The Weapon Blog
SKS vs AK-47
Russia convened a technical committee consisting of some of its foremost firearm experts in 1943. This was not long after a costly victory in the Battle of Stalingrad that claimed the lives of nearly half a million Russians. Their mission was to identify or create a cartridge capable of running in carbines, light machine guns, and select-fire rifles while delivering fight-stopping performance.
The ammunition commonality would eliminate some supply chain headaches encountered during the five-month engagement. More importantly, it would allow the Red Army to finally phase out the standard-issue bolt-action Mosin Nagants so painfully outperformed by many Axis small arms.
In late 1943, after conducting tests on various cartridge candidates, the Soviet military officially adopted the 7.62×39 mm and the M43. With Leningrad gripped in what would become a 900-day siege, shifting production when World War II raged in their backyard was not an option. However, work to create the first carbine capable of digesting the bottlenecked ammunition did slowly begin.
Which would you pick as the winner in this competition?
Read the rest of the article: https://www.wideners.com/blog/sks-vs-ak-47/
The Centers for Disease Control and
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly removed a range of gun statistics from its website after gun control advocates complained that the statistics made gun control laws harder to pass, according to emails between CDC officials and gun control activists.
Over a three-month period, gun control advocates met with CDC officials about its estimate of defensive gun uses per year, which ranged from 60,000 to 2.5 million based on a review of various studies, according to the emails. The advocates argued that the 2.5 million statistic, found in a study by criminologist Gary Kleck, was misleading, incorrect and made it harder to pass gun control laws, spurring the CDC’s decision to remove the statistics from its website.
Read the rest of the article: https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/15/cdc-quietly-scrubbed-key-firearm-stats/
Lame Duck Assault Weapon Ban Unlikely
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a top gun-control advocate, dismissed on Sunday the possibility that lawmakers will pass new gun-control legislation before Republicans take control of the House in January.
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Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Murphy admitted an assault weapons ban passed by the House is unlikely to pass the Senate.
“I’m glad that President Biden is going to be pushing us to take a vote on an assault weapons ban. The House has already passed it. It’s sitting in front of the Senate,” Murphy began.
Read the rest of the article: https://www.theblaze.com/news/murphy-biden-assault-weapons-ban
Ukrainian Sniper Makes 2nd Longest Combat Kill
Ukraine has claimed one if its snipers shot a Russian soldier from 1.7 miles away in what could be the second longest combat kill ever recorded.
Footage allegedly shows the moment the soldier drops to the ground after the sharpshooter takes a shot from a distance of 8,891ft.
It’s like shooting someone on Westminster Bridge from the top of Battersea Power Station – the length of 26 Wembley football pitches.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces said: ‘The occupier was eliminated by a precise shot of our special forces from a distance of 2,710 metres (8,891ft) – a distance that now ranks second in the world ranking, confirmed by the command of the Armed Forces.’
Read the rest of the article: https://metro.co.uk/2022/11/15/sniper-takes-out-russian-from-1-7-miles-in-worlds-second-longest-combat-kill-17759807/
9th Birthday
November 14, 2013
Sean,
So many things I would have liked to share with you… The simple pleasure of warm sunlight on your face. The color of the sky on a cloudless, moonless night. The smell of a freshly caught fish. The intensity of what truly great music sounds like. Subtleties involved in humor.
But we will never have those — or the millions of other — opportunities.
Goodbye son. Show me around and tell me what it’s like when I get there.
Love,
Dad
Specific Gun Purchases To Be ‘Delayed’ Starting November 14, 2022
The FBI posted a notice on its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), notifying gun dealers to expect delays in background checks for purchasers under the age of 21, starting on Nov. 14.
Bearing Arms first reported on the upcoming NICS processing delays, after a federal firearms license (FFL) dealer contact shared with the publication a letter sent by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The ATF letter let the FFL dealer know that it has been revising it’s process for gun purchasers between the age of 18 and 20 since the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) of 2022 passed in June.
Read the rest of the article: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/11/certain-gun-purchases-to-be-delayed-starting-next-week/
Trigger Control = Gun Control
I’ve come to realize that trigger control is not well understood by many. In an article on a gun forum, for example, the author stated that trigger control was not at all important. According to the author, police gunfights occur at such close ranges that worrying about trigger control is unnecessary.
Read the rest of the article: https://www.shootingwire.com/features/159f0fa0-044a-4408-9e18-cfe66190e8bc
FBI Gathering Addresses Through NICS
Every time you buy a gun, you have to pass your info through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) before you can take home your new little boating accident.
A reported 9 out of 10 failures to pass said background check in the notoriously inefficient government system are errors that keep lawful citizens from obtaining a weapon.
Despite that, a new rule will require federal firearms licensees (FFL) to provide the home addresses of customers who fail a background check to authorities.
Read the rest of the article: https://notthebee.com/article/report-leaked-fbi-email-shows-government-now-requiring-firearm-retailers-to-provide-home-addresses-of-some-customers/
Shooting A Deadbolt
The team at Wideners did a cool Mythbusters-style run-down of shooting a deadbolt.
Please head on over and give it a read:
Help From The Hive Mind
Contest list is looking a bit lean. I’ve updated it with what I’m aware of… but could use some help from yall out there.
[contact-form]Lawsuit Filed Against ATF 80% Ruling
Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) has filed a new lawsuit challenging the ATF’s rule that would create new terms and enact a slew of regulations for the agency to enforce, including ones that would treat non-frames and non-receivers as if they were actual frames and receivers of weapons. The complaint in VanDerStok v. Garland can be viewed at FPCLegal.org.
Read the rest of the article: https://www.ammoland.com/2022/08/lawsuit-filed-challenges-atfs-80-firearm-receiver-rule/
The Quiet Part Out Loud
Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler admitted a Democrat-led bill intends to confiscate guns in “common use” during a Wednesday House Judiciary Committee hearing.
Republican North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop asked House Democrats if they dispute the fact that the proposed legislation H.R. 1808, titled “Assault Weapons Ban of 2021,” bans firearms in “common use” throughout the country.
“Would anyone on the other side dispute that this bill would ban weapons that are in common use in the United States today?” Bishop asked.
“That’s the point of the bill,” Nadler replied.
Read the rest of the article: https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/20/jerry-nadler-gun-bill-common-use/