Weapons Man

Beware, beware, the wardrobe of doom; its drawers that slide, its weight that crushes.

Sure, you have to go out. The flip side of that old Coast Guard saying is: “…you don’t necessarily have to come back.” Rescue Swimmer Darren Harrity went out and came back and did it over and over again to rescue four fishermen whose boat was hard aground in pounding waves. This picture shows it the next day, wrecked along the shore, but the night of the rescue — it’s always at night, isn’t it? — the men were in a lifeboat 250 yards offshore, through pounding waves and treacherous rocks, from dry land.

Guns and uniforms change. but progress eludes maintenance and storage. Q: Do you maintain your car like you did in 1955? Your home?

Like any other gun, depends on who’s shooting it, eh? Here’s Jerry Miculek.

Behold, one more iteration of The Mug Of Bat Guano Crazy: Dynel Lane.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Iranian (IRGC)-controlled, Iranian-led, Shi’a sectarian militia, the Badr organization:

Well-known (and respected) trainer Kyle Defoor was conducting training at for a military unit when one of the unit’s long guns went down, due to this:

As July — our favorite month, as the too-short summer at 43º North Latitude is our favorite season — winds to a close, we have enjoyed a morning of showers that are expected to yield to a partly sunny day.

Here’s the latest in our occasional (supposed to be regular) weekly wrap-ups, named for the successful British TV show and its non-as-successful American knock-off of the early ’60s, That Was the Week that Was, or TW3 to save time. We really, seriously, are going to get an updated logo for this feature one of these days, when all the other stuff on the to-do list is done.

A fellow could get hurt doing this — that’s the case for just flying the planes of World War One. By the time of the events in this film, 1917, the machines were far more sophisticated and deadly to their enemies than the start-of-war machinery had been; they don’t seem to be very much safer for the friendlies, either.

Murda, Schmurda. The pachyderm on the right is the girlfriend of a rapper who just happens to be, in what is surely a remarkable, strange and coincidental juxtaposition, a career violent criminal.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services’s new Model Citizen, Mohammod Abdulazeez, is about to get thousands of brethren.

Here’s another embedded video from Full30.com’s InRange TV, where Ian and Karl do their level best to destroy a Cav Arms polymer lower.

Due to time pressure, we’re going to limit this to simple links-and-lines tonight. Sorry ’bout that, Chief.

This video is something you might want to skip. It’s American wingsuit jumper Ian Flanders tumbling to his death in a low-quality spectator video, followed by an interview shot shortly before by a Turkish TV crew. Flanders died, his friends will say, doing what he loved.

Who was it that turned up in a raid on an industrial pot facility? Everybody’s The President’s favorite deserter1, who’s supposed to be in the jug awaiting trial for desertion, turned up in a massive marijuana raid in California.

Screenshot from Shooting Sports Retailer, generally a really good online trade mag:

We’ve all heard this bluster before:

The girl, Maria Butina, isn’t too shabby either. More on her in a moment.

Outlawing guns, as Britain did for handguns and many long guns after a series of spree killings in the 1990s, has the salutary side effect of eliminating all accidental deaths.