Gun makers in ban states: we’re outa here

They don’t want you, those strange politicians like Andrew Cuomo (D-Five Families) or Dannel Malloy (D-Red Diaper Preschool). They just want your money, and they find a certain utilitarian value in having you around to play Emmanuel Goldstein when they need to rile up their proles to spittle-flecksome fury. This sign once greeted refugees crossing …

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More Finnish Archive Rarities!

A Simonov AVS-36 was rare everywhere except, it seems, in Finnish captivity. Many of the photos in the Finnish Army photo archive (which is the source of these) include captured AVS rifles, either being used by Finns, or, more often, in piles of captured stuff. That’s what this picture is, and it rewards an embiggening …

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Sick, sick, sick. Crime comes from sick heads and hearts

Sure, there are people who think guns cause crimes. This one is attributed to a sick, sick individual, who, when a 15-year-old girl (!) rejected his sexual advances, cooked up a “genius” scheme to kidnap her wearing a mask, and then rescue her later. No gun was involved in this perfect crime. Only the sick …

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Missed the DEFCAD files?

There are places to go to get them. Torrents work (the Pirate Bay, for instance) and are out of the reach of the US State Department, the IRS, and the various other agencies that are being used as hammers to drive political nails. If you know how to work BitTorrent files, you didn’t need us …

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Some better Memorial Day thoughts

It’s depressing to think that on this day, some so-called charities are ripping off good people with bogus claims of supporting vets (if this doesn’t make any sense, we didn’t get the post about deficient vet charities up). So let’s move on to something a little more positive — some entertainment, if that’s really the …

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Exercise Caution with Veterans’ Charities

Say hello to WeaponsMan’s First Law of Veteran’s Charities: the more you’ve heard of it, the more likely it’s a racket. That thought came to us yesterday — Memorial Day — when a local talk show had an unusual sponsorship — the Paralyzed Veterans of America. This charity is one of the largest in America, …

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Liberator-tje – Neutered Netherlands Liberator

The Dutchman behind this project, Dave Borghuis, wants us to know he’s not a wacko bird like those “scary and crazy” US-ians. I am not a gun nut, i find it scary things and crazy how the USA handle the gun laws. Check your own local laws BEFORE printing any part of the Liberator-tje. Just …

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Dolphins bring steampunk torpedo home

The grinning grey guy in the photo is one of the Navy’s marine mammals, from the Space and Naval systems Center, Pacific, and the hero of this piece. This marine mammal or one of its cohorts at the center turned a mine-hunting exercise into an archaeological expedition this March. Deep in the cold Pacific, the …

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Ah, the wages of loose gun laws!

Because all right-thinking people know, as received wisdom from the bien-pensants of the press, that crime proceeds always and everywhere from guns; that criminals would not exist if it were not for “root social causes” that can be cured with liberal (no pun intended) application of public “investment”; and that a gun in the home …

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Are you Finnish with Russian weapons?

If you’re not, the guys in these pictures are. The pictures are courtesy of SA-Kuva, which is Finnish for Finnish Army Photo — the army archives there have just released a large quantity of wartime photos. (If you have a Russian-spec Mosin or other ex-Russian bangstick with the stamp “SA” in a rectangle, you have …

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