There's The Door
There's a misapprehension on the part of some readers that I'm doing this for them.That is incorrect.My ramblings are for me.That you might enjoy them is a coincidence and secondary to the purpose of...
View ArticleHow Much Ammo?
There's a thread on Arfcom talking about how much ammo soldiers in Vietnam carried.A lot is the answer."That can't be true, not for a normal infantryman!""I have a picture of me somewhere around...
View ArticleWait What?
"The registered owner of the weapon was unable to be contacted..."What registered owner?Florida doesn't have gun registration.Or does it?That's worrisome every time the press makes mention of it.
View ArticleGemini Cricket
Gemini really IS supposed to be pronounced Jimminy.That's the proper Greek pronunciation.It's not Jim-In-Eye.I was twitching every time I heard Amy Shira Teitel saying it and thinking she got it wrong...
View ArticleFlorida Registration
Florida, by law, has no gun registration.But the media often refers to registered owners.Occasionally, they mention the illegal possessor was a different person from the registered owner.Often they...
View ArticleBot Reduction
All you have to do to reduce the number of bot hits from Singapore is to post a shrill diatribe and go silent for a couple of days.Good to know!
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We Have Glock 19 At Home
Why does everyone make a Glock 19 sized gun when there's already a Glock 19?Because they want you to buy their gun instead of giving Glock the money, DUH!And that's really the long and short of it.It's...
View ArticleEx X
The XM7 rifle, XM250 machine gun and XM157 optic are now M7 rifle, M250 machine gun and M157 optic.The article doesn't mention if the X has been dropped from the 6.8x51mm cartridges:XM1168 GPR: Ball...
View ArticleSoft G
How does Gemini get a soft 'g' sound when 'g' is hard in Latin?"In words of Greco-Latinate origin, the soft ⟨g⟩ pronunciation occurs before ⟨e i y⟩ while the hard ⟨g⟩ pronunciation occurs elsewhere."...
View ArticleThe Economy *IS* Collapsing!
Wal Mart is eliminating 1,500 positions.Sounds huge, right?That's from 2.1 million employees.That's 0.07% of the people they employ.I'm willing to bet that they have a daily churn of more people than...
View ArticleOdd
I absolutely detest the nose on a 73 Chevelle. But the same nose on an El Camino is kinda cool.Go figure.
View Article10% Haircut
As Michael points out, those 1,500 people that Wal Mart is getting rid of are workers at the HQ in Bentonville.That's 10% of the folks working there.That IS a pretty big layoff. I was going from a...
View ArticleI Keep Getting Vids Along These Lines Suggested On YouTube
This would be really strange if it's true.
View Article6.8x51mm And GURPS
I made stats for the M7 and M250 a while ago based on the information I could find for the XM1168 round.The list I just posted says that it can penetrate Level IV plates.That's DR 35.7d pi only punches...
View ArticleThe HPA Is In The Big Beautiful Bill
All the news appears good, but all I can do is hum this song.Also, more cynically:
View ArticleUnanimous
9-0 Ruling on excessive force under the 4th Amendment in Barnes v Felix.Actual Ruling (pdf)As someone who's long held the cops are too trigger happy, I think this is good news.Reason on the original...
View ArticleIs It All +P?
With only a couple of exceptions, 6.8x51mm appears to all be +P.That changes my calculations a little..277 Fury 7d pi. G$0.85, 0.043 lb. per round..277 Fury Match 7d pi +1 to Acc. G$1.70 per...
View ArticleWorth It
Progressing through Andor's two seasons then Rogue One is well worth the time.It's the only Star Wars that acknowledges that the people who were there, in the theater, in 1977 are no longer nine year...
View ArticleFive Years Clean
George Floyd has been drug and alcohol free for five years!I'm all choked up!
View ArticleNew Bots
Guten Abend, meine neuen Leser aus Brasilien!Bist du wegen der GURPS oder der Waffen hier oder einfach nur wegen der schrillen Beleidigungen für bigotte, rassistische Idioten?Shit! That's Argentinian....
View ArticleFirst Time In Years
For the first time in, probably decades, I remembered that the Indy 500 was on and actually sat down and watched it.I have no idea who any of the drivers are any more.Nice to see Mario Andretti is...
View ArticleFor The Fallen
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums...
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