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Favorite Firearms: Grandpa’s Well-Traveled Iver Johnson
My grandfather, a civil engineer for the Russian Tsarist government, obtained this Iver Johnson Safety Automatic .32-cal. blackpowder revolver sometime in the early 1900s on one of his trips to Finland or Britain. After the Bolshevik Revolution, he, as manager of a workers’ manufactory in St. Petersburg, found that he could not raise …
REP. MALONEY’S LAST-SECOND GUN CONTROL HAIL MARY
U.S Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) is in the fight for her political life. She’s trying one last Hail Mary to win over gun control-minded primary voters in her bout against Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). Rep. Maloney has used the firearm industry as a political football in her primary campaign. Now, …
The Armed Citizen® Aug. 22, 2022
Armed Citizen® Today A resident of an Antioch, Calif., home defended himself when an armed intruder broke in on May 20, 2022. It happened sometime after 3 a.m. that early Friday morning, when an intruder broke into the apartment, startling the 29-year-old resident. Fearing for his safety, the resident then …
Beto is lying about guns again
Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s position on guns is straightforward. The former New York manny wants to ban and confiscate America’s most popular firearms and further undermine Texans’ Second Amendment rights. This radical position plays well with some Democratic presidential primary voters. It doesn’t with the Texas …
Gun Control Groups Target Firearm-Related Speech, Again
Gun control advocates have renewed a longstanding plan to have the Federal Trade Commission (which regulates commercial speech) punish firearms manufacturers for how they advertise firearms. A petition filed with the FTC by several large firearm prohibition organizations claims that any suggestion firearms provide protection to their owners or make their homes …
Smith & Wesson Stands Up to Congressional Bullying
Gun control advocates’ preferred policies have been repeatedly rejected by the American people through their elected representatives. The U.S. Supreme Court and Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has foreclosed, for now, gun control backers’ chief aim – total civilian disarmament. Moreover, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act …
The “Sensitive Area” Battle is Officially Scary and Absurd
The “sensitive” place or area debate is now underway. Any law establishing a “sensitive place”—where the lawful carrying of firearms for personal protection by law-abiding individuals may be restricted or prohibited—must be clearly defined, narrow in scope and include certain parameters if it is to be considered constitutional under the …
All About The Tactical Games
It was only a matter of time before competitive shooting and physical fitness joined forces. A unique blend of endurance, marksmanship and strength, The Tactical Games tests “the skills and readiness of tactical athletes from all backgrounds.” A typical Tactical Games stage, or “battle” in the sport’s parlance, involves a …
Pushing The Limits: The Long Range AR-15
The AR-15 is an accurate, easy to shoot rifle that can serve a variety of purposes. One of the reasons for this popularity is because the typical AR-15 uses either .223 or 5.56 NATO ammunition. Both are medium-power rifle cartridges that have low recoil and work well out to 500 …
Hardware: Henry Long Ranger Express
Short, handy and quick have described many lever-action carbines since the 1870s. Slab-sided and compact, the lever-action repeater has been the everyman’s handy rifle, the workhorse tool for settling everything from bad hombres to charging grizzlies. But in .223 Remington? The .223 Remington/5.56 NATO chambering isn’t the only unusual thing …