MisterHappy
NES Member
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2009
- Messages
- 28,383
- Likes
- 17,547
-
If you enjoy the forum please consider supporting it by signing up for a NES Membership The benefits pay for the membership many times over.
New benchmark for "high end" pistols
- Thread starter MisterHappy
- Start date
Depends...
Will it be a Glock?
If so you'd stand a better chance getting hit in the head with a meteorite than a million year old Glock becoming Mass Compliant.
Healey does not care that the gun is pre Earth.
Depends if it was "legally possessed". If it said "in state" - that would be illegal. Especially if it came from the outer reaches of our Solar System.
Where would you get certification anyway?
From God himself?
- Joined
- Nov 3, 2010
- Messages
- 1,720
- Likes
- 224
God should work. If not, one could be considered blasphemous in this state ![[rolleyes]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/042.gif "Roll Eyes [rolleyes]")
Mass General Laws Chapter 27 Section 36.
Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior.
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter272/Section36
Mass General Laws Chapter 27 Section 36.
Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior.
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter272/Section36
MisterHappy
NES Member
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2009
- Messages
- 28,383
- Likes
- 17,547
So...is this going to be an "ancient weapon" (to go with a hokey religion) or a "good blaster" at your side? ![[laugh]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/012.gif "Laugh [laugh]")
So...is this going to be an "ancient weapon" (to go with a hokey religion) or a "good blaster" at your side?
No fancy metal will improve the proven reliability of a Glock.
I'd like a knife made of meteorite though.
If it glows green...
Another thread about how nice hi-points are?
I'm sure they'll be beautiful. As far as trying to shoot them, I'd be concerned about the integrity of a nickel-iron frame.
My guess is they'll use the meteorite to make the steel to make the pistols, not use the iron directly.
Doubtful. You would lose the Widmanstätten patten in the metal, which would seriously reduce the interest value of the piece. I imagine they'll cut slices for the frame, at least, and acid etch. Perhaps carbon steel for the slide, but I suppose that depends on the tradeoff of form and function.
widnerkj
NES Member
Via my uncle:
"It has been tried before. It didn't work and non-meteoric iron was used instead: 'A mass of of the Campo del Cielo meteorite of about 1,000 kg, was found in 1803 at Runa Pocita and called Otumpa, was transported via Santiago del Estero to Buenos Aires. Here an attempt was made to forge weapons from it, because there was a shortage of iron in the republic which was at war with Spain at that time. A report of the experiments in the armory by its director, De Luca, is preserved (Alvarez: 158). Two pistols with gun barrels of "Otumpa" iron were presented to President James Monroe of the United States and another to General Manuel Belgrano, but the remainder of the block was presented by the newly founded Argentinean Republic to the British Consul General Sir Woodbine Parish who, in 1826, transferred it to the British Museum where it became the first large meteorite on display.
" 'The two pistols are now on display in the James Monroe Law Office, Museum and Memorial Library in Fredericksburg, Virginia. They constitute a pair of almost identical, short-barrelled, flintlock equestrian pistols with beautiful Spanish style ornamentation. By the kind cooperation of Mr. Lawrence G. Hoes, Keeper of the Museum, I was permitted to examine one of the pistols. A tiny bled of metal was removed from the flintlock, polished and examined. The microscopic examination showed the metal to be composed of equiaxial ferrite grains, with uniformly oriented slag particles. No meteoritic materials were present. The electron microprobe study disclosed less than 0.3% Ni. Independently, Daniel J. Milton of the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed the gun barrel by spectroscopy and also found negligible amounts of nickel. The material is thus typically wrought iron with no meteoritic admixture. Perhaps the pistols were originally intended to be produced from meteoritic iron, but the weapon smith may have found his work unsatisfactory and substituted the pistils with normal wrought iron pistols. At any rate, the pistols, formerly in President Monroe's possession and allegedly made from Campo del Cielo meteorites, contain little or probably no meteoritic iron at all.' "
The portion cited by my uncle was from an article by Vagn F. Buchwald, a Danish author and former president of the Meteoritical Society.
"It has been tried before. It didn't work and non-meteoric iron was used instead: 'A mass of of the Campo del Cielo meteorite of about 1,000 kg, was found in 1803 at Runa Pocita and called Otumpa, was transported via Santiago del Estero to Buenos Aires. Here an attempt was made to forge weapons from it, because there was a shortage of iron in the republic which was at war with Spain at that time. A report of the experiments in the armory by its director, De Luca, is preserved (Alvarez: 158). Two pistols with gun barrels of "Otumpa" iron were presented to President James Monroe of the United States and another to General Manuel Belgrano, but the remainder of the block was presented by the newly founded Argentinean Republic to the British Consul General Sir Woodbine Parish who, in 1826, transferred it to the British Museum where it became the first large meteorite on display.
" 'The two pistols are now on display in the James Monroe Law Office, Museum and Memorial Library in Fredericksburg, Virginia. They constitute a pair of almost identical, short-barrelled, flintlock equestrian pistols with beautiful Spanish style ornamentation. By the kind cooperation of Mr. Lawrence G. Hoes, Keeper of the Museum, I was permitted to examine one of the pistols. A tiny bled of metal was removed from the flintlock, polished and examined. The microscopic examination showed the metal to be composed of equiaxial ferrite grains, with uniformly oriented slag particles. No meteoritic materials were present. The electron microprobe study disclosed less than 0.3% Ni. Independently, Daniel J. Milton of the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed the gun barrel by spectroscopy and also found negligible amounts of nickel. The material is thus typically wrought iron with no meteoritic admixture. Perhaps the pistols were originally intended to be produced from meteoritic iron, but the weapon smith may have found his work unsatisfactory and substituted the pistils with normal wrought iron pistols. At any rate, the pistols, formerly in President Monroe's possession and allegedly made from Campo del Cielo meteorites, contain little or probably no meteoritic iron at all.' "
The portion cited by my uncle was from an article by Vagn F. Buchwald, a Danish author and former president of the Meteoritical Society.
