Incendiary Image of the Day: Eight-Year-Old Gunman Edition
Another day, another day of fighting in Syria, where government forces fight a farrago of opposition, from "rebels" to jihadists. Click here for an excellent documentary about another boy (Ibrahim) caught up in the...
What’s Wrong With This Picture: Charkh Edition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da8h3wRa9To
For one thing, there's the glare off the rocket guy's watch. Feel free to add tactical analysis, mindful that armchair warriors worry about stuff they'd probably forget in the heat of battle. Then riddle...
The Battle Rifle: Origins And Theory, Part One
Let’s say the proverbial balloon goes up tonight. It doesn’t matter why; maybe it’s a riot, maybe it’s Red Dawn, or maybe Janet Napolitano’s finally getting around to using that 1.6 billion rounds of...
Remington Wins $80m SOCOM Sniper Rifle Contract
"Multiple industry sources tell us that Special Operations Command will announce shortly the award of the $79.7 million precision sniper rifle (PSR) system contract to Remington Defense and its MSR chassis-based rifle system," militarytimes.com reports....
Army Pulls XM25 After Double-Feed Primer Blast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-7L0Frj6vQ
"The Army’s XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement system has been removed from service after a training accident injured a soldier in Afghanistan early last month," militarytimes.com reports. "A soldier was injured during a Feb....
ARs Are Weapons of War. So What?
By Chris Hernandez
I have a message for my pro-2nd Amendment friends: guys, we don’t have to pretend our ARs aren’t military weapons. One topic central to the gun control debate is whether or not AR-type...
FN Scores $77M Contract for M4A1s
"FN Manufacturing has outbid Remington Arms Company and Colt Defense LLC. to win a contract worth just under $77 million to make M4A1s for the U.S. Army," kitupmilitary.com reports. "The award notice was posted on Federal Business Opportunities on Feb....
Another Day, Another 155mm Calibration Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EYVUw1cYgU
As Voltaire said, God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Gun Tweet of the Day: Half Cocked Edition
The famously anti-war former Congressman from Tejas took to the Twitters to, apparently, imply that a decorated serviceman who served four tours of duty for his country -- picking off insurgents, thereby saving the...
Black Helicopters Over Galveston, Houston. Wait. No.
You remember our stories about black helicopters firing blanks over Miami and then Houston? Yesterday, the Army and Houston police apologized for not giving advance warning of a joint training exercise in southeast Houston. The Army...
U.S. Armed Services to Lower Standards for Rifle Toting Women?
Women can shoot as well as men---all things being equal. Which is like saying all women are as beautiful as Yaara Benbenishti---all things being equal. They're not. And you don't have to spend a day...
While We’re Getting Rid of All Those “Military Style” Rifles . . .
In response to calls from the president, vice president and gun-grabbers nationwide to purge the country of "military-style assault weapons", a reader writes:
I demand a ban on ALL military-style things. Here's the list I...