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.
When Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Trash Bags Since 1980, Pedro Hernandez, now 56, has been confessing to the 25 May 1979 rape and strangulation/suffocation murder of a 6-year-old boy named Etan Patz. He’s confessed to throwing the child’s body away in a dumpster (the kid, the first ever to adorn a milk …
Thanks to everyone in the comments of the last post a couple of days ago. Here are some follow-up lessons learned from the wisdom of the commentariat, plus the evolution completed this week. How the airline handles firearms varies from airport to airport, as does how the TSA handles it. In FLL, TSA does not want to …
A JSOC raid in the Al-Qaeda stronghold of al-Baydah Province in Yemen this weekend ended in mission success — the targeted HVTs were killed — but at a heavy price, with one frogman from the unit commonly known as SEAL Team SIX being killed and three more suffering unspecified wounds. In addition, a damaged USMC MV-22 …
Please enjoy the following video, courtesy of the US Central Command. In which a splodydope-piloted VBIED gets returned to kit form at approximately 58,000 feet per second. You will need a heart of stone not to chortle with glee. The vehicle in question is a ISIL specialty, an armored-up truck or military vehicle converted to …
From Mark Miller we learn the following: According to Jane’s “The US Army has confirmed that its new XM17 handgun is to be a 9 mm Sig Sauer model P320 and the contract allows the government to buy Sig Sauer’s proposed XM1152 Full Metal Jacket (FMJ) and XM1153 Special Purpose (SP) ammunition and training rounds.” The …
This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it? It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help. Search for: Kevin O’BrienKevin was a former Special Forces weapons man (MOS 18B, before the 18 series, 11B with Skill Qualification Indicator of S). His focus was on weapons: their history, effects and employment. He started …
Well, with the first of these we made a lot of promises. The second and third were missed (we still hope to catch up on them, sometime) and this one, the fourth, goes up days late. But hey, it does go up. The Boring Statistics This week’s statistics were: Posts: 29 posts — one extra (Saturday’s Breaking: …
Just enjoying life in South Florida today, even though it’s raining. Small Dog MkII travels well, but he’s been hard to talk into going out in the rain to do his business. Learned a few things about flying with guns and dogs. Can’t write more, time. This entry was posted in Administrivia on January 29, …
We could use loaner guns when we travel, and sometimes it makes the most sense. At least it brings us into compliance with the First Law of Gunfights. But we have some very carefully crafted firearms and it is a comfort to have them in any locale, so we prefer to bring our own. It’s …
Lee Williams was delighted to find a manufacturer at SHOT whose products he knew well, but one that he’d thought was pining for the fjords: L.W. Seecamp, a maker of high-quality pocket pistols in .32 and .380. [T]he L.W. Seecamp Co. is back, and according to Christopher Garvey, their program manager, they’re increasing production. Chris …