Stores, hospitals, entertainment venues, and other places where the public are together in large numbers, use secret codes to pass information between store employees. These are meant to be a secret as they don’t want to alarm the non-staff members or alert someone (like a thief) to the fact that they have been noticed. Many…
Military Weapons From the Past: The M3 “Grease Gun” v2.0
The Philippine Marines Teach a SMG that dates back to WW2 some New Tricks War Is Boring and Historical Firearms recently posted a story about the use of suppressed M3 “Grease Gun” from World War II onward to Vietnam. U.S. forces stopped issuing the guns to troops in 1992, but at least one unit in…
Gear Review: Kinetic Concealment Combo Kit Holster
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…
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…