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DSEi 2011
Did anyone attend DSEi 2011? If you did and were able to take photos of firearms, please get in touch with me. My email is thefirearmblog@gmail.com. Thanks.
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Tactical Pants
Uncle reviews his favorite tactical pants …
TFB Reader Help Needed: Historical Price Of Ammo
Readers of The Firearm Blog, we need your help to quantitatively track the historical price of ammunition. What we’re looking for is the historical yearly data over the past 20 to 30 years of the price of these popular handgun and rifle cartridges: 9mm Ammo such [Read More…]
Poll: Will The 2012 Presidential Election increase demand for guns & ammunition?
This poll may appear political, but it is not. I don’t want to know if you think Obama is going to win or lose, or if he is a gun-grabber or not, but if you believe other gun owners are going to start stockpiling guns and ammunition before or after the election. [Read More…]
Kids Say the Darndest Things
These days I do most of my shopping online, but occasionally like to visit stores to discover things I did not know I “needed”. This weekend I payed Gander Mounting a visit. After accumulating a pile of clothes, gadgets and cleaning equipment I ended up at [Read More…]
DeSantis Super Fly Pocket Holster
Holsters are like underwear – everybody has their own preferences about what fits their gun best. Fortunately, there are a great many manufacturers who provide a range of options, materials and colors. The DeSantis Super Fly is one example of the options [Read More…]
Champion Zombie Targets
We welcome ATK to the Zombie Invasion. Champion Traps & Targets, an ATK company, is now making zombie targets for your plinking and practice pleasure. Unlike the Ansel Adams-style black and white zombie targets before them, Champion has gone for a more modern, [Read More…]
Champion Electronic Earmuffs (Save Your Money)
Not that long ago electronic ear muffs were priced out of the reach of most casual shooters. Prices generally started around $200 and went up. Fortunately, times have changed. Unlike ammo, the price on entry-level electronic hearing protection has come down [Read More…]
Ares Armor “EFFIN-A” 5.56mm Compensator
Ares Armor has developed a tunable compensator for 5.56mm weapons with 1/2-28 muzzle threads, which they are calling the “EFFIN-A.” Jesse of Predator Intel describes the device: This is the first Compensator that can be both stacked and tuned to custom fit [Read More…]
10,000 Facebook Fans, 5th Birthday :)
The Firearm Blog hit 10,000 Facebook fans just as we turned five years old. We want to thank all our loyal readers, commenters, guest authors and fellow gun bloggers/writers. Thank you! Please head on over to our Facebook page, “like” it if you have not [Read More…]
Advertise on The Firearm Blog
We will have some available advertisement slots in the near future. If your business, or the company you work for, is looking to advertise to a very diverse group of gun enthusiasts, please read more here.
Epic Meal Time teams up with FPS Russia!
Bacon, full auto Glocks, MP5Ks, and a safety lesson from FPSRussia. Whats not to love? [ Many thanks to Thomas and Extreme Tolerance for emailing me the link. ]
Student of the Gun TV Show
I missed the original press release, but in case you did not hear about it, two weeks ago the Pursuit Channel began airing a new program called ‘Student of the Gun‘. Student of the Gun will cover diverse topics that will include, but not be limited to, [Read More…]
Suroosh on Pakistan
Suroosh Alvi, founder of Vice.com/VBS.tv and the journalist who produced the excellent documentary about the gun markets of Pakistan, has produced a series of videos about Pakistan post-Bin Laden. It has nothing to do with guns (or politics), but I thought was worth [Read More…]
Guns as Therapy
A Canadian military veteran, disabled during his service, blogs about using his firearm hobby to help heal his PTSD.
Amazon Avenger
My friend, fellow 2A & Gun Blogger and TFB guest author M. J. Mollenhour has published his second novel, Amazon Avenger. I thoroughly enjoyed his first book and am busy making my way through, and enjoying, his latest. I have send may rounds down range in [Read More…]
How Sebastian became a gunnie
Sebastian blogs on how he became a gunnie … A few months later he informed me there was a sale on Romanian AK-47 clones on sale at a local gun store near him. I was surprised this was legal, since I was aware of the Assault Weapons Ban, so I started researching, [Read More…]
Virtual Gunsmith: Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Future Soldier
Red Storm Entertainment demoed the Gunsmith feature of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier at E3. This is the first time I have seen a game where I could replace internal gun parts. I can’t wait to play it. Back in April I blogged about the Red Storm [Read More…]
Memorial Day
Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
We won!
Although I have not been officially notified yet, I saw on the website that The Firearm Blog won the “Best Gun Blog – News” category of the Gunnies. Thanks much to everyone who voted. I will be sure to post a photo of the replica 30mm shell trophy. [Read More…]
Who is attending NDIA small arms exposition?
If you are, please be sure to pass on interesting product infomation & photos.
An introduction to the patent system for gun inventors [Part 1]
[ The Editor: The Firearm Blog readers are an innovative group. We regularly get email from readers asking us for give advice on how to proceed with patenting thier gun-related inventions. I am very pleased to present the first part in a series of posts that demystify [Read More…]
Interview with Gunsmithing Student Jeremy Chan
I am often asked by readers how they can become gunsmiths, but, never having gone down that path, I am as clueless as they are. My friend Albert Rasch has published an interview with Jeremy Chan, a gunsmithing student at the Trinidad State Junior College Gunsmithing [Read More…]
Vote for The Firearm Blog!!!
TFB has been nominated for a gunnies award. The prize is the supercool engraved 30mm shell replica you see below, and 100 rounds of ammo. PLEASE vote for The Firearm Blog in the 2011 Best Gun Blog – News Category. The Gunnies are being run by LuckyGunner.com. From [Read More…]
TFB RSS and Server Errors
The datacenter that hosts The Firearm Blog went down earlier this week and the blog suffered some downtime. I apologize for any inconvenience. An unrelated problem, some users have reported is that the blog’s RSS feed was not working correctly. We believe this [Read More…]
Thank you, Guest Bloggers
I am back from my vacation. I enjoyed a refreshing break in a very remote seaside location with no TV and poor mobile reception. I sadly missed the NRA Annual Meeting, but fortunately missed the royal wedding coverage and did a whole lot of fishing. I hope y’all [Read More…]
Ballistol Lubricant Learns Foreign Languages
The German product Ballistol is popular with shooters the world over as an effective cleaning, lubricating, and protecting agent. Now, its aerosol cans are available in many different languages. I saw the display at IWA and had to take a few photos. [Read More…]
RIP Philip Luty
Philip A Luty passed away on April 8, 2011 after a two year struggle against cancer. He was a prolific designer of homemade firearms and published many plans for homemade pistols and machine guns. A citizen and resident of the UK, he was sentenced to five years in [Read More…]
RIP Tim Hetherington
Tim Hetherington, the co-director of the documentary Restrepo, was killed by an RPG in the Libyan city of Misrata. RIP.
Mini Crossbow
I never much cared for crossbows until I saw this video … [Hat Tip: Gizmodo via. Reddit via CrunchGear]