In January I reviewed for you one of Kinetic Concealments Mini-Green Dot Laser Units. Well, this month Josh sent me one of their Outstanding Hybrid Neoprene Backed Leather/Kydex Holsters to review for you. Besides their excellent reputation for making quality kit, one of the main things that attracted me to KC was their straight forward mentality…
Author: The Tactical Hermit
Armed Texan and Part-Time Bard.
World War Two History: The Man Who Fell 22,000 Feet and Lived to Tell The Tale
Paratroopers make a big deal about jumping out of planes from 800 feet, but U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Alan Magee fell out of a plane at 22,000 feet without a parachute while the plane was on fire. And he lived. Magee was a ball turret gunner in a B-17 named “Snap! Crackle! Pop!”…
Dose of Truth: Lawsuits Against Gun Manufacturers
Sometimes a Picture goes much farther than a Paragraph in Justifying a Position Think About It!
Obscure Weapons: 1929 Simson Prototype 9mm
In the late 1920s, German Ordnance hinted at an interest in replacing the P.08 Luger pistols with a less expensive handgun design. This prompted a number of submissions from hopeful companies, including this design from the Simson company of Suhl. It is chambered for the 9×19 Parabellum cartridge (as requested by Ordnance) but is a…
Dose of Truth: I’m Just a Bill (Transgender School House Rock Parody)
For those of you who grew up watching “Schoolhouse Rock” TV Specials, you will find this Steven Crowder parody an extremely funny take on a very serious issue that this country is facing right now. Be Sure and “Like” Steven Crowder’s YouTube channel to show your support, this dude is FUNNY.
War Movies Worth a Damn: Eye in the Sky
For well over a decade the film and television industry has ranged over the political and moral terrain generated by the 9/11 era and the West’s subsequent foreign policy interventions during the “war on terror.” From the brilliantly satirical (Team America: World Police), the conspiratorial (Syriana), the trenchantly critical (Redacted), the intensely personal (American Sniper),…
Cartel Corner #77: Some Drug Cartels Making More Money From Gold than Coke
Organized crime networks in Latin America have long made their money off of drugs. But over the past decade, as gold prices have soared, cartels have increasingly turned to illegally mining the metal to earn cash. In Peru and Colombia, they’re now making more money exporting illegal gold than cocaine. Eighty percent of the gold…
Field Test and Gear Review: Victorinox Combat Utility Knife
For all you out there who are old enough to remember the times when having a Swiss Army Knife was a sort of Badge-of-honor (at least when you were between 10 and 13 years old) then let me introduce the Swiss Army Knife 3.0 or the Combat Utility Knife. It is made by the…
Texas News: This is What Political Correctness and Fear of Being Labeled an “Islamophobe” Equals in America
Lavish $2.5 Million Dollar Libraries Honoring “Islamic Knowledge” are Built and Islam Continues to BREED in this Country One Library and Mosque at a Time The Library of Islamic Knowledge officially opened last weekend in downtown Houston. Mayor Sylvester Turner, joined by former Houston Rockets Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon, cut the ribbon of the lavish $2.5 million dollar library housed…
Natural Disaster Survival: A Tragic Warning Why You Should NEVER Drive in Flood Waters
HOUSTON, Texas — A video released by the Harris County Toll Road Authority shows a woman drowning in her car after she drove past a road barrier into a deeply flooded underpass on Monday morning. Flooded underpasses are nothing new in this city and officials constantly use the phrase “Turn around, don’t drown,” to warn…