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.
This week’s Tour d’Horizon may actually publish on time. That’s kind of a big deal, as last week’s was finally published today (minus a few categories). You can read last week’s TDH at this link. (Link fixed, thanks to Brian Jaynes for the heads up -Ed.) Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. Build …
USS John F. Kennedy,CVN 79, starts to take shape. Almost two years construction up to this point. What’s the difference between an admiral and a drunken sailor? Answer’s at the end. Ships are big. And, to steal a word from the President’s Twitter stream, building more ships is going to cost us… “bigly.” $80 to …
In accordance with longstanding European gunmaker custom, CZ ships a test target with its pistols. These seem ridiculously simple, but there are enough people asking about them in online forums that we thought we’d explain them. We usually have a few CZs with boxes and paperwork around the house… Don’t get too excited, they’re not …
Bear with us as we talk about two disparate things — screwing up and hand tools. They both go tool in hand, er, hand in hand. And it all started in the workshop today. We have the center section of the airplane starting to come together on a temporary table (horses and MDF) down in …
We have found good information and argumentation on the CounterJihad.com site and its related YouTube channel. It had gone radio-silent after the election, and may be an Israeli-sponsored propaganda effort aimed at the election; despite that, it was generally right about the problems the USA has been having identifying with and targeting an enemy that has …
There’s an interesting if disjointed (and sometime wrongly-captioned) photo essay on armored cars at this link: [W]e take a look at the many different types of armoured cars that have appeared over the last one hundred years. via Dark Roasted Blend: Impressive Vintage Armoured Cars. The armored wheeled vehicles range from the First World War’s …
Our recent auction post reminds us that (1) we have to come up with some better way of flagging more interesting auctions and (2), and more to the point of this post, that there’s a lot of interest and misconceptions about the Czech-German AT rifle featured at one upcoming auction. First, this 2015 post here has some …
We’ve covered Jeff’s creative electrolytic barrel processes before, but here’s a new update from him, posted on 6 March 2017. In addition to the YouTube series — this is Jeff’s 24th update video — he’s been getting a lot of demand for assistance and even for Electro-Chemical Machining (ECM) kits. He’s set up a website at liberator12k.com …
We’re working on a long story on an epidemic of organized-crime gun theft. It’s amazing just how many thefts are happening, and how many of them are being done by professional criminals. ATF has scores (no exaggeration) of open store burglaries, some of them smash-and-grabs by very fast-moving teams. Their typical targets are pistols, first, …
Then-LTG Ron Lewis. Looks like he was a Master Aviator & combat vet before getting kicked upstairs. Why does the military leak so badly that trusting a secret to the Pentagon is like trying to cross the Atlantic in a colander? Well, we give you Ron Lewis (Brigadier General, Retired) who has been in receipt of …