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Saw a post for a new Zombie Tools company today via BoingBoing. I’m not sure if the recent US financial problems is one of the signs of the apocalypse, but if so, apparently you can order the tools to prepare yourself over the web.
Of course all the classic literature (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
suggests that a Lobo is the way to go. Why they’re not showing any firearms is beyond me 
Classic Zombie fiction:
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Saw this via BoingBoing today:
It’s on preorder though, so it’ll be a bit (if ever) before you can actually test one of these out. You’d think that a bunch of the pistol rounds would make better cubes though. I mean, wouldn’t you rather have your Whisky Sour with a couple of .45 LC cubes?
Pretty interesting read over at Defense Tech today covering the changes to snipers from
the current Iraq / Afghanistan conflicts.
Here’s some of the problems they address.
I’ve been working my way through Lonesome Dove
Maybe something in a .44 or a .45? If so, was he carrying a carbine or a rifle? Maybe a bigger cartridge for the rifle for a longer range?
I’m going to have to dig a bit further and figure this one out
I’m just working through the manufacturers as I get new info, and finally added in Henry last night. They’re also listed in the standard set of gun reviews we’re working on right now.
I’ve got the initial gun review sections added for Browning and BondArms. The Browning section only includes their shotguns (which is a large number to begin with), but I’ll get over to their rifles eventually. BondArms as an interesting company based out of Texas, selling derringers that seem pretty neat and available in a wide variety of calibers. Their brochure has a number of SASS endorsements on it, so I’d guess that might be a fair bit of their client base
As I’ve mentioned recently, we’ve been working on adding in gun reviews to the stoppingpower.info web site during the last month. A lot of work has been in figuring out how to get it to flow correctly with mediawiki, and a lot of it has been figuring out how to populate into the wiki correctly. Yeah, technical blah blah blah
After all that, I’ve finally got the gun reviews pages in for all of the current Glock models!
We’re obviously still working on the look and feel, but I felt it was important to get the ratings, reviews, and data up there since we had it. Functional, but not pretty, but I figure it may be worth something to someone at this point. We’ll got a template we’re trying to get in place to make the page a bit cleaner, but it may be mid October before we get that one out.
As always, let me know if you have any comments or suggestions.
Apparently H&K looked into a new assualt rifle design right before the wall came down in Germany, and came up with the G11 design.
H&K G11 prototype
The key things I’d like to point out in the defensetech.org article are:
Read the original article at defensetech.org
And if you really want to understand it, go over to www.hkpro.com for more goodies like this:
H&K G11 vs M16
Freakanomics covers the report “Who Serves in the U.S. Military? The Demographics of Enlisted Troops and Officers” by Shanea J. Watkins and James Sherk from the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis.
1. “American soldiers are more educated than their peers. A little more than 1 percent of enlisted personnel lack a high-school degree, compared to 21 percent of men 18 to 24 years old [in the general population].”
Education Levels
2. “Contrary to conventional wisdom, minorities are not overrepresented in the military service.”
Demographics
3. “The facts do not support the belief that many American soldiers volunteer because society offers them few opportunities. The average enlisted person or officer could have had lucrative career opportunities in the private sector.”
via NY Times
Finally, there’s an interesting graphic of troop representation by US region:
Representation by US Region
