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Brownells Now Selling Exclusive Christensen Arms Barreled Actions
Brownells customers looking to build their own bolt-action rifles now have another high-quality option with Christensen Arms barreled actions available exclusively at Brownells.
Available in popular precision rifle cartridges such as 6.5 Creedmoor, 6.5 PRC, 300 PRC and 300 Win Mag, lightweight Christensen Arms barreled actions are on hand in two configurations, the Mesa – with stainless steel barrel and installed muzzle brake – and the Ridgeline – with carbon fiber wrapped barrel and threaded muzzle.
Gun Tweet of the Day: The Four Rules Apply Always, Everywhere and to Everyone
Boss put a .32 in the cabinet. pic.twitter.com/UW70ezstWU
— Pancreas Thief (@PancreasThief) November 11, 2022
Oops. We assume no one was injured when that gun “went off.” Let’s hope so.
We’ve heard stories of retailers that have the equivalent of a “swear jar.” Any customer who brings in a gun and promises that it’s empty has to drop a dollar (or a Lincoln or a Hamilton) into the jar if a round drops out when the guy behind the counter racks it.
It’s a Privilege to Serve a Nation That Honors its Veterans
By Mark Oliva
It is a privilege to grow old. That might sound counterintuitive to a culture that celebrates youth and the possibilities of new beginnings. This Veterans Day, though, we take a moment to honor those who know this privilege all too well.
The firearm industry is a unique place in our nation’s connection to our veterans. Many in our ranks are filled by those who served in the military’s ranks.
Birmingham Woman Shoots an Intruder as He Crawled Through Her Window
An unwelcome intruder crawling through a window qualifies as the worst kind of nightmare for most women, especially those who live alone. One woman in Birmingham, Alabama, however, had the perfect equalizer to deal with big, strong home invaders with evil in their hearts. She used it to great effect early Tuesday morning.
Her shots found their mark and cause the 29-year-old intruder to flee hastily.
The aspiring home invader managed to stumble about a block down the street where he collapsed at a gas station.
HAVA Honors Veterans at San Antonio Family Range Day Event
Veterans from across Texas gathered at San Antonio’s Police Training Academy as members of the firearm industry and the community celebrated their service to preserving America’s freedom.
Honored American Veterans Afield (HAVA) hosted its 13th Annual Family Range Day for over 100 veterans and their guests. Veterans and their guests had the chance to shoot handguns, red dot-equipped pistols, pistol caliber carbines, cowboy action guns, archery and even axe throwing during the day that was filled with the sounds of ringing steel.
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Bodycam Footage Shows Baltimore Cop Shooting ‘Anti-Violence Activist’ Who Was Assaulting a Woman [VIDEO]
Dramatic police bodycam video from Baltimore shows a police officer running up to save a woman from an “anti-violence activist” trying to stab her with a knife. The officer, identified as Zachary Rutherford, fired multiple shots to stop the attack.
After the incident, the Baltimore Sun painted the attacker, Tyree Moorehead, as a victim of police violence and the local NAACP want answers. None of the mainstream media lauded the officer’s actions to rescue a woman who was under attack by a knife-wielding lunatic.
Gun Meme of the Day: Comparison is the Thief of Joy Edition
When Objective Analysis of Firearms and Violent Crime Puts Researchers’ Reputations at Risk
By Robert B. Young, MD
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership member Mark Hamill, MD recently let us know about his team’s newly published paper on how firearm sales across the states correlate with violent crime. (Short version — they don’t.) Specifically, “Legal Firearm Sales at State Level and Rates of Violent Crime, Property Crime, and Homicides” will be published in the January 20023 edition of the Journal of Surgical Research.
3 Hurricane Preparedness Tips for Gun Owners as Nicole Approaches Florida
Tropical Storm Nicole is bearing down on Florida. The latest word is that it will make landfall early Thursday morning probably as a category 1 hurricane.
If you live in the southeast, you likely already have a disaster preparedness plan for just these kinds of situations. Let’s hope so. But here are three tips for gun owners to ensure your safety and the security of your firearms.
1) Personal safety comes first
The first and foremost consideration is your personal safety and that of your family.
B&T USA Announces New Aluminum-Framed APC9 Limited SMGs
From B&T USA
B&T USA is excited to announce it has released two all-new Limited Series platforms based upon the popular APC9 PRO submachine gun. These Limited models will be available in short-barreled rifle (SBR) configurations and feature a newly developed MBT folding and telescoping stock, a fully ambidextrous aluminum lower receiver with a flared magazine well and recontoured M-LOK compatible forends.
The Limited Series consist of a 6.9-inch barrel model and a longer 8.9-inch variant; both feature tri-lug attachment systems compatible with B&T’s line of RBS9 tri-lug suppressors, and others featuring this attachment system.
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Armed, Masked Intruder Suffers Epic Fail in the Victim Selection Test
Eighteen-year-old Marrell Tyler probably should have gone to bed early last week. Instead, he donned a ski mask, pulled a gun, and then entered someone else’s apartment in Kokomo, Indiana. He would later tell police that he entered the first door he found unlocked.
Once inside, he tried to rob the three men he found there. Tyler, however, soon learned they had a say in the matter.
The three men in the apartment at 3:30am didn’t take kindly to a masked punk trying to rob them.
TSA Finds Gun Hidden Inside Florida Woman’s Chicken
The chickens came home to roost for one traveler who hatched the “greasy” idea of packing a firearm inside a raw hen for their flight out of Florida.
On Monday afternoon, the Transportation Security Administration posted a picture of a gun detected inside a raw hen at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport security baggage screening room. The picture shows the gun wrapped and placed inside the chicken — where stuffing would normally sit.
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Armed Good Samaritan Stops Child Abduction Outside Georgia Walmart
My wife worries a lot about someone grabbing one of our twin boys while she’s strapping the other one into his car seat. A similar scenario just happened in a Walmart parking lot in Warner Robins, Georgia where a 67-year-old man forcefully took a child out of a car and whisked the child into the woods behind the store.
Thankfully, a good guy with a gun saw the horrific crime in progress and interrupted the bad guy as police say he tried to strangle the child.
Smith & Wesson’s New Easy-Racking EQUALIZER Optics-Ready Micro-Compact 9mm Pistol
From Smith & Wesson . . .
Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select: SWBI), a leader in firearm manufacturing and design, introduces the all-new S&W EQUALIZER.
Level the playing field with our best-performing micro-compact to date. Next-gen EZ technology, low recoil impulse, and versatile magazine capacity all in a compact footprint, make the EQUALIZER an ultimate CCW. This 9MM offering provides the perfect balance of power and capacity across 10, 13, and 15-round magazines.
Florida Cop Arrests a Blind Man After Mistaking His White Cane for a Gun
By Lee Williams
James Hodges, who is legally blind and cannot drive, was walking home from jury duty in Lake City, Florida one week ago when he was stopped by Columbia County Sheriff’s Deputy Jayme Gohdy, because she mistook his collapsible white cane for a pistol.
A video of their encounter was captured by Deputy Gohdy’s body camera. Hodges later posted a copy of the video on his YouTube page.
“What’s this in your back pocket?” Deputy Gohdy can be heard asking on the video.
Barron: New York’s Post-Bruen Gun Control Temper Tantrum Targeted the Wrong People
At no point in this rush to condemn the [Supreme] Court [Bruen decision] and impose the nation’s harshest statewide restrictions on simple gun ownership did any major official offer evidence that these new laws would affect violence or crime rates. Virtually all gun crime in Gotham is committed by people wielding illegal guns, operating completely outside the gun-permitting and registration system. It’s already illegal to possess an unregistered gun, and carrying one is supposed to entail a mandatory prison sentence.
Gun Meme of the Day: A Collection AND An Investment Edition
Ohio’s Tim Ryan Fails in Shameless Attempt at Pandering to Ohio Gun Voters [VIDEO]
Oh, those evil, full-capacity black semi-auto 9mm handguns. You know, the kind that Joe Biden claims will blow your lungs out. They’re scary enough to keep most Democrat politicians far away.
That kind of revulsion is probably what resulted the spectacle a rabidly anti-gun Senate Democrat’s embarrassing lack of skillz. But panic makes candidates do stupid things when they’re desperately (and apparently unsuccessfully) trying to defend their job.
That’s obviously what prompted Buckeye State’s Senator Tim Ryan to post a short video showing him popping caps with a Beretta 92 in the waning days of the campaign.
‘Retired’ Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith Found Guilty of Concealed Carry Corruption
Before the US Supreme Court’s Bruen decision was handed down, we all noticed how it seemed like celebrities and the well-connected had no problems getting a carry license. The little people like you and me? LOL. Now, after a long investigation and court case, former Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith has convicted of civil corruption for selling concealed carry permits, playing politics and profiting from her control of peoples’ right to armed personal defense.
Californians in Texas: The Gun Range Experience
We’ve taken more than a few noobs to ranges here in and around Austin. None were actual Californians, but one was an academic from the University of London, so that’s pretty darn close.
Our friends at the Babylon Bee have been chronicling the Texification process that a typical California couple have been going through since their move to the Lone Star State. Check out Steve and Timpani’s first gun range experience.
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