Long time readers will likely notice a stark difference in the appearance of the site. We are trying to make the GunsHolstersAndGear (GHG) website easier to navigate, and provide a little better layout. We’ve already upgraded the servers (again) to keep up with web traffic and try to give all of you the best experience possible.
If you run into any problems, please shoot us an e-mail and let me know. We can’t fix it if we don’t know its broke!
The Lakeshore Foundation is helping veterans with disabilities pursue active lifestyles. On a 45 acre campus, the foundation has many fitness and recreation facilities available including:
Check out the Life of Duty video on the Lakeshore Foundation. Lakeshore helps people of all ages and backgrounds who have disabilities, but the NRA video specifically interviews two veterans who were paralyzed in seemingly minor incidents.
Best wishes to all of you for a wonderful 2012. The year certainly has the potential for great good or ill. I hope that all of us are able to lift a pint one year from now and look back with fondness on 2012.
There were some interesting tidbits of information in “Firearms Commerce in the United States 2011” published recently by the ATF.
Manufacturing – There are 5400 licensed firearms manufacturers in the United States. Going through my web browser’s bookmarks, I clearly have only a small fraction of that number on my radar.
It stands to reason that if the USA is built on small business, so is the firearms industry. While not everyone is a Remington, Ruger or Smith & Wesson, a manufacturer doesn’t need to be massive to be profitable. There are a lot of small manufacturers that are building custom rifles, race guns and other niche firearms. Thousands of them, actually.
Here are a few reviews and news items on guns and other gear from around the web:
Cold Steel Voyager review – Excellent review on this line of knives over at BladeReviews.com. The article includes a lot of details, a video and photos.
Details of Shooting on Shatt al-Arab – Reports filed by security contractors in Iraq regarding waterfront/river-borne threats and their use-of-force to end them.
Anyone get anything cool for Christmas? A case of ammo or a shiny new pistol? I’m always a sucker for a surplus rifle covered in cosmoline.
Merry Christmas!
I hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday with your loved ones. For those of you that are in far away places doing your country’s bidding, I pray you will have a peaceful day.
Kel Tec announced they have partnered with the TV show Student of the Gun for 2012. The announcement did not clearly indicate what the partnership entails.
The Battle of the Bulge was well under way 67 years ago today. By this time, Bastogne was surrounded and the Allies were scrambling to bring troops and resources to bear. Ultimately, the Allies would decisively crush the final German offensive of the war, but the cost was very high. Tens of thousands of troops were killed on both sides and many more were wounded.
The NRA’s Life of Duty has published a number of documentary films of our men and women in combat. This one is much shorter than the typical features they do, but as we are in the anniversary of such an important battle, I believe it is well worth posting.
Last week, the tale of the wayward Mythbusters cannonball seemed to be all the rage in the Intertubes. I didn’t mention it here, as I didn’t find the story terribly interesting.
However, the folks at Perception Builder built a Google map showing the trajectory of the errant projectile. The map is pretty cool (simple, but cool), and illustrates how bad this really could have been for them.
I wonder if the Alemeda County SO will continue to allow them to use their bomb range.
Tip o’ the fedora to Wired.