Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 73, Issue 16 i Firearms News

It was 2:20 a.m., on 17th July 2007, and the unit I was embedded with was conducting a Cordon and Search operation in Adhamiya Iraq. It was cool out compared to the heat of the day, but still around 95 degrees Fahrenheit, and I had let my Nikon D100 hang from the carabiner attached to my body armor and lit a cigarette. My gaze was locked on the pistol worn by an Iraqi officer a few feet away. Members of the 3-7th Cavalry’s Bonecrusher Troop and a similar amount of motley equipped Iraqi Army (IA) soldiers were forming up outside yet another house needing to be searched. It was owned by a doctor and his property was surrounded by a wall and secured by a robust steel gate. I was…

These are great days to be into firearms and shooting. Prices are low, especially when it comes to ammunition, so your dollar buys more. While prices will not stay at these levels forever, it’s nice to be able to take advantage of it while we can. “Buy it cheap and stack it deep” are words of wisdom to live by. While you are looking for deals on ammunition, you may notice a name you might not be familiar with, Barnaul ammunition. While the name might be new to you, the ammunition likely isn’t. Barnaul Cartridge Plant is one of Russia’s largest and most respected ammunition manufacturers. They produce a wide variety of cartridges for military, LE, hunting, competition and recreational shooters. In years past, commercial ammunition from Barnaul Cartridge Plant…

“One click at a time the ratchet tightens... click click click click click,” a comment on the CanadianGunNutz.com forum observes. “Until there’s nothing left to tighten up on.” The infringement concerning gun owners (this time)? “DDTC (Directorate of Defense Trade Controls) will continue to restrict the export of high capacity magazines (defined as those over 32 rounds) — pinned or not — to government end use only,” forum business member and U.S./Canada importer/exporter IRUNGUNS revealed, citing a response from the U.S. State Department and its enforcement of the Arms Export Control Act. “We understand that pinning magazines is an acceptable practice in most instances and wanted to give you additional guidance for submitting these cases going forward,” the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. DDTC is not against the pinning of…

I believe I first read about South African 2nd Lieutenant van Vuuren’s exploits at the Battle of Bridge 14 in the pages of Soldier of Fortune magazine in the late 1970s or early 1980s. In those pre-historic days before the “interweb” SoF was a great place for news you would never see printed by the MSM. Such was the case with the tale of Battle Group Foxbat’s incursion into Angola as part of Operation Savannah in support of UNITA. At this time van Vuuren had three Eland armored cars under his command. Introduced in 1962, the Eland was a 4-wheel drive armored car mounting a long barreled Denel 90mm gun in a rotating turret. It was lightly armored as it was intended for reconnaissance work. In reality, it was often…

Introduction I told you all about the development of the SIG Sauer ASP20 air rifle in part one of this article ( Firearms News issue 12, 2019). Now that I have a .22 caliber ASP20 of my own, I can test it more thoroughly. I plan to hold nothing back! Testing the ASP20 on My Own In part one you learned that SIG gave a scoped rifle to every writer who went on their factory tour in July of 2018. I asked for the .22 caliber because, at this power level, I felt it would be the smoothest of the two. Ed Schultz of SIG agreed with my decision. SIG sent me the rifle with the Whiskey3 scope already mounted and sighted-in at 10 yards. Wood Stock or Synthetic? When…