Category Archives: War On Terror
Katie Francis 13 year old 3-Gun competition shooter If she can do it, why cant you?
Like most 13-yr-old girls, Katelyn (Katie) Francis has a Facebook page. However, unlike most 13-yr old girls, the young Miss Francis describes herself like this: “Katelyn is a 13 year old who enjoys competing in Multi Gun matches around the country.”
Shooting is in the young lady’s DNA. Her father, Sgt. First Class Chad Francis, happens to be the state marksmanship coordinator for the Missouri Army National Guard. Dad Chad has been teaching his daughter about guns and gun safety since she was five years old
The Czech vz. 61 Skorpion: A stinger full of 32 ACP
Going to be assaulting house to house to liberate the decadent West for the glory of the People? Plan on leaping from a low flying plane and parachuting into a small third world country to meet interesting people (and kill them)? Or maybe you just want to pack more than a pair of socks in your bug out bag when jumping from your knocked-out T-34? Well odds are the Czech vz. 61 Skorpion was invented with you in mind.
In the late 1950s the military of then-Czechoslovakia was a close ally (whether they wanted to be or not) with the Soviets. Trapped behind the Iron Curtain in 1945,
Czechoslovakia was Communist and a member of the Warsaw Pact military alliance. Sharing a western border with West Germany while simultaneously having dozens of Soviet Red Army divisions garrisoned on their soil, the country stood to be the default front line of a Cold War ground war.
Along this border were thousands of Czech border guards who needed a compact sub gun. Besides these guards, the Army needed a personal defense weapon that could be issued to support troops who didn’t need a full size rifle. The Skorpion was designed to fit this need.
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Gun Companies Stand with the People
In recent months there has been a concerted push by the gun control (they now prefer to be called gun violence) advocates to strictly regulate the arms that are available to the public. With a small but vocal minority of left-wingers screaming from the rafters and trotting out event figurines, they are asking for unprecedented restrictions on currently legal firearms and accessories. Not to cave into the fear mongers, some of the biggest names in the industry are making a very public choice to stand with the people and not against them.
Read the rest in my column at Firearms Talk
The Browning M2: All will kneel before the mother of ‘Heavy Metal’
Since the 1930s, the sound of American awesomeness on the battlefield has been played through the .50-caliber heavy machine gun. This gun, officially dubbed the M2 though cherished as the Ma Deuce or Mr. Deuce by our troops in the field, is the longest serving weapon in front line use in US military history. If you ever have the privilege to fire one, it’s easy to see why.
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The K Gun: The first IKEA gun?
From time to time, when governments send men (that officially don’t exist) to places they officially never went, said ghostmen are equipped with sanitized weapons, lacking any identifying marks and that can’t be traced back to their country of origin. In the 1960s, when US clandestine mission operators needed a reliable and deniable burp gun for classified missions in Southeast Asia, they reached for the K-Gun.
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Looking for Ammo– Try Gun Bot
Do you find yourself wasting time wandering from site to site trying to find the best deals on ammunition, magazines, and other accessories, only to arrive just moments after they sold out? Spend hours trolling and refreshing windows to see if suddenly 5.56 greentip is available? Well you are in luck because there is now a search engine that has been established just for you.
Its name is Gunbot and it’s pretty neat.
What is Gunbot?
Ever used one of those sites like Hotels.com, Kayak, or Orbitz to find travel deals? Well Gunbot works on the same concept, only instead of finding the best price on a midsize rental car in Canton, Ohio, it tells you the best price right now on 45ACP, and who has it in stock.
Gunbot currently crawls big and small ammo sites such as Cheaper than Dirt, Brownells, Midway, J&G, Lucky Gunner and others. In fact, more than 40 different sites are searched, cataloged, and refreshed everytime a new item, price, or availability pops up. You can search by in-stock items only and even set an alarm for new items.
Gunbot searches nonstop for ammo, magazines, and reloading supplies in the most popular types and calibers. In the ammo category it currently lists all the .223/5.56, 7.62×39, 22LR, 9mm, .308/7.62×51 , and a half dozen others. Magazines crawled includes those for AR, Glock, AK-47/74, PS90, SKS, Mini-14, XD, and 10/22s. Better yet, the bot works like something akin to the stock exchange ticker for ammo prices, telling you what the current prices are per round.
The cost for all this? Nada, gunbot is free. It seems to be in beta mode now, being tested, but it works well and hopefully will stick around.
It’s bad we need it, but I’m glad we got it.
(reposted from my column at Firearms Talk.com )
Lasers + Police Choppers, How about Dont
“If you are the type of person who thinks shining a laser into a police helicopter at four in the morning sounds like a good time, be warned that the FBI can and will identify you by the cut and color of your underwear.
We know this thanks to a 23-year-old Texan named Kenneth Santodomingo, who according to the FBI was in the backyard of his Dallas home at 4:08am on January 28, 2013, shining a laser pointer into the cockpit of a Dallas Police Department helicopter called “Air 1.” Santodomingo allegedly scored four direct hits on the cockpit; according to the FBI agent investigating the case, “the intensity of the light of obscured the vision of the pilot and impaired the pilot’s ability to control the aircraft.””
Well Ken, looking at a $250k fine now…dumbass
Beretta 93R: Another cool handgun you can’t own
Since the handgun was invented, firearms visionaries have often muttered the motto of smaller, faster, and more effective. This has led over the centuries to handguns that are increasingly better made, hold more bullets, and can deliver said projectiles in a faster rate of fire in a smaller package. However, one of the evolutionary branches that have been stunted by regulation (at least in this country) is in the handheld machine pistol. Moreover, no article mentioning a machine pistol in the opening paragraph can neglect the Beretta 93R.
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The 1946 Battle of Athens Tennessee
When ill-informed people speak of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, they speak only of
how hunting is a noble right and sports shooting is a valid hobby. What is often left unsaid is that the Founding Fathers had intended this inherent right as a protection against tyranny of all sorts. An unarmed society is a society waiting to be enslaved. A legally armed one is a functioning republic.
There is no better modern example of this than in the 1946 Battle of Athens.
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