Weapons Man
This is Why We Don’t Click on faux-viral Clickbait
Lame, lame, lame. One of those buzzfeed- and gawker- like “clickbait” aggregators teased customers with this come-on:
...Brownells has Retro M16A1 Barrel Assemblies
These barrels are made to M16A1 spec and are marked: MFR 12238 CHROME BORE 1:12 under the handguard. (As they’re marked with not-period-correct laser engraving).
...Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week: Handguns of the World
Before we dive into this website, we want to ask you a question: what is the serial number of this Browning Hi-Power?
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ATF Immunity: Not Just for Mexican Druglords
This could be a “when guns are outlawed” story, because it’s about a mass murder you probably haven’t heard about. You haven’t heard about it, because it took place without guns — but with the eager cooperation of America’s famous gun police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Large-Scale Clandestine Production of Small Arms
There are a number of designs out there for “resistance” type submachine guns that circulate on the net and are available in books. Many are familiar, for example, with P.A. Luty’s Expedient Homemade Firearms: the 9mm Submachine Gun that landed Luty in hot water with Scotland Yard, or with the work of Bill Holmes (a pseudonym); many of these books date from the golden age of the survivalists in the 1970s and 1980s.
...Custom .45 Comparo: Colt vs. Baer.
A couple of Reddit /r/guns 1911 fans had a throwdown a week or two ago: switching custom shop pistols, what did they like and not like about each other’s?
...If You’re Not Reading Forgotten Weapons, You’re Wrong.
If you’re not reading Forgotten Weapons.com, you’re wrong.
...When Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Sticks
Not sure we’ve had “sticks” before. We seem to remember “an object” being the most prosaic murder weapon yet in this series. But when guns are outlawed, as they are in the strict gun-control state of India, and you absolutely, positively, have to murder somebody today, turns out there’s plenty of options. Twenty-four angry villagers went with, “sticks.”
...Coast Guard Sinks Syndicate’s Sub
It sounds like a story from World War II: the stealthy grey shark, the hunting surface combatants, the hints of radar and other electronic wizardry. But the U-Boat that went down was a semi-submersible from an unidentified (at least in public) drug trafficking organization.
...Mossberg .22 kB!
This is what an out-of-battery fired .22LR round looks like, afterwards.
...The Defense Distributed Court Case
Some months now, the case is been proceeding through the courts. It features the very small open-source firm, Defense Distributed, against the very large United States Government. In a free speech case that closely parallels the de facto repeal of the 1st Amendment sought by State Department functionaries under the ITAR laws, DD is fighting to be able to release its software on the Internet.
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The Spy’s Reward
A book excerpt in the Atlantic (single-paged by Yahoo News at the link below) tells the sad story of Adolf “Adik” Tolkochev, a Russian electronic engineer who passed the technical details of many Soviet radar systems to United States intelligence officers, until he was betrayed by an American double agent and got the spy’s reward.
...You Can Dictate the Result if you Run the Test
In this remarkable video, West Point instructor then-LTC Art Alphin, USAR, conducts a test of the practical combat accuracy of the M14, M16A1 and AK-47, and proves conclusively that the M14 is vastly superior to the weak AK and M16. How does he get that result? Watch first, then we’ll tell you.
...Subday Submergence
Lately we’ve been taking a deep dive into submarine warfare, both historic and more recent. As ever in war, there are fascinating stories of weapons and of men, some of which have seen print (well, seen pixel) this week and some which are yet to come.
...Saturday Matinee 2015 32: Against the Sun (2014)
If you only knew that Against the Sun was a WWII Pacific movie, you’d probably think the protagonists’ enemy would have been the Rising Sun of Imperial Japan. But no; the Japanese play no role here, in this true story of a three-man Douglas TBD Devastator crew from VT-6 of USS Enterprise, a few weeks after Pearl Harbor shook them out of the peacetime Navy, fighting to survive in the merciless, trackless Pacific. The antagonist sun is not the stylized maru of the Empire of Japan, but a more deadly enemy: Sol itself.
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