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Rats From a Sinking Ship: Veteran Chicago Prosecutors Getting Out While They Can
Chicago residents have faced a rough few years. Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot refused to take crime seriously and lost reelection as a consequence. The county state’s attorney refused to hold violent criminals accountable, even when their crimes were caught on camera.
It’s so bad, one veteran city prosecutor is calling it quits and moving his family. On his way out the door, he criticized the city’s leadership in a mic-drop letter.
Coblenz: Let’s Call Mass Shootings ‘Second Amendment Celebrations’ to Honor True Patriots
“Mass Shooting” has such a negative connotation, particularly when paired with “Mass Casualties.” The term is scary, and frankly it almost seems as if the biased liberal media has coined the term to embarrass gun rights advocates, and to make them look callous and uncaring. This must change.
I’ve batted the idea around in my mind for a while now, trying to come up with something more palatable or benign.
Gun Meme of the Day: Plus Sized Operators’ Lives Matter Edition
My Hybrid EDC: ShaloTek Compensated P365 Slide Review
I spent much of the ’22-23 winter carrying a SIG P365-XMacro instead of the original P365 that I’ve been carrying as my EDC since early-ish 2018. The additional capacity was great, sure, but it was the optics cut and flatter-shooting, compensated slide that got me to switch.
But…the longer grip is harder to conceal. In preparation for warmer weather and lighter clothing, I connected with ShaloTek and built myself a hybrid gun.
Optics cut and integrally compensated, I chose a Sentinel EDC slide.
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Two New Products From GrovTec: Rail Wraps and Tube Mount Rails
Press releases follow for the new Rail Wrap (photo above) and Tube Mount Rail (below photo) from GroveTec . . .
GrovTec, a leading manufacturer of firearm accessories, is proud to announce the launch of its latest product, GrovTec Rail Wraps.
Designed to mitigate heat exposure while providing a stylish rail-cover option, the GrovTec Rail Wrap attaches to your handguard delivering a customized look, sling storage, and electronic accessory cable management.
CAUGHT! Biden Using Fake Data to Gaslight Americans on Mass Shootings…Again
By Lee Williams
Joe Biden has always struggled with the truth. Whenever he wanders off script and speaks extemporaneously, he invents personal anecdotes – boldfaced lies, actually – in which he assigns himself the starring role.
Whether he’s getting arrested in South Africa for trying to bust into Nelson Mandela’s prison cell, or bravely confronting AR-toting hunters in a Delaware swamp or going toe-to-toe with the arch-criminal, CornPop, no one actually believes him or takes his tall tales seriously.
Crowder: Listen Up, Here Are the Actual Facts About AR-15s
“We need to ban AR-15s, right? That’s one of these proposals,” Crowder said in a clip taken from his show Louder With Crowder. “Would banning AR-15s—if it was possible, assuming it’s not unconstitutional—would that make a difference?
“It would reduce total murders by less than 3 percent. Jeez,” Crowder added. “Here’s another potential path from the left. They said, ‘Well, we we need to increase gun-free zones… We need to make it hard for these people to carry firearms.’
“Except 94 percent of mass public shootings took place in gun-free zones.
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Gun Meme of the Day: Food Second Edition
You gotta have priorities!
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What the Media Doesn’t Want You to Know About Its Mass Murder Narrative
By Lee Williams of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project:
A large group of unsuspecting people was waiting at a bus stop in Brownsville, Texas around 8:30 a.m. Sunday, when a Land Rover suddenly blew through a red light and barreled straight into their midst at a high rate of speed. The bus stop was located outside of the Ozoman Center, which provides care for the city’s burgeoning migrant community.
Eighteen people where hit, six were killed instantly and two died later.
New From Riton Optics: 5 TACTIX 1-10×24 Riflescope
It’s awesome to see more manufacturers coming out with low power variable optics with enough zoom to enter the medium power category. A true 1x, no magnification setting allows running with both eyes open and using the illuminated reticle like a red dot, then cranking up the zoom lever to 10x (in Riton’s case here) allows for precision at longer ranges. It’s a great time to be alive!
Somehow, Riton has managed to launch a 1-10x scope in a more compact size and tube diameter than I’ve seen anywhere else.
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Scopes for Beginners: How Do I Align My Scope With My Gun? Scope Leveling the Easy Way
While there are dozens of products available to help you mount your scope in perfect alignment with your rifle, there’s one that I’ve used for many years that’s cheap, simple, and extremely effective. This is how to level your scope the easy way.
Step one: buy a digital protractor. The one seen in this article is available via Amazon HERE, though I bought it maybe eight years ago and, were I doing it today, I’d probably buy THIS ONE.
Firearms Policy Coalition Wins Injunction Against NJ Gun Control Law
Gotta love good news! Firearm Policy Coalition won a solid first step fighting back New Jersey law that made it effectively impossible to carry a concealed firearm in public, even with a license. FPC’s press release follows . . .
FPC WIN: Court Issues Preliminary Injunction in FPC Case Against New Jersey Restrictions on Bearing Arms
CAMDEN, NJ (May 16, 2023) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the successful acquisition of a preliminary injunction against multiple aspects of the New Jersey gun control law passed to severely restrict the ability of those with carry permits from actually being able to carry in public.
Parton: ‘Hardening Soft Zones’ Means Turning Them Into War Zones
That’s a little extreme even for Republicans but it really isn’t that far off from the common cry for “hardening soft targets” which basically means turning our entire society into armed camps with all public places under guard, doors locked and people with weapons and body armor, civilian and government alike, as if we are all supposed to live as if we are in a war zone ready to shoot at the first sign of danger.
Gun Meme of the Day: Happy Belated Mother’s Day Edition
I hope you checked “female” on the Form 1.
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It’s That Time Again: NBC Gins Up Another Flawed, Fake News Piece on the Origins of the AR-15 Rifle
By Lee Williams
In their latest hit piece about an inanimate object, NBC News once again ignores facts, common sense and takes frequent liberties with the truth.
The story, which was somehow labeled news rather than opinion, was published Sunday, titled: “What makes the AR-15 so beloved and so reviled: A rifle with military origins has become one of the country’s most divisive consumer products.”
For the two reporters who wrote the article, the problems began from the start.
New Orleans Pastor Protects His Flock by Embracing Armed Self-Defense, Firearm Training
Teaching day-long classes on firearm safety, storage, usage, tactics, gun laws, and obtaining a concealed carry permit along with providing basic shooting instruction at a local gun range, Pastor Isaiah Stewart’s 20 years in New Orleans, Louisiana brought him over to the pro-self-defense side of the aisle.
From a great article in The Washington Post . . .
“I know people will say, ‘Why is this happening in a church?’” Stewart said.
Gun Review: Beretta APX A1 Full Size Tactical 9mm Pistol
Last summer, Beretta updated their APX line of striker-fired handguns. The new Beretta APX A1 Full Size features better slide serrations, enhanced grip texturing, an improved trigger, a better recoil spring and more.
To fully appreciate all of the changes Beretta made, read our review of the APX A1 Full Size here. That will also save me much typing as this new tactical version of the APX A1 Full Size is mostly just the original gun, only tactical-ized.
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Unreliable Witness: Texas Man Embellished His Mall Shooting Story to Push Gun Control
You likely heard some of Steven Spainhouer’s accounts of what he said he witnessed upon arriving on the scene of the shooting at a shopping mall in Allen, Texas on May 6th. It was a gruesome, heart-wrenching tale that the apparent former Army officer and self-proclaimed “gun lover” used to get a message out to the media. Messages like . . .
“When you get hit with an automatic weapon fire at close range, there is no opportunity for survival,” Spainhouer told MSNBC.
Florida Rep. Introduces Bill to Ban Semiautomatic Gun Sales Nationwide to Anyone Under 25
Gun control theater. Performative hoplophobia. Bread and circuses for the anti-gun industry. Those are a few descriptions that come immediately to mind for what a Florida member of the U.S. House of Representatives is engaging in with his introduction of a bill to ban semiautomatic gun sales to anyone under 25 year old.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz knows full well his bill has no chance of getting anywhere in the GOP-controlled house. He also knows that current laws banning gun sales to adults under 21 years old are being struck down in a number of courts across the country.
Things That Don’t Suck: Axil’s New XCOR Wireless Earbuds With Bluetooth
Axil introduced their new XCOR earbuds last week. The company tells us they’ve put a lot of time and effort into this design and after a busy week of shooting and travel with them, they have a very good product on their hands.
I’ve been a dedicated AirPods user for a couple of years. I don’t go anywhere without them and I’ve tried some good tethered electronic earbuds including Axil’s GS Extreme 2.0 buds.