Weapons Man

This is a question that requires us to ask another question. It first came up on the website of the little town of Gray, Maine, a suburb of Portland: who is buried in the Civil War grave of Lt. Charles Colley, late of the 10th Maine volunteers? A town clerk, Debi Curry, who was an amateur genealogist, was trying to confirm a longstanding town legend.

SWD — which stood for SW Daniel, Inc. — is a company with an interesting history, from acquiring trademarks and materials in the Sionics / Military Armament Company liquidation, through an iteration called RPB which ended with the three partners in the Federal jug on various drug charges, to reorganization in Atlanta and a series of nasty cases with the ATF at that agency’s Waco-era peak of power. But mostly, they’re known for continuing the production of the MAC-10 and MAC-11 (and M-11/9) submachine guns and pistols.

Got that letter from the examiner. (Actually, our FFL got it some days before we did). BORK. So what’s the problem?

There are different indicia for death, which lead to the discontinuation of life-saving efforts, depending on the situation. An individual who is in hospice care with a DNR (Do Not Rescuscitate order) in place can expect different treatment to a motor vehicle accident victim in the hands of

When the budget gets tight, the Army always finds money for its leaders’ real priorities. If you’re of a certain vintage, you might remember the scores of millions that were blown on the COO or “Consideration Of Others” program, developed by then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s “favorite general,” Claudia Kennedy, and force-fed to the unwilling troops. The idea was to make the Army less warlike and more welcoming to women and girly-men; it was forged where the rabidly ambitious Kennedy spent her whole career, amid the delicate Unique And Special Snowflakes™ of Military Intelligence.

Okay, this is a post about ammunition, and especially, military ammunition, but it also has applicability to police and personal defense use. Now hear this, as the swabbies like to say: Open Tip Match ammunition is not hollow-point ammunition in the sense in which the latter is usually used, to wit, expanding ammunition.

Doctor Evil’s technological dreams, not to mention Auric Goldfinger’s and Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s, are inching closer to reality. That’s the only possible conclusion an avid movie-goer will draw from a fascinating Bill Sweetman article in Aviation Week. 

There are basically two kinds of criminals in the world: TV criminals, who act like they’re staggering geniuses, and real criminals, who act like they’re severely retarded.

Newspapers these days pride themselves on excluding anyone that knows weapons, and especially veterans, from their airtight newsroom monoculture. So you get things like this illustration, which ran in the UK Telegraph with the caption: Alarming: Putin is positioning tanks across Europe. 

In the 1980s, famed gunwriter Col. Jeff Cooper proposed what he called the Gunsite Scout Rifle. Essentially, it was a small, light, compact bolt action rifle, minimally scoped, with as much attention given to totability as to accuracy, and with firepower defined as a strong first shot rather than rapid-fire capability.

We’re dictating this post, because we’re back at home after a roughly 1500-mile one-wy journey, with Small Dog in our arms making displays of doggish affection.

The US Army Airborne Forces are about to celebrate a rare anniversary: the 75th since its establishment. While several nations established parachute forces before the USA, including Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union, most of the others have not operated continuously all that time, raising the possibility that the American airborne arm is senior to all as a matter of continuous operation.

Favorite FFL emailed his list of customers to say that he had some police trade-ins:

Trust us on this: don’t open the bag.

One of the things we’ve mentioned before about SF is that we are either bred to Never Quit, trained to Never Quit, or selected because we congenitally Never Quit.

Here is a Glock pistol with a home-made modification: golf-ball like grip dimples. Whether you like it or not, it’s a personalization the owner is happy with, not that that alone prevents a hack job from getting the dreaded Bubba the Gunsmite label. (After all, some owners have extremely low thresholds of satisfaction).

Recently, there’s been a rash of news stories that more people are dying due to “gun deaths” than to motor vehicle accidents.  “Gun death” is a deliberately vague category that includes suicides and justified homicides, as well as the unlawful homicides and negligent accidents that those selling this line of argument imply are involved.

Ever wonder why even US allies in Latin America lose their faith in us from time to time? (If so, it means you haven’t been watching US policy in the region long, or intently). The latest reason to question the good faith of the US is in our groveling President’s latest self-abasement to Los Hermanos Castros, who celebrated the President’s declaration that they are not terror sponsors in a very predictable way — by sponsoring a terrorist act of mass murder in Colombia.

Thanks to the anti-gun animus of the editors of the Palm Beach Post, who are trying to spin the Aaron Hernandez murder trial into an indictment of gun owners in general, we have a pretty good idea of how one gang member and murderer — Hernandez — got his weapons.

Gotta confess, usually we have a good candidate, or three. But right now we’re drawing a blank for a Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week.