Glock's New Steel 15-round Magazines for the 43X and 48

The Glock 43X and 48 were released with a factory 10-round magazine featuring the standard Glock style magazine which was a steel core covered with polymer. But there were companies that produced 15-round aftermarket magazines such as Shield Arms; and the PSA Micro Dagger magazines also work. But I guess that Glock got tired of losing so much business to the manufacturers of aftermarket 15-round magazines for the 43X and 48 because it appears that they have released a steel 15-round magazine, which has to be a first for Glock. Mr. Guns & Gear has released a YouTube short showing the new magazine. If you have a bit more time, the video below from XTech Tactical has a more in-depth review. The Glock Store has them available for pre-order. 

VIDEO: "The New All Metal Glock 43X 15 Round Magazine"
XTech Tactical (5 min.)

Secret CIA Tech Revealed

The New York Post reports that a secret CIA technology called "Ghost Murmur" was used to track down the pilot shot down in Iran. 

    The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise, two sources close to the breakthrough said.

[snip]

    “It’s like hearing a voice in a stadium, except the stadium is a thousand square miles of desert,” a source briefed on the program told The Post. “In the right conditions, if your heart is beating, we will find you.”

[snip]

    “The name is deliberate. ‘Murmur’ is a clinical term for a heart rhythm. ‘Ghost’ refers to finding someone who, for all practical purposes, has disappeared,” the source said.

    It was “about as clean an environment as you could ask for” because of low electromagnetic interference, “almost no competing human signatures, and at night the thermal contrast between a living body and the desert floor,” which “gave operators a secondary confirmation layer.”

    “Normally this signal is so weak that it can only be measured in a hospital setting with sensors pressed nearly against the chest,” the source said.

The technology is rumored to have been developed by Lockhood's Skunk Works. It has been deployed on Black Hawk helicopters with the potential for future use on F-35 fighter jets. It's like something from a sci-fi horror movie. 

A Couple Videos On Ambushes

Here are a couple videos that address conducting ambushes from a military perspective. The first video goes over the general tactics involved in conducting a military ambush. The second video discusses whom to target in an attack (or even defense), but seems particularly appropriate to an ambush.

I would note as to the second video that the host's list is drawing from what is in military manuals and not from combat experience (in fact, he specifically disclaims any military experience). I would suggest that some provision needs to be made for a drone operator, if present, although I'm not sure of the priority for a drone operator. It seems that they should rank with a K9 operator or even a crew served weapon, though, since the drone(s) will either be to track or to deliver an explosive payload; but if they are controlling a drone already in the air, they should be given the top priority as they may be in communication with another unit or already tracking/targeting the ambushing party.  

 VIDEO: "Basic Fundamentals and Principles for Ambushing"
Brent0331 (37 min.)

 

 VIDEO: "MACV-SOG Priority Target Considerations : Who Should You Engage first?"
The Strapped Woodsman (8 min.)

The Powell River Witches

In 2023, some images caught on a trail cam in 2021 briefly went viral. As the Outdoor Life article, "Naked Witches Caught on Camera, or the Greatest Trail Cam Prank of All Time?" describes:

    When Corinea Stanhope and her grandfather Bob set up a trail camera near a deer carcass two minutes from Stanhope’s home in Powell River, British Columbia, they hoped to see some interesting wildlife feeding on it. First came a bobcat. Then, to their surprise, came two half-naked figures with matted black hair that looked a lot like witches. The trail camera photos show the two standing over the deer carcass, picking at the flesh, and even raising a hoof to one of their mouths.

    The internet can’t decide if these images are real or staged. Social media commenters mostly attribute the behavior to a local bone-obsessed cult, a variety of demons, or just two pranksters with black wigs and a major commitment to their craft. 

 [snip]

    In the photos, one of the two figures is wearing just a loincloth while the other wears pants and boots. Both appear to be topless. Their faces are concealed by curtains of matted black hair. Stanhope is pretty sure they’re wearing wigs with curly blond hair underneath.

    And because she works as a nurse, Stanhope was extra grossed out by the idea of someone bringing a rotting deer hoof to their mouth.    

But what really bothered Stanhope (aka Woloschuk) was that so many news organizations referred to the two half-naked women as "witches".  

    “I found it concerning how quickly false information was spread,” said Woloschuk. “I was especially disturbed by the use of the word ‘witch’ especially in the United States, where [the story] really blew up.” 

    Woloschuk feels that the climate for women in the US right now has regressed and women’s rights are being threatened.

    “It wasn’t long ago in our history that women were being burned at the stake and being accused of being witches,” she said.    

More:  "Stunned nurse: I caught ‘witches holding a carcass-eating ritual’ on my security camera"--New York Post (2023). 

Real Refugees

The Powerline blog describes modern liberalism:

The Trump administration admitted a tiny number of refugees from South Africa, to the outrage of liberals. Liberals insisted that they weren’t “real” refugees, ostensibly because not enough of them were being murdered, but really because they aren’t “people of color.”    

 Anti-white prejudice seems to be the one unifying force amongst the Left. 

The Wealth Pump In Action--Oracle

The New York Post reports that at the same time Oracle is laying off thousands of tech workers in the U.S. and overseas, "US Citizenship and Immigration Services data show the company filed roughly 3,126 petitions in fiscal years 2025 and 2026, including 436 this year alone." And Breitbart adds:

Oracle is not alone in pursuing foreign talent while reducing domestic workforces. Amazon, which announced in January that it would eliminate 16,000 corporate positions, filed approximately 2,675 H-1B petitions during the same two-year fiscal period. This followed the company’s October announcement that it was cutting 14,000 corporate workers. 

Rassmussen Reports Voting Machines Incorporated Corrupted Devices

Rassmussen Polls reports on X: "Mainland China CCP factory employees and Taiwanese warehouse workers have provided written affidavits on how they and others have installed illegal corrupted components into U.S. voting machines FOR YEARS[.]" It makes you wonder how closely tied are the Democratic Party and the CCP if the Chinese go to this much trouble to tilt U.S. elections in favor of the Democrats. 

Ethiopian AK Parts Kits Coming To U.S.

The Firearm Blog reports that Royal Tiger Imports will be importing AK parts kits from Ethiopia. Royal Tiger had previously imported M1 Carbines and some other miscellaneous WWII era rifles from Ethiopia. The author believes that these will likely be AKs manufactured by North Korea or from a factory in Ethiopia built by the North Koreans. The author explains:

    I encountered plenty of Ethiopian-made AKs in Somalia and was probably the first gun writer to publish a detailed article about them. In fact, the article about Ethiopian AKs was my first submission to The Firearm Blog eight years ago, back when I first applied for the job. I never imagined I’d see those rifles enter the U.S. market — but here we are.

[snip]

    A guard entered the office container where I was dealing with paperwork, and I noticed he had an AK rifle with unique black plastic furniture. The stock had the letters GAEC and a star on it. I stared at it for a minute, but it didn't look like anything I had seen before. Being a self-proclaimed AK expert, that hurt my feelings.

    The next day, I inspected his rifle and found the factory marking on the left side of the receiver - GAFAT-I. Never before have I heard anything about this manufacturer or the fact that Ethiopia even makes firearms at all.

[snip]

    The origins of the Ethiopian guns remained unknown to me until one day, when I was staying at the dormitory of a Saudi arms factory and was just killing time, reading some old gun magazines. I came across Frank Iannamico’s article about North Korean AKs and realised that I’ve seen all those features before - on those GAFAT guns in Somalia.

    Those strange GAFAT-1 rifles looked a lot like the North Korean AKM called Type 68 and had all the same features: the selector markings, the indentation above the magazine release, sling attachment loop on the gas block, trigger with two hooks, and 800-meter rear sight. 

    Later on, I found a declassified CIA report from 1984 which stated that “North Korea has also offered to build a small arms factory in Ethiopia. Factory construction will begin in 1984, with completion planned for 1987”. 

Gun Safety: Now And In The Past

If you were foolish enough to believe Leftist lies, you might think that the liberalization of gun ownership and, in particular, allowing citizens to carry guns would, resulted in an increase in gun related deaths. You would be wrong. From a 2020 NRA fact sheet on gun deaths (footnotes omitted):

• Since 1903, the earliest year of data available, the per capita rate of gun accident deaths has decreased 95 percent, from 3.1 to 0.14 deaths per 100,000 population.
• There were 458 fatal firearms-related accidents in 2018 – the lowest since at least 1903 – and the rate matched the record low of 0.14 per 100k population.
• Over the last 25 years, annual numbers of gun accident deaths have decreased by more than 66%. Concurrently, Americans have acquired over 200 million new guns and today own approximately 407 million guns, an all-time high.

You will note from the same article that firearms related deaths for children 0-14 was only 1.41% of all fatal injuries and far less than motor vehicle accidents, suffocation, or drowning. 

Secret Service Agent Shoots Himself In Butt

The anti-gunners used to argue that only law enforcement had the necessary training and experience to be trusted with firearms. Consequently, I tend to point out examples of their failures as a counter-argument to the gun grabbers' rhetoric. The latest is from this piece from The Truth About Guns: "Secret Service Agent NDs Himself Using His Gun as a Flashlight." The gist of the story is that a member of Jill Biden's Secret Service detail was in an airport when he realized he had left his cell phone in a vehicle. When he arrived at the vehicle, he had drawn his weapon in order to use the flashlight to search for his cell phone. When he holstered the weapon, it discharged resulting in a wound to the agent's posterior. 

    There are a few points to be drawn from this incident:

• First and foremost is that whenever you start handling a loaded firearm, you greatly increase the odds of an accidental or negligent discharge. Ergo, the best way to reduce your risk to avoid unnecessary handling of loaded firearms.
• Next, and related to the first, is that a handgun (or other other weapon) with a weapon mounted light is not a flashlight to be used for things like hunting for your cell phone beneath a car seat. That is why if you have to choose between a weapon mounted light or separate flashlight, you are better with carrying the flashlight. You will use the flashlight in your pocket far more than the WML. 
• The immediate cause of the discharge, however, was not from using the WML as a flashlight, but from the reholstering of the weapon. Unfortunately, we do not know exactly what went wrong, which is why I am reluctant to call it a negligent discharge over an accidental discharge. But if I were to hazard a guess, it would be that this agent was using a striker fired pistol--it is my understanding that the Secret Service switched to a Glock 9mm pistol in 2019--and the trigger got caught up on something (his finger, a bit of clothing, a corner of the holster, etc.) as the agent was attempting to reholster the weapon.