Talo has produced an exclusive 60th Anniversary Edition of the Ruger Vaquero revolver. I love the scroll work and gold band on the cylinder. The Vaquero is chambered in .45 Long Colt. It has an MSRP of $740.
Joe Huffman, SaysUncle and Tam all weigh in on what an amazing series of shots was achieved by the record breaking British sniper.
James discusses cleaning guns. Part 1. Part 2. I think, at least for new shooters, the additional cost of cleaning equipment over and above the cost and the gun and ammunition is probably the number one reason good guns get destroyed.
Tam, via The Arms Room, brings us an interesting post about the Smith & Wesson’s small frame top break revolvers … Although Smith & Wesson introduced their centerfire top-break revolvers, complete with automatic simultaneous extraction and ejection, [Read More…]
US PALM will be launching a new AK pistol grip. Solider Systems has the skinny.
Day At The Range reviews the Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special (TRS) 1911. The accuracy and shooting performance far exceeded my expectations. I am not a fantastic bullseye shooter, but years of USMC combat hadgun firing courses has made me very comfortable with my combat [Read More…]
Making a Glocks look beautiful since 1887 … John is selling his Mk. IV stubby.
Kevin has written an extensive three part review on the Rock River Arms Coyote Carbine. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Smith & Wesson has unveiled the new Model SD9 and Model SD40 pistols. These “new” guns are simply S&W Sigma Series pistols with some improvements and a new name. The improvements over the Sigma are improved trigger, tritium night front sight, rubber [Read More…]
This is a game changer. The Russian state-owned Molot plant that used to produce RPK light machine guns will now produce a range of Beretta pistols and sporting guns. Aviation Week reports … Russia continues to gradually open its defense market for foreign [Read More…]
From the press release … FN Herstal, S.A. (FN) received notification from the USSOCOM Program Executive Office—SOF Warrior (PEO—SW) that the SCAR Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) was approved and signed on April 14, 2010, moving this FN program into the [Read More…]
A while back the government awarded Colt a contract to manufacture the FN designed M240B machine. FN was none to happy about this! They filed a protest which has just been overruled by the US Government Accountability office. From the ruling … As a final matter, [Read More…]
Lots of fun can be had with miniature cannons. The powder he is using looks suspiciously like matchstick head scrapings. [ Many thanks to cameron for emailing me the link. ]
Danger Room reporters got the opportunity to test the Army’s new airburst grenade launcher. This screen grab from a high-speed camera shows the round detonating just inside a window target. Brig. Gen. Peter Fuller, the head of PEO Soldier, told reporters that the [Read More…]
A Winchester Ammunition rep disclosed to Joe @ ArmsTalk the top five pistol cartridges that they produce … 9mm- Winchester also has a military contract .40 S&W- Number one LEO round .38 Special- I found this surprising .45ACP .380ACP- our topic finally shows [Read More…]
This is what the recently published Army Modernization Strategy 2010 report says about the M4 competition … “Additionally, the Army will enhance SaaS lethality capabilities through several individual weapon initiatives. In an effort to provide our Soldiers [Read More…]
The Telegraph posted this photo of a captured Mexican drug lord gun collection … The Infomador had this to say about the raid (Kindly translated by Ztryfe)… A drug lord “El Lobo” (The Wolf) was arrested in October 2009 in Jalisco, tearing appart [Read More…]
The F.LLI Pietta’s MK-85 is a .22 LR pistol that is a scaled down semi-automatic clone of the British Sterling submachine gun. Its single stack magazine holds 15 rounds. The barrel is 7″ long. It weighs 3 lbs. Apparently the F.A.P. (Fabbrica d’Armi [Read More…]
Below is part of an email I received from Laura Burges whose marketing firm does SIG Saur’s PR. At the SIG Editor/Writer seminar they did a torture test of the upcoming SIG 516 rifle. Have all ingredients ready and set the temperature to a raw New England day to [Read More…]
… so don’t be worried if I do not get back to you in the near future.
Just 1776 of these 9mm pistols will be produced. The stainless slide has a Nitron finish with nickel accents. Top Gun have the pistol listed for $1050. [ Many thanks to Mik for emailing me the link. ]
Remington will be selling a limited range of accessories alongside their new 1911 R1 pistol. These include two aftermarket grips, seven and eight round magazines (the R1 is supplied with 7 round mags) and a 1911 maintenance multi-tool.
Last week the blog’s RSS stopped working. This problem caused Facebook and Twitter posting to cease. If you follow the blog using any of these systems, my apologies. If you noticed problems with the site please let me know. I cannot fix what I don’t know is [Read More…]
Jonathan (whose iPad application I just blogged about) was taken to the Chicago police range and given the opportunity to shoot one of Al Capone’s Thompson submachine guns. What came out of that case was an amazing piece of American history – Al Capone’s original [Read More…]
Jonathan Zdziarski’s Ballistic application is now available for the Apple iPad. The new version is being sold for $20.
Google has achieved another level of cool with this video. [ Many thanks to John for sending me the link. ]
Just testing … nothing to see here.
The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) had their 76th anniversary last month. At a show they put on celebrating the anniversary their special forces group, PASKAL, had their weapons on display. I was quite surprised to see a XM-8 and MP5 with grenade launcher! Many thanks to [Read More…]
Dmitriy got hold of photos of two relatively unknown South African pistols. The ugly looking VARAN pistol was developed in the 1980s. Because South Africa was subject to an arms embargo at the time, its creators falsified documents and unsuccessfully tried to smuggle it [Read More…]
I just saw this over at Soldier Systems. The US PALM Tactical 22 is patterned after the 1911. The frame is made by 1911 manufacturer Caspian Arms and the upper by Marvel Custom. It features a match grade barrel (1″ at 50 yards accuracy is claimed), threaded [Read More…]
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