Exit, stage left: Max Boot, who has the perfect name for writing about infantrymen, has an engaging piece at Commentary on how the four most celebrated talented generals in the GWOT recently have followed some of the earlier ones he does not mention (Franks, for example) into the sunset. The last of his four, Marine …
Villain of the piece: the cramped OHP Charger. If you’re the Ohio Highway Patrol, you buy new shotguns. The Dayton Daily News has the full story, which we’ll trim down to the facts. The OHP ran into a problem when they were forced to change from the discontinued Crown Victoria to the cramped Dodge Charger. …
Running guns to Canada The Canadian border police bagged this Glock, BHP and Ruger from a single would-be smuggler. Big to enclicken! Canada, which all but bans handguns, has a handgun crime problem. (Unpossible! But true). So one thing they’re doing is, while never being quite as unpleasant to ordinary travelers as the US Customs …
For years, everyone speculated about what would happen if something like the Bombay Attacks happened here. All kinds of carnage were suggested. Well, we’ve just had two roughly analogous attacks in 2013. How did Creepy Chris Dorner and the Jihad Brothers do, relative to Bombay? Dorner was a lone wolf, but he was a well-armed …
OK, slightly past, but have you any idea how hard it is coming up with clever things to say about Sunday (that’s why so many of them are less that clever). Apologies for the dry blog Saturday, we’re experiencing WordPress faults. We have a work-around up now (obviously). This entry was posted in Administrivia on …
The revolver Dorner pawned, an Astra .38 imported by Century. The thoroughly dead fired-cop cop-killer is still making news. Three items came to our attention, and we happened to read them in a paper from way the hell across the country from the scenes of his crimes, to wit: the New York Daily News: Item: …
The flamboyantly anti-gun and anti-legal-gun-owner Christian Science Monitor, the web site that was once a newspaper back when it first strapped on its anti-gun spurs in the mid-1960s, is running a rather tricky and slightly tendentious quiz (only slightly, because it certainly is closer to the middle of the road than the usual CSM article …
In March, this FU message greeted Army students. Funding was restored — over the Secretary’s resistance — in about a month. Some time ago, we commented on the service secretaries (who are political appointees, commonly lawyers without significant military experience or ties to the military culture) and their decision to throw service members’ tuition assistance …
Don’t expect sympathy, even if they’re just screwing up. Judy Sanchez may not have lived a perfect life, but she wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition. Apparently confused by Spanish surnames, or unable to believe that Vasquez and Sanchez were not the same thing, FBI special agents from the notorious Boston field office — the same …
Ballistics By the Inch — BBTI — is a website that does something we really like: tests and develops actual data about basic firearms facts. Like some of the other sites we’ve linked to over the last year-plus, it’s a myth-buster and a fact-finder. We do like that. Some of these things have been extensively tested in …