Posts by Aaron Spuler
Out Shooting Tomorrow
On April 15th, I picked up a Rossi 971 (http://www.rossiusa.com/product-details.cfm?id=140), and tomorrow I’ll get out to shoot it for the first time. Yeehaw.
Read More5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
Even in gun-crazy America, most of us aren’t shooting things as part of our day-to-day routine. So most Americans actually know very little about guns. Hollywood writers realized this a long time ago and, being writers, used it as an excuse to never do any fact-checking ever again. Check out the list at: http://www.cracked.com/article_18576_5-ridiculous-gun-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html Cracked…
Read MoreIs the U.S. Arming Mexican Cartels?
If you ever watch video or look at pictures of the drug war in Mexico, you’ll notice some pretty heavy weapons. This is a war being waged with rockets and plastic explosives, not pea shooters and Saturday Night Specials. Consider these incidents: – A M26A2 fragmentation grenade used against a U.S. Consulate in Mexico in…
Read More8-Year-Old Sells Loaded Gun for $3 at Queens School
An 8-year-old boy and his father are facing gun charges after the youngster brought a loaded handgun to a Queens elementary school Thursday and sold it to a classmate for $3, police said. The weapon was discovered when the second boy brought the gun home and showed it to his mom, police said. The mom…
Read MoreA History of the World in 100 Weapons
Saber A History of the World in 100 Weapons tells the stories of the hundred definitive weapons whose effects have been the most revolutionary, changing the way war is waged and the very world we live in. From the gladius of ancient Rome to the AK-47, all one hundred are revealed in an array of…
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