This week’s Tour d’Horizon is where we dispose of a week’s worth of open tabs, or try to. It’s gun-light this week. Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. Kalashnikov to Open Shop… in Moscow Airport The shop at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport will offer Kalashnikov-branded souvenirs and chachkas… and even fake AKs. The Russian …
The typical estimate of the total number of firearms in the USA is about 300 million, depending on whom is queried. For example (some of these links are .pdf): Time, 14 Jun 2016: “270 to 310 million.” (What, Time still publishes? Who reads it?) NPR, 5 Jan 16: “more than 300 million guns.” Violence Policy Center (gun-ban …
This Tour d’Horizon collects a bunch of stuff off the spindle. This is where we throw a lot of our open tabs. Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. Slide Fire Solutions Bumps off Bump Fire Systems Some of the gun media are reporting this as a “settlement,” which it is, technically; …
This Tour d’Horizon is going up a bit late, and for that reason may be more telegraphic than usual. We regret the impertinence. This week’s installment includes: Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. Free Magazine, if you Kannst Deutsch The Deutsches Waffen Journal is a major German gun magazine, founded in …
Monthly Archives: August 2016 Anything can kill a person, even things intended to be life-saving. An elderly Pennsylvania woman found out the downside of hanging a medical alert gadget around your neck — the hard way. Roseann J. DiFrancesco was found dead in her bathroom on Feb. 15, according to the report from the Cumberland …
There is a lesson in this nameless tragedy: two men went out in a canoe, and only one came back, but this isn’t the close of Godfather II. The survivor, too, came back without the canoe. He and his father had been fishing on a Sunday morning (22 May 16), and they capsized their canoe. …
Category Archives: Poly-Ticks What is it like to live in a nation that grants citizens no rights, only such privileges as it feels like, until such time as it feels like revoking them? Kind of like being a German. The time comes when the authorities decide you’re not a Good German any more, and they …
Category Archives: Phonies and Assclowns With the motions phase of his trial not going well, Bowe Bergdahl — through his radical lawyers led by elderly Stalinist retread Eugene Fidell — has requested that his name be added to President Obama’s last great list of pardoned prestoopniki. The request for pardon shows, perhaps, that Bergdahl and his …
Category Archives: Administrivia Note to loyal readers: the usual 0600 gun tech or culture post will not be presented today, due to a veterinary emergency. We meant to clean up the post we had half-drafted this morning, but Small Dog Mk II is pain guarding and on closer inspection appears to have an extra joint …
Category Archives: Uncategorized Is it just us, or does the Republic of South Africa produce more than its fair share of weird homicides? In this case, a youth from a wealthy family killed ’em all, or tried (a kid sister survived), and then called the cops with a transparent story that Sumdood did it. Henri …
