A great reminder to keep your firearm maintenance at the top of your “to do” List because you never know when you might need it to save your ass. -SF Last week I wrote an article about how I was incapacitated after surgery and needed to change the gun I normally carry. I…
Espionage Files: North Korea Resumes Number Station Radio Broadcast For It’s Spies Abroad
In a development that is reminiscent of the Cold War, a radio station in North Korea appears to have resumed broadcasts of encrypted messages that are typically used to give instructions to spies stationed abroad. The station in question is the Voice of Korea, known in past years as Radio Pyongyang. It is operated…
Military History: Russia’s Cold War Plan To Crush France (In 7 Days)
The Nazis conquered France in six weeks, in one of the most spectacular military victories in history. Had the Soviet Union gone to war with the West in the early 1960s, it also planned to blitz France. But unlike the Germans, the Soviets planned to do it in a week, according to the Warsaw Pact’s…
Cold War Files: The Showdown That Almost Happened Over Bangladesh in 1971
In 2016, the United States backed India’s application to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group — but didn’t support Pakistan’s. This marked an extraordinary turning point in the United States’ relationship with these historical adversaries. In 1971, the United States sent part of its Seventh Fleet to threaten war with India on Pakistan’s behalf. The reasoning behind the…
How The Media Covers Up Muslim and #BlackLivesMatter Terrorism
I seem to remember saying something exactly like this? Thanks Daniel for a great article. -SF Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. No sooner are the bloodstains and bits of human flesh hosed off the concrete from the latest Muslim or #BlackLivesMatter…
Farnam Quips: Survival Lessons Learned From Recent Terror Attacks
From recent terrorist incidents, several life and death survival lessons emerge: 1. Don’t head for the restroom! Restrooms are dead ends. There is likely no exit from the restroom. You will be trapped there. When you don’t see another eligible exit, head for the kitchen. The kitchen always has a back door! 2. Have a…
Monday Night Chuckle: I Think my Dog’s a Democrat
Some Morning Humor to Start off Your Day…God Knows we need some right now!
To my Cat, on the Occasion of his Parting
This story got to me…call me a softy…but I Like Cats.
Armed Citizens Corner: Recognizing an Opportunity For Action When The Killer’s Gun Jams
By Greg Ellifritz I’ve written quite a bit about malfunctioning guns over the years. I published Criminals and the Guns They Carry. That article was a study of all the unloaded broken and malfunctioning guns police take from criminals. A couple weeks later I wrote Weapon Malfunctions in the Active Shooter Environment about…
Obscure Weapons: The Browning Gas-Toggle Pistol
On the April 20th, 1897, now-legendary firearms-designer John Browning received four patents for various pistol designs. These included two recoil-operated systems, a blowback design and — most interestingly — a pistol using a gas-operated toggle action. Browning had developed the gas-operated design a few years earlier in 1894 and ’95. It was actually Browning’s first pistol design. Unfortunately, it also…