Suppressor maker Advanced Armament Corp now have a company blog. Go check it out.
AAC Rimfire Suppressor.
I hope more and more businesses in the firearm industry start blogging and actively join in the gun blogging community.
Their sacrifice for our freedom
(Photo “Tomb of the Unknowns”, Smithstonian Institute)
JR (A Keyboard and a .45) has built a nano-mortar. A beautiful design. Nano artillery at its finest!
1″ long and 0.710″ high.
More photos here.
Men on horseback armed with AKs and RPGs attacked UN peacekeepers in Darfur earlier this year. It has only now been reported. From the BBC:
The joint UN-African Union troops were ambushed by up to 60 men armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades on Wednesday, the Unamid peace force said.
It is not clear who was behind the attack, which has been made public for the first time.
The UN took joint control of the force in January but has not been able to bring peace to the region.
Who is Africa’s biggest supplier of arms to criminals? I don’t know, but I think the UN are giving them some serious competition 
More here.
Have a look for yourself here.
It must be an optical illusion, everyone knows there are no handguns in Chicago
Hat Tip: Murdoc Online
UPDATE: I have decided to post the photo here is case google remove it. Click to expand
UPDATE: They removed it.
While reading the BBC a few days I came across a photo showing captured FARC firearms. Among them appears to be wooden training ‘AK-47s’
Captured firearms from Columbian raid into Ecuador.
I added the red arrows.
I would have thought with the proliferation of AKs they would train with the real deal. Apparently not.
The photo was found here.
John Snow has the latest:
This gorgeous beast won’t be ready for some months yet according to Skip Patel, Bushmaster’s executive vice president for research and development. Among other thing, Skip told me, was the need to trim some weight from the rifle, which tips the scales at about 15 pound right now.
Not surprising since Bushmaster acquired Cobb Mfg. last year but still cool.
Cobb MCR 400 .338 Lapua. Photo from SecArms.
John also says that a .416 Rigby may be on the way!
More @ The Gun Shots
Later this year Remington will be selling the Model R-25, an AR-10 type rifle chambered in .243, 7mm-08 and .308.
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With the hunter in mind, the new R-25 modular repeating rifle boasts the most advanced design aspects of AR 308 Win. style rifles available today. For peak accuracy, the R-25 features a precision-crafted 20 inch barrel with recessed hunting crown that’s free-floated within a machined-aluminum fore-end tube for the ultimate in shot-to-shot consistency. Six longitudinal flutes forward of the gas block provide increased rigidity and weight reduction while promoting rapid barrel cooling.
Koelbl Single-Rail Gas Block
Specs:
- Free-floated button-rifled 0.680″ Muzzle OD ChroMoly barrels with recessed hunting crown
- Fluted barrel design (fluted ahead of gas block)
- Koelbl Single-Rail Gas Block
- Single-stage hunting trigger set to 4.5-5lbs
- Receiver-length Picatinny rail
- Ergonomic pistol grip
- Front and rear sling swivel studs
- Full Mossy Oak® Treestand™ coverage
- Includes 4-round magazine
- Compatible with aftermarket AR 308 Win. type magazines (AR-10 I assume)
- Comes with a lockable hard case
All three models have a 20″ barrel, 10″ rate of twist and weight 8.75 lbs and carry a MSRP of $1532.
According to John Snow @ Gun Shots Remington have already sold out this years quota!
More at Remington.com and Gun Shots
Tam has written about the history of the French MAS-49/56. It is very interesting, well worth a read.
A handy, compact weapon, the MAS-49 was roughly the same size as the contemporaneous Soviet SKS. Also like the SKS, its prewar heritage was evident in its elaborately machined steel receiver, designed before metal stamping technology had become a tool in the gun maker’s box. Unlike the SKS, it fired a full-power round, with much the same ballistics as the later 7.62×51 NATO, the famed .308 Winchester.
Photo by Oleg Volk.
More here.
AccurateShooter has written about a couple of very interesting benchrest rifles made by Gene Beggs. A picture says a thousand words …
The two discs can be rotated to tune the rifle.
Two of these rifles have been made and are chambered for the custom 220 Beggs and 6mm Beggs, both of which are based on the 220 Russian.
More about it here.
I am sure you have heard of MetalStorm, the Australian electronically fired stacked projectile artillery system. Now there is the DataStorm. It is a full auto system that uses surplus floppy disks for ammo. I want one!
(The first 1/4 of the video is boring)
An interesting alternative to pepper spray. Sticks to the attacker and has longer range. They claim it is more effective than tasers (which can’t be hard).
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Hat Tip: Gizmodo
I came across this post at RFC by “_Shorty” showing photos of his Limbsaver Barrel De-resonator. It is a rubber thing that slips onto a rifle barrel that, in theory, dampens the muzzle vibration improving accuracy.
When I looked at the photo I though it must be a joke. I mean look at it … remind you of anything?
Deresonator on CZ 453 Varmint
It’s not a joke, they sell it. Maybe it is just me, but I could never put something like that on the end of my rifle.
Hi, welcome to my gun blog! This blog is dedicated to all things firearms related. If you are into AR-15 and AK rifles, skeet shotguns, self defense pistols or hunting arms there will be something here for you. I hope you enjoy it.
I want this blog to appeal to a worldwide audience and so I will be focusing on firearms and shooting rather than country specific politics. There are already many great blogs defending your rights!
- Steve
