Recent content by Tony C.

A gun can be dangerous even with only 1 ROUND in the magazine/chamber if handle carelessly. Magazine capacity is completely irrelevant.

Saw it last night, cinema was packed, glad I book ticket on line a day ahead, well worth every penny. The movie itself is 99 min. long, but there is another 30 min. or so at the end with director Peter Jackson explain how the movie was made, the detail and research they try to nail down to made...

The knob the Sgt turn is the elevation adjustment knob, he turn it up and back down to its original setting to ensure the rifle is properly maintained; kept clean and function as it should be. Armies of the world insisted soldiers keep their rifles clean at all time, anyone who has gone thru...

We all seen mistakes in movies when it come to guns, silenced revolvers; Luger pistol goes click, click, because a dud round; Winchester model 94 appears in a western during 1870s...etc. These day most movie gun are special prop guns made to only fire blanks, while blank cartridges like the old...

We'are getting a bit off topic now, however, here is a video about Chinese service pistol... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzvcyXmlZxQ

I don't know if the pistol are loaded or not, the rifle are definitely not loaded, in fact the guard will check his rifle before he handed to the sergeant for inspection, check out this video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4utXb3auOew

Will the gun eject cases when you hand cycle? Did the fired cases just sit in the ejection port? Is the recoil spring of correct poundage? Last but not least, double check your powder measure is dispensing the right amount of powder, I once have a batch of ammo that I thought was load with...

I've driving for over 50 years, all this time I got 2 speeding tickets, first one was more than 40 years ago, while I was still in college, going a bit too fast thru a small town late night with some school friends after the weekend, seeing that we are just a bunch of college students, the LEO...

Sometime in early 1980s, I was in Pittsburgh visiting my friend while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, somehow he got a couple of free tickets to see the movie "Jaws 3" in 3D, so off we went, beside us, there are only 2 other people in the cinema , I'm not sure the other...

I was approached by a young women a while back at the parking lot of the local grocery store, very pale looking, full of tattoo and body piercing, telling me her kids are hungry need money to buy food, I told her I'll go to the store with her, pick out the food you need and I'll pay for them...

Here is another article and video from South China Morning Post, supposedly posted by the maker of the laser rifle to answer sceptics, again, without independent observers to verify, hard to say how real it is: ‘Laser AK-47’? Chinese developer answers sceptics with videos of gun being tested |...

Here is an article about this laser rifle in South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong English newspaper, FWIW: China brings Star Wars to life with ‘laser AK-47’ that can set fire to targets a kilometre away | South China Morning Post

This happen to a friend of mine, he was in Dallas Tex. for a brief business meeting, just had a carry on bag with him, no check luggage, took a little side trip to a gun shop and picked up a pair of wood pistol grip and put them in his carry on bag, TSA agent discover them during boarding, they...

Here is mine Walther LP 53 in presentation case, very well made pistol.

Very interesting films both of them, I do notice one thing, seems like all the motor vehicles in both films are right hand drive, and yet most are driven on the right side just like we do now, I'm guessing there isn't much traffic rules in those days, anyone know when do we mandated left hand drive?