Evie Hudak waddles off into the sunset… With internal polling showing her recall a certainty, Colorado’s embattled anti-gun extremist Evie Hudak resigned to keep the seat in the Democrats’ corner. With an open seat, her party (in the person of anti-gun Governor John Hickenlooper) gets to appoint another anti-gun Democrat to hold the seat until …
Matt at Jerking the Trigger has an interesting analysis of a Glock teaser: I went all CSI on the teaser photo and adjusted the brightness and contrast of the image (below). You can see that the entire outline of a pistol is visible and, if it is to scale with the Zippo lighter shown, it …
We wrote in one of our “when guns are outlawed” posts: Here is a thought about guns. About 3.5 million guns are manufactured every year, and about 10 billion rounds of fixed small arms ammunition. The anti-gunners say 30,000 “gun deaths” occur annually (a figure they get to by lumping murders, justifiable homicides by police, …
Let’s look at gun ownership in large and ill-run jurisdictions. The Washington Times’s Emily Miller describes the latest brainstorm from the City of Crackheads and Congressmen, and a police force that wants to know where every law-abiding citizen’s gun is, but which makes scant efforts to disarm violent felons, and is too inept (or too …
The US Army hadn’t ever adopted a gun from Belgium until the M249 SAW (which is now made in the USA, but was always a Belgian design). The US has a reputation for not accepting foreign weapons, but historically that’s not entirely true. The first muskets owed a great deal of design featured to the …
This is one of several films made about the notorious Colditz prison in the mountains of Saxony. An old castle, Colditz — officially Oflag IVc — was believed to be escape-proof — and so the Nazis sent the worst and most incorrigible Allied escapers there, almost all of whom were British and Commonwealth, Dutch and …
That’s the message from an unnamed command master chief to SEALs in the field: DALLAS, November 4, 2013 – Former Navy Seal Carl Higbie claims a senior enlisted advisor has banned “Don’t Tread On Me” uniform patches for active-duty operators. Per Higbie’s Daily Caller column, an email circulated on October 22 advising personnel to wear …
What’s the difference between a reporter in the state-controlled media in Red China and one in the New York Times of today? This headline from China has the answer: Arrested reporter admits to taking bribes for false stories via Arrested reporter admits to taking bribes for false stories – SPECIAL COVERAGE – Globaltimes.cn. The Chinese …
Blackbeard’s ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, went to the briny deep almost 300 years ago, and was reported to have 40 cannons. 30 have been found in the wreck — and 22 have been raised now, with the help of an unusual team including archaeologists, divers… and a US Coast Guard cutter. [Project Director Billy Ray] Morris …
This Tumblr, Intelligence Community on the Record, is a real-world resource for anyone interested in the US intelligence community. IC on the Record was created by the United States’ intelligence community Powers That Be to react to the public relations shellacking the community and the Obama Administration had taken since the Snowden defection; it remains live …