Kevin O’Brien Glock 19 (file photo) As reported in the update to our 1400 post today, Danny has been freed. He actually won an expedited appeal of his sentence at the Court Martial Appeals Court in London, Britain’s equivalent of the US Court of Military Appeals. The judges reduced his sentence to a year, which allowed them …
Update: As God is our witness, we’re going to stop wrting about trials. Every time we start there’s a new twist and turn. The latest? The defense has changed pleas, admitting what we’ve known all along, that Bradley is a leaky traitor. The defense has pled out on about half the charges (the less serious …
So here we are, trying to install internet in the Weapons Bunker and Hog Manor. And you would think that would be rather straightforward: we have telephone lines, we’re close to the CO, the place is thoroughly wired for cable, we have the equipment, installer’s on site, a network engineer available for adult supervision… it …
It’s Wednesday, time for the Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week, and there’s a real beauty for you this week: ForgottenWeapons.com, which bills itself — fairly — as “Your destination for rare, exotic, and prototype firearms.” Since Cain picked up a rock and brained Abel (which is a bit speculative: the source is blank on the …
How does an urban legend get started? You know, like the six-foot-alligator living in a Manhattan sewer? Theoretically, with one liar, but they never seem able to track the motherless wretch down. Today’s urban legend is this (received in our email 1/20): While I was in a Denver gun store today, my car was tagged …
What? You didn’t know the Army has Springfields still? Well, it does… although most of them are on loan to veterans’ groups and ROTC detachments. The Army has, for years, been calling in the loans on these long-obsolete weapons. (The Springfield was made from the 1900s to the 1940s, using an 19th-Century action licensed from …
Remington Model 81, CSP It’s a documented Remington Model 81 Special Police Rifle, ex-Connecticut State Police, on the block at GunBroker. The sellers are asking a metric crapton of money for it, but it’s that rare a gun that they just might get it. The Model 81 was an outgrowth of John Browning’s Model 8, …
Detective John Roe started off as a police trainee and it took him two years — from 1968 to 1970 — to become a sworn police officer. Now, a mandatory retirement age (63, which he reaches October 31) will send him home, retired. His last day is October 26th, and he doesn’t quite know what …
We mean, really advanced. Not many collectors have a 75mm AT/multipurpose gun. Much less, mounted in an iconic and exotically rare armored vehicle with combat provenance. German Stug IV ( Sturmgeschütz IV ), WW2. in Military Vehicles | eBay Motors. There are a few problems with this wonder weapon. For one, they want a hell of a …
It took the advice of a more experienced blogger and two plug-ins, but looks like thousands of attempts to spam the comments are being defeated, and legit comments are being allowed. The good news is: less time filtering through hundreds of daily spams to find our actual commenters. The bad news: we’re missing the insincere …