Weapons Man

This is one of those Wednesday Weapons Websites of the Week, where we send you out to make your own experience. The reason is that there is an almost unlimited amount of quality information available here, but it’s all information that’s going to need to be winkled out using some awkward search facilities.

We’ve long suspected that some reporters, including Pete Yost of the Associated Press, Carrie Johnson of Narodniy Politichesky Radio, and Sari Horwitz of the LA Times, were in the pocket of the Holder DOJ and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. But information in documents pried out of the DOJ by a Judicial Watch lawsuit expose the extent to which the government agents actually dictate the stories to those, and other, reporters.

You guys may remember the Ghost Gunner, the open-source CNC mill that we ordered a couple of months ago. According to the makers, the initial units should be shipping RSN1. Cody Wilson hasn’t been on the blog since November, but we didn’t share that update with you guys yet.

Let’s adumbrate about tanks again. Fascinating things, although we always took Willie and Joe’s words to heart: a movin’ foxhole attracks th’ eye. (Alas, the only version of that classic we could find does not embiggen). Anyway, our interest has been more, shall we say, historical curiosity than professional.

We’ve been sitting on this one for a while. It’s a reminder that even a safe job, in the military, may not be, 100% of the time. The US Air Force continues to rely on KC-135 tanker jets as the backbone of its ability to project global airpower. The KC-135 was, and is, a brilliant airplane, but the very newest one in the Air Force inventory dates to 52 years ago, which is a very, very long time for something made by the lowest bidder, especially something made of fatigue-prone aluminum.

It’s this simple:

Here’s a new IG report by the VA IG, following up on a February report where they found the WJB Dorn VA Medical Center, Columbia, SC deficient in 12 major areas.

We remember seeing the 6921 as it shook out of the box yesterday. It came with a maybe-good-we-dunno Rogers Super-Stoc, which is not what we had in the hills of the Hazarajat.

It used to be that just applied to the Ed.D, but we just saw the following in a report written by a Ph.D.

Moreover, for the first time in many years, [he statistic we’re measuring] is down by over 4% percent.

Four hundredths of a percent! That’s pretty good. Of course, that’s not what she meant.

Now, this was not in a blog post or some throw-away document. It was in a freaking end-of-year report. With her signature on it: “Cathy Innumerate, Ph.D., Director.” (The name has been changed to protect the guilty).

Or, if you’re an expert on Islam like our Vice President, this is just “workplace violence.” Because Islam is the Religion of Peace™.

Question before the Court: is this a deadly weapon?

In our neck of the woods, the big city is pop 28k or so. And some of those teeming thousands are a half a bubble or so off plumb.

Objective: build the best possible transferable replica of an Afghanistan, early war, Special Forces carbine. Specifically the one we toted around Kandahar, Bagram, and on Operation Roll Tide with the 3rd Battalion of the Afghan National Army in the Khamard and Madr Valleys of central Afghanistan.

It’s a good day to reflect on the days past, the fellows served with, the ones still serving, the families still waiting.

Last night’s “Friday Tour d’Horizon” is still hanging fire at the moment, so we’ll pull a little bit about tools out and expand it here.

We prowl the halls of GunBroker, half looking for stuff to buy, and half looking for edutainment. This is an example of the latter, in that we never knew it existed: a Beretta 92/96 Combo, which appears to be a factory set with slide/barrel/recoil-spring units in 9mm and in .40 S&W.

Apart from the Norks, who are in a class by themselves, it’s hard to find a government worldwide that’s less able to laugh at itself than that of the Islamic Revolutionary Republic of Iran. They don’t even like it when we laugh at them.

Since Colt’s near-default last month, a lot of gun enthusiasts have been suggesting that Colt has an easy way back from the brink — it could just bring back the Python.

Accidentally or deliberately, you can kill yourself with practically anything. 

A 21-year-old college student was found dead in a dumbwaiter at the bar and grill where she worked in a small western Wisconsin town, authorities said on Tuesday.

There was no indication of foul play and authorities were investigating how the Winona State University student got into the food elevator at WingDam Bar and Saloon, Fountain City Police Chief Jason Mork said in a statement.

The woman, identified by the school as Brooke Baures from Chetek, Wisconsin, was found dead on Monday evening.

via College student found dead in Wisconsin restaurant dumbwaiter – Yahoo News.

This is a hell of a tragedy for her parents, family and friends, but for the rest of us it’s a stone mystery. How in the name of all that’s holy do you perish in a dumbwaiter?

Maybe she was a dumb waitress?

Morale at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is this low. So low it’s gotta look up to see snake bellies. So low it’s measured in degrees Kelvin. So low that Robert Ballard and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute can’t get to it, even with an ROV drilling for cores. That’s how low.