#Technical

Some shooters love to romanticize the idea of a truck gun aka trunk gun. They usually have an expendable firearm that they relegate to be stored in their trunk or truck in case of emergencies. Well my friend Cory Sementuh of CDS Arms takes it an extra step and made a DIY Technical using his company’s Chevy Avalanche.

In yesterday’s article, we took a look at examples of two different methods of design, which I called “preference-driven” and “process-driven”. For these examples, I supposed two engineers from two different cultures – called “Romulan” and “Vulcan” after the aliens from the Star Trek universe.* In the “Romulan” example, we explored preference-driven design, where a final product is outlined by amalgamating preferred characteristics from previous works to create a desired whole. For the “Vulcan” example, we examined the more elaborate method of developing processes that can be fed data to procedurally generate characteristics as an example of process-driven design.

If you were designing the next small arms round, how would you do it? What methods would you use to determine its physical characteristics and performance attributes? How would you know what was too large or too small, too powerful or too weak? Perhaps more critically, how do different methods for answering these questions compare to one another? Could some methods be better or worse than others?

In Canada, the AR-15 is on thin ice. More apocalyptic individuals might read the portents and see a ban on the horizon.

Recently, I ran across a fantastic article from training John Farnam on his perspective on the use of aftermarket drop-in barrels on Glock handguns ( can be found here). In general, I agree with much of what he has said, but I think its a little too much blanket advice with not enough information.

So far in our exploration of firearms operating systems, we’ve covered ten different mechanisms for locking and actuating an automatic firearm, with two supplementary introduction posts. There’s still a lot more to talk about, but at the request of our readers, I have decided to periodically collect posts together into an omnibus post, so that you the reader can easily access and share them!

So, how would you like to wake up and find that your surplussed corporate truck had been bought by foreign militants and converted into a technical?