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.
His last words were, “It is nothing.” But he was terribly wrong. Even as badly maintained and pitted as it is, this FN M1910 Browning in .380 ACP has the classic lines John M. Browning designed into it over a century ago. It’s still a not-bad choice for a backup or concealed carry pistol, although …
Why this post? Max Popenker kindly corrected our error with respect to the Suomi box magazine. Because the story of Suomi magazines is interesting, we thought we’d expand on it for the assembled multitudes, rather than just type a few corrective words in the original post. Drum Magazines In a comprehensive history of magazines on …
Somebody wanted these, and we do keep track of ’em, but in the past have only reported them when the month’s end falls close to our usual weekend posts. Previously, at the end of March, our totals were: Year to 31 March 2014: 245,087 1 January 2013 to 31 March 2014: 871,954 In Calendar April, 2014, …
The Department of Veterans Affairs is a mess. The Phoenix VA Medical Center is one of its messier entrails, where keeping one (false) waiting list for oversight while another (secret) list for actual use has been implicated in the deaths of as many as 40 neglected veterans. On April 9, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs ordered …
It gets worse and worse, or, to be strictly accurate, reporting about how bad it is continues to pile up. It appears that it was always this bad. ITEM: 27 May 14. Texas VA hospitals have systematically cooked the books to pad executive compensation; the facility is “run like an organized crime syndicate”; investigations have been phony …
Omar Khadr is, nominally, Canadian. The committed al-Qaeda terrorist would tell you, if he were not using his nominal Canadian nationality as a shield to escape consequences for his own criminality, that he’s really a citizen of the worldwide ummah and a global Caliphate that doesn’t exist yet. But it will as soon as he and his fellow …
Last week, the word that the President intended for the USA to support Syrian rebels openly — after years of dithering that have seen any pro-Western group decimated, and few but Islamist extremists remaining in the field against Bashar Assad — hit the media. Then, the President followed up by speaking at West Point and …
Watch out for the one with your name on it. If the guy who attacked a citizen and six police officers with a baseball bat takes one lesson away from the experience, that’s probably it: don’t bring a bat to a gunfight. But, since he “has a long history of violence and mental illness,” he’s …
Crap performance is not a novel thing to the VA, something new that came in with President Obama and former Secretary Shinseki. According to the Wall Street Journal in an article called The VA’s Bonus Culture (use the google backdoor through the paywall if you’re not a subscriber), the VA has blown off 18 previous reports …
10 Things about Murderers we Learned from “The First 48.” Unlike most TV cop shows, this one showcases real murders, and therefore, real murderers. Here are 10 things about murderers that you’ll never pick up if you watch scripted TV shows, but any homicide cop could have told you: Murderers are career criminals, usually. Criminals are generally pretty …