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More than 23M firearms sold

| January 5, 2021 | 19 Comments
More than 23M firearms sold

Gun sales ‘don’t fit the caricature’ of the typical gun owner: Gun store spokesman Over 21M gun background checks conducted in 2020.  Analysts estimate there were 8.4M first-time gun buyers in 2020 By Stephanie Pagones More than 21 million gun background checks were conducted in 2020 – up 60% from 2019 and over 34% from the previous […]

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Army’s new boomstick has got some legs!

| December 22, 2020 | 25 Comments
Army’s new boomstick has got some legs!

I really hate to post this, because the perennial FIRST in the Weekend Open Thread KoB is going to be so excited he might get a priapism. The Army’s Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) system under development hit a target 43 miles away — or 70 kilometers — on the nose at Yuma Proving Ground, […]

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Thanksgiving FGS

| November 26, 2020 | 4 Comments
Thanksgiving FGS

Blunderbuss Washington state homeowner fights back against man who used shovel to break into residence: report ‘They were terrified; they were crying and scared,’ the family’s mother said of her daughters during the incident By David Aaro A Washington state father fought back against a home intruder on Saturday, after the suspect attempted to break […]

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Gun Totin’ Gal Takes Her Gun To Work

| November 24, 2020 | 21 Comments
Gun Totin’ Gal Takes Her Gun To Work

That’s the kind of gun I’d like to carry when I go grocery shopping. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has applied for a permit to carry her gun to work in the Capitol. https://hosted.ap.org/article/1534f121e3944ad26bb87c6e7fd13808/gun-toting-congresswoman-elect-may-carry-glock-capitol WASHINGTON (AP) — A firearms-toting congresswoman-elect who owns a gun-themed restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, has already asked Capitol Police about carrying her […]

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A Porn Star and Three Marines…

| November 22, 2020 | 16 Comments
A Porn Star and Three Marines…

Iron March Neo-Nazi Logo No, not that type of story. Paul Kryscuk, a reported porn star, sold multiple manufactured weapons, or “ghost guns” to then-Marine Liam Collins. Kryscuk allegedly mailed the illegal weapons from his homes in New York and Idaho to Collins in North Carolina. Both were regular contributors to the online neo-Nazi forum […]

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Eat Your Heart Out

| November 18, 2020 | 7 Comments
Eat Your Heart Out

This should make all of you just a little bit happy. I know you want one for Christmas, but you might not be quite old enough for it, so – well, you can at least look at it. Okay, yeah, I sort of know that isn’t the gun in the video, but it’s a gun, […]

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Updates on the Army’s new combat rifle competition

| October 15, 2020 | 36 Comments
Updates on the Army’s new combat rifle competition

Jeff LPH 3 sent me this article on the Army’s continuing selection process for a new personal rifle, to replace the M4/M16 and the M249 SAW. The gun that will replace both the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon and the M16/M4 rifle/carbine weapons — and add a new, widely distributed caliber to the U.S. military inventory […]

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McCloskeys indicted on gun charges stemming from standoff at St Louis mansion

| October 7, 2020 | 34 Comments
McCloskeys indicted on gun charges stemming from standoff at St Louis mansion

We updated you on developments in this story last week when all the trespassers had their charges dismissed. No longer having to prosecute those nine cases has freed up the Democrat St Louis Circuit Attorney’s office to prosecute the real criminals, the couple who used scary guns to defend their property from a trespassing mob. […]

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