Deals from Surplus City

A Pennsylvania friend texted us today about two deals he found at Surplus City in Feasterville Trevose, PA. We’ve mentioned their seemingly bottomless wellspring of cop trade-ins before. He stopped in to check on one — a beater cop shotgun — and wound up going home with another, a beautiful Smith & Wesson Model 10 …

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Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week: WINS for Non-Members

Most of all y’all aren’t members of AFIO, which we think goes by the initials now but used to be the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. (There are ways to join if you’re not former military or government spook, also). AFIO has two great benefits, if you’re not in the National Capital Area where they have …

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Friday Tour d’Horizon, Week 39

This week’s Tour d’Horizon is where we dispose of a week’s worth of open tabs, or try to. Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. We’re a bit light (and late) this week.  ex-SAMCO Mausers are, As Suspected, Crap SAMCO Global was a major importer and seller that had a warehouse full of, essentially, 10,000 …

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Bad Day over the North Sea, 1975

Here’s audio-only 1975 peacetime ejection, resulting from a compression stall and inflight fire in an F-4E Phantom. Only the audio is live; the photographic slide show is a retrospectives on the mishap pilots career. The first 2 minutes, before the emergency audio begins , is accompanied by some pretty dreadful New Age music, so consider yourself warned. The downed …

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When Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Gravity

Yes, its your Lords and Betters at the CDC again (the same ones whose dream is to give the verbiage of paid Bloomberg propagandists a scientific patina, and save Bloomberg the money by looting the taxpayers to pay for the propaganda, instead). This time, instead of agitating for gun bans, they’re decrying the fact that …

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Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week: Jeff Cooper Books

Jeff Cooper is gone, but the wisdom of the very opinionated pistol expert and Marine Colonel lives on as the underpinning of practical shooting — whether you’re talking about “practical” as in competition, or “practical” as in a back alley. The Cooper family maintains a website, where you can order some of Cooper’s books even today …

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Poly-Ticks: Heil Healey! Keeps Moving the Goalposts

In Massachusetts, gun owners, would-be gun owners, and Federal licensees have been having a hard time getting any information about the constantly-changing gun ban that national socialist Attorney General Maura Healey (Heil Healey!) imposed as a stunt before heading to the DNC to, she expects, boost her political career. Healey’s office will not answer questions …

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When Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Hand Sanitizer

Hey, if guns cause suicide attempts, then hand sanitizer caused this one: A woman strolled into a U.S. congressman’s Chicago office Tuesday, chugged a bottle of hand sanitizer and then set herself on fire, police said. The unidentified 43-year-old was seriously burned in the self-inflicted blaze inside U.S. Rep. Danny Davis’ office, but her condition …

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Do Chicago Cops Shoot Too Many? Or Too Few?

Do Chicago Cops Shoot Too Many? Or Too Few? A Black Criminal Lives Matter demonstration in NYC, by communists (International ANSWER, etc.) and supporters of violent criminals. The Chicago Tribune has been running a series of thumbsuckers about the evil, vile, racist Chicago PD which is gunning down those few African-American choirboys that the choirboys …

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