Weapons Man

Words fail. The victim (pictured right) was 15. The killer and his accomplice were 17 and 18. He strangled her and then he and his buddy tied her to the cement blocks and tossed her in the South River near Fayetteville, NC.

We listed a few of these the other day, but meanwhile Daniel Greenfield was rounding up a comprehensive list, and organizing it into a lacerating essay.

This appears to be of the Ardennes type but it may have been a test unit in Miedzyzdroje, Poland.

Got asked this one by a novice and was blown away by the insight of naïveté. Why do rifle cartridges often have a necked-down design, while pistol and revolver cartridges are mostly straight? (Yes, there are exceptions on both sides, but the rule applies in general).

Yes, we’re backdating this into place a day late. So sue us.

Bryan Preston at PJ Media notes that,  “The Veterans Administration’s scandal … is discrediting the very idea that our government can keep any promise or do anything useful at all.” So what does he find the VA doing?

Because, really, what’s more important: protecting yourself from the state’s army of lawless parolees and probationers, having eternal rest with Spot once they whack you?

Obsolete (or at least obsolescent) in Russian service, the RPG-7 continues to serve with scores and scores of armies worldwide. Every Afghan armed force, regular or irregular, since about 1980, has used this versatile and powerful weapon.

People keep saying that an EMP attack on America could kill 90% of Americans. Last month, for example, in Investors Business Daily, not usually a fever swamp of paranoia. But it sounds a little paranoid to us:

Amanda Ezra selfie, while she still had a head. Dead of easy access to handguns and drunk driving, but mostly drunk driving.

You can Read The Whole Thing™ but we’ll admit we found it overexcited and hard to follow. And the reporter and the VA spokesman (yes, another six-figure VA shill… there seems to be a bottomless supply) disagree rather profoundly about what happened, even though neither was actually there.

We found this ill-formed half-breed of a gun at an Iraq article at the Daily Beast, the website that’s all that’s left of Newsweek (but that still manages to employ first-rate national-security correspondent Eli Lake). Presumably, this hooded weirdo is in Iraq.

Gun-ban extremist and self-aggrandizing Army desk jockey Bob Bateman is still popular with his press enablers, but in his latest screed he claims to be “a US Army Airborne Infantry Ranger.”

As anyone who’s operated there can tell you, Africa is… different. There remain proud, complex tribal cultures — primitive, to our way of thinking; but quite deep and profound.

That’s pretty much what happened to Coast Guard vet Brian Cressy. On the prep table, painted with the goop they paint on a guy before open-heart surgery, the VA said: Stop! Don’t operate on him. Bring him to Boston, two hours away. Where we’ll operate on him when we get around to it.

Saturday we pulled the story of the Florida Highway Patrol officer with brain-dead ideas of what a concealed handgun license gets you in the Sunshine State from Lee Williams’s excellent blog at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. And we said something nice about his blog. But we think you should not miss these two articles on the Glock bribery charges that hit the news last week. Lee has angles nobody else has had:

You’ve probably noticed that the optempo around here has slowed down a bit, partly due to travel, and partly due to the optempo elsewhere picking up… more than a bit.

A Sunday off is badly needed, but we have a Sunday full of obligations.

It did not help that a rather large training contract evaporated on Friday the 13th, but on the up side, everyone involved on our side is safe. Our counterparts may not be faring so well.

Even in libertarian, purple New Hampshire, there are dedicated anti-gunners. The same people tend to be soft on career criminals and hard on legal gun owners. Three examples are former State Senator Burt Cohen, from the wealthy island enclave of New Castle, and Rockingham County District Attorney James Reams — a man with legal problems of his own, who has been in and out of office fighting credible charges of corruption — and Assistant DA Terri Harrington. (For a pro-Reams view of the charges, see this editorial at the Democratic-partisan and editorially anti-gun Seacoast Online. Reams is an elected, nominally nonpartisan officer).

Here is a remarkable video showing a very, very stupid and ill-trained Florida Highway Patrol officer

There’s a post at The Firearm Blog where one of the regular contributors, Nicholas C, is intrigued by a gun that a customer brought in to his shop: a Colt 1911 National Match in .38 Special. He couldn’t even find ammo to fit it as regular .38 Special defense rounds wouldn’t go in. We explain what it is, and why.