Gun Nuts

So, the 2014 SHOT Show is right around the corner. For me, that means a solid week of sales meetings, and the occasional bit of fun where I actually get to look at some new product. So far, there have been some big announcements made for the show, and other companies have teased their announcement a bit but not dropped actual product. Here’s a quick look at what we know is new:

• Glock 42: .380 Glock for CCW
• Glock 41: Gen4 Glock in .45 ACP with a 34/35 length slide.
• Remington 51: Single stack 9mm for concealed carry
• Ruger LCRx: the Ruger LCR with an exposed hammer
• Ruger Match Champion: A GP100 for competition

In addition, the good bros at Sig have teased a new product that will be officially announced on the 13th of January, and the word on the street is that HK will be launching a striker fired version of their P30 as well. Of the products I know about, I’m most interested in the Match Champion, which is why we’re already getting a pair of those, and the new Glock 41. I shot a Gen4 Glock 21 in IDPA competition as a CDP gun, and it was an excellent choice. The 41 looks like an even better option right out of the gate for IDPA competition, and could make a fun choice for L10 in USPSA as well.

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Whenever you start talking gun control with people, someone will invariably bring up “you have to have a license to drive a car” and suggest that we regulate guns in a similar manner. The problem is that no one actually thinks that analogy all the way through, because if they did no anti-gun person would ever support regulating guns the same way we regulate cars. Today we’re going to do a little thought experiment and actually think this analogy all the way through.

Let’s examine the analogy completely, starting with gun ownership. Even at the sketchiest of pawn shops in America, here are the steps that I have to take to legally buy a handgun:

1. Be over 21
2. Fill out a 4473
3. Pass a federal background check (NICS)
4. Pay the shop

And that’s just the process if you live in free America. Plenty of states have additional restrictions like waiting periods and state level background checks. For example in Washington, a state with pretty decent gun laws, unless you have a WA CPL you have to wait an additional 5 days from when you purchase a handgun to when you can

Gear: Blade-Tech speed holster
Gun: Ruger Security Six with vintage Mustang stocks, and factory Ruger bobbed hammer.

One of the great advantages of modern training in the firearms industry is that there is a considerable volume of information available for shooters. If you’re trying to set metrics for your improvement, there are top tier shooters and trainers that post par times for drills and skill tests.

But what if you’re a revolver shooter? I know, the obvious answer is to ditch that archaic gun in favor of a design that slightly less than 200 years old. However, there are shooters out there interested in power-leveling their revo skills, and it’s not easy to find information on good par times for some revolver specific skills. In the interest of helping, and creating good information I’m going to be sharing a lot of revolver training notes here on Gun Nuts through this year of the wheel. That way, in 3 years when someone else gets it in their head to go shoot revolvers a bunch, they’ll at least have somewhere to start.

We’ll look at a few standard drills over the course of the year:

• D2 @ 10 yards (draw fire two shots from concealment at 10 yards)
• 1r2 @ 5 yards (fire one sh