Weapons Man

100 of these wound up in a landfill. Not doing that risked a lot more of the taxpayers’ money.

This colorized tintype Union trooper may just be clowning with all these weapons, but a lot of cavalrymen on both sides weren’t.

Nobody has the anger, hate and embitterment of people who think they’re morally superior to you. Here are two case studies of anti-hunting activists and the hate and rage they employ — not to mention, the severe Vitamin Clue deficiency that seems to come with a vegan, macrobiotic diet.

A California youth is at risk of isolation from the gene pool, after doing something stupid whilst onboard a double-decker bus. That “something stupid” involved his head and an overpass.

Crime is in decline nationwide, but the crime declines more slowly in jurisdictions where the police concentrate on hassling legitimate gun owners and ignore violent gangs. Like New York.

Here’s Jeff “Bigshooterist” Zimba on belt-fed ARs. You know you’re in for detailed, accurate information and a lot of enthusiasm when Jeff steps up to the camera. You also will get better than the usual YouTube signal-to-noise and filler-to-fact ratios with Jeff on the job:

Our summers are short and sweet; we’ve had a heat wave which had the TV people predictably crying about Global Warming, but thanks to some shifts in the jetstreams we’re going to have really perfect weather for the next few days. Much of yesterday was spent on the repaired Bike-E, checking out our homemade seat clamp to replace the one that broke in the railroad-tie collision. (Lesson learnt, small tires and abandoned railroad tracks make bad traveling companions).  It’s still a bit squirrely to ride, but the seat is fixed.

This is a backdated TW3, and the first we’ve done in weeks, so expect brevity.

It’s not a war movie, it’s a caper film in a Western setting, starring John Wayne and equally powerful Hollywood lead Kirk Douglas. It was based on a Clair Huffaker novel, adapted by Huffaker himself, and was produced by Wayne’s company, Batjac. It was a competent directorial debut by Burt Kennedy, who, unknown to Wayne, rebated half his payment for the film so that the budget stretched to hire Douglas. The two stars, both Type A personalities on and off screen, give their characters’ onscreen rivalry a depth that reportedly continued in real life; they enjoyed working with each other but had strong points of difference. There are some plot twists and turns, and if you’re expecting the Hollywood ending where the good guy shoots the bad guy towards the end of the final reel, and rides off into the sunset with the loot and the girl, all we can say is that things sorta like that sorta happen, but not exactly.

This picture’s from Colorado, not NH, but it’s a rare pic of a black bear sow and her cub flagrante delicto pilfering a chicken. Story here. They yelled at ‘em; up here, we blow ‘em away.

Violent criminals, naturally. Rape is one of the most serious of violent crimes. It is generally perpetrated by force or by threat of force. It can leave the victim scarred for life, physically as well as psychologically.

Recently, we posted a story called Pistol OCD, about the Pennsylvania State Police’s remarkable run through quite a few different makes and models of service pistols in a very short time. The most recent change, this year, is from the Glock 21 to the SIG 227R, both pistols in .45 ACP caliber. We linked and quoted the actual contract terms and solicitations posted on official Pennsylvania websites.

OK, there are rounds that can produce guaranteed death. They just don’t fit in pistols.

A trial recently concluded in New Hampshire illustrated that evil does evil, gun or no gun. It also illustrated the way that some criminal defense attorneys are morally indistinguishable from their clients.

Willie Baronet is…

The ace competitive shooter briefly got hold of an original AR-10, thanks to Reed Knight of Knight’s Armament Company.

Meet Dallas Archer, a Tennessee woman who’s taken Mexican carry to a new, er, place.

Just when you thought it was safe, another VA horror story rises from the deep to the  insistent chords of sinister music, and bites you in the gluteus. In this case, not one but two VA Medical Centers have made themselves the home of systematic theft of medications: in Albany, New York, by insiders, apparently nurses, who were getting high on hospice patients’ palliative morphine; and in Oklahoma City, by insiders who sell the meds into the city’s robust inner-city recreational pharmaceutical market.

M198 howitzers and MTVR prime movers were surrendered to ISIL in Iraq. Now, more, and more sophisticated, weapons are handed over in Syria.

This was not made with high-end 3DP technology, but with cheap hobby equipment. And it works.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b3e_1404502736

The genie is out of the bottle.

Do you think Buck Ofama is the guy’s real name? He sounds like the canned text reader built into computers these days.

By the way, this is far from the most interesting thing happening in additive these days. We’ll get to that. But probably not before something else supplants it as “most interesting!”