Top 10 Gun/Rifle/Ammo Developments Of Last Decade..

[Tyler Durden]

Collapsible buttstocks for the AR's

Folding buttstocks for other guns

Quad rails for AR's forearms (without those, could Surefire sell as many flashlights and other accessories)

The changing of the attitude that the proliferation of CCW permits doesn't actually yield a Wild West mentality and that there is NOT actually blood in the streets.

[m25operator]

Won't mean much to a lot of you but over the counter 5, 10 and 20 moa scope bases. If you ever tried your even high dollar scope did not have enough elevation to reach 1k yard, unless you shimmed the crap out of it to reach a hundred yard 0 with the elevation at the lowest position.

2) The lightest guns in the biggest calibers ever imagined and they are still trying.

3) The Cowboy action shooters elevation of the pump and levergun  shooting, technique and technology. I don't shoot that discipline, but I do know talent when I see it, and they got it. Not to mention the SA shooting, but to me that is just skill and technique, that could have been done a hundred yrs ago, and probably did.

4) Accessory rails on pistols, and now revolvers.

5) The equipment we can attach to these rails, aforementioned lasers, weapon lights, combo of both, and now a BAYONET,  for a handgun???

[fightingquaker13]

5) The equipment we can attach to these rails, aforementioned lasers, weapon lights, combo of both, and now a BAYONET,  for a handgun???

I think the latter is not so much an "advance" as it is a founding exhibit in the (as yet to be completed) Ripleys WTF? Museum. I may be dating myself, but a "pistol bayonet" was a K-bar or Randall held in the left hand. But hey, thats just me.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

 It actually is a play on an old percussion revolver, six shots, a bayonet and the grip was a set of brass knuckles, IIRC there was another from the same era that had a folding blade bayonet.

[Pathfinder]

Et tu Eric? A polymer GP 100 I can see, but a Blackhawk? What are you thinking?
FQ13

Geez, you can't even spell correctly in Latin either? The correct form is "et te, Eric?" I know, Shakespeare got it wrong too, but that's still no excuse.

Besides English and Latin, how many other languages are you illiterate in?   

[Sponsor]

[Pathfinder]

I think the latter is not so much an "advance" as it is a founding exhibit in the (as yet to be completed) Ripleys WTF? Museum. I may be dating myself, but a "pistol bayonet" was a K-bar or Randall held in the left hand. But hey, thats just me.
FQ13

It actually is a play on an old percussion revolver, six shots, a bayonet and the grip was a set of brass knuckles, IIRC there was another from the same era that had a folding blade bayonet.

The concept goes way back farther than either of these. I have seen photos of devices that were essentially a small cutlass with a flintlock pistol attached. 17th-18th Century IIRC.

[ericire12]

Et tu Eric? A polymer GP 100 I can see, but a Blackhawk? What are you thinking?
FQ13

It is changing what we know revolvers to be.... you may not personally like the aesthetics, but this is a major leap forward, and it will drastically reduce the price point for super light weight carry revolvers.

[ericire12]

Geez, you can't even spell correctly in Latin either? The correct form is "et te, Eric?" I know, Shakespeare got it wrong too, but that's still no excuse.

Besides English and Latin, how many other languages are you illiterate in?   

Thank God he is a Teacher

[JdePietro]

1. The transmogrification of the AR-15 into a bona-fide sporting rifle and an industry unto itself.

More importantly how about all the new rifles that are coming out because of the cons of the AR platform?

2. Hornady’s emergence as a major player and a major innovator in the ammunition biz.

I'll agree but personally I think the bigger story is what the foreign guys are bringing to the table.

3. Ten years ago, I thought that sporting optics had reached a state of perfection beyond which it could not go. Boy, was I wrong.

No argument there.

4. Long-range shooting comes of age. Four hundred yards is the new 300 yards, and 500 is on the way. We have the accuracy, the optical gear, and the ammo. Now all we need are enough ranges where you can  shoot at these distances.

Eh, I don't know about that./color]

5. The resurgence of the lever-action. Has anyone noticed that Marlin is building lever guns that give away nothing to bolt-actions?

Lets not forget about single action revolvers too.

6. Rifle of the Decade—the Marlin XL-7. The best working gun, for the least money, in the history of Western Man.

Sponsor? There is nothing inovative about that rifle.

7. The general level of accuracy in factory rifles. I can name you four, for under $500, that will shoot MOA or better.

8. The Supreme Court’s Keller decision.  Article II lives!
Heller


9.  Savage, which is changing from a company that makes inexpensive rifles that shoot very well to a company that makes very sophisticated rifles that will shoot with damn near anything regardless of price.

10. Barack Obama and his coterie of gun haters, who have sold more firearms, ammo, and components than even Bubba Clinton.

Happy New Year!


All that aside I would add.

The resurgence of the M14 platform now found in many delicious flavors. The polymer revolution that is sweaping PD's and Special agencies world wide, and lest we forget the up coming cases involving Chicago and San Fran.