Weapons Man

We need to find all the nut cases in the world and turn them into fertilizer. For The Children™.  Either that, or we have to accept that sometimes horrible things happen to innocent people who in no way, shape, or form deserve to be visited by such horrors. What horrors? Read on.

This ties in very loosely to the physical security project. Perusing a book on network and communications-systems security for an unrelated project (Threat Modeling: Designing for Security by Adam Shostack) we discovered a few concepts worth lifting and sharing.

Graphically, this website is all over 1998, which is the year it first stood up. But the information contained within Stephen P. Wenger’s “Defensive Use of Firearms” website spans many decades, from 1950s FBI instructional videos on “point shooting” to some of the latest debates in the defense training community. (Well, in truth, a lot of the “latest debates” are the same old debates with a new coat of paint).

Both of these views have been hanging out there since January, but we’re just getting to them now.

In the world’s quest for perfect safety and security, did anyone remember to turn off the power and revert to the mid-19th Century?

This excellent true story from the FBI recounts the careful start and ugly end of an attempted foreign penetration of a US intelligence agency. It is well-produced and well-acted (somewhat unusual for government message films).

We haven’t done one of these in a while, and here’s one that’s a little more targeted than most: cops shooting people they didn’t intend to shoot, which is a bit of an epidemic right now. Police Mag has a category of negligent discharges (which they call “accidental,” because Thin Blue Line)  but hasn’t updated it since last year.

What’s the right reaction to some punk piddling in a reservoir? Here’s the evidence of the evil deed:

This bit of bozosity emanated from the ids of the subgeniuses at Bloomberg’s latest coin-op astroturf gang. He pays these minions who do this stuff. Hat tip Miguel.

The Wall Street Journal had on Saturday a thoroughly reported story on US and allied efforts to arm the Syrian rebels.

One really good way is to fire a .300 BLK in a 5.56mm rifle. Here’s a story of such an event, from a bystander who talked to the lucky (to escape serious injury) shooter, who was transformed in milliseconds from an AR owner to a former AR owner in possession of some scrap metal.

Once, a powerful nation raised this date — not this day – to a national holiday, celebrating the birth of its cruel dictator, and vowing millennial endurance. That nation is long gone; its treasured symbols have transited through a period in which they were objects of hate, deodands of a sort, to a new day in which they are the bloodless curiosities of collectors.

A day late, a dollar short, this is the Week 16 TW3, backdated.

Film critics loved this movie, both in this 2002 English-dubbed “exploitation” reissue with US-looking forces on the cover, and in its original Russian iteration Peshawar Waltz in 1994. We didn’t.

In Part 1 we discussed the general need for and benefits of a Physical Security Plan. any plan has to have an objective, and so that is our next task: to define the objective of the plan. Also, the plan must conform to principles of physical security.

Recently, we attended a local 3D printing seminar put on by Alpha Imaging, the New England/Northeast representation for giant vendor 3D Systems. It was very enlightening, and we came away with a lot of ideas for 3D printing, scanning, and software that apply both to our firearms activities and also to our more general defense and aerospace consulting efforts.

“Burn, baby, burn.” In Massachusetts, it turns out, it’s barely a crime. And it has fire officials hot under their turnout collars. A typically soft-on-crime Massachusetts judge — of the ilk that sentences a pedophile to house arrest in the same house with the victim*, or lets a serial rapist take some “me time” before sentencing, which turns into 35 years as a fugitive — wants to resolve dozens of arsons, at least nine of which the arsonists did after the cops started tracking them to fire sites with a GPS bug, with a tap-on-the-wrist short sentence.

Jane’s Infantry Weapons is an annual yearbook published by Jane’s Information Group.

The Army’s experimenting with automated round-counting systems in the interests of better maintenance.