Some National Guardsmen patrolling the wreckage of Ferguson, Missouri came on a remarkable, and alarming, sight: black men with guns, their leader a 6’8″ giant cradling an AR-15. They stood in the forecourt of a Conoco gas station, a building that rose, unmolested, like a meth addict’s last solitary tooth in a micro-Hiroshima landscape of boarded-up, …
Sharon Helman, the Director of the VA Medical Center in Phoenix, was fired this week. She was suspended (with full pay, so “placed on vacation” is more like it) back in April when it came out that she’d destroyed evidence in the agency’s cover-up of the deaths of dozens of neglected veterans. Seven months’ pay …
Today is Black Friday, one of the two most prominent shopping days on the American mercantile calendar (the other? Cyber Monday, coming up in three days). It has become a tradition for merchants to offer their best prices on these days, to stand out from the crowd. For example, almost everybody in the gun world …
On this, our day of national thanksgiving, we give thanks for many things: For God and Family. For freedom and prosperity. For the loyalty of a dog — who sleeps a foot away from this desk, because two feet is too far — and the warmth of a good house. For the health to shovel …
A snippet of reconstructed Duqu source code. Double-click to expand and read. Image: Kaspersky Labs. A weapon of the future, say many technologists. A weapon already in use by someone — as with the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iranian uranium-processing centrifuges, or the Duqu worm whose mission appears to be cyber ISR (intelligence, surveillance and …
Not altogether sure what to make of this. We do know that for $2200 were not going to be buying it. But this AK, for sale on GunBroker right now, can’t really be called the work of Bubba: It’s far too well done. But it’s what was done that raises our eyebrows… this AK is …
Item 21 Nov 14: Two-year-old Trigger Man? In Marion, Kansas a precocious child combined with a badly-stored handgun to give everybody a good scare. According to Marion County Sheriff Rob Craft, the parents of the boy alerted authorities about the incident around 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21. “We were advised they were transporting their 2-year-old son …
Years ago, we chose AR15.com for one of our W4s, and we got some predictable responses, along the lines of: “That’s where all the posers and neckbeards are, and all the real tactical operatory operators are on M4Carbine.net” or the absolutely true and non-exaggerated: “The signal to noise ratio is way better at M4C than …
Iranian She-ninjas Attack! Iranian she-ninjas – each has one sword, one dagger, and one eyebrow. Image: globalpost.com It’s not often we get two ninja posts in one week. Actually, it’s a first. But along with the ninja pot pilferers of hippy-dippy California, we now have Iranian she-ninjas in the news. Can you say “Kill Bill, …
“While expertise is high and growing in the art of weapons manufacture, the know-how in the production of cartridge [sic] and other ammunition is still lacking.” — Abdel-Fatau Musah, pull quote from the report in the Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002. Weapons recovered by South African police in 2010. Abdel-Fatau Musah is an anti-gun activist sponsored …
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