Is the Tommybuilt T36 a Machinegun or Just Another ATF Regulatory Disaster? [VIDEO]

This Week in Gun Rights is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal, legislative and other news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights.  The Tommybuilt T36: Machinegun or ATF mess? We’ve seen a lot of buzz over the last week over the Tommybuilt T36. All we really have to go on, so far, is … Read more

MidwayUSA Promotes Matt Fleming to President and CEO, Larry Potterfield to Remain Chairman

From MidwayUSA . . . The Board of Directors of MidwayUSA announced the promotion of Matt Fleming to CEO/President effective immediately. Matt joined MidwayUSA in 2001 as a Sales and Marketing Manager and was promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing in 2004. Matt was promoted again in 2009 to President. Since taking the … Read more

MidwayUSA’s Huge Line of AR-STONER Parts Has Everything You Need to Build Your Next AR-15

Whether you’re building your first AR-15 rifle or looking to customize an existing gun, you have to check out MidwayUSA’s AR-STONER line of high quality, affordable parts, components and build kits. MidwayUSA developed the AR-STONER line to offer reliable American-made AR parts at a great value. If you’re building a new AR-15, you owe it … Read more

Midway Has the Federal 5.56x45mm M855 Bulk Ammunition You Need Now

You can’t find the 5.56 ammunition you really need. All you’ve seen for weeks are empty shelves. No one has any in stock. No one except Midway USA. Midway got their hands on a huge shipment of top quality full metal jacket Federal M855 5.56 NATO green tip ammunition and they’re selling it in ammo cans … Read more

Vedder Holsters Daily Digest: RICO the ATF, Assigning Blame in Washington and the Facts About Suppressors

If they did this with cigarettes, you know they’ve done it with guns, too. Time to RICO the ATF? . . . I Smell Cash’: How the A.T.F. Spent Millions Unchecked When The New York Times revealed the existence of the secret account in February, publicly available documents made it seem like the work of … Read more

Review – Caldwell E-MAX Low-Profile Electronic Earmuffs

Once you start making regular pilgrimages to your gun range, you’ll quickly find that the extra cans most ranges supply leave something to be desired. Cleanliness, for one thing. I mean, nobody sits around making sure the earmuffs you pick up are free of sweat, body oils, Brylcreem, or for that matter, head lice. (Yeeeck!) You’ll also find that while cans are great for protecting your hearing while shooting, the very thing that makes them keep loud sounds out, keep you from hearing things like people talking next to you, instructions from the range master, et cetera. Of course, necessity being the Mother of Invention (the late, great Frank Zappa notwithstanding), inventors came to the rescue with earmuffs designed with stereo mics and a limiter function that allows any sounds under 85dB to be heard, while anything above is clamped down.

Technological solutions are usually good news. That is, until you find out what a little slice of tech heaven costs. Mic-enhanced cans can run upwards of $150 smackers per pair. So it was with a great deal of enthusiasm that I discovered Caldwell’s entry into the fray, the E-Max Electronic Earmuffs.

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