Posts Tagged ‘Carbine Williams’

Gun Pr0n: “Ballad of the Carbine”

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Wow. This is absolutely gorgeous. I have no idea whatsoever what it means, but it sure is pretty.

As I say in the comments there, though, don’t expect a musical retelling of the story of Carbine Williams.

Background:

Blender is an open source 3D computer rendering and animation package, to put it mildly.

Carbine Williams was convicted of killing a deputy sheriff during a prohibition-era raid on his still. While in prison, he secretly developed a firearm mechanism. When his work was discovered, he was released and went to work for Winchester developing the M1 carbine, used by U.S. troops during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

Under modern rules, he wouldn’t even be allowed to touch a firearm, and had his work been discovered in prison, he would have been up for a longer, harsher sentence, not parole.