A Delaware woman proved once again that you don’t need a gun to whack somebody. All she needed was her husband’s own drug habit — injecting anabolic steroids — and common antifreeze. (Some assembly required). Jamie L. Baker was sentenced Thursday morning in front of nearly 50 of her husband’s family members and friends in …
That’s why he went by P.O. all his life. Anybody claiming to be his friend and talking about, “Parker and I…” immediately made an ass of himself to Ackley’s real friends, who were many, and influential in the small world of American firearms. This is just one of the fascinating details we’ve learned from P.O. Ackley: …
In New Jersey, guns are outlawed sufficiently that cops run out of state license plates and make pretextual stops on any traveler who comes up with an LTC from his home state. But those same cops can’t be bothered to get control of the gangs in Newark and Camden. Yet, despite the focus on gun-owning transients, …
Again, we find ourselves throwing together this week’s Tour d’Horizon on Friday night. We hate that. It makes us late, and you hate that. So much hate. As the Patron Saint of this blog, Rodney King, says, “Can’t we all just get along?” Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. How Much Does the Blackhawk! …
He was a child of wealth and privilege, outraged at the idea that he might be drafted like the proles, and determined to lash out at the government and nation he hated: his own, the USA. And lash out he did, writing a book with the idea that it would equip revolutionaries and criminals with knowledge to …
TLAM launch from USS Ross DDG-71. There are no lights on deck; that illumination is all from the rocket booster. As we write these words, the US responded to a Syrian escalation in the Syrian Civil War with a series of cruise missile strikes on a single Syrian air base. Here is what we know: …
Back in July, most of the bugs were worked out of the Shuty MP-1 by its designer, Derwood. With some help from Warfairy, who customized a lower design for the project, Derwood had redone the upper, improving the ejector in the 9mm pistol that uses Glock magazines and barrels. Here’s the July video, again. But …
There are a number of things going on right now, some of which may be trends. More and Heavier Weapons When we joined SF, while there was plenty of access to weapons that were heavier/more specialized / foreign, what an ODA carried was 12 M16A1 rifles (if we were fortunate enough to have 12 guys …
Zach Peters used this AR15A2 or clone rifle to defend himself, his father and their home from three armed home invaders, in the unincorporated outskirts of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (a Tulsa suburb), on 27 March. (Previous WeaponsMan coverage: They Brought Brass Knuckles, Knife to a Gun Fight (28 Mar 17); Broken Arrow OK Follow-up: Home Invasion as “Bad …
A man who was “willing to try anything” tried a donut-eating contest last weekend. In Denver, where Colorado’s governor John Hickenlooper has saved his subjects’ lives by outlawing various guns. BLUF: The donut won. It was a matter of size, not number: a contestant has 1 min 20 sec to eat a donut, which seems plenty, …