Kevin O’Brien “Opportunities are available in all walks of life,” sang the Kinks, “in Australia” in their 1969 concept album Arthur. The song works a little better than that sounds; it was inspired by Ray Davies’s brother-in-law Arthur Anning, who did emigrate to Australia. And the Australians are keen on some emigrants today. Like, for instance, special …
At some time the title phrase must have crossed the mind, if not the lips, of a Secret Service slacker who did his or her business in the restroom on presidential candidate Mitt romney’s chartered Campaign jet -and departed, leaving his or her gun behind. The weapon, presumably left behind in the bathroom by accident, …
It’s not often that we pen a sentence like the headline (Pen? -Ed. Well, what are we going to say? “not often that we WordPress a sentence?” Get real! OK, go with “pen.” -Ed.). But we have to do just that in response to a decision by the producers and staff of CBS’s 60 minutes. When word of …
Take a minute in your busy day to have some sympathy for poor Jack Tobin. The newly elected president of the Special Forces Association, the major association of Green Beret veterans, is dealing with a lot of outraged old-timers that are seeing the following story or excerpts therefrom, and haven’t figured out that the Duffel Blog …
The kid’s only three, too young to be absorbing the lessons that could be learned from his school’s actions and reactions lately. He went to preschool, like most kids, not entirely sure what to expect. No matter how he’d been prepared, though, he wouldn’t have been ready for what he ran into from the Grand …
Remington is always in the news these days, whether because it’s teetering on the brink of leaving its Ilion, New York home where well over a century’s gun history has been made, or shipping new and highly-coveted products. At the NRA annual show this year, Remington showed a silencer-ready version of the R1 .45 Auto, …
Gene Thacker at Raeford DZ. Fayetteville Observer photo. Gene P. Thacker, an Army retiree who built the Raeford, NC, drop zone into a skydiving mecca from the 1960s on, passed away last Monday. He was 81 years old. The Fayetteville, NC Observer has more: Mr. Thacker, a skydiving legend who did almost 4,000 jumps, owned …
The NRA really wants to grow its membership — parrticularly its roster of life members. To do that, it’s offering one heck of a deal — through other Life members. As far as I know this deal is only available to US residents, but it might be open worldwide, and it can’t hurt to ask. …
Very well done ad for Glock featuring R. Lee Ermey, a couple other character actors you’ve seen here and there, and very high production values. Not to mention, a moral to the story. We’re not even big Glock fans. This entry was posted in Pistols and Revolvers on September 27, 2012 by Hognose. About Hognose …
Yesterday we had a rarity for you — one of the first few AR-15’s off Colt’s production line, probably in 1959. Today we have another piece of arms history, on the front lines of today’s insurgencies. An Associated Press stringer snapped the accompanying photo in Benghazi, Libya, of the bitterly comical sight of a Libyan …