Monthly Archives: December 2021
Bump Stock Ban Headed To Supreme Court After Appeals Court Deadlocks
Submitted by The Machine Gun Nest (TMGN)., You may remember in late March of 2021, the 6th Circuit court of Appeals ruled that Bump Stocks were not, in fact, machine guns. The ruling itself was based on the ATF’s bump stock regulation not being entitled to “Chevron deference,” a legal doctrine that holds that aContinue reading “Bump Stock Ban Headed To Supreme Court After Appeals Court Deadlocks “
Is IDPA About to Unleash an Equipment Arms Race?
IDPA’s “Down Zero Blog” recently posted an interesting message from Regional Area Coordinator Lead (RACL) Rick Lund. Since the last rule book was published in early 2017, IDPA HQ has been flooded with inquiries about production pistols that feature otherwise proscribed features like lightened slides, heavy-profile barrels, and weighted grips. After some of these modelsContinue reading “Is IDPA About to Unleash an Equipment Arms Race?”
Savage Arms 6.5 PRC
WESTFIELD, Massachusetts – December 6, 2021 – Savage Arms is proud to announce the addition of 6.5 PRC to its line of 110 Precision rifles. This new chambering provides outstanding short-magnum potential from an adaptable rifle platform that will be chambered in both right and left-hand configurations. “The 6.5 PRC was originally designed as aContinue reading “Savage Arms 6.5 PRC”
WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED ONLY OUTLAWS WILL BE SHEEP
A volunteer at a Massachusetts farm for therapy animals has died after being repeatedly rammed by a sheep, police said. Not that kind of rammed. Get your head out of the gutter. Kim Taylor, 73, was attacked by the comfort animal at Cultivate Care Farms in Bolton, west of Boston, on Saturday morning. That doesn’t soundContinue reading “WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED ONLY OUTLAWS WILL BE SHEEP”
The Decline Of American Empire: A Kübler-Ross Cycle Analysis
Authored by Andrew Roberts via Quillette.com, How will the United States react domestically should she be dislodged from her role of global top-dog power by China? As well as the obvious economic and strategic ramifications of an end to American imperium, there will be profound emotional and psychological effects on a society that has takenContinue reading “The Decline Of American Empire: A Kübler-Ross Cycle Analysis”
Adelbert F. “Bert” Waldron III
I ran across this picture of Waldron last night, and it got me thinking about the man and how it is strange that the sniper who served in Vietnam and ended with the highest number of confirmed kills is almost unknown. Certainly unknown to the public and likely unknown to most of the shooting/gun worldContinue reading “Adelbert F. “Bert” Waldron III”
Mitchell Arms Alpha – The Ill-Fated Jim Boland Factory Widebody
Today, we have the Jim Boland-designed Mitchell Arms Alpha widebody pistol. If certain price-guides can be believed, this was cataloged from 1995 to 1997. However, any escaped from the factory for retail sales it would be news to me. The Alpha had a weird set of design features. It could be user configured as eitherContinue reading “Mitchell Arms Alpha – The Ill-Fated Jim Boland Factory Widebody”
Now Or Never: The Great ‘Transition’ Must Be Imposed
Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation, A new wave of restrictions, more lockdowns, and – eventually – trillions of dollars in new stimmie cheques may be in prospect… Were you following the news this last week? Vaccine mandates are everywhere: one country, after another, is doubling-down, to try to force, or legallyContinue reading “Now Or Never: The Great ‘Transition’ Must Be Imposed”
Coming Soon? – Smith & Wesson .22 Magnum Semi-Auto Pistol
I just found this recently published patent application from Smith & Wesson. It shows a polymer-frame, hammer-fired, rimfire pistol with a floating barrel insert. Picture an elongated version of the Carbine Williams floating chamber used in the Colt Service Ace. Better yet, just look at the following drawings:
Scattered Shots 