Weapons Man

Wake up, Bumstead! You’re Fired!

We just don’t have one ready. Sorry ’bout that.

This is what happens when you call the cops — you get your rights violated and you all get shot. Rap video, so it’s not to everyone’s taste. (It’s good as rap goes, though: catchy).

You had to read to the end of Howard Nemerov’s recent column on the primary victory of Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke to learn that Howard, whose writing has been entertaining and informing the gun culture from a position at Pajamas Media since 2010, is calling it quits:

Hey, just because some dumb Congressmen passed a law saying no more bottomless flow of money so that every new service chief can play GI Joes with his troops, doesn’t mean the Army has to follow the law. They’re adopting a new camouflage called the Operational Camouflage Pattern or OCP. It looks a lot like the old OEF Camouflage Pattern or … OCP… but it’s different for reasons we will explain.

One gimmick of the new Taurus 85VTA View, as the last word in its model name suggests, is transparency: the tiny, ultralight personal defense revolver has a clear plastic sideplate letting you see what goes on inside. The other gimmick is size and weight: it has barely any of either, thanks to judicious selection of materials and relentless trimming of its barrel and grip.

Some Sundays there’s a lot going on around here.

You may not remember Richards (l.), but surely you remember the Micturating Marines, a scout-sniper element who were pursued like Ahab pursued the white whale, with Marine Commandant James Amos cheerfully playing the Ahab role, demanding that the convening authority “crush” the offending Marines, legalities be damned.

Just another Friday night in the City of Brotherly Love, and one of the bros apparently played a frenetic paradiddle on the neck of one of his bros. Ah, young love:

Reporters asked about if, and when, the hundreds of VA managers who falsified records to plump up their bonuses, abandoning neglected vets to illness and death, will be held responsible. To this, the VA’s new Secretary says: wait, not so fast, we can’t just hold people accountable. It’s a government job, after all. Kind of like welfare: an entitlement.

From the local paper, we have a list of indictments, and it’s surprising how many of them reflect bad judgment with firearms. Not as many as the drug cases, another form of bad judgment that we’re not going to bother with. (We’ll let some retired medic write that blog).

From GOAL to “own goal.” The once-viable Massachusetts gun-owners’ group, Gun Owners’ Action League (GOAL), found out how they got paid back for supporting gun-control legislation. The organization put its credibility on the line to back a law so extreme that it eliminates the right to own long guns without prior permission from police. How did they get paid back, then? Hah. They didn’t.

The Veterans Administration released a letter they wrote to a congressman via a friendly Associated Press reporter. In the letter, the VA, caught grossly misrepresenting patient deaths due to its screw-the-patients-grab-the-bonus culture

In Russia, the improved RPG-7 replaced the RPG-2 in 1961, but it took years for the improved antitank weapons to filter to the Soviet Union’s client states and it took even longer to get to Soviet-supported terrorists and insurgents, even the ones that the USSR recognized militarily, like North Vietnam. When the new AT weapon emerged, it was immediately a threat to American and Republic of Vietnam aircraft, especially low- and slow-flying helicopters.

Tour d’Horizon is an occasional feature where we comment briefly on links that were interesting, but not interesting enough to trigger our damnable prolixity to the extent of an independent post.

Lawless New Jersey cops slam and bang a crime victim’s guns into confiscation — including an M1A1 carbine and a crossbow. They had to crack safes to get these guns off the street. Er, out of the safes. Feel safe yet, Garden Staters?

Seth Mazzaglia is a fat, lazy bag of crap who’s into kinky sex. Well, it takes all kinds to make a world, right? But it was his private business, his and the women who were into his sort of stuff — the tying-up and beating sort. At least, until he went too far.

A little birdie visited the other day, and among its droppings we discovered a very interesting .pptx document: Its title was HUMAN RESOURCES COMMAND: Briefing to to General Odierno, CSA, 10 July 2014.

10. Write long posts in “Press This” only to have a Safari crash erase your work. (Press This Reloaded is a better option). The good news, is that this frustrates us, not you. You never see what you lost.

This post is a response to a perhaps deservedly snarky comment that was posted to to a recent post on how the Army, mirabile dictu, is actually training smarter for a change.