Boomstick's and shooty shooty bang bang's - The GUN Thread!
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PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
As GunJesus said: ''The hype is real.''
That was the best Wolfenstein game... And there have been a lot of them.
Francis Urquhart
Well-known member
At a going rate of $300,000 each, it should be . . . . .
PSA - don't post pics where your gun's serial number can be seen:
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NOTICE: Facebook And Google Indexing Your Firearm Serial Numbers
Google and Facebook have now made it possible to find photos of firearms by simply searching for a serial number. A story today showed that photos of cars could be found by searching for license plate numbers. It appears the same is now also true of firearm serial numbers.
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Google and Facebook have now made it possible to find photos of firearms by simply typing a serial number into the search box. Earlier today, the automotive website Jalopnik published a story showing how license plate numbers are evidently scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) on Google images, allowing them to be searchable using text queries. Using the OCR hypothesis, TFB wondered if this image data mining technique might be able to be used to search for firearm serial numbers. Using images posted previously on TFB with serial numbers displayed on firearms, we tested the serial number search technique. As you can see from the results below, firearm serial numbers are in fact part of this apparent large-scale data mining operation by companies like Google and Facebook.
It’s clear that the firearms community is not being singled out by this data mining operation. And no, you as an individual cannot readily lookup someone’s personal information with only firearm serial numbers. Regardless of this, Instagram is owned by Facebook, and YouTube is owned by Google. As both of these companies are privately owned, but heavily relied upon, the knowledge of this publicly available data mine is unsettling.
For me, it's a tossup between RTCW and Wolfenstein: The New Order. But since this is a gun thread, and RTCW has the better shooting irons, RTCW is the better Wolfenstein game.
Can we please, just pretty please, break up the tech giants now? If I have to hunt through two or three pages of results to find the thing I'm looking for, like it's 2005 all over again, that'll be a small price to pay.PSA - don't post pics where your gun's serial number can be seen:
NOTICE: Facebook And Google Indexing Your Firearm Serial Numbers
Google and Facebook have now made it possible to find photos of firearms by simply searching for a serial number. A story today showed that photos of cars could be found by searching for license plate numbers. It appears the same is now also true of firearm serial numbers.
Just saw El Camino on Netflix yesterday. Two neat guns in there I had no idea on, a Colt Woodsman and an 1871 H&R double action hammerless revolver in .32.
Obvious spoilers in the link:
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Obvious spoilers in the link:
Guns of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
All the firearms used in the new Netflix epilogue to the beloved Breaking Bad series, which has been off the air since 2013.
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Well, this weekend is going to be fun. I'm going to meet up with some friends and go to the only gun show I've visited this y-
Wait. I've gone to two or three other shows this year, but that was in my hometown. You know, it just doesn't feel like a proper gunshow unless you have to travel to get there.
Anyhow, we're hitting the gunshow, and then maybe a gun range after that. Depends on what we buy and how willing we are to share.
Heh. One time, someone brought a milsurp pistol for the range trip. But when we got there, he realized that he'd left the ammo and the mags at home. So we had to trek back to the gunshow and hunt around for 9mm Makarov ammo and magazines.
Wait. I've gone to two or three other shows this year, but that was in my hometown. You know, it just doesn't feel like a proper gunshow unless you have to travel to get there.
Anyhow, we're hitting the gunshow, and then maybe a gun range after that. Depends on what we buy and how willing we are to share.
Heh. One time, someone brought a milsurp pistol for the range trip. But when we got there, he realized that he'd left the ammo and the mags at home. So we had to trek back to the gunshow and hunt around for 9mm Makarov ammo and magazines.
Finally useful information for my inevitable fantasy safari.
Ruger has apparently decided to make a 5.7mm pistol... for some reason:
Huh. That's interesting. This is the first I've heard of it. TFB doesn't even have an article about it.
It does now:
TFB REVIEW: Meet the New Ruger-57 5.7x28mm Pistol
Starting its life early in the 90s as the caliber used in both the FN P90 and its close companion the FN FiveseveN, the 5.7x28mm cartridge has gone almost nowhere only being used in a handful of firearms. Ruger aims to change that today with the release of their new Ruger-57 pistol.
www.thefirearmblog.com
There's a scene about 20 minutes into Netflix's The Highwaymen where the main character portrayed by Kevin Costner walks into a gun store for an epic 'Arming Up' scene. The best part of it is... the movie takes place during the 1930's because the film is about Frank Harmer's hunt for the infamous criminal duo, Bonnie and Clyde.
Such delicious periodic weapons porn. Colt Monitor (BAR Equivalent), a scoped M1903, a Thompson SMG, and various other shotguns, rifles, revolvers and lots of ammunition.
And that gun store scene is just the peak of gun porn, you'll see some very rarely scene auto/self loading rifles in the hands of the posse towards the end of the movie as well.
Plus... oh yeah, the movie is pretty good itself. Worth a watch and free on Netflix!
Such delicious periodic weapons porn. Colt Monitor (BAR Equivalent), a scoped M1903, a Thompson SMG, and various other shotguns, rifles, revolvers and lots of ammunition.
And that gun store scene is just the peak of gun porn, you'll see some very rarely scene auto/self loading rifles in the hands of the posse towards the end of the movie as well.
Plus... oh yeah, the movie is pretty good itself. Worth a watch and free on Netflix!
It does now:
TFB REVIEW: Meet the New Ruger-57 5.7x28mm Pistol
Starting its life early in the 90s as the caliber used in both the FN P90 and its close companion the FN FiveseveN, the 5.7x28mm cartridge has gone almost nowhere only being used in a handful of firearms. Ruger aims to change that today with the release of their new Ruger-57 pistol.
Sexy. I like the look of that gun, I like the idea of the 5.7 cartridge, and I really like the fact that it uses a double stack double feed magazine. On the other hand, easy to reload but expensive to feed is not a good combination.
Don't just watch this one for the gunstore scene, people. Watch the whole movie!
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
Ruger has apparently decided to make a 5.7mm pistol... for some reason:
More 5.7 pistols is a good thing, they're currently either too damn expensive or have questionable reliability. 5.7 copper solids will punch straight through IIIA soft armor.
prinCZess
Warrior, Writer, Performer, Perv
A competitor to the 5-7 is nice to see. Maybe it can inspire some price competition, because the thing has always seemed overpriced to me even as I'm tempted by its cute little cartridges. Then again, FN seems to have a bad habit of going the H&K route in their pricing...Though I've heard less complaints about FN.
Currently battling with myself because I've spotted VZ52s for sale...But instead of being in the wild, they're gated behind the likes of Classic Firearms (yuck), and priced at $700 by-god bucks (double yuck). Which is even more severe price-creep than SKSs and crappy Mosins have gone through! When I last had the chance to buy one some years ago, the guy was asking 275! Fricken' ridiculous...And I still got halfway through ordering one before second-guessing myself because I hate ordering sight-unseen and Classic has their well-deserved reputation for shittery on quality matters.
*sigh* Probably committed to staying away, then. Maybe someday I'll find one in person...And maybe then the price creep will be even worse.
Surplus firearms, folks--pretty sure they're a better investment than blue chips.
Currently battling with myself because I've spotted VZ52s for sale...But instead of being in the wild, they're gated behind the likes of Classic Firearms (yuck), and priced at $700 by-god bucks (double yuck). Which is even more severe price-creep than SKSs and crappy Mosins have gone through! When I last had the chance to buy one some years ago, the guy was asking 275! Fricken' ridiculous...And I still got halfway through ordering one before second-guessing myself because I hate ordering sight-unseen and Classic has their well-deserved reputation for shittery on quality matters.
*sigh* Probably committed to staying away, then. Maybe someday I'll find one in person...And maybe then the price creep will be even worse.
Surplus firearms, folks--pretty sure they're a better investment than blue chips.
By an amusing coincidence, I happen to have rented a five-seveN during my recent trip to Arizona. . .
Personal impression is that it's ridiculously lightweight to the point of almost feeling like a toy. The ergonomics are superb aside from the lack of ambidextrous controls, but the balance is extremely muzzle heavy; that said, the muzzle heaviness goes a long way towards balancing the barrel flip of firing such a high-velocity round out of such a light sidearm.
This is the best ten-round grouping I was able to achieve out of 50 rounds at fifteen feet. The pistol clearly has the potential for much greater accuracy with sufficient practice, and given the flat trajectory should fire tight groups at substantially greater range. Unfortunately, the ammunition was almost twice as expensive as nine-millimeter, so my budget really precluded getting any more.
Personal impression is that it's ridiculously lightweight to the point of almost feeling like a toy. The ergonomics are superb aside from the lack of ambidextrous controls, but the balance is extremely muzzle heavy; that said, the muzzle heaviness goes a long way towards balancing the barrel flip of firing such a high-velocity round out of such a light sidearm.
This is the best ten-round grouping I was able to achieve out of 50 rounds at fifteen feet. The pistol clearly has the potential for much greater accuracy with sufficient practice, and given the flat trajectory should fire tight groups at substantially greater range. Unfortunately, the ammunition was almost twice as expensive as nine-millimeter, so my budget really precluded getting any more.
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The other pistol I rented at that range session was a Springfield Armory TRP 1911:
It honestly doesn't look like a $1650 handgun with that plain finish and complete lack of external finery. I definitely got sticker shock when I looked it up afterwards!
First seven rounds on my second set of 25. While the grips aren't perfectly to my liking, the TRP is distinctly more accurate than my personal XDM, thanks to the longer 5" barrel, heavy frame, and high-end tuning.
The entire set of 25 on that target. The three low flyers are from rapid fire of the four "extra" rounds (7+7+7+4, obviously.)
It honestly doesn't look like a $1650 handgun with that plain finish and complete lack of external finery. I definitely got sticker shock when I looked it up afterwards!
First seven rounds on my second set of 25. While the grips aren't perfectly to my liking, the TRP is distinctly more accurate than my personal XDM, thanks to the longer 5" barrel, heavy frame, and high-end tuning.
The entire set of 25 on that target. The three low flyers are from rapid fire of the four "extra" rounds (7+7+7+4, obviously.)
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Neither @LordSunhawk nor I actually rented this bad boy, as it was very pricey, but both of us grabbed photos. I don't think I've ever seen one of these with a suppressor on it before, but it makes sense considering it's being used at an indoor range.