The unadjusted Jan. 2022 FBI NICS figure of 2,533,096 sounds big, but it is a 40 percent decrease from the same figures for Jan. 2021 (4,288,240). Delving further, the guys over at NSSF adjust the figure to remove background checks not associated with gun sales– lots of law enforcement agencies use NICS for checks on… Continue reading Gun Sales way, way down (kind of)
Month: February 2022
Federal expands Hammer Down ammo series
One of the big drawbacks to tubular-magazine lever guns is that they were tied to the often 19th century round-nosed bullet designs they were introduced with as feeding the new-fangled “spitzer” pointed bullets could cause a ka-boom situation. A few years back, Hornady’s LEVERevolution (get it?) series fixed this with a soft plastic shock-absorbing Flex… Continue reading Federal expands Hammer Down ammo series