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Shot Placement With 22 EDC Pistols

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For those of us that shy away from medium and large frame handguns for our everyday carry, we have our own set of problems. Namely, by choosing a small caliber ‘mouse gun’ we are forced to make our rounds count.

There are several different reasons to carry a small caliber, compact firearm. Some of us, especially if suffering from repetitive
stress injuries, carpal tunnel, arthritis, or just carrying many years around with em, cannot comfortably handle the recoil of a large caliber firearm. In addition, firearm size concerns are another common reason for carrying so called ‘pipsqueak’ .22 caliber pistols. There are an entire line of very small (pocket sized) guns like the NAA Mini-Revolver, various Derringers, and the Beretta Tomcat/Bobcat/Minx series that offer options that go even smaller than a subcompact Baby Glock or LCP. Being smaller, they are able to hide in a much more varied array of clothing choices.

But you have to come correct with your shot placement…

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The Zastava M92 AK PAP Pistol

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Styled after the famous compact weapons of the Soviet Spetsnaz commandos, the new Serbian-made M92 has everything you want in a six-pound pistol.  Back during the Afghanistan war (the 1980s one with the Russkis vs. the Mujahidin, not the current one), Soviet airborne and Spetsnaz troops needed a more compact weapon to deploy when moving around the mountains and villages. You see these troopers normally deployed from helicopters operating at maximum altitudes in thin air where weight and space were at a premium. In addition, a favorite tactic of the spetsnaz would be to disguise themselves as ‘locals’ complete with long beards, pakol hats, and chapan robes to get into rebel villages. To be effective once there, they needed a concealable yet brutal firearm.

To meet this need, the Soviets came up with krinkov or krink. This concept took the standard AK74 rifle, and replaced the barrel with one that was just 9-inches long. With a folding stock, or no stock at all, the krink proved popular with not only the Soviets,
but with the rebels who captured them as well.

With this legacy, as soon as the Cold War ended, semi-auto civilian legal versions of this gun started coming into the US from Eastern Europe. One of the first in this version was the Romanian-made Draco pistol. You see, to keep the gun from being classified as a short-barreled rifle with the BATFE, civilian Krinks have no-buttstock and are therefore legal as pistols.

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Rumors about the New Glock 42

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Is the Santa’s Workshop that is Gaston Glock’s Austrian braintrust coming up with something new for all the good little boys and girls in 2014? Word on the street is that the company is planning a new series of subcompact single-stack pistols to give the competition heartburn.

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What about the New Glock 41

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Is the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory that is Gaston Glock’s Austrian workshop coming up with something new for the naughty little boys and girls in 2014? Rumor on the interwebs is that the company plans to introduce a new competition oriented .45ACP longslide pistol for its racegun wanting polymer fans.
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Is the new G41 something like this?

Is the new G41 something like this?

Oakland Citizens Renting Their Own Cops

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With rising crime, downsized police forces, and no help in sight, some neighborhoods are dipping into their own pocketbooks to hire private security firms. The guard’s job: pick up where the police cant.

Oakland California is a community that has tried to remake itself several times over the past century. Currently, it is in the middle of a perfect storm. Since 2009, the city of 400,000 has seen its full-time police force drop from more than 830 sworn officers to just 615. In the same time, not surprisingly, the crime rate has soared. In fact, since 2012, robberies in Oakland are up 24% and burglaries have increased a whopping 45%. This led to the disquieting fact that law-abiding citizens in residential areas were liable to be robbed while out and return home afterward to a burglarized home. Police response times lagged. The average response time for a burglary of a dwelling in progress last year was 17 minutes.

So the citizens have started renting their cops…

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The All Steel 3D Printed 1911

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A few months ago, the collective gun community fell off its rocking chair when Cody Wilson created from a jug of plastic media a disposable single-shot pistol. This was done through the magic of 3D printing. However, a totally different company has trumped Wilson’s “Liberator” by making the much more interesting clone of the famous Colt 1911 .45ACP pistol– out of steel.

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The Springfield P9 CZ75 Clone

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Back in the 1990s, the Czech CZ75 pistol was being rapidly understood to be one of the best combat handguns of the 20th Century. The thing is, since these guns were made behind the Iron Curtain, they were hard to get in the land of Apple Pie. Well, that’s where Springfield came up with an idea crazy enough that it just might work.

The Czech designed CZ-75 was, as noted above, next to impossible to get in the US during the Cold War. However, the Italian firm of Tanfoglio made a nearly perfect clone of the CZ since the 1980s. Incidentally, the “G” in Tanfoglio is silent, leaving it pronounced as “Tan-fol-io”. The Italian made gun was marketed as the TZ-75 (very original!). The original TZ-75 was externally quite different in appearance from the CZ-75, with a sleeker shape, more ergonomic grip, squared trigger guard, and a larger spur-type hammer. The sights were also of the three-dot type, and larger than the tiny sights used on the CZ-75 of the time. The TZ-75 also added a slide-mounted safety/decocker, the option of ambidextrous controls. Internally, it had a slide-mounted safety added. The TZ was a beauty of milled steel engineering, with no polymer or plastics involved.,

And Springfield wanted it…

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The Forgotten Ruger MP9 Room Broom

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Sure, Ruger has built plenty of pistols, rifles and shotguns, but did you know they also made a handy little submachine gun for a while? It is true. The guns name was the MP9, and its inventor may surprise you.

In the 1980s, Ruger was very keen to attract law enforcement and military sales. It was always rumored that Bill Ruger himself thought that the Mini-14 should have been chosen to be the US Army’s standard rifle after Vietnam. The P85 series pistols came about from the US military handgun trials that led to the adoption of the Beretta 92 as the Department of Defense’s M9.

With the above in mind, at the same time, police forces across the country were rapidly establishing SWAT teams and SRT units. These small, specially trained groups would be sent into harm’s way, often engaging serious threats at close quarters. For this, they liked compact 9mm submachine guns like the S&W Model 76 and HK MP5. Well, if Smith and the Germans could make a sexy little 9milly burp gun, by gosh Ruger could too. Better yet, old Bill had an Israeli ace up his sleeve.
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Kel Tecs PMR30 22WMR Survival Pistol

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A couple years ago, Kel Tec came out with their PMR-30 series of high-capacity .22 magnum pistols. These lightweight, 30-shot handguns have proven very popular in this short span. Back a decade or so ago, Swedish designer George Kellgren was head of a company called Grendel and his magnum opus made for that line was his Grendel P30.

This very odd-looking plastic (um, we mean high impact polymer) .22 Magnum autoloader pistol got its name from its incredible flush-fitting 30-round magazine. Designed around a fluted chamber, the gun was ugly, but it was light and it worked. In 2010, it seems that old George dusted off his P30 designs, updated them, and released the PMR-30 on to the world through his new Kel-Tec company.

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Pharmacist 1 Armed Robber 0

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In a tranquil village in Arkansas, the friendly neighborhood druggist was opening his shop on a Friday morning. Then a man, masked and armed, came out of nowhere and changed his life.

If you have ever been to Eastern Arkansas, opposite of the Mississippi river, you know how calm and quiet the area is once you get away from the big cities. The town of Dumas, in Desha county, whose population is but 4700, is one of the calmest. If you saw the 2011 film Mud, in which Matthew McConaughey stars in a retelling of the Huck Finn tale, then you have been to Dumas.

You see, the film was shot on location there and many of the local buildings and residents made cameos.

In this hamlet is a pharmacy, Meadors, located on Waterman Street downtown. It’s the kind of place that small towns live around.
Where gruff old timers gather to talk and relive war stories over a cup of coffee. Where everyone passes through at least once a
month. Stand still and you will see the whole town from Meador’s counter, one person at a time. The pharmacist’s name is Bill
Canada and on Friday October 18, 2013, the harsh reality of the world reached out and shook him…
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