When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When
the people fear the government there is tyranny.
-Thomas Jefferson
Flanigan's
Firearms
Among my many and varied
interests you can include an interest in Firearms
and gun ownership. This hobby started as a
political pursuit supporting our 2nd Amendment
rights through membership in the NRA and like
minded organizations, and grew into a sporting
interest, and has moved into a collector interest.
Below are some of my favorite and special firearms
with pictures and statistics on them.
I
will add more as I have the time and inclination.
The Desert
Eagle is a gas operated, locked breech weapon that
uses stationary (but removable) barrel. Locking is
achieved using the separate rotating bolt with
four radial lugs that enter the breech of the
barrel for engagement with respective cuts. Bolt
is inserted into open-topped slide, which is
operated using gas, which is bled from the bore
through the small port drilled close to the
chamber. Short stroke gas piston is located below
the barrel closer to the muzzle, and gas chamber
is linked to the gas port with long channel, bored
below the barrel. Trigger is of single action
type, with exposed hammer and ambidextrous safety,
located at either side of the slide. Magazines are
single stack, with different configuration for
each major caliber. Sights are either fixed or
adjustable, both front and rear being dovetailed
into the barrel and slide respectively. Recently
made pistols also had top of the barrel shaped to
accept scope rings directly.
The following movie was shot by a friend and co-worker of my firing the Desert Eagle on the pistol range.
P239 is a
blowback-operated, locked breech design, with
modified Browning-style linkless locking via slide
ejection port. It has same DA or DAO trigger
mechanism with striker pin safety, manual decocker
(lever on the left side of the frame), slide stop.
Slide is machined from solid steel. Frame is made
from aluminum alloy.
P239 is reliable like
all its bigger brothers from P22x family, and very
accurate for its small size. It may be not so
light, but packs a lot of firepower in compact
package and is very popular as a concealed carry
and police backup or off-duty gun.
The Ruger Mark III
is a rimfire sem-automatic postol chambering
a .22 long rifle manufactured by Sturm, Ruger
& Company. It is the successor to the Ruger
Mark II and is primarily aimed at the target and
competition shooter. The series is arguably the
worlds most popular rimfire auto pistol line. It
is also the single most difficult firearm I have
every had the (dis)pleasure of disassembling and
reassembling.
The P-3AT is a
semi-automatic, locked breech pistol, chambered
for the .380 Auto cartridges. The KEL-TEC P-3AT is
probably one of the lightest and smallest .380
Auto pistol ever made. The P3AT is mainly intended
for plainclothes police offices as a secondary
weapon or for concealed carry by licensed
citizens. The size, weight, and lack of an
external hammer make it the ideal pocket gun.
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