<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Buttle&#039;s World]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[clgood]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com/author/buttle/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[A Free Market Response to&nbsp;Piracy]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>From Russia, <a href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3374702.html?menu=news.quirkies" target="_blank">with love</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Wealthy punters pay £3,500 per day to patrol the most dangerous waters in the world hoping to be attacked by raiders.</p>
<p>When attacked, they retaliate with grenade launchers, machine guns and rocket launchers, reports Austrian business paper Wirtschaftsblatt.</p>
<p>Passengers, who can pay an extra £5 a day for an AK-47 machine gun and £7 for 100 rounds of ammo, are also protected by a squad of ex special forces troops.</p></blockquote>
<p>Wait &#8212; That&#8217;s about $12.50 US for 100 rounds? Twelve and a half cents per round? That&#8217;s less than half of what you&#8217;d pay here in the US for the ammo <em>if you could find any</em>. You could take the cruise, conserve your ammo, and pay for the trip by selling your surplus stateside!</p>
<p>In case you weren&#8217;t aware, ammo is scarce in the U.S. ever since some anti-gun moron got elected president. I waited too long to try to stock up, and now I can&#8217;t find <em>any</em>.</p>
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