Damian and Deanne Fernandez were at home on an uneventful day in their northwest Miami-Dade County home, with their parents at work, when two men decided to break into their home. After the men went to the mother's room and grabbed several pieces of jewelry, they went to Damian's room to grab what they were truly after - a PlayStation 3.
Damian (13), a brown belt in Karate, was apparently more prepared than the burglar.

"Once I saw him take off running back, I jumped off my (bunk) bed and I grabbed my sword… and I just waited for him," he said.

After supposedly striking him in the chest with the sword the burglar "freaked out," according to Damian. Damian proceeded to chase him down the street with his samurai sword until the police arrived. A K-9 officer found the burglar located behind a neighbor's palm tree, while the second burglar got away.

Javier Cotera, 21, was arrested and is now due to appear in court next week facing three felony charges.

Here is why I bothered bringing this up.

The kid threatened the guy with deadly force, then chased him down the street.  Unless the laws in Florida are a lot different then here, that kid should be in a lot of trouble.  It says he struck him in the chest with it, which means we are talking about assault with a deadly weapon.

Don't get me wrong, the kid is obviously brave and I give him props for his reaction (the fact that he was able to react, not necessarily what he did).  But, there is no mention of the burglars being armed which means that would not have been a justified use of force.  Maybe they are cutting him slack because he is a minor (how is that normally handled?), but I haven't seen an mention of charges against him.  Whats the deal?  Am I just reading the story wrong or what?

Squirrel goes on rampage, injures 3

BERLIN (Reuters) - An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.

The squirrel first ran into a house in the southern town of Passau, leapt from behind on a 70-year-old woman, and sank its teeth into her hand, a local police spokesman said Thursday.

With the squirrel still hanging from her hand, the woman ran onto the street in panic, where she managed to shake it off.

The animal then entered a building site and jumped on a construction worker, injuring him on the hand and arm, before he managed to fight it off with a measuring pole.

"After that, the squirrel went into the 72-year-old man's garden and massively attacked him on the arms, hand and thigh," the spokesman said. "Then he killed it with his crutch."

The spokesman said experts thought the attack may have been linked to the mating season or because the squirrel was ill.

And here you thought this only happened in the movies.

Well the rumors of these have been floating around for a while but Airsoft GI has them instock.

http://www.airsoftgi.com/images/imagecache/180x129_escortm60vn.jpg
http://www.airsoftgi.com/new_products.php

Escort M60 (E3, E4, VN, and MK43)

These are Inokatsu M60's with Escort gas systems.  The downside?

Starting at $1,700 depending on model.  Not bad a bad price considering the alternatives, but still pricey.

Finally, some reasonably prices M60's.

Star M60E4 - $500
Star Mk. 43 Mod 0 - $520

http://uncompany.com/pageproduct.asp?subcatid=360

Metal + Nylon construction, in other words, standard Star quality.  Not near as heavy as Ino M60's, but a little heavier than your normal AEG.

Do it. Do it NOW.

Anybody know a place to get a set of stripped receivers (both upper and lower) for preferably an AR-10, but at this point I am looking for any .308 AR based gun.  I can find uppers no problem, but stripped lowers are a different story.

This is for a project I am going to start in the next couple of months.

You know who you are and this is for you.

I am pondering getting a Beta C-Mag for my AR just for giggles, but I have heard some people question the reliability of the C-Mags.  Does anybody here have a Beta C-Mag for their AR?  If so, what have you thought of it?

So, I was test firing the M700 AICS (pre-ban) in a friends back yard to tweak the hop-up and chrono it before I upgrade.  We found a couple oddities.  We think part of it at least was the can of green gas.  The can sucked.  It was not filling the mag well.

1) Gun chrono'd higher with .29's then .20's.  The gun was chronoing inconsistant and low to begin with, but it was chronoing higher with SGM's then .20 AE's.  390fps - 470fps with SGM's, 350fps - 415fps with .20 AE's.  This was with the PCS bolt at about 70% open.  While the range varied a lot, and was lower than it should have been, the SGM's always chrono'd higher.  Why is this?  Not enough back pressure with the .20's because they are too light?  I assume the higher quality of the SGM's would provide better accuracy and consistancy, but not magically provide velocity as well.

2) How fast do SGM's de-accellerate?  I ask because the gun chrono'd at 430fps, but there was a appx 2 second delay between firing and hitting a target at 220 feet.  The impact sound still seemed like it was hitting pretty hard, but how could there be that long of delay?

3) Adjusting the PCS valve between 50% - 100% seemed to have little or no effect on velocity.

Could these issues all be caused by sucky green gas, or is there something else going on here that I am not aware of?  Can a chrono be (consistantly) wrong?