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Handgun: .22LR 9x19mm Rifle: .22LR .223/5.56x45 7mm Rem Mag 7.62x39 7.62x54R 7.62x63 7.5x55 Swiss 7.92x57 Shotgun: 12ga (all other gauges are a mere pretense to shotgunhood)

If only the author and the Huffington Post knew that.

They may be thinking it but I think they will not be as successful as they are hoping without some new SCOTUS justices. I only skimmed part of the ruling but I think the individual right ruling cuts off a lot of options for gun control laws. Regulations such as registration or licensing are...

In the first case the clerk was wrong to forbid stripping a used firearm for examination prior to purchase. The way he handled it was unprofessional and poor customer relations. The clerk should offer assistance if the customer starts to strip a gun instead of comparing the customer to a rude...

People will buy a hell of a lot MORE assault weapons, that's what will happen if there's a new AWB. In 1994 it was unusual to see an AR, AK, or FAL at the rifle range in my area. Ten years later, in spite of the ban, ARs and AKs had gone from rare to almost ubiquitous. Fourteen years later, they...

I figure that a $500-600 A2 or A3 16" carbine kit from a good manufacturer built on a decent lower set up with light and laser could be had for around $850 which leaves $350 for a small pile of mags and a case of practice ammo. I think the laser would make sighting much easier in a HD...

Quoted at 1711 hrs 06-01-08 Below is a post of mine (Post 181 in the thread) which I quote in its entirety with relevant passages in bold and in big font for your benefit. I believe it is the post you are implying that I changed in order to duck out of the withering vitriol shower concerning...

Many sports originate in training activities for battle or hunting, even though many sports now seem far removed from such activities. Then there are other sports like martial arts where the primary activity of the participants essentially is nothing but training for battle. Since I regard...

I support the right to keep and bear arms. At the same time I'm well aware that there are all sorts of people running around who I don't think should be armed. The difference between me and some anti is that I fully understand that society's worst elements will arm themselves in spite of the...

I've been shooting and learning about firearms for close to 2 decades now. I've seen a lot of loudmouth know-it-alls who say stupid stuff about firearms. A lot of the time they say stuff that is wrong, even dangerous, or (worse) stuff that will scare the uninformed purely to feed their ego. They...

Exactly. A lot of people who are shooters can tell pretty quickly who knows how to handle a weapon properly and who doesn't when they see someone holding a gun. An inexperienced person with a gun can be pretty dangerous without meaning to. In a store they can unwittingly damage guns by...

I too am not very impressed with Gander Mountain. They have pretty much no reloading supplies or equipment, poor service, no knowledgable employees, and focus way too much on cheesy rustic furniture upholstered in hunting camouflage. Why do they even let that stuff waste valuable retail...

Assuming that it hit the sidewall, you're still looking at a hole only slightly bigger than what a nail would make. The tire would deflate at a rate slightly higher than a nail puncture and the tire could still be driven on for quite a ways before it deflated enough to be a problem. It would be...

Shoulda looked him right in the eye, grabbed your crotch and said "Right here pal. You got yours with you?" I figure that he would probably chuckle and move on to other topics, since he'll more likely think you're just making a crude joke than telling him you're carrying a gun.

As far as reliability goes, I've read (in AK-47: The gun that changed warfare by Larry Kahaner) that the AN-94 has a much lower failure rate than the AK-47/74 series in tests. That may be an exaggeration, but who knows?