finally another post

I know there have been long gaps between my posts lately. I have been very busy with work, travel, researching the S.O.E. and writing on my Commando Knife book. The writing and editing is slow going because I want it to be right. I have discovered several stories of the development of the British Commando Knife that are previously unwritten

and will shake up a few people. The path to discovery has been a confusing one and I am still trying to work out some of the snags and tangles. The text alone is over 190 pages now and editing it in spurts is driving me nuts. I have added over a dozen new knives in the past few months. This meant more examples to write about and even more material to edit. Also I was provided with a huge selection of photos of French daggers and text. The text is in French and Mes Amis I am working at sorting that out. I can tell you that online translators do not do some things well, bayonets and daggers for one. During this period I purchased two French daggers (of the Vietnam era) and one that is probably a WW-II resistance dagger. In addition I bought a rare Wilkinson and a Canadian marked knife. It has been a fruitful first quarter of 2015 for collecting although an expensive one. I have sold a few knives off the website to help offset the costs of my new additions. I have also listed a lot more nice knives for sale as I further refine my collection. Politics and meetings, and fighting for restitution of our gun rights and more meetings, has also consumed a lot of my time. Seems like now I spend more time fighting the good fight than I do actually shooting. Maybe this is what the government intended. We must never give up though because “they won’t.” Lose our gun rights and soon we will lose all of our rights. Free men own guns, slaves do not. Its really that simple.