Weapons Man

“Ah, Banzai, ha hah! Nothing to it, man, a good day on the range.”

Caleb at Gun Nuts Media recounts a close encounter of the “homeless” (i.e. smelly bum) kind, and rounds it off with some general advice about situational awareness when exercising:

Appointed Senator, and former non-Federally-recognized Montana National Guard Adjutant General John Walsh has seen the writing on the wall and pulled out of his Senate race today:

In St. Louis, pharma billionaire Dennis N. Jones takes second to none in charity, and the charities he supports are hardscrabble ones helping hardscrabble people:

Apparently a guy in Rhode Island didn’t need a gun to beat a guy to death last week. Shocker, eh? Stand by, we have another shock for you.

One of Cambodia’s many chilling memorials to KR days. From a travelogue by Lauren Irons.

Here is a lineup of MA politicians at some worthless hack or other’s funeral:

French 1935A pistols are uncommon, not “rare” – except in this condition, and with an Indochina period rig. In stock at Pre98.com.

The Veterans Administration has become a Joe Isuzu of government, stonewalling, lying and misleading in almost every contact with Congress, the press, and the public, despite having dozens and dozens of PR flacks, every one of whom has a top 1% pay and benefits package. Reporters could probably save seas of ink by just reporting exceptional news: when a VA spokesman tells the truth. Of course, that would lead to empty columns.

Having just been through the rodeo of safe-buying, and about to do it again, we came away with some wisdom we’re willing to share with you. If you learn from our pain, you will experience less of your own when you do this, so we’re putting it out there.

Read the following, and form a mental picture of the two boys (one 12, one 16) described in the story.

You know, roller coasters are generally safe. Improvising your own roller coaster from the top of an elevator generally isn’t. We realize that this is one from Captain Obvious’s Big Book of Patent Tautologies, but apparently no one gave that book to “Beboo,” and now Beboo has a boo-boo that will not heal this side of the Choir Invisible in which he now sings. Fox News:

Paula Pedene had arrived. One of the VA’s 50-odd top PR flacks, she had 6-figure pay, benefits approximately double that of her private-sector counterparts, and a job that required short hours and little effort. Her principal duty seems to have been noting, on social media and websites, the disease-of-the-month or -day, as designated by various government “awareness” programs. She was comfortable in the 1%, ensconced in a cushy job easier than some people’s retirements.

A Hewitt, Texas policeman had a rather embarrassing injury last month while conducting some firearms training for his family, the Waco Tribune reported.

Oldest trick in the guerrilla warfare book. A little something extra in the occasional mortar round, or in this case, 7.62 x 39mm cartridge.

The US did this as a psychological operation in the Vietnam War, designed to shake the NVA’s confidence in their Russian and Chinese weapons suppliers. The Germans did it to the Russians in World War II.

Now, is someone doing it to the jihadis? Or did this guy just get a bad ice cube in his cocktail of death-to-whomever this morning? We can’t say. Certainly, Comblock ammo manufacture was a bit dodgy, and some of the Arab and Iranian ammo plants make Vodka Friday at Soviet State Arsenal No. 5376 look like a routine day shift at a Swiss medical device factory.

Of course, in 2014, when your AK reverts to kit form in your very hands, somebody’s got you on GoPro or cellphone video. Smile, Hadji, you’re an intertubes celebrity. Pity he didn’t get this on Ian’s new high-speed camera.

There’s an old saying that a conservative is a liberal who just got mugged. (A liberal? That’s a conservative who just got indicted!) Anyway, one New Jersey couple, who were very uncomfortable with the idea of firearms in their life, became True Believers in a hurry. From blogger Julie on Politics:

The Dishonest Person of the title is the National Review’s A.J. Delgado. We’re not calling her “dishonest” because she’s a lawyer, a profession built upon the bedrock of lying for a living, but because of specific statements and claims made in her pro-Scruff-Face piece, Justice for Jesse: Ventura Was Right in His Lawsuit, published on 30 July 14.

A section of a Firearms, Ammunition, Parts and Optics inventory spreadsheet (details redacted).

And hoping you have a good Sunday, too.

Unless you’re Fred Phelps or one of his inbrood.

Of course, Fred’s gang doesn’t like us much either:

(As you can probably figure out from the watermark in the lower right of the video, it’s a gag from: http://www.says-it.com/wbc/index.php )

They also have a whole gaggle of other gag signs. Just in case you need a timewaster today.

The gun law that emerged from the conference committee in Massachusetts has the state’s anti-gun politicians, mostly but not all Democrats, thrilled; it makes the right to have any gun at all, including a single-shot shotgun, subject to police discretion.