Vintage Armored Cars (1912-80 or so)

There’s an interesting if disjointed (and sometime wrongly-captioned) photo essay on armored cars at this link: [W]e take a look at the many different types of armoured cars that have appeared over the last one hundred years. via Dark Roasted Blend: Impressive Vintage Armoured Cars. The armored wheeled vehicles range from the First World War’s …

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Wednesday Weapons Website off the Week: CounterJihad

We have found good information and argumentation on the CounterJihad.com site and its related YouTube channel. It had gone radio-silent after the election, and may be an Israeli-sponsored propaganda effort aimed at the election; despite that, it was generally right about the problems the USA has been having identifying with and targeting an enemy that has …

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Shop Soulcraft

Bear with us as we talk about two disparate things — screwing up and hand tools. They both go tool in hand, er, hand in hand. And it all started in the workshop today. We have the center section of the airplane starting to come together on a temporary table (horses and MDF) down in …

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General Gets Crucified, Congress Complains

Then-LTG Ron Lewis. Looks like he was a Master Aviator & combat vet before getting kicked upstairs. Why does the military leak so badly that trusting a secret to the Pentagon is like trying to cross the Atlantic in a colander? Well, we give you Ron Lewis (Brigadier General, Retired) who has been in receipt of …

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Public Service Announcement: Lock it Up

We’re working on a long story on an epidemic of organized-crime gun theft. It’s amazing just how many thefts are happening, and how many of them are being done by professional criminals. ATF has scores (no exaggeration) of open store burglaries, some of them smash-and-grabs by very fast-moving teams. Their typical targets are pistols, first, …

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When is it Time to Cull the Herd?

How many guns is “too many?” Well, how many is “enough?” That depends, right? If you’re a typical gun guy, the answer might be that something like this is a good start: And, conversely, the answer might be an empty room, if you’re the spouse who sees the gun room as the mistress (a bad …

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Epic Survival Story from Colorado

His name is Ryan Montoya, and the mountain tried to kill him. It messed him up, to be sure, but Montoya kept his wits about him, and had a bunch of lucky breaks (and lucky things he didn’t break, starting with his neck). First, we’ll let his hometown station, KRCR-TV 7, set the stage: A …

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WeaponsMan

Hognose March 10, 2017 Tour d’Horizon is more honestly a tour of open tabs that have been annoying and irritating us. Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. For the Man Who Would Be Boris If you know who we mean, you’ll get it. If you don’t, you won’t. In any event, …

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Your Ghost Gunner Results: Good, Bad or Mixed?

The WeaponsMan Ghost Gunner, early in its testing, hogs one of the gunsmithing benches with a Mac and a PC (we were checking that a connection problem was not emulation-related. It wasn’t, it was a driver issue). John Crump has an interview with Cody Wilson at AmmoLand.com. It brings us up to date, but if …

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