The FG-42. Not going to lie, I've been in love with that thing ever since I spent my formative years playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
At a going rate of $300,000 each, it should be . . . . .As GunJesus said: ''The hype is real.''
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.That was the best Wolfenstein game... And there have been a lot of them.
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.www.thefirearmblog.com
Huh. That's interesting. This is the first I've heard of it. TFB doesn't even have an article about it.Ruger has apparently decided to make a 5.7mm pistol... for some reason:
It does now: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!
Ruger has apparently decided to make a 5.7mm pistol... for some reason: