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NRA’s Chris Cox: Open Carry Condemnation Was a Mistake
On Monday, the NRA-ILA issued a “grass roots alert” on the open carry kerfuffle in the Lone Star State. [Click here to read.] The gun control industrial complex seized on the statement as vindication of their jihad against open carry in specific ... Read More
Quote of the Day: Punish Everyone Edition
“Instead of focusing on making it harder for the mentally ill to get guns, maybe we should be making it harder to get guns, period. Something to consider before the next mass shooting.” – Joe Nocera, Guns and Mental Illness [via ... Read More
Daily Digest: The Sound Of Sweet, Juicy Freedom Edition
From The Tactical Wire – Minneapolis, MN – Range Systems, a leading manufacturer of live fire shooting products for the military, law enforcement and consumer communities, introduces their newest complete line of steel targets called Dura-Steel. The new targets are ... Read More
How a Clown Gets Ventilated
Thanks to the folks at Fark and by extension, Reddit, I have a solid place to find video content that’s fresh and fun. If you’re a regular Farker, this video above will be of no surprise. If you haven’t seen it, watch ... Read More
“Handgun Malfunction” at Gun Range Wounds Two OK State Troopers
“The Oklahoma Highway Patrol report two of their own were shot,” koco.com reports. “OHP says the accident happened during a training exercise. It’s suspected a handgun malfunctioned.” It’s suspected by whom? On the face of it, that sounds like a cover-up. Provided ... Read More
P320 Entry: A Gun-Lover’s Intro to Anime and Manga
By bigred2989 For a country with some of the strictest gun laws in the world, Japan’s people don’t seem to have a problem with its media showing gratuitous violence (and scantily clad high school girls) on a regular basis. Over ... Read More
Wild-Ass Rumor of the Day: ATK to Buy STI
Far be it from us to spread every stray bit of hearsay that’s thrown over the transom, but someone in the retail gun business for whom we have high regard — someone who is not only trustworthy but cheerful, thrifty, ... Read More
Assembling a Gun in Occupied Poland
This story is purely anecdotal. It was told to me by the principle participant about his actions during WWII when he was a teenager/young man in Nazi occupied Poland. I believed him when he told it to me; I still ... Read More
P320 Entry: Teach Your Children Well
By Jacob Stevens It is a warm summer afternoon in the back woods of North Carolina. A row of tin cans sit in front of a huge pecan tree, and an eight year old boy bombards the cans from 15 ... Read More
It Should Have Been A Defensive Gun Use: Wossamotta U? Edition
“An angry moose attacked and injured two women as they walked their dogs near a Gilpin County [Colorado] subdivision Sunday,” grandviewoutdoors.com reports. “The Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office says the women were walking on a trail when they were kicked by ... Read More
P320 Entry: .410 Handgun Ammo Showdown
By Kurt Shipman Shopping for ammo isn’t like anything else, as in you don’t get to try it on or try it out to see if you like it. So testing and evaluation is critical before committing to spending lots ... Read More
Harvard Shrink: Don’t Look at Us. Arm Yourself Against Crazies
“More money for mental health won’t stop these mass murderers,” former Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Professor Dr. Arthur Berg and pro-gun academic John Lott declare in a New York Post editorial, Why psychiatrists can’t stop mass killings. Their logic is ... Read More
Question of the Day: Do You Carry a Back-up Gun? Why Not?
“With its relatively low ammunition capacity and not-a-revolver-not-an-auto-loader design, this lightweight, three-inch double-barreled handgun really has only one purpose in mind: punish your hand like a psychotic school marm wielding an aircraft grade aluminum ruler.” Just kidding. The stated singular purpose: ... Read More
Gun Review: Heckler & Koch HK416
The venerable M16 rifle is a design so old that it qualifies for AARP membership. But nothing is perfect. In its fifty-plus years of U.S. military service, a few suggestions have been made as to how to improve on the ... Read More
P320 Entry: So You Want to Buy a Gun Safe…
By Don Leavitt Firearm ownership and firearm safety go hand in hand. Lots of attention is given the safe handling of firearms, but safe storage is often only given lip service. “Get a safe” is about as much as is ... Read More
PWS Releases their “Modern Musket” DI Rifle
PWS makes some amazing stuff. Their piston powered rifles are one of the only firearms to ever get a five star rating from me. I liked mine so much that I laid down cold hard cash to keep it in ... Read More
Quote of the Day: The Second Amendment Sucks Edition
“The Second Amendment is a miserably bad piece of writing. It is so vague that it could mean anything. Gun nuts assign it a meaning that they like and proclaim themselves infallible. Our forefathers mostly just ignored it and passed ... Read More
Daily Digest: Bookends Edition
Primary Weapons Systems is launching their Modern Musket series rifles with this high-production-value video, with the tagline “DI Done Right.” The Modern Musket ideal is not necessarily just theirs, it’s the general idea that the modern rifle platform, most popularly ... Read More
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Gary Eugene Drake
There are few moments in a child’s life more memorable than learning to ride a bike with his father. It’s supposed to be a time of bonding and the first taste of freedom as he pedals down the street all ... Read More
Armourlite Watch Torture Test
Before my first divorce, I owned a collection of fine watches. After the divorce, two. Taking a Patek Phillipe or Blancpain to a gun range makes as much sense as taking a Ferrari F335B (also gone) off-roading. So I looked for something ... Read More