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Well, time for a brief post about doin’s in the World O’ Rangerettes. As we’re outa time, few images. Use your imagination!

On the way out? Beretta M9

An LEO friend was knocked out recently to enter a chain restaurant and find this display:

Today’s Chicago  remains today the city that Mayor Bill Daley built. No, the famously corrupt machine politician never erected a single building, or did anything with construction except shake it down and steer it to friends and family. And his family, thanks to diminishing ability in each subsequent generation, has lost control of the city to Rahm Emanuel and his crime family. But today’s Chicago is a creature of Daley just as today’s Hiroshima-look Detroit is a creature of former Mayor Coleman Young.

The G36 is the standard service rifle of the German Armed Forces, as it has been for about 20 years. But the Bundeswehr has announced that it’s now on the way out, and a solicitation for replacements is out — to all European manufacturers, not just German ones.

This post will likely be meaningless to all but one of you. Still, just for the record —

Jane’s has been to an armaments exhibition in Poland (MSPO in Kielce, PL) where Polish armories have displayed new Polish small arms to the public for the first time. These arms comprise a modular family of 5.56mm small arms, the Modular Small Arms System, whose key gimmick is that the whole family interchanges to standard or bullpup lower-receivers, and a further improved UKM-2000P general purpose machine gun, which was already an improved, NATO-caliber evolution of the PKM, now with improved modularity and ergonomics.

Carcharodon carcharias: business end of a healthy one.

We’ve said this before: almost anything can kill you. Most drownings, of course, are accidental. A very small slice are suicides. A smaller slice yet are homicides, but for centuries humans have exploited the fact that their human counterparties can’t evolve gills before reaching brain damage and death.

Surveillance video of the Great Pillow Fight of 2015. Exercise for the reader: why does ISIL think they can beat us?

Lithuanian troops with the G36. They have been satisfied with the rifle for 10 years, but have now delayed procuring more units until the heat-accuracy issue is resolved.

Don’t get that much these days, but we had a half day of solitude this morning, before lunch with the Blogfather. Blogbrother and family are having a family weekend in a crowd of other vacationmakers, something that, inflicted on Your Humble Blogger, would probably induce him to spill the secret code, and Plaintiff and Kid are off with their friends, and apart from Small Dog, whose needs are, after all, small, we had a Saturday and half a Sunday to do absolute squatto. Alone.

Even if you haven’t ever seen this B-movie before, you’ve seen this one before: the man-against-training movie, in this case, SAS Selection in the modern day, starring Tom Hughes .

In a country where sane people are locked up in gated communities and the crazies are running around loose, it would be insane to expect things like this to stop happening.

Here’s what you get when you trust the government to do much of anything: the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Thomas Wiegold’s Augen geradeaus (Eyes front!) website is a must-read for anyone interested in Bundeswehr politics and policy. He has had a lot of coverage of the G36 which you can read at this link, newest on top; we’re grateful to the commenter who sent us this link. We’re going to translate Wiegold’s second most recent post, because it includes the complete text of the BW official statement on the new purchase. From this statement, it’s easy to see how people could get the idea that this was the Endlösung for the Frage G36. However, if you read all of Wiegold’s G36 posts (which we recommend you do, even if you have to

Sure, it’s Labor Day weekend here in the US (we can’t have the same labor day as most of the world, because Commies), and so hardly anybody’s going to be reading WeaponsMan.com. That’s OK, you can catch up when the kayaks are  back in school and the salt water is rinsed off the kids…. Naturally, we’ll cover the usual subjects: Guns, Usage and Employment, Cops ‘n’ Crims, Unconventional (and current) Warfare, and Lord Love a Duck!

File photo. This deader wasn’t smelling any more, so nobody in Philadelphia could have followed their nose to him.

2004
DVBID, BZB, Entomology and Ecology Activity, Vector Ecology & Control Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO.
This photograph depicts an adult male Oropsylla Montana flea, formerly known as Diamanus Montana.
This flea is a common ectoparasite of the ground squirrel, Spermophilus spilosoma, and in the western United States, is an important vector for the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the pathogen responsible for causing plague.

From time to time, someone imposes, or attempts to impose, a tradition on some military unit or other. Sometimes these traditions stick, especially when they connect to traditions from an earlier time, like the Stetson hat worn for ceremony by cavalry units.