Kevin O’Brien Orde Wingate — this sketch, from a contemporary photograph, is from this excellent site which discusses the Chindit controversies. Max Boot has a massive, but not ponderous, article on the early Special Operations genius Orde Wingate in the Weekly Standard today. Wingate, Boot writes, is forgotten today, except in Israel where his Christian-tinged Zionism made …
When you need the Feds to investigate this dodgy character… We got disturbing news about the rare Connecticut State Police Remington 81 that we wrote about yesterday. While the GunBroker auction that we linked to was legitimate, criminals took the pictures and description from that auction listing and listed the gun for a lower price …
We wish we could have good news about gun safety. But generally, if it’s news, it isn’t good, and if it’s good, it isn’t news. Alas. But human nature (and newsman nature) being what it is, on to the news. Beginning with police officers behaving badly: A police chief shot himself. Oh wait, it was …
In New York City, where no one has guns except for every criminal and Mayor Bloomberg’s schutzstaffel, the subway trains are emerging — thanks, in part, to the media’s relentless publicity — as the weapon of choice for homicidal maniacs. The current suspect, presently uncaught, is a short, fat Hispanic woman who was muttering to …
The worst of the writers on the worst website on defense matters is legendary Internet Tough Guy Spencer Ackerman, or as the SF community refers to him, Thpenther. It’s not that he can’t write coherently: he can (well, it isn’t really difficult, is it?) It’s that he’s a glaring example of Dunning-Kruger Syndrome every time …
By now, unless you were doing hard time or getting your chakras checked at Guru Pitka’s Los Angeles ashram, you’ve heard about the sanctimonious exit from the, er, sporting goods market by the national chain, Dick’s Sporting Goods. A week before Christmas, Dick’s announced it was suspending sales of modern sporting rifles in all stores, …
The empty ammo box… a familiar sight, as buyers have stripped the entire supply chain. If you’ve been trying to buy ammunition lately, you know what we mean. This chart, prepared by the blogger/FFL Traction Control, tells the whole sad tale. American ammo stocks are at 7% or lower, and rifles are in the 20% …
We are looking forward to New Year’s around here. There are many reasons, but one is that this blog opened on January 1st, 2012, so we’re completing a year of regular blogging, and getting ready to start a second. (This blog was a one-year experiment which we judge a success… mostly). We look forward to …
To Protect and Serve — is the intent of the police. But how soon can they protect and serve you? There are a number of reasons that you are mistaken to rely upon the police to protect your life and safety, and those of your loved ones. Those reasons include: The police are not as …
This auction was represented as a “pre-ban Romanian Underfolder” AK and ultimately sold for just under $1k. It wasn’t that at all.(In response to comments, the auction seller did make some adjustments before the hammer fell, but the “pre-ban” nomenclature stood. If somebody bought this in a ban state, he will either be committing a …