in most versions

Finish: usually bright blue. None of the PP's were offered in stainless steel and none of the European-made Walthers were made in it. Those manufactured in the US have been offered in stainless steel as well as chrome-moly.

This is the front sight on the .380 Walther PP. It represents the newer guns. Note also that the top of the slide has a knurled rib running the full length.

Several other makers in other countries have copied Walther PP-series handguns. This attests to the popularity of this genre of "pocket pistol." Most served in police holsters and were replaced in the 1970's as terrorist acts increased. Police simply wanted more potent sidearms. The .32 or .380 that was as much for show, as use simply wasn't all that self-assuring when possibly facing people intent on your death. That said, they were easy to tote and the Walther PP, PPK, and PPK/S were the "Cadillac's" for pocket autos to those preferring the double-action first shot. In America, the Mauser HSc just never reached the same level of popularity.

Chronograph Data for .32 ACP: All data is based on 10 shots fired approximately 10' from the chronograph screens.

Load:	Average Velocity: (ft/sec)	Extreme Spread: (ft/sec)	Standard Deviation: (ft/sec)
PMC 71-gr. FMJ	1011	16	6
Speer 60-gr. Gold Dot	943	79	32
Hornady 60-gr. XTP	981	22	9

As you can see, I don't do much shooting with this caliber. In my particular pistol, the Speer Gold Dot JHP's jammed tightly in the magazine. I had to disassemble the magazine to get these rounds out. The XTP's worked fine and grouped quite well.

Opinions vary on the best defensive load in this caliber. Some prefer FMJ as adequate penetration is there. Others cast their lot with expanding bullets in an effort to make a wider wound channel. I personally don't trust this caliber for self-protection, but would probably go with the XTP. It has been a reliable expander for me in informal tests and feeds reliably in my gun. Not as aggressive in expansion, the XTP usually goes to about 1.5 times original caliber. Thus, you get some expansion and penetration will probably be a little deeper than with some other JHP ammo.

Here you can see the Speer Gold Dot for .32 ACP. I didn't have good luck with them and this one didn't expand when fired into water.

Chronograph Data for .380 ACP: This information was gathered in the same manner as for the .32 ACP.

Load:	Average Velocity: (ft/sec)	Extreme Spread: (ft/sec)	Standard Deviation: (ft/sec)
Glaser 70-gr. Silver +P	1369	45	17
Magtech 85-gr. GG +P	1062	69	26
Remington 88-gr. JHP	1056	64	19
Federal 90-gr. JHP	1038	73	22
Federal 90-gr. HS	1048	46	14
Corbon 90-gr. JHP +P	1118	39	14
Magtech 95-gr. FMJ	945	53	18
Win USA 95-gr. FMJ	961	30	12
S. Barbara 95-gr. JSP*	1161	80	27
Win Ranger 95-gr. JHP	966	36	12
Rem 102-gr. GS	953	43	17

*The Santa Barbara 95-gr. JSP is made by Empresa Nacional in Spain. I can find no designation as to its being standard pressure or +P. Frankly I think it is TOO hot for use in anything but an all-steel pistol and would limit its use there. I will not fire anymore of it in my lightweight Bersa and probably none in my steel .380's.

From left to right: Hornady .380 XTP, Magtech Guardian Gold JHP, and Remington Golden Saber after being fired into water.

Winchester RA380T (Ranger SXT and law enforcement only) is a very good standard velocity load for the .380 ACP. In my informal tests, Remington's 102-gr. Golden Saber is its equivalent.

Here's the Walther with Federal 90-gr. Classic JHP. This standard pressure load feeds very well and has performed well for me in a number of .380 pistols. I believe that in this caliber, placement will count for much, much more than expanding bullet performance. The .380 ACP is right on the line and maybe just a little under it for my minimal requirements in a defensive caliber.

Not intended as a pure target round, all of the .32 and .380 ammunition I've tried has been more than sufficiently accurate for its defensive role.

This 8-shot group using Winchester .380 95-gr. ball was fired off-hand in slow-fire at 10 yards. Note that the POA is quite a bit lower than the POI and that the first shot (DA) was approximately 2" out of the main group.

Fired at 7 yards off-hand, two 5-shot groups were fired with the Walther .32 ACP. I was aiming dead-on on the white spot in the center of the target. Had I used a 6 O'clock hold, the group would be right at the dot. It's been my continued experience that the 32-caliber PP's hit almost dead-on while the .380's hit considerably higher. I think both have their sights regulated for the lighter caliber.

Observations: The .380 pistol remains popular today, albeit with more and more models that are both lighter and smaller than these classic designs. Something sometimes overlooked is the velocity loss inherent to the shorter barrels of such guns. They do not provide the full "power" of the .380 as with more traditional 3.5 to 3.9" barrel lengths. Of course another way to look at that is that some of these really tiny .380 pistols are not much bigger than .25 autos so they are providing at least more punch in that light. I do not trust the .32 and am none too sure of the .380 ACP, but that doesn't necessarily make me "right." There is more to choosing a defensive pistol/caliber than "power". I personally set my lower limit at .38 Special from a 2" barrel with heavier bullets than are available in .380 ACP. Some are not comfortable with but 5 shots and much prefer the automatic's increased ammo capacity. Other folks don't like the somewhat sharp recoil of the little thirty-eight's and some simply do not care for revolvers. Ballistically, the .380 really doesn't make much sense anymore. There are many very compact 9mm's that offer performance well above it. Much of the time, so is the cost of the gun. Here lies one of the .380's advantages. Being straight blowback, a gun of comparable quality to a locked breech pistol will usually cost less. It's simply less complicated to make. Visually, the .380 ACP doesn't look that much smaller than the 9x19mm; the "problem" is that it operates at significantly lower pressures and simply cannot approach the 9mm's delivery with the same weight bullets.

For whatever reasons we find the John M. Browning's .380 cartridge thriving.

We also find that despite there being smaller, lighter, and less-costly pistols available, some folks simply want the old classic Walther, be it in PP, PPK, or PPK/S. I prefer the more traditional size .380's as I want all the velocity I can get for a given load and the longer barrels better provide it.

While these European-manufactured Walthers have proven reliable with a wide variety of ammo, there have been complaints from some using the American-made versions. I've owned a few of the American guns and my results were mixed. Some were absolutely reliable and others would work only with ball or a very limited number of JHP loads. (Federal 90-gr. JHP worked in all.) If you opt for a Walther PP-series pistol, you must be sure it is reliable with whatever ammunition you intend to use in it.

I've noted that more times than not, the DA trigger pulls on the .32's are both lighter and smoother than on the .380's. This is just a guess, but could it be that Walther is using an increased power mainspring in the .380 to retard the slide in addition to the recoil spring? In any event the double-action on my .380 is not nearly so nice as that on the .32 ACP.

The main complaint I have with the Walther PP is that it bites the hand that shoots it. The slide is mounted so low that it's very easy to get the shooting hand nipped by the edges of the slide. This seems to be a curse for folks with larger hands. Others get by unscathed. I've never been lucky in that regard and have never considered the Walther a particularly "comfortable" pistol to hold, much less, shoot. This is subjective and others will disagree.

Though some examples of the Walther PP are extremely nice, it is not my first choice for a "carry .380". I much prefer the Bersa Thunder. I do not believe it to be as robust as the Walther, but it is very easy to shoot well and the sights are "on". It also has a very usable DA trigger pull. My choice is not necessarily yours. If you prefer the Walther, go for it. Unless it just has to be the smallest Walther, I'd opt for the PP with its extra shot and longer barrel.

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