It started out with mild curiosity sparked by a SHTFPlan.com headline: With Knife Murders Spiking After Gun Ban, UK Urges ‘Save a Life–Surrender Your Knife. After all, this is the country that developed blunted “anti-stab knives,” after “doctors … lobbied … for kitchen knives to be redesigned [because] it could help to save lives.” What new […]
Gregory McCallum, the type Brits call a yob, was the neighbor from hell. The 23-year-old McCallum had a history of noisy parties and disputes with neighbors, and the morning after his latest blow-out he wanted revenge against the neighbor he thought had called the police on him the night before. So he decided to do something […]
It may look like one, but this crude graphic (courtesy of the venerable Beeb) does not depict a scoped bullpup bipod-mounted can of ultra-pasteurized whipped cream. It’s actually a very crude CGI illustration of an experimental riot-control weapon that uses a laser to temporarily blind its targets. By ‘temporarily’, we hope they don’t mean “until […]
From across the pond comes this little bon mot: an ad intended to promote the idea that replica guns (here in the Colonies we call them “toys”) are being converted to real guns. Um . . . not so much. I don’t know if they know ANYTHING about guns in the Land of Boiled Food, […]
Taxi driver Derrick Bird’s shotgun slaughter in the UK’s Lake District continues to put the pedal-to-the-metal re: the island nation’s efforts to strengthen its Draconian gun laws. Although Prime Minister David Cameron warned his electorate not to “jump to conclusions” about what must be done, the country’s punditocracy has eschewed any discussion of liberalizing gun laws for self-protection […]
They call themselves the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), because shooting animals helps conserve them. (True story.) Besides, they can’t call themselves the British Association for Shooting Just for the Sheer Bloody Hell of It. Or The British Association for Shooting and Thus Protecting Our Lives and Personal Property. ‘Cause the British government […]
