From CNN, of all things. And played basically straight; Hal Shouse, who drives his “Hambulance” as part of the feral “Hog SWAT Team,” which is what he calls his one-man (plus paying customers) hog-eradication firm, explains that he could eradicate hogs with a single-shot rifle, but not nearly as effectively as he does with an …
This one is a bit long in the tooth — it dates from late March — but we’ve got so many balls in the air right now, that our AO is going to look like the dark side of the moon when they all crater down. So we’re trolling the drafts folder to entertain all …
One of the longest-lasting dynamics in warfare is the continue battle between the defensive armorer and the offensive swordsmith. That battle marked the entire Age of Chivalry, as swords evolved form the machete-sized Gladius Iberius of Rome to the massive two-handed, heavy, reinforced-point armor-piercing broadswords of the late Middle Ages. The same dynamic repeated with …
The US Navy has called for bids to convert an elderly amphibious ship, USS Ponce LPD-15, to a more specialized configuration — a special operations mothership, according to the Washington Post. And they want it done in haste. Ponce (pronounced PON-say, it’s named for the city on the south coast of Puerto Rico) will then be …
…end with this post. As usual, we won’t be posting further today. Look at the That Was the Week that Was post immediately below this to see if you missed anything you really wanted to see. We’ll be back at it Monday. This coming week we’ll be looking at how magazines help your AR …
No, we haven’t become a sports blog. We’re referring to the battle of the Welcome Home Troops parades — a battle in which Mayor Bloomberg, who most emphatically does not welcome veterans to his fair city, has unilaterally disarmed. So in the Show-me State they rolled the floats, the vintage deuce-and-a-halfs, the veterans and the …
An Atlanta youth gang has watched too many Mafia movies: you know the scene, where the reluctant Mafioso has the organization’s retirement plan, or rather, lack of one, explained to him. Usually in the back of the head. “Never since I’ve been in law enforcement have I seen someone shot 15 times and live,” U.S. …
NY Boycott screen shot — closing in on 100 firms boycotting bad PDs. Many of you have read long-time gun blogger Sean D. Sorrentino before. But this week we salute him for making the New York Boycott List, a curated and growing list of gun and accessory firms that are telling New York law enforcement …
That was the week that was, week four. In which the WeaponsMan crew looks back and asks that musical question, “What the hell were we thinking?” We began with the now-standard Sunday non-post and invitation to submit suggestions. On this day in 1776, the New Hampshire legislature was buying guns. That was probably not what …
Thanks to a reader tip, Forgotten Weapons has something really cool: we found a couple minutes of video of John Garand talking about the development of US small arms. It was buried in an episode of “The Big Picture”; a syndicated TV program produced by the US Army from 1951 through 1964 (I’m not sure exactly …