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Sig Sauer has (wait for it) announced a new model of the P320, the Spectre Comp. As the name would point to, it adds the Spectre treatment (stippled LXG Tungsten X-Series grip module, a Blackout Cerakoted optics-ready slide with a titanium nitride gold barrel and flat skeleton trigger, and X-RAY 3 day/night sights) with an… Continue reading New! Sig P320 Spectre Comp

On Feb. 28, Ammo Inc., with a factory in Wisconsin, responded to Ukraine’s President Zelensky’s apparent plea for ammunition (“I need ammo, not a ride…”) by donating 1 million rounds of non-specified “high-performance” ammunition to the country’s armed forces. Richard Childress, the NASCAR guy, is on the board of Ammo, Inc, and spoke to local… Continue reading Ammo Makers Pony Up for Ukraine

One of their most interesting new handguns in years, Kimber last week announced a “quality issue involving the firing pin safety block of certain Kimber R7 model handguns.” It appears the serial numbers involved were shipped from January 10, 2022, through February 14, 2022. The problem? “Firearms assembled with the subject firing pin safety block… Continue reading Kimber Issues R7 Mako Firing Pin Safety Block Recall

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the ATF last week trying to halt the agency’s enforcement of federal regulations regarding suppressors made in the Lone Star State.  This came about after state lawmakers passed House Bill 957, which pulls the Texas card by exempting suppressors made in the state from federal regs… Continue reading Texas sues over local Silencers

Sig Sauer has really been pushing out the optics in the past few years, billing their products (looking at you, Bushnell, Vortex, etc.) as being “designed, developed, tested, and assembled in the U.S.A.” Their new Romeo2 is interesting, available in a selectable circle dot reticle available in 3 MOA, 6MOA, or 10MOA, while offering Dark… Continue reading New Sig Romeo2 MRD

The basis of the Sandy Hook lawsuit, which drew headlines nationwide as it ended (?) last week with a $73 million settlement, is being misrepresented by about everyone that is reporting on it. While the headlines all say that “Remington” settled the suit, brought about by survivors of the 2013 shooting in which the killer… Continue reading On The Sandy Hook Settlement

Back in 1937, the Pittman-Robertson Act saddled the American gun industry with an excise tax on new-made and imported firearms and ammunition. This ranges from 10-to-11 percent and only applies to items for the consumer market (police and government pipeline products don’t have to pay the tax, nor do NFA items like suppressors). The companies… Continue reading The Outdoors industry pumps $1.5B into conservation

Just in case you missed it, late last year a bunch of California-based GunTubers heralded the brand new Juggernaut rifle series as something that “might completely destroy the California assault weapon laws as they currently exist…” and drooled over them at SHOT Show.

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)

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