View From The Porch

A guy just came in and sold the shop three Finnish Mosins, all M39's: A '44 VKT, a '42 Civil Guard, and the absolutely cherriest...

Still with the spotty 'net connection at home. Talk amongst yourselves; I'll go into work early and post from there...

An anonymous coworker has a thing about feral cats on his property. Once or twice, they've come to a bad end. As a cat owner, I have spa...

Got a new post up over at the other blog about the military Remington Model 11 riot gun. I spent a good hour researching and writing when my...

Raving lunatic Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly tried to justify rape with the following goofy analogy: But when it comes to this disaster, who st...

1) A new study published in the JAMA confirms what many have long suspected: Precipitation causes flareups of Recto-Cranial Inversion in Kno...

Made it to another Friday. A whole glorious, blissful day with nothing to do. I'll read a bit, write up a post for the other blog, maybe...

For the millionth time somewhere on the internet I have read something about firearms being " left to trained professionals, like the p...

Over at CNN.com's front page, the link to Lou Dobbs' column reads " Dobbs: Middle class victims of illegal immigration ". ...

My bud Marko has just turned 35 . Now he's old enough to smoke a cigar in public without looking silly and to comment on politics or the...

Spotty internet connection at home. Kept waking up all night. Jeez, it's cold. Light/no blogging today. Maybe tonight.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday that it will take another 12 to 18 months or so for ARVN security forces...

I've been considering running a parallel blog for some time now; one that would serve as place to cross-post all the firearms history ef...

To the guy in Northridge, CA, who wondered about a " 1911 without the gay grip safety ": Blasphemy will get you nowhere, son. For ...

... happy birthday dear Alphecca ! Happy birthday to you! Congrats to Jeff on his blog's fourth anniversary.

So, there I was a couple months back, whiling away a lazy summer afternoon at the Armory, when a big ol' crew-cab pickup with big Harold...

"God willing, in the coming months the war will become many times more forceful and organized," the statement attributed to Omar s...

Ready for this morning's blurb from CNN? Here you go : U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday that a high-ranking Chines...

I've finally decided to suck it up and start acquiring the For Collectors Only series of books on old military rifles, which is somethi...

Suddenly unsure that he had successfully managed to piss off everybody (or at least everybody in the parts of the world where indoor plumbin...