Islamic terrorists held a son of a Pakistani politician for years, shuffling him around both sides of the Durand Line until a tip brought a combined US-Afghan SOF raid down on their heads. Now, Ali Haider Gilani is at home with his family. The guys who were holding him are dead and buried. The guys …
Here’s an NRA “I have this old gun” video on the Johnson Spitfire, with all the usual suspects (Phil Schreier, Martin K.A. Morgan, Mark A. Keefe IV, etc.) and a little of the history we discussed yesterday. There are also some clear pictures of the folding stock variant. “Yes, it’s a footnote to the history …
We think we’ve covered this booklet before. If we have, it wasn’t recently, and it deserves to be plugged again. This is the Simple Sabotage Field Manual of the OSS. (PDF hosted at CIA.gov). It is not a guidebook in blowing up castles or dynamiting the Hoover Dam (good luck with that). Instead, it’s hints towards executing the sort …
When Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Pussies Cats, of course. What did you think we meant? A couple of dotty old Wisconsinites called 911 to report that they were bring held captive by .. their own moggy. “This is gonna sound like a strange question,” the lady told the dispatcher. (That phrase is usually the dispatcher’s …
RAR Soldiers in Vietnam. Note slightly different uniforms from Yanks, plus they’re armed with SLRs. (Many Aussies also used M16s, especially on reconnaissance patrols, etc., but the standard rifle was the 7.62mm SLR). In 1969, Major D.K. Atkinson of the Australian Army suggested that Vietnam might be “The Unwinnable War” in the pages of the RMCS …
We’re not referring to those shotshells containing stainless (or not) steel shot, designed by environmentalists to embugger waterfowl and upland hunters. We’re talking about shotshell cases that were made of stainless steel, to let owners safely fire modern black powder loads in ancient — even Damascus-barreled — breech-loading shotguns. This 1878 Colt (which just now sold, or didn’t, …
At LuckyGunner’s blog the LuckyGunner Lounge, Chris Baker has been running a series of really good articles on traditional DA/SA pistols and how he’s recently made the change to DA/SA after going striker fired for a while. While we call them “articles,” they’re really informational and instructional videos; but Chris and LuckyGunner present the full …
We’re forgetting that for Muggles, Memorial Day is a time of great sales. We received a very nice email from Polymer80, leading with the right sentiment. We already had a Polymer80 pistol-lower unboxing post roughed out for this week, so it was on our mind, too. We just didn’t check email ’til this morning. Here’s …
If you were headed to Kubinka to see this tank, you can turn back now…. In war, you never get it all your own way. You win some, and you lose some. In the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon in 1982, de facto Syrian territory at the time, Israel won some — sweeping the Valley clean …
Ever have one of those days without energy? Got up, came downstairs, sat down, woke up three hours later. We’re not the Lone Ranger in this. Plaintiff II meant to attend a newly ordained priest’s first sermon, and arrived in time for the applause. He who slept through services in a plush recliner will not …