A Valentine's Day bluster
It's February 14th: Valentine's Day.
For gun-history people, the name conjures up the infamous "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" where a roaring 20's mob hit went down in history. A group of mobsters, dressed as police officers, lined up a group of rivals against the wall as if they were to be searched. Instead of searching them, they gunned them down with a pair of Thompson submachine guns and a shotgun. Must have been a real mess. See the current issue of "Small Arms Review" for a detailed history of the event and info on the guns that were used.
The Tommyguns used were the 1928a1 model, which could be loaded with a 50 or 100 round drum magazine. Click here to see a photo of a 1928a1 Thompson (on top) and the military version called the M1 (this particular M1 is the civilian version with 16" barrel instead of the original 10.5" barrel).
A historically significant aspect of this particular crime is that it was the first major case that what we would call "modern forensics" were used to analyze the evidence (shell casings from the scene and the slug removed from the bodies).
Interesting stuff, especially if you are snowbound due to a blizzard.
Which brings us to the real topic of this post.
As we checked the weather reports yesterday, we made sure to keep Caleigh informed. She was pretty excited to have a real snowstorm, the first one this winter. When we told her that we might get as much as 3 feet of snow today, she really lit up because we "are going to have a real bluster!". OK, technically it is a blizzard, but bluster sounds cute and brings up images of "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day", so "bluster" it is.
I went out to feed the critters. All of the chickens that are too stubborn to go into the chicken house are lined up in the back of the goat shed, along with the goats, guineas and steer. The ducks are sledding around on their fat bellies to get from place to place, and when they aren't moving,t hey curl up to sleep in the snow, only to wake up under a few inches, shake it off, then start all over again.
Caleigh and Buster the Dog went out to play for a while, but came in covered in snow. I snapped a picture of her at the door, coming in from her first real "bluster". Click here to see her, rosy cheeks and all!
For gun-history people, the name conjures up the infamous "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" where a roaring 20's mob hit went down in history. A group of mobsters, dressed as police officers, lined up a group of rivals against the wall as if they were to be searched. Instead of searching them, they gunned them down with a pair of Thompson submachine guns and a shotgun. Must have been a real mess. See the current issue of "Small Arms Review" for a detailed history of the event and info on the guns that were used.
The Tommyguns used were the 1928a1 model, which could be loaded with a 50 or 100 round drum magazine. Click here to see a photo of a 1928a1 Thompson (on top) and the military version called the M1 (this particular M1 is the civilian version with 16" barrel instead of the original 10.5" barrel).
A historically significant aspect of this particular crime is that it was the first major case that what we would call "modern forensics" were used to analyze the evidence (shell casings from the scene and the slug removed from the bodies).
Interesting stuff, especially if you are snowbound due to a blizzard.
Which brings us to the real topic of this post.
As we checked the weather reports yesterday, we made sure to keep Caleigh informed. She was pretty excited to have a real snowstorm, the first one this winter. When we told her that we might get as much as 3 feet of snow today, she really lit up because we "are going to have a real bluster!". OK, technically it is a blizzard, but bluster sounds cute and brings up images of "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day", so "bluster" it is.
I went out to feed the critters. All of the chickens that are too stubborn to go into the chicken house are lined up in the back of the goat shed, along with the goats, guineas and steer. The ducks are sledding around on their fat bellies to get from place to place, and when they aren't moving,t hey curl up to sleep in the snow, only to wake up under a few inches, shake it off, then start all over again.
Caleigh and Buster the Dog went out to play for a while, but came in covered in snow. I snapped a picture of her at the door, coming in from her first real "bluster". Click here to see her, rosy cheeks and all!
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