End the War on Freedom

Century Arms has a new 7.62x39 AK-style bullpup rifle. Google lists prices from $479 to $595. Holt Bodinson, in a Guns Magazine review, calls it very accurate, for an AK. Images shamelessly cropped from a sale ad. [guns]

I bought a Cold Steel African Walking Stick from KnifeCenter.com. $24 plus $9 shipping. Arrived in two days. Below, you can see it with the walking staff I found at a local tobacco shop, with closeups of the top and bottom. It's 37" long, and has some heft. I wouldn't want to be hit with it. Haven't tried it on a walk through the woods yet.

Jeremy Clarkson at Break.com - in case shooting clay pigeons with shotgun pellets doesn't float your boat, try full-auto .308, or an anti-tank round, fired at a flying car. [gsc]

Gunblast has four pages of photos from this year's SHOT Show in Las Vegas. Yowza!

Marlin Press Release - what a surprise! Remington will acquire Marlin Firearms for an undisclosed amount, pursuant to finalization of an agreement made on December 26. They expect the transaction to close by the end of January, 2008. I hope this is good news for the continuation of Marlin's fine products, and I expect that Remington will preserve the brand, but I don't like seeing independent companies disappear, especially in the firearms business.

Google finds lots of news. There's a copy of the press release on Remington's site.

Jeff Quinn at Gunblast - we know and love Marlin for their lever action rifles. Mr. Quinn reviews another reason to love them, 1" groups with standard Remington Core-Lokt ammo for a listed price of $326. For comparison, a Savage 111FC lists for $539. The new rifle hasn't made it yet to Marlin's firearms section.

Jeff Quinn at Gunblast - when loaded hot, the .45 Colt can deliver as much energy as hot .44 magnum rounds from a four-inch barrel. From the video, it doesn't look as if recoil is too bad, either. [gunblast]

Jeff Quinn at Gunblast - a review of the Charter Arms "Feminized" Undercover Southpaw Left-handed .38 Special Revolver. It's barrel is engraved, "The Pink Bitch." It shoots +P ammo pretty well. [gunblast]

Smoky Mountain Knife Works sent me a catalog in the mail. I looked through it and one knife struck my fancy, the Condor Jungle Bowie pictured below with my Steve Ryan folder. Incredible tool. Reminds me of the famous Crocodile Dundee line, "That's not a knife. This is a knife." $40. Click on the image for a high-res version (1554x777, 343K).

gun-deals.com has a database of Ammo, firearms, reloading, and FFL information. They even calculate shipping on their ammo page, so you can make a real bottom-line comparison. Makes my Mail-Order Ammunition Distributors page obsolete (except you can download it and keep it on your computer). [clairefiles]

billstclair.com/mec.html is a version of my Muzzle Energy Computer reformatted to fit Apple's iPhone. Here it is in the iPhoney web browser:

Benchmade - 5.2 inch blade, 10.25" open, 6.7" closed. Swing-out "tail fin" to cover the end of the blade when closed. Available from KnifeCenter for $100. They also have a combo-edge version for $110. Reviewed in Rochelle Canfield's "Spotlight" on p. 89 of the August, 2007 issue of Guns Magazine. Me want.

Aaron Rowe at Wired - the best soft body armor is made from polyethylene. Plastic. Dyneema SB61 to be exact. It's available in American Body Armor Torq™ vests. LC Action sells ABA's entire line over the internet. The Torq level 2 vest costs $800. Level 3A (pictured below) fetches $1,000. [wired]

Bill Hamm at Gunblast - one page of text and four pages of photos of a fine revolver, made by Ruger from 1959 through 1973. I've never understood why people keep cardboard gun boxes, but I'd certainly keep one of these nice mahogony ones. [gunblast]

Jeff Quinn at Gunblast - hardly bigger than it's .380 cousin, this pocket 9mm does it's job, for an MSRP of $333 Blued, $377 Parkerized, or $390 Hard Chrome (light attachment extra). Click the image for Kel-Tec's PF-9 page. [gunblast]

Beretta has a new carry pistol. 13+1 rounds of 9mm or 10+1 rounds of .40 S&W. $575 retail. Not yet present at px4storm.com, but will likley be there soon. [gunsandammo]

Jeff Quinn at Gunblast - a review of S&W's lightweight .44 magnum revolver with titanium cylinder and scandium frame. [gunblast]

The Mr. Nightcrawler Trilogy: Book I - I haven't looked in at The High Road in a long time. Tonight I found a new story by Nightcrawler. Loved the last one, and this one is looking good too, after the first few chapters. Hope you like it.

Armalite is now selling a 9mm pistol. Adjustable ($631) or fixed ($550) sights in full-size (15 rounds, 4.67 inch barrel) or compact (13 rounds, 3.89 inch barrel). Full page ad in the April, 2007 issue of Guns Magazine. [guns]

Jeff & Boge Quinn at Gunblast - pre-game range photos and three pages of new product photos. Enjoy! [gunblast]