Below is the first cover of Charlie Hebdo magazine since the murders in their offices last week. It features a tearful Mohammed asking for forgiveness and saying he is Charlie. Both MSNBC and ABC News blurred out the cover when reporting about this edition. Unlike them, I won’t cower before the Islamofascists.
As David Codrea wrote, “Je ne suis pas Charlie. Je suis armé.”
Columbia River Knife and Tool is set to release another Liong Mah designed knife at SHOT. It will be called the G.S.D. for “Get Shit Done”. According to the blurb on Instagram, it is for the gentlemen who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.
Lancer, the company who makes the L5 and L7 polymer AR magazines, is releasing the Adaptive Magwell for all mil-spec 5.56 AR lowers.
The Lancer Adaptive Magwell is a simple, easy-to-install component engineered to significantly reduce reload times for law enforcement officers and Soldiers. The new magwell will debut at SHOT Show® 2015.
With its funnel-like design, the adaptive magwell increases the diameter of the magwell and trigger guard area. The component is designed to fit Mil spec 5.56 AR style rifles with winter trigger guards and requires no tools to install. The adaptive magwell is machined from 6061 T6 aluminum.
They currently offer it as a two-piece magwell. They say the one-piece unit will be available by March 2015.
If 15-round magazines upset the gun prohibitionists and 30-round magazines are doubly upsetting, the new Magpul D60 rotary magazine should really throw them into a tizzy. And if Gov. John Hickenlooper hadn’t kowtowed to Michael Bloomberg in exchange for vague promises of support of a presidential run, it would be made in Colorado.
According to their Facebook page, MSRP on this jewel is $129.95 and will begin shipping to the rest of free America in Spring/Summer 2015. They note it will be available for testing at Media Day at the Range. And to quote the Jackson 5, I’ll be there.
The production D60 will be black with a round indicator window. The transparent and cut-away versions shown in the video were pre-production test models.
I came across this interactive infographic at Stars and Stripes. It was in a historical section on the Vietnam War.
It should give info on each section of the rifle if you click on the red bullet. I’m giving it a try.
In the run-up to the SHOT Show, a lot of new products are officially announced. There are also some products that slip out when a distributor prematurely posts pictures of a new product before the manufacturer has announced it.
Such is the case of the optics-ready longslide Glock 34, 35, 41, and the Glock 40 Hunter. Kiesler Police Supply posted these pictures on their Facebook page about 10 days ago. As Soldiersystems.net says, the SHOT Show leak award goes to them.
However, it isn’t official until the company itself makes an announcement or at least gives some indication that the rumors are true. Below is a picture from Glock’s official Instagram page showing pistols that they are packing for the SHOT Show. I count six Glocks with optics in that picture including the one on top in the upper right corner. I’d say that was proof enough that it is official.
Emerson Knives will be releasing the Combat Systems Fighter in black and stonewash at the SHOT Show. It will be part of the Signature Series collection and retails for $263.95 directly from Emerson.
More details on the knife below:
- Overall Length: 8.9 in.
- Blade Length: 3.8 in.
- Blade Thickness: .125 in.
- Hardness: RC 57-59
- Handle: G-10
- Blade: 154 CM
- Finish: Stone Washed or Black Coating
In the reports of the terrible events this past week in France, we’ve seen the Police Nationale armed with carbines that for all intents and purposes are Ruger Mini-14s.
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Yes but not quite.
As these two stories make clear, this carbine is the Mousqueton A.M.D. in 5.56. Mousqeton is French for carbine. The carbine was made in France under contract from Ruger.
There is quite a bit of history about the Mousqueton in this Shooting Illustrated story by Martin Morgan including which agencies have used it.
Ian at Forgotten Weapons goes more into the mechanical details of the Mousqueton in this post.
I have to give kudos to Panteao Productions. They recently released a video entitled Kids and Guns with Tatiana Whitlock. It is, as the title should make obvious, a video for parents that reviews things like safety rules, safe storage, introducing your children to firearms, sources for further training, and how to set the proper example for your kids with regard to firearm handling. The video is not a tutorial on how to teach your kids how to shoot.
The video features Tatiana Whitlock who has done a number of instructional YouTube videos for the new NRA Women TV series. Ms. Whitlock is the owner and found of ID Target Systems which manufactures and sells a line of proprietary dimensional targets for both shoot house and square range training environments. She is also certified as a NRA Basic Pistol instructor, Range Safety Officer, and Refuse to be a Victim instructor.
So why am I giving Panteao kudos for selling a safety video? Because they have also made it available for free on YouTube for everyone to watch. Even the simplest videos cost money to produce. I sincerely doubt that they will sell enough of these DVDs to even break even with production costs.
For all the proclamations from Shannon Watts, Ladd Everitt, and rest of their ilk about “gun safety”, it is we in the gun culture and the gun rights movement who do the real work for the safe use of firearms. Unlike them, we do not engage in using the perverse pseudonym “safety” as cover for “control” and “confiscation”. Whether it is the NRA’s Eddie Eagle program or Ms. Whitlock in this Panteao Productions video, safety is, and should always be, our paramount concern.
Aaron at Weapon-Blog has released his monthly list of contests in which you can win a firearm or firearm related product.
It is a little slimmer than last month but still not bad. In the handgun category, there is everything from a Rock Island 1911 in 10mm to the new Ruger LC9s Pro (no external safety).
In the rifle category, there are not one but two .338 Lapua tactical rifles plus the usual assortment of ARs and AKS.
You can see all the contests here.
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