The Weapon Blog
October 2018 Gun & Gear Contests
At the risk of reducing my own chances to win, https://www.weapon-blog.com/contests/ has been updated with all the gun and gear related contests that I am aware of for the month.
Go forth and win… As always, feel free to share wherever you can.
If you are aware of any that are not on the list, please submit the details on the contact form to get it added to the list.
The Science of Russia’s New Silent Sniper Rifle
Once a year, giants of the Russian arms industry gather outside Moscow to show off their latest technology and display their vision for the future of human warfare at the Russia’s Army Expo.
This year’s event featured future vaporware like a giant combat walker robot and other concepts far off into the future, such as chameleon camouflage. But a more significant weapon made a much more quiet appearance: the MTs-116M suppressed sniper rifle. Designed to mask noise and muzzle flash, it’s the most advanced version yet of one of the modern battlefield’s deadliest weapons.
The MTs-116M has been around for twenty years. It is a well-proven if unexceptional bolt-action, 7.62mm weapon with an affective range of 700 meters (about 2,300 feet). The new version, unveiled at Army 2018, keeps the basic design but converts the MTs-116M into a silenced 12.7mm weapon. It’s a major and appropriately quiet feat of weapon engineering.
Read the rest of the article: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/amp22862616/russia-silent-sniper-rifle/
Gunfighting Wisdom From Wyatt Earp
I was a fair hand with pistol, rifle, or shotgun, but I learned more about gunfighting from Tom Speer’s cronies during the summer of ’71 than I had dreamed was in the book. Those old-timers took their gunplay seriously, which was natural under the conditions in which they lived. Shooting, to them, was considerably more than aiming at a mark and pulling a trigger. Models of weapons, methods of wearing them, means of getting them into action and operating them, all to the one end of combining high speed with absolute accuracy, contributed to the frontiersman’s shooting skill. The sought-after degree of proficiency was that which could turn to most effective account the split-second between life and death. Hours upon hours of practice, and wide experience in actualities supported their arguments over style.
The most important lesson I learned from those proficient gunfighters was the winner of a gunplay usually was the man who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live long on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting—grandstand play—as I would poison.
Read the rest of the article: http://abesguncave.com/wyatt-earp-on-gunfighting-interview/
CMMG Banshee MK57 Review
This looks amazing, just too much fun out on the range!
Study claiming US is home of one-third of mass-shooters worldwide debunked
A widely-popularized study adopted by the Obama administration claiming the U.S. has by far the most mass public shooters in the world has been criticized and dismissed by new research.
John. R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author of the new study, has always been skeptical of the research by Adam Lankford, a professor at the University of Alabama, whose work gained special prominence after then-President Barack Obama cited his study in remarks about the San Bernardino attack in December 2015.
Read the rest of the article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/01/study-claiming-us-is-home-one-third-mass-shooters-worldwide-debunked-figure-less-than-3-percent.amp.html
Over 66% Of 2015-2016 School Shootings Never Happened
National Public Radio uncovered deeply flawed data published by the U.S. Department of Education, following an investigation that found that more than two-thirds of school shootings reported to the authorities during one school year did not actually occur.
What are the details?
With help from the nonprofit research group Child Trends, NPR analyzed data from the 2015-16 school year as reported in the Civil Rights Data Collection survey on school climate and safety.
The report states that “nearly 240 schools (0.2 percent of all schools) reported at least one incident involving a school-related shooting.” It also noted that “over 100 schools (0.1 percent of all schools) reported a school-related homicide involving a student, faculty member, or staff member.”
NPR reached out to each of the schools cited as having a shooting incident, and “found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened.”
Read the rest of the article: https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/08/28/npr-more-than-two-thirds-of-school-shootings-reported-to-feds-in-2015-16-never-happened
Isis Dispatched From 1.5 Miles With 60 Year Old Gun
An SAS Sniper used a 60-year-old Browning M2 50 BMG machine gun to blow an ISIS commander to pieces in front of his men from 1.5 miles away.
It’s a new record for the SAS and the impressive thing is he used an old-school 50 BMG machine gun to do it. The shot tore the ISIS commander apart, ripping through his chest and taking a shoulder and arm with it. He was on a British and US ‘kill list’, and that got dealt with. He died instantly.
Read the rest of the article: http://usa-gun-shop.com/sas-sniper-hits-1-5-mile-target-with-40-year-old-gun/
Shopify Goes Anti-Gun
A change in policy announced Monday night by Shopify, an e-commerce platform used by more than 600,000 merchants to conduct online sales, will essentially shut down the sale of guns, gun parts and accessories over the internet by retailers who use Shopify.
Spike’s Tactical, a Florida-based gun manufacturer, has built their entire website and online sales portal exclusively using the Shopify platform and conducts millions of dollars in sales through Shopify each year.
Read the rest of the article: https://www.ammoland.com/2018/08/new-shopify-policy-bans-sale-of-guns-accessories-over-the-internet/
The NRA’s Future In Court
The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) has filed a collective lawsuit against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), New York State’s Superintendent of Financial Services Maria T. Vullo and the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS).
The NRA claims Cuomo, Vullo and DFS knowingly went to banks and insurance companies to tell them not to work with the pro-gun group, Rolling Stone first reported.
“Simply put, Defendants made it clear to banks and insurers that it is bad business in New York to do business with the NRA,” the lawsuit says. “As a direct result of this coercion, multiple financial institutions have succumbed to Defendants’ demands and entered into consent orders with DFS that compel them to terminate longstanding, beneficial business relationships with the NRA, both in New York and elsewhere.”
Read the rest of the article: https://townhall.com/notebook/bethbaumann/2018/08/04/the-nras-future-rests-in-the-hands-of-one-court-case-heres-why-n2506742
August 2018 Gun & Gear Contests
At the risk of reducing my own chances to win, https://www.weapon-blog.com/contests/ has been updated with all the gun and gear related contests that I am aware of for the month.
Go forth and win… As always, feel free to share wherever you can.
If you are aware of any that are not on the list, please submit the details on the contact form to get it added to the list.
Nukes Or Guns?
Which is worse? Richard discusses the topic, as everyone is all in a fluster now that Defense Distributed’s files have been released. But the fact that a magazine published details of how to manufacture a hydrogen bomb way back in 1979 is fine and dandy…
3D Printed Guns, Thermonuclear Weapons & the First Amendment
ATF & .50 Caliber AR Uppers
Our friends over at The Firearm Blog have reported another odd direction with regards to a specific manufacturer’s implementation of .50 BMG bolt-action upper receivers.
Read the article: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/07/30/breaking-news-atf-is-classifying-50-cal-bolt-action-ar-uppers-as-firearm/
Government Admits AR-15s Are Not Weapons of War
In its settlement with Cody Wilson’s Defense Distributed the government admitted that semi-automatic firearms below .50 caliber are not weapons of war.
On July 10, 2018, Breitbart News reported that the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) brought a suit against the State Department on Wilson’s behalf. The suit was filed in 2015 and was the result of State Department action to force Wilson to quit sharing 3-D gun files online.
Wilson and SAF fought the suit on First Amendment grounds and secured a settlement with the State Department and the Department of Justice, the latter of which finalizes the settlement.
The amended regulations proposed in the settlement show the government will no longer look at semi-automatic firearms below .50 caliber as “military equipment” or weapons of war.
Read the rest of the article: https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/23/government-admits-ar-15s-not-weapons-war/
4 Vets 4 Life Program
The 4 Vets 4 Life program is searchingsearching for 10 disabled American military veterans for their first 4Vets4Life program to award each with $100,000 and to provide one with a new home. Nominate someone at the location below:
Things Most People Never Learn To Do
Here are a few things that people never truly learn. All of these could be said about all of us; these are skills you never master. But some of us never put in nearly enough time for any learning to occur.
The majority of people never learn how to press the trigger. Triggers are all the same – apply steady pressure till the weapon fires. Some have slack or take-up, which must be removed before the actual “press” begins. The trigger pressure required to break the shot varies from one to another, and some triggers are crunchy or gritty. But ultimately they all do the same thing.
I often hear shooters complaining about one pistol or another. “I can shoot this one really well, but I can’t hit a barn with my ____________ (Fill in the blank.)”
Once you’ve actually learned how to press the trigger properly you can shoot every firearm well. Some are easier than others for sure, but you should be able to get good results with anything you pick up.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.thetacticalwire.com/features/071b64ff-a426-47a9-847d-c778263baf5c