The Firearm Blog

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

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.

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President-Elect Dmitry Medvedev visited the Dubna Institute for Nuclear Research yesterday:

It has all the aesthetics of Russian pistols

I wonder what that is.

I first saw the image here. Confirmed it was not a fake here.

Murdoc, of Gunpundit, interview Kyle Cassidy author of “Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes”

Very interesting.

Read it here.

Market Watch has listed SWHC (S&W) as …

“misleading earnings,” a situation where a company appears to have growing profits but where statements and footnotes in filings shows that the real bottom line is falling.

Beware.

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Apparently it refers to the use of a electronic sight along with backup iron sights. I was aware of the concept but not the word.

A “Co-Witness” AR from eguns.com

Traction Control explains.

This is a very funny diet Mountain Dew commercial

Hat Tip: Kaiservontexas

Mad Ogre thinks so:

We just got in our latest order of rifles from Marlin. Everyone of them has extremely shoddy wood on them. The fitting of wood to metal and even just the finish on the wood is something I’d expect on a Puma. Overlaps, gaps, uneven and unfinished cuts, pitting, and splintering. This is a huge departure from what I am used to seeing from Marlin. The wood its self is also disappointing. but I can deal with less than steller lumber.

More here.

UDPATE: Jovian Thunderbolt has more on the topic

Hat Tip: Freedom Sight

Available soon from Firebox for £14.95. I want one
Hat Tip: Toyology via Gizmodo

This company sell camo paint stencils for painting firearms. They also have lots of tips on using stencils, which are just as applicable to home made stencils.

Please don’t do this to your firearm.