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Things That Don’t Suck: Lingle Industries Lowers
I reviewed the APC9K sometime back and thoroughly enjoyed it. What I didn’t enjoy was the cost of the gun and the cost of its magazines. I know B&T makes GLOCK and P320 lowers, but I don’t care for pistol mags in my subguns/PCCs. I like real SMG mags, and that’s what lead me to Lingle Industries.
I’ve owned a Scorpion since they were released, and I read Nick’s review. I love the gun, and I love the mags.
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Portable First Aid: High Speed Gear’s ReVive and Bleeder Medical Pouches
From High Speed Gear . . .
High Speed Gear would like to take a moment to showcase their ReVive Medical Pouch and Bleeder/Blowout Pouch, two compact ways to carry lifesaving equipment.
Throughout the tactical community, there are many assets to defending your life. However, some of the most important items are the ones that can save a life. High Speed Gear offers many options for carrying medical equipment on your person.
Gear Review: Vortex Diamondback HD 2000 Laser Rangefinder
For the longest time, I thought I didn’t have use for a rangefinder. I shot only at known distances at ranges marked as such. The bench sitting at 100 yards was, in my mind, at 100 yards away. I accepted that as fact, though it wasn’t necessarily set in stone.
Thinking back, I remember when I first started shooting at age 14. The pistol silhouette range where we shot rifles with cast bullets had what I understood to be a confusing combination of targets in meters and yards.
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Take Your Competition Shooting to the Next Level With the New Generation of CZ TS 2 Pistols
CZ has a long history of producing some of the best competition guns on the market. They’ve expanded that storied lineup with the TS 2. The 9mm version puts out-of-the-box competitive precision in your hands, continuing CZ as the leading name for practical shooting disciplines like IPSC, USPSA, 3-Gun and Steel Challenge competition.
Now, new for 2022, CZ has added a TS2 chambered in .40 S&W for those who want an advantage over competitors shooting 9mm.
Eric Swalwell Deploys More Lies About the Lies He’s Been Telling About Gun Control for Years
A repeated ploy of the gun control movement is to loudly proclaim law-abiding Second Amendment supporters are using “scare tactics” while opposing proposed gun control.
U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), the “Honey Pot Congressman,” isn’t new to this charade. His record is one of support for strict gun control. That includes a failed presidential campaign playing second fiddle to Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke to carry the gun control water.
Want to Know How People Will Vote? Ask Them If They Own Guns
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— Zachary Faria (@ZacharyFaria) April 25, 2022
One side effect of [increased minority gun ownership] is the ongoing decay of the gun control movement. Last year, support for gun control fell to a seven-year low, thanks in part to the surge in crime. But it’s the long-term effect of the country gaining more than 7.5 million gun owners that stands out.
In the 2016 presidential election, there was no clearer indicator of preference than gun ownership.
Gun Meme of the Day: A Shot At Walther Edition
With today’s release of the new Walther PDP F-Series came a release of — you guessed it! — PDP F-Series memes. Though, in my correct opinion, Walther has done precisely what you’re supposed to in designing a firearm for women (whatever those are)! A smaller grip and easier-to-manipulate slide in a gun that isn’t pink and looks just like a pistol normally looks. Shocking.
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Twitter Is Now Fact-Checking The Anti-Gun Left, And Soon You’ll Be Able To Help
Controlling actual disinformation without injecting bias or stifling free speech isn’t easy. It’s amazing what a couple of days and $44 billion can do. When I saw that an anti-gun post on Twitter had been fact-checked, it was clear that they were trying something new that might also actually be fair.
The Challenge: Control Actual Disinformation While Respecting Freedom of Speech
It would be wildly inaccurate to say that Twitter’s approach to fact-checking has been fair or remotely even-handed.
FPC Sues City of San Jose Challenging City’s Gun Owner Liability Insurance Mandate
From the Firearms Policy Coalition . . .
Attorneys for Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed a new lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenging the City of San Jose’s ordinance requiring gun owners to purchase liability insurance and pay a fee in order to exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. FPC’s complaint argues that the mandate violates both the First and Second Amendments to the U.S.
Corporations Waking Up to the Damage ‘Woke’ Capitalism Has Done to Their Businesses
A new trend is emerging in the business world. Business leaders are waking up to the destructive “woke” policies being foisted on businesses by boardrooms more concerned with virtue signaling than their primary responsibility of ensuring corporate profitability and enhancing shareholder values.
In short, the “woke” buck stops here, more corporate executives are saying. Mixing the politics of culture wars with business is a losing strategy.
Former McDonald’s CEO Ed Rensi is leading the charge.
Meet Congresswoman Lauren Boebert At Pro-Gun Rally in Quincy, IL on Saturday, April 30th
Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has proven herself a big voice for gun rights for everyday Americans, even after arriving in Washington. She’s “small but mighty,” according to one of her Congressional peers. And the gun-toting Congresswoman will bring her unbridled enthusiasm for guns and gun ownership to Quincy, Illinois at a “Defend the Second Amendment” rally this Saturday, April 30th.
Boebert, a staunch conservative defender of gun rights, has made herself a thorn in the side of gun haters and the Dems who control the US House.
Things That Don’t Suck: 5.11 AMP12 25L Backpack
I’ve been carrying 5.11’s AMP12 as an everyday carry pack for the last six months or so. That means it’s been with me in the car, in coffee shops, at shooting ranges, on planes…virtually everywhere I’ve been since last September. In that time, it’s done everything I’ve needed it to do, and then some.
The AMP in AMP12 means “all mission pack.” It’s so modular and configurable that it’s hard to think of an application for which the AMP12 won’t work.
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Walther’s New PDP F-Series 9mm Pistol is Engineered for Women’s Hands
From Walther Arms . . .
OVER A CENTURY OF ENGINEERING PASSION & PRECISION WORKMANSHIP SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR A WOMAN’S HAND
For female shooters who simply will not sacrifice on unmatched versatility, dependability and effectiveness in both concealed carry and conventional service situations, the Walther PDP F-Series is how you stay READY.
The same engineering passion, precision workmanship and innovation that made Walther’s PDP a groundbreaking achievement in firearms is now tailored specifically to Female shooters with the PDP F-Series pistol.
That’s Twice: US Rep. Madison Cawthorn Stopped By TSA With a Loaded Gun
By Sarah Brumfield, AP
A loaded gun was found in North Carolina U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s carry-on bag at an airport security checkpoint Tuesday — the second time he has been stopped with a gun at an airport in the past 14 months, officials said.
When Cawthorn went through checkpoint D at Charlotte Douglas International Airport with the gun, a 9 mm Staccato C2, around 9 a.m., Transportation Security Administration officers notified Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers on standby in the area, TSA spokesperson R.
Gun Meme of the Day: Well, When You Put It That Way Edition
Video Shows Warning Shots and Fatal Shooting That Minneapolis Prosecutors Ruled Was Justified
In February, a Minneapolis homeowner heard an intruder walking on her patio and trying her back door. After finding the gate to the yard locked the would be burglar had hopped the fence. The homeowner retrieved a gun and, by the time she checked again, the burgalr was in her garage. She tried to warn him off, but Martin Lee Johnson didn’t leave.
As kare11.com reports, the homeowner and her son repeatedly warned the burglar to leave .
Elon Musk’s Acquisition of Twitter Is a Good Thing for Gun Owners….Probably
By Lee Williams
Gun owners have never had a level playing field on Twitter or any other social media platform. It seemed like someone was looking over your shoulder – and someone always was.
Anyone who has posted support for the Second Amendment on Twitter for any length of time — I’ve had an account since 2013 — has more than a few horror stories about how they were mistreated by the platform’s “community standards” apparatchiks.
Self-Defense and the Law: How Well Can You Articulate?
Armed self-defense is legal everywhere in America. Even in New York. Even if you’re black, Latino, gay, transgendered, Muslim or maybe all of the above simultaneously.
But no matter where it happens, the color of your skin, who you worship, or who you sleep with, the legal aftermath of using deadly force in self-defense can become a minefield. Prosecutors or personal injury lawyers may play dirty in an effort to either put a good person in prison in order to score political points among their constituents or to maybe hit a big payday in a civil trial.
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Police Release Video From Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Movie Set Shooting and Investigation
By Morgan Lee, AP
Law enforcement officials released a trove of video evidence Monday in the ongoing investigation of a fatal October shooting of a cinematographer by actor and producer Alec Baldwin on the set of a Western movie.
Data files released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office include lapel camera recordings taken by a commanding officer as he arrives at a film-set ranch where medics are attending to the wounded, with an evacuation helicopter whirring overhead.