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[SHOT 2022] New Releases From Winchester Ammunition 
SILENCER SATURDAY #211: Sunday SHOT Show 2022 Suppressor Preview 
Concealed Carry Corner: How To Survive An Attack 
The Ruger Mini-14 - An Unlikely Service Rifle 
HOT GAT or FUDD CRAP? Blue Star or Gone Too Far? 
TFB Podcast Roundup 27: Guns for Women and Setting Gun Goals for 2022 
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…]
Cowtown Cop, a relatively new gun blogger, wrote about his conversion of a beat up Winchester 1200 into a very cool green gun. Lots of high res photos and information on the project on the blog.
They have got the prerequisite Glocks, now they just need MP5s. Click to expand the photos. Iraqi Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team members storm a bus during a demonstration drill held during a handover ceremony in Diwaniyah, 181 kms south of Baghdad, on July 16, [Read More…]
Ruger have updated information on their website about the SR9 recall: Click to expand or click here to download PDF. According to Tom, who posted a comment on the SR9 blog entry, Ruger has said that they will be servicing 1000 pistols a week: Just received an email from [Read More…]
Click to expand Wired editor Chris Anderson saw this ad in the Unmanned Systems magazine. “Because the enemy has guns too!” … It must be a joke 😀 Hat Tip: Danger Zone
S&W have announced the M&P15R, an AR-15 chambered for the 5.45x39mm. The idea being you can save costs by shooting the cheaper round instead of 5.56mm. The product spec sheet says the launch date was “May 1, 2008”, yet the website says coming soon. [Read More…]
A new gun blogger: A few months ago the bug finally bit me and I love it! My husband was thrilled and bought me a Glock 17. I decided to blog about my entry into the gun culture and start shooting IDPA competitively (wow, I suck). You can check out my blog at [Read More…]
PCPs run on air, but the hospital employee had access to tanks of oxygen. Oxygen is like air, isn’t it? The result: a blow torch 😀 Lots more accidents here.
Comic by xkcd (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License)
A military/guns themed eatery in Lebanon called Buns and Guns Photo from LA Times Blog The slogan of the restaurant — “Sandwiches Can Kill You” — is displayed at the entrance with the photo of a hamburger with a pistol sticking between the buns. … The [Read More…]
Chicago, you are next! When the Chicago ban is finally overturned and crime does not increase, or even decreases, a lot of wind will be taken out of the gun control sails 🙂 A summery, along with some interesting comments, of this historic Supreme Court ruling can be [Read More…]
DoubleTapper describes the latest wedding he attended … I sat at my assigned table with 9 other guys. Of the 10 of us, there were 3 Glocks, 1 Sig, and 2 S&W’s. It was a little weird until I realized that 3 of the guys were under 21, and 2 were still in [Read More…]
What is cooler than a .50 BMG? A suppressed .50 BMG 🙂 I found this photo on the Advanced Armament website. Click to expand The Cyclops Suppressor
The Fedorov Avtomat is possibly the first (see comments) an early firearm used in action that would classify as a true self-loading battle rifle. Photo by Semen Fedoseev It weights in at about 4.4kg compared to the 7.7-8.8kg of the BAR: much closer in weight to that of [Read More…]
Aviation Week reports that last week the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office Soldier, Brig. Gen. Mark Brown weighed in on the M4/.223 issue: “I don’t think we need an unhealthy, discordant debate over the current carbine because I don’t think the current [Read More…]
The 6.8x45mm is an alternative to the 6.8 SPC cartridge that has been getting a lot of attentio. Developed by Larry Kramer of Kramer Defense (They have no website that I could find). The parent cartridge is the .223 Remington / 5.56mm NATO. Its advantage over the 6.8 [Read More…]
A collection of the classics H/T: Gizmodo
An unfinished AR upper made from a 60% Beryllium alloy is being sold on GunBroker. Dr. Strange gun pointed out that Beryllium is toxic. Machining and finishing it off could cause Berylliosis, a chronic lung disease that has no cure. Even handling it could be have [Read More…]
Jennersen was kind enough to photograph his Bushmaster A3M4 Gas Piston system for me. He took some really good shots. Thanks Jennersen! The rest of them are here.
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DoubleTapper has taken photos of a Tavor being field stripped in his kitchen. Very interesting. More here.
This is crazy and really goes against all firearm safety rules. Still, they do prove that a .308 is not enough to knock you down, although it makes perfect sense. Obviously the shock and internal damage of a bullet entering the body with no energy absorbed and [Read More…]
Very busy at the moment.
Suppressor maker Advanced Armament Corp now have a company blog. Go check it out. AAC Rimfire Suppressor. I hope more and more businesses in the firearm industry start blogging and actively join in the gun blogging community.
Their sacrifice for our freedom (Photo “Tomb of the Unknowns”, Smithstonian Institute)
JR (A Keyboard and a .45) has built a nano-mortar. A beautiful design. Nano artillery at its finest! 1″ long and 0.710″ high. More photos here.
Men on horseback armed with AKs and RPGs attacked UN peacekeepers in Darfur earlier this year. It has only now been reported. From the BBC: The joint UN-African Union troops were ambushed by up to 60 men armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades on Wednesday, the [Read More…]
Have a look for yourself here. It must be an optical illusion, everyone knows there are no handguns in Chicago 🙂 Hat Tip: Murdoc Online UPDATE: I have decided to post the photo here is case google remove it. Click to expand UPDATE: They removed it.
Interesting. Looks a bit like it could be an MP5 clone. H/T: MP.net
While reading the BBC a few days I came across a photo showing captured FARC firearms. Among them appears to be wooden training ‘AK-47s’ Captured firearms from Columbian raid into Ecuador. I added the red arrows. I would have thought with the proliferation [Read More…]