Weapons Man

So, here are a number of things that ought to be written about but might not be if I didn’t squeeze them in.

The lede pretty much tells the story of a Georgia vet who got the Animal House treatment 1 from the VA.

Burn, baby, burn. It’s not just for 60’s hippie radicals any more. Well, it’s a college story from NYU, where nobody ever grew up since then, so maybe it is.

Whether the ball is inflated more or less is a true #FirstWorldProblem, and wasn’t on the menu of the original Patriots for whom Belichick and Brady’s band of spheroidal-ball abusers are named. Fortunately, the original Patriots are coming to TV in a scripted historical miniseries, beginning this Sunday, 25 Jan 15, at 2100 R (2000 Central Time). It will run on three Sundays, for two hours each.

There are several kinds of safeties that are used on service weapons to ensure that only the proper and deserving people are shot. They generally interface in some way with the firing mechanism of the firearm. They may act on the trigger, the hammer or striker, or the sear, or (in some fiendishly clever arrangements) more than one of the above. It is generally thought better to positively lock the striker or firing pin than merely to lock the sear or trigger. If the mechanism fails due to parts breakage, it is easier to design a fail-safe mechanism if the striker or firing pin is immobilized.

There’s some questions, but not many answers, in a tragic murder in Virginia last week.

In the Gun Free Victim Disarmament Zone that defines New York City, no one has guns. Except the cops. Nobody but the cops, then. Well, and the criminals who aren’t impressed by laws. That’s it: nobody except the cops and the criminals.

As we get closer to the TV debut of the potentially-interesting Sons of Liberty miniseries, let’s consider one example of the colonial resistance, in light of how similar resistance fared nearer to the center of British power projection, to wit, in Ireland.

That news has the gunosphere going nuts. For the range of comment, you can look at this thread on Reddit — sane and sensible commentary scattered like gold nuggets in a poor vein of, well, the more usual kind of comments. But to the delight of gunnies, the main thrust of the article is that “real Kalashnikovs” will now be made in the USA. That sets the Redditors, particularly, off on jags and spasms of hope and longing for SVDs, SVD-M, Groza, Val and on and on and on.

This is a tale of Smith and Smith — Smith & Wesson, the 150-odd-year-old Western Massachusetts gunmaker, and Herschel Smith, noted gunblogger and friend of vets (and of this blog). Herschel noted this in his Captain’s Journal blog:

The moral leper in this mugshot is Krystle El Khatib, who tried to murder her two kids and then kill herself with apple juice poisoned with prescription drugs she was abusing.

Hatchet man: Mosques that helped radicalize Zale Thompson, aka Zaim Farouk Abdul-Malik, who tried to murder two cops with this hatchet, want a free pass from NYPD. Abdul-Malik had a felony record and bad paper from the Navy.

Just in case you didn’t know that.

And you thought the “K” in KC-135 was for a tanker variant, right?

SHOT is on and We’re Not There. &^$&#^!! So where do you go for show dope? Here’s some recommendations.

In this video, Deputy Kyle Dinkheller is murdered. It is hard to watch, but there is a reason we have to do it: the dead deputy is without influential friends in this world, but the jitbag who engages him in this video was celebrated for the rest of his life. Which fortunately ended on a vinyl-covered slab on the 13th, as the citizens of the great state of Georgia put Andrew Brannan down like the rabid dog he was. Dinkheller left a pregnant wife and kids (a son was born after his death, and will never know his father). The murder took place on 12 January 1998. The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office was a relatively early adopter of dash cams, and so Brannan’s prosecutors had this to work with, and his defense had this to explain away:

So, we’ve mentioned the airplane project, right?

If you’d like us, at some time or other you’ve probably thought, “Gee, wouldn’t it be cool if Brownell’s or Midway had something like Amazon Prime.” Wouldn’t it?

PARA USA provided guns to the new Liam Neeson film, Taken 3. (Well, it’s a new version of the same old Neeson film, as the numeral indicates). And now they have egg on their face, as what they thought was a great marketing opportunity turned toxic. The naturalized American star went out of his way to slime them, other gun manufacturers, and all their customers, in his promotional interviews for the show.

Police in Fairfield, Connecticut got more than they bargained for in a traffic stop recently: the junk in the trunk was radioactive.

Recycling a post from 2012, and a sentiment we have never failed to note on this auspicious day… Happy Rodney King Day.