Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 76, Issue 2 i Firearms News

The record or near-record level of gun sales of the past two years has continued through November, putting 2021 in a class by itself, save for the unprecedented COVID-inspired buying spree witnessed last year. “The report of November’s figures puts 2021 as the second strongest year for firearm sales on record, behind only 2021’s outlier year of 21 million background checks for a gun sale,” said Mark Oliva, director of public affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). November numbers showed 1.5 million background checks for new firearm purchases, down from last year but higher than all previous years except 2016. That brought the 2021 total up to 16.8 million firearms. Huge Black Friday sales this year helped bolster the overall number. “That remarkable figure was reinforced by the…

When it comes to the choice of an ultra-compact 9mm pistol for daily carry, we face an embarrassment of riches. You need not be embarrassed should you have chosen a Beretta APX, APX Compact or APX Centurion as your daily carry gun, but you might be ready to trade one of those in and get a different Beretta; the APX A1 Carry. Because Beretta made your choice more difficult, as the new kid in the APX family has a lot of extras. First of all, the APX series. This is a striker-fired self-loading pistol with a polymer frame, like many others, but done to Beretta-quality levels. The previous larger models had removable backstraps to customize the frame to your hand, but they all used a chassis system. That is, the…

Nightforce (NightforceOptics.com) sent me one of these scopes specifically for use testing the Seekins Precision SP10, and it was very nice having a quality, reliable gun on which to base the performance of the scope. I will say that Nightforce scopes, if you’ve never examined one in person, are shockingly impressive. A number of their models (including the ATACR 1-8X) are being used in combat, just like the Seekins SP10, because they’re that good. They’re not inexpensive, but you get what you pay for. This is one of Nightforce’s hottest scopes right now, and it was built specifically for precision semi-auto rifles. It is 13 inches long, has 3.5 inches of eye relief, and weighs 30.0 ounces. ATACR stands for Advanced Tactical Riflescope, and Nightforce’s ATACR scopes use their ED…

In a decision that drew a scathing rebuke from one judge involved, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld California’s law banning firearms magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. By a margin of 7-4, the en banc panel of the court ruled in Duncan v. Bonta that the law did not violate the U.S. Constitution or the rights of law-abiding California gun owners. Judge Susan Graber, appointed by Bill Clinton, wrote for the majority: “The ban on legal possession of large-capacity magazines reasonably supports California’s effort to reduce the devastating damage wrought by mass shootings.” “The ban on large-capacity magazines has the sole practical effect of requiring shooters to pause for a few seconds after firing 10 bullets, to reload or to replace the spent magazine,” Graber…

It was 1965, and the fight over Northern Irish independence had already spilt copious blood. Depending upon your definitions, the Troubles had really been going on since about 1609. While the levels of violence waxed and waned, in the mid-1960’s in Waterford, Republic of Ireland, things seemed acutely stable. There were those, however, for whom acutely stable was not a desirable state of being. Several British warships had paid port visits to this quaint Irish city in recent years. When this occurred the local government leaders were typically cordial and friendly. For three committed members of the South Kilkenny Irish Republican Army (IRA), these visits seemed like a splendid opportunity to make a violent political statement. The British fast-attack patrol boat HMS Brave Borderer was paying a port call in…

“Between the No-Fly List and the NICS List, there are two secret lists the government uses to strip American citizens of their constitutional rights,” Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) tweeted. “But they do so in secret. With no charges. No hearing. No due process. It is a remnant from Soviet Russia, and it needs to end.” He was referring to an October 28 letter that he wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland about reports the government was denying guns to citizens who don’t fit into any of the 10 classes of legally enacted “prohibited persons” categories, including convictions for crimes punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, fugitives from justice, and the like. His concern was that people not so prohibited by law were still being denied their rights,…

I am not young. I wouldn’t say I’m old, because old implies that I’m not up on current events, that I can’t kick butt when needed, and that I need some kind of assistance with everyday events like modern electronics. But, I remember when there wasn’t a 10mm. (I also remember when cars had fins, but we won’t talk about that at this time.) After its triumphant unveiling, adoption by the FBI, subsequent divorce, and getting shaded by the .40 (which went through a similar process itself) the 10mm has been lurking in the shadows. It ought not be. What Springfield has done, in adapting the XD into the XD-M, and then fitting various other calibers into it beside the native 9mm, is nothing short of amazing. (Also alarming, if…

Seekins Precision in Lewiston, Idaho, is one of those AR companies which has seen great success doing what they want instead of following the herd. While they are now also making a bolt action rifle (the Havak) they entered the public consciousness making AR-pattern rifles. But even their “basic” ARs aren’t basic, and Seekins rifles tend to stand out from the crowd. They’ve always prided themselves on producing guns with quality, reliability, and, perhaps most famously, accuracy. “Precision” is in their name, after all. So, to test that aspect I secured a sample of their SP10, Seekins Precision’s take on the venerable AR-10 pattern. They designed this gun to serve as a DMR/ counter-sniper rifle for military and law enforcement, but they have also seen great use on the PRS…

When the United States entered WWII, we quickly came to the same realization that our allies and enemies had earlier. We didn’t have enough guns! The massive expansion of the American armed forces quickly emptied arsenals of standard weapons forcing us to depend upon so-called “substitute standard” weapons. While the M1 Garand had been adopted in 1936, teething problems had halted manufacture several times and many Army units – and the entire USMC — were still equipped with M1903 Springfield rifles. To supplement these tens of thousands of WWI era M1917 “Enfield” rifles were hurriedly reconditioned and issued to rear echelon, support and training units. In regards to sidearms, the situation was just as bad. In 1941, there was only one manufacturer of the M1911A1 pistol which led to the…