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.
Wide variety of firearms!
Apparently these are Ogadeni minority tribespeople who are being killed by the majority tribes in Somalia. They arm themselves to keep from being slaughtered.
Found at GunsNet
Because magazines also like to keep warm…
CAR-15 featuring the MagSock®
Looks great when used in conjunction with your iPod sock:
Hat Tip: MP.net
Today Gunvendor.com, a new firearm auction site, was launched. It is good to see some competition in the online gun auction market.
I asked the founder Mike and David to tell us a bit about themselves:
My name is Mike Burkard and my partner is David Valle. I am an entrepreneur with a background in importing / online sales / marketing / Jewelry & Diamond Business. David is ex Navy and extremely passionate about firearms. We saw a need for a more user friendly place to buy and sell guns. We wanted to make it easy to list and
buy. Our “Gunfinder” we modeled as a cross between eBay’s Item specifics and on autotrader.com . You can select the Manufacturer, Style, Condition, Caliber, and other Firearm specifics. It is all organized in a homogeneous way. On the other auction sites, if some one post a listing for “ar15″ and a buyer searches “ar-15″ they will not see that listing in the results. Also we wanted to be able to filter out all of the accessories and other items when customers were searching for a specific gun.
Another great thing we have in development is, promoting local business. When a user logs into his account. He will have the option of displaying items that are listed by different sellers near his location. This and the ability to search the gun finder by zip code is a great option for people not wanting to have there items shipped to an FFL and deal in person.
We are also working on streamlining the firearm purchase procedure,
They have at least 100 auctions on right now.
The Economist has a nice graph showing firearm ownership throughout the world.
Click here for the high res version.
“It took a company obsessed with light transmission to come up with an idea this good” says Leupold.
The MX Modular Flashlight system allows you to combine 4 different bezels (heads) with two different sized main tubes (2 cell or 3 cell) and although there is only one tail switch at the moment we should expect more in the future.
It is a very interesting concept!
MX-100 (Xenon bulb) with MX-030 (3 cell) maintube
More at the MX website.
