LoooSeR Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 #Iraq Sadr city black market. This ugly camo painting is apparently called "HD 3D camouflage" lol. 20-50 $. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 Badr member/sniper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 The irony is that, by potentially introducing a habitat-destroying invasive species into a new environment, this may be the most destructive round ever conceived: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/02/08/flower-shell-turns-12-gauge-shotgun-gardening-implement/ Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 The other TFB bit that caught my attention was the "Pour your own 80 percent lower" story. I understand guys wanting to be handy and making their own guns and figuring out new ways to do it. But I never really bought the argument about how these 80 percent lowers are great for "those wanting to avoid the prying eyes of the US Government." http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/02/08/cast-mold-your-own-ar-lower-receiver/#disqus_thread Because it's not like the people buying these things aren't leaving a digital footprint with credit card purchases. And even if they buy the lower with cash, most are buying the uppers, bolt receiver groups, barrels, lower parts kits, buffer tubes and handguards with credit cards and via online websites, all of which leaves a glorious digital footprint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 Bronezhilet 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex C. Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 Why does every soviet photograph ever have that exact same instagram filter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm_kruger Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 The other TFB bit that caught my attention was the "Pour your own 80 percent lower" story. I understand guys wanting to be handy and making their own guns and figuring out new ways to do it. But I never really bought the argument about how these 80 percent lowers are great for "those wanting to avoid the prying eyes of the US Government." http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/02/08/cast-mold-your-own-ar-lower-receiver/#disqus_thread Because it's not like the people buying these things aren't leaving a digital footprint with credit card purchases. And even if they buy the lower with cash, most are buying the uppers, bolt receiver groups, barrels, lower parts kits, buffer tubes and handguards with credit cards and via online websites, all of which leaves a glorious digital footprint. People like to think they're getting away with secret squirrel stuff. For example, there's a fairly good market for used analogue/digital radio encryption gear with certain groups of ham radio operators, stuff like Motorola SABRE radios and encryption key loaders, despite the fact that encryption isn't allowed on the ham radio bands. (Proprietary closed-source digital voice stuff like DSTAR is allowed, because in the eyes of the FCC since anybody can go and buy a DSTAR radio, it's not encrypted) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 Why does every soviet photograph ever have that exact same instagram filter? hides the acne better? more poles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 MZW addresses smart guns: http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/blog/index.php?itemid=389 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 LWRC M6A2 uppers for $700: http://www.cdnnsports.com/lwrc-m6a2-5-56-16-inch-complete-upper-no-sights.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 MZW addresses smart guns: http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/blog/index.php?itemid=389 Smart guns are in their infancy. I think its a decent idea, but they shouldn't really be anything important for the next decade or two(or 3 whatever). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 I think we've come to the conclusion here that the best way to make a "smart gun" feasible would be to switch over entirely to some sort of electronic ignition rather than mate it, ad hoc, to existing semi-automatic technology. Which brings about the archaic ATF regulations about having weapons capable of fully automatic fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Coolest thing I've seen all month - footage of a Fedorov Avtomat firing (5m36s): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Coolest thing I've seen all month - footage of a Fedorov Avtomat firing (5m36s): http://i.imgur.com/OguiNdh.gifv a real mans hunting rifle Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Coolest thing I've seen all month - footage of a Fedorov Avtomat firing (5m36s): http://i.imgur.com/OguiNdh.gifv @ 6:06 mark. Russia is rich in all this. But poor in crosswalks, traffic and basic pedestrian safety. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 MZW addresses smart guns: http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/blog/index.php?itemid=389'>http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/blog/index.php?itemid=389 'Addresses' is putting it a bit strongly. 'Regurgitates the standard arguments and then simply claims that they are correct' maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 It kinda annoys me that Ian and some other historians try to downplay the significance of the Fedorov. It's a select-fire, controllable, relatively simple, environmentally-hardened, rifle-power sub-10lb individual weapon designed in 1916. How is that not a big fucking deal? Ian for example complains that the Fedorov is complicated, then compares it to the very complex Farquhar-Hill (which weighs about 5 pounds more!). Here's a disassembled Fedorov: Shit, that thing almost looks less complicated than a 1921 Thompson (and it probably was cheaper to make)! Jeeps_Guns_Tanks and Tied 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex C. Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Because it looks like a bag of smashed assholes? It wasn't fielded (or made) in large numbers? It's weird? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Because it looks like a bag of smashed assholes? It wasn't fielded (or made) in large numbers? It's weird? Shit, man, I'd hazard a guess that Mosins weren't made in very large numbers between 1918 and 1925, either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex C. Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Well now I am downright curious. Is there a source for various small arms production in russia during/after the civil war? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Well now I am downright curious. Is there a source for various small arms production in russia during/after the civil war? I did a little looking, but didn't find anything. Maybe the Troika can help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex C. Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Well according to this source, Tula was pumping out boomsticks for the Red Army: http://rbth.com/articles/2012/08/24/tula_russias_armory_17623.html "Following the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty in 1917, the city’s factories were seen as an essential asset for the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war and afterwards." But then in this article on the same site, it says Lenin hated Tula: http://rbth.com/articles/2011/09/20/tula_loved_by_tolstoy_hated_by_lenin_13469.html "A building directly opposite the city’s central bus station proudly boasts: “Tula has enormous importance for the republic.” It is the start of a quote by Vladimir Lenin, but few long-time residents and even fewer visitors to the city know how this quote ends: “but the people here are not our kind.” The man who called on Russia’s proletariat to rise up took a dislike to the Tula gunmakers because they were in no hurry to repair rifles for revolutionaries free of charge." So uh, I got nothing in the way of scholarly sources, numbers, etc. That said, considering everyone just said "fuck this" and bailed on WWI only to get plunged into another giant shitstorm, folks can be forgiven for less than meticulous record keeping (and holding onto said records). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Right, and the Fedorov was only made at Kovrov, so far as I know. We think of it now as a production gun, but those may have only been for trials. Hard to say why it was cancelled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex C. Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 A big case of "what the fuck it this shit? It's all... different." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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