What? You didn’t know the Army has Springfields still? Well, it does… although most of them are on loan to veterans’ groups and ROTC detachments. The Army has, for years, been calling in the loans on these long-obsolete weapons. (The Springfield was made from the 1900s to the 1940s, using an 19th-Century action licensed from …
How does an urban legend get started? You know, like the six-foot-alligator living in a Manhattan sewer? Theoretically, with one liar, but they never seem able to track the motherless wretch down. Today’s urban legend is this (received in our email 1/20): While I was in a Denver gun store today, my car was tagged …
It’s Wednesday, time for the Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week, and there’s a real beauty for you this week: ForgottenWeapons.com, which bills itself — fairly — as “Your destination for rare, exotic, and prototype firearms.” Since Cain picked up a rock and brained Abel (which is a bit speculative: the source is blank on the …
So here we are, trying to install internet in the Weapons Bunker and Hog Manor. And you would think that would be rather straightforward: we have telephone lines, we’re close to the CO, the place is thoroughly wired for cable, we have the equipment, installer’s on site, a network engineer available for adult supervision… it …
Update: As God is our witness, we’re going to stop wrting about trials. Every time we start there’s a new twist and turn. The latest? The defense has changed pleas, admitting what we’ve known all along, that Bradley is a leaky traitor. The defense has pled out on about half the charges (the less serious …
Glock 19 (file photo) As reported in the update to our 1400 post today, Danny has been freed. He actually won an expedited appeal of his sentence at the Court Martial Appeals Court in London, Britain’s equivalent of the US Court of Military Appeals. The judges reduced his sentence to a year, which allowed them …
These are the recovered Smiths. 80-odd more remain at large. According to the BJS, about 232,400 guns are stolen every year and 80% of them are never recovered. Springfield, Massachusetts, was once one of the gun-making capitals of the world. The Connecticut River town hosted dozens of gun companies, and a major national arsenal, but …
…who turns out to be another numbskull. That’s the story told by this dry legal opinion, rehosted at NSSF. Short version of the story: Regis Ellis and his friend Williams were at a range, fooling around with Williams’s handgun, a Hi-Point C9. At some point, Regis shot himself in the hand. It’s hard to establish …
The patient was on the stretcher. The computerized axial tomography machine was ready. And then the advanced medical imaging technology went to work. But it wasn’t imaging a human, or even a veterinary, patient. It was imaging a clone of an HK 23E, a 5.56mm machine gun similar to the 7.62mm HK 21 that …
Well, the Army tried to copy the Marines’ promised women-in-Infantry initiative (which has flopped badly in the Corps), now the Marines repay the plagiarism by boosting the Army’s rifle magazine ban, although they have reasons of their own. There’s a lot of second-hand second-hand stuff on the gun blogs on this message from yesterday, so …