I try not to use words like “awesome” in the title for blog posts, so I substituted it with “game changing”. But don’t let that word change deceive you. I am *really* excited by this new stock coming out of Savage. The Savage Accutrigger [Read More…]
TFB reader Mehul emailed me some photos that his friend, a law enforcement officer, took of confiscated homemade pistols manufactured by Naxalite (communist) rebels in North East India. Mehul said that when he was in India some years ago their backyard guns were very [Read More…]
My understanding of Australian guns law is that unless you are a farmer, professional shooter (such as professional competition shooter or professional pest hunter) or collector you are only allowed paintballs markers, air guns and non-semi-automatic rimfire/centerfire [Read More…]
2A Musing has posted a list of what guns he wants and what gun he couldn’t care less about. Personally I lust over most of this couldn’t-care-less list.
I did not expect this. Remington will be selling a new pump-action shotgun next year (2009) called the Model 887 NitroMag. The design is not based on the popular 870 and will not replace it. I am guessing by the name “Nitro Mag” that it will chamber 3 [Read More…]
taofledermaus has published a video tutorial on how to fit a Ruger 10/22 receiver, trigger and barrel into a $30 airsoft P90 stock and how to hook up the airsoft trigger to the 10/22 trigger at the rear of the stock. A very clever idea.
John Taranto at The Gun Shots is the first to review the new Mossberg LBA (Lightning Bolt Action) trigger: The LBA’s trigger blade is not nearly as deep as that of the AccuTrigger. In fact, without using a measuring device, I’d say it’s about two-thirds to half as [Read More…]
A couple of days ago The Donovan (via. GunPundit) posted an image of a brass case and asked readers if they could correctly identify it. Today the dangerous set of circumstances that resulted in odd shaped case was revealed.
Jane’s Intelligence Review, via Burmese (Myanmar) news website Irrawaddy, reports that the United Wa State Army (UWSA) rebels in northern Burma have begun manufacturing AK-47s and ammunition for themselves and to sell to their allies in the region. Burma (From [Read More…]
Reader Tarkan emailed me a couple of interesting news article about the assassination of a former Chechen commander in Turkey last week. Sabah reports: According to police investigations the gunshots hit the victim from a diagonal angle and the weapons used were [Read More…]
In 2009 Mossberg will be selling a range of Mossberg 590A shotguns and accessories to the general public. The 590A is sturdier than the 500/590 and is the model generally sold to law enforcement and military. The 590 has a heavy barrel, metal trigger guard, metal safety [Read More…]
Reader Beau emailed me this video. It shows a RC Helicopter firing a Springfield 1911 .45 ACP pistol. I am impressed by the accuracy. The recoil does not seem to be much and at first I wondered if the video was a hoax. But it looks like it is a big RC helicopter, which [Read More…]
The latest Popular Mechanics (Jan 2009) has an article about the 12 foot long vertical gun NASA has at the Ames Research Center. The gun is used to simulate impacts from meteor and space debris. What is very interesting is that it utilizes a hybrid air gun / gun powder [Read More…]
Package about the 82nd Airborne Division testing new weapons currently being released and prototypes. Provided by 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs.
Last month the Croatian Ministry of Defense unveiled the final design of the VHS assault rifle (Višenamjenska Hrvatska Strojnica – Multifunctional Croatian Machinegun). The rifle has been in development for many years by Croatian manufacturer HS Produkt who are [Read More…]
Important safety recall on i-Bolt rifles: Smith & Wesson has identified a condition that may exist with the bolt supplied with some rifles that would allow the striker to become disengaged from its locking tabs during cycling of the bolt, allowing the rifle to fire [Read More…]
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StrategyPage reports thats the Greeks are selling off their Lee-Enfields, Brens and Stens. In Cyprus, the Greek defense forces (the Cyprus National Guard is the armed forces of the Greek portion of the divided island of Cyprus) is selling off some 9,000 of its oldest [Read More…]
From the ASD Network: The Government of Iraq has requested a possible sale of (80,000) M16A4 5.56MM Rifles, (25,000) M4 5.56MM Carbines, (2,550) M203 40MM Grenade Launchers, spare and repair parts, support equipment, publications and technical data, personnel training [Read More…]
Being sold by Swords, Knifes and Daggers for $15. Ninja blowgun and Pocket knife combo. 5″ closed and has a 3 1/2″ 440 stainless steel blade. Includes 2 pieces of black tubing to make your pocket knife blowgun. Also includes 3 darts and a nylon pouch Hat [Read More…]
Worth watching or not?
What does legendary gun smith Bill WIlson carry? The “Bill Wilson Carry Pistol”. From Wilson Combat: After the Television appearances by the boss (Bill Wilson), we received so many calls to find out which pistol Bill carries on a daily basis. Well here it [Read More…]
A worker holds a variety of destroyed guns on December 12, 2008, in Sogamoso, Boyaca department, Colombia. An assortment of 25.000 weapons, seized to different groups that participated in the Colombian internal conflict, were incinerated. Interesting two barrel pistols. [Read More…]
Vesti.ru did a tour of the Izhmash factory and interviews with various employees and with Kalashnikov himself. It is all in Russian but still very interesting to see inside the factory. According to a couple of Russian speakers at WAFF they mention that a new line of [Read More…]
Winchester announced their second .22 LR “Hyper Velocity” round. The Xpediter round has similar performance to the new non-toxic Winchester SUPER-X .22 Long Rifle. It pushes a 32 grain lead hollow point bullet at 1,640 fps. The original Xpediter I am not [Read More…]
This has been making the rounds: Always read the small print. The greater the Accessory : Gun weight ratio, the tacti-cooler a weapon is.
“0497” spotted these photos at defense.gov.au. The rifles pictured appear to be the Blaser Tactical 2. The photos are of the Australian Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) in Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan. Click to expand: The Tactical 2 is available [Read More…]
GunPundit stumbled across a photo at Marines.mil with a caption that suggests that some Marines are hunting ducks with 5.56mm NATO rounds and/or 5.56mm blanks. My take on it: They reckoned punt guns are pretty cool for duck hunting but rifle grenades (fired with a blank [Read More…]
If shooting was still popular with hollywood types or if the gangsta’s had more class we would see more scopes like this: Click to expand The perfect scope to go with your diamond front sight or gold sniper rifle. I am not sure what Swarovski Optik model this is. [Read More…]
It is lead free day here at The Firearm Blog*, this being the second lead-free ammo post! Winchester has announced a new line of lead-free ammunition. CCI currently manufactures lead free .22 Magnum called TNT GREEN but as far as I know Winchester are the first US [Read More…]
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