Alex C.

Looks like France is getting out of the bullpup game. They downselected to the FN SCAR and HK416.

This will be France's first unimportable service rifle that they scrap. It will be interesting to see if they do the modern politically-correct thing and smelt them into small models of the Eiffel Tower to sell or chop them up into kits and let the importers have a go at them.

Today on "Stuff I Didn't Ever Think I Would Ever See For Sale":

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=568442278

This thread needs some life:

Yes, I have read that piece and it is essentially what you turn up in most places. Which is "it kind of looks like a G36, but that's pretty much all we know. Oh, but it doesn't work like a G36."

Even the Spanish sources I have read are quite terrible, and I have never been able to find any details about trialing the gun, accounts of Ordnance (how long before stuff like this usually becomes public info in the US/Europe?), or even feedback from users.

Also, Mexico's patent site does turn up some info:

http://siga.impi.gob.mx/content/common/busquedaSimple.jsf

Search for: PA/A/2006/007961

Other pertinent documents:

http://vidoc.impi.gob.mx/ViDoc/visor.do?Param=SIGA$PA$E$PA/a/2006/007961

If by that you mean an AR-15, SIG-550 and SCAR stitched together to sorta look like a G-36, with an Aztec snakey on the side then sure.

 

Indeed.

A few years back when I was more idealistic and full of unwarranted optimism towards the firearms industry I called the Mexican Directorate of Military Industry to try and get some information on the FX05 (saying I was a journalist trying to write a piece on Mexico's new domestic rifle). The clerk heard my gringo Spanish accent and transferred me to somebody who told me kindly to pound sand.

Getting much information on that rifle proved to be very difficult, and I have never seen one before on my trips to Mexico (you still see clapped out G3s).

G36 as presented by Univision.

"HMG is wonderful. A lot of companies will just take your money and not deliver."

....Yeah, my gun was supposed to be delivered 6 months ago. Good news though, all they need now is receivers and new batches of parts!

Yall might recognize a few faces in this video:

Here is the only document I can find, and it is a simple "here's a new gun we found":

http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt07/german-semiautomatic-rifle.html

I also found a report that Hitler's Garands sources quite a bit (in the excepts I can find), but it is not accessible online and I had to request it:

https://research.archives.gov/id/574018

Edit: An employee from the archives will contact me regarding my request after a short 3 week time period. Efficient!

Regarding the Bang system:

The problems inherent to trapping gas at the muzzle and redirecting it to cycle a gun are very well documented in the case of Bang's rifle and the gas trap Garand. However the Germans actually ran with it for a while with the G41 rifles. Does anyone have any documents or ordnance reports from the testing of the G41(W) or G41(M)s?

I ask because this past weekend I went and shot the hell out of a G41(w) with 200+ rounds of surplus uber-corrosive ammo and there were no problems, issues, or hangups. It is also worth noting that the the particular G41 is not in great shape and the rear of the receiver has even been shot (as in it caught a bullet).

Only thing that noticeably sucked was taking the nose cone off for cleaning (since I don't have the appropriate tool), but other than that I just ran some hot water down the bore, doused the piston/sleeve, and the outside of the barrel that is normally encapsulated by the trap. I hypothesized that when well maintained the system would be reliable (considering a soldier's ammunition loadout would have been 70 rounds), but am curious as to what Ordnance discovered in their testing.

My biggest gripe is the front sight mounted on the piston sleeve (that obviously gets very, very hot), as the rifle's POI noticeably shifted as it heated up.

Breaking news: Bullet shape is important!

Also this.

75 years later and we still have not improved upon the assault rifle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvji2mh5k2M&feature=youtu.be

I just use a cup of hot water and a transmission funnel. No big deal.

I know many people who are so afraid of corrosive ammo that they will bend over backwards to get rid of it for pennies on the dollar if they receive it in a trade or something.

We Meplat now.

1926 produced Mk VI RSAF gun.

Shot it yesterday and I now appreciate Smith/Colt revolvers more than I ever thought possible.

Worked well, but I did have a bullet jump crimp.

I carry a CZ-75... Really?

Damn, your days are numbered bro.

Carrying anything but an H&K P7 is downright foolish and will probably get you killed.

I didn't realize I had shot so much stuff over the past year until I started compiling this.

I got outbid at the last moment on the Type 81. =/

Damn. That was an awesome one too.

Well RIA is over. Some cool shit coming to TFBTV soon:

Lots in order:

http://www.rockislandauction.com/viewitem/aid/67/lid/3113

http://www.rockislandauction.com/viewitem/aid/67/lid/3205

http://www.rockislandauction.com/viewitem/aid/67/lid/3218

http://www.rockislandauction.com/viewitem/aid/67/lid/3232

http://www.rockislandauction.com/viewitem/aid/67/lid/3363

http://www.rockislandauction.com/viewitem/aid/67/lid/3654

I am most excited about Webley automatic. Since it's chambered in .38 Auto and not .455 semi-rimmed moon rock I can actually shoot it and use it as a concealed carry piece.

How dare people want to own cool shit instead of doing the noble thing and give it away:

New world record for a single firearm:

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/05/01/rock-island-auction-new-world-record-set/

$1,265,000  ($1,454,750 after BP)

Either he was lying and is a fucking idiot, or was not lying and is a fucking idiot.

Another pearl of wisdom from Nicholas C:

This dude is the fucking pinnacle of mallninjatude.

Patrick and I got trapped in a car with him one time and Patty's strategy was to pretend to sleep. I was in the front seat however where I got a lecture about how hunting is stupid and hunters deserve to be looked down upon by the true members of the gun community.

And some story about how he dressed up in LAPD SWAT gear with an airsoft gun and held a crackhead at gunpoint. I am not making this up. He actually said this.

I wonder if that's the M9 owned by a friend of mine. There are not a lot of live postwar flame rigs out there, let alone in Arizona.

Its been on consignment at IMA for a long, long time.

What happens when you shoot underpowered ammo in your Webley Fosbery?

Why, you get a fully automatic revolver of course!