Weapons Man

Usually a sequel is a letdown from the original, often a huge letdown (Jaws 2, the last several Star Wars abortions). On occasion, make that, on very rare occasions, it’s better (Godfather 2; Mad Max II/The Road Warrior). This is not one of those very rare improved sequels. Although at least it does not sink to the level of Jar Jar Binks,

Really, why does anybody need an SUV anyway? They’re just deadly assault extensions of 1%ers’  narcissism, right? They’re just”compensating,” as any number of paid PR flacks for the gun control satraps like to say.

The ramps dropped on landing craft on two American, two British, and one Canadian landing zones as the promise of European liberation became the reality.

“Hognose,” you are thinking, “has lost his ever-lovin’ mind.” Unless you were long in the service, in which case you will substitute a stronger term for “ever-lovin’.” Because, after all, the low-production FG42, which had a great influence on US postwar weapons development, is miles from today’s modular M4, which developed from a completely different concept, the SCHV (Small Caliber High Velocity round) and the selective-fire assault rifle.

Let us redirect your attention from the tale of bugout, betrayal, abandonment, and impending defeat and enslavement that is the lot of those Iraqis and Afghans who stood with us in the last decade. Let us instead consider the betrayal and abandonment of a key US ally in the waning days of the Cold War, when the bleak grip of Marxism as prophesied by Castro and Ortega was closing over several Latin American nations, and most of the rest had barely-better caudillos in uniform.

The papers are making a lot of “knockout” jokes, as the police in New York City are hunting for Gloribels Serrano, the comely lady whose picture graces this post. See, she was playing the “knockout game” — for keeps. Either that or she mistook another woman’s head for a golf ball, and a tire iron for a nine iron. Thwack!

And, given the established subject of this blog, you know that our reference is to machine guns, not to the products of Morris Garages.

There’s the old double-charge. Since this late, lamented Colt Anaconda is… er, was a .44 Mag (which is hard to double-charge without obviously spilling powder) a more likely explanation is an oversized load of something fast-burning.

We saved the best for last, so if you can only watch one, watch that one.

JD Tuccille and friends at Reason Magazine have had a couple of stories in the last couple of days about guns in places where guns are forbidden: Cambodia and Vietnam.

This time Guns.com has the goods, combining an ABC News report with a remarkable statement from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

The catalog for the Rock Island Auctions regional auction came yesterday, and it made us think about catalogs. Over the years, they have changed; in boyhood, there were always some kind of gun catalogs or wishbooks around. Heck, Ruger used to advertise on the back pages of comic books. Even then, there were several kinds of catalogs:

As everyone knows during this media-bimbo-and-PR-dolly generated Gun Violence Awareness Month, violence is caused by guns… evil guns… guns, sitting, scheming, cooking up nefarious plots, spreading contumely about Grabby Giffords, jimmying their ways out of safes and closets and holsters and gunning down innocents.

As any mishap investigator can tell you, a major accident, like a plane crash, is the exclamation point at the end of a long sentence whose verb(s) is or are one or more errors. Usually the errors are by pilots, but in the pre-delivery test flight crash of an Airbus A400M Atlas in Seville last month has exposed an error chain in the company. The pilots, among four crewmen who perished in the wreckage (two others survived), were blameless.

A local TV station reports something good coming to a popular tourist attraction in Virginia:

Can you guess?

In New Jersey, of all places.

It was not a gun death. Indeed, it was a death that might have been prevented by a gun.

Officials from the US Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, from the Infantry School and the Ranger Training Brigade, wanted to have anything but a frank discussion. So they slipped the word onto the wires Friday night: Class 7-15 of the US Army Ranger School has completed the Camp Darby phase of training.

Care to guess?