Blog Profile / The Firearm Blog
| URL : | http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog | |
|---|---|---|
| Filed Under: | Hobbies / Hunting | |
| Posts on Regator: | 2985 | |
| Posts / Week: | 18.7 | |
| Archived Since: | April 28, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
SAFELERT Monitoring System
Many gun owners invest a significant sum of money into a safe to securely store their firearms and other valuables. But given enough time, any dafe can be breeched and the guns stolen. The key is preventing a crook from having access to your safe long enough to defeat it. Enter the SAFELERT. Developed by [...]
Read More …
Ruger 10/22 Laser from LaserMax
LaserMax is now making a special red laser aiming unit for the Ruger 10/22. The unit mounts onto a 10/22 rifle by removing the stock barrel band and then sliding the laser unit down the barrel and into the barrel band’s old place. According to Ruger, the laser is pre-aligned at 25 yards and is [...]
Read More …
Irish Swords: How The Thompson SMG Came To Ireland
When General John Thompson completed his iconic submachine gun design in 1919, the world’s governments were weary of war and strapped for cash. With millions of rifles and pistols in their inventories and surplus, there was little room for an unproven, expensive, and distinctly short-range weapon like the ‘Tommy’. Show More Summary
7.62mm MG3 + Two More Barrels + Motor = Rheinmetall Defence RMG 7.62
Rheinmetall Defence are developing a new 7.62mm medium machine gun called the RMG 7.62 which takes a unique approach to dealing with heat, the age-old machine gun nemesis. At first glance it looks like a small version of the M134 Minigun, but the RMG is no Minigun. Unlike the Minigun, with its insane rate of [...]
Read More …
Chiappa Makes Winchester 1887 Clone
Chiappa is now making a clone of the Winchester 1887 lever action shotgun. The Chiappa states the gun can handle all modern “high-pressure” 2 3/4? shotgun ammo. It has a five shell tubular magazine and can also hold two additional shells (one in the chamber, one in the receiver) for a total of seven rounds. [...]
Read More …
Adaptive Tactical Sidewinder Venom Kits
Adaptive Tactical is now offering the Sidewinder Venom shotgun enhancements as home conversion kits. These kits will work with Mossberg 88, 500, 535, 590 and 835 shotguns. There are three kits: one with a five round box magazine, one with a 10 round rotary magazine, and one with a new M-4 style buttstock and 10 [...]
Read More …
Which Gun Company Would You Buy If You Won Saterday’s Lottery?
Tomorrow’s Powerball jackpot lottery has hit $600 million! This, along with the news that Savage has just been bought out for a cool $315 million, got some of the TFB staff thinking what gun companies they would buy if they won. The first thing I would do if I won would be to go on [...]
Read More …
Crowdgunding: Crowdfunding for a Charitable Gun Purchase
Crowdfunding has been described as the combination of fundraising and social media. It is also defined as a collective effort of individuals who network and pool their money, usually via the internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations. Show More Summary
Colt M16A2 Commando KABOOM
TFB’s resident South American gun expert Ronaldo Olive sent us these photos of a Colt M16A2 Commando (Model RO735B) owned by the Polícia Militar do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (the Rio de Janeiro State Military Police). The upper receiver has been blown apart, the magazine baseplate has been blown off and the bolt is [...]
Read More …
Retail Sales Up, More Woman Buying Guns
Each year the National Shooting Sports Foundation surveys FFL retailers around the country to see what products are the biggest sellers and what demographics are buying guns. The highlights from the latest survey are … For the third year in a row, the number of female customers increased. For the year 2012, 78.6 of retailers [...]
Read More …
New SIG MCX PDW
Rob Curtis got the scoop on a new SIG Personal Defense Weapon. The SIG MCX, as Rob speculated it will be named, is the big brother to their recently launched SIG MPX pistol-caliber carbines. Internally all we know is that it uses a AR-15 style rotating bolt and a short-stroke piston. The upper will be [...]
Read More …
Lionheart Industries LH9C
The Lionheart Industries “L” series of pistols were introduced earlier this year and recieved a lot of attention. To give you a background of this pistol series it helps to know who makes them. Lionheart formed a strategic alliance with S&T Motiv in order to bring these pistols to the American market. Now you’re probably [...]
Read More …
Inteliscope: Use Your iPhone As A RifleScope
The Inteliscope is a picatinny mount for the iPhone which unlike, other phone picatinny mounts which we have blogged about before that mount a smartphone for use as a ballistic heads up display, allows the phone to be used as a digital scope. An app for the phone overlays a reticle on iPhone camera’s video feed, [...]
Read More …
Swivl: A Downrange Personal Cameraman
Nick Chen emailed me about a nifty camera mount called the Swivl that, using infra-red, can track people as they move about, making it perfect for shooting video downrange without putting a cameraman in harm’s way. Nick wrote … It is a small base that you mount a camera to. The base then tracks a [...]
Read More …
Do It (Kind Of) Yourself: HK G36 Rifle
H&K has never made a true G36 rifle available to civilians in the USA mostly due to import regulations and what I assume would be a lack of demand (lets face it, your average consumer is happy with one of the many AR variants that have taken over the semi-automatic 5.56 rifle market). However in [...]
Read More …
The Advantage Of Open Source Guns
Forbes has published an article about some of the modifications and upgrades that the 3D printing community have made to the open source DefCad Liberator Pistol. Andy Greenberg writes … Travis Lerol, a 30-year-old former military software engineer in Glen Burnie, Maryland, printed his Liberator (shown at right) within days of its appearing online. Unlike [...]
Read More …
Trijicon 1-6×24 VCOG
Trijicon has announced thier first VCOG riflescope. The VCOG (Variable Combat Optical Gunsight) is a zoom scope, in contrast to their famous ACOG line of combat scopes which have a fixed magnification. The first VCOG will be a 1-6x power with a 24mm objective lens. A range of reticles will be available with bullet drop compensation [...]
Read More …
The Most Enjoyable Gun Show in Ages
The Arizona state legislature recently passed a law requiring cities to sell guns they collect in gun buy-backs, rather than destroy them, as is typically done. The law has been passed but not yet gone into effect – so the city of Phoenix and the a group called Arizonans for Gun Safety set up a [...]
Read More …
Strange MILF Guns
The Daily Mail has published a few interesting photos of guns used by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF … who did you think the title referred to?) in the Philippines. One of the guns, an M16, caught the eye of a TFB reader. The barrel is a little strange, it has round bumps along [...]
Read More …
WikiArms: New Ammo “In Stock” Tracker
When browsing TFB today I noticed that we are running an advertisement for a new ammo tracker website called WikiArms. They have a very simple layout, which I like, and seem to be updating pricing about every 10 minutes. Disclaimer: There are some that don’t believe that advertising on TFB is separate from the editorial [...]
Read More …