The Firearm Blog

I am often asked by readers how they can get a job in the firearms industry but since I have never worked in the industry I cannot offer any advice. Frederic emailed me a link to a recruitment company called Shooting Search that specializes in the “shooting, hunting, knife, law enforcement/tactical and outdoor industry.” They are definitely worth checking out if job in the gun industry appeals to you.

Thanks to Frederic for the link.

Engadget are reporting that Vissumo touchscreens can take a couple of 9mm rounds and still be functional.

Go watch the video at Engadget, it is very impressive.

It looks like Atlantic Firearms forgot to renew the license for their shopping website software!

The BBC reports that South Africa has held the biggest ivory sale in 20 years:

The auction in Pretoria of more than 51 tonnes of elephant tusks was sanctioned by the UN body which oversees trade in endangered species.

The tusks sold for $142 per kilo, netting the government $6.7m (£4.2m) -less than expected.

The UN has allowed Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe to each sell off their elephant ivory stocks this year. These were one-off sales and are not allowed to be repeated. The total ivory sold was 107.75 tonnes.

Hopefully this will have a significant impact on the price of ivory grips.

Boone Trading Company AAA Grade Colt Officers’ grips: $230

The BBC article I linked to above was not well researched. Mammoth tusks are not uncommon and sales are legal, although I expect elephant ivory is of much better quality than bones which have been sitting in permafrost for 4500+ years.

A military/guns themed eatery in Lebanon called Buns and Guns

Photo from LA Times Blog

The slogan of the restaurant — “Sandwiches Can Kill You” — is displayed at the entrance with the photo of a hamburger with a pistol sticking between the buns.

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The eatery, which looks like a military outpost, was designed to be an unconventional hangout but it also resonates because of recent armed clashes in Beirut and the many tanks and military troops deployed here in the capital. The restaurant is located in a crowded street of Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburb and a Hezbollah stronghold that was the scene of heavy airstrikes during the militant group’s 2006 war with Israel.

Pathetic in my opinion.

More at LA Times

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.

“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.

Available soon from Firebox for £14.95. I want one

Hat Tip: Toyology via Gizmodo

There is in interesting discussion going on at the Castle Argghhh blog about the appeal of shooting. It is worth a read.

A guy, likely drunk, thinks pointing a machine gun shaped liquor bottle at a cop during a traffic stop would be a good idea.

Edmonton police say they’ve arrested a 24-year-old suspect after a man pointed what turned out to be a machine gun-shaped liquor bottle at an officer conducting a traffic stop Friday night.
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Around 11 p.m., police say a second officer noticed a man in a nearby house pointing what looked like a long barreled gun at the officer doing the traffic stop.

Tommy Guns Vodka

For the sake of all Canadians I hope he is barred from ever owning or using a firearm.
More at CTV.ca

Hat Tip: MilitaryPhotos

From the theonion.com (a satire site):

After a shocking new study finds U.S. children lag far behind their international peers in subjects like rifle assembly and mine defusing.

“An average Sudanese child can field strip a Type-81 assault rifle by the time he is in seventh grade. An American child could not until he enlisted in the military”

I saw this video on kaiservontexas’s blog. The guy who gives this speech is awesome. It is a very moving speech and definitely worth watching.

Hillel Neuer of UN Watch exposes the hypocrisy of the UN Human Rights Council (March 23, 2007). For the first time ever, the Council president, Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, rejects the speech as “inadmissible” and bans it from ever being delivered again.

When the UN are not blaming Israel and the US, ignoring crimes against humanity and trying to take control of the internet from the US, they are trying to ban small arms. They make me sick.

In 2009 the UN Human Rights council will include China, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Cuba, all of which have absolutely shocking human rights records.

If you want to start your day with a egged shaped gun, or if you already have the M1911 tequila bottle then this is for you.

Personally I prefer my eggs roundish…

This font is very very cool. For each letter there is a gun glyph (image) . It has everything from derringers to assault rifles.

Here is an example of some text using the font

It works on both Windows and Mac OS X.

The 2nd Amendment font can be downloaded here.

Enjoy!