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.
Like many gunshows, Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show requires all firearms to be unloaded and cleared for safety. Because only trained professionals can handle firearms without shooting each other! As we began to watch this, we were expecting the guy in the shorts to ND, because, after all, he was the show attendee, and the security …
Holy latitudes, Batman, it’s sunshiny and sixty-something out there. T-shirt weather, and Small Dog has just met his local dog friends on the dog walk. One wonders if they see us shaking hands and think, “Shaking paws is how humans sniff ass, I guess. Gross.” The Philadelphia Story, 2017 Neighbor’s daughter is student teaching in Philadelphia, out …
Philip (l) and Simmons (r). Or maybe it’s the other way around. It’s hard to imagine a place where guns are more outlawed than they are here — a prison warehousing, inter alia, the worst of the worst in South Carolina’s prisons. Yet somehow, these two guys, already doing an overly-generous life sentence for one adult and …
Again, we find ourselves throwing together this week’s Tour d’Horizon on Friday night. We hate that. It makes us late, and you hate that. So much hate. As the Patron Saint of this blog, Rodney King, says, “Can’t we all just get along?” Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. How Much Does the Blackhawk! …
In New Jersey, guns are outlawed sufficiently that cops run out of state license plates and make pretextual stops on any traveler who comes up with an LTC from his home state. But those same cops can’t be bothered to get control of the gangs in Newark and Camden. Yet, despite the focus on gun-owning transients, …
That’s why he went by P.O. all his life. Anybody claiming to be his friend and talking about, “Parker and I…” immediately made an ass of himself to Ackley’s real friends, who were many, and influential in the small world of American firearms. This is just one of the fascinating details we’ve learned from P.O. Ackley: …
A Delaware woman proved once again that you don’t need a gun to whack somebody. All she needed was her husband’s own drug habit — injecting anabolic steroids — and common antifreeze. (Some assembly required). Jamie L. Baker was sentenced Thursday morning in front of nearly 50 of her husband’s family members and friends in …
Having forgotten many Naval heroes and distinguished ships of the past, the Navy named a Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, DDG 117, after an obscure political horse-holder for various Democrats, including LBJ, Saturday. The ceremony took place at one of the yards that builds these ships, Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The future USS Paul Ignatius is named in honor …
He was a child of wealth and privilege, outraged at the idea that he might be drafted like the proles, and determined to lash out at the government and nation he hated: his own, the USA. And lash out he did, writing a book with the idea that it would equip revolutionaries and criminals with knowledge to …
TLAM launch from USS Ross DDG-71. There are no lights on deck; that illumination is all from the rocket booster. As we write these words, the US responded to a Syrian escalation in the Syrian Civil War with a series of cruise missile strikes on a single Syrian air base. Here is what we know: …