I am excited to announce that The Firearm Blog has been acquired by AllOutdoor.com. AllOutdoor will be launching soon and will be a sister site to The Firearm Blog that will focus on all things outdoor, including firearms and hunting. I have been working with the new [Read More…]
Recently a number of people have been trolling the comments, intentionally inflaming arguments and, making very vulgar remarks about other commenters and, worst of all, impersonating other commenters. A reminder of the comment policy … Comment Policy: I reserve [Read More…]
A programmer accidentally removed the blogroll and the archives links in the homepage side. I have restored them. Sorry about any inconvenience.
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.
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…]
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…]
At the end of the month ol’ Steve is going on a much needed vacation for a week. I would really like it if readers and fellow bloggers could help me out and contribute guest posts for The Firearm Blog to keep it running during the break. I last opened up the blog [Read More…]
I am excited to announce that for the first time The Firearm Blog will be attending IWA, Europe’s biggest gun expo, in Germany this weekend. I am back home holding the fort and keeping the blog running but The Firearm Blog has sent Andrew and a support team to [Read More…]
Richard at Guns, Holsters & Gear is organizing a get together for gun bloggers. He will also be giving away some tickets to the SHOT Show State of the Industry Dinner.
The online retailer Impact Guns has been encouraging their customers to post links to their website on blogs, review sites and forums. This has resulted in their customers posting spam all over the internet. Each day, Impact Gun customers post about five spam comments [Read More…]
Sorry Ladies and Gentleman, I need to take a week off from blogging (until 8 October). When working 16-hour days, either eating or sleeping must be forgone in order make time to blog. I happen to need both! If any new guns are launched I will blog about them, so check [Read More…]
When I started this blog I had no idea how large and varied the industry was. I struggle, and fail, to keep up with the sheer amount of innovation and new products that the firearms industry produces. I am not complaining, it is an exciting industry to be blogging [Read More…]
Over the next couple of weeks I am not going to be able to blog on Tuesday or Wednesday, so check back on Thurs. Sigh … work sucks. UPDATE: This week friday (tomorrow) I won’t be able to blog either. Sorry y’all – its been a crazy week for me.
I am away for the next few days (sadly work not pleasure). Blogging will resume on Thursday or Friday.
Don’t forget about the Lucky Gunner $1000 .380 APC ammo giveaway I am running. The competition ends at the end of the month. UPDATE: The competition is now close.
WOW! I can hardly believe that I have been blogging for three years. Many thanks to everyone who participates. You make the effort worth it!
Bloggers listen up! I am running an ammo giveaway contest for Lucky Gunner. In exchange for posting a link to Lucky Gunner (and to this contest) I will enter you in a draw to win 1000 rounds of .380 ACP (Military Ballistics Industries 95 gr FMJ ). Make sure you follow [Read More…]
The Freedom Group is now using my blog to advertise Remington products. This will not effect my coverage of The Freedom Group or their competitors. I cover all firearms manufacturers with equal enthusiasm. It is great to have the biggest player in the industry seeing [Read More…]
I have to take a week off from blogging. I will return on Monday or Tuesday next week. Work is killing me and I have some tight deadlines coming up fast.
I am still having to work late. Hopefully I will be able to resume regular posting tomorrow or Monday week.
Ladies and Gentlemen. The Firearm Blog needs you. I am trying to recruit at least 100 readers for The Firearm Blog Squad. All thats required of you is a few minutes a day for the next couple of weeks on a couple of social media websites. This is an experiment in trying [Read More…]
This week I have been spending considerable time trying to speed up the blog. TFB is now using a global CDN (content distribution network) to serve all the images and other static assets (such as CSS and JS). What this means is that a network of servers throughout the [Read More…]
To the concerned reader who took the time to email me and tell me I am lazy: no I am not, just tired. I have HORDES of fascinating gun stuff to blog and will start again tomorrow. Until then, lets see if anyone can correctly guess what each of these guns are … You [Read More…]
Hey y’all, I have been traveling extensively over the past couple of weeks and spending very little time in one place. Until SHOT Show I will be moving around a lot! I am blogging as much as I can! My mail box has 173 emails which need a reply! I promise to read [Read More…]
A few weeks ago I asked readers to post links to their new gun blogs and gun related websites. Here they are in the order they were posted (All were started, or resumed after long hiatus, after 1 March 2009. ) … Bullet Points – Gun stuff Dove, Dogs, and [Read More…]
All you Facebook addicts can now rest easy: The Firearm Blog is now on Facebook! Links to new blog posts are automatically posted to the “Wall”, thereby ensuring you do not miss a post! If you are a Facebook user and a fan of the blog, I urge you to [Read More…]
If, since the 1st of March, you have started up a gun (technical or political) and/or military blog, please post the URL in the comments below. Next week I will do a blog post listing them all. ( If it was started prior to 1 March 2009, don’t post it. No [Read More…]
Over the past few weeks there has been more than a little nastiness in the comments. The Firearm Blog attracts people from vastly different cultures, races, religions, political views and countries. From Azerbaijan to Nigeria to Portugal and to the West Indies, the [Read More…]
As sad as it is, I am unable to attend SHOT Show 2010. If you are going, and own a digital camera or camera cell phone, please let me know. The more spies who volunteer to gather information, the better my coverage of the new guns and gear will be!!! My email address is [Read More…]
Over the next couple of days I will be making some major changes to the software that powers The Firearm Blog. Some downtime is probable, although it should not be much. If the blog is not working when you visit, try again 1/2 hour later.
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