Indholdsfortegnelse for August 2025 i Firearms News

“N.M. passes law to allow eligible non-citizens to serve in law enforcement,” Police 1 reports. “On April 7, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Senate Bill 364, which allows people with work authorization from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to serve as LEOs.” Sponsors of the bill included Democrats Sen. Cindy Nava and House Speaker Javier Martínez, both endorsed as Moms Demand Action “Gun Sense Candidates,” and Democrat senators Michael Padilla and Joseph Cervantes. They were joined by NRA-endorsed Republican Sen. Craig Brandt. Reasons given for needing the bill were “fewer recruits entering the profession and more officers retiring or leaving for other opportunities.” Stated another way, that could be characterized as doing the enforcing Americans won’t do. “SB 364 opens the door for individuals who might otherwise have never…

When I started on this journey of shooting and loading, it was a .38 Special and .45 ACP world. Bullseye, IPSC, bowling pins, PPC, name it and you could do it all with just those two. A decade later, it was a .38 Super and .40 S&W world, at least in IPSC. Now, the world is 9mm all the time, everywhere you go. So, if you are going to get into reloading, 9mm is likely to be the one you will start with. What do you need to know? Not the regular book knowledge, but the inside scoop, the stuff that books don’t usually tell you, and old hands have often forgotten. Simple: brass, brass prep, primers, sizing, crimp, bulk and inspection. Brass, getting it? I love the folks at…

It is no great secret that when it comes time to deal a real thumping at relatively close ranges, I favor a shotgun. The latest big bore to pass through Gun Abuse Central is the MAC 2 Tactical Marine. Oh my! A lot of the attention paid to shotguns of late is because of box magazines, or AR-15-type layouts and handling. Call me old school (actually, some days I think I am the definition of old school), but I find the handling of a classically proportioned shotgun to be just right, and wicked fast. The MAC 2 Tactical Marine fits that bill and adds in a bunch of new that adds to the package. Okay, first, the MAC 2 and how it works. The MAC 2 is a licensed-from-Benelli, made-in-Turkey…

It is amazing what the marketplace can accomplish. If you had told us, even just a few years ago, that it would be possible to have a compact double-stack 9mm pistol that held an abundance of 9mm rounds and that the whole package would be one-inch thick, we’d have scoffed. Only single-stack pistols could be that thin, but here we are. The Stoeger ThinLine is just that. The big deal with the ThinLine is that Stoeger took the best features of two of their popular pistols and combined them. From the Micro Compact they grafted on the slim profile, the one-inch-thick grip and slide combo. Then they complimented it with the extended grip of the Compact, to give you more ammo. And while they were at it, they added in…

Your carry gun is a piece of life-saving equipment, and it requires some regular inspection at a minimum if you carry regularly, even if you rarely shoot it. And not just your gun—also your magazines, your carry ammo, and—if you’ve decided to go that route—your optic. First, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, chances are you’ve never really carried a gun for any length of time. Even if you’re open carrying as a private citizen or a cop in uniform, your gun will have a little dirt and debris collect on it as it moves through the world. But if you’re carrying concealed your pistol will become a lint trap even if the holster covers it from the muzzle all the way up to the rear sight. Lint,…

What do you want out of a pistol suppressor? Light weight? Modularity? Adaptable to many calibers? Easily mounted on various hosts? Quiet? Not expensive? With the Gemtech Lunar 9 the answers are; Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and yes. The Lunar 9 is a pistol suppressor meant, obviously, for use with 9mm firearms. To makes it lightweight, Gemtech makes almost all of it out of aluminum. The first baffle, the blast baffle, is 17-4 stainless, but the rest of the baffles are aluminum. (The Lunar 9 is a departure from the Gemtech G-Core monocore design.) The baffles also have a notched entry port, there to induce turbulence and decrease sound. The two external tubes are aluminum, as are the front cap and most of the rear cap assembly. All this…

Hi-Point Firearms are known for distinctively styled, inexpensively priced handguns and pistol-caliber carbines. They are often considered entry-level or “price point” guns, and their customers tend to be those people who are looking for the absolutely least expensive option on the market. Hi-Point has been very successful in their niche, and they’ve been relatively conservative in their product offerings, mostly just expanding their existing lines with caliber variants and accessory upgrades. Until now. Announced just a couple of months ago as I write this, Hi-Point is jumping into a much bigger pool—they’re entering the AR-15 market. Currently, you have three choices of HP-15—a 16-inch 5.56x45mm NATO rifle, or a 10.5-inch pistol, chambered in either 5.56 NATO or 300 AAC Blackout. My immediate reaction was that Hi-Point seems more than a…

The Taipan X from Southern Cross Small Arms is a radical departure from your typical modern sporting rifle. A pump-action, spring-assisted design chambered in 5.56x45mm, the Taipan X is roughly the same size and weight as a typical AR-15 rifle. However, the gun is indeed manually operated. As a result, it is legal in all fifty American states, even the ones with ridiculously draconian gun laws. For my put-upon brethren who, for whatever reason, live in such freedom-averse locales, that’s legitimately great. The Taipan X is accurate, reliable, and fun. However, the gun has appeal in the free spaces as well. Offering sort of an arithmetic mean between a rapid-firing semiauto AR and a traditional pump-action hunting rifle, the Taipan X discourages profligate ammunition expenditure while still offering all the…

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. [Author’s Note: This article is being written as developments and new circumstances unknown at this time are still unfolding.] “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will fight to strike a provision making gun silencers more easily accessible from the GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’” Axios is reporting. He intends to stop the House’s provision to “remove… silencers from the National Firearms Act, scrapping a $200 customer and manufacturer tax on firearm silencers and wiping out…

Anti-materiel rifles chambered for the .50 Browning Machine Gun (12.7x99mm NATO) cartridge have long been of interest to both shooters and collectors. While many shooters love the brute power and performance of this big cartridge, it does come at a price. The downside to .50 BMG rifles, like Barrett’s M82, besides their recoil and blast, is simply their size and weight. They are physically large and very heavy which makes them less mobile. One person who took note of this over 20 years ago was J.D. Jones of SSK Industries. He responded by developing the little known .50 Peacekeeper cartridge. This was designed to provide 80% of the power of a .50 Browning Machine Gun cartridge while fitting into a conventional size and weight rifle. How about a 650-grain bullet…

The M1 Carbine was the most-produced American small arm of World War II. Ten primary manufacturers churned out some 6,121,309 copies. At the apogee of production, we were making 65,000 carbines every 24 hours. That first prototype carbine was developed in a mere thirteen days. The original specifications for the M1 Carbine stipulated that it be selective fire. However, this feature was dropped at some point during development. By 1944, The Army was ready to revisit that idea. Skinning the Cat Those old guys are almost all gone now. However, I once met a WWII vet who claimed to have converted his M1 Carbine to full auto using a boot lace. The details are hardly classified. He would tie the lace around the charging handle, snake it back through the…

The late Jeff Cooper didn’t have much use for the 9mm cartridge. Not even in subguns. He did, however, appreciate good engineering and proper ergonomics, and he really liked the grip contour of the CZ-75. So much so that he approved of it being borrowed for the Bren Ten concept. However, the CZ-75 trigger wasn’t so good a thing back in the 1970s and 1980s. That-era design is a combination traditional double action paired with a cocked-and-locked single action thumb safety. You could carry it hammer down as a double-action (DA) pistol, or hammer cocked with the safety on, like the 1911. But the extra parts made the trigger pull not as good as the 1911, which was then (and now) the benchmark of good triggers. Pistolsmiths and competitors improved…