Are you up for a Challenge? The unifying experiences of SF are adversity, pain, and long walks in “the environment” with 100 pounds of lightweight gear in a rucksack. Sound like fun? OK, what if they cut the amount of weight, and focus the whole thing on team-building and not chest-beating? (We’re not big on …
Sunday… Easter Sunday To Christians, this is a particularly holy and promising day. To you, a happy Easter. To our other readers, please accept either the blessings of the season, or simply our best wishes for your health and well-being, whichever better suits you. To all, many thanks for reading and commenting. This entry was …
Magpul said what they meant and they meant what they said, and before the end of April the first Magpul magazine will be “Proudly Made by Americans” as the company’s advertising has always boasted, but not “…in Colorado.” Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has made it clear that he’s ashamed, not proud, of the company and …
Police work around the world: Dateline Austria Sometimes you have to think what a Chicago or Detroit cop goes through, and then compare it to this: VIENNA (AP) – Austrian police and firefighters have taken on the role of urban cowboys in a two-day round-up of a herd of cattle that broke out of a …
We’re going afield into politics again, for which we will shortly apologize. But we wanted to alert you to a rather serious academic article by Professor Edward J. Erler of Cal State San Bernardino (yes, the city that whelped the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, and that is now quite literally bankrupt, that San Berdoo of …
This M&P 15 Sport resembles the gun we we were sighting in, but ours had an M4-cut barrel — on a civilian gun that will never mount an M203, a styling affectation. Spent a good day at the range yesterday. Well, the range was part of the day. It wasn’t a usual range or a …
Targets of Opportunity… are something generally more available to a military operator than, say, to a hunter. But both have a set of Rules of Engagement, and a rural Pennsylvania nimrod stands accused of blowing his — the Keystone State’s game laws — off, while blowing away a 10-point buck. His error? He opened up …
Open wide! The title of the article is: Man who shot cop he found in bed with his wife indicted for attempted murder. Reading the headline, it sounds like a guy cuckolded by an unfaithful spouse (and a horny cop) is about to be subjected to the further abuse of an unfair prosecution. But that’s …
OK, so Beretta is considering leaving Maryland, Magpul’s already bailing on Colorado (while, RUMINT says, preparing to pour resources into crushing its Colorado politician enemies at the polls, in hopes of reversing the Hickenlooper Ban, and saving their corporate HQ and many of their employees’ jobs), Colt’s hinting at dumping its 150-plus-year residence in Connecticut, …
The M16A1 Carbine upper is cut away to show the workings of the gas system and locking mechanism. Long after the XM177s were gone, and before we got the first weapon called an M4 (which had a fixed, M16A2-style, carrying handle) there were “M16A1 Carbines” and “M16A2 Carbines.” These weapons were made for export and …