The US Marine Corps has established one battalion (3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Mar Div) as an experimental, testbed unit, and that unit is looking at some possible new small arms approaches. The first of these is a more general issue of the M27, currently used as the Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR) with one per …
German Naval Recruits Take the “22 Pushup Challenge” Some of you won’t be able to follow this, because it’s all in German, but it’s one ~7 minute webisode of an entertaining Bundeswehr web “reality show,” which follows 12 recruits through 12 weeks of basic training. If you do know German, the show is entertaining. But this …
In Venezuela, where “bad luck” has inexplicably dogged the top-down national socialist “Bolivarian” government, caudillo Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, the late unlamented Hugo Chávez, could forgive former Venezuelan colonel Gustavo Díaz for trying to overthrow the dictatorial regime. Hey, tanks in the street are the regular elections of Latin America. But they can never forgive …
Why have Google executives been meeting with DOJ and White House officials? The company — and other search engine firms — have been working to make a huge donation-in-kind to their favorite politicians by providing gun-control-by-search-result. Since it is implemented by private companies, ostensibly on their own, none of the documents behind the search results …
Ken Aden — Special Forces phony, faker, fraud. Running for Congress Arkansas Congressional Candidate Ken Aden (who, it turns out, is a Democrat, if that matters to you) has doubled down on his bogus Special Forces claims. It’s a bit sad as Aden has . You will recall that Aden flunked out of SF school …
It’s become fashionable to resuscitate the names of old gun manufacturers, when the original firms have left the gun market or are tuning up their harps in the Great Beyond of corporate afterlife… pining for the fjords, as it were. One of the latest is Inland, originally a division of General Motors that was pressed …
The Stolen Valor Act has been declared unconstitutional by a 6-3 decision in the case U.S. vs. Alvarez. Alvarez was a phony whose tall tales made him a lot of money and helped him get elected to political office, and according to the Supreme Court, that’s all OK. This news will be buried under the …
Current Issue While the major gun initiative likely to come from the incoming Trump administration is national concealed carry reciprocity (“like a driver’s license,” according to the President-Elect himself), and restoration of the self-defense rights stripped from soldiers and dependents by executive-branch action (these are likely to be restored the same way), industry watchers consider a delisting …
A somewhat blurry still from Travis’s brief walking-lessons video. Go man go! We’re going to make Thursdays officially Travis Thursdays, and that we we don’t forget to bring you an update on the tough paratrooper who’s adapting to life without limbs — or without, shall we say, the factory equipment, because the physicians and technicians …
These magazines are for sale on GunBroker. While actually in SF, we could never have used these operationally, as they’re a rollicking OPSEC violation as they sit there shining at you, but we think they’re hell for cool: Yep, SF crest (officially, “Distinctive Unit Insignia,” which yields an unfortunate acronym) engraved magazines. Back in the day, we …