Unless you’ve been under a rock (like we were last week… and will be next… sigh) you’ve heard about the guy who made an AR-15 lower receiver on a 3D printer. We’ve been making noises for a while about the coming of desktop gun manufacturing, and now it’s come to pass. The picture shows the …
OK, here’s something that’s on display in the Special Forces Branch Museum on Ft. Bragg. It is little visited by the public (and it is currently scheduled to be torn down and reconstructed elsewhere on post as the SF, Civil Affairs/Military Government, and Psyops/Military Information Support tri-regimental museum). But for the time being it is …
One of the least covered, but quite serious, insurgencies in the world is that in Mali. The Francophone nation in West Africa has, since its founding, had an uneasy mixture of disparate peoples. The black Africans in the south, a national majority who have dominated Malian politics and institutions, don’t blend with the Arabs and …
Everyone has had an opinion on the Colorado shooting while we were dealing with real-world SOF stuff. (And, to be sure, visiting with old friends). At this point our opinion is belated and redundant, but we’ll throw it out there before (and after) discussing one of the equipment issues, and the (sigh) media. We’ll get …
Now that’s a freefall: 3 min 48 seconds Congratulations to Felix Baumgartner for a new personal best: a jump from 96,640 feet. As fans and former pracritionares of parachuting, we’ve covered Felix’s previous jumps before. Felix ran into a few glitches this time, including the complete lack of aerodynamic stability near 100,000 feet. (Spacecraft and …
Thug (Henderson, r.) menaces patrons (l.) Williams is behind the man in white at upper right center. This is a good shoot: Williams was seated toward the back of the cafe dressed in a white shirt, shorts and baseball cap. One of the masked men, identified as Duwayne Henderson, 19, comes in pointing a handgun …
We’ve been troubled by the apparent increase in the number of brazen FFL robberies and burglaries lately, and started tracking them to see if we were just seeing more reporting, or just seeing more spectacular thefts that got more media coverage — or whether these crimes are really up. Well, ATF answered our question with …
How to separate the pistol’s potential from the pistolero’s: the Ransom Rest and a grip insert that fits the firearm. There are several ways to test fire a handgun, whether for function, for accuracy, or for any kind of instrumented testing, like chronograph load development or strain-gage pressure measurement. In ascending order, these are: by hand, from an …
This is something odd: we’re linking to one thread of a forum, the Canadian-based milsurps.eh (just kidding, milsurps.com), and what’s more, it’s one thread that only has one post. Why in the name of St. Gretzky would we do that? Well, it’s what a post it is! The post links to more than two dozen technical articles by …
…only outlaws will have trains. There’s a whole political movement lurking in this somewhere: A woman was talking to her boyfriend on a cell phone about committing suicide when she was hit by a train in Wyandotte and died this morning. The 25-year-old Wyandotte woman, who was hit by the train on the railroad tracks …