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Gun Review: So Many Possibilities With the Modular P320 Fire Control Group
About five years ago, the Department of Defense announced that SIG SAUER won the Army Modular Handgun contract. By the time of the announcement, there was little surprise. The P320 was reliable enough, accurate enough, relatively inexpensive, and by that time, was the only truly “modular” handgun in the running.
Since that then, SIG SAUER has doubled down, tripled down, all the downs downed on the modularity and versatility of the P320. There is now no other pistol on the market that features so many user-swappable variations, a staggering feat considering the relative youth of the handgun platform.
Please…Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Anti-Gun And Everyone Knows It
By Lee Williams
You don’t need to be an expert Supreme Court prognosticator, a learned legal scholar or even a decent tea-leaf reader to know that any potential justice for the nation’s highest court who is nominated by the Biden-Harris administration is going to be an anti-gun extremist.
There are some who believe there’s still not enough information about Biden’s pick, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, but I strongly disagree. While it’s true she has never ruled on a gun-rights case while serving on the U.S.
The 5 Long Guns I Just Can’t Live Without
By Austin Knudsen
A few years ago, I wrote a light piece about the five handguns I couldn’t live without. It was a fun, easy article to write, but even more fun—and unexpected – was the amount of comments and discussion it generated.
Thankfully, we don’t live in a country where we’re restricted to only a certain number of firearms, nor do we have to justify to a Commissar why we need gun X (at least not yet).
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Cohen: You Have to Be INSANE to Think Permitless Concealed Carry is a Good Idea!
According to gun rights advocates, these new [constitutional carry] laws are necessary because the current permit process is simply too onerous. But that is precisely the point. It boggles the mind that anyone would want people running around with guns they have no training or experience in using. But of course, in America, the way we treat guns and gun ownership is anything but normal.
In signing the new legislation, [Indiana Governor Eric] Holcomb said he trusts citizens of the Hoosier state to “lawfully and responsibly carry a handgun” in the state.
No Matter Who You Are, You Need A Gun For Protection
By Desiderius Erasmus, a Guns Save Life member
The “typical” gun owner is often characterized by many bigoted non-gun-owners as a right wing, redneck, beer-guzzling, low IQ Neanderthal who is just itchin’ to pull the trigger. But times have changed, and now a whole lot of those non-gun-owners – who used to be dismissive of guns and gun owners — truly need a firearm, whether you’re a Pabst or an Armand de Brignac Blanc de Blanc kind of person.
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Factory Visit: Icarus Precision Lets You Take the Modularity of the SIG FCU To The Next Level
When the modular SIG P320 and P365 were launched they touted a chassis-like system for the fire control groups. Others like Grand Power had been using this construction style for years to improve longevity and trigger feel consistency, but SIG managed to make the FCU the serialized part recognized by the ATF as the legal “firearm.”
This opened up a world of possibilities. Other manufacturers like SCCY and Honor Guard did the same, but the modularity never went much beyond the same grip modules being offered in different colors.
New 8.6 BLK Barrels from Faxon Firearms
Faxon Firearms has collaborated with Q to build the highest quality 8.6 BLK barrels for Remington 700 and AR10 platforms.
It should come as no surprise that Faxon Firearms is developing barrels compatible with the new 8.6 Blackout ammunition. After all, the Ohio-based manufacturer has always been at the forefront of barrel development.
Now they’ve combined Faxon Firearms barrel expertise with the science and innovation of Q to come up with an extraordinary and formidable package.
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Inside NBC News’ Inside Look at ‘Ghost Guns’ and the Laws They Broke in the Process
By Lee Williams
Our friends at Ammoland Shooting Sports News have done incredible work exposing the crimes – actual crimes – NBC correspondent Vaughn Hillyard and his crew committed while producing the liberal network’s latest hit-piece on homemade firearms. I was asked to take a look at the story from a different perspective. What I found was simply unbelievable – the worst news story focused on firearms ever produced for a network news program.
Gear Review: Clip & Carry STRAPT-TAC Belly Band Holster
Way back when, when I was a young buck who just starting to carrying a gun, I gave them all a shot. I tried every type of holster possible…or close to it. Belly bands were a brief experiment. The cheap one I had offered crappy retention, and even just wearing it around the house revealed major retention, concealment, and comfort issues.
After that, I moved on and never looked back. The STRAPT-TAC belly band is the first time I’ve come back to belly band carry.
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Woman Shoots Ex-Boyfriend Who Was Holding a Gun to Her Current Boyfriend’s Head
You can’t beat a girl who shoots. Especially a momma bear with three young cubs. A big, bad wolf learned that the hard way after he broke into his ex-girlfriend’s Las Vegas residence in the dead of night. In the end, she ended the attack by shooting her ex dead right there as he held her new boyfriend hostage.
The woman accessed her gun and told the violent ex-lover to leave. He reluctantly did, only to return with his own gun and an unhealthy dose of rage.
Judge Jackson Affirms Right to Keep and Bear Arms During Confirmation Hearings…Sort Of
Anyone expecting Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing to be a firework show when it came to gun rights was disappointed. President Joe Biden’s nominee answered questions posed by probing U.S. senators, but some of those answers gave reason for pause.
Although Judge Jackson noted the U.S. Supreme Court in Heller affirmed the Second Amendment is an individual right, her full testimony was revealing. Judge Jackson demurred on questions surrounding concealed carry, spoke of the importance of Court precedent and refused to define her judicial philosophy.
NBC Reporter, PA AG Staffers Commit Felonies While Producing ‘Ghost Gun’ Hit Piece on JSD Supply [VIDEO]
Our friends at Ammoland have been on a story swirling around a “journalist” at NBC News and a hit piece the network ran on “ghost guns” and Pennsylvania-based JSD Supply. Step into the Wayback Machine for a moment and travel with us to last March when Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro — one of the most ardent anti-gun politicians in the nation — pressured gun show operator Eagle Arms to ban JSD from its shows in the state.
Feds Fight the Flow of Chinese Auto Sears Into the U.S.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the federal agency responsible for policing guns in the U.S., said it seized 1,500 weapons modified with auto sears in 2021, a staggering increase over 2020, when only 300 were recovered.
“Auto sears are everywhere on the street right now,” said Jefferey Boshek, a 21-year ATF veteran who now serves as the special agent in charge of the Dallas Field Division. “They’re one of the scariest things we’ve dealt with since I became an agent.”
The ascent of the auto sear has been propelled by its availability and ease of use.
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Gun Meme of the Day: Another Shot at KELTEC Edition
I dunno, I’d take up an RFB or RDB in that circumstance. I’ve shot ’em both relatively extensively, including an RFB to 800 yards in single-digit Wyoming weather, and they’re pretty capable.
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Gear Review: Holosun AEMS Multi-Reticle Micro Red Dot Sight
Holosun has been making waves in the optics industry. The company went from producing simple red dots to producing affordable, but surprisingly durable mini red dots like the 507C and 509T and the class-leading 507K.
Their latest optic is the AEMS, representing a break from the standard Holosun optic. The AEMS represents not only a new naming convention for Holsoun, but really shows they can innovate.
Design and Features of the AEMS
AEMS standards for Advanced Enclosed Micro Sight, and that’s an apt description (other than maybe ‘micro’ which, to me, is reserved for pistol-sized sights.
The Spread of Constitutional Carry Has Dealt the Moms and Everytown Their Biggest ‘L’ Yet
A little over a year ago, I wrote about the amazing progress constitutional carry had made, though not without a number of failed efforts. The total at the time was 18 states, something that seemed unimaginable just a few years earlier. It wasn’t long ago that there were still fights to move no-issue states into the may-issue column, and may-issue states to shall-issue. No-issue is now ostensibly down to just a single state.
In other words, in the not-so-olden days, being able to carry, even with a permit, was a fight.
Anti-Gun, Anti-Hunting Academics Should Educate Themselves
There was a time in America when universities taught young adults how to think, not what to think. Take an idea floated by two university professors who want to upend the funding firearm manufactures and importers pay for wildlife restoration and conservation. They want America to think because criminals misuse guns that the industry making them shouldn’t have a hand in wildlife conservation.
Two professors, John Cassellas Connors, Assistant Professor of Geography, Texas A&M University and Christopher Rhea, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, propose this idea is essential because hunters are in decline and gun ownership is somehow immoral.
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Academics and Anti-Gunners Can’t or Won’t Recognize That Violence Can Be Virtuous
In the acknowledgements [to Empire of Guns], the author, who’s a history professor at Stanford University writes, “Like everything I write, this book is for my children. In 2010 when Amman was four, she asked a Policeman who was sitting at our local taqueria why he had a gun. The policeman explained he had it to protect everyone from bad guys. And Amman bravely replied, ‘But if you have a gun, then you are a bad guy.'”
Now, I don’t know this author.
Gun Review: SIG SAUER P322 .22LR Rimfire Pistol
No, SIG SAUER’s new .22LR pistol — the P322 — is not a P320. But you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for one at first glance. When SIG set out to fill the rimfire hole in their handgun lineup, they didn’t decide to have another company build the new gun for them. Instead, unlike other entrants in the rimfire pistol space, SIG embarked on a 15-month effort to design and build the new P322 themselves.
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