Indholdsfortegnelse for Volume 77, Issue 11 i Firearms News

Freelance writer and editor Mark Chesnut is the owner/editorial director at Red Setter Communications LLC. An avid hunter, shooter and political observer, he has been covering Second Amendment issues and politics on a near-daily basis for the past 20 years. A recent Washington Post story is about a young man being shot by a Missouri homeowner, and shows just how far the Post will go to push its anti-gun, anti-self-defense agenda. The Post writers used an incident in which an elderly Kansas City man, Andrew Lester (84), allegedly shot a Black teenager on his porch because, he said, he “feared for his safety.” The family of the 16-year-old said the youngster had gone to the wrong house, rang the doorbell and was shot twice for no reason. The man who…

Great Britain entered World War II without a submachine gun (SMG). The Bren Gun, really a squad automatic weapon, and the Thompson SMG, acquired from the USA, were available but not in numbers large enough to counter an invasion. Making the situation even direr, the rapid evacuation of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) left a large number of weapons behind in France. Troops made it home but often without even their rifles. In addition to re-arming British infantry units, small arms were needed for the Home Guard, including the “Stay Behind” units that would wage guerilla warfare against German invaders. During the invasion of Holland and Belgium, the success of German Fallschirmjager (paratroopers) raised concerns about airborne raids on British air bases (an invaluable asset during the “Battle of Britain”)…

For a number of years, if you wanted a reliable, polymer-framed striker-fired 9mm pistol in the United States, your only real choice was one of the “Big 3”— a Glock, a Smith & Wesson M&P, or a Springfield Armory XD. The universe of these pistols has of course expanded (just about every company which makes a pistol now makes one which meets that general description), but the number of models from the Big 3 has expanded as well. Springfield Armory is no different. They offer more versions of the XD than some companies make guns, period. There is the original XD series, the enhanced XD-M models, the compact XD-S, and the newer XD-E. These are polymer-framed pistols, and all but the XD-E are striker-fired guns (the XD-E has an external…

Recent violent riots (yes, I called them riots) by hundreds of youth from coast to coast show a depravity that surprises many of us who were raised to respect law and order. Last weekend in Chicago, hundreds of youth gathered downtown and assaulted drivers, demolished vehicles and stomped innocent passers-by who were just attempting to enjoy a pretty evening in the Windy City. Two people were shot during the melee. One young couple, who were simply trying to walk to a restaurant for dinner, were set upon by the crowd, knocked down, punched and stomped. If it hadn’t been for a concerned motorist — a woman who got between them and the crowd and escorted them to her vehicle — things could have ended much worse. “They said they were…

The United States and Canada have some similarities in a basic sense: we share the English language (well except for Quebec), our democratic forms of government, capitalistic economies and that, historically, our populations were primarily made up of the descendents of immigrants. The United States and Canada are proud of the fact that we have the longest, unguarded border of any two nations in the world. As part of the British Empire, Canada was seen as a “safe” colony with no rapacious neighbors and, aside from the paramilitary, North West Mounted Police (NWMP), later the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), for much of the 19th century, Canada did not have a standing army depending upon British units stationed in the country and militia units that were called into service in…

“WE DID IT – thanks to the tireless efforts of Wisconsin Moms Demand Action volunteers and help from supporters like you, Judge Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court!” the Michael Bloomberg/ Everytown-funded group’s state affiliate crowed on Facebook. In other words, it will be impossible for anything Second Amendment-related to get a fair hearing on an appeal. And don’t expect a doctrinaire Democrat gun-grabber to recuse herself based on conflict of interest. Ditto for any “conservative” issue, and in this case, it looks like abortion was the key driver. How it happened follows a well-established playbook. The Power of Astroturf “Mega donors fuel over $40 million in donations for record-shattering 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court race. A few ultra-wealthy donors play an outsize role as liberal Janet Protasiewicz…

There’s a line from Stephen King “Sooner or later, everything old is new again” that I don’t think he coined. It may have been done earlier in the movie All That Jazz. Heck, for all I know, on one particularly boring day, Sargon the Great uttered those words. In any case, the counterpoint to that is “Sooner or later, cutting-edge becomes common.” And so it is with the latest advances that the internet firearms cognoscenti would have you believe they thought up just this week. Now, in this case, the combination comes to us from Nighthawk, who actually are cognoscenti, do not pretend to invent thing they hadn’t, and make drool-worthy pistols. The subject pistol in question: Firehawk. What we have here is a single-stack 1911 that has both a…

We can drop some insane amounts of money on high-end guns. Top off a respectable home defense pistol with a red dot, a combination light and laser, and a sound suppressor and you’re talking about some serious coin. Do the same for your favorite defensive rifle and the final tally is even worse. Make that some rarefied bullpup or, heaven forbid, something like an FN SCAR and you might as well hock a kidney or liquidate Junior’s college fund. However, that need not always be the case. Sometimes stuff just needs to be shot. Whether that’s the devil squirrel that’s busily chewing his way into the attic or that empty Coke can that’s been talking bad about your momma, there are times when you simply need a basic utility gun.…

You might not have heard much about AAC silencers lately, which is understandable. After the Remington Outdoor Company folded up shop, it took a while for the new owners of AAC to restructure, relaunch, and get back in the business of making silencers. Two new ones here are the Ranger 5 and the Ranger 7. The Ranger 5 is built with the 5.56 in mind, but it can also handle cartridges up to 6mm as well. They do this by means of a replaceable front cap. This does two things for you: it means if you do have a minor baffle strike, one that only involves the front cap, you can unscrew it, replace it, and move on, having learned your lesson. (I hope you learned your lesson. If not,…

We told you last April before his Senate confirmation hearing how Steve Dettelbach, now head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives (ATF), was a gun-ban advocate who wasn’t fit for the job. Since then, Dettelbach has been complicit in helping President Joe Biden make numerous changes — from reclassifying braced pistols to zero-tolerance for FFL clerical errors — that have infringed on the rights of not only gun owners, but also dealers and manufacturers. That fact hasn’t set well with some Republicans in Congress, which was evident by the intense questioning Dettelbach recently received during an April 26 hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Ben Cline, R-Virginia, grilled Dettelbach on the fact that data entered into ATF computers from out-of-business FFLs is actually searchable by 12…