Interesting silencer side effect.

Something not everyone knows about silencer use is gas blowback. It’s never seen in movies or tv. When you shoot a silenced firearm, there is the possibility of gas being blown back through the barrel and action and at the shooter. It can be anything from mild and barely noticeable to uncomfortable (sometimes called “gasface”). [...]

New Detonics Combat Master.

First time I’ve ever seen a 1911, or any automatic pistol, with an octagon barrel. Detonics is going to be releasing the 3rd iteration of the Combat Master. It has some other interesting features. The front sight is on the barrel instead of the slide. This is to help rapid follow up shots. The front [...]

Homemade 9mm pistol.

Someone on FAL Files made a semi auto 9mm pistol out of a Luger barrel, AK fire control group, and some scrap metal. It uses STEN mags. Hat Tip: The Firearm Blog

Bradley Cutlery to release new balisong! Second generation Kimura.

Those who know me know I’m a HUGE fan of the balisong (aka butterfly knife). As I’m writing this, I have my new Benchmade 51 clipped in my pocket. I picked up a Bradley Cutlery Kimura back when they first came out. They’ve since been discontinued. Bradley will hopefully soon be releasing the second generation Kimura II.

This will obviously end well.

Gajitz linked up to a custom digital camera shaped like a gun. I can’t think of any way that this could be a problem. Franziska Dierschke created this digital camera, which she calls Aimat, to put the fun back into taking pictures.

Aliens Marine “Pulse Rifle” using 870 and M11/9.

Fans of Aliens will no doubt remember the M41A Pulse Rifle issued to the Colonial Marines. Well thanks to Lage Manufacturing, it might soon be possible to own one of your own! All it takes is a transferable 9mm M11/9 with a Soumi style upper and a registered short barrel Remington 870 for the underbarrel [...]

X-Ray pictures of guns.

Mike over at Every Day, No Days Off has some neat X-ray pictures of guns. If only these were around during the whole “plastic gun” scares in the ’80s when people tried to say Glocks would go through metal detectors and airport scanners. Also cool to see the baffle stack in the suppressor on the [...]

American company making RPG-7s.

A company called Airtronic USA, Inc. is making an American made version of the Russian RPG-7. The advantages are that it is machined from 4150 steel and not cast. This makes the tube stronger than the older launchers. They’ve also added M1913 quard rails, back up iron sights, M16/M4 grips, and an M4 telestock. Hat [...]

MRI Machine = GIANT Electromagnet.

This has got to be one of those 1:1000000 chances. I would have bought a lottery ticket if this happened to me. An incident recently occurred at an outpatient imaging center in western New York State, in which a firearm spontaneously discharged in a 1.5-T MR imaging environment with active shielding. To our knowledge, this [...]

Another lesson about being prepared.

Running out of film hat tip to Very Demotivational.