Bizarrely the short promotional video for the Beretta Xplor features a dinosaur foot?!?!? While I would applaud research into dinosaur guns, I wonder if there will be much demand for them from the general public 😉 Or at least until Wooly Mammoths are bred for [Read More…]
Another car dealer, this time in Ohio, is now offering shotguns, rifles or crossbows with the purchase of a truck. With the hunting season starting I think we will be seeing a lot more of these offers. Many thanks to Jonathan for the info.
Spiegel Online reports: And now it appears that the financial difficulties facing the weapons manufacturer have reached crisis point: its very existence is threatened. A businessman in Izhevsk has filed a motion to declare Izhmash Arms bankrupt because of outstanding [Read More…]
Earlier this month an explosion in the Prvi Partizan ammunition factory took six lives. Yahoo reports: Prvi Partizan is Serbia’s largest ammunition factory. It produces military and hunting ammunition as well as gun powder and explosives. Maric said firefighters [Read More…]
For the last fifty years 100,000′s of M1 Garands and M1 Carbines have been sitting in Korean warehouses, many of which will now be sold to US collectors. AFP reports: Washington has approved South Korea’s plan to sell about 86,000 M1 and 22,000 carbines [Read More…]
Izhmash, possibly the world’s most famous arms manufacturer, has filed an application for bankruptcy with the Russian courts. Pravda reports … Izhmash, the pride of the nation’s defense industry, may prove to be an unprofitable enterprise. Udmurtia’s [Read More…]
A firm named Nanocomp Technologies is being funded by the Pentagon to develop lightweight vehicle and body armor. CNN reports: In April, Lashmore had a mechanical multicaliber gun shoot bullets at different versions of his sheet, each less than a fifth of an inch thick, [Read More…]
I can see at least three features not found on a mil-spec 1911 pistol 😉 The incompetence of journalists when writing about guns is staggering. It never ceases to amaze me. Many thanks to Jay for sending me the link. Hat Tip: ar15.com
Business Week has published an article about the intrigue behind one of the most iconic handgun manufacturers of recent history. It is only a matter of time before the story of Glock hits the silver screen. On the afternoon of a meeting scheduled at Ewert’s office [Read More…]
Sig Sauer clever marketing department have come up with their own Cash for Klunkers program. Purchase a new SIG SAUER® P220®, P226®, P229®, 1911, SIG556 pistol, or SIG556 rifle from your dealer’s inventory from September 7th through November 30th, 2009, and SIG [Read More…]
With the poor condition that captured AK-47s are found, you could be forgiven for thinking the Afghans do not pay much attention to their rifles. Apparently they are very much into the “latest” gear and AK-74 are very much in demand, despite that they cost [Read More…]
During the past few years India’s Armaments Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) have been developing an interesting Personal Defense Weapon (PDW) called the Modern Submachine Carbine (MSMC). Modern Submachine Carbine The firearm chambers a round [Read More…]
ZeroHedge via. WSJ report that investors in the Cerberus hedge fund want out. Cerberus Capital Management has been swamped with redemption requests with the Wall Street Journal reporting that investors are asking to pull out $5.5 billion or 71 percent of assets from its [Read More…]
The Daily Mail reports: It promised to stretch reality television to the limit: one man pitting his wits against the Yukon wilderness with just a camera for company. But hopes for an epic three-month contest between man and nature were dashed when adventurer Ed Wardle [Read More…]
… other than that the bank robber is holding it like a gangster moron? Tam has the answer.
The Thai supreme court has denied the United States request to extradite arms dealer Viktor Bout, better known as the Lord of War and the Merchant of Death. The Bangkok Post interviewed the man of whom only a few years ago precious little was known. Emphasis mine. Bout [Read More…]
No doubt J. Rigby did not for a moment think that hundreds of years into the future a battle would be brewing for control of his name, reputation and proud legacy. The famous .416 Rigby cartridge, named after the company that invented it. This story begins in the late [Read More…]
After waiting three days on a roof top with his spotter, Corporal Christopher Reynolds fired on a Taliban drug lord. The 1,500 meter shot is the longest recorded kill in Afghanistan. But Cpl Reynolds, of Dalgety Bay, in Fife, together with his spotter Lance Corporal [Read More…]
Accurate Shooter reports that hunting and shooting equipment sales are on the rise You’d never know it, given the way the mainstream media portrays the shooting sports, but hunting/shooting is more important, from an economic standpoint, than golf, tennis, [Read More…]
No gun bloggers that I know were spreading rumors about Daniel Defense, and I read a lot of gun blogs, so I am annoyed that we get the blame. UPDATE: Soon after posting this I received Jim Shepard’s newsletter with an apology for his misuse of words. Having heard [Read More…]
A.R.M.S Inc, makers of the SIR rail system, have successfully sued Stephen Troy (Troy Industries ) in the Massachusetts Federal District Court for theft of trade secrets. The jury awarded A.R.M.S $1.8 million in damages. Richard Swan, the president of A.R.M.S.® Inc., [Read More…]
Beretta and Ruger have both announced a huge increase over last years’ sales. Beretta says: Beretta U.S.A. Corp. announces outstanding June results. “We are extremely pleased by our commercial pistol market sales”, said Gary Ramey, Vice President of [Read More…]
The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that Taurus USA is looking relocate the company in order to expand their domestic production. Currently most of their guns are imported from their Brazilian parent company Forjas Taurus. The reason: Police departments and other [Read More…]
JMB’s Utah 6,912 square foot home is currently on the market for $374,900. The NY Times reports: COMMON SPACES: Most of the house is original, including a banister stretching from the entry to the attic, beveled windows, hardwood floors and fireplaces. There are [Read More…]
GunBroker have launched a version of their website optimized for mobile web browsers such as the iPhone, Blackberry and Palm Pre. It is very simply and bare bones, which is exactly what you want when you need to quickly find out what a certain gun is selling for, after [Read More…]
CNBC’s Fast Money show talks to Michael Golden, CEO of Smith & Wesson, about the gun market and how S&W is faring. He says that the gun market is cooling but S&W’s M&P rifles and tactical rifles are selling well. I do not dispute that S&W [Read More…]
Tactical Arms is a new show on the Sportsman Channel. The show hosted by the well known Larry Vickers (ex-Delta) and co-hosted by Kyle DeFoor (ex-SEAL) and Jason Falla (ex-SASR). It looks like it will be taking a more technical look at firearms and how they work, rather [Read More…]
The US gun imports account for half of all rifle and pistol imports, and about 45% of all shotgun imports!
STRATFOR has published an article entitled Mexico: Economics and the Arms Trade. They made a very good point in saying that with semi-automatic rifles and ammunition prices in the United States so high, the large Mexican gangs have little incentive to shop over the [Read More…]
Daniel E. Watters, who is always vigilant, alerted me to the fact that the Marines are looking to procure M1911A1 frames. The frames are for the MEU(SOC) pistols that are used by Force Recon. Up till now they have been using surplus 1911 frames. I guess the supply of [Read More…]
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