Written by admin on April 22nd, 2009 in Uncategorized.
While it occured a while back, apparently there was a recent “outbreak” of zombies in the Austin area.
KXAN Austin News cameras caught many drivers slowing down to read the signs as they approached. Some read, “Zombies ahead! Run for your lives!”
Hartley said the city will discuss more secure safety measures with the manufacturer of the signs.
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Written by admin on March 12th, 2009 in Industry News.
via Flickr (Jordan and Lee's photostream)
Well, the lackluster economy has finally hit me where it hurts. The local Sportsman’s Warehouse is being closed as part of an overall decision to “reduce bank debt”. Sportsman’s is closing 23 stores in the US and selling another 15 to UFA Co-op (a Canadian firm).
The stores being liquidated:
Stores being sold include:
So that makes either Alberqueque or Phoenix the closest places with sporting goods stores (that include more than a Wal-mart level of guns). Honestly, I’ve asked about the ammo recently, and I suspect that the corporate inventory system had cut the local store off for some time before the recent announcement. At least that part makes sense (though there is still an overall ammo shortage). Still, this hurts 
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Written by admin on March 6th, 2009 in Industry News.
I’ve had the pleasure of hitting the range multiple times in the same weekend (for several weekends in a row) lately. Each and every time I’ve gone, it’s been packed out there, with hardly a berm open. Not even slightly busy, with one car and one guy per berm, but rather whole groups of people out there.
I’ve seen groups practicing pistol drills (IPSC group?), cowboy shooting, and one day there was even a collection of Class-3 license holders. The 1000 yard known distance range is full. The rifle range has several people, and all the benches are full. The pistol/shotgun berm is full, with several dozen cars.
Is it just the temps warming up here in sunny New Mexico?
Is it the likely “assault” weapons ban that’s probably going to hit us sometime in the near future?
Any other theories?
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Written by admin on March 6th, 2009 in Industry News.
Given the state of the ammo world (everybody is out of everything), we’ve shifted to using shotguns recently as we can actually buy that ammo. Thankfully the prices appear to have resisted the upward climb of pistol and rifle ammo. Wile there is a scarcity to buckshot at the local Sportman’s Warehouse, the #2 and #4 shot was thankfully both plentiful and cheap (a box of 25 for ~ $11). Is the buckshot scarcity a general trend everywhere else? Let us know…
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Written by admin on March 3rd, 2009 in StoppingPower.Info News.
Stoppingpower.Info has been a live site for the past two years, and consequently has seen a lot of change from the early days through now. At first, we were wiki noobs, just happy to use something that would let us put our videos up on the web in a really fast and easy manner. Frankly, that worked fine for the first year or so, until we started to put more content into the site and then the manner in which we categorized things began to get fuzzy. Do we tag everything with 9mm with the 9mm category? Isn’t that going to be a lot of stuff with the new gun reviews section we’re bringing online?
So the strategy has changed a bit with regard to categories (at least for now). So, from now on, the 9mm page means all pages that have 9mm videos. That’s it. Yes, we could have made a 9mm videos category, but the amount of administrative headache that would be at this point is more than we want to inflict on ourselves and our users.
If you have any questions about this, contact us.
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Written by admin on February 18th, 2009 in New Video.
I’ve added a new video of a Ruger Mini-14 .223 vs a Sniper Training Cube from JustShootMe Products. Check out the Video.
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Written by admin on February 17th, 2009 in Industry News.
Wired.com covers the Army’s “new paintball gun” today. I’m never certain what I think of the nonlethal weapons. While I can appreciate the situation in which there is a desire to be used, the liability of firing something classified as “nonlethal” always seems to be troubling. Given the lawsuits that occur from the inevitable deaths (you are firing *something* at a person…there’s always a chance, if small, that some injury could occur), even the proponents that push it as “less than lethal” seem to have an upward battle.
However, until they develop a stun setting I guess we’ll go with the best we got. That’s the attitude that doesn’t seem to be getting through to opponents of this technology. At least in a military situation there would seem to be more expectation that harm may result (as opposed to law enforcement use). Here’s an interesting read (PDF) regarding nonlethal use in the US Army (excerpt below):
Maj. Steve Simpson, the writer of the first (1996) army instruction manual on NLWs, said of his own experience with non-lethal technology, “non-lethals bridge that gap,” between verbal warnings and intentional (or accidental) lethal force.38 Simpson, who used blunt-impact weaponry in Afghanistan during OEF, envisioned NLWs as an “integral part of all future operations.”
Given the recent gun show coverage I’ve done, it’s interesting to note that even at the local show there was a vendor selling rubber ball ammo for unmodified 12 gauge shotguns. I thought about picking up some rounds for stoppingpower.info testing, but frankly at $3 a round, I thought I’d hunt around for another vendor. Guess that was a good bet, as CheaperThanDirt.com is selling it for $0.69 a round. Pays to shop around, like always.
Aside from collecting, does anyone ever get a deal at a gun show?
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Written by admin on February 17th, 2009 in Industry News.
A friend and I went to the local Lions Club gun show this last weekend, and while I knew that gun prices have shot up since the adminstration change, I wasn’t prepared for the radical price differences:
SKS $199 (in 2007) vs $600 (in 2009)
AK $400 (in 2007) vs $800 (in 2009)
AR from DPMS $800 (in 2007) vs $1300 in (2009)
SKS in 2009 — $600
All I can say is holy moly! The National Shooting Sports Foundation saw a 25% increase in gun sales at the end of last year.
“Sales of firearms, in particular handguns and semi-automatic hunting and target rifles, are fast outpacing inventory,” said NSSF President and CEO Stephen L. Sanetti. “It’s clear that many people are concerned about possible gun bans under the incoming Congress and are reacting accordingly.”
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Written by admin on February 17th, 2009 in Uncategorized.
1) ”Yes siree, Obama is going to ban all these guns. You should get them while you can”
2) “They are going to ban that gun there in your hand”
3) “You’re not going to be able to buy that gun in a year”
Anyone detect a trend?
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Written by admin on February 15th, 2009 in New Product.
Apparently IBM has filed a patent for “bullet dodging armor” Quote:
A method of protecting a target from a projectile propelled from a firearm comprises detecting an approaching projectile, continuously monitoring the projectile and transmitting an actual position of the projectile to a controller, computing an estimated projectile trajectory based upon the actual position of the projectile, determining an actual position of a target with a plurality of position sensors and a plurality of attitude sensors, determining whether the estimated projectile trajectory coincides with the actual position of the target, and triggering a plurality of muscle stimulators operably coupled to the controller and to the target when the estimated projectile trajectory coincides with the actual position of the target, wherein the muscle stimulators stimulate the target to move in a predefined manner, and wherein the target moves by an amount sufficient to avoid any contact with the approaching projectile. The projectile may be detected in the detecting step by emitting an electromagnetic wave from a projectile detector and receiving the electromagnetic wave after the electromagnetic wave has been reflected back toward the projectile detector by the projectile.
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