Guns

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch delivered remarks on curbing gun violence during a speech at the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Fair Housing Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2015. (Video screenshot: ABC News)

Dwight Howard apparently forgot about the gun in his carry on last week. (Photo: Jaime Valdez/USA Today Sports)

All but one member of the Albany council this week approved a measure requiring gun owners to keep their firearms locked up under penalty of law. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Two TV journalists in Virginia were gunned down during an on-camera interview on Aug. 26. (Photo compilation)

Authorities in Chicago investigate a Sept. 2 shooting that left one man dead. (Photo: Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

Assemblyman Mark Stone, center, saw his proposal to allow sheriffs to shift concealed carry permits to city police chiefs pass the Senate this week. (Photo: WGA.com)

Owner of Maine Military Supply Inc., Frank Spizuoco and his son Zachary, 10, at the cockpit of their pre-owned 1971-era MiG 21R that Frank bought for display at his Holden store (Photo: Bangor Daily News)

Acronyms can be clever and helpful. The military list of acronyms is quite extensive. Here are a few acronyms every gun owner and those interested self defense ought to know. By the way, I’m keeping the language clean since I’m not naturally inclined to use some words.

Sharpshooter Kirsten Joy Weiss gives her thoughts on how to keep the zen in your barrel harmonics by using a few simple techniques for proper barrel support.

The harmonics of firearms barrels, in short the vibrations radiating down the barrel from the time the firing pin hits the primer to the moment the bullet exits the muzzle, are all-important to keeping your hits in the ‘x’ downrange.

And KJW, who picked up an individual gold medal at Bisley, the Women’s National Champion Gold Medal at the 2012 NRA National Smallbore Championships, and made the Olympic Short List, likely knows a thing or three about precision shooting.

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No matter whether you call it a “FitzGerald Special,” “Fitz Special,” “Fitz Colt” or simply just a “Fitz”, doesn’t change that the fact that there is possibly no more distinctive snub-nosed revolver in firearms history. Period.

Tom Mauser holds his son Daniel’s shoes during an anti-gun-violence protest at the Colorado Capitol in Denver in April 2000. (Photo: Kirk McKoy/Los Angeles Times)

Harvey Lembo believes that because he is disabled and uses a motorized wheelchair to get around, criminals may think he is an easy target. (Photo: Bangor Daily News)

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