Indholdsfortegnelse for May 2025 i Firearms News

The big problem with pistol suppressors is that they add weight, and not just dead weight, but weight added to the reciprocating mass. So, they “stall” pistols. In order to keep them from malfunctioning it became necessary to use a booster, aka a Linear Inertial Decoupler, or Nielsen Device. This stores energy generated by recoil and adds it back into the cycling parts. The problems with this are many: It adds even more weight; with the spring, slider tube and rear cap. The extra parts all need enough clearance to slide, and this means there might be some droop, so the baffle clearances have to be larger. And the moving parts can shift the point of impact. That is all old now that Silencer Central has the Banish 9K to…

While it is not common knowledge nowadays (a result of our history and geography deprived educational system), at one time the Netherlands, or the United Provinces as it was once known, was one of the world’s major colonial, mercantile and naval powers. In the 17th century, Dutch mariners and merchants embarked upon a series of dynamic expeditions that led to the establishment of colonies in Africa, India, Asia, South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific. In 1602, the Vereenigde Oostindische Compangnie (Dutch East India Company or VOC) was created to control the lucrative trade from the Indies. They established trading posts on South Africa, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Timor, Celebes, Bali, Malacca, India, Ceylon, the Persian Gulf, Japan and Taiwan. The present-day Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed by the victorious…

Opening a seldom used bottom drawer, I began to shuffle things around in my search. As I moved the top layer of “stuff,” my hand suddenly stopped on a black zippered case. My digging came to an abrupt end. This was not what I was looking for, but it suddenly brought back memories leading me to pause my hunt. The plain looking black case had sat forgotten for years in a drawer of assorted Combloc binoculars and scopes. This Russian scope was different from the others though; it had gone to Iraq, served on a Tabuk 7.62x39mm DMR and then come home. Walking out of my gunroom I sat on my couch and looked inside the case. A note from LTC Kendrick McCormick was folded on top: Dave, Thought I…

Benny Parker was disgruntled. His mother had begged him to go to law school. However, after three semesters in college he had studied way more girls than pre-Law. As an alternative to returning home broke and humiliated, Benny answered a classified ad for work with an exciting multinational corporation. The job description was, “Security Specialist.” Once his cursory training was complete, Parker found himself on a remote oil rig off the coast of Baja, California. Unlike what the brochures had claimed, the work was hard, hot, and tedious. There was also a tragic dearth of women. That, and the uniforms were patently ridiculous—blue coveralls with red belts and matching plastic hard hats with little lightning bolts on the front. It was then that Benny Parker realized that he was not…

When it comes to rifle ammunition, the technology has been mostly stagnant for the past few decades, with a few incremental improvements to bullet performance. However, in the last few years the possibilities of cases capable of handling drastically higher pressures (SIG’s hybrid case for the .277 Fury, Federal’s peak alloy in the 7mm Backcountry) have redefined our knowledge of the possible. On the handgun side, the sea change happened with the widespread adoption of the FBI Ammunition Testing Protocol, which grew out of the famed 1986 FBI Miami Gunfight. That tough protocol has made modern handgun ammunition perform much better, but now we might be on the cusp of “the next big thing” in handgun ammo, hypervelocity. We’ve had “+P” (extra pressure=extra velocity) ammunition for decades, but what I’m…

As a parent of several young children, I know first-hand how important it is to keep firearms inaccessible to them. But as a father, I am also aware of my responsibility to keep my family safe from any potential threat, and this requires immediate access to a loaded firearm. These seemingly contradictory needs have often left armed parents with having to choose between having a usable firearm at the ready, or keeping their kids safe (at least from accessing firearms). However, a new product known as B.O.S. Lock has now made it possible to have the best of both worlds. B.O.S. Lock is a revolutionary biometric locking device that mounts on to a Glock’s picatinny rail in much the same way that a flashlight or laser would. The lock screws…

If you have grown up as an AR-15 shooter, handling a shotgun built in the traditional pattern can be an awkward experience. Where’s the pistol grip? The magazine? The safety is where? And why does the stock have that funny bend to it? No, you want an AR-15 layout, and since this is America of course you can (unless you live behind enemy lines in states like California and New York). Well, you could for a long time, but the Citadel BOSS25 is a smoking deal and a neat setup. Okay, the basic layout. The BOSS25 looks like an AR-15 that vacationed near a nuclear reactor, and grew to Godzilla size. Except, it doesn’t feel as bulky in the hands as it might appear it would be in photos. When…

Anti-Second Amendment legislation can be confusing and convoluted, perhaps intentionally but more likely due to the inept nature of those who draft it. Just ask the average gun owner in any of the highly restrictive oblasts still masquerading as American states. It’s hard to know what’s legal and what will send you to prison and wreck your family forever. Nice places to live, right? While I can’t bring sense to lawmakers who have chosen totalitarianism to let their constituents know where they stand, or I should say kneel, I was able to speak with attorneys from the Richards Carrington law firm located in Denver to see if I could shed some light on Colorado’s latest round of seditious gun laws. One of the first perspectives brought to my attention is…

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. In addition to being a regular featured contributor for Firearms News, he blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” and posts onTwitter: @dcodrea and Facebook. “Trump touts $5 million ‘gold card’ as new path to citizenship,” Fox News reported in early March. “‘It’s like the green card, but better and more sophisticated,’ says Trump.” It’s actually a variation, or mutation, if you will, of the existing EB-5 program established by Congress in 1990, that, per Newsweek, is “one of many job-based visas offered by the U.S. It requires applicants to create or preserve at least 10 full-time jobs for…

It’s interesting watching how the tastes of long range shooters and hunters evolve as technology changes and new cartridges are introduced. Advancements in bullet design, case construction, and propellants all continue to deliver improved performance and exterior ballistics. New cartridges like Federal’s 7mm Backcountry, Hornady’s 7mm PRC, SIG Sauer’s 277 SIG Fury, and Winchester’s 6.8 Western all compete to catch the attention and favor of shooters and hunters, with the intent to replace existing popular cartridges. It is, after all, the circle of life. Cartridges are developed, become popular and then over time are edged out by newer designs. Some older cartridges may fall to the wayside due to more modern cartridges having an edge in performance or simply better marketing. There are certain rifle cartridges though which stubbornly refuse…

The TRP grew out of the FBI requirement for a pistol for their SWAT teams. That was back in the 1990’s, and the result was a pistol that had all the hallmarks, and the good stuff, of the era. Springfield Armory is not a group to let the grass grow under their feet, so the TRP has evolved since then. And boy, is it ever a great 1911. With the extras just added, it is even greater. The basic (as if there is such a thing) TRP is a single stack 1911A1-based pistol, with cocking serrations fore and aft, and a rounded-top but grooved slide. The grooves down the centerline aid in acquiring the front sight, and those sights have a tritium front cell on the blade, and the Springfield…

The SHOT Show is the world’s largest gun show, and it’s going to be in Las Vegas for the foreseeable future, so if that combo is at all interesting to you, I suggest you try to make it someday. It’s not open to the public, so if you’re not in the industry you might have to finagle a badge from a friend of a friend, but it’s a great time. For those of us in the industry, not only is it perhaps the best place to get eyes and hands on cool new products, but every year there are surprises that you just don’t get anywhere other than a huge convention in Las Vegas filled with guns. This year, I saw a surprising number of real dogs wearing tactical goggles.…