BADASS New Gun Hits the Market: Like Having an AK-47 in your Pocket!

Who Wouldn’t Want to Carry the Firepower of an AK-47 or an AR-15 in Your Pocket?

Recently, Heizer Defense has introduced two innovative Hand Cannons: The PAK-1 in 7.62x39mm and the PAR-1 in .223 cal/5.56mm. Yes, that’s right. The PAK-1 is designed to fire rounds most commonly associated with the AK-47 series of rifles. Similarly, the PAR-1 is designed to fire rounds designed for AR-15s and M4 Carbines. How cool is that?

The PAK-1 and PAR-1 are single shot, break action pistols. The fire one round of 7.62x39mm or 5.56mm, respectively, and then must be reloaded. This type of pistol is not necessarily innovative, but these Heizer pistols are unique. The first and most obvious innovation is the ability to fire a rifle caliber round from a pistol. The second innovation is that these pistols are small enough to fit in your pocket. These pistols are super-thin, coming in at a mere 0.7 inches wide. They do have a steel frame and are a bit heavy for a pistol of this size, but that is to be expected for something for a weapon designed to fire rifle cartridges.

With only one round before reload, these are clearly designed to be a back up gun, or perhaps even the back up to the back up. They are easily concealable, and easily carried your pants pocket. These Hand Cannons could serve as your last ditch effort of self-defense.

GunsAmerica recently reviewed this pocket pistol, saying:

The GunsAmerica review indicated something that I did not expect: The PAR-1 in .223/5.56 had a recoil in line with a small .380 ACP handgun. It was easy and fun to shoot!

The PAK-1, however, was not exactly a fun gun for the range:

In tests, the pistols were reasonably accurate at 15 yards or less. Remember, this is despite having only about an inch and a half of good rifling before the round exits the barrel.

One concerning thing about the test was that the PAK-1 had problems with 7.62x39mm ammunition that has very hard primers. The firing pin on the PAK-1 significantly dented the primers, but they failed to fire. Now, there are lots of pistols that have difficulties with certain brands. You need to make sure that your concealed carry pistol feeds and fires the ammunition you carry. Still, AK ammo fails to fire?

However, by far the biggest drawback in the test was the performance of those rifle rounds in these Heizer pistols. The GunsAmerica test showed that the hitting power, in terms of foot pounds of energy, was nothing like an AK-47 or an AR-15. Here are these most important test results and comparisons:

So, let me summarize what this means. A small 9mm concealed carry pistol with a 3″ barrel can provide almost twice the amount of foot-pounds of energy as the PAR-1 and significantly more than the PAK-1. A .45 ACP concealed carry pistol with a 3″ barrel (like my Kahr CM-45 ) crushes these “Hand Cannons” even worse. Think about this: A .380 ACP pistol like a Kel-Tec P3AT beats the PAR-1 in terms of foot-pounds of energy (but falls slightly short of the PAK-1). Let these stats sink in for a moment. A .380 ACP concealed carry pistol beats the PAR-1, and 9mm or greater beats both of them.

While firing an “assault rifle” round in a pocket pistol is very cool and innovative, their performance indicates that there are plenty of better choices even for last ditch self defense.

H/T [ GunsAmerica]

How A Nigerian Banker Was Allegedly Killed By His Colleague After Baiting Him To Crime Scene With Dinner Invitation

The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,and desperately wicked.”

This Bible verse readily comes to mind when you read about the circumstances surrounding the death of Nigerian-born Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank in Liberia, Mr. Daniel Orogun who was allegedly murdered in cold blood by an associate who invited him and his family to dinner on January 24, 2016.

It was learned that contrary to information received after the incident that Mr Daniel Orogun was celebrating his an anniversary on a boat cruise, investigations, according to close family sources, revealed that a client of the deceased invited him to his seaside mansion where the unfortunate incident occurred.

Dinner at the seaside:

According to reports, the client has been inviting the deceased and his family to his seaside mansion home for dinner but he could not honour it. However, it was gathered that in November last year when the banker wanted to honour one of such invitations, he failed again after he accidentally injured his thumb on his car door while preparing to honour it.

Elder brother opens up:

Elder brother to the deceased banker, Felix Orogun who spoke with Crime Alert narrated how the ugly incident took place. He said he led a Late Mr. Daniel Orogun family delegation to Liberia after receiving the sad news of the death of their brother. His words: “His wife, Isioma told us that on that fateful day, after church services that Sunday, my brother Daniel was having a haircut at home when he received a phone call from a customer reminding him of a dinner invitation. Reluctantly, he, alongside his wife and children, decided to honour the invitation after the client called three more times.

Before he left the house, he took a bottle of wine and some soft drinks. Being a football fan, he was said to have called his client to inform him of developments in the Chelsea and Arsenal match.”

Narration by deceased’s wife:

According to his wife, “On getting to the house of the host, he offered us drink but Dan went into his vehicle and brought a bottle of the drink he brought from home. After a while, his host said we should all go for a boat ride and return for dinner. He took us to the boat, not knowing that there was no life jacket. We were eight in the boat — my husband and I, our three children, our host, Mr. Kailondo and two others. Experienced divers A diver named Michael was also following us on a Jet Skii, while our host was in charge of the helm. Before we set out on the calm river, I asked for safety procedure and life jacket, but was shocked when our host said there were no life jackets but we were assured that there was no problem and that experienced divers were with us. It was too late for any of us to get out of the boat because as soon as I raised the question about life jacket, our host, Mr Kailondo quickly moved the boat from its moorings.

 “While we were inside, Michael the diver was displaying some acrobatic as he followed the boat with the jet skii, two other divers were seated at the nose of the boat. When we got to a point, our host suggested that we should ride into the high sea. Dan and I rejected the idea. We then stopped, relaxed and were chatting while Dan was responding to news on the football game going on through his phone. Music was going on in the boat. Dan was at the back seat.

Our host took a bottle of whisky, emptied part of it into Dan’s cup, luckily he saw it and challenged him by asking whether he has forgotten that the cup was his. I made sure he did not drink from the cup again.

New twist:

 “While everyone was relaxed, our host was watching my husband and dancing at the same time. All of a sudden and unexpectedly, he started the engine with very high speed and made an almost 360 degrees anti-clock wise turn with the boat. While the children and I fell inside the boat as we lost balance, my husband fell off the boat into the river. Michael, the diver that was following the boat on jet Skil was suddenly no longer in sight. Surprisingly, the young men that were sitting on the nose of the boat did not fall inside the river, which shows they were expecting such a move. Instead of our host to stop, he rode away for a few minutes while the children and I were screaming for him to go and get their father.

He reluctantly turned the boat to go and meet him, and he put-off the engine midway.

Struggle for safety:

 “In the meantime, my husband was swimming towards the boat, while I was fighting hard to prevent the children from jumping into the river because they wanted to go and rescue their father. I cried and pleaded with our host to go and assist my husband while the children were crying. I also pleaded with the two young men who were sitting on the nose of the boat to throw the rescue rope to my husband but they refused and suddenly claimed that they could not swim though our host introduced them at the onsets as divers.

All this while, Michael the diver who was following the boat was nowhere to be found. I had to start calling for help with my phone when I saw the way things were going, I called for help from outside.

Belated last minute efforts:

 “Reluctantly, our host removed his shirt, jumped into the river, swam and met my husband who was already swimming towards the boat, held him back to prevent him from swimming towards the boat by clipping his hands to his body. The next thing was that he sank into the water with him, stayed under the water for some time and came out of the water from another side without my husband.”

 The distraught family members of the deceased further alleged that when questioned after the lifeless body of the banker was found three days later at the scene of the incident, their host simply attributed it to witchcraft.

Doubts over role of Liberian security: Lamenting the manner the case is being handled by Liberian security operatives, the family spokesperson said; “These criminals and murderers ought to have been taken into custody instead of allowing them to roam the streets of Monrovia with impunity.” He also appealed to Liberian Director of National Police, Mr Clarence Chris Massquol, who is alleged to be an in-law to the man that hosted the bereaved family, George Kailondo and the main suspect, not to allow marital ties to succumb to the pressure that this relationship will exert upon his office.

Source: Vanguard

Twins With Different Fathers Found In Vietnam

Scientists in Vietnam have confirmed a case of bi-paternal twins, or twins who have different fathers..

A Vietnamese couple recently brought their fraternal twins to the Center for Genetic Analysis and Technologies, in the country's capital of Hanoi, to have DNA tests, after pressure from extended family members who noticed the children did not look alike, said Le Dinh Luong, president of the Genetic Association of Vietnam.

The tests showed there was no mix-up in the hospital: The twins have the same mother, but different fathers.

Luong said the family was surprised by the revelation, and looking for the best way to deal with the situation.

He declined to give more details, because of a confidentiality agreement with the parents.

VNS, Vietnam's state-run news agency, reported the family is from northern Hoa Binh province and the children are 2 years old. One sibling has thick and wavy hair, while the other has thin and straight hair, VNS said.

Twins who have different fathers are extremely rare, Luong said, adding this is the first case in Vietnam that he knows of.

Another case was reported in the United States last year, when a court ordered a man from New Jersey to pay child support for one girl in a set of twins, after genetic tests showed he was not the father of the other.

A woman's egg has a life span of 12 to 48 hours, and a sperm is viable for seven to 10 days, so there's about a week's time for potential overlap and the fertilization of two eggs by two sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse, Dr. Keith Eddleman, director of obstetrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York told CNN last year.

CNN reports.

Photo: Iranian billionaire Babak Zanjani sentenced to death over $2.8 billion fraud

Following a long trial in which he was accused of fraudulently pocketing $2.8 billion, Iran's billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death, a judicial official said today March 6. The 41-year-old who is worth $13.5 billion and holds a Danish citizenship was convicted of fraud and economic crimes.

Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejeie said at the press conference that apart from the death sentence, Zanjani must repay money to the state.

Zanjani became notorious during the era of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, finding ways to channel hard currency from oil sales to Tehran despite financial sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic's banks as punishment for its nuclear programme.

The trial was held in public, a rarity for such a major case in Iran, and two other accused were also convicted of "corruption on earth", the most serious offence under the country's criminal code, meaning they too will face the death penalty.

"The preliminary court has sentenced these three defendants to be executed, as well as paying restitution to the plaintiff," Mohseni-Ejeie said, adding that that was the oil ministry.

They must also pay a "fine equal to one fourth of the money that was laundered", the spokesman said, without specifying the sum.

Zanjani, who can appeal, had denied any wrongdoing, insisting that the only reason the money had not been paid to the oil ministry was that sanctions had prevented a planned transfer from taking place.

However, the case follows repeated declarations from the current government of President Hassan Rouhani that corruption and the payment of illegal commissions thrived under Ahmadinejad's rule.

Zanjani had repeatedly said in media interviews that in return for commissions paid by Ahmadinejad's government he was tasked with circumventing sanctions to get money back to Iran.

Source: AFP

Security Agencies Trace Banana Island, Park-View Homes To Judges

Strong indications emerged at the weekend that security agencies probing alleged corruption in the nation’s judiciary have formally notified the leadership, through the National Judicial Council (NJC).

Names of judges with “questionable” cash balance in their bank accounts were also said to have been made available to the judiciary leadership.

A highly-placed judiciary source told Sunday Tribune that “administrative procedure of getting the affected judiciary personnel to explain their side of the story” might have been sanctioned.

In plain language, the judges were to be queried regarding “material acquisition that is suspected to be above their legitimate earnings.”

Despite being the highest paid civil servants in the country, many judges were thought to be living above their legitimate means, suspected to be proceeds of corruption.

In checking on the judges, expensive homes were said to have been traced to them at Banana Island and Park-View Estates in Lagos and Asokoro and Maitama in Abuja.

Sunday Tribune recalls that N2 billion cash was found in the account of a serving judge recently, with the judge explaining it as proceeds of his engagement in a family business.

The judge is still in service and a step away from leading a critical judicial platform.

Another judge had allegedly built an expensive home in a state in the Southern part of the country, with all the furniture and cutlery reportedly imported from abroad.

The judge currently sits on the bench of an appellate court.

Findings of security agencies probing alleged widespread corruption in the nation’s judiciary were reportedly brought to the attention of the judiciary leadership for better synergy.

Though the probing security agencies could invite the affected judges for questioning, SundayTribune learnt that the decision to make the probe very tidy led to the findings being brought to the attention of the judiciary leadership.

It was gathered that after explaining how they came about the questionable cash balance and expensive property, the judiciary leadership might refer the affected judges and their responses to the probing security agencies or deal with the issues internally.

A former Chief Justice of Nigeria was reportedly spear-heading the on-going efforts to clean-up the judiciary.

The former CJN was said to be advising a particular administrative body which in turn was churning out steps to follow, for the security agencies.

Panic was observed in the judiciary at the weekend as concerns about the on-going cleansing rose.

A judicial officer told Sunday Tribune that while the move to sanitise the system was commendable, any form of ambush should be condemned because it could take away the confidence of judicial officers in the discharge of their duties.

The judicial officer frowned on the decision of investigative bodies to be obtaining bank details of judicial officers without their knowledge in any way, especially when their financial activities had nothing to do with cases before them.

Sunday Tribune was informed by a security source on Saturday evening that regardless of any synergy, judges could be invited for questioning whenever such was deemed necessary.

“Why not when it is time?” was the source’s response when asked if indicted judges would still have to face investigative bodies after the judicial administrative procedure.

A judge of the High Court reportedly earns about N600,000 monthly with allowances of about N300,000, taking their take-home to a little less than N1 million.

A source, however insisted that “no judge could build a house of N2 billion with such salary without engaging in illicit transactions.”

Judiciary insiders were also said to be squealing over alleged illicit activities of senior members of the bench to security operatives.

One of them said the whistle-blowing activities were geared towards getting it right for the nation, adding that “a lot of things would take shape in this country if we get our justice system right by flushing out corrupt judges.”

Sunday Tribune also reliably learnt that the succession-by-seniority arrangement for the position of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) might end with the incumbent Justice Mahmud Mohammed.

Currently, Justice Walter Onnoghen is the most senior justice of the apex court, expected to succeed Mahmud later this year, but the thinking in government circle appears to favour the injection of an entirely new blood into the system.

Sunday Tribune was told that two senior advocates of Nigeria had been contacted by those entrusted with the search, with both reportedly turning down the offer.

A senior lawyer, is reportedly heavily favoured to land the job.

Ex-governor Under Watch in UAE Over Alleged $517m loot

The authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are keeping intense watch over a former Nigerian governor who is believed to have stashed a $517million loot in the Middle East country.

The UAE action has helped in thwarting a recent move by the suspect to move the looted funds to the Dominican Republic, The Nation gathered authoritatively last night.

Also under security watch in the UAE are the accounts and other transactions of some Nigerian VIPs who have turned the country into a safety net for their loots.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign and Domestic Debts, Mallam Shehu Sani said yesterday that as much as $200 billion of stolen funds from Nigeria may have been hidden in the UAE by past public officers and their agents/fronts.

Nigerian and UAE security agencies are collaborating in monitoring the activities of many Nigerians, especially those categorized as “Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), investigation revealed yesterday.

A major dividend of the collaboration is intelligence report on the former governor, who is suspected to have stashed $517million in UAE.

A source familiar with the development said the former governor is “under the watch-list of the UAE and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).”

“He (former governor) has been worried in the last few weeks but the law will catch up with him.

“The ex-governor made botched attempts to transfer about $517million loot to the Dominican Republic because UAE law is now strict.

“The affected ex-governor is lying low and avoiding that country in order not to suffer the James Ibori fate.”

On the accounts of some Nigerian VIPs said to be also under surveillance in the UAE, a security source said: “following the recent signing of the Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement between the two countries, the accounts, transactions and investments of some Nigerians have been under surveillance.

“This is based on the sharing of intelligence between Nigeria and UAE. In fact, some of those being watched have reduced their frequent trips to the Emirates.

“Actually any highly-placed Nigerian arrested for money laundering in UAE risks a 10 -year imprisonment.”

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign and Domestic Debts, Senator Shehu Sani said yesterday in Abuja that over $200 billion stolen from Nigeria may be have been hidden in the UAE.

He said: “Over $200 billion are stashed away in Dubai alone. This may be the monies stolen in the last 20 years. I am not talking about estates and bonds and other securities bought with Nigeria’s stolen money.”

President Muhammadu Buhari in January signed a Judicial Agreement on Extradition, Transfer of Sentenced Persons, Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal Matters, and Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal and Commercial Matters, which includes the recovery and repatriation of stolen wealth with the UAE.

The anti-money laundering policy of UAE Central Bank reads in part: “Any person who commits, or attempts to commit, a Money Laundering offence shall be punished by imprisonment of up to 10 years and or a fine of between AED 100,000 and AED 500,000.

“In cases of multiple perpetrators, the Court subject to its discretion, may exempt a perpetrator from the imprisonment penalty if he takes the initiative and reports the crime to the competent authorities prior to the knowledge of such authorities and if his actions lead to the arrest of the other perpetrators or seizure of the laundered money.

“Any establishment that commits an offence of money laundering, financing of terrorism or financing of any unlawful organizations, shall be punished by a fine of AED 300,000 and AED 1,000,000.

“Failure to report a suspicious transaction shall be punishable by imprisonment and /or a fine of between AED 50,000 and AED 300,000.

“Tipping off a person being investigated regarding a suspicious transaction shall be punishable by imprisonment of up to one year and/ or a fine of between AED10,000 and AED 100,000.

“Violation of the requirements of Airport Declarations shall be punishable by imprisonment and or a fine.

The nation reportage

Bullion van’s escort shoots at Falae

A former Presidential candidate of the defunct All Peoples Party, Chief Olu Falae, on Tuesday escaped death when one of the policemen escorting a bullion van opened fire on the vehicle conveying the politician.

Our correspondent gathered that the incident happened at Ile Oluji Junction on the expressway while Falae was traveling to Ile-Ife for a visit of the Afenifere leaders with the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi.

Sources at Ife palace told our correspondent that Falae who is the National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, briefed some persons at Ile-Ife about the incident before the meeting with the Ooni.

“I was coming from Akure approaching Ilesa. I saw some vehicles ahead of me. There was a bullion van in front, the vehicles ahead of us were overtaking the bullion van and we followed too.

“I barely overtook them when I heard a shot and a bang on my car. We stopped and we saw that they had fired at our car.

“They didn’t stop. We stopped at Erin-Ijesa and complained to the police at the check-point that we were fired at by some policemen attached to a bullion van at Ile-Oluji juction,” Falae was quoted to have said.

Efforts to speak directly to Falae were unsuccessful as calls put to his telephone did not connect.

However, a leader of the Afenifere in Osun State, Mr. Niyi Owolade, confirmed the shooting to our correspondent on the telephone.

Owolade said he spoke to Falae directly and he told him that a policeman attached to a bullion ban shot at his car while coming to Ife.

He said, “I just spoke to him and he confirmed it. He said his car was shot at by a bullion van’s escort.

“Chief said he would take it up because such thing should not be allowed.”

The personal assistant to Falae, Capt, Moshood Raji, also confirmed the incident to our correspondent in Akure on the telephone.

Source: The Punch