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Gun Meme of the Day: Classic Blunder Edition
I do not think that ad means what you think it means. Bonus Princess Bride-themed meme: I made this one just ahead of the 2020 election:
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Statement About Shield Sights Footprint By CEO James White
Shield Sights’ SMS and RMS lines are the most compact reflex sights on the market, which makes them perfect for sub-compact and micro-compact pistols. In fact, the mounting pattern — the “footprint” — of these sights has become an industry standard that is used by many other optic manufacturers for their smallest reflex style pistol-focused red dot optics, but there has been come market confusion as to what this footprint should be called and where it comes from.
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Gun Grabbers’ Lament: More Americans Than Ever Are Deciding That Owning a Gun is a Very Good Idea
There’s an interesting shift concerning Americans’ attitudes toward guns and gun control. Pew Research Center, a Washington, D.C. think tank that tracks attitudes on social issues, public opinion and demographic trends updated their research on guns.
Gun ownership is rising and the appetite for gun control is waning at the same time. Background checks for gun sales topped 21 million in 2020, shattering previous records. So far, 2021 has seen over 12.4 million background checks, on pace for what could be the second strongest year on record.
New ARMME App Provides A Community For Gun Owners Without The Social Media Censorship
While COVID hasn’t exactly brought a lot of positive developments for many of us personally or to the nation or globe as a whole, one thing that’s absolutely fantastic for the 2A community is the massive influx of first-time gun owners. Better, still, is the fact that so many of these new firearm owners are women, minorities, and other folks of a not OFWG background.
The new ARMME app is intended to create a community geared heavily toward these new gun owners and, hopefully, future Second Amendment supporters and defenders.
Gun Meme of the Day: Shock And Awe Edition
My home defense strategy? Shock and awe.
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Ex Everytown Employee: Working There Was ‘Like Being In an Abusive Relationship’
A former Everytown for Gun Safety employee took to Glassdoor — a website where current and former employees can anonymously rate and review employers — to warn people to stay away from the gun control organization.
According to the review, left on July 30, 2021, working for Everytown was “similar to being in an abusive relationship.” What’s worse is the review comes from someone who worked in a domestic violence and sexual assault crisis center.
Beretta Launches the New M9A4 9mm Pistol
From Beretta USA . . .
Beretta USA is excited to announce the launch of the new M9A4, the newest model in the venerable M9 series of pistols. Built to exceed the standards of even the most demanding tactical shooters, the M9A4 blends the proven design of the M9 with modern features such as a red-dot optic compatible slide and dovetailed tritium night sights for optimal sight options, an enhanced short reset Xtreme Trigger System, an 18-round magazine, and a Beretta Vertec frame with included aggressively textured Vertec-style thin grips that ensure a more natural fit for all shooters.
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Things That Don’t Suck: The DryFireMag
Good dry fire gadgets are well worth their initial cost. Things like the Mantis X10 aren’t cheap, but they provide a ton of training capabilities, even when the upfront cost seems rather high.
Revolutionizing dry fire isn’t easy to do, but occasionally someone finds a way. Today we are talking about the DryFireMag from a company called, well, DryFireMag.
Those of us who are part of the DA/SA master life know not the troubles striker fire pistol owners face when it comes to dry fire.
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Gabby Giffords: America’s Gun Owners Are Insurrectionists and a Threat to Democracy
By Lee Williams
For American gun owners, one of the major problems with the legacy media controlling the national narrative is that their fellow leftists are never held accountable for what they say, regardless of how libelous, insulting and flat-out wrong their comments are.
If a falsehood — even a whopper of a lie — fits their personal political views, the media will never question what is said. They’ll even promulgate the lie by repeating it in news stories and social media, which results in the statement being regurgitated so often it becomes accepted as fact by the uninformed.
Gun Meme of the Day: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Edition
My head would snap clean off if I flip-flopped as hard as the ATF does when they approve, rescind, pass, refine, rescind, clarify…then change their mind all over again on their extra-judicial determinations of gun product legality.
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Gun Review: SRM Arms SRM 1216 Semi-Automatic Shotgun
When you get down to it, shotguns are pretty simple, right? It’s a smoothbore tube, a (usually) tubular magazine, a stock, and we pretty much call it a day. Well, we’d like to, but to be perfectly honest, no one ever innovated by keeping things simple.
As a shotgun nerd, I embrace designs that try something different, and the SRM 1216 from SRM Arms might be the most different a shotgun can be.
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Strike Industries’ New SCIOPTO SCOUTER US-Assembled Red Dot Sight
From Strike Industries . . .
The SIOPTO SCOUTER is the first optical sight to premiere from the SIOPTO line of products. The SCOUTER is a unique original distinguished design by SIOPTO and Strike Industries engineers.
This is a precision CQB/CQC aiming solution at a competitive price point that provides functionality needed to operate in austere conditions. The SCOUTER is made from a one-piece sight housing along with the included absolute height mounting base.
Robogrunt: Israel to Patrol Its Borders With Armed Robots
By Alon Bernstein and Jack Jeffery, AP
An Israeli defense contractor on Monday unveiled a remote-controlled armed robot it says can patrol battle zones, track infiltrators and open fire. The unmanned vehicle is the latest addition to the world of drone technology, which is rapidly reshaping the modern battlefield.
Proponents say such semi-autonomous machines allow armies to protect their soldiers, while critics fear this marks another dangerous step toward robots making life-or-death decisions.
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Gun Meme of the Day: Math Can Be Fun Edition
LOL, yeah it’s pretty much like that. Math and physics — you gotta calculate for the rotation of the dang earth! — and a calm mind and body.
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The Slew of New Forced Reset Triggers and What it May Mean for Us
This Week in Gun Rights is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal, legislative and other news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights.
A Slew of Forced Reset Triggers Hit Market
Many of us watched in agony as ATF again came after a popular product designed specifically to comply with the letter of the law: the Rare Breed FRT trigger. It’s a trigger that slaps forward after every shot, hence a “forced reset.”
The forced reset provides for an exceptionally fast follow-up shot, meaning people could fire their weapons in a more spirited way, as you’ve no doubt seen in videos.
The Chipman Nomination May Be Dead, But The Fight to Protect Gun Rights is Far From Over
The White House’s announcement last week that President Joe Biden was withdrawing the nomination of David Chipman for Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was a victory for the firearm industry and gun owners in general. However, it’s not the end of the Biden gun control agenda. Not by a long shot.
Chipman was certainly not a qualified candidate to lead the 5,000-person agency.
Chicago Liquor Store Security Guard, A 4-Time Felon, Claims Self-Defense After Shooting and Killing Maskless Customer
We would need a bigger blog, a faster server, and a lot more staff if TTAG detailed everything wrong with Murder City, USA. However, the story of a liquor store that hired a four-time convicted felon (and registered sex offender) to provide armed security surely is exceptional in more ways than one.
Chester Holmes, 42, got a gig working armed security for a liquor store in Chicago. According the CPD, things went south when a maskless customer walked into the store.
Gun Review: Elastic Precision Semi-Auto Rubber Band Guns (MP5 / 1911 / PPK)
Two unexpected surgeries recently confined me to home — during duck hunting season no less. I soon found I needed something to scratch the gun guy itch. Video games don’t do it for me; I prefer more tangible challenges. I’ve got pellet guns and a few Airsoft guns, but I can’t shoot them in the house without consequence. Plus I was on painkillers. To quote the Spinners, hey ya’ll prepare yourself for the Rubberband, Man .
Take the Lockdown Quiz and Find Out What Type of Gun Owner You Are
We love firearms and so do you. Whether you own one for home defense, precision shooting, competition, or concealed carry, guns are a unifying passion…tools that allow each of us to express ourselves.
No matter what guns you own or what purpose you use them for, Lockdown has identified four unique traits that resonate with firearms owners. Those who embark to train, protect, collect, or explore.
Which type of firearm owner are you?
Dershowitz: How To Use The New Texas Abortion Law To Choke Off Gun Sales
Maybe the professor isn’t familiar with the Protection of Legal Commerce in Arms Act . . .
Consider this out-of-the-box proposal: Liberal, pro-gun-control states could apply the Texas bounty approach to gun control. New York or Illinois, for example, could declare that gun crime has gotten so serious that the private ownership of most handguns should be deterred. It would be unconstitutional for the state to authorize the criminal prosecution of those who facilitate constitutionally protected gun ownership.