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Biden’s Repeated Lies, Targeting Lawful Gun Owners Won’t Help Democrats Who Created the Violent Crime Surge In Their Cities
The desiccated husk of what used to be a mediocre legislator traveled to New York City yesterday. Why? The Big Apple is in the middle of a historic surge in violent crime, but that didn’t really have anything to do with the trip. The real motivation was the fact that old Joe’s poll numbers are awful and getting worse. The economy is shedding jobs by the hundreds of thousands and inflation is rising faster than Neil Young’s opinion of his own relevance.
SHANNON WATTS: The Gun Culture Hates Us Not Because We Want to Disarm Americans, But Because We’re Women
Cunt. Whore. Bitch. These are just some of the words my fellow Moms Demand Action volunteers and I have been called over the past nine years. We’ve become experts on the nexus between misogyny and gun culture because we’ve lived it—in person and online—since the day we decided to stand up to the gun lobby.
To be clear, pro-gun activists don’t disagree with us because they actually believe we want to take their guns away.
Gun Meme of the Day: It’s That Simple, Folks Edition
Being an informed gun owner requires about as much legal research as getting a JD.
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Save Money And Train to Shoot Better With the Strikeman Pro Advanced Laser Training System
The Strikeman Pro Advanced Laser Training System takes dry fire shoot-at-home training to a whole new level of fun and effectiveness. Strikeman Pro is an advanced dry-fire laser training system that allows you to practice your shooting skills without the need for live ammunition.
By using Strikeman’s Pro’s targets, laser cartridge and smartphone holder together with the Strikeman Pro app, you can safely work on and improve your shooting skills in the comfort of your own home.
SHOT SHOW Range Day: Shooting the New SCCY DVG-1 Striker-Fired 9mm Pistol
TTAG’s Virgil Caldwell has already reviewed the new SCCY DVG-1, the company’s first striker-fired 9mm pistol, but I hadn’t gotten the chance to shoot it yet. That changed early on Monday morning at Range Day.
The DVG-1 is very much in keeping with the rest of SCCY’s lineup. It’s a fairly slim polymer pistol that’s just the right size for concealed carry and doesn’t demolish your bank account when you pay for it.
ATF’s Hundreds of Millions of Digitized Gun Sales Records Isn’t As Bad As It Sounds
A lot of folks have expressed concern, to put it mildly, about the revelation of what we all knew all along: that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives and Really Big Fires has created quite a database on American gun sales. While there’s nothing good (or legal) to come from a government registry of firearms owners and their holdings, old gun purchase forms remain of limited value at best.
From the Washington Free Beacon .
San Jose’s New Gun Owner Tax is Misplaced, Ineffective, and Unserious
6. Unconstitutional Tax
San Jose refers to the new fee imposed on gun owners as a “Gun Harm Reduction Fee,” but it’s nothing less than an unconstitutional tax on the exercise of an enumerated right.
The Supreme Court has struck down similar laws, reasoning that “a state may not impose a charge for the enjoyment of a right granted by the federal Constitution.”
This is precisely what San Jose’s fee does—require gun owners to pay an annual sum of money to exercise their Second Amendment rights inside the city.
Gun Meme of the Day: Doge Ammo Edition
Full disclosure: I own approximately $25 worth of Dogecoin. No Doge Performance Ammunition NFT yet, though. If you have no f’ing idea what any of this is about, don’t sweat it. Don’t change that. You’re better off.
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SHOT Show: Daniel Defense DD4 RIII Carbines and Pro Chassis System For Bolt Guns
Daniel Defense announced its new RIII line of carbines and its Pro Chassis System at SHOT, which is now available as a standalone product for both Delta 5 and Remington 700 actions.
The RIS III handguard uses the same 6-bolt attachment system found on the RIS II handguard that was developed for SOCOM, but ditches the quad Picatinny rails for seven sides of M-LOK slots.
Lower receivers are the same as previous generations of DD4 rifles but they’ve been made ambidextrous with the addition of a right-side bolt catch and release lever.
California Smash-And-Grab Robberies Stopped By Gun-Toting Business Owners
There has been a tidal wave of smash-and-grab robberies in California in recent weeks with no end in sight. But at least some business owners fought back against the thieves with their legally carried firearms and won.
At a jewelry store just East of Los Angles, four men sprayed bear repellent on everyone in the showroom. When the store owner pulled out his legally owned firearm, the suspects went running.
Five thugs tried to rob a jewelry store near 300 S.
SHOT Show: Gelstorm 8mm Gel Ball Blasters
Toy guns are firearms? Well, regardless of how these gel ball blasters identify, they sure look like fun. Honestly I have no idea how long gel ball blasters have been around, but as an alternative to airsoft or paintball, it seems like a great idea.
The little gels run about $10 for a pack of 5,200 of ’em. Tiny when dried, they take up minimal space. Just add water and about two hours to soften them up and they grow to their 7- to 8-millimeter shootable diameter.
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SHOT Show: Gov. Kristi Noem Has Eliminated Permit and Background Check Fees in South Dakota
South Dakota’s Republican Gov. Kristi Noem attended SHOT Show 2022 with one message for firearm industry manufacturers and businesses: “South Dakota is open for business.”
Gov. Noem told NSSF’s Nephi Cole, Director of Government Relations – State Affairs, that was the theme of her 2020 State of the State address and it applied before the coronavirus pandemic as well as now. That goes especially for the firearm and ammunition industry.
Discrimination: Why the ACLU Won’t Defend the Free Speech of Those Who Carry Firearms
By Lee Williams
For more than 70 years, the American Civil Liberties Union’s official position on the Second Amendment has been rather silly and somewhat difficult for them to explain.
The ACLU, which describes itself as the “premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution,” still believes that the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather than an individual right to keep and bear arms. They base their argument on the 1939 Supreme Court decision, United States v.
SHOT Show: Matrix Arms MX19 Aluminum Frame GLOCK-Compatible Pistols
Combining a machined aluminum frame with rubber grips (the units in the photos are prototypes), Matrix Arms has put a unique spin on the popular GLOCK-compatible pistol category with their MX19 and MX19 Elite.
Stainless steel slide rails and locking places are bolted into the frame.
Both frame and slide are compatible with GLOCK Gen 3 components, but the MX19 is a complete pistol so you won’t be short any pieces.
Another 1.2 Million New Firearms Sold in January as Sales Return to The New Normal
Another indicator of gun sales returning to normality as the National Shooting Sports Foundation reports that adjusted NICS sales background check volume was about 1.2 million in January. The NSSF’s Mark Oliva tells TTAG that . . .
The NSSF Adjusted FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System report of 1,190,856 shows us that there is a continued interest in firearm ownership in America. This marks the 30th month in a row that background checks for a firearm purchase topped 1 million in a single month and ranks as the fifth strongest for the month of January.
Democrat AGs, Three Foreign Countries Back Mexico’s Bid to Bankrupt American Gun Makers
[Thirteen] states and the countries of Antigua and Barbuda and Belize filed separate briefs urging a federal judge in Boston to not dismiss Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against companies including Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co.
The companies have argued Mexico has failed to establish its harms were attributable to them and that a U.S. law, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, protected gun makers from lawsuits over their products’ misuse.
Gun Meme of the Day: AK Purist Edition
It’s like cats and dogs, man.
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A Different Vibe: SHOT Show in the Time of Covid
Leading up to the NSSF’s 2022 SHOT Show, a lot of the buzz was about the exhibitors that wouldn’t be there. A number of industry companies made the entirely rational, calculated decision that shipping a lot of their personnel to Las Vegas for a week during the dreaded Omicron surge — and then bringing them home to work alongside their production staff — wasn’t a risk they were willing to take.
There was at least some apprehension among a lot of people TTAG talked to — industry types, exhibitors, and those in the media who cover the annual confab — about traveling to Vegas this year.
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SHOT Show: Recover Tactical’s P-IX Modular AR Platform For GLOCKs
It’s wild how many pistol-into-carbine chassis/body/receiver systems were at SHOT Show this year. It seems like everyone is getting into the space, but all approach their solution in slightly different ways, which is cool to see.
Meandering through the new products center while avoiding the trade show security folks assigned to COVID mask harassment duty (I had my magic hat on, I don’t know why I’d also need a magic mask), I saw this clamshell thing eating a GLOCK like “Bird One” from You Only Live Twice.
Ukrainian Civilians Train to Mount a Resistance Should Russians Invade
By Mstyslav Chernov and Lori Hinnant, AP
The table tennis coach, the chaplain’s wife, the dentist and the firebrand nationalist have little in common except a desire to defend their hometown and a sometimes halting effort to speak Ukrainian instead of Russian.
The situation in Kharkiv, just 40 kilometers (25 miles) from some of the tens of thousands of Russian troops massed at the border of Ukraine, feels particularly perilous. Ukraine’s second-largest city is one of its industrial centers and includes two factories that restore old Soviet-era tanks or build new ones.