Author: Michael Crites

Kentucky-based Anderson Manufacturing, whose racehorse logo adorns the sides of their components and firearms, produced an amazing 439,559 “miscellaneous firearms” in 2020, more than anyone else in that category. For reference, those figures come from the ATF’s recently released Annual Firearms Manufacturers and Export Report (AFMER), which is always a year behind to protect industry… Continue reading The Poverty Pony runs away with the AMFER race

The FBI’s National Instant Background Check System ticked past the 2.5 million mark for last month, June 2022, which sounds like a lot because it is a lot. However, those numbers are down a little from June 2021 (3 million) and a lot from June 2020 (3.9 million) which would point to gun sales cooling… Continue reading NICS Numbers Fall, But Also Rise

Federal announced the new .30 Super Carry in January. Billed as something kind of in between the .380 and 9mm Para, it promises the performance of the latter while being slimmer than either, thus allowing an extra round or two in compact pistols chambered for it. As Vista– the owners of Federal– also own Blazer,… Continue reading SAAMI Accepts .30 Super Carry

Q only makes a limited number of rifle-like pistols, rifles, and SBRs and now apparently, they have problems with the bolt assembly on the handful of Fix rifles and Mini-Fix pistols that did make it out into the wild after December 21, 2021. The deets on the recall are in the below video. If it… Continue reading Q issues a Recall

Bill Wilson is probably the closest thing to a Jedi Master when it comes to 1911s these days and his Wilson Combat shop in Arkansas a little while ago came up with what they call the X-frame. The fortune cookie version is the X-frame is a 15-round 9mm 1911 frame similar in size to a… Continue reading Wilson Combat’s New 15+1 EDC X9 Model

Tisas Trabzon is one of the better Turkish firearms makers these days and they have been bringing in their 1911-style single-action pistols for the past 25 years or so, marketed under a variety of names (Regent, Omega, etc.) by folks like ATI, Brownells, LKCI, SDS, and Umarex. They have a good reputation for using solid… Continue reading Tisas Goes 10mm in the new D10 1911

If you don’t know who Daniel Horner is, you have been living under a rock. The closest thing the country has to a gun ninja, Horner is probably the best multi-gun shooter in the world today without being hyperbolic. After spending 12 years with the elite six-member Army Marksmanship Unit Action Team– most of that… Continue reading Daniel Horner’s own M400 Goes into production

The U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has posted that American hunters cannot bring home game birds harvested while hunting in any one of at least 63 hot zones in Canada. This is due to restrictions by APHIS aimed at preventing the spread of a highly pathogenic… Continue reading Bird Flu putting a crimp in Canadian bring-homes

Mauser has been marketing their entry-level M18 series of bolt-action hunting rifles for the past couple of years. They have a lot to like, with synthetic furniture 21.75 or 24.5-inch threaded cold hammer-forged barrels, a sub-MOA guarantee, the ability to use Remington 700 LA-style mounts, and offered in a huge range of popular hunting calibers… Continue reading New Mauser Savannah M18