Indholdsfortegnelse for March 2024 i Firearms News

This past month I had an opportunity to attend a writer event at Gunsite dealing solely with the use of red dots on carry guns. Gunsite is the oldest and largest privately-run firearms facility in the world (3,200 acres, coming up on 50 years in business), and has been enjoying record enrollment. Their entry-level pistol course, the five-day Gunsite 250 class, is the standard against which all other basic defensive pistol courses are judged. Talking to the cadre at Gunsite this past visit, they told me that fully 40–50% of the students in their 250 course were using pistols with mounted red dots. They have amassed a huge amount of knowledge, not just on how to employ red dot optics on carry guns but on the mounting of them—and that…

I’m unusual in that I spent a lot of time shooting suppressed guns long before I ever owned a suppressor. But, I discovered, there is a difference between simply shooting a gun equipped with one and actually owning a suppressor. This past year, I became the proud owner of three suppressors purchased through Silencer Central, and learned a number of surprising things in a very short period of time. Four Things I Learned as a New Suppressor Owner: 1. Suppressors are amazing heat sinks. This I think was the biggest surprise to me, as previously whenever I would shoot a suppressed gun, I would then hand it back to the manufacturer. I knew they got hot, but dear God… If you’re running pistol calibers, or subsonic 300 Blackout, your can…

TISAS has an entire line of Night Stalker pistols. The Night Stalkers have gray finishes with black accents and different/improved sights/features over standard models. I’ve reviewed a Night Stalker 1911 previously, but this is a completely different animal—TISAS’s PX-9 is a modern, polymer-framed striker-fired optics-ready 9mm semi-auto. The PX-9 Duty Night Stalker is set up as a defensive/duty gun but seems like it would be a great choice for a home defense piece, and a fun gun to run at a USPSA or IDPA match. Technically, this is the third generation of PX-9 pistols, and TISAS offers seven different versions of it. The PX-9 is not a new design, and TISAS has been building it for various law enforcement and military agencies around the world for a few years. The…

The term “scout rifle” can be very polarizing in some crowds, because some people think the idea of using a bolt action rifle for self-defense is outdated. Legendary gunwriter, firearms trainer, and WWII Marine Corps veteran Jeff Cooper is credited with the creation of the term, but he didn’t invent the concept. In short, a “Scout” is a general purpose rifle, one that is short, light, and handy, and as Cooper said, a rifle “… that will do a great many things equally well….” Cooper envisioned a rifle that could be used for hunting, plinking, and even self-defense if necessary. As he wrote in The Art of the Rifle, “The general-purpose rifle will do equally well for all but specialized hunting, as well as for fighting; thus, it must be…

I’ve done quite a bit of shooting with 7.62x51mm Battle Rifles and have done books on two of them—the M14 and G3. I’ve also done quite a bit of shooting with the Beretta BM59, SIG 510-4 (AMT), and a lot of shooting with the FN FAL. My favorite by a substantial margin is the FN FAL, especially the Para model. The FN FAL has been used by up to 100 countries from Angola to Zimbabwe, though, as this is written, most have replaced it with a 5.56x45 or 7.62x39mm assault rifle. Fortunately, for US shooters, FN produced high quality, but pricey, semi-auto versions of the FN FAL back in the 1970s and 1980s. Springfield Armory also offered a version in the late 1980s until President George H.W. Bush banned importation…

By all accounts, the conversion of the double-barrel Italian “Villar Perosa” pistol-caliber machine-gun of World War I era to a single-barrel, wooden-stocked shoulder-fired weapon marked the birth of the first moschetto automatico (lit. “automatic muskeet,” archaic Italian for “machine-carbine”), a category of firearms that would later become known as “submachine guns.” Around the same time, on the other side of the barricade, the Austrian Österreichische Waffenfabriks-Gesellschaft (ÖWG, better known as Steyr) converted the Steyr-Hahn 1912 pistol to selective fire into the world’s first machine-pistol: the Repetierpistole M1912/P16 was a Steyr-Hahn with an extended 16-round magazine and a detachable shoulder holster that dubbed as a stock. However, while the concept of a machine-pistol, machine-carbine, or submachine gun (SMG), flourished as the years went by, becoming a staple of military and police…

Gun owners who don’t want their hard-earned dollars going to anti-gun zealots dead set on disarming them should reconsider ever doing business with Hyatt. One good reason is that an heir to the Hyatt fortune, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, is plenty willing to spend his time and a very substantial amount of money for anti-gun and other left-leaning causes. Pritzker, who has a net worth of $3.5 billion according to Fortune magazine, signed a sweeping ban on many common semi-auto firearms and standard-capacity magazines last year, and has also donated more than $2 million in efforts to have liberal judges elected and another $2 million-plus in support of Ohio’s pro-abortion legislation. When Pritzker signed Illinois’ so-called “assault weapons” ban in January 2023, he did so with much fanfare. “For the…

The Knox Report is a product of The Firearms Coalition. To receive a copy of our newsletter, The Hard Corps Report. Visit our website at www.FirearmsCoalition.org or write to: The Firearms Coalition, PO Box 303, Tombstone, AZ 85638. (Tombstone, Arizona, January 8, 2024) On January 5, 2024, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre announced his intention to retire from the Association due to “health issues.” The move came just two days before the long-awaited trial was to begin in the lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James against the NRA and four of its top executives, including LaPierre. LaPierre’s surprise announcement received significant attention from the legacy media, with most reports chortling gleefully as they twisted the knife. Defenders of LaPierre, mostly members of the lapdog NRA Board of Directors…

Swampfox Optics has made their name by offering interesting and solid performing optics at a blue collar price. Their Warhorse 1-6x24mm Low Power Variable Optic (LPVO) though, has the features and looks of a high-end optic. A really nice looking rifle scope, it is built on a 34mm tube and features a low profile finger adjustable elevation turret, capped windage turret and a rheostat to change illumination intensity settings. The design incorporates a First Focal Plane (FFP) illuminated reticle, so you can use it for ballistic compensation at any magnification setting. In the hands this is a really nice looking optical device which will appeal to marksmen looking for specific features. During my time reviewing the Warhorse test conditions ranged from 50 degrees to -10 degrees F in winter. During…

When it was introduced a few years back, SIG Sauer’s Cross rifle excited many with its looks, features and price. Here was a lightweight bolt-action rifle with all the positive features of a modern AR. Visually, the Cross stood out from the crowd. It has a handguard like an AR, a magazine well like an AR, and a safety like an AR. Plus, it is short, very light, and features a handy side-folding stock. In the hands, the rifle feels very lively, it is quick to the shoulder and swings easily and its light weight makes it easy to tote on long treks. The Cross makes a good hunting companion, and many took note of this interesting design. It wasn’t long before many hunters out West began pining for a…

When the GX4 appeared back in 2021, it was pretty clear that the new frontier of carry pistols was compact double-stack 9mm pistols that were made into the handiest package possible. And the Taurus GX4 was right there in the mix. Well, they have not ceded any advantage to their competitors, and have kept the GX4 right in the thick of the fray, where the new Carry model of the GX4 line is the latest. First off, the GX4 Carry (like its predecessor, the GX4) is a flat, compact, handy 9mm pistol that feels good in the hand and uses a striker firing system. The sights are fixed, but user-serviceable, so if you want more than the blade-and-notch it ships with, the full panoply of after-market sights is yours for…