Dave Barr’s Epic Motorcycle Journeys
By Will Grant Dave Barr holds two Guinness World Records, has two prosthetic legs, and has ridden a Harley-Davidson motorcycle across every continent on Earth, save Antarctica. His story is one of commitment, perseverance, and freedom. In the face of grave odds, he has accomplished what few men would even try. His first feat was riding his motorcycle around the world, a journey of 83,000 miles that took three and a half years. He made the trip alone, without...
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Buying Drugs in Mexico Easy as Ordering Coca Cola
By Will Grant Nogales, Sonora: Firmly under the control of the Sinaloa cartel I walk across the border into Nogales, Mexico for the first time on Sunday. The streets are jammed with cars, the narrow sidewalks crowded with people. Every handrail and curb is smeared with greasy filth. A warm, putrid smell hangs in the air. A week of rain wouldn’t hurt this place a bit, I thought. The pharmacies welcome all foot traffic into Mexico, along with men offering...
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The Hype Over 3D Printed Gun Parts
By Will Grant Three-dimensional printed plastic gun parts are getting a lot of headlines these days. And like most conversations that involve guns, people are quick to bring up gun-control laws. Most of those people are missing the points. Some see printed guns as a threat: if any one can print a firearm in their basement, what’s keeping terrorists and whackos from doing it? Others see printing guns as an expression of freedom: I’m entitled to manufacture guns for my...
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Machine Gun Shoot in OK Draws Trigger-Happy Crowd
There are basically three events where the average US citizen has a chance to get his family’s hands on a wide range of full-auto machine guns. One of them was last weekend at Oklahoma’s Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show. The other two such opportunities are the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky, and the Big Sandy Shoot in Arizona. At all three events you can shoot wantonly at kitchen appliances, old cars and exploding targets. Photojournalist Pete Mueller...
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The Strange Story of John McAfee Continues… in Guatemala
The saga of anti-virus software mogul John McAfee just keeps getting weirder. Three weeks ago McAfee’s neighbor in Belize was found dead with a 9 mm gunshot wound to the head. McAfee fled, claiming innocence and saying that when Belizean authorities detain someone for questioning it never turns out well. Now he’s on the lam. About a week ago, Vice magazine’s editor in chief, Rocco Castoro, and photographer Robert King met up with McAfee in Belize. They’ve since left Belize...
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Bill Burke’s Four-Wheel Drive School
By Will Grant Bill Burke makes a living out of teaching people how not to kill themselves in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. He calls it risk mitigation. How not to flip over, how to get unstuck, use a winch, a hi-lift jack. To a lot of people, it’s how to avoid spending money on new bumpers after a weekend in the hills. In 1986, Burke founded Bill Burke’s 4-Wheeling America. As a certified master trainer by the International 4-Wheel Drive Trainers...
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Soldier in the Shadows: Billy Waugh Turns 83
By Will Grant Billy Waugh is a true American Hero. Ask anyone who knows him, and they’ll tell you the same thing. Many of his enemies are dead, and more than a few of the friends he’s served with long-since retired. In many circles, Waugh is legendary—as a Green Beret, as a CIA paramilitary, as the man who nailed Carlos the Jackal. “If you look at the dictionary definition of patriot, there’s a picture of Billy there,” says Ray Calafell,...
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So You Want to Buy a Handgun…
By Colin Despins Purchasing a gun can be a tricky predicament—so many manufacturers and calibers and so many varieties to choose from. Many enter into a handgun purchase having decided in advance that they want a certain caliber; they then proceed to the counter of local gun shop and state that they are looking for that caliber of handgun: “I would like to buy a 40 caliber.” This is like pulling on to a car lot and saying that you...
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Inside Burma’s Dirty War, Part IV
Robert Young Pelton heads deep inside the jungle of Burma to meet rebels, mercenaries, missionaries, and monks. All are engaged in the world’s longest running civil war. At the center of this conflict are the Free Burma Rangers, led by a former US Special Forces soldier known as The Father of the White Monkey. Nerdah Mya is probably the most famous Karen commander. Before I interviewed General Bo Jo and the other generals, they had not been interviewed by Western...
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CIA Faces Lawsuit for Alleged Coverup of Scientist’s Death in 1953
After a CIA bioweapons scientist fell from the 13th floor of New York’s Statler Hotel at 2:30 a.m. in 1953, an official report called the death a suicide. But not everyone is so sure. Two sons of the scientist, Frank Olson, filed a lawsuit in Washington yesterday claiming that the CIA murdered their father. Two subsequent investigations into the incident have failed to clear the muddy waters—at least to those outside the Agency—and the sons are now looking for answers...
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Mick Gould: The Brains and Tactics Behind Hollywood Gunmen
Mick Gould has been a martial artist since he was 14 years old. He created the martial arts discipline Nagasu Do, and he’s worked as a bodyguard, marital arts instructor, and technical advisor (martial arts, close combat, firearms) for the Hollywood film industry. He’s been a part of eleven films and has worked with a slew of actors that includes Johnny Depp, Val Kilmer, Marlon Brando, Tom Cruise, Al Pacino, and Samuel L. Jackson. We wanted to find out if...
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SniperFest 2012
By Will Grant Last weekend at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Firearms Range outside Phoenix, 60 snipers from military, corrections and law enforcement agencies across the country convened for the third-annual SniperFest—three days of training and competition hosted by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. This year, the event was expanded to include more agencies, more vendors and an extra day of training. To those who attend it, SniperFest is most valuable as a chance to compare ideas, techniques and equipment....
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