Showing posts with label bullets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bullets. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Dodging Bullets

This ad is for real, from a real website.


How ever powerful gunfire becomes, the technology of bullet-deflection will always need to match and surpass it. The weapons, in turn, become more powerful still. It’s an arms race, albeit inter-human, with no end in sight.

WIll the number of gun deaths decrease with legislation? Perhaps we will get to find out in the near future. In the meantime, some images of bulletproofing, which, sadly, is the only form of gun control we really have now.

And no, the BulletBlocker Backpack would not have saved the lives of those gunned down in Newtown.

"The best marksman of the New York Police is shooting at
a man behind bulletproof glass," 1931. (source)


Kevlar vest test


Another BulletBlocker product.


Soft-body armor testing



Library of Congress photo, 1923


Popular Science, April, 1933 (source)
Bullets crashed and ricocheted recently in an exciting test of a new shield for policemen at Chicago, Ill. Mounted on casters, the four-foot shield of specially hardened metal affords protection for one police officer in storming barricades or entering besieged houses in the face of gangster fire. As he pushes the shield forward on its casters, the policeman can look ahead through a slot in the metal and tire through a small loophole beneath it. The shield guards against machine guns.

Test for a bulletproof material called Dur-o-lite.



Handy BulletBlocker chart!

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Cartridge Display Boards


Be it a pyramid of oranges at the greengrocer’s, a Whitman Sampler, a strand of graduated pearls, or even data on a spreadsheet, there is something supremely satisfying and comforting about an orderly arrangement. Its appeal is so primal and basic, that even ammo, when carefully mounted and displayed, is quite beautiful.

UK companies Eley, founded in 1820, and Kynoch, established in 1862, eventually became part of Nobel Industries. This board is c. 1910



Kynoch Ammunition


Nobel Cartridge Display Board


Nobel Industries, Eley cartridge display board


Gevelot cartridge display board


Winchester display board


U.S. Cartridge Co. cartridge board, c. 1886. Great frame!


Eley's Sporting ammunition board


Eley ammunition cartridge display board


Nobel Industries, comprehensive arrangement illustrating every stage in the 'Manufacture Of A 5/8in. Lined Cartridge' from blank and plain tube components to the finished 'Zenith' Gastight cartridge in both complete and cut-away form.


This silk-scarf design is taken from a 1935 Purdey cartridge display. 35” x 36”, $351
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