#1980s
Top 5 Raddest Guns from the 1980's
In this episode of TFBTV, old man James Reeves spends 20 straight minutes reminiscing about the good old days and the gats of yore. Once he stops going on about Hi-C, the G.I. Joe cartoon, Michael Jackson, and Wham! James gets around to the thing you really wanted to know about: What were the five most rad guns invented in the 1980’s? Make sure you are in VHF and not UHF for today’s ep of TFBTV.
TFB's Top 10 Gun Guy Movies from the 1980s
Welcome back to the TFB Cinema room! The ’80s were a time of Big Hair, Short Shorts, Glam Rock and of course Big Guns. With the Cold War winding down following the close of the Vietnam War, movie audiences still thirsted for fast-paced action and big muscled dudes wielding every gun under the sun. Today we’ll go over TFB’s Top 10 Gun Guy Movies from the 1980s.
The HK G11 Caseless Rifle IN ACTION – Rare Footage
Recently on The Firearm Blog we talked about one of the great might-have-beens, the German caseless G11 rifle developed by Heckler & Koch during the 1970s and 1980s. Today we have a video from 1990 filmed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds of a demonstration of the G11K2 on the firing range.
Meet the G11 Caseless Assault Rifle: Germany's Fallen Might-Have-Been
In the world of “might-have-been” small arms, a world of .276 Garands and NATO-standard EM-2s, none flew so high nor fell so far as the Heckler & Koch G11 caseless hyperburst assault rifle. Designed to out-match any contemporary small arm in a Cold War shootout across Central Europe, the G11 combined the aesthetics of a scifi plasma rifle with complexity of a Swiss watch. The result was a bullpup caseless wunderwaffe with a 2,000 round per minute hyperburst setting, and a price tag that, as the joke goes, compared unfavorably with reconstructing East Germany.
Firearm Showcase: The Heckler & Koch MP5 PIP, Improving Greatness - HIGH RES PICS!
In May of this year, I got the rare opportunity to travel to Heckler & Koch’s headquarters in Ashburn, VA, to take a look at some of the experimental and prototype firearms they have located there in their famous “Grey Room”. It wouldn’t be worth as much for me to just tell you about it and to snap a few foggy cell phone pictures, though, so I brought along Othais of C&Rsenal to help me take high resolution light box photos of these unique and rare firearms.