PETE MACHINING EXPANDS SUPPORT FOR THE PSA JAKL WITH THE CLAW
Pete Machining has expanded support for the Palmetto State Armory JAKL platform with the CLAW charging handle.
Pete Machining states “The Claw is a premium offering from Pete Machining. Compatible with the Palmetto State Armory JAKL platform, The Claw features; unprecedented weapon manipulation, rock solid one piece construction, high tolerance, tight fitting, and an anodized finish.
The Claw…
Houston, Tucson and Phoenix are the US cities that are flooding Mexico with the most weapons
Houston, Tucson and Phoenix are the US cities that are flooding Mexico with the most weapons (msn.com)
almetto State Armory is currently offering Labor Day deals. An AR-15, the rifle most commonly used in mass shootings, can be purchased for 50 percent off. The bargain price of 25 cents per round is on offer for a box of 1,000 rounds of 9mm ammunition. Last chance to get a .45mm Glock for $600, says the Columbia, South Carolina-based manufacturer. Palmetto makes its mission clear on its website: “We want to sell as many AR-15 and AK-47 rifles as we can and put them into common use in America today.”
i really hope that palmetto state armory actually pull through with their plans to reproduce the STG44 because the truest possible americanism of the year 2024 would be the ability to buy a half-baked facsimile of a nazi assault rifle in myrtle beach, south carolina
First, I applaud their efforts to stop senseless violence, even if I personally think it is as much wasted air as thoughts and prayers.
The "Lightguard system" is a non-starter, it will make things much less safe than the actual confrontation itself. Here is their "proof of concept" clip.
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First, we're in 2023 not 2003 lets make this a little more presentable and less like a high school digital project.
I'm speaking as someone who spent a career as an LEO and in the military, when I make these observations I'm not just shooting from the hip as it were. This clip shows the offender dropping their gun and running away blind, and the clerk looking back at your system lovingly, two problems. 1. Your clerk would also be blinded, thus rendered defenseless to anything that follows on. Light of this magnitude is all encompassing, it will bounce off every surface and it will blind in all directions except for maybe directly behind it. The light will not care if the person is looking at it or away from it. Everyone recovers from this kind of event exposure differently, the criminal may recover before the clerk. 2. The very last thing you want to do when someone is pointing a gun at you is to shock them or surprise them. There is a greater than average chance that the activation of your system will scare the criminal causing them to shoot reflexively. Now you have a clerk who had a criminal pointing a gun at them shooting blindly. As I said, good in concept, but practical application may need a little more attention. Also see strobing firearms lights, strobing crowd control and Laser dazzlers systems.
As for "Smart guns", where to start?
One of the two companies mentioned LodeStar, admits the fingerprint sensor may not be the most effective means to unlock the firearm for use, think your phones finger print reader and how often it fails. So they added a PIN pad AND a near-field communication signal to increase the probability that their concept would work.
They had to put a finger print reader, an electronic signal receiver and a freaking PIN pad in the weapon. That tells me two things, the tech is so bad that they had to put multiple systems together to TRY to ensure the firearm would work most of the time and if you are putting your life on the line hoping all of those gadgets work when you need them too you are already dead. LodeStar says their firearm's will start at about 895.00 or about 355.00+/- more than your standard Glock 19 Gen 5.
Every time I type LodeStar I hear... "Not so fast Lonestar!" from Spaceballs (1987), I digress.
The other company, SmartGunz, is marketing towards Law Enforcement with a side market to everyone else. Their concept requires an RFID chip to make the firearm work, Oh, but there's more.
Their concept only works on a 1911 style firearm, it will only work if the user depresses the grip safety WHILE ALSO WEARING A FREAKING RFID GLOVE to activate it. I don't know about all y'all but I don't often walk around or sleep with a glove on like I'm Michael Jackson.
Sorry Mike, I still love your music.
On 8 July 2021 the firearms were projected to cost 2,695.00 for LEO's and an astounding 2,995.00 for all the rest of us peasants. I say "US" because I am no longer an LEO and can't get their gracious discount. On 12 July of that same year Tom Holland, president of Free State Firearms, LLC announced that the cost for pre-orders would be 1,795.00 for LEO's and the low price of 1,995.00 for everyone else.
As far as 1911's go that is the cost of a Colt Gold Cup Trophy or a Dan Wesson Valor 1911 without all that tech to get in the way of you saving your own life. It's also the cost of 3 Glock 19 Gen 5's or or 3 Palmetto State Armory "PA-15 16"NITRIDE M4 CARBINE" 5.56mm riles.
With all that said, these technologies are not in place to make the end user safer, they do nothing to address violent crime, it only lays the burden on the person who at their point of most need, when their mind is in survival mode, it adds roadblocks to their chances of survival.
SIDE NOTE: A German company named Armatix came out with a smart gun in 2014, soon after people figured out that with magnets on the sides of the firearm it would bypass the guns radio signals and allow anyone to use it, it was pulled from the market there soon after.
SLR RIFLEWORKS SHOWS SUPPORT FOR THE PSA MICRO DAGGER WITH NEW MAGWELLS AND FLOOR PLATES
SLR Rifleworks has announced support for the popular Palmetto State Armory PSA Micro Dagger with a new Billet magwell and standard floor plate, and oversize floor plate.
PSA Micro Dagger Magwell
7075 Billet Aluminum
Works with micro dagger backstraps
Black hardcoat anodize
Includes mounting hardware
PSA Micro Dagger Floorplate
Works with PSA Micro Dagger magazines
6061 Billet…