Kevin O’Brien Last March the Administration took one of its promised “under-the-radar” gun-control positions, by revoking previously granted permits to reimport obsolete, but historic, M1 rifles and carbines from Korea. The weapons, 800,000 to 1,000,000 of them, were used in the 2nd World War and Korean War. They had been retained by Korea as reserve stocks, but …
So, when the SEALs are squaring off against the cops, we can’t help but think of last summer’s popcorn movie, Cowboys vs. Aliens. We guess Hollywood doesn’t have any choice if they want to make a cowboy movie, because fighting Indians isn’t PC any more. But how do SEALs wind up fighting cops? You might …
A couple of days ago, we addressed the question: what was the first detachable box magazine? Since then, another approach occurred to us, when trying to confirm Borchardt’s primacy. And it led us to something we’d only hinted at before. Looking at the word PATENT engraved on the side of a Borchardt magazine, what about …
Which refers not to the hooker-with-the-heart-of-gold film with Melina Mercouri, nor or the bouzouki-and-ouzo driven theme song that became the token Greek staple in Muzak, but to the fact that WeaponsMan.com takes the day off. (Actually, it looks like snow shoveling is in the near future here). However, what you can do is ask questions …
10 highest days in the 24 years of NICS. 3 of them this month… so far. OK, it was more like a brownout, but we’re always suckers for alliteration and parallelism around here. Inevitable result of combining an expensive education and cheap thrills. In any event, sellers everywhere are complaining that last week’s top sales …
Here we go again. There are more ways to shoot yourself or someone else than the Russian roulette idjits we’ve already discussed. There are also right ways and wrong ways to shoot skells invading your home. Do it wrong, and the legal system that was so lenient towards them will land on you with both …
Well, the Army tried to copy the Marines’ promised women-in-Infantry initiative (which has flopped badly in the Corps), now the Marines repay the plagiarism by boosting the Army’s rifle magazine ban, although they have reasons of their own. There’s a lot of second-hand second-hand stuff on the gun blogs on this message from yesterday, so …
The patient was on the stretcher. The computerized axial tomography machine was ready. And then the advanced medical imaging technology went to work. But it wasn’t imaging a human, or even a veterinary, patient. It was imaging a clone of an HK 23E, a 5.56mm machine gun similar to the 7.62mm HK 21 that …
…who turns out to be another numbskull. That’s the story told by this dry legal opinion, rehosted at NSSF. Short version of the story: Regis Ellis and his friend Williams were at a range, fooling around with Williams’s handgun, a Hi-Point C9. At some point, Regis shot himself in the hand. It’s hard to establish …
These are the recovered Smiths. 80-odd more remain at large. According to the BJS, about 232,400 guns are stolen every year and 80% of them are never recovered. Springfield, Massachusetts, was once one of the gun-making capitals of the world. The Connecticut River town hosted dozens of gun companies, and a major national arsenal, but …