When the story recently broke that Chiappa Firearms was going to start installing RFID chips in all their guns, I had deep misgivings. When I read the PR broadside from their publicists at MKS, I cringed. Like most shooters, I don’t want anyone to have even the theoretical technical ability to point a Tricorder or an RF scanner at me and know exactly what I’m packing, where it was made, and how much I paid for it.
SHOT Show: New Guns from Chiappa
I popped by the Chiappa booth at SHOT Show last week and was pretty darn excited by two new guns and one oldie, that has perhaps really come into its own. The 9mm “subgun” in the lead photo is the Chiappa CBR-9 Black Rhino, and it looks and feels like a pretty well-thought-out PDW. Due … Read more
It’s not often that I come across a product that makes me think “Wow…these guys have broken the mold, gone back to the drawing board, and come up with something fresh, new and exciting.” Dyson did it with the vacuum cleaner. And again with his new room fan. (I wish Dyson would go into the gun biz. Wouldn’t THAT be interesting.) But until/unless we get Dyson in the firearms trade, thank Vulcan’s forge that we’ve got the geniuses over at Chiappa, they of the 1911-22LR fame. The little number you see above looks for all the world like some SciFi art director’s concept of a futuristic snubby. Nope. This one’s for real, and I can’t wait to get my mitts on it. Here’s why . . .