Kevin O’Brien And so we bring you the sad story of former welterweight boxing “Kid Dugan,” whose real name was Francis H. Doran. You can see why he changed his name for the ring, back in those early 20th Century days when boxing was one of the largest spectator sports in the nation. And we’ll see how …
Sergeant Tom Smith, BART PD. End of Watch 21 Jan 2014. Riddle us this: someone shot a cop, everyone knows who did it, but no one is charged. What happened? His partner shot him. A BART police officer was fatally shot by a department colleague Tuesday afternoon during a probation check in the East Bay, …
If you’re like us, you’re looking forward to the new SEAL/ War on Terror movie, Act of Valor. John Hinderaker of PowerLine called our attention to this: … very fun video of Navy SEALS parachuting into a premiere of the movie Act of Valor. If you have ever wondered what it would look like to …
This is the time where we address various things that we’ve covered before, but have developed new information on; or that don’t rate a post on their own. A Nice Report on H&K/OSS MR556SD/MR762SD We covered it while SHOT was still going on (our man on the ground says, “Thanks heaps for dissing my photos, …
The three are three regimes of operations. Not all elements of an armed force can operate in all three. (Relatively few can, actually). Elements of national-level intelligence services cannot generally operate in all three regimes (some nations like Russia and Iran are exceptions, with intel agencies that also field armed forces of their own). The …
This week duty calls, and so while a menu of posts have been queued up, dynamic changes will be slow in coming. These include corrections and updates, email responses, and comment approvals (or rejections, for all you Nigerians who think we’re your free advertising medium). This entry was posted in Administrivia on February 27, 2012 …
First, the good news: Maryland’s anti-gun, and anti-growth, governor Martin O’Malley can congratulate himself for landing 300 good, high-paying design and manufacturing jobs. Now for the bad news: trouble is, he landed them in Tennessee. Beretta USA announced a new $45 million manufacturing and R&D facility for Gallatin, Tennessee. All of the jobs are in …
This is from a week or two ago, and we’ve been having trouble believing it, but it’s real (.pdf). He’s still on track to get executed, but Nidal Hasan wins: SecDef Hagel has caved on his beard, and on any other extremist Mohammedans, and on any other bizarre religious style, affectation or disfiguration. So Hasan has …
Welcome to the lastest installment in The Continuing Adventures of Bubba the Gunsmith ™. Please keep your hands, feet, and metal-cutting tools inside the ride at all times. OK. We understand that there was a time when a 1911 was just a gun, they were two-for-a-case-of-beer-and-you-can-owe-me-the-beer, and all that. Still, every once in a while …
This M1A is a civilian-legal clone of the M14, a rifle whose development was deeper than it looks at a glance. By the time we were on the ground and familiar enough with military weapons and the employment of same, the M14 Rifle was long obsolete. It persisted in some specialty uses: as …