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Five on Friday … err Saturday, Several on Saturday – 19Aug2017

August 19, 2017

Photo Cred – DARC Instagram Happy FoF, everyone. It’s been an eventful week, so there’s plenty of interesting reading material this week. Sage Dynamics/Aaron Cowan – Report on MRDS for Duty Handgun Use http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/7dc128_c8da57977a8c4b53903192fa603fce6f.pdf Multiple People Injured – Knife Attack in Finland http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4802796/Multiple-people-injured-attack-Finland.html Barcelona attack: 13 killed as van rams crowds in Las Ramblas http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40965581… read more »

Five on Friday – 11Aug2017

August 11, 2017

Photo Cred – https://www.instagram.com/theranchtexas/ Happy Five on Friday, everyone. We missed last week due to some technical difficulties, but we’re back this time around. The Kremlin’s Newest Hybrid Warfare Asset: Gangsters The Kremlin’s Newest Hybrid Warfare Asset: Gangsters The Dynamics Of A Riot http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-24/dynamics-riot Bombs Over Pyongyang? The Window’s Already Closed Bombs over Pyongyang? The Window’s… read more »

Project Appleseed AAR

August 9, 2017

I stepped outside my comfort zone last weekend and attended an Appleseed event. For those not familiar with Project Appleseed, the organization’s website states: “Project Appleseed™ isn’t a gun club or a militia, nor is it a historical society. Instead, we are a non-partisan group of men and women (known as the Revolutionary War Veterans… read more »

Addressing Concerns With the Sig Sauer P320

August 9, 2017

Reality and facts matter. Full disclosure: Grayguns has developed patent-pending fire control parts for the P320, to enhance these actions for competition and elite users while maintaining full mechanical safety values. Some of this work was done in cooperation with SIG SAUER, and much independently. I can state with assurance that I may be considered… read more »

Five on Friday – 28July2017

July 28, 2017

Photo Cred – DARC Instagram NASA Just Dropped A Ton Of Rare Footage Of Blackbirds Doing What They Do Best http://taskandpurpose.com/sr-71-blackbird-rare-video/ You Have Totally Earned This 4-Minute Video Of The Navy Blowing Stuff Up http://taskandpurpose.com/navy-weapons-test-range-video/ North Korea tests another ICBM, putting U.S. cities in range http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKBN1AD1ZB National Geographic – Among the Ruins of Mosul http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/07/mosul-iraq-ISIS-photographs/… read more »

PHLster Flatpack Rundown

July 22, 2017

In 2015, PHLster was approached by some individual Philadelphia PD plain-clothes officers (independent of the department, seeking custom work) to develop a solution for the pocket carry of their department-issued SOFTT-Wide tourniquets. The criteria for the device was that it should add no substantial additional bulk to the profile of a flat-folded tourniquet, keep the… read more »

Five on Friday – 21July2017

July 21, 2017

Photo cred – Centrifuge Training Instagram Defense Intelligence Agency’s 2017 Report on Russia Military Power http://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military%20Power%20Publications/Russia%20Military%20Power%20Report%202017.pdf?ver=2017-06-28-144235-937 The City is the Battlefield of the Future https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-city-is-the-battlefield-of-the-future-1500500905 DEA Warns of “Circle of Hell” in Mexico http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/07/dea-warns-of-circle-of-hell-in-mexico.html Some Beautiful WWII Color Images https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/beautiful-wwii-color-images-of_warbirds.html In Over Their Heads: U.S. Ground Forces Are Dangerously Unprepared for Enemy Drones https://warontherocks.com/2017/05/in-over-their-heads-u-s-ground-forces-are-dangerously-unprepared-for-enemy-drones/

PHLster TuckStrut

July 17, 2017

As the proprietor and sole life form over at PHLster, I was asked to give a brief rundown on a piece of holster hardware I’ve developed and mass produced. As various mechanisms for increasing concealment and decreasing printing via rotating the grip of the pistol into the body have gained popularity, as in-molded features of… read more »

Five on Friday – 14July2017

July 14, 2017

Happy Friday, everybody. New Dry Dock Photos Show Extent of Hidden USS Fitzgerald Damage https://news.usni.org/2017/07/12/new-dry-dock-photos-show-extent-hidden-uss-fitzgerald-damage Doctrine, and Why TRADOC is a Euphemism for Bad Training http://www.breachbangclear.com/doctrine-is-more-important-than-lessons-paid-for-with-blood/ Patrick Van Horne (Author of Left of Bang) Discusses Situational Awareness http://www.theideavacuum.com/podcast/patrick-van-horne-situational-awareness-threat-detection-idea-vacuum-podcast-006/ Dramatic Drone Footage Reveals A Mosul Devastated By 3 Years Of ISIS Occupation http://taskandpurpose.com/mosul-isis-drone-video/… read more »

Zeroing the Close Combat Optic (CCO), Part 1:

July 9, 2017

We are continuing our discussion on the M68 Close Combat Optic, or CCO. The reference for this is TM 9-1240-413-13P dated May 2013, and TC 3-22.9, Change 1 dated January 2017 To recap our discussion from last week, the close combat optic (CCO), M68 is a non-telescopic (unmagnified) reflex sight that is designed for the… read more »

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