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ARTV Preview: Silencer Central, Leupold VX-3HD and The Lancaster Pistol
Getting a suppressor can be a tricky and tedious process, but Silencer Central has come up with a way to make that process easier. In this week’s feature story, we go behind the scenes at Silencer Central to see how it makes its suppressors, and how it simplified the application process. We’ll …
How Olympic Medals Help Ensure the Future of the Second Amendment
With the U.S. Olympic shooting team recently wrapping up its most successful Olympics in more-than a half century, one unmeasurable effect of the team’s performance could be a strengthening of the Second Amendment. “We had one of the best performances since 1964,” Matt Suggs, CEO of USA Shooting, the national …
Navigating The Optics-Ready Market
The three micro red-dots shown (clockwise from upper l.)—the Crimson Trace CTS-1250, Leupold DeltaPoint Pro and Trijicon RMR Type 2—are each built around a different mounting footprint than the others, but a system of adapter plates allows Springfield’s XD-M OSP pistols to mount any of the three. Tubeless, reflex-style sights …
Zastava ZPAP M70: An Authentic AK for the U.S. Market
The Yugoslav Republic carved out a unique niche in Eastern Europe from its formation following World War I until its demise at the conclusion of the Cold War. The country’s independence streak extended to their arms industry. They proved themselves willing to take the best foreign designs, from the FN …
Buying a Used Rifle: Tips From a Longtime Gun Retailer
Lying there on the gun shop’s counter is a used .30-’06 Sprg. bolt-action mounted with what is supposed to be a pretty good used scope. You’re going with your buddies on a deer hunt out West and didn’t want to mortgage the house to buy a new rifle and a …
“Wrong Man for the Job” – ATF Nominee Chipman Facing Fresh Allegations
April may be the cruelest month, but August isn’t looking so great for David Chipman, President Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Your NRA-ILA recently published an alert on Chipman’s work promoting ShotSpotter, Inc., a surveillance tool for local governments that critics call “useless, expensive, racist technology.” …
Gun Controllers Collaborate with Unscrupulous Foreign Regime to Undermine U.S. Constitution
Anyone tempted to think the gun control lobby couldn’t sink any further into disreputable tactics should sit down before reading any further. Last week, Brady – one of the older, gun prohibition advocacy groups in the U.S. – teamed up with the government of Mexico to launch an assault against …
Gun Control and the Elastic Meaning of “Transfer”— Colorado Court Moves the Needle
One of laws championed by the gun-grabbing crowd is the so-called universal background check, in which private sales of firearms are subjected to a criminal background check, fees, and paperwork. What gun control advocates fail to make clear, though, is that their concept of “sale” extends to firearm “transfers,” being gifts, loans …
The Anatomy of the Perfect Long-Range Bullet
Ten years ago, it was a feat to find an average-priced rifle that was capable of sub-MOA accuracy. Today, that simply is not the case. Making a rifle that can produce three- and even five-shot groups that measure less than an inch at 100 yards is more or less the …
Loading Bench: The 6mm Creedmoor
The count of .24-cal. rifles that remain in our home and others that stayed for a while then headed on down the road is rather high. My wife’s 6 mm Rem. has now been her constant companion for hunting deer and antelope for more than 40 years. A couple of …