Posted February 16, 2018 9:30 pm by Comments

By Van Harl

All About Survival | Henry Repeating Arms U.S. Survival Pack AR-7
All About Survival | Henry Repeating Arms U.S. Survival Pack AR-7

U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- 29 December 2018 was the 44th anniversary of the first showing of Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear war satire “Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” It premiered that day in New York, Toronto and London. In one of the classic scenes Major T.J. “King” Kong is going through his emergency survival kit that the Air Force has provided him on his B-52 nuclear bomber aircraft. You will remember Major Kong (played by actor Slim Pickens) as he rides the nuclear bomb down to the target all the time waving his cowboy hat.

A few days ago I was walking into the Shooters Sports Center in Racine, Wisconsin and spotted Mike Art, the manager as I entered. ; I was there to pick up a Henry U.S. Survival Pack that includes an AR-7 rifle to place in the pack.

Mike in his younger days was a Navy Chief Petty Officer and nuke sub driver. I am an old US Air Force, Strategic Air Command (read B-52 nuke bombers) cop. So, Mike and I have been up close and in personal contact with …Read the Rest

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