Kevin O’Brien This one’s been rusting in our queue since September, but the link is still good, and the poor guy is still dead. When we say “almost anything can kill a human being, and the only thing that keeps us alive is good fortune and the common decency of 99.repeating9% of humanity” we do indeed mean …
We discussed toggle-locking recently. This obsolescent technology was very strong in the early 20th Century; its most important deployed weapons were the German P.08 and other Luger pistols, and the Maxim machine guns. In the comments to that post, Max Popenker of the indispensable world.guns.ru noted a few examples of toggle locks we forgot. And …
OK, it’s a grainy shot, and it’s a rare gun; but there is absolutely, positively enough here to ID it. Answer in the comments. The first correct answer gets… bragging rights. If we aren’t getting answers we’ll extend some hints, from the arcane on. We’ll ID the weapon by day’s end (if not before) and …
Here’s another forgotten film that needs to be remembered, It Happened Here. It was made in the 1950s and 60s in England by two, essentially, kids, Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, as a labor of love. Black and white, their eight years’ effort runs about an hour and a half. You would never know it was …
The title of this post was the title of this article in the December, 1940 Popular Science magazine. “He” was John C. Garand, and the “world’s deadliest rifle” was, of course, what would turn out to be the best semi-auto of the Second World War, the U.S. Rifle .30 Caliber M1. The article opens by …
Australian F-111C in burner Once one of the most controversial aircraft to grace the sky, the last operational variant of the first variable-geometry warplane went out of business back at the start of this month, with the very last flying example being cut up to be shipped to a museum. The Royal Australian Air Force …
We’re belatedly putting up the post we thought we set up yesterday for Sunday morning. It’s out there somewhere…. This week, we start off with the inventor of the World’s Deadliest Rifle. (Well, that’s what the magazine headline says). We ave atque vale a great friend of the special operator, whose Mach 2.5 thunder rends the air …
People always are attracted to guns associated with history. Enough so, that when the historic gun is not available, people will replicate it. This gun, now available on GunBroker, is one of those replicas. We could say a lot more about it, but the description from the auction is actually pretty comprehensive: An exact copy …
Che Guevara has assumed ambient temperature Our opinion of the celebrated revolutionary and incompetent guerilla, which can honestly be described as snake’s-bearing-surface-low, has been reported in these pages before. We’re not sure if we’ve recounted our experiences with one of the strange deformities around the periphery of the weird and wonderful herd of cats that …
Terrence V. Hartley. Courtesy Portsmouth NH PD. He wasn’t content to beat a man with the pipe. He wasn’t even done when he beat a woman. He also had to tune up a dog. There’s wrong, and there’s vile, and this guy came across the Vile Gap, swingin’ a pipe. No word on whether the arresting officers gave him a …