Recent content by benEzra

Given that CCW handguns aren’t exactly optimized for capacity, magazines are the most common point of failure for a pistol, and if you ever needed to defend yourself it might be prudent to have rounds in the magazine while waiting for first responders to arrive, I think carrying a spare is a...

As you get in your 40s and early 50s, it gets progressively harder to use iron sights effectively in dim light. I found that out the hard way shooting a recent low-light match with my EDC…did passably well with irons on the “daylight” stage, not so fine on the “night” stage past 10-15 yards...

That data is presumably either going to or is accessible by the app developer, which is the main security concern for any app collecting any sort of sensitive data. The developer can then sell your data (either “anonymized”, or not) to third party advertisers or activists, which is a major...

And this one:

I would still question the “popularized” part. I lived through that era also, subscribed to multiple gun mags (American Rifleman and G&A), and never heard the term prior to the 1989 USA editorial citing Sugarmann 1988, and never heard it used by anyone but gun-control proponents (although I...

Both of those books were primarily about NFA Title 2 weapons, as pictured, not civilian semiautos. And I believe both came after Josh Sugarmann of the Violence Policy Center published his 1988 whitepaper/press release popularizing his term “assault weapon” as a means to build momentum for a ban...

I haven’t found the dot to be fuzzy at all, unless I am using a dot without glasses. With 20/20 correction, the dot should be sharp unless you have uncorrected astigmatism. They’re not necessary if you still have eyes young enough to focus sharply on a dimly illuminated front iron sight...

If you are curious about people’s reasons why they like things you don’t, asking without ascribing childish reasons or irrationality to their preferences will get a much more thoughtful response. When people are derided, they tend to respond in kind. The thing is, revolvers, or sound...

Ironically, ousting WLP may end up saving the NRA. WLP seemed to do good things earlier in his career, but the last decade or so have been a mess, apparently. One ironic observation is that because the political left is organized largely top-down, they tend to view non-leftists the same way...

Out of a rifle-length barrel (or possibly a long pistol barrel?), they can be effective at short range against rats and small snakes. However, I can unfortunately vouch that out of a 1 1/8” barrel NAA mini-revolver, even a small snake can shrug it off even at close range (it was probably...

Do you have a citation? I vaguely remember one from a decade or two ago and I seem to recall that the only statistically significant effect in that one was in edge cases, but I’m sure there have been others since then. I’d be interested in reading this one.

In fairness, the A-Team never hit anyone with their folding-stock models either. :)

Was he specifically asking about automatic weapons, or was he just too ignorant to know that civilian Title 1 firearms are not automatic weapons? I have met a few prohibitionists who think that any modern-looking civilian rifle is a machinegun, or that “semiautomatic” means “full auto” rather...

Where? I see a few used bolts for sale on Numrich, Gunbroker, etc. for older mini’s that were apparently pulled from no-longer-serviceable rifles or retired LE guns, but I don’t see anyone selling new-production bolts. As far as OEM bolts, the word on the Ruger Forum is that Ruger’s policy has...

I would take the opposite tack on this, I think. If you want spare parts for an AR, they are available cheaply locally or via mail-order, and you can easily install them yourself. If you want a buy a spare bolt for the Mini, you have to ship the rifle back to Ruger, at least when I owned mine...