Like your guns? Don't buy Chinese ammo!

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Funny I was doing a google images search on the word "blackjack the weapon" and stumbled across this. Happens to be at prisonplanet, a place I never go.

(my son made a homemade blackjack, putting some rather dull, firm items in a sock, and he started hitting me with it. It was surprisingly painful. I remembered that type of weapon and couldn't remember if it was called a "blackjack" or not, but sure enough, he basically made a homemade blackjack! )

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On second thought, this MUST be fake. There's no residue or anything actually exploding, and the bullet is completely undamaged. Another "magic bullet".

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http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=190009.0
Funny I was doing a google images search on the word "blackjack the weapon"...

Did you see the Telegraph's bizarre "Operation Blackjack" slideshow on your travels? I was looking at it again recently, and yeah... it's still weird. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/cult ... kjack.html

Surely people will have no choice but to buy Chinese ammo soon. Doesn't all the domestic stuff sell out whenever the Democrats take office?

U.S. sees shortage of ammunition

It was already a political truism that Democrats prompt sales of both guns and ammo. The U.S. government taxes both to support wildlife conservation, and those receipts jumped after Bill Clinton was elected in 1992 and after Democrats retook Congress in 2006.

But the spike under Obama seems to be on a different scale: The receipts are on pace to set a record in 2009, according to Treasury Department data, with tax revenue due from guns up 42 percent and revenue due from ammunition at 49 percent. Recently, analysts have said earnings reports from gunmakers seem to show demand for weapons slackening.

The increase in gun buying during the past year explains a large part of the increase in ammunition sales to the private market, experts on the industry say -- but probably not all of it.

They say that bullets were bought not just by new gun owners but also by those who already owned weapons. And they say bullet sales might have increased even faster if supply had kept up with demand.