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NY Legislature Votes to Raise Age to Buy Semi-Auto Rifles, More Gun Control Bills to Come
By Marina Villanueve, AP
New York’s legislature voted Thursday to ban anyone under age 21 from buying or possessing a semi-automatic rifle, a major change to state firearm laws pushed through less than three weeks after an 18-year-old used one of the guns to kill 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo.
The bill raising the age limit is the most significant part of a package of gun control measures announced earlier this week by Democratic legislative leaders and Gov.
NRA: Biden’s Call to Ban Guns Isn’t Leadership and it Isn’t What America Needs
From the National Rifle Association . . .
The NRA is made up of millions of law-abiding men and women. We are parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, whose hearts break every time a crime is committed or tragedy occurs. We grieve with all of America, regardless of party or political affiliation because these are human tragedies, not political opportunities.
The National Rifle Association of America supports substantive policies and real solutions that will make a difference.
Hussain: AR-15 Rifles Are Meant to Decapitate and Dismember Targets
It cannot be emphasized enough, however, exactly what the AR-15 is: It is a weapon of war. It was made to blow humans apart. It is successful in doing just that. The requests for DNA tests in Uvalde stand as a testament to the gun’s success, but the conclusion that the weapon excelled at blowing people apart was well documented by the U.S. military itself during early field tests.
During the Vietnam War, the U.S.
Gun Review: BRG USA BRG9 Elite 9mm Pistol
Made by Burgu Metal of Turkey in the land of strong coffee and sketchy missile deals, Buffalo Cartridge Company of Ohio has released their BRG9 Elite to the American market. The BRG9 Elite follows the same theme as Buffalo Cartridge’s established ammunition line. It’s a reliable, solid, quality product at a very reasonable price.
For those of you currently shooting a popular European-made polymer-framed striker-fired 9mm pistol, the BRG9 Elite is going to look very familiar.
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How Many Deaths in Uvalde Were Caused By the Slowness and Slackness of Bureaucracy?
By Dan Sanchez
Why did they wait? That question must haunt the families of the nineteen children and two adults who were massacred in Uvalde, Texas last week in light of recent revelations about the police response.
Accounts of what happened have been shifting and inconsistent. But according to a timeline published by the Associated Press, while children were trapped with the killer in two adjoining classrooms, as many as nineteen armed officers waited in the hallway outside for over an hour before a rescue was finally executed.
CZ’s New 600 Trail: A Blend of Chassis Rifle Modularity With an AR
First announced last year, CZ showed off the new for 2022 CZ 600 Trail rifle last weekend in Houston. It’s a lightweight bolt action rifle that’s chambered in either .223 or 7.62×39.
The .223 model uses standard AR magazines while the 7.72 model takes CZ Bren 2 mags.
The 600 Trail Rifles have a suppressor-ready threaded cold hammer-forged barrel with ambidextrous magazine releases and Bren-style safeties.
Both versions of the CZ 600 trail rifle shrink to just over 27 inches with their 3-position stocks fully collapsed.
May Was the 34th Consecutive Month With 1 Million or More Guns Sold
Innumerate media types will look at the NSSF’s graph of adjusted background check data and thrill to the fact that May, 2022’s total was down significantly from the 2020 spike and the 2021 total.
But if you look at the May, 2022 bar on the graph above in relation to the May numbers in The Time Before years, you’ll see that last month’s adjusted NICS total was about 20% higher than it’s been in any previous May.
Cowan’s Offers the Definitive Collection of Frontier Firearms Including the Sitting Bull Rifle
From Cowan’s Auctions . . .
Assembled Over the Course of Nearly 50 Years, the Collection is One of the Most Comprehensive Offerings of Native American Used and Related Frontier Era Arms to Ever Come to Market.
On June 8, Cowan’s Auctions will offer one of the largest and most complete collections of Native American related and used firearms in its Frontier Firearms from the Lifetime Collection of Larry Ness auction.
Geraghty: The Problem With Warning Signs, the Mentally Ill, and ‘Red Flag’ Laws
We have a national problem of angry young men, disturbed and fantasizing about inflicting horrific violence upon innocent people. These angry young men often make threats to others before carrying out their massacres, but those whom they threaten rarely feel compelled to report the threats to the police because they don’t think it will make a difference, or they fear they will be targeted for retribution after the police contact the person making the threats.
ATF Nominee Dettelbach: I’ll Enforce Gun Laws Using the Tools Congress Gives Me
President Joe Biden’s second nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Steve Dettelbach, answered questions from U.S. Senators in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The hearing was held in the shadow of the incomprehensible tragedy in Uvalde, Texas.
The president’s first nominee, David Chipman, was forced to withdraw his nomination after his record and questions about unprofessional conduct led even Senate Democrats to reject him.
Seen at NRA: Iver Johnson’s Pocket Ace 4-Barrel Derringer
It’s hard to miss the new Iver Johnson Pocket Ace pistols, tiny though they may be. After all, it isn’t every day you see a tiny handgun like this one. Sure, it’s little when it comes to dimensions, but it has four barrels. Four. Barrels. How can you not be interested?
The Pocket Ace is a pepperbox derringer chambered in .22LR. If you’re at all unfamiliar with Iver Johnson, one of the cool things about them is that they’ve been around since right after the Civil War.
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New York Mayor Floats Plan to Install Gun Detectors in City’s Subway System
By David Porter, AP
In the aftermath of a mass shooting on a New York City subway train, the mayor floated a high-tech idea: deploy scanners that can spot someone carrying a gun into the transit system before they have a chance to use it.
The technology to scan large numbers of people quickly for weapons does exist, and is used now to screen people at places like sports stadiums and theme parks.
Biden: We Shouldn’t Allow ‘High Caliber’ 9mm Handguns That ‘Blow the Lung Out of the Body’
The president made the remarks outside the White House after returning from a visit to the site of a mass shooting in Texas where 21 people, including 19 elementary school children, were killed last week.
Recounting a visit to a New York trauma hospital, Biden said doctors showed him X-rays of gunshot wounds.
“They said a .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out — may be able to get it and save the life.
Gun Meme of the Day: Anything To Feel Better Edition
I mean, if you want to virtue signal then go all the way.
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Palmetto State Armory’s JAKL AR/AK Hybrid Pistol Is Finally Here
If you’re in the market for a solidly-built AK/AR hybrid pistol chambered in 5.56 NATO? Palmetto State Armory’s JAKL pistol checks all the boxes for attention to detail and promises to be a fun shooter and maybe the perfect truck gun.
PSA designed the JAKL as an AK/AR hybrid with a 6061 monolithic upper receiver. The upper is compatible with AR-15 lowers and has a captured buffer, meaning it doesn’t extend beyond the receiver itself.
Enumerated Civil Rights Still Outweigh the Political Imperative to ‘Do Something’
By Lee Williams
While most Americans were spending time with family this Memorial Day weekend commemorating those who gave their lives in defense of this great country, a growing list of politicians and members of the gun-ban industry – aided and abetted by their friends in the legacy media – were busy conspiring how to best strip away the very rights so many brave men and women died to defend.
We don’t have to live this way.
Justice Department Will Review Police Tactics in Delayed Uvalde School Shooting Response
By Lindsay Whitehurst, AP
Since the Columbine High School massacre more than 20 years ago, police have been trained to quickly confront shooters in the horrific attacks that have followed.
But officers in Uvalde, Texas, took more than an hour to kill a shooter who massacred 19 children, a lapse of time that will likely be a key part of a Justice Department probe into the police response.
The rare federal review comes amid growing, agonized questions and shifting information from police.
FN’s New Multi-Role 509 Midsize Tactical Pistol
I had a chance to shoot FN’s 509 Midsize Tactical pistol at an event back in March. The new midsize version completes a tactical trio along with FN’s full-size 509 Tactical and the 509 Compact Tactical pistols. A number of us shot the hell out of the new gun which may be the ideal combination of size, performance and features for most people.
The 509 Midsize Tactical is in that Goldilocks size range where it’s a great choice for concealed carry, home defense or duty roles.
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Colt’s New Rimfire Revolver: King Cobra Target in .22LR
We all know how crazy-popular the snake guns from Colt are, so it really comes as no surprise that the gun maker would launch another one at NRA. It might be a little bit of a surprise, though, that the newcomer is chambered in .22LR.
The new model is, in every way, a solid Colt King Cobra revolver, it’s just chambered in a more diminutive round than .357 Magnum. The cylinder is drilled for 10 rounds of .22LR and Colt says it’s a versatile gun useful for everything from plinking to competition shooting to hunting.
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Gun Meme of the Day: This One’s a Little Edgy Edition
Well that’s…provocative. Funny in a “whoa” kinda way. Not entirely outside the realm of the possible or even the justified, though?
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