OC: American company Cabot Guns has recently unveiled a pair of “extra-terrestrial pistols” made almost entirely from a piece of Gibeon meteorite that crashed on Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago and was discovered in Namibia, in the 1830’s.
“It hasn’t been done before and that’s the kind of thing that drives me,” Rob Bianchin, founder of Cabot Guns, said last year, when the company first announced its intention to forge twin 1911 handguns out of Gibeon. “Meteor is rare, more so than terrestrial precious metals and I wanted to create a set of guns that were formed from a material that had intrinsic value,” he added.
For the last five months, the expert gun makers at the respected company that many refer to as the “Rolls Royce of firearms” have been hard at work, trying to cut as many necessary pieces from the expensive lump of meteorite. It was a tougher job than most people realize, or as Bianchin puts it “we were sweating bullets. More
Here’s what the meteorite looks like.
http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com/AZ_Skies_Links/Gibeon/Gibeon-Meteorite.jpg
Looks like it takes a standard clip….
Very cool.
I think you mean “magazine”
Quite remarkable. They’d better come in under 34 ounces and be 1″ guns when I take them out back to break them in or they’re going back under warranty. And for what they’re asking they need to come with a Miami Vice shoulder holster with the NY reload weak side.
King Tut had a dagger made from a meteorite, they recently learned.
http://www.slashgear.com/king-tuts-dagger-has-a-blade-made-from-meteorite-02442566/
4.5 million….just a tad over my budget.
No Thanks, I’ll stick to my 4130 1911’s. And they take mags. Some of you will die in the coming conflict. Deservedly so.
They are truly made from “star stuff”, as Carl Sagan was fond of saying. But then again, so is everything else – including me and thee.
🙂
Beautiful. Just gorgeous. Don’t get me near them, I’d drool on them.
“The stuff that dreams are made of.”
Outta this world.
It’s just iron and bragging rights.