I'm not an attorney, nor do I play one on television, but isn't anything over 50 caliber such as the Boys Anti-Tank rifle in April's Q&A considered a destructive device by our good friends at ATF, unless it is black powder (because everyone knows black powder can't kill anyone?) ...
Justin Maciejewski:The trick is to work out what process is good and fundamental to the stable functioning of an organization—and to its consistency—and what process is bureaucratic and superfluous. Don’t throw out the good stuff when you get rid of the bad stuff; organizations that ha...
"At Camp Ritchie, Daniel Skinner was as good or better than any of the other trainees," says Eddy, "but when he was posted abroad, he couldn't serve over white soldiers. What they did was make him the driver of the interrogation team, so he could still participate as a translator and...
The IGS is a standard acceleration-based system that can roughly keep track of where the missile is located based on the accelerations it detects in the missile's motion (click here for a good introduction). Tercom uses an on-board 3-D database of the terrain the missile will be flying ...
It's dark inside the bunker, and everywhere you look is blackness. Shells pound the ground no more than 50 meters in front of your position, rattling the fillings loose in your skull. Quickly you fumble in the darkness, looking for your rifle and helmet, but there's something odd about ...
falling heavily by now, and the truck tire chains slapped against the frozen dirt road as we slowly climbed the last few miles to our home for the next week. I dozed as the truck rocked, head buried down into my puffy jacket. It will all pass if I only get a good night’s sleep....
It requires a business purchaser (as opposed to simply a purchaser, under the original version) that is not a holder of a direct-pay permit and knows at the time of its purchase of a digital good, computer software or a service that it will be concurrently available for use in more than...
the bullet has a good chance of penetrating, even if the vest would have normally been able to handle it fine. Thus, while it is possible they can take multiple hits in some cases, and even be rated for such, depending on the caliber of bullet, way t...
The function of both systems is to set off the explosion after the grenade is a good distance away from the thrower. As you might expect, the igniter in an impact grenade is activated by the force of the grenade landing on the ground. With a time-delay grenade, the thrower sets off a...
ts if they ever found themselves on the ground behind enemy lines. The 90-minute picture shows (among other things) how to find ones’ bearings and live off the land; smart ways to traverse hostile country; and even how to disguise oneself in civilian clothing to make ...