Weapons Man

Marine sergeant major and no-shit war hero Paul Archie is charged with “assaulting” a protester at Parris Island. The protester was wearing a Marine hat, and Sgt. Maj. Archie removed the hat and returned to base with it — explaining that the campaign hats famously worn by Marine drill sergeants, as Archie had been, were USMC property. It’s unclear whether the protester was an ex-Marine, or just a wannabe; and the story never explains what exactly the protester was protesting. (Many protesters seem to think protesting is more about the attention-seeking in the moment than about trying to achieve any goal in particular — see, for example, Open Carry Texas).

An MH-53E hauls an M777 ashore in Australia from USS Essex, 2009. Navy photo.

Generally, when you convince yourself that you are the Son of Lucifer, no good comes of it. An intermittently insane man in a tiny rural New Hampshire town attacked an elderly lady philanthropist with a Leatherman utility knife, mortally wounding her. She seems to have been selected at random.

Colonel Robert G. Cole of the 101st Airborne led an attack on a German position on D-Day. Charging with his pistol, and later with a fallen private’s M1 and bayonet, he led a bayonet charge that took the position — at the cost of his life.

The Melbourne, FL, police department’s merry preparations for war with the citizenry were derailed this week by the department’s slipshod firearms accountability procedures. A full automatic M16A1 assault rifle is missing, and the buck stops… nowhere, apparently. Melbourne officials are full of passive voice, and claiming that being able to account for 64 of the 65 M16s acquired to prepare two platoon-equivalents of Melbourne cops for ground combat ought to be sufficient. This image shows a similar firearm, lost and later recovered by Philadelphia police:

And yeah, we still owe you our personal recollections of a couple of the traded mullahs’ actions, and a couple of their underlings. Here, let’s give you James Taranto in the WSJ:

Suspect Matthew Dion, wanted for murder, and child pornography.

Export licenses, people. Because, it’s not only a good idea, it’s the law. Of course, some of these exports have about as much likelihood of being licensed as the sun has of setting at noon, but if you ignore the requirements the result can be a rather considerable disruption to your life.

From show creator, Kevin Biegel. Kevin has not yet conceded, even though his show was canceled and was off the air. Fox has brought the last four episodes back and in what we think (in our ignorance of all things television) is a better time slot, 6 PM Sunday. We did not get this to you in time for the first of the last four, on 1 June.

Under the pressure of time and duty, we were inclined to skip the W4 this week, but the mysterious forces of Serendip aligned in such a way as to present us with an interesting site: CommandPosts.com.

Courtesy of Mad Magazine, which is, to our amusement, still a thing:

Now, we’re not going to go all conspiracy-theory on you. We’re just asking questions! But… have you ever seen President Obama and Alfred E. Neuman in the same place at the same time?

In a more serious vein, we may have some comments on one of the five men released, later on, as we believe we encountered some of his handiwork in a remote area of central Afghanistan. We’re dusting off some old documents for confirmation

This one comes to our attention in a news story about the negligent homicide of one Christian N’Tapalis, whose mother, Melissa Gutierrez, let him drown in a bathtub in 2011. Gutierrez pled guilty to negligent homicide in 2013; one of the 29-year-old’s two other children was also neglected in the bathtub, but mercifully, didn’t die. She’s up in court again because she wants out after serving a year, has checked a few prison-education boxes, and has figured out (or her lawyer, a guy with the Dickensian name of Sculimbrene, has figured out) how to do that and cash in.

America’s most useless and underperforming bureaucracy — the Transportation Security Theater Administration — was blowing its own horn last week about finding what turned out to be a dummy Mk2 grenade (left) in a dummy Mk1 homo sapiens’s carry-on luggage.

The Wooden Gun Squad! Click to embiggen.

Laws are for the little people. And for the chumps: citizens and legal resident aliens, who try to drive between the yellow lines and not collect strangers in their wheel wells. Nicolas Dutan Guaman? Not so much.

This image pretty much tells the story:

The original Remington Model 51 designed by Pedersen. Hatcher considered it an archetypically well-designed pistol for instinctive shooting.

Ah, yes. Volunteers, the lifeblood of the organized community. That is, when they’re not spilling the lifeblood of members of the community.

Alvictus is a lakefront home with all the amenities: 13-foot-deep pool, koi pond, a genuine historic mill water wheel as a decoration, heated slate floor and 18′ ceiling in the great room, in-law suite, and 4,600 square feet of living space. It also was a CIA safe house used to house Russian and Satellite defectors in the 1970s; before that, it was owned by a high-society dilettante in a State Department job.