Hitler finds out it takes a 45-slide CONOP to go out the gate. This may be a rare case where something will make sense to the current SF readers of this blog, but will go over the heads of the civilians and old timers. Sorry about that. Without going too deep into our business here, …
.22 rimfire round from a Ruger MkII showing microstamp. Image: microstamping blog. The New York Daily News is reporting that Remington (which is the flagship of the Freedom Group, including Marlin, Bushmaster, and many other brands) is threatening to shutter its plant in Ilion, New York, a plant considered the oldest continuously operated weapons factory …
Our Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week for Week 13 of 2012 is less a website where you can learn cool stuff (which is our usually preferred Wednesday morning target) but rather a website where you can get cool stuff. Ohio Ordnance Works (OOW for short) went, over the years, from Class III dealing to …
This pretty heat-map of pinks and blues shows legal handgun ownership in today’s (well, 2013’s) Germany. What’s interesting is that you can clearly see the inter-German border that existed during the period from 1949-1992, caused when the Soviet Occupation Zone stood up as the Soviet satellite (slave) state of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), …
Supposedly, they’re going to have the guy who plugged Bin Laden on Fox (warning, Daily Caller link, often has autoplay spam1). Meanwhile, the guy who wrote a book about it under the pseudonym Mark Owen is under criminal investigation. According to the New York Times, investigators have been shadowing his speaking engagements. According to the Times, …
We went to the FBI Most Wanted website for another purpose, and the first man on the list — Frein — had a CAPTURED label on his photo. Frein was caught by US Marshals, outside of his hiding-place in a hangar at the abandoned Birchwood-Pocono Airpark airstrip. The FAA forced closure of the runway in …
Presented with only minimal redactions, the all-hands message: A Message from Medical Officer Dr. McMillan, To all ICE employees, October 28, 2014 ICE Response to Ebola As many of you know, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported four confirmed cases of Ebola in the United States. While the news of Ebola on …
In Bulgaria… archaeologists are exhuming centuries old… dead vampires? Well, they’re people that someone thought were vampires… judging from their burial with a stake in the heart. Let’s go back to a forgotten era, before vampires became sparkly, and stepped into the role once played by horses in tween girls’ fantasies; let’s go back even before that, to a time …
Illustration of Japan’s layered BMD System. Image: Japan’s Ministry of Defense. (Double click to expand, but it’s still not quite legible… that’s JMOD’s doing, not ours). We still see people claiming that ballistic missile defense is impossible. That’s silly; it was impossible, or very very difficult, in 1962, but that was 50 years ago. Since …
So Britain banned handguns almost 20 years ago, and violence and criminality vanished forthwith from the scepter’d isle, bringing forth a new age of enlightment made possible by the lights of perverted science. Just kidding. A weapon is where you find it, and the belligerent drunks of Old Blighty have one right at hand (emphasis …