Category Archives: GunTech In 1959, a General Motors executive boasted that there were so many options available to buyers of the 1959 Chevrolet, that it was theoretically possible for no two of the hundreds of thousands of Chevies delivered that year to be alike. (In fact, many popular configurations were made in vast quantity, and …
They’re positioning the new Tracking Point NightHawk as a Homestead Defense gun, but we’re seeing the king of all hog harvesters. This latest iteration of TP tech is supposed to list at a that’s-what-my-truck-cost $15.5k or so, but they’re jump-starting sales by selling the first 100 for $6995. Tracking Point writes: The… NightHawk .300 Blackout. Designed for …
Category Archives: Weapons Technology Time for an update, eh? We’ve been seeing really creative AR lowers for a while now. A lot of the greatest ingenuity, like the FN-inspired creations above, come from the innovator who calls himself Shanrilivan and his creative entity WarFairy Arms. Watching his Twitter feed, or @FOSSCAD’s, is a good way …
Well, the Army tried to copy the Marines’ promised women-in-Infantry initiative (which has flopped badly in the Corps), now the Marines repay the plagiarism by boosting the Army’s rifle magazine ban, although they have reasons of their own. There’s a lot of second-hand second-hand stuff on the gun blogs on this message from yesterday, so …
That’s an old myth: the Army makes men out of boys, or the Navy, or the Marines. It’s an enduring myth, that’s even cemented in recruiting posters. What the services do is help a youth find his inner man, his adult that has been suppressed by our society’s smothering, mothering tendency that produces such miserable neoteny in our …
The previous two stories set the stage, for a look at a report drafted for the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences the Army was still pursuing the “best” (an upgraded M16 meeting all Army objectives) instead of the “good” (the M16A2, which was developed and revised to meet Marine objectives). Of …
Hmmm… It’s time to think about the coming year’s movie reviews. Yep, we plan to keep doing them. Well, we’re going to watch movies anyway, and going to write anyway, so why not write about the movies we watch? We’ve broken down the list into three parts, 2016 movies we still haven’t seen, 2016 movies …
The typical estimate of the total number of firearms in the USA is about 300 million, depending on whom is queried. For example (some of these links are .pdf): Time, 14 Jun 2016: “270 to 310 million.” (What, Time still publishes? Who reads it?) NPR, 5 Jan 16: “more than 300 million guns.” Violence Policy Center (gun-ban …
Did you know 2016 is the Year of Building Your Own Gun? It is. Get to it! OK, here’s a new video on printing and assembling the Bolt lower, a bolt-together AR lower. We’ve featured the Bolt many times before (including links to its files) but this is a new video. The names involved (Ma …
Well, it had to happen, and sooner rather than later. An ATF-approved Glock-off frame that a home hobbyist can complete himself, producing a legal “Ghost Glock.” Like any Glock frame, it’s adaptable to multiple uppers (and therefore calibers) that suit the same generation (it’s made for Glock G3 parts) and length (full length, a la …
