Tammany Hall!
26 Dec 20 “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be ‘led to safety’) by menacing it with an endless series of ‘hobgoblins,’ all of them imaginary.” HL Mencken Tammany Hall Returns! In NYC, over 9k applications for gun permits have been […]
Rifle Reloading!
22 Dec 20 24 Sept 1914, during WWI, on the Four-de-Paris road, then Lieutenant Erwin Rommel gives this account: “Once again we rushed the enemy in the bushes ahead of us. A little group of my former recruits came with me through the underbrush. Again the enemy fired madly. Finally, scarcely twenty paces […]
US Marines and the US Mail
19 Dec 20 “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a Proverb! Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. […]
Guns Break!
18 Dec 20 “Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.” James Burke M4 Adventures! This from an active LEO, student, and Instructor: Yesterday I cleaned my eleven-year-old, department-issued Bushmaster M4. At this point, it has […]
Tanks!
17 Dec 20 Tank History: In an effort to finally break the never-ending stalemate of WWI trench warfare, the British secretly brought-in heavy armored plating from shipyards around the world, powerful engines of farming equipment, and a tracked wheel system, patented in 1910 by a California company under the trade-name, “Caterpillar”. Combined […]
Rotting NYC!
14 Dec 20 NYC’s criminal shooting episodes are exploding, as even NYPD Chief Shea sheepishly admits! This, despite the fact that for an honest citizen, with no criminal record, to legally purchase and keep a serious gun in NYC is nearly impossible, that is absent high-level political connections! Yet simultaneously, criminals arrested […]
A self-declared “Special Class of Citizens,” a new class of slave-owners!
8 Dec 20 “Judicial systems that enforce inequality as law are tools of subjugation.” Wayne Gerard Trotman Making our guns “inaccessible!” Dublin, CA, an SF suburb, has just passed a local ordinance requiring all gun owners to make their guns inaccessible and utterly unusable in any timely manner in their own […]
Marcolmar!
7 Dec 20 ET CETME/L I have a copy of Marcolmar’s ET CETME/L Rifle w/telescoping stock, and I’ve been traveling with, and shooting it, for the past few weeks. It’s in 5.56×45 (223) and uses standard, STANAG magazines. (“STANAG” stands for NATO’s “Standardization Agreement,” of 2007, which provides for interoperability within NATO […]
“Tactical Loitering”
30 Nov 20 Wave of the Future! Earlier this month in south FL (Broward County, which includes the Miami metro area), a disabled senior citizen (disabled from childhood by polio) frantically called the BCSO to report that a man was breaking into his home. The suspect (unknown to the resident) was pounding on the resident’s locked door, eventually […]
Pistol History!
28 Nov 20 “Some have faced the mortal threat who came prepared – they’re with us yet. Others choose to go unarmed and hope that they’ll return unharmed. A few have failed nature’s test and entered their eternal rest. So good fellows, I suggest today bring pistol on your way. That’s my advice, if you would […]
Toilets!
27 Nov 20 Shooting Toilets! When searching for a (relatively) “safe” direction in which to point your carry pistol(s) when you’re not on a shooting range that features a designated backstop, one needs to be careful! Often, we must handle our guns (that are with us constantly) when we’re not on a range. For one, […]
The Fate of Dissenters living in a Leftist Regime!
20 Nov 20 “We were devotedly supporting the (Communist) Program, and we knew our punches were landing where they should But, we never foresaw those hits coming to us!” That brutally stark observation from a (former) ardent socialist in Venezuela. Some of Maduro’s fellow professing Marxists are apparently not ardent enough in their unconditional worship of this Communist “popular […]
Terror in the Land!
17 Nov 20 “The land was torn apart in a legal dispute. Soon, it was so devastated nothing could live here- not plant nor animal. Only lawyers. But, eventually the place fell into lawlessness, and lawyers can’t exist in an area of lawlessness, so they went feral. Some say they still roam the land! You’ll suddenly hear someone yell, ‘Objection!’ and […]
9mm
9mm, 117 years ago! Today’s popular 9×19 (9mm Luger, or 9mm Parabellum) cartridge was created by Georg Luger himself in 1902 in an effort to please American Ordinance Officers who were, in the early years of the 20th Century, testing autoloading pistols to replace revolvers. Luger submitted to the American Ordinance Department copies of this famous autoloading […]
Operator Series Videos
11 Oct 20 Latest Operator Series video is available now on the DTI Web Page at defense-training.com I enjoy your comments! /John
Kristallnacht!
9 Nov 20 82nd Anniversary of Kristallnacht, Wednesday 9 Nov 1938 “Kristallnacht,” or “Night of Broken Glass,” describes sudden, violent attacks on Jewish families and their property throughout Nazi Germany and Austria. Jewish homes, hospitals, synagogues, and businesses were violently demolished by hoards of semi-organized rioters. Individual Jews were attacked and beaten. Some were murdered. Thousands were rounded-up […]
Austria
7 Nov 20 Austria this time: Last Monday, an AA-shouting Islamic terrorist, using a Kalashnikov Rifle and a pistol (brand not identified), randomly gunned-down at least two dozen innocent pedestrians near Vienna’s Central Synagogue in the city’s center. At least four died at the scene. Toll will likely go higher. The murderer was shot to death by local police, […]
Walking Fire
4 Nov 20 “Obsolescence is the key to innovation” Homaro Cantu Walking Fire: During WWI, “walking fire” was the main role of the “automatic rifle.” Walking fire was designed to provide fire superiority for “the last 200m” when closing an infantry assault on a defended objective. Automatic rifles were designed and intended to be carried and used by one person. SMGs […]
Vanity and Arrogance!
31 Oct 20 Election-Day Hypocrisy: Rich, elite Democrats in NYC who, along with Biden and Harris, seek to rip legally-owned guns from the hands of honest American gun owners, are themselves suddenly oh-so eager to be “protected” on election day from evil rioters (whom they otherwise love and encourage, so long as they are destroying other peoples’ […]
Appeasers!
28 Oct 20 “What decent philosopher was ever an appeaser? The former is a rare catch among the multitudes of modern opinionists. His role is to be one who loves truth. That is a place where his love for humanity is more powerful than his love for a lot of hot air about ‘empowering humanity’” Criss Jami Life in France: For […]
Gun industry legends Dave Spaulding, Massad Ayoob, Mike Boyle, and John Farnam join Fernando Coelho to dive deep into the history of the gun industry, shedding light on how firearms and firearms training have transformed over the decades. They discuss the dramatic shift from traditional print reviews to the digital age of internet forums, social media influencers, and YouTube personalities of the industry.
