Weapons Man

Two islands in the East River of New York, North Brother Island and South Brother Island, not far from the city jail complex on Riker’s Island, are uninhabited wildlife sanctuaries. South Brother has always been uninhabited, except for a short period as a rich man’s rustic cabin (long since burned down). North Brother housed Riverside Hospital from about 1885 to about 1965 — variously an infectious-disease sanatorium, veterans’ temporary housing, and a failed drug-rehab isolation site. Since then, it’s been left to deteriorate.

We hadn’t heard of Colin Furze (his last name sounds like the plural of “fur”) before, but he’s a manic young Englishman who gets an awful lot of DIY mileage out of his small urban garage, or shed. The word “manic” is overexposed in our adjective-happy culture, but in a moment we’ll let Colin himself show you his project, and you tell us if that’s the right word for him.

Those ninjas don’t much resemble this ninja.

Watch out for the one with your name on it.

An extremely anti-gun Senior Executive Service member is behind a recent announcement that the State Department has unilaterally banned the export of high-capacity firearm magazines. First, the announcement:

In 1944, the Army’s Ordnance branch (via the War Production Board) had mobilized the factories of industrial America to previously unimaginable levels of production, and arms flowed out of the factories and the warehouses in an iron river to the war fronts. Not just the American ones, either: vast quantities of armaments went to our British and Commonwealth allies, we fully armed the Free French, and Lend-Lease equipment was shuttled past the U-Boat threat to Russia via Murmansk, and end-run via Iran. While the Soviets also produced prodigial quantities of high-quality armaments themselves, they welcomed the Sherman tanks, White halftracks, Studebaker and GMC trucks and other hardware from America’s smokestack cities, and sent them into combat in the hands of young Russian and Soviet soldiers.

In this corner, wearing the red, white and blue, you have ex-Ranger and FBI candidate Justin Slaby, SA Mark Crider of the Milwaukee office, and the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, which would be the union Feds would have if Feds could have a union.

Minnesota State Patrol officers sent a road-rage maniac who brandished a pistol at another driver on his way with a “never mind” and a professional-courtesy fist bump. His name remains secret, because the ATF are secret police after all, and the State Patrol says that Minnesota Statute 13.82 guarantees law-busting Feds privacy that those without such Titles of Nobility don’t deserve. 

You probably can, if you think about it. It’s Texas, where they do everything big and love guns even more than the rest of us. But what if you account for the variation in population, who has the most NFA manufacturers per capita?

That was forecast in the weather, but is happening with life; instead of the forecast rainstorms, we have glorious, radiant sun.

Loosely based on a true story, this is a tale of man versus wild versus other men. Given the wilderness of Norway’s mountains, downed British and German airmen — who, in perfect circularity, shot one another down — must cooperate to survive.

Who would do such an uncivilized thing? And where did he acquire the rock? Did anyone do a background check? Shouldn’t there be a waiting period? All we’re asking for is common-sense rock controls.

Yeah. The VA again.

The PRM, of course, is the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, where about 200 murders are committed every year, almost all of them by felony gangbangers (the current celebrity murder indictment involves Patriots football player Aaron Hernandez, who moonlighted as a made guy in the Latin Kings).

This GAO report is flush with True Belief in the bright sunlit uplands of alternative fuels. Someday, they might even be economical!

The initial explosion; debris is still in the air. Nolan half of the duplex is right. Note regional SWAT Bearcat, left. Officer Arkell is dead and Fremont officer Derek Franek was driven away by gunfire. 

Look, some guys will do anything to sell a book. Case in point, from the Telegraph:

Well, for the rest of his life, Kyle White has a rare privilege: everyone in the Army must render him a hand salute, because that’s the protocol for a Medal of Honor recipient.

Well, we know what Remington Outdoor Company is doing with that great big facility in highly underrated Huntsville, Alabama: stuffing it full of all the other odds and ends that the Freedom Group acquired over the years.