Rifle-mounted cup-holder
Wired's Danger Room has a roundup of rifle accessories that would do any sniper couch-potato proud, including a cup-holder.
From iPhone Apps to Beer Holders, Killer Accessories for Your Guns (via Neatorama)
Wired's Danger Room has a roundup of rifle accessories that would do any sniper couch-potato proud, including a cup-holder.
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That chainsaw gun is a nifty design. I hope they produce something with that.
I believe the correct title of this post is "Beer Can-Mounted Rifle."
Perfect for Jarate.
I'm sure Hunter would approve.
I have to believe (for my own sanity?) that this came to be out of a conversation like this:
...and not because somebody thought this was a fantastic idea.
If I'm not mistaken, that notched bar that the scope and canholder are sitting on is a Picatinny rail, a standard for such accessories that's kind of like a USB interface for guns. You could probably have a New Beetle-esque flower vase on there, if you wanted.
Sadly, the cup holder was made a couple years ago as a gag for the SHOT show (the big gun industry show in the US), and it's never gone into production. There's a number of folks that in the gun community that want one just for the shear absurdity.
Also up there in the absurd is the pistol bayonet[cheaperthandirt.com], which has gone into mass production and looks sillier in person than in those pictures.
#6 too bad... oh well, I guess we'll just have to settle for the beer helmet
Possible marketing copy for the cup holder:
The SnipeDrink (tm) System: Because
alcohol + asymmetrically placed weight on your weapon = success in high-precision shooting.
The iPod/iPhone ballistics app made by Knight's Armament is actually quite good. Some of the other rail-mounted gadgets are purely for shits and giggles. Yes, even "gun nuts" appreciate ironic humor.
the tech just keeps getting sharper and the advantage keeps getting steeper. This is what spawned "asymmetric" warfare where the side at disadvantage hid behind trees and shot at bigger, red-coated forces or buried old artillery shells next to roads. Eventually a battlefield point will be reached where no one will play any more. Then old fashioned terror will form the full scope of ones sides attack. Which means the eventual end of traditional terror through applied tech and social engineering a la North Korea and the DHS. What next? Meta-terror. Acts random and unforeseeable. Stand on Zanzibar? Or terror cells so small and short-lived they dissolve after one act?
Who is going to win ? Human ingenuity in designing coercion? Or human cussedness in not giving up no matter what?
Anyways, shiny toys neat! Still means The Supreme Dictator will one day get a rock bashed over his head by a palace slave one day.
Uh, Tak... this is the rock. If you want to see what drives asymmetry in warfare, someone will have to post pictures of a $100 million stealth fighter-bomber or attack helicopter. Rifles are about as low-tech and cheap as it gets.
you mean like the F-22? The fighter jet that works, except in battle?
Read all the links, they are talking about smart bullets etc. Rifles today represent a facet of a complex, highly developed war machine that is slowly replacing any human skill.
the sniper of the future: pimply, highschool dropout earnestly surveying colorful video game screen that features the enemy as cute animals. He joysticks the crosshairs onto one and presses the mcdonald's illiteracy key marked with a picture of a rifle and the target drops. No different than what they do today with drones halfway across the planet.
Anyone notice that their "chainsaw gun" is a real world version of the Nerf Vulcan?
http://www.hasbro.com/nerf/n-strike/shop/details.cfm?guid=9CDFCE80-6C6C-1014-A7D5-A3EFD04DAB52&product_id=22378
Is that a can of Mountain Dew in that cup-holder? Because that would be sooooo appropriate, don't you think?
The pistol bayonet actually does have a real world use. It makes it harder to be disarmed in close quarters.
Of course, there's the concurrent risk of stabbing yourself or a teammate if you're not REALLY well trained.
Isn't this just somewhat a good idea for a hunter lying in position waiting for his target (hopefully a deer) who wants to sip his coffee (or beer) without reaching for his thermos or whatever?
Who cares about the can holder? What that rifle needs is more scopes.