Military Weapons

Ill-Conceived Fort Worth-to-Kazakhstan Gun Smuggling Operation Foiled by ATF, Stupidity

The United States' gun-show loophole is as wide open as it's ever been. Any private citizen with a cache of firearms can still sell them to any other private citizen without conducting a background check, as licensed dealers are required to do, because freedom. There's a catch. The loophole, gaping ... More >>

How Would I Feel If the Gaza Strip Were in Maypearl? Stupid Question?

On my way from work to City Hall I drive by the Palestinian demonstrations in Dealey Plaza. At home in the evening I see Texas Governor Rick Perry (not my favorite guy) on the TV news leading a rally for Israel. The anchorman on the TV news shows me a map of the area around Dallas and points to ho ... More >>

Texas AG Candidate Barry Smitherman Can Shoot All the Guns

One of the prerequisites for holding statewide office in Texas nowadays is the gun-toting photo op. Governor Rick Perry's done plenty. So has Attorney General Greg Abbott and Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson. Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is the rare exception -- just more proof that he can't ... More >>

Quick, Look Animated

The V Best Songs In GTA Radio History

As I sit here in work my mind drifts from matters such as job responsibilities to more jovial pursuits such as murder, car theft, and the endless slaughter of pedestrians. Yesterday saw the release day of the biggest game of the year. Aping the inanities and cliches of radio DJs was one of the seri ... More >>

Blame the Church?

Catholicism has shrinking role in Mexican teens' sexuality.

Robert Lewis III May Be the Saddest Illegal Gun Dealer You'll Ever Meet

A modest, single-family home on Cromwell Drive in Dallas. Also, an unlicensed gun factory.Robert Lewis III never meant for any of the assault rifles he assembles in his Northwest Dallas home to wind up hidden in a pickup truck bound for Mexico. He considers his gun-making more hobby than profession, ... More >>

A Gun-Dumb Brit's Journey into American Gun Culture

To conquer his fear of guns, a British immigrant takes a road trip to gun lovers' mecca: the NRA Convention.

In Texas, a Company is Now Fracking Uranium

Because injecting mysterious chemical cocktails deep underground to release hard-to-reach deposits of natural gas hasn't proved controversial enough, miners are staking out a new frontier: uranium fracking. Yep. Uranium Energy Corp., a Canadian company with extensive operations in the "uranium belt ... More >>

The Eagle Gun Range in Lewisville is Reconsidering its "Santa and His AR-15" Photo Shoot

In what no doubt seemed like a wonderful idea at the time, Lewisville's Eagle Gun Range announced last Wednesday that Santa would be paying a visit, and he'd be "bringing his favorite toys to share in the Christmas photos -- his AR-15 and other firearms of choice." "Come get your picture taken with ... More >>

Three Men Robbed a Dallas Liquor Store with an AK-47, Then the Clerk Shot Back (Video)

If someone rolled into Unfair Park HQ and pointed an assault rifle at me while they stole my $800 and seven packs of Newports, I'd probably piss my pants and then go become a monk or a farmer, or maybe a farmer-monk. The owner of McGriff's Beer & Wine are not so fainthearted.

Is Nobody Else Concerned That Someone Had 80-Plus Assault Weapons in a Storage Unit in Murphy?

Yesterday, when it came out that the guy who said he had been injured by a hit-and-run driver during a midnight jog had actually been attempting to blow up a natural gas main (the shrapnel was a dead giveaway), people went bat shit. My Twitter feed exploded (figuratively) when the news came out and ... More >>

They Wish You a Merry Tuna

You Never Know Where Someone's Allegedly Assembling Guns to Smuggle Into Mexico

​Looking through a stack of federal cases this morning I espied something odd, a file titled USA v. ... well, let's just say an address all of four blocks from my Northwest Dallas house, and a house I drive by at least once a day. A foreclosure, perhaps? A tax issue? Something perfectly benign? No ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Manned Missiles -- "Cut The Lights"

Jerrell Jones Manned Missiles​Denton four-piece Manned Missiles, as you can see in the above photograph, has long been bubbling up in the Denton house party scene, and, finally, the band's got some new recorded music to show for it. Recently, the band released a new song called "Cut The Lights," t ... More >>

Pinalcchio: Renowned Forensics Experts Say a Pinal County Deputy's High-Profile Tale About Getting Shot After Encountering Drug Smugglers Doesn't Add Up

Wherein Jessica Simpson Gets a New Nickname Courtesy John Mayer

​John Mayer clearly had too much Lagavulin whilst talking to Playboy; hence, the daylong deluge of news stories about his interview with the magazine, which appears in the March issue and is now available online. While the media wrings its hands over Mayer's more racially charged comments, we will ... More >>

Manned Missiles mans up, starts recording

Lunching with History

Watch Your Step, East Texas

Winona's about an hour and a half east of Dallas on a good day -- just out I-20, little north of Tyler. Out thataways you'll find what remains of Camp Fannin, so named for James Walker Fannin and, from 1943 till '46, an Army infantry training center. Ever since then, it's been privately owned land - ... More >>

What About Bob?

Laugh openly at Robert Hawkins

Reason to Believe

Quick, someone call Mulder. We have a sighting.

Ab-NORML-y Good Music? Well, Maybe. For Once.

High on music, man. Maybe it’s a coincidence, but not long after we totally harshed on DFW NORML’s mellow about the terrible bands that perform at the organization’s events, they announced a party with music that approaches tolerability. Well, at least it’s not rap-rock. Reform-minded f ... More >>

Former Richardson Accountant Still Fixing the Books for the "Lord of War"

Alleged accountant to the "Merchant of Death," former Richardson resident Richard Chichakli In recent months, Jesse Hyde's written a considerable amount about Richard Chichakli -- who, in August, Jesse called "the mysterious accountant who spent 19 years in Richardson but is now living in exile bec ... More >>

The Need for Speed

Picture Pages

This Stinks

And we mean that in a good way

Three's a Charm

A promising glimpse of the next Halo

Trent Summar, Two Tons of Steel

Thursday, January 18, at the Granada Theater

Albert Hammond Jr., Incubus

Wednesday, January 17, at the Gypsy Tea Room

Blast Beats, Dark Harmonies and Monstrous Melodies

The Top 10 Heavy Metal Albums of 2006

Secret Justice

Authorities allege Richard Chichakli was accountant to an illegal arms deal. Prove it, he says.

Virtual Quagmire

The Army's realistic first-person shooter bogs down under fire

Best Place to Suds Yer Bud

Dunking Doggies

Flaming Wreck

Owen Wilson goes down Behind Enemy Lines and lands in familiar terrain

Best Place to Buy Kitchen Gadgets as Seen on TV

Sur La Table

New Model Army

Can the big-brain boys of the defense community change the way America fights?

Nuke 'em

Deterrence takes on -- and bungles -- the biggest question of all

Scorched earth

New Theatre Company sets Nebraska afire