Weapons Man
What’s a Target Shooter Like?
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) wants us to know that today’s target shooter is not like the one from even a few years ago. You think of target shooters is typically middle aged, white, male, more likely to be rural that urban. While those shooters are still plugging away, the new shooters are younger, increasingly female, increasingly minorities (although this doesn’t come up in the infographic), and often urban and suburban.
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Counter-ISIL Strategy: Designed to fail.
The president has a simple, straightforward strategy for combating ISIL in the Middle East. But there’s just one problem with it: it’s designed to fail.
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“Non-Traditional Legal Analysis” of Self-Defense Case
Surely you remember the George Zimmerman trial? We mean the one in the courtroom where he was acquitted in about the length of time it took the jury to choose a foreman. But we understand if you may be thinking of the much louder one that took place in the media, where the President and the press sentenced him to be hung, drawn and quartered, salted, boiled and eaten, with the trial to follow, in no particular rush since the outcome was already res judicata and known far and wide.
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When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have iron bars
“A weapon,” we are fond of saying, “is where you find it.” That is true whether your intentions are good and defensive, as are most people’s, or ill and offensive, like this guy’s:
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“Book” Link: the Rhodesian African Rifles
Most of the writing about the Rhodesian Army concentrates on three specific units: the Rhodesian Light Infantry, the SAS, and the Selous Scouts. One of the most effective regiments in the Rhodesian army was the Rhodesian African Rifles, a unit in which other ranks were all black natives, and which led, or tried to, anyway, in developing black African officers. The RLI was a white unit, as was the SAS; the Scouts were a mixed-race unit, like the RAR.
...Holy Fallschirm! Original FG42 falls short… of $300k. Barely.
The standount seller at the Rock Island Auction last week was the German FG42 Type II, lot number 1465. It blew through the estimate of $160-240k and was finally knocked down at $299,000. Here’s a picture (and it does embiggen).
...Setting in Sunday
What’s setting in?
...Saturday Matinee 2014 038: Shooter (2007)
When Mark Wahlberg was named to play the part of Marcus Luttrell in Lone Survivor, we cringed. Everybody we knew cringed. Everybody who knew Marcus really cringed. And one reason we cringed is because of this dreadful movie, featuring that same Wahlberg falling entire grid squares short of the compelling character created by Stephen Hunter in the novel Point of Impact.
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ISIL VBIED with American Suicide Operator
Meet al-Hurayra al-Amriki, the last bit of which means “the American.” He blew himself up in an attack on the Syrian Army in Jebel al-Arba’een in Idlib Province on 25 May 14. (Al-Hurayra, “The one with the kitten,” was one of the companions of Mohammed; al-Qaeda’s glamor shot of his suicidal namesake shows him holding a kitten, presumably his love interest).
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The Greatest Jet Never – the TSR-2
These short newsreels depict the TSR.2, a revolutionary warplane that was quietly taken out and shot (literally; the protype ended up on a tank range as a target) by a declining Britain in 1966.
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Whining Their Way Up: Women Demand Equal Results for Unequal Effort
Some months ago, in April, actually, we noted the whinging of failed Marine infantry officer Sage Santangelo. She bombed out of the infantry officers’ course, and then hit the WaPo in a welter of finger-pointing.
...SPARTY, Circa World War I
This grainy, moïre-wracked image comes from American Machinist, Volume L (50) Jan-Jun, 1919.
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When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have lighters
Anyone who’s ever read a gun control organization’s website knows, accidents are a reason to Do Something!!!1!
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