Indholdsfortegnelse for Volume 77, Issue 24 i Firearms News

Most corn-fed Americans like to believe that we have not had a massive foreign army rampaging across the Continental US for 207 years because we are just so freaking awesome. However, that is lamentably not really the case. The United States of America has been blissfully free from such widespread foreign invasion for so long because of those two magnificent oceans that straddle our Great Republic. From a military point of view, seizing terrain is fairly straightforward. That’s actually the easy bit. As any Nazi would have told you in early 1945, the real rub is keeping it. Regardless, throughout our collective memory the only time Americans have been seriously affected by war at home was at the hands of our fellow Americans. Lamentably, the rest of the world is…

Ever since I bought a much-used Model 97 Trench Gun shortly after graduating from college I’ve been enamored of the combat shotgun. I’ve used excellent pump actions, especially the Remington 870 Tactical Models and the Mossberg 590A1. Although I’ve used various self-loading combat shotguns, the Remington 11-87 Police and the Benelli M3 have remained my favorites. Remington enhanced by Scattergun Technologies or, in the day, Robar have proven excellent. I keep both a Remington 870 Tactical and an 11-87 Police, both mounting lights, secure but ready at hand in my residence. As I live in a suburb of a city that often ranks as the most dangerous in the USA, I feel something more than a handgun is justified for home defense, but because of the nearness of other homes,…

Afield of Republican contenders, dominated at this writing by poll result showing former President Donald Trump with a wide lead, are vying to be the GOP nominee in the 2024 election. Obviously, a key constituency whoever emerges will need to appeal to for support is gun owners. To that end, Firearms News has prepared a questionnaire designed to evoke unequivocal answers from the candidates on specifics that go far beyond the “I support the Second Amendment” form response boilerplate that all too often leaves plenty of room for weasel wording and not much at all real pledges they can be held accountable to later. We’re asking them stuff like “Do you believe that citizens should have the right to personally own military-grade weapons for defense against a possible future tyrannical…

A federal judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction blocking nationwide the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from enforcing the recent Biden Administration rule redefining braced pistols as short-barreled rifles (SBRs) under the National Firearms Act. In the case Britto v. ATF, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, blocked enforcement of the rule after a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last month found that the rule violated the Administrative Procedures Act because it “was not a logical outgrowth of the proposed rule,” that the “monumental error was prejudicial,” and that it “must be set aside as unlawful. At the time of that ruling, in the case Mock v. Garland, the circuit court blocked enforcement…

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case next year to determine the constitutionality of the bump stock ban instituted by the Trump Administration in 2018 and that took effect in 2019. Following a horrific mass murder in Las Vegas in 2017, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department (DOJ) determined that bump stock devices turned guns into “machine guns,” which have been tightly regulated for several decades. Until then, the ATF held that bump stocks were not machine guns, and had sent a number of letters to both manufacturers and dealers to that effect. One such letter, written in 2008, read: “Since your device is incapable of initiating an automatic firing cycle that continues until either the finger is released or the ammunition supply is exhausted, FTB finds that…

The SITES Spectre HC is what would happen if a Glock pistol had a baby with an Uzi submachine gun and that baby was stolen from the hospital and raised in Finland by a gang of art deco biker thugs. Radical and innovative yet in its semiauto form grievously flawed, the Spectre HC is as ugly as Yasser Arafat first thing in the morning after a hard night out on the town. Origin Story The Spectre HC was the semiauto pistol version of the SITES Spectre M4 submachine gun. SITES stands for Societa Italiana a Technologie Speciali SPA. Designed by Claudio Gritti and Roberto Teppa in the 1980’s, the M4 was originally produced at the SITES factory in Turin, Italy. The SITES facility closed in 1997, but small-scale production continued…

The 1980s saw the Italian company Al.Gi.Mec. attempt to market a bullpup, pistol-caliber semi-automatic carbine that, in hindsight, matches many of the features that would make it a top seller in the modern-day PCC craze. Let’s explore the reasons why, back in the day, it was just not to be. The name of the AL.GI.MEC. (Alfonso Giambelli Meccanica) company, established in Milan in 1983, will be familiar to those who paused the 1994 French movie Léon – The Professional, at just the right moment, during the infamous apartment building shootout scene to observe the markings on the muzzle compensator installed on the titular character’s Beretta 92FS pistol. In its home Country of Italy, AL.GI.MEC. was chiefly known, from the late 1980s up to 2001, as the first importer of Glock…

The year was 1962. The Armalite company had just sold the rights to its hi-tech rifle, the AR-15, to Colt. Armalite wasn’t a manufacturer, it was a design branch of an aerospace company. So, what to do now? Design another rifle, obviously. Except, it had a problem: it couldn’t just do what it had already done. Having sold the rights to Colt, had it tried to design and sell another rifle like it, Colt would have sued Armalite into oblivion. Well, not Colt exactly, but rather, the conglomerate that owned Colt then. Colt was owned by someone else then, and while Colt was too small to have taken on an aerospace company in court, its corporate overlords were not. So, start with a fresh sheet of paper. And that’s what…