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Obscure Objects of Desire: Savage M1907 Pistol in .32 ACP
It all started when the United States military wanted to move from revolvers to semi-automatics and wanted a .45 caliber pistol. As we all know, the M1911 won the contract, but one of the pistols submitted for the trials was a new design by Savage.
The Savage entry didn’t win, but that didn’t mean the pistol was canned. Savage realized the gun would work well as a pocket pistol, thus, the Savage M1907 came into being.
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Dan Wesson’s Compact 1911 Pistols in .45 ACP and 9mm
From Dan Wesson . . .
Specific characteristics are essential when it comes to a concealed carry handgun. The Dan Wesson Enhanced Compact Pistol (ECP) and Tactical Compact Pistol (TCP) check all the boxes for reliability, accuracy, ergonomics, and weight. Both compact 1911 pistols deliver serious firepower in 9 mm and .45 ACP configurations.
The Enhanced Compact Pistol is a traditional 1911 design with modern styling and enhancements. The ECP sports a stainless-steel slide and a forged aluminum frame, keeping the weight to a mere 29 oz.
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Ohio Governor Signs Bill Allowing School Districts to Arm Employees
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins and Mark Gillispie, AP
Ohio school districts could begin arming employees as soon as this fall under a bill signed into law Monday by GOP Gov. Mike DeWine.
The law, as enacted, requires up to 24 hours of training before an employee can go armed, and up to eight hours of annual training. The training programs must be approved by the Ohio School Safety Center, and DeWine announced he’s ordering the center to require the maximum 24 hours and the maximum eight hours.
Scalise: We’re Not Having the Tough Conversations We Need to Have About School Shootings
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) pointed to a lack of school prayer when talking about gun violence.
“We had AR-15s in the 1960s. We didn’t have those mass school shootings,” Scalise said during a press conference Wednesday.
“Now, I know it’s something that some people don’t want to talk about. We actually had prayer in school during those days,” Scalise continued. “We had other things going on in our society where we took a different approach to our young kids.
Gun Meme of the Day: Why Won’t You Compromise Edition
Keep sharing little slices of your pie and eventually you won’t have any pie. They’ll never stop eating it. In the immortal words of Dilated Peoples, “Give ’em an inch they’ll take feet. Give ’em feet they’ll take the street.”
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Gun Review: Mossberg 940 Pro Turkey Semi-Auto Shotgun
Let me start by saying I’m not a turkey hunter. That’s why when Dan assigned me the Mossberg 940 Pro Turkey shotgun at SHOT Show, I wasn’t expecting much that would hold my interest. What I found was a truly awesome shotgun that will not only take gobblers with ease, but would also be a practical home defense shotgun and a mighty nice tactical shotgun.
Mossberg produces both an 18.5-inch and 24-inch versions of the 940 Pro Turkey.
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Silencer Shop Gets ATF Approval for Remote eForm 4 Completion
From Silencer Shop . . .
Silencer Shop, the nation’s largest NFA distributor, is pleased to announce an improvement to the ATF eForm 4 submission process. Until recently, ATF required Individual registrants to complete the eForm 4 “while physically present” at the dealer. Silencer Shop has been in communication with ATF and working hard to remove that instruction. This month, ATF confirmed in writing to Silencer Shop that the instruction would be removed and last week, it was officially deleted.
While the Media are Already All-In on the Senate Gun Control Deal, It Still Has a Long Way to Go
By Lee Williams
If the legacy media had their way, your front door would explode and seconds later you’d be hip-deep in armed gun-grabbers delivering butt-strokes to your noggin until you surrendered the combination to your gun safe. That’s the level of anti-gun bias today’s legacy media uses whenever they report on anything related to guns or the Second Amendment. Their recent stories on developments in the Senate are no exception to this rule.
FN’s Upgraded Five-seveN MK3 MRD Pistol Has an Optics-Ready Slide, Better Ergonomics
FN has updated their popular, powerful FN Five-seveN 5.7×28 pistol. The new Five-Seven MRD is now optics-ready and ships with a series of plates for virtually any optic you’ll want to mount.
I got to spend some range time with the upgraded Five-seveN MK3 MRD a few months ago. The ergonomic changes make a big noticeable difference in the pistol’s shootability and FN’s out-of-the-box optics mounting plate system make adding a red dot quick, easy and simple.
BREAKING: Senate Reaches Gun Control Compromise Deal With 10 Republicans Signing On
A group of Senators have announced that they’ve reached a bipartisan deal on a framework for legislation they say will do something about “gun violence.” According to The Hill, “The framework includes funding for school safety measures and mental health, a requirement to review juvenile records for firearm buyers under 21 years old and incentives for states to implement ‘red flag’ laws.”
The deal was pushed through by Connecticut’s Chris Murphy and Texas’s John Cornyn.
Mass Shooters Are Fueled by the Hatred and Division Sewn by the Politics of the Left
By Miguel A. Faria, Jr, MD
We could say that all mass shootings are inspired by hatred, but many are carried out by deranged individuals, susceptible to violence and possessing no clear and distinct political or religious motives. These disturbed, mentally unstable people are unhinged by the strain of the postmodern age and what they see and experience.
They are receptive to the influences of the perverse degeneration of the popular culture, media sensationalism, and the pursuit of celebrity status, even if they pay with their own lives to achieve the dubious notoriety they seek.
Chronic Wasting Disease and How It’s Killing Deer and Elk in North America
By Allan Houston, University of Tennessee
Chronic wasting disease, a deadly neurological infectious disease that affects deer, elk and moose, is spreading across North America. Most recently detected in North Carolina in March 2022, CWD has been confirmed in 30 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces, as well as Norway, Finland, Sweden and South Korea. Dr. Allan Houston, a professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Tennessee’s 18,400-acre Ames AgResearch and Education Center in western Tennessee, explains what is known about CWD and what wildlife scientists are trying to learn.
Shoot or GTFO – What Would You Do?
Let’s say you’re visiting a relative and they step out to run an errand, leaving you alone. Then a total stranger boldly walks into the house without permission. Then they become “disruptive.”
What do you do?
A Miramar, Florida man faced exactly that situation earlier this week and shot the intruder, killing him. It turned out that, according to media reports, the homeowner knew the man. Exactly what that means isn’t clear.
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California Shelter: You Can’t Adopt a Pet Unless You Support More Gun Control Laws
By Patrick Carroll
An animal shelter in California recently announced they will no longer be doing business with anyone who is against gun control. The organization, called Shelter Hope Pet Shop, is located in Thousand Oaks and owned by Kim Sill.
The shelter has a standard list of questions they ask potential adopters to make sure they will be able to take care of their new pet. For example, they ask about the home the pet will be living in, and they make sure the potential owner is at least 25 and can provide a current driver’s license.
Dix: These Are The 6 Deadly Lies Told By The Gun Industry
The most pervasive lie is that guns are a good means of protection. But compared to people without firearm access, those with access to firearms are about twice as likely to die in homicides, and three times as likely to die by suicide. If guns really provided protection, our nation, which is home to more guns than people, would have lower homicide and suicide rates.
A second lie is the fundamentalist view of the Second Amendment that claims any type of gun regulation to be unconstitutional.
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Armasight Announces New Contractor Theremal Optics
From Armasight . . .
Trailblazer and Category Leader in Thermal and Night Vision, Armasight debuted the “Designed & Built in the USA” Contractor series of weapon mounted thermal optics at SHOT Show 2022. The Contractor line is the first thermal optic on the market that is powered by the new ArmaCORE Thermal Core technology, which brings 12 micron pixels, high performance imaging, and a dynamic feature set to the system.
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Gun Meme of the Day: Weekend Vibes Edition
Heading into the weekend all like…
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Fish & Wildlife Service Plans to Phase Out Traditional Lead Ammo on Public Lands by 2026
The ATF isn’t the only federal regulatory agency that is newly dedicated to making life even more difficult and expensive for gun owners since the current occupant of the White House was inaugurated. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is also on board the hoplophobic express. They’d been hinting for months about once again mandating lead-free ammunition on private lands based on sketchy claims that using lead-free ammunition benefits wildlife.
The USFWS had tried to slip in a similar ban in the last days of the Obama administration, but it was reversed when Trump took office.