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Jun Wang keeps a loaded shotgun in his closet and another rifle at the ready to give his 13-year old son should things get really real– and he holds firearms classes for members of his community.

Al Jazeera (we know, right?) delves into the life of one of the biggest Second Amendment advocates in Chicago and what he is doing on the ground when it comes to grassroots tribal gun knowledge as possibly the only Chinese firearms instructor in the city.

“Unless you can take away all the guns from criminals, I will not give up my guns,” says Wang.

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Internet retailer Brownells has added firearms to its online catalog of products, the company announced this week.

The change is “one example of many upcoming programs we’ll be launching to serve every portion of the gun industry,” said Pete Brownell, the retailer’s chief executive officer.

“We’ve been a gun company from the beginning,” he added, stressing the company long maintaining an inventory of gun parts and accessories.

The company announced the new functionality on Nov. 9 that streamlines the gun-buying process, which requires users to select a firearm and a pre-approved licensed dealer where it can be shipped so the buyer can undergo a background check. Brownells said it lists more than 30 firearm brands.

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Top Shot Michelle Viscusi, who rocks a Taran Tactical Glock 35 in competition, walks you through her gear and some of her shooting tips.

A U.S. Army National Guard vet (MP), Viscusi currently shoots for Team Glock and if you don’t follow her on social media, you really should fix your life.

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Hickok45 spends quality time hanging out in the yard with an integrally suppressed SD version of the Heckler and Koch MP5 in an effort to contrast it to its slightly louder brother.

It’s got all the goodies, being a suppressed SBR with a full-auto selector switch and on-board en-quieter that is capable of putting the hush on even super-sonic hardball. Yup, the MP5SD was developed by Heckler & Koch in 1976 for military commandos and was designed to allow standard NATO ball, already in service for subguns and handguns, to be used in the integrally suppressed little SD, but still be quiet enough to where mechanical action noise is all you hear.

Who knew that a steel plate could ring so true when being repeatedly stitched by 9mm?

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In China, Norinco’s QBZ-95 rifle has been the standard weapon of the military for two decades– and Tim with the Military Arms Channel has a look at the shotgun based on that design.

The K-12 Puma has been floating around Canada (why do they get all the cool overseas stuff?! Oh wait, never mind) and is now being imported into the U.S. by DDI.

Anyone who has had a chance to use and abuse a Chinese-made Hawk or other such burners should be eager to get their hands on the magazine-fed Puma. Though MAC does advise it is supposed to be run with loads on the stout end– but the gas port is adjustable.

Adjustable enough to try to cut a rubber dummy in half…

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Everyone knows those cheesy in-room hotel safes are not meant to defeat incoming rounds– but if you stack them 10 deep, can they hold off a .50 BMG?

Edwin Sarkissian taps in one of the new and ultra rare Serbu RN-50s (they DO exist!) break-action .50s to see just how the strong boxes hold up. The pill used is a generic 660-grain American Eagle.

Hope he got a deal on those safes.

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Everyone’s favorite nutty Bavarian, slingshot guy Joerg Sprave, has escalated his airgun arms race by producing a shoulder-fired version of his already impressive DIY air rifle.

Using a steel compression chamber with 2-inch ball valves operating at 100 bars of pressure (that’s 1450 psi), it can fire a 3.3-pound aluminum tube with a 65mm diameter that ends in a blunted bolt.

When it goes off, Joerg pulls a spontaneous moonwalk.

Ho Ho Ho.

He is trying to optimism the device to get more performance.

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America’s favorite YouTube gun reviewer stacks up Sturm, Ruger’s improved .22LR target pistol with its easy take down against some hard use on the range.

Recently introduced, the Mark IV keeps all the things people have loved in the past seven or so decades of their rimfire semi-auto pistol offerings, while bringing some much needed improvements to the design.

And the simplified pistol– in its Hunter variant– seems to take out pop and ring steel as needed in Hickok’s capable hands.

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For the first time in 108 years, the Chicago Cubs won the annual championship series of Major League Baseball this week– and you better believe there was celebratory gunfire in Wrigleyville.

The series, which started in 1903, has been absent of a Cubs championship since that great knickerbocker Theodore Roosevelt was president and Chicagoans lit it up after the win in extra innings of Game 7 as shown in this video from Patrick DeCori on YouTube.

Hey, at least there won’t be another display of gunfire in the city like this until 2124, or this weekend, whatever comes first– while Aleppo will eventually settle down.

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The Gould Brothers, a team of two literal bros who are really into exhibition shotgun shooting, show that two hands are better than one when it comes to some clays.

Of course, these guys can typically clear a shooting house of clays with one shotgun tied behind their back, but it never hurts to double the fun.

And remember, these are sponsored trick shooters on a closed range, so you should probably not try this at your own local 5 Stand.

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While she normally entertains and educates with all sorts of fun videos and tricks, Kirsten Joy Weiss took a few minutes to get a little more serious in her latest video and discussed something which affects us all – freedom.

Weiss gives a brief history lesson and talks about protecting freedom against what she dubs “anti-freedom loopholes… phrases and compromises that seep into our freedoms and affect and infringe upon our basic human rights.”

Weiss noted that her message isn’t just for Americans, it’s a message for all of mankind, disarmament isn’t just about guns, and all human rights are intertwined.

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While the X-Products Can Cannon is meant by its very name to chunk pop cans to distance, its ballistic properties are suspect.

The Wound Channel puts it to the test against an already cracked windshield with various size (8 oz, 12 oz) cans of assorted cola with a Go-Pro and pumpkin hiding behind the glass for effect.

There will be (minor) spalling…and bonus Can Cannon on pumpkin violence.

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With Halloween and All Saints Day/Day of the Dead in the rearview, Youtube Glockster Edwin Sarkissian filled a row of prop skulls to see how many a 9mm from a G43 would skip through.

His ammo of choice is lightweight 9mm Luger +P+ Xtreme Defenders from Underwood.

If you think that is pulling the punch too much, he brings out a Kalash to finish the job.

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With John Moses Browning’s USGI .45 longslide reigning strong for well over a century, Hickok45 has the lowdown on what the differences are that sets the A1 apart from its older brother.

With experience earned in the U.S. involvement in the Great War (and feedback from other countries that adopted the pistol) the M1911A1 Government model was revamped around 1924 which included a number of little tweaks aimed to make it more controllable and less prone to hammer bite. These mods included a shorter trigger, some minor cutouts in the frame, an arched mainspring housing, a longer grip safety spur and modified grips.

Of course, Hickok explains it much better.

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Edwin Sarkissian whips up a ballistics challenge to a creamy froth when pits a Glock 43 stoked with self-defense ammo against a case of generic reddi-whip.

For his silver bullet, so to speak, Sarkissian is using Underwood 115-grain +P Xtreme Penetrator 9mm. Spoiler alert: he makes it through all 12 cans.

Somewhere a thousand pumpkin spice lattes cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

Remember, whipped cream is only 15 calories per serving, so there is that.

Tip to ES: Drop the club music…we beg you.

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IV8888 and TGC teamed up with a custom Thompson/Center Encore chambered in .500 S&W Magnum and tested out just how far it was still lethal.

The five-hundo is on the hefty end of revolver cartridges and, when fired out of the 16-inch barrel of the Haus of Guns customized T/C mated to a Bowers Group Vers 50 high-efficiency can, surely picks up some fps over what you would see from a hand cannon.

So how far does it reach out and penetrate pine baffle board — aka old-school ballistics gel?

Watch the vid.

Spoiler alert: they try a 600 yard shot with stupid large holdovers to compensate and a time of flight long enough to make a sandwich.

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Richard and the folks over at FullMag gave a nod to Civ VI by pitting a bowling ball cannon and flintlock rifle against a pumpkin based invader.

Starting off at 70 yards with the flintlock repro, Richard makes an impressive head shot on the mug of the pumpkin commander (or at least it is edited that way) then proceeds to miss the whole invasion force with the bowling ball cannon.

While seemingly impressive, accuracy and bowling balls lobbed in a rainbow arc by a charge of cannon grade black powder aren’t two things that go together and they can’t make it happen.

Leading to the need to move the cannon to point blank range. Because pumpkins.

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Sure, last week she mastered the art of using the Force to hit her target while blindfolded, but can ever-entertaining sharpshot Kirsten Joy Weiss clear an entire plate rack while blindfolded?

We, of course, have faith in her, but check out the video for yourself.

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Glock’s Charles Sumner raps with Mike Lamb of Stoic Ventures about the evolution of Gaston’s polymer pistol from Gen I through Gen IV MOS, and has the guns to prove it.

Hanging out at the McHenry Shooting Center, Sumner starts his Glock time machine with the early 1980s classic Gen. I and moves forward, comparing the various models inside and out and gives a few tidbits of trivia that you may not know about.

We did sniff that there were no RTF2 (insert Glock fanboy squee here) or Gen 3.5 guns as well as some other transitory variants, but hey, it’s a 4~ minute vid.

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In a new video giving a behind the scenes look at the Transportation Security Agency, security specialist Craig Ogden explains how he uses his expertise in explosives to provide a critical layer of security.

“When our officers at the checkpoint have concerns about an item or image during screening, they call on me to provide advanced alarm resolution,” Ogden said. “This means that I’m responsible for ensuring that the item isn’t a potential bomb.”

Odgen served 14 years in the U.S. Army and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as the platoon sergeant of an explosive ordnance disposal company. He provides training to TSA officers on explosives and improvised explosive device detection, as well as concealment and smuggling techniques.

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