Recent content by Chemistry Guy

I am interested in the 'Smart' gun technology, but not for the purposes intended in the article. If the mechanism that disables the fire control were to be linked to a camera in the scope, and then immediately disabled once a targeting algorithm with some pattern recognition capability...

"Strength" isn't just based on a single characteristic. The fiber-polymer composites that firearm frames are made of are evaluated on a whole bunch of characteristics, including mechanical traits such as toughness, tensile and compressive strength, and rigidity, but also on more subtle...

Some of these "super owners" may have more than a hundred(!) rounds of ammunition stockpiled as well.

Larry Potterfield from MidwayUsa is fantastic. He reminds me of my dad. I can watch his videos all day.

The calculus is not all that difficult for this problem, but there are a lot of assumptions that need to be clarified. Are you interested in the total distance the bullet travels, or in the arc connecting two points a mile away from each other? If you want to do a very simple approximation and...

I work at a university and I am surrounded by anti firearm ideology on a daily basis. I think the particular 'flavor' that I find most offensive is the snobbery. In the eyes of the academic 'elite', everyone who shoots guns is some kind of uncivilized uneducated redneck. Despite extraordinary...

This has already been covered, but I'll add a bit more. Because kinetic energy includes a velocity-squared term and momentum only contains a velocity to the first power term, the bullet will contain more kinetic energy than the recoiling body when momentum is conserved. The greater the ratio of...

I think some level of universal health care should be implemented in this country (albeit at the state rather than federal level) I support efforts to scale back the prison population and abolish the death penalty I am pro union in case of skilled trades I think that electric vehicles...

As far as I am concerned, negligible statistical effect helps our cause. If the debate is framed as how much freedom are we willing to give up in order to have the "security" of less guns, and there is no statistical effect on security, why should we have a law that restricts our freedom for no...

Furthermore, firearms are not designed with 3D printing in mind. In the not so distant future I expect we will see functional firearms that have a different form factor than what we are used to but whose design is more conducive to this type of manufacture. In particular, the means to...

I love Shooter's Supply in Loveland, Ohio. They have great prices and a decent selection, but they will order anything you want. Every gun I looked at was at least $100 less than at Targetworld.

I had a student a long time ago named Mosina. I thought her dad might have been a milsurp guy, but it turns out she was just Polish.

A friend of mine was shooting his old Walther P38 when it jammed. He started trying to open it up to clear the jam and it fired right into the ground. It turns out a piece of the firing pin had broken off inside the chamber. He still doesn't know if it was a hang fire or if the magazine spring...

I think you might be thinking of Bill Goodman. I go to the shows occasionally, and I have bought a few firearms there over the years. I usually go to the Sharonville location, so I don't know what the Dayton show is like. My problem is always the lines. Recently people have started lining...

Thank you all for your input. I had a productive conversation with his wife this evening.