Seecamp Pocket Pistols

Lee Williams was delighted to find a manufacturer at SHOT whose products he knew well, but one that he’d thought was pining for the fjords: L.W. Seecamp, a maker of high-quality pocket pistols in .32 and .380. [T]he L.W. Seecamp Co. is back, and according to Christopher Garvey, their program manager, they’re increasing production. Chris …

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Poly-Ticks: Constitutional Carry Update

Here’s an interesting prognosis for Constitutional Carry through 2021 by Charles CW Cooke of National Review. Cooke believes that “Its popularity keeps spreading inexorably across the country,” and sees the number of states requiring no permit for all or most of the state reaching 15 to 17 this year, based on research by the Crime Prevention …

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The Problem of Up-or-Out

Up or Out is no longer common in business, except for the cutthroat ranks of management consulting, Wall Street, and Big Law. (And hiring McKinsey’s self-serving consultants, for instance, is often a fatal move for a firm). For a very long time, up-or-out has been the iron rule of the Army’s very large, but very …

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Careerism and the Military

At the moment you read this, Your Humble Blogger is on an airboat in the Everglades or somewhere like that, and can’t make a long post. But here’s a thought that probably deserves some honest discussion, ladies and gentlemen: Of all the problems in the US military today, the most fundamental and damaging is careerism, …

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Remember Cop-Killer Markeith Loyd?

Sure you do! Who could forget that face? We could have run his mugshot again like we did last Friday, but for some inexplicable reason we find the image of him on the right more satisfying. Maybe it’s because he’s a cop-killer, who shot down police officer Debra Clayton, and whose flight led indirectly to the …

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ATF Cracks Down on Retro Builders using 80% Receivers

In an entirely unexpected turn of events, ATF has reclassified completed and even so-called “80% lowers” with a fake auto sear marking as machine guns, depending on who makes them. Here’s an image of one such receiver the Bureau has taken custody of and ordered destroyed. The problem is that fake sear hole. Marking such a receiver …

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When Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Snow

Even a unique and special snowflake must obey the laws — of physics. How do you get killed by snow? Be underneath a cornice when someone sets off an avalanche gun or charge, in this case. The victim has been identified as  Joe Zuiches, a 42 year-old resident of Olympic Valley and a member of …

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MagPul Mag and Stock Clearance at Midway

There’s some good prices here on some presumably overstocked or about-to-sunset MagPul gear, including $10 AK mags (older model, sand color only)… …and $16.41 25-round G2 window mags for DPMS/KAC type 7.62mm ARs. This includes the S&W M&P10 and the Colt LE901, but does not include the DPMS GII. The mags work in the second-gen DMPS gun, but …

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When Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have SUVs

Mark Baumer, a man on the weirder side of eccentric, posted this recently. Now he really feels like a ghost! Didn’t we just have this one a week or so ago? Not exactly… this one is different, in the specific way in which the decedent’s Hubris summoned his Nemesis. Apart from that, this is a story …

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Two Questionable Self Defense Cases

Now, we’re not Andrew Branca, and we don’t have a Barracks Lawyer License, even, but we’re thinking that these two cases of claimed self-defense have… problems. ITEM: Zero-Dark-Twenty-Five. And Drunk. The first is the weakest. It begins at 0125 hours in a strip club in Key West. The shooter, one Derek David of Denham Springs, …

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