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That may be what the site is hinting at:

If you were to click the link, as of Sunday it still just said:

November 6, 2014

PLEASE STAY TUNED, FRIENDS…

So… we dunno about you, but we’re staying tuned.

http://thegunwire.com/

Meanwhile, we do like The Gun Feed:

http://thegunfeed.com

There’s something to be said for being there and not flaking out on us. But maybe the Feed guys have a good reason.

YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR …

One of the most remarkable things about Fury is the presence of a real, running, Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger 1 on screen. This is the first time a real, live, Tiger, and not a mockup on some other chassis, a scale model, or a CGI digital emulation, was used in a feature film. Here’s a video of how a high-strung thoroughbred war machine from most of a century ago performed before the cameras:

It’s not really that cold. But there’s something that feels cold in the air, if that makes any sense at all. So we sit, and we shiver, and we watch the news crawl across our screens, and wonder if this is how it felt in August 1914, or August 1939 for that matter.

We still have not put up a Saturday Matinee or a TW3 for the last week (Actually we’re way behind on TW3s). But we have good news on that front: Week 45’s review (of Fury) is complete, and will be posted sometime today. We may even do the TW3, even though we have a work document to write.

Meanwhile, we’re shivering here. Why?

Fury is a movie of remarkable power. It begins with the crew of an American tank, an M3 Sherman (actually a very late M4A3E8) contemplating their survival — or most of their survival, for one crewman lies dead at his station — through Africa, Italy, Normandy, the Falaise Gap, and finally, into Germany. The war is nearly over, but it’s not letting up.

There are many ways to whack your ownself, but riding a tricycle on a limited-access four-lane highway is a pretty good one. Trying to cross that highway on the trike is even better. Trying to cross the highway, on a trike, in the dark? 

Right now, a common Washington trope is playing out on Metro platforms and in Georgetown salons: people are discussing a book they haven’t read, in this case Sharyl Attkisson’s Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment In Obama’s Washington.

Sometimes the stuff just stacks up on us. And it occurs to us, better just blast it to you with a couple lines of text, rather than hold it back for a lot of words.

The city of Aurora, Colorado paid to have a third-party operations-analysis shop, much like the one that we occasionally work for, review their response to the Century 16 theater shooting.

It is Pakistan, so it’s a little different from our bucolic home, but Foreign Policy sends us the following:

This comes to us from Guns and Gunsmiths, a website that primarily seems to exist to promote the video courses of the American Gunsmithing Institute. But there are also a good number of tips and tricks on the site that serve to extend the information in the courses, some of which really stand on their own as “war stories” of real-world gunsmith tasks. An example was this tale of a tough refinish job on a Colt 1902 auto pistol that was in really bad shape. Unfortunately there are no “before” pictures at the site, and the only “after” pictures are small ones, like these here.

Wow. The accusation has arisen that the DOD paid an extremely large ransom to Taliban and/or Haqqani Group terrorists for the freedom of suspected deserter Bowe Bergdahl.

A shattered lid from a 6 liter pressure cooker. Part of one of the Marathon bombs. Image: FBI

In 2012, Felix Baumgartner set a freefall record of four minutes and twenty seconds and an altitude record of 119,000 feet, in a very well-publicized jump, extensively sponsored by the Red Bull energy drink company. Here at weaponsman.com, we wrote about it, and its preliminaries, several times:

We received the following advert in the mail. Posted without extensive comment. It doth embiggen with a click:

Art of the Rifle was sent to us by a friend who, like so many of us, constantly strives to improve. He noted that our recent W4, Precision Rifle Blog, was great. “Data-driven just the way we like it. And if you like that, you must like Art of the Rifle, right?”

(Politics, n. An unclean and sordid business. Etymology: from Ancient Greek poly-, “many,” plus ticks, n. pl., “small bloodsucking arthropods.”)

“This is my hammer…there are many like it, but this one is mine — wait, does this pink tie make me look gay?”

Here’s Marquez/Bracamonte in January 1998. Maricopa County released him to ICE, who let him go. No, not back en México; in Maricopa County. Thanks for playing, Sheriff….

A few days ago we showed you a Beretta 92 (the 2nd major variant, the butt-end-mag-release 92S with decocking safety) available for short money (<$300). Now, here’s a Beretta that sells for well over $1,000 — but may be worth it to a serious Beretta shooter. First, the eye candy: