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Mark Miller

Mark Miller is a Green Beret who served in Afghanistan and a number of other live fire locations. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense, a casual hero and a student of science.

Armor Protection, Cooling, Warming and Hydration: Qore Performance's IcePlate Black

Armor Protection, Cooling, Warming and Hydration: Qore Performance’s IcePlate Black

The IcePlate is a freezable water bottle designed to fit between any body armor and base layer. It can cool you down or warm you up, hydrate you, and protect you. Built for hard use, IcePlate is over designed for improvised uses. Designed to sit close to your body IcePlate integrates seamlessly with your gear. […]

Finally, some relief from International Traffic in Arms Regulations? – The Legal Brief!

This week on The Legal Brief, Adam Kraut talks about the proposed changes to INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC IN ARMS REGULATIONS (ITAR) and the government making things easier for the gun industry? YOUTUBE-SAFE LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE: ● ITAR: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/… ● USML: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/… ● EAR: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/… ● Arms Export Control Act: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/te… ● ITAR Proposed Rule Change: […]

Virginia State Police Select SIG SAUER P320 Pistol for Standard Issue Firearm

Virginia State Police Selects SIG SAUER P320 Pistol: The Move to Modern Modular Design Continues

Joining DHS, the US military and a host of other police agencies, the Virginia State Police has officially selected the SIG SAUER P320 Pistol as their official duty sidearm. The Virginia State Police is comprised of three bureaus, with over 2,100 sworn personnel, providing exemplary service to the public, and other law enforcement and criminal […]

Why Have Bayonets Become Shorter Over the Years?

In the early years of firearms, the bayonet turned a discharged weapon from a marginally useful club to a more practical, for medieval and Renaissance warfare, pike. As late as 1900 the bayonet was thought to be fully one-half of the infantryman’s tactical armament. But of course, that was mistaken: the bolt-action, magazine rifle,  the […]

Smart Firearms: Training Police Officers To Succeed

In the last few years, there have been a number of high profile incidents where police officers shot unarmed civilians. The circumstances of each shooting is unique but most of these shootings were negligent discharges caused by inadequate training. The final link in the chain of these tragedies is always the same, an unintentional trigger […]

US Coast Guard Picks M-18: SIG’s Modular Handgun Wins Again

The Coast Guard (USCG) is latest service to announce that they are buying handguns off of the Army Modular Handgun System contract. The Coast Guard will field the smaller M-18 version. The Coast Guard is part of the Department of Homeland Security. It has a broad mission which includes combat deployments overseas and law enforcement […]

Qore Performance IcePlate Black: Armor, Cooling and Hydration

IcePlate a freezable water bottle designed to fit between any body armor and base layer. It can cool you down, hydrate you, and protect you, all at the same time. Built for hard use, IcePlate is over designed for improvised uses. New IcePlate Black Features Anti-Kink Spring Black Bite Valve Integrated Quick Disconnect Optional Dust […]

Classic Fun: M1 1945 Carbine from Inland With Creedmoor Ammo and KCI USA Mags

Classic Fun: M1 1945 Carbine from Inland With Creedmoor Ammo and KCI USA Mags

The .30 M-1 Carbine was used by the U.S. Military in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. The carbine was also supplied to allied forces around the world. These fun guns remain popular and effective for civilians today. The M1 carbine became a US Army weapon on October 22, 1941. Of the 6,110,730 carbines of all types […]

Peltor Sport Electronic Hearing Protectors

Peltor Sport Electronic Hearing Protectors: Quiet When They Need to Be, Smart All the Time

Peltor Sport Electronic Hearing Protectors are very different. Proprietary 3M SMART technology does the seemingly impossible, Dynamic Suppression Time technology suppresses gunshot noise above 82 dBA while Clear Voice Tracking seeks human speech within background noise to improve intelligibility and detection of low-­level sounds improving situational awareness. That is all great, but wait, there is […]

Brigand Arms Handguards: Cool to the Touch, Amazingly Light, Astoundingly Strong

Brigand Arms Handguards: Cool to the Touch, Amazingly Light, Astoundingly Strong

Brigand Arms makes carbon fiber hand guards.  The pictures show the revolutionary use of sophisticated materials, but until you handle one you can’t really understand how light they really are. The 9-inch rail weighs only 3.9 ounces without rails or accessories.  That’s less than $5 worth of quarters and they are stronger than you can believe. […]

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