Quote of the Day: Decision Time Edition
"When good men are dying all around you, you have to decide what your last moments are going to be like. Are you going to die behind something, or are you going to die...
U.S., Allies Make Mockery of Small Arms Trade Treaty. Already.
"Syrian rebels, frustrated by the West’s reluctance to provide arms, have found a supplier in an unlikely source: Sudan, a country that has been under international arms embargoes and maintains close ties with a...
Marine Scout Snipers Sneaking Up on .338 Lapua
"The Marine Corps’ M40 sniper rifle, in use since the Vietnam War, will get a radical upgrade to make the rifle more adaptable, compact and ergonomic for shooters of all builds," marinecorpstimes.com reports. " It...
Photos: FN’s South Carolina Manufacturing Facility
Last week, I was given exclusive access to FN's manufacturing facility in South Carolina. This is the facility where FNH makes the M240 line of machine guns along with the M249, the Mk. 19,...
Ft. Hood Shooter Trial Going Pretty Much As Expected
In other words it's already a farce, not making it through the second day before the presiding judge halted the proceedings. Accused radical jihadi murderer workplace violence perpetrator Maj. Nidal Hassan was granted the right...
Incendiary Image of the Day: People in Glass Houses . . .
As Professor Harold Hill's detractors pointed out, you gotta know the territory. In this case it's the West Bank, not a happy place for Israeli soldiers. The IDF face constant attack from Arab teens bent...
German Rifleman’s Ballistic Boob Jobs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWjCsbznmFc
It's called gynecomastia. Less formally moobs. A condition not unknown to Germany's Bosch. And so German High Commander bankrolled Gynecomastia in German Soldiers: Etiology and Pathology. "Published last year in the journal GMS Interdisciplinary Plastic and Reconstructive...
UK Royal Marines’ Swap SA80 A2 for C8 Diemaco
"The SA80 A2 is 'perfect' for conventional forces, but specialist services want to see some improvements, according to feedback between Royal Marines serving in Afghanistan and Defence IQ" Infantry Weapons reports . The site's unnamed...
Incendiary Image of the Day: Priorities Edition
The JPFO has delivered this fairly self-evident rhetorical shiv in the ribs of the Commander in Chief. Leave aside the question of the wisdom or efficacy of our forces' continued presence in the sandbox....
Photographer Uses Civil War Era Tintype Camera to Capture Soldiers in Afghanistan
The American Civil War was the first conflict in which cameras were widely used to capture the events and the people. Photographers would follow the troops, offering to take portraits of the men before...
Quote of the Day: Independence Day Edition
"Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside,...
Why Syria Matters: A Broader View of the Syrian War
Here at TTAG, we talk about the gun and all its uses -- including wars. I recently read an interesting post about the broader causes and implications of the war currently going on in...