I ran across this recently: Remington HD ULTIMATE HOME DEFENSE LOADS They came out in 2010 but they’re new to me. Plus I haven’t been blogging much, so I bet I haven’t covered them.

Let’s see, we’ve got either BB or a mix of #2 and #4 bird shot, both in 1.25oz loads, pushing 1250fps. Awesome. That’ll produce some crushing recoil (by my standards) on the user end, and produce some devastating results on darned near anything on the business end. Well, except for things like ballistic gelatin or medium sized (human sized) mammals more than 10 yards away.

I’m sure it feels powerful, the recoil will be marvelous, and it looks powerful, but you’re going to be getting somewhere around 8″ penetration even with the “big” BB shot in this stuff. The FBI wants 12″ penetration of out of pistol rounds for a reason. That’s 12″ into bare gel. Once you add in things like clothing (which might include heavy leather jackets) or ribs, which do a decent job of keeping incoming objects away from important things, that 12″ (which would blow right through me) ends up being less than 12″ in the real world.

Just pick a something in the buck shot range that works for you. Bird shot is for birds. A 1oz BB load, on the other hand, might be pretty handy for woodchucks.

I’d imagine anybody online, and of the political nature, has run across the claim that Somalia is the Libertarian Paradise of the world. Well, no, it isn’t. The place is run by warlords, or religious groups, and what have you. It’s a mess. They don’t have a functional government, not even by Libertarian standards.

What got me thinking about this is I went though Ron Paul’s book End The Fed which got me to finally reading some stuff from Ludwig von Mises. Somewhere in the book he starts calling the Swiss monetary system “bad” (by our government’s standards, not his) because they have incredibly low inflation and that’s not what governments really want. So I went to digging around Wikipedia while I put my daughter to bed tonight on my phone.

Yep, the Swiss Franc was the last currency to get off the gold standard. Their inflation rate is something like 0.7% a year right now, and that’s after they dumped gold and threatened the EU with buying “unlimited” numbers of Euros to keep themselves tracking with their currency.

Now, I’m not a Big-L Libertarian, I’m a libertarian minded yahoo. There’s a difference. At a glance here’s Switzerland from my perspective:
- Low corporate tax rate
- Nearly every home has an assault rifle in it, with a good shooting culture to go along with all that
- Sound money policy (hardly any inflation)
- Mandatory health insurance

Works for me. Why aren’t we trying to mirror those folks?

Glock is replacing all of the recoil springs on their fourth generation guns.

About time. Glad to see them finally doing something about the problem.