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| Striker-fired | Action |
| MOA | Optics |
| Twist rate | Ballistics |
30 gun, ammo and optics terms explained in plain English.
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| NFA tax stamp | $0 |
| Permitless carry | 29 states |
| Suppressors legal | 42 states |
50+ NFA, carry and gun-law terms, from Freedom's Lodge.
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STOCK UP ON TOILET PAPER! DON’T GO OUTSIDE OR YOU MIGHT CATCH A CASE OF THE GLOCKS! If you require any further evidence that the Biden administration is determined to do anything but right, spend a moment with what the Surgeon General of the United States just said about gun ownership. We all know what…
The Supreme Court has ruled that it’s Constitutional to confiscate guns from people under restraining orders. The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has some quibbles … Friday, June 21st’s narrow Supreme Court decision in Rahimi failed to produce the damage the anti-gun crowd hoped for against Bruen. The Bruen decision remains intact and will continue to be an important building…
If the answer to that question is, “Well, that’s just how it is,” then we should ask again, more loudly. For decades, we gun owners have simply accepted that if we’re going to carry concealed, we can’t go to the post office. It’s been illegal to bring a firearm into a post office since 1972,…
It finally happened! CrossBreed Holsters fans know that the company’s sole mission is to create sturdy, comfortable, long-wearing solutions for toting your shooting iron … and we’ve been wishing that someday that would translate to a CrossBreed range bag. We knew if they did, it would be the last range bag we’d ever buy. Well,…
And here I thought it was lost forever in that tragic boating accident! In totally unrelated news, the Supreme Court made a ruling, and as it turns out, the ATF is actually not allowed to decide that a gun part is the same thing as a machine gun. It must have been one crushing blow…
No, really. He is no longer physically capable of stopping. One of the most disturbing things in American politics today is watching the live, on-air mental deterioration of Joe Biden. We don’t know the details of his diagnosis, but we don’t really need to. Nor did we really need the Hur report to know that,…
The shorthand version is “More Guns, Less Crime,” a phrase popularized by economist John Lott in his book of the same name … …but it is shorthand. The real “solve for X” factors are as follows: the number of guns in the hands of trained, law-abiding citizens; fully funded local law enforcement; and a cultural…
There’s more to surviving a gun fight than having a gun (although that’s the first step)… What’s it like to survive an armed-citizen incident? Unbelievably fast, and unbelievably slow. A terrifying stillness of mind at the center of a whirlwind. Being blinded by muzzle flash and tightened by adrenaline. It’s about training your mind and…
“Remember that the bell tolls also for you.” By now, everyone in America knows that Donald Trump was recently convicted of 34 felony charges in New York. Everyone in America also knows that convicted felons lose their Second Amendment rights until such time as a court restores them (which is a big “if”). Four years…
Hunter Biden is just like you and me … only BETTER! For most Americans, lying on the form that we must complete–Form 4473–when we purchase a firearm is a very serious criminal offense, punishable by up to 10 years in Federal PMITA Prison and a quarter-million-dollar fine. Any lie will do, but the fib that’s…
What makes the best summer ever? How about good friends, good times, great weather and $5K worth of guns and gear from the most respected brands in the business? We can’t control the weather, but we can just about guarantee good times–and the friends who’ll want to share them with you–with our Best Summer Ever…
It’s almost as if making radical, emotion-driven changes to the civic contract results in civic chaos. Who knew? Remember the 2020 “Summer of Love,” in which the entire nation went up in flames over the death of George Floyd? Remember how a full 82 percent of Portland, Oregon voters proudly cast their ballots to defund…
