2017 SHOT Show, 2nd Day
18 Jan 17 2017 SHOT Show, Second Day: I saw Dick Davis of Armor Express today! Dick, inventor of soft body armor and supposedly “retired,” still mans the AE booth. Dick and I go back a long way. He is a real hero! Dick is reviving the Bowling Pin Shoot, where we all had such […]
2017 SHOT Show, 1st Day:
17 Jan 17 2017 SHOT Show, 1st Day: Two more major companies have now produced Glock-like pistols, both of which I got my hands on today: Century Arms CANIK (TP9) Pistol, and the CZ P10C Pistol. Both are striker-fired, polymer-framed, double-column, 9mm service pistols, with VGG (variable grip geometry), tabbed trigger, and no manual safety. […]
2017 SHOT Show, Range Day
16 Jan 17 2107 SHOT Show, Range Day We’re here in Las Vegas, NV for the 2017 SHOT Show, all this week. Today was Range/Media Day at an outdoor range in Henderson , NV, where we had the opportunity to shoot all the new guns that were of interest. Here is what caught my interest: […]
Threats of Violence
11 Jan 17 “People with unusually thin skins ascribe small insults, humiliations, and setbacks consequent upon human existence to vast and malign political forces; and, projecting their own suffering onto the whole of mankind, conceive of schemes, usually involving violence, to remedy the situation that has so wounded them.” Marshall Locke Cedric Richmond (D/LA), chairman […]
Advice to our Incoming President:
8 Jan 17 “The ‘mentally ill’ will always be with us. Some are dangerous. Some even get elected to political office. They’s why we have guns!” Anon Conscientious, honorable, principled, moral, self-regulating American gun-owners have ever been unfairly and venomously maligned by leftists, since the days flintlocks. The “anti-gun” political agenda, consistently promoted by Democrats, […]
FL Airport Terrorism
7 Jan 17 Incident in FL: Debbie W Schultz (D/FL) said (actually shrieked) during a TV interview today that commercial air-travelers on domestic flights should not be permitted to transport guns and ammunition in checked baggage, as they are now on most airlines. The liberal media stooge doing the interview dutifully nodded in agreement, mumbling […]
European Update
5 Jan 17 “The Sword of Justice has no scabbard” Joseph De Maistre This update, from a friend and student living in Western Europe: “A year ago, our ‘European Commission’ introduced yet another anti-gun bill, following Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels. The bill was very bad! They wanted to ban all rifles that […]
Endless War!
2 Jan 17 “Everyone’s a ‘pacifist,’ between wars. Kind of like declaring yourself a ‘vegetarian’ … between meals.” Colman McCarthy The most notorious of the New Year’s Eve attacks this season was at the fashionable Reina Nightclub in Istanbul. There was another, lesser attack in Brazil (eleven deaths reported there), but that one was carried […]
“Universal” Background Checks
28 Dec 16 Bungling, anti-gun leftists/Marxists not popular in NV! An enlargement of gun background checks that was narrowly passed by NV voters last month is now DRT! “Private-party gun transfers,” even when temporary, were to be subject to federal background checks through NICS. However, the FBI said they would not conduct checks required by […]
“Poverty Porn”
26 Dec 16 Pious Profanity! Particularly with CNN and Fox News, I grow weary of endlessly watching “poverty pornography,” pumped over the wire by dubious organizations, sanctimoniously representing themselves as “charities.” We are treated to interminable disturbing/offensive photos of starving people (including weeping children) shivering animals, all with ever-anguished faces, amid pleading solicitations for money. […]
… as long as I’m on the subject!
21 Dec 16 “Capitalism harnesses human self-interest. Socialism exhausts itself trying to kill it. Leftist politicians, who seize and dole-out other people’s assets, initially see themselves as humanitarians. Eventually, they conclude they are a superior class, and treat themselves accordingly. They make laws to which they are not subject. They vote themselves, and their stooges, […]
Predictable!
20 Dec 16 “At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child- miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats!” PJ O’Rourke WJC says liberals lost the election because of angry, white men! Harry Reid declares it’s all the fault of FBI Director, James […]
UD!
19 Dec 16 Gun Accidents! A friend and student suffered an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound last year. It happened on a training range during a training session. I was not there. However, he later talked with me about it and reveled important details I am sharing now. The incident involved a 1911 pistol. The single […]
Heat!
14 Dec 16 Overheated Rifles! Heat build-up is inherent to all auto-loading military rifles with large-capacity, detachable magazines. And heat, when sufficiently intense, will eventfully cause the rifle to break-down and become unusable. For most non-military owners of these rifles, the foregoing is a moot point, as when used under “normal” circumstances, even most “acute” […]
It’s a Trap!
9 Dec 16 Trap set by NY’s infamous “Safe Act” rebuked by State Court: A NY resident, duly licenced by the State to own and carry a pistol, had her state-issued permit arbitrarily suspended because of a short visit to a hospital. She was feeling anxious after starting a prescription cold medicine. When she went […]
Hexmag website
7 Dec 2016 We’ve updated the original quip, but in case you missed it, here’s the link to Hexmag’s website: https://hexmag.com Recommended! /John
Translation!
7 Dec 16 Modern Marketing! In the advertising industry today, “marketing” is synonymous with “fraud.” “Puffing” is one thing, but denizens of the industry, like most in the media, have converted deceit into an art form! They’ve invented a new language. Like all new languages, it sometimes requires translation into plain English: Examples: “Free gift” […]
Hexmag
6 Dec 16 Hexmags A company called Hexmag is manufacturing 30-round, plastic AR magazines, and they are priced attractively. They’re selling them by the pallet-load! I’m currently running several copies, and all have worked perfectly thus far. A Hexmag feature I like is that you can easily and quickly change the color of the button […]
Truth!
1 Dec 16 True and Accurate? Years ago, when he was still alive, Jeff Cooper used this example to emphasize the importance of both truth and accuracy: You might say: “The only purpose for a scalpel is to cut people open.” Technically “true,” but not accurate. Who phrase issues this way are attempting to conceal […]
Gun-Free Utopia?
29 Nov 16 “Images of perfect societies, utopian images, can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the Twentieth Century.” Dennis Prager First-hand follow-up on Cuba, from a friend and student: “I was there! I got out in 1961, after President Kennedy’s […]
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.
