Saturday, October 30th, 2010

Competitions »

GSSF Match: Pacific Coast Halloween Challenge IV

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

Training »

Gunsite: Ladies Pistols 1

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Training »

SIG Sauer Academy: Precision Hunting Rifle (Entry Level)

Friday, October 29th, 2010

VZ Grips Custom Ghost Etchings

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Friday, October 29th, 2010

Law Enforcement »

Arizona immigration law three months later: no arrests.

The nation’s toughest immigration law has been in effect for three months. But after the federal courts prevented key portions from going into effect, it has failed to live up to both opponents’ worst fears and supporters’ greatest hopes.
Immigrant-rights groups and major Arizona law-enforcement agencies say they’ve heard of no arrests made or citations issued [...]

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Friday, October 29th, 2010

Military »

Special Forces want android apps for warzone ‘John Maddens.’

The Army is twenty years and a half-billion dollars into a star-crossed effort to build custom communications and digital mapping gadgets for its soldiers. Special Operations Command, on the other hand, is taking a simpler approach: they’re planning to use Android phones.
Last week, the SOCOM asked coders to create a suite of applications for keeping [...]

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Friday, October 29th, 2010

Ontario Knife Rat-3

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Friday, October 29th, 2010

Early humans’ weapon-making skills sharper than expected.

A delicate, sophisticated way to craft sharp weapons from stone apparently was developed by humans more than 50,000 years sooner than had been thought.
The finding could shed light on what knowledge people were armed with when they started migrating out of Africa.
The artful technique is known as pressure flaking. Early weapons’ makers typically would use [...]

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Military »

Pentagon had red flags about command climate in ‘kill team’ Stryker brigade.

While recovering from grievous wounds of a violent tour in northern Iraq between 2003 and 2004, Army Col. Harry Tunnell reflected on the lessons he learned there. One in particular was clear: Peacekeeping methods weren’t working.
What did work were measures that “political correctness dictates that we cannot talk about,” he later wrote in a paper [...]

Friday, October 29th, 2010

U.S. spy spending revealed for first time, tops $80 billion.

The United States spent $80 billion on spy activities in 2010, the first time the government has officially announced the total tab for intelligence spending.
The amount included $53.1 billion on non-military intelligence programs, a 6 percent boost from the previous year, according to a statement released Thursday by the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence.
The [...]

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