Gift for the SF Gunslinger

These magazines are for sale on GunBroker. While actually in SF, we could never have used these operationally, as they’re a rollicking OPSEC violation as they sit there shining at you, but we think they’re hell for cool: Yep, SF crest (officially, “Distinctive Unit Insignia,” which yields an unfortunate acronym) engraved magazines. Back in the day, we …

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Travis Thursday! (Travis Mills Update)

A somewhat blurry still from Travis’s brief walking-lessons video. Go man go! We’re going to make Thursdays officially Travis Thursdays, and that we we don’t forget to bring you an update on the tough paratrooper who’s adapting to life without limbs — or without, shall we say, the factory equipment, because the physicians and technicians …

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Guns & Ammo Suppressor Magazine

Current Issue While the major gun initiative likely to come from the incoming Trump administration is national concealed carry reciprocity (“like a driver’s license,” according to the President-Elect himself), and restoration of the self-defense rights stripped from soldiers and dependents by executive-branch action (these are likely to be restored the same way), industry watchers consider a delisting …

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Inland’s Repop of the Ithaca M37 Trench Gun

It’s become fashionable to resuscitate the names of old gun manufacturers, when the original firms have left the gun market or are tuning up their harps in the Great Beyond of corporate afterlife… pining for the fjords, as it were. One of the latest is Inland, originally a division of General Motors that was pressed …

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Reader Request: Help ID’ing a Stripper Clip

We can’t add much to this, but one of you guys knows what reader Ralph F. has got. He has a 20-round stripper clip that he thinks it’s for one of these: And there’s some discussion of this pistol in the thread at Forgotten Weapons. But the folks in the comments there, as well as Ian himself, seem to …

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Ave atque Vale, Charlie Aycock

Charles Aycock was a man you never forgot. If you didn’t know him, it is our mission to, by the end of this short blog post, make you regret that you did not. He made that easy, He was a rare officer to have served in all components of Army SF — Active, Reserve, and …

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When Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Lenient Judges

Revolving-door justice is not a victimless crime. Andrew Depuydt, 65, and Suzanne Depuydt, 57, traveled eastbound on Highway 10 when the accident occurred. Ryan Smith, 34, traveled west on Highway 10, and according to the Missoulian, Smith crossed every lane of traffic before crashing head-on with the Depuydt’s vehicle.. Andrew and Suzanne Depuydt and Ryan …

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TSA Dumps Human Remains… Laughs

Just when you think you’ve seen the nadir of corruption, misconduct, and impunity from the TSA, and they can’t surprise you any more, they mark a new perigee of malfeasance. TV6 Indianapolis reports: John Gross, a resident of Indianapolis’ south side, was leaving Florida with the remains of his grandfather — Mario Mark Marcaletti, a …

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Go Ahead. Make My Day.

One last splash of empty-headed celebrity worship, then eternal silence from this failed human being. That would be a good thing. On second thought, use pills. We’re sure you have plenty. Guns don’t deserve the cloud of bad press that follows you. On third thought, isn’t she a felon? A few years back ATF busted …

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