Category: Military

Government Has Known from the Start There is a Right to Own Machineguns

“You see, if we made a statute absolutely forbidding any human being to have a machine gun, you might say there is some constitutional question involved.” [More]

Now, what are all those “staunch supporters of the Second Amendment” in Congress going to do about it?

Time to Bring Back the ‘Be Someone Special’ Slogan

“As we continue to navigate a challenging recruiting environment, changing the AFQT requirement removes a potential barrier to enlistment, allowing us to widen the pool of potential recruits and creating opportunities for personnel who wish to serve,” Cmdr. David Benham, a spokesperson for Commander, Navy Recruiting Command, told Military.com on Monday. [More]

Reminds me of NatLamp’s Frank Rizzo ad.

[Via WiscoDave]

Casus Belli?

“As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing,” Secretary Austin continued. [More]

Unless it’s within our borders.

Aside from leaving those open and/or rigorously admitting confederates of the people we’re taking out elsewhere, we’re also set on simultaneously disarming you and setting known predators loose to further our case for that.

What’s the foreign entanglement worth me and mine dying for over there, anyway? That’s the litmus test I use before expecting it from someone else.

Kick the Can

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a number of improvements in access to mental health care on Thursday to reduce suicides in the military, but held off on endorsing more controversial recommendations to restrict gun and ammunition purchases by young troops, sending them to another panel for study. [More]

Don’t look for the next one to be any less stupid than the first.

[Via Jess]

A Matter of Priorities

Pentagon announces largest-ever defense budget request [More]

Funny– Congress never spends even one penny on “organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States.” And none of those “staunch supporters of the Second Amendment” are demanding it.

Seeing as how the authors of the Constitution they all swore an oath to uphold viewed it as “being necessary to the security of a free State,” Why do you suppose that is?

DOD Suicide Report Long on ‘Gun Control’ But Short on Who’s at Risk and Why

How lumping the good in with the bad and the healthy in with the troubled, ignoring politically inconvenient realities, and mandating increased restrictions on the fundamental rights of all demonstrates excellence, dignity, and respect is not explained. Such “equity” seems a curious way of saying “Thank you for your service.” [More]

Is a politically self-serving report that ignores the basics and tells servicemembers they’re not trusted really the best way to help those in serious pain and immediate need?

Chain of Command

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that on his order a U.S. fighter jet shot down an unidentified object that was flying high over the Yukon… [More]

Our military is taking orders from Fidelito now?

I see there have been all kinds of recent incidents lately, and still think someone needs to look at the “Chinese companies” for administration ties. I’m also not sure North Korea and Russia wouldn’t benefit with some copycats.

And as far as shooting down space aliens goes, not bloody likely.

And Thank You for Your Service

A bill to prohibit the Department of Veterans Affairs from sending information on veterans or (beneficiaries) who are assisted by a fiduciary to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) list without a judicial ruling that they are a danger to themselves or others was reintroduced Feb. 2 in Congress. [More]

Funny, how there’s not a Democrat in the bunch…

[Via AK]

Clipped Wings

Air Force general predicts war with China in 2025, tells officers to prep by firing ‘a clip’ at a target, and ‘aim for the head’ [More]

I know the use of that term for “magazine” is considered heresy in most gun circles.

I used it a time or two myself in the early days. I don’t get too bent out of shape because no less an authority than the late Col. David Hackworth used it on occasion:

Now let’s talk center mass…