2019 SHOT Show, Last Day
25 Jan 19 2019 SHOT Show, Last Day: The Show is over for another year! When you come, plan early. Get all your credentials and hotel reservations in place and confirmed early! Many who waited until the last minute spent a lot of time standing in lines! Of interest today: A company called Guns.com collects […]
2019 SHOT Show, Third Day
2019 SHOT Show, Third Day More items of interest: Surefire’s “Stiletto” flashlight is flat and designed to be carried in a pocket, like a folding knife. 650 Lumens, rechargeable. Very handy! Surefire’s “Fury Tactical” is a modest-sized conventional tube-light. 1500 lumens, also rechargeable. Among the brightest available! Elcan’s “Specter DR” (Duel Role) rifle optic is […]
SHOT Show, Second Day
23 Jan 19 2109 SHOT Show, Second Day Of interest today: My old friend, Ray Reynolds, runs a company called “Gunbusters.” All police departments have a problem with secure storage of seized guns, many of which no longer have any evidentiary value. Some departments hold public auctions, a good way to legally dispose of functional […]
2019 SHOT Show, First Day
22 Jan 19 2109 SHOT Show, First Day Cor-Bon has moved from SD to OH! New plant is set-up and now producing product. 9mmDPX is still most popular product! Hi-Viz “Lite Wave H3” pistol night sights are very impressive. I now have a set for a G19. Friends there say the SIG 320 version is […]
2019 Range Day
21 Jan 19 2019 SHOT Show, Range Day Today was “Range Day” in Boulder City, NV It was cool and very windy on the Range, but we got a chance to get our hands on, and shoot, several new guns that will be of interest to Operators: This year, single-column 9mm pistols, specifically designed for […]
2019 SHOT Show
20 Jan 19 2019 SHOT Show Tomorrow is “Range Day,” (Boulder City, NV) where we have the opportunity to actually handle and shoot new guns from a number of manufacturers. The SHOT Show proper is at the Sands Convention Center (Las Vegas, NV), Tuesday through Friday. East Coast weather made a hash of travel plans […]
Nihilism
17 Jan 19 “Lambs lie down only with well-fed lions, and plowshares, formed from the beaten swords of warriors, are wielded only by slaves.” Wiggington The dignity of man, degraded by “Nihilism.” Originating in Russia in the 1860s, self-declared “nihilists” were notorious for making liberal use of brutal, precipitous violence, “justifying it” by declaring that […]
Ready or Not!
16 Jan 19 “Readiness” Yesterday, in Nairobi, Kenya, heavily-armed Al Shabaab jihadis (Islamic terrorists) from neighboring Somalia invaded the upscale hotel/business district and murdered at least fifteen innocent victims, including one American, one Brit. A Spanish citizen was among the many wounded. Al Shabaab has already claimed responsibility for the attack. Somalia’s feeble “official” government […]
Rules!
15 Jan 19 “Rules for Radicals” In the late 1960s, one of the first self-described “community organizers,” Saul Alinsky, proposed the Communist-tested tactics described below to eliminate our Second Amendment, as a necessary prelude to eliminating the rest of our Constitution. Alinsky’s strategies and tactics, like those of Bill Ayers, are the current “rule-book” for […]
“Rules”
15 Jan 19 “Rules for Radicals” In the late 1960s, one of the first self-described “community organizers,” Saul Alinsky, proposed the Communist-tested tactics described below to eliminate our Second Amendment, as a necessary prelude to eliminating the rest of our Constitution. Alinsky’s strategies and tactics, like those of Bill Ayers, are the current “rule-book” for […]
Nothing in Common!
11 Jan 19 “After our enemies with guns have all been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns, and they are bound to struggle desperately against us. We must never regard these enemies lightly.” Report to the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 1949, by […]
Voluntary Victims
8 Jan 19 One of El Chapo’s “associates” recently testified about people, probably hundreds, who were quietly murdered in the drug kingpin’s soundproof “murder room,”located in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, TX. Among El Chapo’s victims were doubtless many innocent Mexicans, and probably more than a few innocent American tourists too. […]
More “Security Theater” in the UK
2 Jan 19 Now “Knife Violence” Whatever happened to “Gun Violence?” In the UK, two temerarious members of the Royal Family have cynically put aside (for the cameras) their “dangerous” Buckingham Palace silverware, in order to symbolically address the desperate issue of “knife violence.” All this to the naive cheers of the usually gallery of […]
VSKA
29 Dec 18 Century Arms’ VSKA Rifle: Century Arms has been producing (in the USA) and marketing its “RAS47″ version of the classic Kalashnikov Rifle (AKM in 7.62×39) for several years. “RAS” stands for “Russian Army Standard.” The RAS is a plain-vanilla Kalashnikov AKM. My copy runs just fine (like most Kalashnikovs), and I’ve had […]
Avarnas!
26 Dec 18 The new “Avarnas” The movement, propagated by amoral leftists/Marxists, to marginalize American gun owners continues to aggressively recruit the finance industry. Their obvious goal is to stigmatize gun owners, so that we occupy the lowest possible status-rung in American society, in much the same way as do “avarnas/dalits” (untouchables) in modern-day India. […]
Western Women in Peril!
22 Dec 18 Western Women Targeted! Lest anyone become complacent about the worldwide threat to women, particularly Western women, posed by radical Islamic jihadis, last week two adult female backpackers from Scandinavia in the, until now, relatively peaceful hills of Morocco were attacked and knifed to death, at least one beheaded. The murderers then posted […]
Drugs and guns!
21 Dec 18 Drugs and Guns! Students ask: “When I own guns, do I need to become a teetotaler?” The companion question is: “When I own guns, do I need to abstain from all contact with marijuana? For that matter, how about other consciousness-altering drugs, even ones I take by prescription?” My reply: Any time […]
On the Margins!
19 Dec 18 Marginalized! A liberal MA judge (Feeley) recently handed-down an extremely light sentence to a convicted (felonies, multiple times), illegal alien, because otherwise “… the defendant would be subject to deportation.” The judge then admitted the sentence would have been much harsher, had the defendant been a US citizen! Illegal aliens, in MA […]
“Red-Flag,” revisited!
18 Dec 18 “We are right to take alarm at the first ‘experiment’ upon our liberties.” James Madison As Democrat-dominated state legislatures are seated in early 2019, they will waist little time in promoting “Red-Flag” laws as part of their corrupt, “common-sense,” anti-freedom agenda. I’ve editorialized about such unconstitutional legislation in the past, but let’s […]
Tragedy and Farce!
15 Dec 18 “Politicians, the rich and famous, their bodyguards, and criminal gangs, still have their guns. Everyone else (forcible disarmed since 2013) lives in fear. Mothers and fathers are unable to protect their families.” Gabby Franco, recent immigrant from Venezuela Listening to seductive propaganda, flowing from the mouths of smooth-tongued socialist tricksters, Venezuelans made […]
Gun industry legends Dave Spaulding, Massad Ayoob, Mike Boyle, and John Farnam join Fernando Coelho to dive deep into the history of the gun industry, shedding light on how firearms and firearms training have transformed over the decades. They discuss the dramatic shift from traditional print reviews to the digital age of internet forums, social media influencers, and YouTube personalities of the industry.
