Posted on 05/23/2007 2:02:02 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
That’s funny....
I have a K-Bar that was presented to me from one of my units in the Marine Corps. (for those that do not know, a K-Bar is a Knife Browning Automatic Rifle, originally issued with the Bar). It would be awesome to fire one of these babies. I’ve fired a lot of machine guns, but not the BAR.
Then Harbaugh came onto the scene with his BAR, and they settled right down.
I don't know the details of the story or how you could manage to catch six enemy soldiers not paying attention in a war zone, but likely Mike didn't know either. That was the story as he got it from his grandfather.
I got this form Ka-bars website, I thought you might be interested
How KA-BAR Got Its Name
Soon after its introduction in the mid-1920’s, the KA-BAR trademark became widely known and respected. There have been many versions of how the KA-BAR name came to be, but all evidence points to a letter received from a fur trapper. This particular fur trapper’s testimonial turned out to be the most significant ever received by the company.
He wrote, in very rough English, that his gun had jammed and that he had therefore relied on his knife to kill a wounded bear that was attacking him. In thanking the company for their quality product the trapper described using his knife to kill the bear. All that was legible of his scrawled writing was “k a bar”. The company was so honored by this testimonial that they adopted this phrase and used it as their trademark, KA-BAR.
I remember listening to the G. Gordon Liddy radio show back in the mid 1990s and Liddy had been talking about his days as a FBI agent.
The “G-Man” fondly spoke of the .38 Super that was issued to him back then (probably back in the 50s I guess.)
Your historical accounting of the lawmen who went after Bonnie and Clyde is quite remarkable in other aspects as well.
In this day and age, in is inconceivable that any law enforcement “posse” (sic “task force” would be the applicable term today) would independently go out and select high caliber/high velocity automatic weapons to specifically track down notorious fugitives.
Nowadays (especially due to video cameras and the aftermath of Rodney King) apprehending dangerous fugitives and criminals is all about non-lethal force and negotiation first.
I really think that if present day fugitives and notorious criminals were hunted down in the same manner as were Boonie & Clyde (or John Dillinger for that matter) you would see fewer crooks going “rabbit” whenever a patrol car tries to do a hot stop.
It is just a reflection of our soft and squishy modern day society I suppose.
Fitting punishment.
They think they can save them through their religion of secular progressive humanism, but even that presupposes a conscience of some sort--something conservatives know that criminals lack entirely and could care less to cultivate.
The admonition of throwing pearls before swine is a good example of this.
“How KA-BAR Got Its Name”
That’s interesting, I never heard that before. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the KABAR’s origin.
“The origin of the word “KA-BAR” is uncertain. The company claims it is a corruption of “Kill a Bear”, an ability attributed to the knife by a customer. A competing (and more likely, considering the fact that all knives in the U.S Military were originally bayonets) etymology, displayed in a museum at the Marine Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Quantico, VA, is that it originally stood for “Knife Attachment- Browning Automatic Rifleman.”
I guess what I had always been taught and what you mentioned are out there.
Thanks. I’m saving that one.
1911’s chambered for the .38 Super are really popular down in Mexico. The reason being they can’t have military cartridges.
Thanks!
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