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The $700 Subsonic Plinker
One gun that every serious gun owner should have in his or her collection is a small caliber suppressed firearm. While there are many entry level silenced plinkers out there on the market today. One of the better choices that are hard to beat is a Walther P22 with a TAC-65 suppressor.
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Paris Theodore’s Nine Principles
Paris Theodore….He was a modern renaissance man.
Back when it was cool to smoke and wear pinky rings, Paris nearly patented the tactical turtleneck and had enough juice to carry around a select-fire (and suppressed) MAC around NYC. Gotta love that trigger discipline.
In his own words, he lived by Nine Principles:
1. Do not think Dishonestly
2. The “Way” is in training
3. Become acquainted with every Art
4. Know the way of all professions
5. Distinguish between loss and gain in worldly matters
6. Develop initiative, judgement and understanding for everything
7. Perceive those things that can not be seen
8. Pay attention even to trifles
9. Do nothing which is of no use
Surviving a Riot
With today’s uncertain times, the prospect of civil unrest is rearing its head. Here are a few things to keep in mind if this beast ever comes back to the United States.
What, me worry?
Today we see amazing footage on our televisions and mobile devices of frightening riots but these are in exotic far off lands such as Turkey, Egypt, and Greece. We say to ourselves, this could never happen here. However, it has in our near past. Even if you forget the madness of the more recent 1992 LA Riots, all you have to do is Google the 1967 Detroit Riots in which 467 were injured or the Newark riots of the same year to see this is very, very possible here.
The National Guard only put down the 1967 Newark riots after the liberal use of force. In a week-long bout of civil unrest, the New Jersey State Police reported firing 2,905 rounds; the National Guard fired 10,414.
While many of these came about from racial tensions, some riots, such as the 1999 Seattle WTO events, in which 157 anarchist protestors where arrested, can be blamed on anything from political unrest or simple crimes of opportunity as after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 New Orleans.
(For the first couple of days in a large scale civil unrest event, the police and National Guard may only be there to wish you the best of luck)
During the LA Riots, the vaunted LAPD abandoned entire areas of the city until National Guard forces could be mobilized and sent to restore order. This could be several days. The established start of the LA Riot was at about 5:30 PM on April 29, 1992 when, at the intersection of Florence and Normandie avenues beer cans were thrown by crowds at passing motorists. This soon ballooned out of control and evolved into a full-blown riot with huge parts of the city totally lawless. It wasn’t until the afternoon of the next day that the first National Guard units were deployed to the city. An estimated 12,000 US Marines and California National Guard then fought what some have called the Battle of LA for four days until relative peace was returned to the city although a curfew and armed military patrols continued for some time.
What do you do if 911 doesn’t work?
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Happy Glockmas 2013
50 Caliber Bans
The Fifty-caliber rifle has taken the country by storm in recent years, gaining fast attention for those who have found an interest in extremely long-range marksmanship. These guns, who pose no overt threat to the safety of the republic to itself, are now the subject of another sort of attention. That of anti-gunners who have chosen to pick on this chambering to test that oh so subtle of dangerous beasts: the caliber ban.
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7 Vintage ‘Every Day Carry’ Guns (that are not past their prime)
We get it. Today you’ve got so many high-tech concealed carry pieces vying for your attention it can get tiring. But let’s just take a break from all that for a moment and look at a few guns of a generation or three past, that, although dated, with the right loads and leather can still serve as viable personal protection guns (and have a long track record to prove it).
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The Ruger P-guns: The 80s are calling, they want their handguns back
Picture if you will the Eighties: The Gipper was president, Stretch Armstrong was king of the schoolyard, and Atari was cutting edge. It was also the age of the Wonder Nines: high capacity nine-millimeter pistols for everyone and their brother. And like Yakov Smirnoff and shoulder pads, Bill Ruger’s P85 is a forgotten favorite of this not soon forgotten era.
In the early 1980s, word got round the firearms industry that the largest military force in the free world, the US Army, was going to conduct a series of handgun trials to select a new pistol. The winner of the testing would possibly get a series of huge contracts to not only replace the vaunted but aging stocks of 1911 .45 ACP guns, but also a myriad of .38 revolvers for the entire military. The Army, making things easy, asked for each pistol submitted to meet no less than 85 requirements. With such a huge carrot being dangled, the firm of Sturm, Ruger started designing a new military handgun.
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The Trejo Machine pistol: One hot tamale
When you think about fine fully auto machine pistols, the Glock 18, Micro UZI and Beretta 93R come to mind. What you may not know is there is an even smaller one handed buzz saw out there, and it comes from south of the border.
The small family run firearms concern of Armas Trejo SA was a powerhouse for durable 100% domestically made pistols in Mexico for over two decades. Founded in 1948, Mr. Abraham Trejo Solís and his father Don Gabriel Trejo firearms company set up shop in the Puebla state town of Zacatlán de las Manzanas. The town was well known for its local apple orchards and therefore, all of the Trejo family pistols were emblazoned with a stylized version of that fruit.
With a staff of family and friends, they produced a steady output of about 75 completed pistols per week. Between 1948-70, the company produced an estimated 100,000 quality semi-auto and select fire handguns in a number of models. While most of these were semi-auto knock offs of the Colt 1911 design (more on this to follow) about 13,000 had the capability to truly rock and roll.
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The FN 1903: Browning’s long lost 9mm
Everyone knows that John Moses Browning begat the 45ACP Colt 1911 and then later helped give the world the P-35 Browning Hi-Power. What you may not know is that he tried these waters first with a long slide 9mm pistol years before either of these better-known designs. This forgotten Browning is the FN M1903, and, despite its obscurity, it’s a solid addition to the library.
In the early 1900s, Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (FN) was just a Belgian-based clearinghouse for small arms and their favorite designer was the American firearms guru, John Browning. He had collaborated with them to sell his very popular Model 1900, a small semi-automatic that was superbly reliable and some would say the preeminent pocket pistol of the time. The thing is, FN wanted to make large quantity military sales and the 1900 was a mouse gun. They wanted something bigger, and Browning set out to deliver on this request.
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