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Vienna—The ballots have been sealed. The conservative ÖVP won the Austrian legislative election with 32%. The socialist SPÖ, with 26.9% and right-wing FPÖ, with 26%, contest for second place. Final results will be announced on Thursday. But it matters not since the ÖVP and FPÖ will be most likely forming a right-leaning coalition with Sebastian […]
If you’re going to commit a crime, it’s probably best not to brag about it. And it’s especially dumb to brag about your crime on the internet. But that’s precisely what happened when a defense contractor bragged on LinkedIn about bilking the Department of Defense out of money, according to new documents obtained by Gizmodo. […]
* Cox Cable, you are USELESS. An internet outage affecting my area code has me typing this at the local coffee shop. Thankfully, the smelly hippy ratio is unusually low this morning. Short roundup this week. -BK They’re too stupid to be in my Air Force: Four U.S. Air Force service members allegedly spray-painted […]
One of 2017’s biggest defense and aviation stories is the anonymous sighting by a “handful of witnesses” of the landing of a mysterious, unidentified new aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 Production Flight Test Facility in Palmdale California. What was it? Aviation Week reporter Guy Norris scooped the story but was guarded in his […]
American Secretary of Defense James Mattis released a force wide memo late last week, underscoring the importance of bringing America’s military back into a state of readiness, while also emphasizing the importance of alliance building and business reform in the Department of Defense. Mattis, who echoed these sentiments in a speech he delivered on Monday, […]
The United States is offering millions of dollars in award money for information that could lead to the arrest of two Hezbollah leaders, a senior State Department official said yesterday. Nicholas Rasmussen, head of the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington D.C., also said Hezbollah has actors within the U.S. homeland as part of its ongoing […]
On March 28, 2015, the NYPD conducted a sting operation targeting the film mogul, Harvey Weinstein. 22-year-old Ambra Battilana, a Filipina-Italian model, had gone to the police regarding Weinstein’s misconduct. She agreed to record their next interaction at Manhatten’s Tribeca Grand Hotel, with officers nearby ready to intervene should he do more than simply implicate […]
After getting out of the Marine Corps, I immediately enrolled in college and set about on a life path that I thought would offer my family the most stability and financial security my background would allow, which for me, meant working for one the many defense contractors based in the Boston area… And trust me, […]
Do the most counter-intuitive thing for any dog lover on the planet: ignore them. During the World Wars, dogs were found to be incredibly useful beyond their capacity for companionship and what they were initially bred for. Since then, schools across the U.S. have opened in an effort to provide people with a necessary medical […]
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Army took delivery of the first of a new series of Abrams-based main battle tanks. The M1A2 System Enhancement Package Version 3 is slated to replace the Version 2 that has been in production since 2005. This version is the most modernized configuration of the Abrams tank, having improved force protection […]
In what will likely be seen as a case study for business and marketing majors in the years to come, Marvel recently announced a joint venture with defense contractor Northrop Grumman, only to quickly cancel their plans to partner with the corporation after receiving a significantly negative response on social media, accusing the comic book […]
Police investigating the Las Vegas shooting have updated their timeline of the events leading up to the massacre that unfolded on October 1. Investigators in Las Vegas now believe a security guard who was the first to encounter gunman Stephen Paddock did so at 9:59 p.m. local time — six minutes before Paddock began firing on the […]
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Our roots in shooting sports started off back in 1996 with our founder and CEO, Josh Ungier. His love of airguns took hold of our company from day one and we became the first e-commerce retailer dedicated to airguns, optics, ammo, and accessories. Over the next 25 years, customers turned to us for our unmatched product selection, great advice, education, and continued support of the sport and airgun industry.
