Apparently praising the aesthetic qualities of a battleship is some kind of warmongering.

Y'see, calling an instrument of death beautiful is wrong, at least in the eyes of some Catholics who are qualified to judge morality.


Now, they do have a point. After all, no matter how shiny a garbage truck is, it's still used for carting garbage around - and no matter how beautiful a war machine is, it's designed for killing people, many of whom land in Hell as a result. And a lot of people (most notably those in France, Germany, and the areas between) praised the beauty of their weapons to hide the fact that they were growing too warlike (to use a mild phrase)...


Then again, praising the looks of this weapon...


...doesn't mean you approve of how Francis Macomber died in Hemingway's story.

Now this is nostalgia if I ever saw it!

Hand gonnes!

From The Whapsters...

Militaria

I recommend buying this as a St. Valentine's Day gift.

Don't buy it if it's illegal in your area - not that anyone on this blog would consider buying a weapon illegally, of course...

Here at Chez Histor we have some gun violence 'issues,' as evidenced by these photos of a living-room shootout:

H. L. Crawdad shooting a World-War-II-era M1 carbine at

members of the Green Army of M-town, GWWFE (guys with weird facial expressions) division.

The crawdad got away, after putting multiple bullet holes in the jeep's transmission.

Supposedly a Humvee belonging to the Empire of Dallas got 'raptured':

Scoffers claim that it's not a humvee, it's a flashlight, a soldier, and a slice of cardboard. Furthermore, they object, if there had been a Rapture, Histor would have raptured too.

Speaking of which, Histor already knows what he wants for his birthday.