Gun blogger Top of the Chain got himself inked for his birthday. I think it looks awesome! For those of you not familiar to the phrase “ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ”, it means “Come and take them!”. The Spartans were said to have said it in reply to the [Read More…]
Between 22 October and 11 November I am not going to have much time to blog. Please get in touch with me if you able to write a guest blog post for The Firearm Blog. Posts do not need to be long, just a few paragraphs and some photos. If you want to write an […] [Read More…]
Chauss513 is an artist whose unusual medium is guns that have been destroyed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He turns the firearm pieces he receives into furniture and steampunk-esque replica guns. His latest batch of raw material come from a local gun buy-back [Read More…]
It just goes to show you don’t need to be a big guy to fire a big gun, although I am sure Janne felt every ft/lb of energy! One day, we were testing .458 Winchester Magnum reloads and of course, we were just obligated to let Janne (158 cm / 58 kg) to test the [Read More…]
Michael Bane has written an interesting blog post on the shift in the perception of what a rifle is or should be. If you read gun blogs and forums as well as owning a few of your own tacti-cool guns, it is easy to think everyone values the black rifle. I agree with [Read More…]
I made a couple of additions and one alteration to Joe’s Journalists Guide to Firearm Identification. Guides like this should be regularly updated with the latest terminology. When they are not updated you get journalists writing nonsense, like we saw yesterday on [Read More…]
Over the weekend many of the worlds most famous gun bloggers met up at Reno for the annual gun blogger gathering (Gun Blogger Rendezvous). Sebastian has a round up of blog posts, photos and videos from the event. Worth looking at if you are curious about what gun [Read More…]
The company that hosts The Firearm Blog has been having some server problems. The site is back up and I hope it will stay up …
Caleb discusses the bizarre and seemingly arbitrary rules which regulate what firearms can and cannot be used to hunt deer in Indiana: The list of approved Indiana deer hunting equipment can be found here if you’d like to read the whole list. The short summary is [Read More…]
You have got to watch this video.
English Russia has posted many photos of the firearms displayed at the Russian Arms Museum. Igor Stetchkin’s creations. Thanks to Richard for the link.
Matt keeps a list of firearm giveaways over at his website. He updates it monthly. Well worth checking out.
I am back from my impromptu break. Why are new products always released when I take a break? It is annoying.
If you are attending Defense Systems & Equipment International (DSEi) 2009 in London next week please get in touch with me. It would be great to have someone at the show who can take photos of firearms on display so I can post them on the blog.
Israeli defense firm Rafael is developing a new missile system which seems to come straight out of the pages of a science fiction novel. The Mini-Spike is a precision anti-personal strike weapon that can be carried by a single solider. The basic system weighs 12 [Read More…]
Congrats to Tam! Her blog, View From The Porch, has now been going for four years and just reached a whopping 2 million visits! I highly recommend reading her blog. She is incredibly witty.
Albert A Rasch has written a review (Part 1 and Part 2) on SeigeWorks “American” Longbow. These beautiful traditional style bows, without all the ugly gears and pulley that modern compound bows feature, really appeals to me.
SayUncle.com has turned 7 years old! What a major achievement, I have only been going for two years and it feels like 200 hundred! All I can say is that if you are not reading SayUncle, you should be.
I did not like it. The trailer makes the film out to be about Nazi hunting but the “Bastards” seem less interested in finding Nazis than they are in mutilating any German solider they can find.
Earlier this month Serbian police discovered a weapons cache hidden inside a buried oil tank. The weapons were found outside a village that was a former stronghold of an ethnic Albanian militia. It is quite impressive how much hardware and ammunition can be packed away [Read More…]
I have piles of work I need to get through before a deadline on wednesday and another on thursday! See you on the other side. I have some *very* interesting articles lined up for you later this week.
I know my blogging has been a bit slow over the past week. In a couple weeks time I will be back to normal blogging.
Chris, an Australian reader of TFB, is heading to Las Vegas for work and emailed me asking if I could post these questions on the blog for y’all to answer. 1. Are there any reputable firing ranges in LV? 2. Would I be able to hire any firearms will at said range? [Read More…]
This animated GIF gave me a really good laugh. Sven says it is from a 1990’s 1980’s South African comedy.
Watch the below video then vote. It is all fun and games until someone gets hurt! Thanks to Jeff for finding the video.
If you have not seen the trailer then head on over to Gun Pundit. It looks amazing!
Once again my email backlog is slowly killing me slowly. I am about one month behind, so do not be offended if I take a while to reply to your emails.
I won’t be blogging tomorrow, so you can skip TFB on Thursday without missing anything.
The blog has turned two years old! I can hardly believe I made it this long, it feels like I have been doing it for 20 years, not two. When the blog had it’s first birthday I posted some stats: * 593 posts * 1,178 comments * Most comments in a post: 176 (Ruger [Read More…]
Earlier this year author Neil Strauss published a book about survivalism. I was planning on reading Emergency until I read the Boston Globe review: Next he takes a course in killing with a knife, during which an instructor named Mad Dog demands that he slaughter a live [Read More…]
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