Weapons Man

One of the coolest guns ever let loose on an unsuspecting world was the “Schmeisser” (as the Allies called it, although Hugo Schmeisser had nothing to do with it; it did use his magazine patent) MP.38 and MP.40 submachine guns.

If you’ve ever been the sort of person who anthropomorphizes your firearms1, you really don’t want to read this article. It is based on photographs at the Riverside, CA Press-Enterprise2 and a press release at an anti-gun steel company named Gerdau. This is what happens to guns that come into the clutches of the LA Sheriff’s Department, and several other local agencies led by anti-gun chiefs. The guns are taken under police guard — police that would be on the streets if these agencies were serious about crime — to the local American plant of the German-Brazilian Gerdau steel company3, a company deeply committed to citizen disarmament.

The US has signed what amounts to a surrender agreement with Iran, giving up all restraints on Iran’s military nuclear weapons development. The agreement validates the President’s Nobel-prize self-image, while allowing the Iranians to proceed with nuclear weapons (so long as they do not test the weapon within eight years), continue to export terrorism, have unfettered access to world arms markets, and as a final insult, abandons the US hostages being held by Iran.

Lt. Col. Kate Germano. (Note: per her husband, she raised her own pistol qual since this official photo).

This really happened on an indoor range. A (presumably nearsighted) elderly gentleman got his pistol stuck just barely out of battery. The gunshop guys rodded the gun to clear the jammed round… only to find out that it was a battery that was out of battery.

Back from its near-death experience at the hands of Chairman Pao, Reddit has a confusing multiplicity of gun forums, or subreddits as they’re called in insider cant.

Nicholas Anthony Rodriguez just couldn’t have gotten any safer, by the measures of Everytown Illegal Mayors Against Guns And Moms. He was in a state that made doing everything firearms-related difficult, if not impossible. And within the state, he was deep inside the state’s most firmly enforced Gun Free Zone. So he will be spending his golden years enjoying his grandchildren, right?

For cartel bosses, jail isn’t like it would be for you. “El Chapo” Guzmán just illustrated that by “breaking out” of his Mexican carcel. We use the scare quotes because nobody thinks the corrupt, thoroughly rotten Mexican government was ever serious about keeping the Sinaloa Cartel head under lock and key.

First, the good news: there’s a new show showing off the bladesmith’s art.

It is a casual day around here. Plaintiff is off at Church; Kid is still abed; Small Dog is back at nap (those two need a lot of recharging). Your Humble Blogger sits at the keyboard, dressed in exercise clothes as a means of self-admonishment to Do The Right Thing (considering his general health, Church might have been the more profitable option).

Apparently it’s a thing in Texas now to slam a vehicle into a business now, and make off with what’s inside: money, jewelry, ATM machine, and in this case, firearms.

We’ve covered… and covered… and covered… the endless Kafka nightmare that is the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Veterans Health Administration, which these days are about 95% about handouts for the bureaucratic insiders and maybe 5% about their ostensible beneficiaries, the vets. And if there’s one thing you can take to the bank with the VA, it’s that no one is ever held accountable1.

So the Army has a handgun problem, so they say. The Beretta M9 works OK (and we have yet to hear a complaint of any kind against the issue SIG M11 or 226/Mk 25, except the usual but-I-like-that–better bitching that troops always do). But after 30 years the Berettas wear out (gee, who saw that coming?)

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

Prohibited person? No sweatie-dah, homey. The Big G is gonna hook you up.

Lt. Col. Kate Germano (USMC Official).

This week industry contenders met with Army evaluators in the final Industry Day for the XM17 Modular Handgun Program, and the most interesting news is that the JAGs are finally on board with using jacketed hollow point ammunition in the new pistol.

It’s not official, and they could still step on their… uh, make a serious error, but as of Thursday night it was highly probable that the three female officers remaining in Ranger School are going to pass the Camp Darby subphase of the school and move on to the second phase in the mountains at Dahlonega, Georgia. The two lieutenants and one major have finally passed the phase, after three attempts (and a considerable rest-up before their third shot). Last week, they passed the RAP Week phase (for each of them, a second time) without drama or difficulty.

At the dawn of World War II, Americans had extremely solid feelings of racial and national superiority. Indeed, throughout the war national propaganda featured propaganda themes that careful analysis would have shown were mutually contradictory: the Japanese were cunning, stealthy, and powerful; yet they were dimwitted, nearsighted, bucktoothed buffoons. These feelings were put to a test when are forces encountered the Imperial Japanese Navy. No one who had faced the Navy’s night gunnery or its world-class carrier pilots in those dark days of the war’s first five or six months came away thinking he’d faced a dimwitted, nearsighted, bucktoothed buffoon — if he came away with body and soul still integrated at all.