Dick Meadows (c.) models what we’re building — sort of. To successfully build a cosmetically Retro AR-15, you need to plan the build and build to the plan, or you risk committing a Bubba The Gunsmith level atrocity on your firearm. There are good sources of retro information out there, but the good sources of …
OK. Think of it as a gun ID quiz. We got them all (which almost makes up for our M249/240 screw-up yesterday). They’re an eclectic blend of classics and stuff only Hollywood takes seriously. Post your guesses in the comments. Note that they are not to scale. You can see a larger image with a click. Background: …
These Marines are Military Police stationed on Okinawa (would Marines say aboard Okinawa?): A Marine MP crew lets rip with an M249. USMC photo by LCPL Brandon Suhr. CORRECTION: The MG in the picture above is a 5.56mm M249. We originally misidentified it — following the original PR — as an M240. Yeah, that’s a pretty embarrassing …
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have baseball bats Watch out for the one with your name on it. Time for the old “clinging to life” metaphor. A cop trying to break up a fight got his head beaten in instead. There’s nothing in this Chicongo Trib report that indicates a suspect is in …
Saturday was spent on the go, with some time searching for a missing (and almost certainly eaten) cat, five hours’ driving, an airshow, a really good seaside lunch, and a movie (not a Saturday Matinee candidate). Sunday is for recovery of body and soul. We may get the two missing Saturday posts (Saturday Matinee and …
Monthly Archives: December 2016 Mabus joins the ranks of those, like HMS Java in the foreground here, who tangled with the US Navy and lost. It was a stinging defeat for the cruelest, most bitter enemy the American Navy has ever faced. Ray Mabus’s decision to eliminate Navy enlisted ratings, which was approved by a …
Monthly Archives: October 2016 In one of the creepiest mass-murder rings in American history, some 50, or 100 — no one knows the real number — poor Italian immigrants were murdered for money in the late 1930s by a ring organized and managed by cousins Herman and Paul Petrillo. Both would go to the electric chair …
Monthly Archives: August 2016 Anything can kill a person, even things intended to be life-saving. An elderly Pennsylvania woman found out the downside of hanging a medical alert gadget around your neck — the hard way. Roseann J. DiFrancesco was found dead in her bathroom on Feb. 15, according to the report from the Cumberland …
Let’s play with found data, shall we? In an interesting commentary that accompanies the third in an ongoing series of videos he did on Winchester’s also-ran G30M rifle and related prototypes, Ian McCollum at Forgotten Weapons reports these results from the 1940 Marine Corps tests of then state-of-the-art M1 Garand and Johnson semi-automatic rifles. Ultimately the …
There is a lesson in this nameless tragedy: two men went out in a canoe, and only one came back, but this isn’t the close of Godfather II. The survivor, too, came back without the canoe. He and his father had been fishing on a Sunday morning (22 May 16), and they capsized their canoe. …