The Truth About Guns

“A filmgoer irked that other audience members were texting at a Mark Wahlberg war movie opened fire [with an as-yet-unidentified-but-definitely-not-a-GLOCK .380] in a Florida theater Monday, killing a man and wounding a woman,” nbcnews.com reports. “The Grove 16 Theatre in Wesley Chapel, north of Tampa, was evacuated after the shooting about 1:20 p.m. ET. A male suspect was in custody thanks to the quick thinking of a good Samaritan who detained the man until authorities arrived, said Doug Tobin, a spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff&#82

At long last, Surefire is introducing a dedicated .22LR silencer designed solely for the consumer market. Previous silencer products had been commercial runs of military contract silencers, but this one is designed from the ground up for anyone but LEO/MIL. The can comes apart for servicing and runs about $450 . . .

Also being introduced is a replacement slide assembly for the Block handgun, by Zevi. With Surefire’s branding, of course. No word on price or availability yet, but stay tuned.

I was I working this weekend and I got a call from the good people in Leander, Texas. They said they had a 16 inch 7.62 OBR in the works and they wanted money. Okay, no big deal. I can sell that.  But what he said next made me think that you probably won’t see many LaRue rifles for sale in the near future. . .

FC: what’s my price?
LaRue: 3399.95
FC: but I’m a dealer
LaRue: we’re not doing dealer pricing anymore
FC: thanks but no thanks.

Now, let’s get something straight.

I like Mark LaRue. He’s in business to make money as am I. They make a fine rifle at a price some people would consider insane but I appreciate a well built firearm and I love selling high end guns. It separates the men from the boys. I have nothing against their company.

The net effects to consumers and retailers are the following:

With the elimination of dealer disco

Reliably, every single day, the Gun Reviews section of the website is in the top 10 for most pageviews. Which makes sense, since that’s what we’re known for. Almost a year ago I wrote and implemented a program that would let our readers parse through the massive reviews database to find the specific review they’re interested in reading, and it has been a massive success so far having been used literally millions of times. And it gets better.

Today I’m releasing the latest version, which includes a text based search function. You can now narrow your search to only specific models and manufacturers and find reviews even easier. You can find it under the heading “Search Reviews” on the Gun Reviews page. There are also a ton of optimizations that have gone on behind the scenes, but I

Caracal, the company in the UAE who makes Robert’s favorite carry gun, is extending their line of firearms. After introducing a 9mm carbine last year, they’re back with a bolt action .308 rifle. And man, is it nice.

The rifle hits all of my needs for a good precision gun, and then some. Not only is the stock fully adjustable, but the trigger adjusts too. And you can dictate the amount of roll in the second stage independent of everything else, even. Its a level of customization that one normally doesn’t see in rifles.

The gun also take

This report dates back to 2009; approximately the same time our friends at the ATF launched Operation Fast and Furious. But it’s new information to us and top secret too. “LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE. DO NOT DISSEMINATE OUTSIDE ATF WITHOUT APPROVAL.” Yeah we’re going to assume a web page available to the public is OK for release. Quite what it means – where did these counterfeit Colt M16A2 Rifles and M203 Grenade Launchers come from? – is another story. One which will probably never be told. But it’s not without humor. Specifically, “Analysts noted . . . the word ‘government’ stamped above the magazine well was missing the letter ‘n.’” So that’s why the ATF analysts get the big bucks. Click

Our man Chris had never fired a machine gun before. Last night, he fired a full auto SCAR-H and SCAR-L. It’s a hell of a way to kick off your machine gun shooting days. You can feel the smile, even though you can’t see it. Enjoy.

We caught sight of this Vice video over at everydaynodaysoff.com. It’s so last year, but it proves what we’ve been saying since inception: airport security is a a joke. Actually, it’s worse than a joke because it lulls millions of people into a false sense of security (not to mention the billions of tax dollars pissed away on the overweight, under-educated blue shirted unionized goons charged with enforcing it). In an alternative world where things are as they should be, Americans would be “allowed” to exercise their natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms whenever and wherever they travel within the United States. Self defense doesn’t end at airport security. Disarming people only makes them more vulnerable to attack. As we have seen time and time again.

When I reviewed the Bradley Cheek Rest, I liked it. It was a simple and effective solution for my one major complaint about modern rifle design, and it performed its job well. The only thing missing was the ability to adjust the height of the cheek piece, since the rest was fixed in place. Now, Bradley has come out with a new cheek rest that can be adjusted to the user’s preference.

The cheek rest is, in almost every way, identical to the old one. It’s made out of the same material, uses the same solid mounting system, and feels exactly as solid as the old mount. The difference is in the cheek piece.

With the old cheek rest, there was no way to adjust it. The thing came set from the factory to a given height and that was it. But with this one, four screws hol

Press release:

Pittsfield, MA – Lenco Industries, Inc., the global leader in the design and manufacture of armored police vehicles, will highlight its proven BearCat® armored tactical vehicle at the 2014 SHOT Show ®, January 14-17 at the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The BearCat® G3, belonging to the Boise Police Tactical Team, will be at booth #1261. In total, over 550 Law Enforcement Agencies in the US rely on Lenco BEARs and BearCats every day, including 32 State Police Agencies . . .

The BearCat G3 on display at the SHOT Show is a Four Door variant, which offers 5 entry and egress points on the vehicle. This functionality greatly enhances tactical response and rescue capabilities in tight urban setti

Cabot Guns makes some of the world’s finest pistols. The company is also home to some of the world’s best PR. When it comes to gun pron pics, Cabot is second to none. And their new-for-SHOT gun is a genuine eye opener. Yes, Nick, I know that changing materials makes this a new gun like changing shoes makes me a new man. And yes, it’s a 1911 (which leaves no doubt as the advanced age of JMB’s timeless classic design). But Cabot’s Damascus 1911 is a world first! Maybe. “To our knowledge the Cabot Damascus 1911 is the first traditional folded steel Damascus pistol ever produced. Other pistols described as Damascus are formed from powdered Damascus, not the real thing. Born from a 50 layer block of American artisan made stainless steel by master Damascus craftsman Chad Nichols, the Cabot Damascus 1911 represents a new achievem

Keeping Public Buildings Free of Guns Proves Too Costly for Kansas Towns the nytimes.com headline proclaims. The idea that public buildings must either provide metal detector-style security theater or drop their gun bans must really rankle the pro-gun control folks at The Old Gray Lady. This is happening in government buildings! That’s where beneficent statists government functionaries work, for God’s sake! It’s not the enemy at the gate. It’s the enemy inside the gate! While savoring the schadenfreude, the paper reveals that “out of several thousand local government entities across the state, only about 160 places had sought an exemption

FPS Russia has been on hiatus for nine months. His unexplained absence/radio silence may or may not have anything to do with the still-unsolved point blank assassination of his business manager. Kyle’s on-cam mea culpa makes no mention of his brush with “gun violence.”  The most famous faux Russian since Yakov Smirnov claims his business troubles prevented him from producing his work. Yeah, right. ‘Cause these videos are so complicated. And YouTube rights are so difficult to manage. Anyway, slo-mo bullpup shotgun action on jars of paint is the dish of the day. Every time I critique this guy I get flame broiled. So I’ll just say this: I hope FPS gets his mojo back from whoever stole it. Know what I mean?

As we reported, FNH USA is coming out with their new FN-15 series firearms. The 16 inch carbine and the 20 inch rifle will retail for $1,149 each, meaning that it is perfectly positioned to give Colt a run for its money. And everyone else in the AR-15 market for that matter. We had an opportunity to test out the rifles at a special event held by FNH USA Sunday evening, and we have some slow motion video to go along with the commentary on the guns.

This isn’t a precision, high end rifle — this is an entry level AR-15. And I mean that for both the company and the c

As I indicated in yesterday’s Digest, the holiday season has left me with more videos than I have time to trickle out one at a time, so I’m going to clear the bilges here with a few all at once. The first one up there is mattv2099 dropping a GLOCK-brand GLOCK 19 barrel into a GLOCK 26. I don’t know why I was surprised that it worked. I shouldn’t have been. Make the jump for the rest. . .

This one’s a little curious-er, firing .40 S&W rounds out of a GLOCK-brand GLOCK 20 (10mm). I suppose it’s good know that it’ll work in a pinch.

“Mvuleni Fana was walking down a quiet alleyway in Springs – 30 miles east of Johannesburg – on her way home from football practice one evening when four men surrounded her and dragged her back to the football stadium,” independent.co.uk reports. “She recognised her attackers. One by one, the men raped her, beating her unconscious and leaving her for dead. The next morning, Mvuleni came round, bleeding, battered, in shock, and taunted

The Press-Republican is Plattsburgh, New York‘s daily paper. It’s owned by Community Newspapers of . . . wait for it . . . Montgomery, Alabama. Given the paper’s deep south HQ, the word “Republican” in the name and the fact that Plattsburgh is about as far as you can get from New York City without being in Canada, you’d think the paper would be pro-gun. Nope. “The National Rifle Association is strident about protecting firearm rights. Yet, many Americans want some way to ensure that guns don’t wind up in the wrong hands,”