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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.
Much Has Changed in the Last 20 Years…and Much Has Remained the Same
Frenzied pounding on the front door woke me; pounding, blended with shouts to turn on the television. It wasn’t even seven in the morning yet in Washington State, and I was alone because my young SAR dog was spending a night being neutered at the emergency veterinary clinic where I worked.
Head muzzy with not enough sleep, I answered the door only to have my visitor push into my living room and flip on the television himself.
9/11 And The Importance of Being Armed
Twenty years ago today I was riding my motorcycle to work, a little late, but almost there. My boss, Governor Rick Perry, called me along the way, and I had to pull over to get the phone out, take off my helmet, and answer him.
He asked me if I still had family in New York (I didn’t) and if I had seen the news (I hadn’t). He told me to get to the office as fast as I could.
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Henry-Levy: It’s Never a Good Sign When Retired Military Members Put Themselves Back in Service
It is never good when, in a democracy, retired members of the military presume to put themselves back into service.
But it was that or the horror of seeing their friends and allies lynched.
It was this cautious, careful operation, by all indications undertaken with fear and trembling, or definitive dishonor.
America today is under the shadow of this self-inflicted Saigon, this botched Dunkirk, this deep humiliation.
Gun Meme of the Day: Chicago Olympics Edition
One more Olympics meme as we head into the weekend. And…GO!
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First Impression: The FAB-Defense RAPS Stock
The FAB-Defense RAPS stock has been out for a couple of years now but I have never had hands on time with one until Wednesday. I haven’t installed it yet, but it sure feels fantastic.
Raps or RAPS in all caps stands for rapid adjustable precision stock. FAB has managed to make tool-less, secure, and quick adjustments for length of pull and the cheek rest. No easy feat. The
The RAPS stock is packed with some very nice features.
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Non-Compliance With Tyrannical Laws and Leaders is as American as Apple Pie
By Olivia Rondeau
In response to the COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates, the phrase “we will not comply” and sentiments of civil disobedience have become increasingly popular.
Parents at school board meetings have been chanting the famous phrase to protest school districts forcing their children to wear masks while attending school this upcoming semester. In Williamson County, TN, parents protested outside their children’s school building after the board voted to mandate masks in schools.
CAA Announces the Radically New AGADA Pistol Caliber Carbine
From CAA USA . . .
CAA USA, designers and developers of the world-famous MCK/Micro Conversion Kit, have just released new details regarding their new pistol caliber carbine on the company’s YouTube Channel. LTC. (Ret.) Mikey Hartman, CEO of CAA USA, announces in the video that the PCC has been named the AGADA, a Hebrew word for “Legend.” At an MSRP of $899.00, the AGADA will accept 9mm and in the future 10mm GLOCK magazines.
NC Lt. Governor Robinson: Gov. Cooper Has Made Sure 2nd Amendment Discrimination Will Stay in Place
Given efforts to eradicate racism, you might expect a governor to eagerly sign repeal of a Jim Crow-era law which, by one account, discriminates against Black Americans even today.
But not if the governor is Roy Cooper and the law is our 1919 pistol purchase permit system, which researchers suggest was enacted to deny handguns to Black Americans. Cooper recently vetoed House Bill 398 to repeal the system.
Even gun control stalwarts like Mecklenburg County’s Sen.
Gun Meme of the Day: Olympic Gold Edition
USA, USA! Though this year the meme isn’t actually true…we did well, but not “gold in all shooting competitions” well.
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Gun Review: CZ 457 Varmint Precision Chassis MTR Rifle
When TTAG’s Jeremy S. asked me if I wanted to review a new CZ 457 rimfire rifle, I told him yes, and to just go ahead and have them send me the invoice. I didn’t ask what the features were. I didn’t care what it looked like. I was going to be happy with it, whatever it was, because it was a CZ rimfire rifle.
The CZ 457 Varmint Precision Chassis MTR did not disappoint.
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