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XS Sights New Night Sights for HK’s VP9 Optics Ready Pistol
From XS Sights . . .
XS Sights is pleased to extend its night sight offerings for the HK VP9 Optics Ready Pistol. Standard-height R3D with orange front sight and DXT2 Big Dot sights with orange or yellow front sights are now available for this popular HK pistol, in addition to the recently released Suppressor/RMR Height sights in the R3D and Minimalist models. All result in faster and more accurate target acquisition in high-stress situations and when shooting on the move.
Winchester Awarded $15M Contract to Design Next Gen Ammo Facility, $52M for More 5.56 and 7.62
Last month the Army awarded SIG SAUER a contract to build its next generation squad weapons, the XM5 rifle and XM250 machine gun. Both firearms are built around a uniquely designed new cartridge SIG calls the 277 SIG FURY. It’s a “hybrid” design that combines a traditional brass case with a steel base to handle the high pressures the 6.8×51 round will produce.
While SIG will manufacture the new ammo for the Army, so will Winchester at Lake City.
ATF Revoked 500% More Federal Firearms Licenses in 11 Months Since Biden Declared War on Guns
By Lee Williams
In the years before the Biden-Harris administration took over the White House, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives usually revoked an average of 40 Federal Firearm Licenses (FFLs) per year. But, in the 11 months since Joe Biden declared war on “rogue gun dealers,” the ATF has revoked 273 FFLs – an increase of more than 500%. However, rather than targeting the true rogues, Biden’s ATF is revoking FFLs for the most minor of paperwork errors, which were never a concern for the ATF until Biden weaponized the agency.
Discarded Greatness: The Walther P5 9mm Pistol
Last month we brought you the Heckler & Koch P7 which Jeremy believes is the best pistol ever made in the history of the world. Now here’s a look at a dearly departed contemporary of the P7, the Walther P5.
Born of the same German government request for a modern pistol, the Walther P5 represents the end of the line for the legendary WWII-era P38 and included innovations that, for some reason, the firearms industry decided not to stick with.
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Brownells Giving Away a SIG MCX-SPEAR, SLX Suppressor and Training at the SIG Academy
From Brownells . . .
Brownells customers will get a rare chance to win a SIG MCX-Spear chambered in .277 Fury, along with a training class hosted at the SIG SAUER Academy, airfare to the class and lodging, and an SLX suppressor – a prize package valued at $9,999.
The contest starts Monday, May 9, and contestants can sign up through May 15 at the Brownells SIG MCX-Spear & Training Sweepstakes page.
SIG Freedom Days Draws Thousands to Phoenix for Three Days of Shooting and Fun
A long time ago, in what now seems like a galaxy far, far away, TTAG put on an event intended to let folks come to a nice shooting range, pay one price and shoot guns all day long. Just because. The original idea was to replicate the SHOT Show Media Day experience, but make it open to the general public. It lasted three years and was a huge success in all ways other than financial.
Fernandez: An Armed America Caused My Anxiety, Isolation, Impotence, and Directionless Rage
The “armed, self-reliant citizen” has meanwhile become ever more so, especially as various states have enacted ingenious laws allowing residents to carry handguns with no permit or training. As of 2017, there were already “more guns than people” in the US, the Washington Post reported, citing a study according to which there were an “estimated 120.5 guns for every 100 residents” – by far the most outrageous ratio in the world.
NYPD’s Overtime Budget Crisis Would Be Eased If New Yorkers Could Exercise Their Second Amendment Rights
From the CCRKBA . . .
New York City’s police overtime crisis—brought on by surging violent crime—might be alleviated if the city would support, rather than restrict, the gun rights of its law-abiding residents, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
Published reports have detailed how the city is expected to exceed its overtime budget by an estimated $143 million by the end of this fiscal year.
Grand Jury Indicts [Alleged] New York City Subway Shooter Frank James
From the AP . . .
A federal grand jury has indicted a man suspected of shooting up a New York City subway train last month — an attack that wounded 10 people and rattled a city already experiencing a rise in violent crime.
The panel charged Frank James, 62, on Friday with committing a terrorist attack or other violence against a mass transportation system and discharging a firearm during a violent crime.
It’s Easier to Blame ‘Ghost Guns’ in New York City Than to Put and Keep Criminals Behind Bars
Ghost guns are the bugbear of the moment, because only a lunatic would defend them. And because it is much easier, and far less controversial, to blame them for New York’s blood-spattered sidewalks than it would be to bring the full force of the law down on the core problem — the trigger-pullers.
There is no hoarier cliché in the American conversation than “guns don’t kill, people do.” But its depressing ubiquity doesn’t make it any less true.
Dave Chappelle’s Attacker: I’m Not Guilty!
From the AP . . .
A man charged in an attack on comedian Dave Chappelle during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl pleaded not guilty Friday to four misdemeanors.
Isaiah Lee, 23, entered the not guilty pleas in a Los Angeles courtroom to charges of battery, possessing a deadly weapon with intent to assault unlawfully crossing from a spectator area onto a stage at a theatrical event and interfering with or delaying such an event with unlawful conduct.
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SIG SAUER ‘Soft Launches’ the New P320 XTEN 10mm Pistol
Yesterday was day one of SIG SAUER’s inaugural SIG Freedom Days event at the massive Ben Avery Shooting Sports Center north of Phoenix. SIG’s invited the public to pay one price and try out a lot of their most popular handguns (favorites like the P220 legion, the M18 and M18, P320 Spectre Comp, P365X and the new P322 and more). Long guns are well represented, too (MCX, Cross, MPX Copperhead, among others).
Discreetly tucked into the far end of the pistol range, way down by the new XM5 and XM250 next gen squad weapons, is a brand new pistol that hasn’t been announced yet.
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Sorry, Civilian Disarmament Advocates, but Guns Aren’t Going Away in America. Ever
There’s no reason that guns will become less important (in American culture) than they’ve been historically because the same things that motivated gun ownership, again, from the seventeenth century all the way until today, are likely to remain in place. Which is, again, social uncertainty, social unrest, and the problems guns help people to solve.
— Prof. David Yamane in Why Are Guns So Prominent in American Culture?
Gun Meme of the Day: I Am The Opposite Of Gruntled Edition
Yep, that’ll put me in a mood.
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Firearm Industry Passes $15 Billion in Pittman-Robertson Tax Contributions for Conservation
From the National Shooting Sports Foundation . . .
NSSF, the firearm industry trade association, marked a milestone achievement when firearm and ammunition manufacturers topped $15 billion in contributions to the Wildlife Restoration Trust Fund since its inception in 1937.
“This is an achievement for which all in the firearm and ammunition industry are proud,” said Joe Bartozzi, NSSF’s President and CEO. “This historic milestone is indicative of the value this industry places on the conservation of wildlife and the habitats in which they thrive.
Obscure Object of Desire: The FN Model 1922
I’ve become more and more of a fan of old guns. I cursed myself today when I was outbid on an Ithaca 37 Police, and it’s now going for higher than I’m willing to pay. What wasn’t selling for higher than my willingness to pay was an FN Model 1922. I think what attracts me to older guns is that I don’t know much about them, what makes them tick, or their particular intricacies.
If you showed me the latest wonder pistol from any big manufacturer, I’m likely to see a striker-fired, polymer frame, double-stack 9mm.
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The Gunshine State, Indeed: Florida Tops 2.5 Million Concealed Carry Permits
According to the latest reports from the lovely, sunny state of Florida, the number of active concealed weapon permits has just exceeded 2.5 million for the first time. That’s over 20 percent of the Sunshine State’s adult (18 y/o+) population.
All this despite Commissioner Nicole “Nikki” Fried doing just about everything she can to slow walk and deny permits where possible. Between the high number of active CCWs — the most of any state in the country — and the large number of firearm manufacturers, perhaps this is why we like to call Florida not the Sunshine State but the Gunshine State.
Gun Meme of the Day: Do You Even Operate Edition
Grandpa won’t survive in Hollywood, that’s for sure.
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