An archive of Kevin O’Brien’s posts from the original WeaponsMan website he created in 2011.
Please excuse any typos and issues resulting from scraping the old site. Posts might be out of chronological order.
Category Archives: Administrivia Note to loyal readers: the usual 0600 gun tech or culture post will not be presented today, due to a veterinary emergency. We meant to clean up the post we had half-drafted this morning, but Small Dog Mk II is pain guarding and on closer inspection appears to have an extra joint …
Category Archives: Book and Film Reviews Don’t take the DVD cover seriously — there’s a love-and-despair subplot but it’s not a chick flick. Some of you may have seen this, but it’s pretty far off the beaten track. If you can live with subtitles (or if you understand Finnish, but what are the odds of that?) you …
This is a considerably smaller auction than those that are conducted by Rock Island Auctions and James D. Julia, but there are some absolutely fantastic and rare firearms being auctioned here this month. Auction Nº113 is a 2-day live auction sale, offering over 1700 lots beginning at 0900 on 25 and 26 March 17 (which are a Saturday …
Category Archives: Unconventional Weapons Why would we make a single dealer the Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week? Well, Horst Held is not just any dealer. Not when you take into consideration the historic significance and quality of the collector pieces Horst is selling. Even if some of them are priced in the nosebleed range, his collection is …
In 1967, the Army got the idea to study whether, how, and how effectively different units were using snipers in Vietnam. They restricted this study to Army units, and conventional units at that; if SF and SOG were sniping, they didn’t want to know (and, indeed, there’s little news either in the historical record or in conversations …
Then-PV2 Ron Westervelt, 12th SFG(A), in team live tissue training, March 1967. The Washington word for “galactically stupid idea” is bipartisan, and before us we have a bipartisan bill to undermine military medical training. This is because these two partisans who are apparently bi (NTTAWWT… oh, who are we kidding, everything is wrong with that, it’s just not any of …
Category Archives: Uncategorized Is it just us, or does the Republic of South Africa produce more than its fair share of weird homicides? In this case, a youth from a wealthy family killed ’em all, or tried (a kid sister survived), and then called the cops with a transparent story that Sumdood did it. Henri …
An LEO friend was knocked out recently to enter a chain restaurant and find this display: Yep, table set for a fallen officer. Thing is, that community hasn’t lost a cop lately. It is there as an expression of principle; the card on the table describes the service and sacrifice of murdered Deputy Darren Goforth, yet this …
Category Archives: Weapons of Tomorrow We’ve had a few interesting developments in home and small office firearms prototyping lately. The 3D Printing Revolution is Over, Part I In a way, the 3DP revolution is over. The revolutionaries won. Every firm in the industry that we have personal knowledge of, from the great (exchange-listed Ruger) to …
Category Archives: Weapons Technology Time for an update, eh? We’ve been seeing really creative AR lowers for a while now. A lot of the greatest ingenuity, like the FN-inspired creations above, come from the innovator who calls himself Shanrilivan and his creative entity WarFairy Arms. Watching his Twitter feed, or @FOSSCAD’s, is a good way …