Danger Room has published a fascinating article by David Axe about a farming community who have organized themselves into a militia to defend themselves from the marauding remnants of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group … But the men of Obo knew they needed [Read More…]
Ryan emailed in this photo of a fascinating pistol. It appears to be a homemade open bolt1 machine gun revolver. [ Many thanks to Ryan for emailing me the link. ] Open bolt refers to the fact that the bolt has a fixed firing pin and slams into the primer to fire the [Read More…]
[ This guest post was written by Steve ] Hi folks, I’d like to share the story of how I acquired my Colt Single Action Army revolver. The gun’s history has a peculiar background that will probably forever remain a mystery. While the gun is in great shape for [Read More…]
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…]
YouTube user GatheringSticks turned a stapler and some pipes into a functional 12 gauge shotgun. I am not sure if I would rather be behind or in front of that trigger 🙂 But seriously, the gun looks safe. Using a stapler gun as a combination trigger and striker is a [Read More…]
Swedish police discovered a double barrel shotgun disguised as a guitar when they raided the home of a man suspected of dealing in stolen weapons. The Local reports … Aside from the six more conventional weapons found in the apartment and a quantity of ammunition, [Read More…]
A reader emailed me these photos of a homemade submachine gun built by man in Romania from the plans of Luty’s infamous book. It is chambered in .32 ACP and fires at a rate of 550 – 600 rpm. Improvements of the original Luty SMG are ergonomic maple knotwood [Read More…]
The GSMG is a gas powered submachine gun that fires .177 or .22 BB pellets. The gun shoots BBs at 600 fps. If it was able to achieve this with even the heaviest .22 BBs it would only generate just over 12 ft/lbs of energy. Before you get too excited about defending your [Read More…]
Manu of Indian Defence News emailed me a link to a online reprint of a New Zealand newspaper article that was originally published on 13 May 1909. It says how New Zealand and Australia army rifles destined to Great Britain ended by being used by rebels on the Indian [Read More…]
The Election-Gun-Buying-Mania does not appear to be purely an American phenomenon. The black market in India have seen prices for guns double since before the general election. The arms dealers claim the spike in demand is attributed to the various political factions [Read More…]
James of Hell in a Handbasket spotted this photo on a Peruvian travel blog. It is homemade percussion lock gun. The owner apparently uses homemade gun powder (not hard to do … but kids don’t try this at home). If you have read this blog for a while, you know [Read More…]
Always wear safety glasses! A few videos from YouTube illustrate why. [ Definition: Firing out of battery: when a round is fired before it is fully chambered. Instead of the expanding gas being forced out the barrel it wrecks havoc inside the gun) ] AR-15 blows up, not [Read More…]
The problem with blogs is that shortly after something interesting is posted it is moved to the dusty archives in the recesses of the blog and only ever uncovered by the occasional google visitor. I came across, courtesy of google, a series of articles at SaysUncle on [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…]
This interesting .50 BMG rifle was discovered on a raid by Mexican police and army: Click to expand. My take on the rifle is that it is a McMillian TAC-50 action with an AR-50 barrel and muzzlebreak and a homemade unfinished (no recoil pad) stock. McMillian TAC-50 [Read More…]
The Times reports the Mumbai police are now complaining about having to use WWI rifles (probably not quite true) and WWII helmets. Can you believe the audacity of these cowards! The contrast between them was vividly illustrated yesterday by CCTV footage of two militants [Read More…]
This is hilarious, you just can’t make this stuff up (not of course for the poor guy who was shot). The BBC reports: Three Chinese reporters attending a police briefing on the success of an anti-gun campaign were accidentally shot, media reports say. An officer [Read More…]
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