Weapons Man

Scene of the crime, or at least, where the body was dumped. This is what a real, not Hollywood, murder looks like.

Some of them have been reclaimed by the jungle. Some, shattered by American fire. Some, parked in rows and left at war’s end. Some lie where salt water is reducing them to iron oxide day by day. Most of them have been looted, and some defaced by graffitti.

For this, some parents are paying $40k a year for seven or nine years….

You got the mistake, right? Sunday is the anniversary of Lance and Buzz walking on the moon.

Wait, what? Lance?

Hat tip, CBS 2 Chicongo.

Anyway, they never would have gotten there without Yogi Gagarin and Sean Glenn.

This is the speech Reagan made, about five days after the shootdown of KAL 007:

Vincennes takes a shot — in this case, an ASROC, not a Standard, during her sea trials.

We’re waiting for Ian at Forgotten Weapons to get his new video gear up and running. So far the pièce de resistance is a drone with which he can do some cool stuff.

A while back, the pro-criminal judges on the Massachusetts Supreme Court strove mightily and brought forth a technicality that let them release a perv, Michael Robertson, arrested for taking pictures up a woman’s skirt on the subway. Apparently this is A Thing, enough so that it has its own verb: “to upskirt.” Even the liberal papers in Mass. were a bit taken aback by the ruling and they cracked down with a new law. So as the court says, “comes a defendant” who read all the news stories about the Supreme Court’s pro-perv position, and didn’t catch the legislature’s shamefaced recriminalization of prurient pervert photography. Sucks to be him:

The Late Chris Kyle with his .338 Lapua Magnum.

ATK, a major defense and ammunition firm, likes to support the NSSF and the shooting sports. When they heard that the ongoing tightness of rimfire ammo supply was threatening Rimfire Challenge matches, they acted in the way you might expect, knowing the above, and that they’re the largest rimfire ammo manufacturer, under their CCI brand:

Two flags, one nation; we tried that 1860-65, didn’t work.

Remember the gal who thought she’d strike a blow for gun control, and launch a divorce with a pre-emptive strike by framing her husband for trying to kill the President and a couple of his minions? Remember how the media were all over it, especially because her husband was one of those Scary Army Vets™.  Sure you do! Which brings us to another question:

The USA fired its last above-ground nuclear test at a test site in Nevada on this day, 17 July, in 1962. The operation was a culmination exercise that brought together nuclear warhead tests (code-named Little Feller, as a nod to the W54 warhead’s light weight and low yield) and nuclear weapons employment maneuvers code-named Ivy Flats.

So here’s the VA in the news again, and amazingly, they did the right thing.

Murder victim Perry Renn. This is the guy the perp’s family and WISH-TV blame for his ambush murder.

The audio file at this report is a pretty typical example of Comcast’s awful, horrible, very bad, worst-in-class customer service. What’s probably not typical is the extreme patience of the abused customer, former Engadget editior Ryan Block. Block only started the recording ten minutes into the call, when it was clear he was getting nowhere with Comcast’s Soviet-style “service” department.

This is a sad story from around the start of the month. A young woman took the permanent solution to some temporary problem in her life. As it happens, we know her name but will follow the convention of the local newspaper in not reporting it. She has caused a lot of misery to a lot of other people, in her ill-advised act to put an end to herself.

Diana Rubens, from a 2013 DVA propaganda video.

The latest Bob Lee Swagger novel by Stephen Hunter is out, and Sniper’s Honor is his best in years — maybe the best ever. It introduces new and fascinating characters, new places and times, and, for the fans of firearms out there, new weapons (new to the series, at least; some of them are historic, even legendary) and tough situations for them to be employed in.

It’s been over 18 months since the Newtown school shootings, which are an ill wind that has blown some Democrat PR dollies like Shannon Watts some good, but produced political winds that have been a disaster for all concerned. Gun owners have lost in many places, but anti-gun politicians have lost in many more, and they fear a reckoning coming in the fall.