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Thanks for summarizing the results so I don’t have to watch the video. Not
Hey, more power to them if they can find someone willing to buy it. It’s just not gonna be me 😛
That’s just sad.
i wouldn’t even call that steampunk. It would be more steampunk with zero mods.
This guy just came up with a creative way to make a little pocket money and do away with the evidence of his visit to difi’s DC compound.
That was actually pretty good 🙂
LOL! You very well could be right…
I am all for smart gun technology, as long as it’s field tested by the Secret Service and other Federal armies.
This has been the case at all my interactions with police. But you need to see the bad and the good in some more equal time. As we pro 2A people would like to see lame-stream media do with US. Not all pro 2A people are named Lanza nor do we behave as he did.
Not only “not all”, but damn few.
He didn’t even try to make it look like the Bladerunner Pistol.
Thanks for the article. I’ve been called good things and bad things, but roughly 90% of my encounters are positive. There is also a pretty heavy correlation between the bottom 10% and a high degree of criminal history. Then again, some people with warrants are really nice, and some people with spotless records are less than pleasant.
My experiences with CCW holders have usually been positive as well. Part of the reason for my anonymity is that I don’t want to be accused of giving breaks to gun guys.
Hopefully I’ll get an investigator position soon, so I won’t have to make so damn many traffic stops. Serious crimes are just way more interesting.
I like his $250 “pneumatic repeater” even better.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/112166083/pneumatic-repeater-steampunk-rifle-prop?ref=related-7
It appears to be a red rider BB gun spray painted gold with some sort of air pressure gauge glued to the stock. He must value his labor very highly as there is perhaps $50 in materials and one hour of work there.
The actual Blade Runner gun is a subject of endless discussion. For some reason it has double set triggers and what looks like a German spoon-shaped bolt handle — very odd for a semiauto handgun.
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Talk:Blade_Runner
Now, what was the PT Barnum saying again? Oh yeah, “there’s a sucker…”
I would NEVER put my hand on or attempt to give my gun to a cop. Too many things could go wrong, and you could end up dead.
how many Bigdogs does a .50 BMG go though?
First of all that’s not a heat shield but an upper handguard. And secondly, that’s for a SKS and not an AK. You’d think TTAG would know better.
Thanks for writing this up, sometimes it feels like the only LEO stories that make the news are the bad stories.
Speaking of good LEO stories, the Akron Chief of Police is apparently pretty decent, even if the rest of this article is a little meh:
http://fox8.com/2013/11/10/i-team-curbing-gun-violence-in-ohio/
Matt,
I don’t think ANYTHING Boston Dynamics creates for DARPA will be good for the common man. Those machines will simply be used to more efficiently suppress other human beings. Not a fan.
Just a note, those are xbox 360s, not xboxs.
Are you kidding – that thing is totally awesome!! Worth every penny, I say.
it might have potential if the handguard actually fit over the barrel and had…something else going on. I’m not sure at the moment.
Or you could just go for this: http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_92_187_189&products_id=14020
George Carlin was was right when he said “if you nail two things together that have never been nailed together before some shmuck will buy it.”
One could also add that it doesn’t matter what it is, there is someone out there that collects it. Used bandages comes to mind.
Unfortunately, one of these idiotic gewgaws has made it onto California’s approved roster. Now that the technology is “proven to work,” it’s only a matter of time before California mandates all handguns have this technology. (cf. microstamping)
http://oag.ca.gov/sites/oag.ca.gov/files/pdfs/firearms/recentlyadded.pdf
The most important thing to remember is while traveling through New Mexico, Make sure there is nothing on your vehicle seat to attract Leo the family pet in the vicinity of Deming. Unless of course, you are over fifty, and due for a colonoscopy.
My issue smart guns never found them being any smarter than guy use them. After all guns do not fire them selfs. As guys use glocks would say clues people what makes there guns good and bad not gun it self.
That round fit M1 Carbine?
I tend to agree with those who contend that the work done to this rifle isn’t really a “build”. An “assembly”, perhaps?
I tend to fall in to this category (assembling “custom”* guns), and when speaking about it, I tend to say “I put that together” rather than, “I built that”.
That said, I am in the process of teaching myself some of the more basic gunsmithing skills; I have a 91/30 which I have swapped into a Boyd’s stock, that I have inletted to accept the Timney trigger, and performed a bedding job (parts of which I need to rework… it was my first time). I have also purchased a muzzle crowning tool and pilot, which I intend to use to make sure that the bullet leaves the barrel cleanly. Additionally, I have slugged the bore to determine which diameter bullets will work best, and am just waiting for 7.62x54r dies, etc… to become available. Load development will follow. It’s been a fun little project, and I am having a blast with it.
All of that being said, it looks like Tyler has put together a nice little shooter there, and at a decent price, too.
* “custom” in this case being defined as “it didn’t leave the factory in this configuration”; adding a scope doesn’t count, but swapping the stock/trigger does, as does converting the feed mechanism (from a blind to a drop mag, for instance). ARs are, of course, a different beast… I tend to buy stripped lowers and cherry pick the rest of the (lower) parts from there.
It’s true that plenty of crap gun laws are passed without regard to open carry. I think we’re missing something if we dismiss the laws passed specifically to ban OC; this is true especially in a state like CA that has different regions. There are some rural areas of California that would be positively pro-gun legislatively but for the state laws. In such places it would be perfectly reasonable and accepted to carry a gun around openly, be it hiking or driving to the county store. But because some folks decided to force the issue in places where it was seen by most people as disruptive and even dangerous (hey, there are a lot of anti-gun folks in cities) something was done about it statewide.
If open carry actually normalized guns I’d say it might be worth it, but I don’t believe it for a minute. In places where open carry is already accepted, it doesn’t do anything. In places where it is NOT, it tends to scare people and make them think the anti-gun people are right about ‘those gun nuts who want attention.’ As to exercising rights, I agree in part, but believe there is a time and place to be reasonable. I do not exercise my right to free speech by protesting at a soldier’s funeral, for example…
I’ve been getting into Ruger Blackhawks lately (I have a collection of one so far). I don’t think I’ll be writing any $20,000 checks in the near future, so they’re the next best thing. There are a lot of collectables available if you check out the auction sites. High end guns for modest prices IMHO.
One day she is going to mess up and say something slanderous and be charged with a crime. I guarantee it.