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Gun Sales Fall Under 1 Million For First Time In Six Years; Ammo Prices Sink To Lows
From Zerohedge After years of pandemic-fueled surges and politically driven buying sprees, the U.S. gun market is sliding deeper into a downturn. With Republicans controlling both Congress and the White House, fears of sweeping federal gun bans from far-left Democrats have abated, stripping away one of the industry’s most reliable sales catalysts. The latest July figures fromContinue reading “Gun Sales Fall Under 1 Million For First Time In Six Years; Ammo Prices Sink To Lows”
Molon’s “A Compilation of Red-Dot Sight Evaluations”
B-ARFCOM user Molon posted a helluva RDS eval thread which I have yoinked and shared below. First and foremost, the Aimpoint red dot sight is a combat sight. Its primary purpose is for use in situations that require “reflexive shooting” at multiple targets, at close ranges. The Aimpoint excels in this type of shooting becauseContinue reading “Molon’s “A Compilation of Red-Dot Sight Evaluations””
The American Cal. .60 Anti-Tank Rifle, T1 & T1E1
By Kevin O’Brien Germany, Poland, the UK, and the USSR all developed anti-tank rifles and used them with mixed results (the Germans, in World War I, then all of them, in the early years of World War II) Other nations including Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Finland and Japan built anti-tank rifles, essentially huge rifles that fired a kinetic penetratorContinue reading “The American Cal. .60 Anti-Tank Rifle, T1 & T1E1”
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A Look Back at Pre-Y2K Survival Gear and Conventional Wisdom
By Luis Vakdes As a child in the 1980s who came of age in the 1990s. I lived through an odd era of the gun culture. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, a lot of survivalists and those preparing for WWIII suddenly had less to worry about…untilContinue reading “A Look Back at Pre-Y2K Survival Gear and Conventional Wisdom”
The Korean War Week 59 – Who’s Really Running the Korean War? – August 5, 1951
Buying A Used Smith & Wesson Revolver; What To Check & Look For With Nelson Ford The Gunsmith Inc.
Gerald Bull Project Babylon
Remember the Canadian engineer Gerald Bull who designed giant super canons? From March of 1988 until the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Iraq contracted with Gerard Bull to build three superguns: two full sized ‘Project Babylon’ 1000 mm guns and one ‘Baby Babylon’ 350 mm prototype. Nine tonnes of special supergun propellant could fire aContinue reading “Gerald Bull Project Babylon”
Charles Daly’s Triple Threat
The roles of firearms are well-defined in modern shooting sports. Often, firearms come with a specific and set purpose, with little room for flexibility. Specific shotguns are designed and built around a task at hand, and while they do jump categories, they rarely succeed with exceptionalism. Charles Daly aims to change that notion and hasContinue reading “Charles Daly’s Triple Threat”
