Now that 2013 is officially in the rear view mirror, we can take a moment to reflect on the turd sandwich that was last year. It started off on an awful foot, the ripples from Newtown lasting the entire year. It derailed not only the civil rights advocacy that has been going strong for years, but also a major part of a president’s agenda and caused no small amount of sturm und drang in congress. Throughout it all we were there, reporting from the trenches (seen here in the SHOT Show press room in 2013) bringing you the latest firearms news. Here are some of the most read articles of the year, broken out into three categories . . .
General Gun Related Stuff
- Oops: Red Jacket Firearms Loses Their FFL
- 9mm Subcompact Pistol Roundup – Because You Asked for It
- Lever-Action Ballistics: .30-30 vs. .357 Magnum
- Mossberg Unveils $276 “Tactical .22″
- Ask Foghorn: What’s Up With the Ammo Shortage?
- VA Man Arrested for Following “Double Barrel” Biden’s Armed Defense Advise
- Ralph’s Guide to Buying Your First Mosin Nagant 91/30 Pt. 1
- Bottom Drops Out of AR-15 Market
- Guns & Ammo Supports Gun Control
- Ask Foghorn: Best 9mm for Concealed Carry?
Politics
- And So It Begins: New York Sending Out Gun Confiscation Notices
- BREAKING: Illinois Bill to Ban All Modern Firearms
- Black Man Shoots White Teen, Jury says Self Defense. And Nobody Cares
- Feinstein: Veterans Have PTSD, Shouldn’t Own “Assault” Rifles
- List of Proposed California Gun Control Measures — 500 Round Max, No Grandfathering, No Detachable Mags, Mandatory License…
Reviews
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson M&P15 Sport
- Gun Review: Ruger LC9
- Gun Review: Hi-Point C9 9mm Pistol
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson M&P9 Shield
- Gun Review: Beretta Nano
- Gun Review: Glock 19 Gen4 9X19mm
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson BODYGUARD 38 and BODYGUARD 380
- Gun Review: FN Five-SeveN
- Gun Review: SIG SAUER P226
- Gun Review: Mosin-Nagant
I cut the “Politics” posts short because while there were definitely a few in the top slots, in general politics posts don’t have a long shelf life. They’re interesting for a day or so, then they tend to drop off the radar. Looking over the full 100 article list, it’s gun review after gun review racking up the pageviews. And boy, do we have a lot of those.
For anyone interested, the top article of the year was Oops: Red Jacket Firearms Loses Their FFL with 202,301 pageviews.
PS: Firearms Concierge that was a very cogent explanation that per my homework on the laws is spot on. Pls pm me in forum or provide a link to your biz. When I need to buy something out of state I want to do business with you.
For new readers it bears repeating that TTAG was on this early. Pointing out the repeated 90% guns from US dealers lie promulgated by Hillary herself during the Gun walking op at ATF. Just a reminder: the US via State provides US military M16 s to the Mexican Army and independent sources have documented “lost” weapons from them and other Mexican govt entities who all compte for who gets paid the most in narco money. Federales, Judiciales, Mexican Marines…
And dont think for a moment that CIA and State werent read in on this op. Btw it since come out that the principal straw man was an FBI inforkant and protected.
This is all open source.
Conclusion: The spin is in. Time for Hillary to be burnished for 2016 and CNN has gotten The Talking Points Memo.
I like that it is designed to mount on picatinny rails. I’m interested in mounting this to an AK with an Ultimak gas tube.
I have a Taurus M-44 made in 1998-99, blued, 4″ barrel, ported and with an expansion chamber. The weight is right at 45 oz. with front serrated ramp sight, rear adjustable sight, and case hardened hammer and trigger. The thing is a monster. It has a cylinder lock up like a Cold War bank vault. I was actually looking for an inexpensive truck gun and what I got was a very high quality and well built revolver with a smooth action and 100% reliability. Absolutely no problem handling Hornady LEVERevolution 230 gr. the flex tip kind they market for revolver or rifle.
I fire this weapon in a relatively low light, indoor range and I can’t say the muzzle blast is anything impressive. It certainly does not mess up my vision. On the other hand, when I rapid fire my Smith Model 25-14 (snub nose .45 ACP) with those pretty factory grips, there is one heck of a difference in recoil.
The Taurus is a pleasant shooting experience and I think the porting and chamber helps.
I’m pretty sure these guns will fly off the shelves.
And if they do fly off the shelves, GLAAD will be sad.
First off, many in CT are already doing what many have stated including moving out of state.
As some have already pointed out, all guns have DPS-3, they already know what you have so what is the point of not registering. The does not apply if and only if you keep the guns and high cap mags in your house.
Beat up CT gun owners all you want, if we stop the fight, the 49 other states were they can go. They will approach each state like CO. One legislator at a time. We have yet to see what the new Democratic gov. Of VA will do, many say nothing, I say you are all wrong, he will nominate and get plenty of anti-gun judges and prosecutors. They will take away the courts.
I find it laughable that nobody want to fight and only move away, eventually there will be no place left to move to. No, better to fight and only after all is lost, fight some more.
Bloomberg et Al will fight until he is dead or runs out of money.
That said, I understand the sentiments, I don’t agree about not fighting.