Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 73, Issue 17 i Firearms News

Is your concealed carry pistol enough? Maybe your EDC is a .380 auto, a single-stack 9mm or something like a Glock 19 but would like the option of having “a bit more” available if you need it. Something you can carry in addition to, not as a replacement for your daily concealed carry pistol. This is a key point. Basically, what some will refer to as a Personal Defense Weapon (PDW), and I simply call a “bag gun.” The intended purpose for it is to provide a higher hit probability, especially at distances beyond 15 yards than your pistol. You might also desire an increase in terminal performance, barrier penetration and improved exterior ballistics over a handgun. All the while remaining relatively small, so you can carry it discreetly in…

Who among us doesn’t love a good gun movie? The brilliant stylized muzzle flashes, empty cases spilling forth to the rhythm of a proper techno beat, and associated paramilitary technical esoterica are the things that make a good action movie great. In our rarefied world, little will render that same movie lame faster than unlimited magazine capacity, revolvers that shoot a dozen times without reloading, or a Glock making a cocking sound as it is drawn. My enthusiasm for discussing such stuff as this knows no bounds. Perhaps that explains why I have so few normal friends. The little things reflect the competency of the crew behind the movie. If the armorer knows his stuff and the director is willing to listen, then magazine changes happen when they should, fingers…

Twice in the past few years I’ve written up products — not specifically guns — that I’ve personally been using for some time and found to be awesome, and thought would be of interest to the Firearms News readership. These products have ranged from knives to lights to sunglasses to gun parts. It’s been a while, and it’s time now for another installment in the series — I give you Miscellaneous Greatness Part 3 . The first few items on this list are now part of my EDC. Wilson Combat Beretta Trigger Job I wrote up the Beretta 92 Elite LTT this past year, and when I wrote that I was going to buy it, that wasn’t just hyperbole (like some gunwriters I know). I bought it and have been…

“We did it once and now we will do it again, and this time we’re going to finish the job, and this time should be a lot easier because we have done so much with our military, with our vets, with the Second Amendment,” President Donald Trump told wildly enthusiastic supporters at his 2020 campaign kickoff rally in Orlando. “In the face of new threats, we will defend privacy, free speech, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms. We will protect our Second Amendment.” Those are great words, aren’t they? When was the last time you heard a president say them? That alone is a refreshing change. So how’s he doing on actions to back them up? Stipulations Before we explore that, let’s get some things stated…

Fifty years ago, if you were in the market for a new shotgun, your choices were a lot simpler. First, there was gauge, then barrel length, then action type — single shot, double barrel, pump, or semi-auto. No matter what combination of those features you chose, your shotgun would be very traditional in appearance. These days your choices in shotguns is vastly expanded. In addition to all of the above, you can choose polymer or wood furniture, the non-shotgun “firearms” that resemble nothing so much as sawed-off pistol grip shotguns, shotguns fed by detachable box magazines, and so on. Most of these shotgun options are the opposite of traditional in appearance and/or function, and you’d never see something of their like in the hands of Elmer Fudd. For this article,…

Trijicon has recently released their SRO — Specialized Reflex Optic — which is specifically meant for mounting on pistols in “target and competitive shooting applications”. Ironically, while we love the new optic, I (and many other shooters and gunwriters) think Trijicon is totally wrong on how the consumer market will view and use the SRO, and whether sales of the SRO will affect sales of their segment leader RMR. A lot of people think the SRO has serious utility in defensive applications, and will get stuck on even more ARs than the Trijion RMR, which was also “only” meant for pistol use. In what I think is a genius move, the SRO uses the exact same footprint as the RMR, which is the most popular and respected mini red dot…

‘In July 1942, the Wehrmacht’s 1st Panzerarmee, 17th Armee and the Armata a 3-a RRPâQa (Romanian 3rd Army) launched Unternehmen Edelweiß (Operation Edelweiss) into the Caucasus Mountains in hopes of reaching the Caspian region and the oil fields around Baku. They fought in conditions ranging from arid deserts to snow covered mountains. The 2nd and 3rd Divisions of the VâQaWRUL de Munte (Mountain Hunters), the elite of the Romanian army, captured the city of Nalchik on November 2, 1942, the farthest point of Axis advance into the Caucasus. Increasing Soviet resistance finally forced the Germans and Romanians to fall back to the Kuban region, where they remained until October 1943, when they withdrew to reinforce the Axis forces around Stalingrad. In September 1942, the Romanian Third and Fourth Armies took…