Weapons Man

C’mon guys. Let’s see some standards here.

Britain has been roiled by the news that Tony Blair secretly pardoned IRA terrs in 295 murders and countless other crimes, and hundreds of terrorists are walking around Britain, Ireland and abroad with documents that are, in effect, pocket pardons excusing all their crimes.

Maria Gomez with her reattached hands after the machete attack.

This is just flat depressing. We would really like the VA to straighten up and fly right here, but we honestly don’t expect that to happen. We recently wrote about the issues at the Phoenix VA facility, where vets have been neglected while on waitlists, or even been put on waitlists to have the list evaporate, as crooked managers massage their numbers. Some of the vets have died. Perhaps as many as 40. But, the VA assures, the problem was restricted to a few bad apples in Arizona.

In this no-foolin’ great video, you see how AK-47 magazines are made, set to less-annoying-than-usual-for-YouTube music.

Japan is a nation where technology and tradition sometimes coexist peacefully, and sometimes war like dueling daimyos of the feudal era. A 27-year-old named Yoshitomo Imura thought he was indulging a harmless hobby when he 3D-printed guns, but he was flying in the face of the Japanese tradition that says nobody but the police and the yakuza are supposed to have guns.

Meet Arthur Bradley, PhD.

A crony-capitalist outfit named Armatix, which includes an eclectic mix of people, including a former HK gun designer, the last commander of the East German army, and a lot of people whose only skills seem to be lobbying and delivering whatever it is that bends bent legislators, has been trying to sell a marginally functional “smart gun” on the market, without going to the trouble of actually facing the market with their shortcoming-rich products.

When did the Thompson Submachine Gun first see combat? It wasn’t in World War I, everybody knows: it wasn’t ready yet. And it wasn’t in the early British Commando raids of 1940, like the raid on the Lofoten Islands. And it wasn’t in the gangland slayings of the Prohibition Era, not that you can really call them “combat,” as much shooting as they may have entailed.

Or as its full title goes, Bearing Arms—Saving Liberty and Lives. This is Bob Owens’s gun site. Owens has blogged for over a decade at his personal site, once ConfederateYankee.mu.nu, and now bob-owens.com. But BA is an interesting mix of gun policy, gun politics, and a little bit of gun tech.

Bob seems like a likeable fellow, and his site reflects that personality. We personally enjoy reading it.

We didn’t really have time for a full-on W4 this week, so we’re just going to give you this suggestion: get thee hence and see if you like it.  And then c’mon back here tomorrow, where we’ll have something new and cool for you, too.

http://bearingarms.com/

The things you find on YouTube. This is an episode of a forgotten series called The Silent Service which ran for 78 episodes in the late 1950s, we daresay before most of our readers were born. This black-and-white TV show dramatized true events of the United States’s then-diesel-electric submarines and their submariners, principally during war patrols in World War II. American submarines did more than anything, possibly including the nuclear bombing, to bring the Japanese Empire to its knees.

John Ross Harold, 30, wanted gun thief and home invader

This can be seen in some other situations. For example, .45 ACP rounds on a humid day leave a visible trace, and target and trick shooters have used that fact to help them better themselves for years. But here is a short NSSF video on using “trace” — the wake of the bullet — to spot and call a miss on a long rifle range.

For most rifle shooters, you’ll need a pretty long range (and fairly still or at least steady-state wind) to see this. The video was shot at 600 meters or so. Gusts, together with surface and obstacle friction, break up the air masses too much for this to be visible in gusty winds.

Still, it’s a neat pro trick.

Editor’s note: Since the outbreak of a new round of insistent gun-ban advocacy in 2012, we’ve backslid terribly on our original intention to keep politics off the blog. As we wrote, others do this better. However, self-defense is always a natural right, and the bansters haven’t let up, given huge new infusions of government and billionaire dollars. And we’re conceited enough to believe that sometimes we have insights we don’t see those others having.

All you have to lose is your mind. Other than that, this is great stuff.

You couldn’t make this stuff up. The computers not only don’t talk, but ammo clerks — traditionally an Army MOS open to the lowest-IQ soldiers who qualify for nothing else — can’t even copy and paste an ammo request. Instead, they print it out, take it to another computer, and type it in. Every stage introduces new errors into the process.

It’s a silly question, of course, because “this” is shoot a guy full of holes, then menace responding cops with your gun. You’d have that whole Monty Python litany of synonyms for parrot death, plus one we’d add: you’d be perforated to perdition. Not Brendan Cronin, whose scowling, boozy mugshot adorns this page.

We’re neither female, nor albino, nor western, nor prone to autophagy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/10800651/Watch-a-snake-eat-itself.html

Other than that, no comment.

Found in a remarkable Flickr on World War I German Artillery, here’s a Hun with a trio of British duds somewhere in an urban setting (judging from the brick wall and what appears to be a roller shutter behind him).

The IRA and Sinn Fein leader was released Sunday but remains a suspect in the murder of Jean McConville. Other former IRA terrorists have identified Adams as the commander who gave the order for her torture and murder, business as usual for the group from the 1970s to the 1990s. Adams later became an “overt” Sinn Fein politician, and has always maintained a fig leaf of dissociation from the IRA’s indiscriminate and brutal terror war — while always defending it.