Here we go again. There are more ways to shoot yourself or someone else than the Russian roulette idjits we’ve already discussed. There are also right ways and wrong ways to shoot skells invading your home. Do it wrong, and the legal system that was so lenient towards them will land on you with both …
10 highest days in the 24 years of NICS. 3 of them this month… so far. OK, it was more like a brownout, but we’re always suckers for alliteration and parallelism around here. Inevitable result of combining an expensive education and cheap thrills. In any event, sellers everywhere are complaining that last week’s top sales …
Which refers not to the hooker-with-the-heart-of-gold film with Melina Mercouri, nor or the bouzouki-and-ouzo driven theme song that became the token Greek staple in Muzak, but to the fact that WeaponsMan.com takes the day off. (Actually, it looks like snow shoveling is in the near future here). However, what you can do is ask questions …
“Opportunities are available in all walks of life,” sang the Kinks, “in Australia” in their 1969 concept album Arthur. The song works a little better than that sounds; it was inspired by Ray Davies’s brother-in-law Arthur Anning, who did emigrate to Australia. And the Australians are keen on some emigrants today. Like, for instance, special …
The various pistol, rifle, and multi-gun competitions are often billed as good training for self-defense and even for police and military operations, but they aren’t for a number of reasons: Too much emphasis on the quick draw Perhaps the generations of Hollywood westerns that dominated the American cultural mindscape from circa 1950 to 1970 are …
The Answer is Obvious As graduates of Benning School for Boys, we were interested to see this. Mike Crumbley of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources says feral hogs are a major problem at Fort Benning. He says they’re also encroaching into Columbus. …but a little mystified that they’re having a hard time imagining a …
You probably know Geissele as a maker of really good triggers for AR-15 and M16 series rifles, but the Norristown, Pennsylvania firm been expanding their product line, and they’ve created a gunsmiths’ tool that is a must have for anyone that does mid-range work on AR-type weapons, especially work that involves removing and replacing barrels. We’ve lost count of …
There’s few things more entertaining for a troop than laughing at the dysfunction of the institutional Army that the amazingly functional sharp-end troopies always seem to route around in order to accomplish the mission. And there’s few things that get our dander up (as longtime readers have noticed) than negligent discharges. Awareness of muzzle and …
The Atlantic’s Brian Fung picked up an amazing photo essay by Jason Lee of Reuters. Lee apparently visited a Chinese theme park that puts the attendees in the role of Mao Tse-Tung’s (we use Wade-Giles here, as used in Free China, so sue us) 8th Route Army during the Japanese occupation. Or, for some of …
A Special Forces sniper engages a target during the night stress event at the 2010 USASOC Sniper Competition at Fort Bragg. US Army photo. For the last 100 years, until quite recently, the range and striking power of small units’ individual and crew-served weapons hasn’t changed much even as the weapons have been revolutionized in …