If You Think the Ammo Shortage is Bad, Consider This
Ammunition companies have not been able to keep up with consumer demand. There are many reasons for this. In 2020, over eight million Americans bought their first gun. These people now need ammo. Others are stockpiling. It’s hard to blame them, as we now have President Joe Biden (D), Speaker …
SEN. FEINSTEIN PROPOSES BANNING AMERICA’S MOST POPULAR RIFLE. AGAIN.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is at it again. She has again introduced legislation to ban the most popular selling centerfire rifle in America. She wants to bring California-style gun control to the rest of America. Here’s her problem… with 21 million background checks for the sale of a gun last year, …
How to Train with a Shot Timer
About this time last year folks were complaining about how much ammunition cost. Now they’re complaining because ammunition can hardly be bought at any price. The current ammunition shortage creates a problem for those wanting to further develop their defensive handgun skills. This is an even bigger problem for all the new …
Victory in Colorado Preemption Case
On Friday evening, a judge in the Centennial state gave law-abiding gun owners something to celebrate. He ruled that the city of Boulder’s ban on possessing and transferring commonly-possessed “assault weapons” and ten-round magazines was preempted by state law and struck them down. This was an NRA-ILA supported case. The …
What’s So Great About the .357 SIG?
The necked-down .357 SIG cartridge allows for greater powder capacity than a straight-wall case of similar length behind a 9 mm projectile. That enables it to propel 125-grain bullets at velocities surpassing the .357 Mag. SIG is the commonly used shorthand for SIG Sauer, the firearm-manufacturing company with Swiss and German …
D is for Deluded
Last June, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) and his wife shared their vision for police reform. The mayor spoke of the need to fundamentally change the nature of policing, including reallocating “functions within policing right now that [could] be done better by civilians.” His wife, Chirlane McCray, told the …
Gun Control’s Crisis of Credibility
Who can you trust? We live in the era of fake news, spin, and shifting narratives. Everything seems to be political. Maybe that’s the wrong question. Maybe we should be asking, “who do you trust?” Recently published research has the answers. Anti-gun activists want you to trust doctors with no constitutional law …
Hardware: 6.8 Western
It was on a mule deer/elk combination hunt in northwestern Colorado last October that I first became acquainted with the 6.8 Western. I’d heard some scuttlebutt regarding the cartridge: It was fast, it used long, sleek, heavy-for-caliber bullets and it was plenty accurate. But I must admit to being a bit …
U.S. House Bows to Biden, Passes Legislation to Cancel Your RIGHT to Obtain a Firearm
The U.S. House Representatives, with the urging and support of Joe Biden, passed two bills on Thursday – H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446 – that would usher in a sweeping overhaul of how firearms are bought and sold in the U.S. Neither would impede criminals, who overwhelmingly obtain their firearms outside normal channels of …
Review: Ruger MAX-9
Modern Ruger semi-automatic pistols, and to that group I shall include the just-introduced MAX-9, don’t quite fall into the late Rodney Dangerfield’s “I don’t get no respect” category, but I think it is fair to say that they do not receive the full faith and credit they deserve. While Ruger has its …