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SHOT Show: Hogue Rolls Out SIG K320 AXG Knives to Match Your SIG P320 AXG Pistol
If you’re someone who doesn’t leave the house unless your belt matches your shoes, we have something that’s right up your alley. Hogue has just rolled out new EDC folding knives that will match your SIG AXG pistol.
SIG’s AXG grip (Alloy Xseries Grip) modules for the P320 are just the thing for those of you who are allergic to polymer pistols. With their removable wood or G10 grip inserts, they nicely dress up the standard P320 pistol and give it what a lot of people think is a better, non-plastick-y feel.
SHOT Show: 1791 Gunleather Ultra Custom Moldable Holsters for Pistols With Lights or Lasers
1791 Gunleather makes those unique, moldable holsters that allow you to customize the amount of retention for your pistol. 1791 sandwiches a piece of polymer between a cowhide exterior and a suede interior that babies your gun. They make both inside the waistband and OWB models to fit just about any pistol.
You just drop your Ultra Custom holsters into a supplied baggie, warm it up in water, then molt it to the unique shape and configuration of your pistol.
SHOT Show: Shield Sights New AMS Advanced Mini Sight
The Advanced Mini Sight from Shield Sights is an enclosed pistol sight with a great co-witnessing capability that works with standard height iron sights and still mounts to the popular Shield footprint.
The AMS has a small built-in rear peep sight and provides a very nice sight picture, far better than other co-witnesses setups.
In the picture above you can see the front sight inside the rear integrated peep sight.
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SHOT Show 2022: Mossberg’s New 940 Pro Turkey Shotgun
I never thought I needed a turkey gun. I’ve hunted turkey, but I just used a standard shotgun and it seemed to work fine. However, I will say I am damn sure attracted to the Mossberg 940 Pro Turkey.
The Mossberg 940 improved upon Mossy’s 930 and it premiered just a few years ago in a 3-Gun style configuration. Since then the 940 has grown into its own line of firearms.
Gobble Gobble With the Pro Turkey
The 940 Pro Turkey is the latest and greatest in the 940 line, and SHOT Show 2022 gave us plenty of hands-on time with the gun.
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Bloomberg Law Has Found A Gun Control Law California Somehow Missed!
The acquittal [of Kyle Rittenhouse] revealed a gap in the law that California should address.
Rittenhouse exacerbated an already volatile situation by bringing his AR-15 into a curfew zone. A curfew is imposed by a state or local government when officials believe that restricting public access to a particular area is necessary to protect life or property. Curfews are rarely enacted; they are official acknowledgments that a locale is facing an emergency.
SHOT Show: New PF320 Complete Pistol From Polymer80
Branching out from 80% receivers for ARs and pistols, Polymer80 has begun manufacturing and selling complete firearms. The newest is the PF320, which employs a SIG P320 Fire Control Unit inside a ready-to-shoot package with P80 frame, slide, barrel, etc.
I like the ergonomics of the P80 frames a lot, finding that I point them naturally and intuitively, plus they have great texture and the general shape just works really well for me.
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SHOT Show: Black Collar Arms APS (Adjustable Pistol Support). It Isn’t a Stock, It Isn’t a Brace.
Alright, alright, alright. A third category of rear accessory for firearms has dropped. We’ve had shoulder stocks since the invention of the long gun, we’ve had pistol braces for about a decade, and now we have pistol supports. New from Black Collar Arms is the APS, or Adjustable Pistol Support.
Designed to be a second or third point of contact for a large format pistol, the APS provides a stable, height-adjustable rest for the rear of the pistol.
SHOT Show: Holosun’s New RML Gives You Small, Lightweight Red or Green Laser Aiming Capability
Holosun just introduced their new RML Rail Mounted Laser. It’s tiny and affordable and will come in both red and green laser versions. The RML will come in five models with MSRPs ranging from $105 to $162 and is expected to hit stores in March or April.
Here’s their press release . . .
Lasers are becoming invaluable to verify an accurate and effective aim, especially in low-light environments. Pistols and rifles fixed with lasers have been shown to improve fast target acquisition.
SHOT Show 2022: The Striker-Fired KelTec P15 9mm Pistol
The world of higher capacity micro-compact handguns seems to be growing daily. SIG started it and everyone’s followed in their very big footsteps.
The latest and one of the more unique entrants comes from KelTec. Unique is a word often used to describe KelTec products, and the P15 isn’t any different. The P15 is KelTec’s entry into the micro-compact market and provides a very lightweight, very thin carry option. In fact, the polymer model seems to be the lightest, thinnest micro-compact on the market.
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The Question Gun On Gun Owners’ Minds: What Will Joe Biden’s Next Pivot Be?
By Lee Williams
The Biden-Harris administration is trapped inside a hostile media spotlight, a victim of their own incompetence. They’re like a cornered animal – desperate for a way out, but clearly willing to settle for anything that would shift the public focus off of their ever-growing list of failures.
They’re a consistent bunch, that much is true. They consistently lurch from one self-inflicted crisis to another, while we pay the price for their mistakes.
SHOT Show Range Day: Hands On with the RIA STK100 9mm Pistol
Quick! Describe a modern pistol for me. If you aren’t saying, “semi-automatic, striker-fired, polymer-frame pistol,” you haven’t been paying attention. That’s now the standard for the current pistol market. Rock Island Armory, however, is doing something just a little different with the STK100.
RIA kept the semi-automatic striker-fired design, but ditched the polymer frame. Instead, we get an aluminum grip.
The STK100 – It’s Metal
I got hands-on with the STK100 at Range Day, and you can color me impressed.
OMG! Gun Rights Supporters Don’t Like the ATF! Or the NFA! OMG!
Neither of the calls seems particularly realistic, but this is hardly the first time that there has been such a call to abolish the ATF and moreover to repeal the NFA. The first effort to overturn the 1934 law came in March 1939 in a case that was heard in the Supreme Court. In the United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174, the Court found that owning a sawed-off double-barrel shotgun was not protected under the Second Amendment.
Range Day: Shooting the Federal .30 Super Carry
At SHOT Show’s Range Day, Federal Ammunition had one S&W Shield Plus chambered in 9mm and one chambered in their new .30 Super Carry round. We shot both back-to-back…
The skinnier .30 Super Carry fit two more rounds into the same gun.
We fired 115 grain 9mm and 100 grain .30 Super Carry.
Blindfolded, I don’t think I could tell the difference. This was the general consensus from a bunch of other shooters, too.
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SHOT Show: Meister Manufaktur by Walther
Walther has taken its Q5 Match Steel Frame pistol to the custom shop and is offering the Meister Manufaktur line of hand finished guns. I swung by the booth to take horrible SHOT Show photos of absolutely gorgeous guns . . .
A Black Diamond and Black Tie were out for handling and man oh man did they feel good. Fit and finish on them is absolutely fantastic. Completely flawless in every way I could see, and the fit between slide, frame, barrel, and more was ball bearing smooth and highly precise.
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SHOT Show: Hands On With the Smith & Wesson CSX
Smith & Wesson wasn’t at media day yesterday, so we didn’t get to pull the trigger and make it go bang. But a quick look at the new single action hammer-fired micro-compact in the Smith & Wesson booth made us even more anxious to give it a proper workout.
The CSX feels very solid in the hand with its all-metal construction. It’s sized right in the sweet spot along with the other hot micro-compacts like the P365, Hellcat, Shield Plus and Max-9.
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SHOT Show: New Crimson Trace Heavy Recoil Optic (HRO) and Rapid Illumination Grip (RIG)
At the Crimson Trace booth we found a couple brand new releases, the HRO and the RIG.
Designed for machine guns, heavy-recoiling calibers, and really rough use in general, the new Heavy Recoil Optic offers a large field of view and a sealed, extra rugged red dot housing.
“Street price” will be around $400. The glass looked great and it’s always nice to have an optic that will stand up to truly heavy use.
SHOT Show: First Impressions of FN’s New High Power and M249
Swinging by FN’s booth at SHOT Show, we put hands on FN’s new, 17-round High Power and played with the re-release of their commercial market, semi-auto M249S.
Available in stainless, FDE, and blued, the new High Powers have classic FN styling with a few modern touches.
Two sets of grips are included with every High Power, and FN is offering seven other versions in both wood and G10.
SHOT Show Range Day: Standard Manufacturing’s Switch Folding Pocket Revolver
Options are good. We aren’t all going to carry a duty-sized 17+1 pistol with a red dot every day. And in the end, carrying something is better than carrying nothing.
Standard Manufacturing’s new Switch-Gun is a folding, pocketable 5-shot revolver that deploys like an auto knife and is designed to make it packable, portable and affordable. Something you won’t have a problem slipping in your pocket as you head out the door.
SHOT Show Range Day: Armscor Sidekick .22 Cal 9-Shot Revolver
For about $300, the new Armscor Sidekick comes with both a .22 LR and a .22 WMR cylinder, each holding nine rounds of rimfire ammo.
While it looks like an old school cowboy gun, it operates in both single action and double action modes.
I fired the Sidekick in both chamberings and had a blast.
The action was smooth and the trigger was good.
SHOT Show Range Day: Bushmaster BA30 Straight Pull AR-10 Style Manual Action Rifle
One of the first products to enter the market from the new Bushmaster Firearms is this bad boy, the BA30 straight pull bolt action rifle. Dan and I visited their booth at SHOT Show’s Range Day and sent some rounds downrange.
Without a doubt, the rifle appeared to be at least decently accurate (we were only able to shoot it at 100 yards). I was shooting at a steel silhouette and, while I wasn’t able to shoot for actual accuracy groups here, putting hits in precise locations on the target was easy as pie.