Sipsey Street Irregulars: All hail John Moses Browning and Ma Deuce! The 324th M-2 ever made is just now being overhauled at Anniston Army Depot for the first time.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

All hail John Moses Browning and Ma Deuce! The 324th M-2 ever made is just now being overhauled at Anniston Army Depot for the first time.

"Cody Bryant, left, and Corby Tinney inspect the 324th M2 receiver ever produced. The weapon arrived at Anniston Army Depot to be converted to a M2A1 in May."

"The Army found an M2 .50 caliber machine-gun still shooting perfectly after 90 years of service."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: that's the way things were once made in this country, And with American steel..Macy's in NYC still has escalators form pre-WWI and they're still running. Some have wooden steps. You can't kill these things. The only way to keep a phony economy running is by throwing things away daily and buying a new one; that will also be thrown away...Our "newest" car is a 1999 Mustang, and the daily driver is a 1988. When it snows and the plows haven't come through yet, I break out the 1953 Dodge M-37 3/4 ton military pick-up. Starts even after sitting for 6 months or so. You need to be a gorilla to operate it but the damn thing is reliable and goes through anything..; November 15, 2015 at 2:10 PM
Bill Sullivan said...: I agree with the comments above. I had a 1951 M-37 that had been through hell with a line construction company. I ran it for over 9 years, and it lived up to it's reputation as the best pickup truck ever made. I thoroughly regret selling it, and my children are still holding that decision against me. The M-2 Browning will still be going when my grandchildren are long gone. Like a hammer, some things don't need much improvement to keep going.; November 16, 2015 at 9:06 AM
Otto Didact said...: My son (a veteran of Operation Desert Shield and Storm) advises me that a Ma Duce is hell on a camel. . . . Pisses living hell outta the camel's owner, too. ;); November 16, 2015 at 7:57 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Sunday, November 15, 2015

All hail John Moses Browning and Ma Deuce! The 324th M-2 ever made is just now being overhauled at Anniston Army Depot for the first time.

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