Failure to extract – when tap, roll, rack does not work When you train, train to clear malfunctions with the use of dummy rounds. Although this type of stoppage is rare, it does happen and if you don’t train for it you will be that much slower clearing it when the chips are down…
Dose of Truth
H/T Bustednuckles
A Small Tribute to Generation X…
H/T Freedom is Just Another Word
Teach the Next Generation!
I firmly believe that how my generation (that’s anybody under the age of 57) makes use of our TIME in the next six to twelve months could very well determine if we and the next generation survive the next five to ten years. I am not going to waste your time qualifying why I think…
With Out Any Doubt…
Yep.
The Surveillance State: Augury
US military using tool that captures ‘93% of the internet’ Multiple branches of the US military have bought access to “petabytes” of American citizens’ private online data via a tool called Augury, giving them access to an almost omniscient set of data points, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) claimed in a letter to the Office of the…
In Memoriam: Louise Fletcher (1934-2022)
Louise Fletcher: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’s Nurse Ratched dies aged 88 One of the first serious drama’s I remember watching as a kid was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher. “Cultural Icon” is the word that comes to mind when I think of Louise Fletcher’s role…
Modern Law Enforcement is Dangerous
When you read the background on this story it is obvious that these two cops slept through their Situational Awareness training at the academy otherwise they might have noticed they parked on a friggin railroad track. This reminded of the article The Return of the Gunslinger where a Federal Judge stated in no uncertain…