NERF guns finally get rid of the foam dart and go for the real thing: 9mm bullets. Sure, it’s a home-printed firearm, but it’s a dandy NERF gun too.
If you want one of these NERF guns of your own, the files are available here:
It’s getting so that anyone can have a gun of their own, no matter how tyrannical their local government is.
The German V-1 “Buzz Bomb” was a relatively simple weapon, and one that a sufficient number were found sufficiently intact that the Allies were able to reverse engineer. In the US, copies of the V-1 were built by Republic Aviation by September of 1944 as the Jet Bomb-2 “Loon.” The V-1 was found to be a crude weapons, inaccurate and not particularly spectacular… but it was cheap and unmanned. In late 1944 the US was staring down the barrel of Operation Downfall, the forthcoming invasion of Japan. Nobody was quite sure how that was going to go; the only thing the expert were sure of was that it would be a bloodbath. So a stand-off weapon that could be launched in *vast* numbers to saturation-bomb Japanese targets while putting approximately zero American lives in harms way? It was an easy sale.
The JB-2 was externally nearly identical to the V-1 but had an active guidance system, theoretically making it more accurate than the fairly dumb V-1. But even with a radar-based guidance system the JB-2 was meant to be built in large numbers… the goal of 1,000 units per month by April, 1945. However, by the end of the war only a little over 1,300 had been built. Exactly how to use the JB-2 does not seem to have been nailed down; one reasonable notion was to use it as a “harassment” weapon: on days when cloud cover negated manned bombing missions, the Japanese might be expected to be scurrying around rebuilding and reprovisioning and generally getting stuff done… and then here come the buzz bombs.
Problem was, simple as the V-1 was, getting the thing to work right was not so simple. Testing of the JB-2 continued to about 1950, by which time it was woefully obsolete and was being used as an aerial target. But early on, simply getting the thing into the air, never mind flying stably, was a chore.
Assuming YouTube survives the coming apocalypse, people are going to marvel at an era where food was so frivolously expended…
“How much peanut butter does it take to stop a bullet” is a question we’ve all asked. What’s surprising here is the altitude the goop reaches.
Normally the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile would be the sort of thing that would bring condemnation. But, hey, ᚠᚪᛣᚳ ᛁᛏ, anything goes now.
And some spray paint.
It’s available for pre-order for $95. An M41 Pulse Rifle is just about the most “well *duh*” Nerf products ever.
A bill to make every rifle with a magazine an NFA item. This would mean that:
1: Every magazine-based rifle would have an added tax dropped on them
2: You cannot sell your guns to another person
3: You cannot give your guns away, either as gifts or through inheritance
4: Some states, such as the one I’m in, outright *ban* NFA items. So a rifle that is legal today would be illegal under this bill.
5: You would need the permission of the ATF to move to another state.
6: You would need the permission of the ATF to *visit* another state with your rifle.
And on the other end of boomsticks is the recently released Rock Island Armory VRF14. This is a box-fed semi-auto 12 gauge with a 14 inch barrel… not a “shotgun” but a “firearm” per the ATF. It looks like more fun than a barrel of monkeys as well as being a handy home defense item. To be compared with the virtually impossible to obtain Remington TAC 13.
A lot of Rock island Armory’s shotguns are made in Turkey, and while Turkey has cranked out a lot of interesting guns, they’ve also cranked out a lot of unreliable crap. The following video from RIA says it’s made in America, but that could always mean that it was actually manufactured in Turkey, shipped to the US in a few pieces, then assembled in the USA. I dunno. Anybody have more details, I’d be interested. Interesting that the official video from RIA doesn’t actually show them firing the thing.
… for only 200 feet per second. Still, it’s progress I suppose.
$3,375.00
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER w/10% DISCOUNT
75 ft-lb semi-automatic Gauss Rifle
The world’s first handheld Gauss Rifle – (alpha) batch 1
Hmmm.
The Arcflash Labs GR-1 “Anvil” is an 8-stage semi-automatic high voltage Gauss Rifle. It is the most powerful coilgun ever sold to the public, and also (very likely) the most powerful handheld coilgun ever built.
The GR-1 is capable of accelerating any ferromagnetic projectile (under 1/2″ in diameter) to 200+ fps, and can deliver up to 75 ft-lbs of muzzle energy.
The GR-1 uses the world’s most advanced capacitor charging system, a dual Clamped Quasi-Resonant Inverter, which allows the GR-1 to fire up to 20 rounds per minute (at full power) or up to 100 rounds per minute at 50% power.
The GR-1 is capable of accepting 3 different standard projectile lengths (32 mm, 42 mm, and 52 mm) with a unique variable magazine system.
75 foot-pounds is not so much in terms of bullets. 9mm Parabellum is about 342; .22 Long Rifle is about 137 and .22 Short is about 87. .25 ACP is about 73. .45 Win Mag, a Man’s Round, is a healthy 1406. I wouldn’t want to take a slug of steel moseying along at 200 feet per second, to be sure, but i’d rather have a .380 automatic than this thing. Give it a few decades, though, and *maybe* it’ll be there.
It does not appear that he registered as an agent for a foreign power.
Granted it was inert, but a man can dream.