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…aka “Die, tabs, die!”

When he posted the lawsuit online, Cody R. Wilson didn’t say much:

It looks like a routine domestic if you just snip a bit of the story from Michigan:

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Lee Williams has had it with polymer AK mags, and this is his reason:

Meet Jazs Bronner. He’s probably going to be the only guy in state prison in Pennsylvania for parricide… by dumbbell. Yeah, he beat his septuagenarian father’s head in with an exercise weight.

First, let’s show a picture that’s not from Ranger School, but that shows a specific Army woman’s grit and determination. Captain Sarah Cudd is at the very limit of her endurance finishing the 12-mile march for the Expert Field Medical Badge. The EFMB test, modeled on the EIB test with many changes to adapt for the difference between medical skills and grunt skills, is at least as hard, and similarly culminates in a 12-mile march with light combat equipment, a march that is murder on those that don’t do it regularly.

Despite the name, Tam Keel’s website isn’t really a view from her porch. Not usually, anyway. (And it isn’t always about what its URL suggests: books, bikes, boomsticks… in fact, those things usually show up in the inverse frequency). So what is in, then? It’s a view from her home in Indiana, or from the range (she gets there a lot, and is carving out a career as a “real” gun writer) or from the road as she drives around and takes photos of things that catch her eye.

Meet Lacey Spears. She was a mommy blogger in upscale Westchester County, New York, who obsessively chronicled her only child, son Garnett, on a blog and a bunch of other social media platforms. Garnett, she wrote, couldn’t gain weight… as he struggled with some mysterious illness. He was hospitalized, he endured surgeries… he never seemed to get better; indeed, every time he went home from the hospital, he inexplicably got worse.

After USA Today wrote this story, they had to update it. But the story of a former SF soldier who went from walk-on to starter at the football-taken-seriously University of Texas, took a new turn when Nate Boyer tried to walk on at the Seattle Seahawks.

In April, we bought two lots adding up to four firearms from Rock Island Auction’s online auction. One was a Walther Model 8 pistol, and the other was a collection of three Eastern European pistols: an East German Makarov, a Czech Vz52 service pistol and a Czech Vz50 pistol.

Ray Moore and family members salute Brian. Photo credit: Mike Shain/TimesLedger Newspapers

…and, maybe, surveillance bots, but in the first couple of days of May we exceeded a million hits for 2015.

So yeah, we’re going to break a million hits this year again. Pretty confident of that, actually.

Unique visitors are much lower: around 700k.

So what’s the difference between “hits” aka “visits” and “unique visitors”?

If you come to look at a page on Weaponsman, that’s a hit. If you follow six stories to read the comments, that’s at total of seven hits.  If you come back the same day and look at four more pages, that’s a total of eleven hits.

But unless your Internet Protocol (IP) address has changed, that’s only one “visit.”

If you come back the next day, even with the same IP address, that’s a new “visit.” And of course, it’s credited to the new day.

At least, that’s how the stats package that we use here works.

Every visit and every visitor is humbly appreciated. Well, maybe not the bots, but the human visitors are very welcome.

Apparently, we’re not the only ones sending the Boston-area DA a message about the Bill of Rights.

The Ballad of the Green Berets is one of the most well-known military songs on the planet. In 1966, it was actually the No. 1 song of the year on the popular charts, based on Joel Whitburn’s calculations; it stayed at the Number One position for many weeks as it was assaulted by classic pop from the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and all the other leading lights of 60s rock ‘n’ roll, not to mention the standards singers who were still charting occasionally, and the novelty songs.

We’re hearing rumblings about something we’ve discussed before: the parlous financial state of the privately held, and hedge-fund-looted, firearms manufacturer, Colt.

Here’s a remarkable book review by Algus Valiunas at The Weekly Standard, about the Sieges of Leningrad — the famous 900-day one by the Nazis, and the longer and bleaker one by home-grown Soviet communists — and their relation to Dmitri Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, named (but not by the composer!) the Leningrad. 

On 30 Apr 15, the New York Post introduced murder victim Jerwaine Gorman as an “activist” who was, in the words of a friend, “uplifting the community.”

Hess: all your data are belong to us, and you’re a criminal if you encrypt it.