Weapons Man

From the 1940s to the coming of the M4, when you talked about “a carbine” in the gun shop, everybody knew you meant the Carbine, the US .30 Carbine M1. Which was produced from 1942 to 1945 in such numbers that it took us until about fifty years for supply to tighten up.

You may have been to Full30.com already, as it’s the home of InRangeTV, which we’ve been remiss about promoting, and have been meaning to plug. We’ll let Ian and Karl explain what InRange is:

A series of lawsuits have been pursued by a variety of ambulance chasers against Remington over the model 700 rifle, thanks to TV publicity about some accidents. In most of these accidents it seems that someone was careless with the gun ,but after negligent-discharge remorse, came to forget the carelessness. Instead, they conveniently blame the gun, its safety and trigger, and since you can’t slake your greed by suing yourself and your own property, Remington’s deep pockets. It was a case of mass hysteria like the Audi “unintentional acceleration” cases — imagine the Salem witch hunts of 1692 with an added profit motive.

There is a downside to having the sort of personal characteristics that Special Forces either selects for, or develops in, a guy. Prominent among these characteristics is a level of persistence that is not normally found in neurotypical human beings.

The following very brief video (00:35) shows some proposed designs for subcaliber fin-stabilized rounds for 12-gage shotgun.  Previous attempts at discarding-sabot ammunition failed because the sabot failed to separate, yielding an unstable, tumbling (and velocity- and energy-shedding) projectile.

“Places we don’t want stoners to sit,” for $500, Alex!

As the nation reacts to a disputed report about historical “torture,” which will let the media focus relentlessly on something other than today’s foreign and defense policy failures, we’re reminded of the arguments over torture, or “torture.” Some of the things in dispute have been:

Open wide! Cha-chunk.

It is a tradition in the great militaries of the world that between wars, sniping becomes a neglected art. It’s neglected because it’s hard, because training for it is costly, and because the principal product of your snipers, actionable intelligence, is little appreciated in the peace time army.

Or maybe it’s pistol-smite-in’. This eye-wounding monstrosity was in an ARFCOM thread. Bubba the Gunsmith is alive in Pennsylvania:

Ride along, thanks to GoPro, with Meg, an African (or “Effrican” as Kevin Richardson, who must be South Effrican himself, puts it) lioness, as she hunts.

We did flag you, our readers, to this TV show last month, saying:

Would you trust your diplomatic Mission to this guy?

The media have a narrative that gun sales are declining or falling.

Some days, very little happens.

Isn’t that good?

Luke Somers reportedly died Friday, murdered by Islamic terrorists when a hostage rescue attempt kicked off. Somers was an American photojournalist working in Yemen, who had been taken hostage, and his captors had scheduled his execution. When the rescue attempt landed, his captors did what they always threaten to do, and murdered him. A South African hostage, Pierre or Pieter Korkie, was also murdered.

Here’s a rare assault rifle, one you don’t see often in its standard select-fire iteration out in the world, and one you see even less often in its semi auto US import version, the importation of which ceased in the 1990s and has never been resumed.

…which is French for, clearing the tabs. After we dispose of a couple of administrative points.

This is one of many types of Australian stormwater drain. It took some doing to get the kid in, if it was like this one.