Weapons Man

Luis Inoa never knew what hit him. That’s because he was knee-walking, commode-hugging drunk, and staggering around in the traffic lanes of a major Bronx road.

If you’re a Congressional committee chairman, you can get high-handed VA bureaucrats to come to you. But you can’t get them to come clean. Ron Johnson, R-WI, summoned key figures from the VA’s corruption cover-up to the Capitol building, but they were largely unresponsive to an irate bipartisan group of Senators who were looking for specifics, and especially some sign that someone at VA would be held accountable for the multiple, interlocking, metastasizing scandals. They would be disappointed. The bureaucrats were nearly as contemptuous of the Senate as they are of their supposed clients, the veterans.

We have said that dash and body cams, as much as they creep officers out, save a lot more cops’ skins than they put at risk. (On the other hand, the military approach, where the eye on your forehead is being watched in the FOB, in Tampa, or in DC and desk jockeys from all those zip codes are murmuring advice in your ear, is not so good). But having a recording of what cops do from their own point of view is a life- or at least career-saver, and a primo slayer of conspiracy theories.

Of course, you can’t have it if you’re in Libya, North Korea, New York, New Jersey or Massachusetts because it’s a big assault Johnson, but what it is, is a rare Johnson LMG kit, restored onto a semi Johnson M1941 rifle receiver, producing a legal semi-auto Johnson LMG. And you can have it — if you win the auction.

Heather Leavell-Keaton. Not the Mom Of The Year.

Reportedly, air strikes are being flown by Syrian pilots in new aircraft, freshly delivered by Russia. This is an excellent opportunity to exercise our well-oiled skepticism.

OK, so there’s a new toy at the Unconventional Warfare Operations Research Library, and it’s a book scanner. First thing we tried to scan was a 1970s basic training “yearbook.” Like every student yearbook, it’s 95% stock content with 5% varying with each class, being the pictures of the current teachers and graduates. We did a hasty scan of the document, then edited out all the non-gun stuff.

We normally never make a second post on a Sunday, but here’s a deal from SARCO that pumpkins at the end of the weekend (specifically, at 0900 Monday), so here it is, however late. We’ve been happy SARCO customers for so many years we’d have to cut off a leg and count the rings to be sure… a long time. The junk they have changes over the years, but them having fascinating junk is something you can always rely on.

But it isn’t, really. We’re sitting here with an armload of Small Dog, dictating this message. SD and your humble blogger are home alone, after a very social day yesterday, with the rare family dinner out and some hanging out at the blog bro’s house while he and his wife went to a family friend’s wedding.

Meet this fine creepy cat, Jerry Active, who is a hood even when he’s not in a hoodie. He’s also the poster child for ending parole and reinstating the death penalty for child rape, but we’ll get to that.

Two LA landowners, Arcadia de Baker and John Percival Jones gave a VA forerunner, the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 400 acres of property in Los Angeles in 1888. For 80 years their gift was honored, but starting during the Nixon Administration in 1970, the VA, as the successor to the NHDVS, cleared the property of vets and began using it for things that were more rewarding to VA managers and LA movers and shakers. Part of it became UCLA’s baseball stadium. Part became an exclusive golf course. Much was used by well-connected crony corporations for a wide variety of uses. Some was pimped out to local government and its support contractors for uses that the VA finds superior to taking care of vets, like parking old school buses.

For once, the Friday night news dump wasn’t bad news. Last night the news broke that everybody’s favorite Chapter 11 case had received a large contract for up to $212 million for new M4A1 carbines. Or did it?

We’ll cover the usual subjects: Guns, Usage and Employment, Cops ‘n’ Crims, Unconventional (and current) Warfare, and Lord Love a Duck!

This video, tipped to us by a commenter, shows off 240 years of US Army uniforms.

Between Disney and Judgment Juice, she thought she was getting this.

(Note: We’ve got a huge backlog of big stuff here, but the last three days have been airplane-working days as the Blogbro has taken time off his soul-deadening software development job to try to prep parts of the aircraft for the next big round of building. For those following the project, we’ve now completed the prep, final-drilling, deburring, edge breaking, and priming of the skins for the after fuselage and tail cone of the RV-12. Today we’re working on wing parts. What this means, though, is that lot of the long-form content we are working on has been delayed. An example of this is the fortification stories which require lots of research, writing and editing. We still plan to do that stuff, and we have to get ahead of the blog to focus on the day job(s) in the coming week. -Ed).

Deadliest weapon ever devised. Use yours.

Now that the whole world has reacted, emotionally, to the photographs of a drowned kid on a beach, it turns out to be a propaganda photo, much like the misrepresented and tendentiously edited images of Mohammed al-Dura that fabricating French television reporter (and anti-Semite) Charles Enderlin used to promote himself over a decade ago.

We’re always hearing how civilized Japan is. They have almost no crime. They have essentially no guns (hence their invention of Airsoft and replica guns, which they are content to collect, whereas American yout’s seem to collect them in part to hold up 7-11s and threaten cops with, with predictable results). They have a surveillance state they’re so accustomed to that people who move to a new address check in with the cops on arrival.

The OPM Logo: an eagle being stretched on a rack, or maybe drawn and quartered.