The Firearm Blog

I came across a cool photo of an MP5SD with mini-uzi type stock.

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Hat Tip: MilitaryPhotos.net

Check out this rifle! Beautiful! I think it is a .45, but I could be wrong.

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I like the drum magazine

Hat Tip: Gun and Game

This Ruger 10/22 was heavily customized by JBLee. Click to expand the image.

Very cool. I love the magazine release.

Hat Tip: RFC

This is just ridiculous! It is a tiger striped .50AE Desert Eagle

Anyone buying such a gun is trying to send a clear message. That message is “I am the greasiest and most tasteless pimp that ever graced the streets!”

To read more about it, and how much it costs, click over to James’s blog.

I came across this very cool cutaway diagram of the Magpul Masada.

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It shows pictures of all 5 configurations:

• 18 inch SPR
• 14.5 inch Carbine
• 14.5 inch Multi caliber
• 11.5 inch extended
• 11.4 inch folded

The back of the poster (click to expand)

The full size poster can be downloaded here: front, back

As I briefly mentioned before I did an interview with Drake Clark, who works at Magpul, about the Masada. I will be posting it shortly.

This photo has been floating around the internet for quite a long time. I recently saw in on BoingBoing.

This little engraved MP5K is a machinenpistol produced in 1976, “designed at the request of HK South American sales rep, who saw a market for dignitary protection and increased firepower in a small package.” It comes with its own leather “briefcase” carry-case that allows for fast, machine-gun-kelly-style blasts from within the bag

Defense Review have tried out the soon to be released TDI KRISS Super V XSMG .45 ACP Submachine gun.

The gun has a very interesting design which makes it more controllable in full auto. They say it is a modern Thompson submachine gun and will compete with the H&K UMP 45.

Some facts about the KRISS

- Available in the first quarter 2008.

- 800 RPM cyclic rate

- Magazine initially 13 round. A 30 and 45/50 round magazine are in development.

- Weighs a little over five pounds

- A semi version will be offered to the public.

More here.

A blunderbuss is a muzzle-loading firearm with a flared, trumpet-like barrel which discharges lead shot upon firing. It is the predecessor to the shotgun.

The term blunderbuss is of Dutch origin namely donderbus, a combination of the Dutch terms donder (thunder) and bus (gun).

From Wikipedia

This company makes real shooting blunderbuss”

Very nice! More here.

ExistingThing has posted a photo of his Curtain Holder gun rack. I think it is a great idea and looks really good!

Click here to read his post and to see a bigger photo.

This poster features the Accuracy International AS50 .50 BMG rifle.

It makes a great wallpaper for your desktop. Click the image to enlarge it.

Here is a video of the rifle from ‘Future Weapons’ with some nice slow motion shots

I am going to try and feature one poster per week on this blog.

Who doesn’t like looking at guns While I would not call this beautiful I would call it sexy!

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Hat Tip: kcub @ The Gun Network Forum

(This gun is for sale. I have absolutely no connection to the seller)

We have all seen the photo, I can’t remember where it was taken, of guns lined up on a road ready to be crushed by a steam roller. I always feel sad looking at the destruction of firearms. It is usually the old guns that would be valued by collectors around the world that are surrendered, not the military style semi/automatic used by the militants and war lords. I have been reading the long 196 page South Pacific Small Arms Survey, which I am going to write a blog post about. Here are some photos of firearms being destroyed in the Solomon Islands.

This photo shows the dumping of 2000 firearms into the sea off the capital of the Solomon Islands, Honiara, in June 2002:

This photo appears to show the stocks being burnt in the Solomon Islands in June 2002:

I support the disarming of the militants in the Solomon Islands who are destroying the country, just as I support the disarming and elimination of the militants and war lords in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is the disarming of civilians that I find worrying. The below photo is a Solomon Island militant: