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New Products From Hornady: HIT Target Indicator, Mobilis Single Door Safe, and 5.7×28 Ammo
Hornady has announced a range of new products for 2024, but three stood out at first glance. First is the handy new HIT Target Impact Indicator. It’s a simple, USB-charged accelerometer that you can attach to a target stand to give you visual confirmation of hits on targets at distance. It’s not the first of its kind, but it’s small and lightweight and looks well designed (especially if you know Morse code).
We don’t have a price on the HIT Target Impact indicator yet.
If Reports About Robert Card’s Mental Health are Accurate, Maine Will Have a Lot of Questions to Answer
As of this writing, Robert Card, the prime suspect in the Lewiston, Maine mass shooting, has not yet been arrested. Last night, Maine State Police announced that Card “recently reported mental health issues to include hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard base in Saco, ME. Card was also reported to have been committed to a mental health facility for two weeks during the summer of 2023 and subsequently released.”
Assuming all of this is true, the Maine mental health and criminal justice systems will have some explaining to do.
Kennedy Amendment to Funding Bill Would Stop the VA From Stripping Veterans’ Gun Rights
Under current law, the Department of Veterans Affairs reports a veteran’s name to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System when they seek help managing their finances in a conservatorship.
“If a veteran who defended this country has to go to the VA and ask for help managing his or her financial affairs, the VA automatically reports that veteran to the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System .
Gun Meme of the Day: Touché Edition
Ahha! Ball’s in your court now, loser. Also, do books on Kindle count? Asking for a friend.
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Gear Review: HUSH Holster for Suppressed Pistols
Designing a holster for a suppressed pistol presents all sorts of challenges. The biggest one, of course, is accommodating that honkin’ can sticking off the front of the gun. It’s the large diameter of the silencer, really, rather than the length of it that makes it hard for a holster to allow the silencer to pass through while also managing to hold the skinnier pistol behind it.
HUSH Holsters has come up with a great solution!
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Self-Defense Training: Does Anyone Ever Really Have Time for the OODA Loop?
A TTAG Reader writes:
Innumerable articles have been written about the defensive use of firearms, especially handguns. Due to the high number of current and former combat veterans, much of the self-defense literary efforts seem to be influenced by small unit tactics. One of the significant theories of defensive tactics is the famous (infamous?) OODA loop.
Many gun owners who have had some personal defense training are familiar with the concept of the OODA loop.
The ATF’s Prosecution of Larry Vickers Was About Headlines and a High Profile Scalp
By Lee Williams
The ATF wants to imprison a decorated American soldier for a series of victimless crimes, even though the federal regulations he’s accused of violating may not be constitutional, and questions about ATF’s potential involvement in the case remain unanswered.
The same federal agency that ran guns across the border into Mexico – which were used by drug cartels to murder Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and scores of Mexican nationals – believes that retired special operations veteran, Larry Vickers, needs to be locked up, even though none of his weapons ended up in cartel hands.
Dickey: The World of the AR-15 is a Frightening Place Where All That Matters is the Gun
A lucid, straightforward, and well-researched and -reported work, American Gun promises, via its back cover, “fairness and compassion.” By the book’s end, I found myself wondering why fairness is a worthy goal here. I don’t know what fairness we owe these manufacturers or the individuals who buy their products. There is no argument here—compassionate or otherwise—that can explain why an everyday person needs a weapon designed solely to kill as many people as possible in seconds.
We Know Exactly What the Founders Thought About Guns Because We Can Read What They Wrote
By Daniel Kowalski
In all my years of existence, the Second Amendment of our Constitution has always been considered controversial. Opponents claim it is the cause of gun violence. Proponents assert that it helps guarantee freedom and safety.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
These twenty-seven words have been the subject of much debate during the 20th and 21st centuries.
News From Israel and Canada Highlight Why Defending Second Amendment Rights Here is So Critical
Israel Loosens Strict Gun Control Laws To Arm Citizens https://t.co/8Ux3yJTGre
— Leon W Todd (@leontodd) October 19, 2023
Citizens in two countries are reminding Americans that Second Amendment rights and a robust firearm and ammunition manufacturing base cannot be taken for granted.
Israel is preparing for a ground invasion into Gaza after more than 1,400 of their citizens fell victim to Hamas terrorists storming into their homes, murdering, torturing and dragging off innocent civilians as hostages.
Angstadt Arms Announces the New AXL-9 AR9 Modular Lower Receiver
Angstadt Arms has a new AR-9 lower designed to work with a wide range of magazines. It features interchangeable magazine wells to use magazines from a number of pistol makers as well as different calibers.
So if you have, say, GLOCK 33-round magazines along with 30-rounders for an MP5 that you’d like to be able to use in a pistol caliber carbine format, the new AXL-9 lower lets you swap out mag wells to accept them.
Federal Law Follies: Auto Switches Show the Failure of Gun Control Laws…Again…Still
From the NRA-ILA . . .
In recent years there have been several articles complaining about the proliferation of auto or GLOCK switches (auto sears). These items are used by criminals to illegally modify commonly-owned semiautomatic handguns into machineguns. Those concerned about these items should focus on enforcement of existing federal law.
Reasonable people can question the wisdom of banning the mere possession of inanimate objects, rather than focusing on their intentional misuse.
Gear Review: Swampfox Sentinel 2 Red Dot Sight
Swampfox has carved a name into the red dot, LPVO, variable, and prism optic world as a budget-friendly manufacturer that isn’t afraid to do things differently. They’ve been pretty active in the world of pistol red dots, and their latest is the Sentinel 2. Well, it hasn’t technically been released yet, but it’s coming soon. It’s an optic they’ve been teasing since SHOT Show in January, and it’s finally ready to hit the market.
Like the original Sentinel, the Sentinel 2 was designed for subcompact or micro-compact pistols like the P365, the Hellcat, the GLOCK 43X and 48 MOS, and basically every modern micro-compact pistol.
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Real World Personal Defense Lessons from Hamas’s Drugged-Up Terrorists
The original assassins had hashish, the Moros in the Philippines used a native opioid, the Somali pirates and terrorists chew khat, and now there is a new terrorist drug of choice…Captagon. Numerous dead Hamas terrorists in Israel were found with pockets full of what is called “the poor man’s cocaine”.
What is Captagon and why should we be concerned about it?
Captagon was the brand name for a legal drug used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, narcolepsy, and depression in the 1960s and 1970s.
US v. Vickers: Larry Vickers Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Illegally Acquire Machine Guns
By Lee Williams
Special operations combat veteran, firearms industry consultant, tactical instructor and YouTube personality with more than a million loyal followers, Larry Allen Vickers, pleaded guilty last week to a multi-count federal indictment that accused him of conspiring to illegally import and obtain machineguns and other restricted firearms, and conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against a Russian arms manufacturer.
Vickers, 60, faces up to 25 years in prison, according to a press release from the U.S.
Personal Defense Tip: Train to Move When You Shoot and to Shoot When You Move
Movement is a topic that’s mostly misunderstood and rarely practiced. As a foundational skill, it should be part of every competent gunman’s skill set. Why is movement so important? Because a moving target is harder to hit than a static one.
Movement is life
If all you practice is static shooting — drawing and shooting your firearm while standing still — there’s a good chance that’s exactly what you’ll do in a gunfight.
CDC Data Show Gun Homicides Fell in the Middle of America’s Historic Gun Buying Spree
We have some terrible news for the Gun Control Industry™. The CDC — yes, the same CDC that desperately wanted more taxpayer dollars for more “gun violence research” — is reporting that firearm-related homicides fell in 2022. If you’re a regular reader, you know that 2022 was smack-dab in the very fattest part of the now 50-month gun-buying binge the American public embarked on during the pandemic and the George Floyd Summer of Love.
But wait, you say.
Jersey City, NJ Sues to Block Cops From Using Marijuana
Federal law, it’s very, very clear that if you use Schedule 1 drugs, based on the federal guidelines, you’re not allowed to have a firearm. That’s very clear. And then New Jersey law is you cannot be a police officer without having a firearm. So in the case of a police officer doing something that results in, let’s say, injury or death and a lawsuit is filed after that, the city is responsible for tens of millions of dollars in liability because they’re obviously going to be in that lawsuit.
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