RECALL ALERT

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Ruger has just issued a safety recall on their cool new Mark IV pistol.  Details here: https://ruger.com/dataProcess/markIVRecall/ . This is a very cool sporting firearm, and we wrote it up here at the blog when...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

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March 29, 2011 is upon us, the hundredth anniversary of the 1911 pistol’s adoption by the United States Government. OK, OK, I know I seem to be obsessing on it…but I’m a gun guy,...

BEHOLD, THE LONG-AWAITED “SLIM-NINE” GLOCK 43

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Mmff…Mmff…Mmff…(Gasp)…BWAH-HA-HA-HA! Forgive the sound effects.  That’s just me, bound for some time by a legal non-disclosure agreement scheduled to time out at 12:01 AM on March 20, 2015. Another publishing entity disregarded the NDA and...

A MOST RESTORATIVE APPLESEED

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I hit Backwoods Home’s turf – Gold Beach, Oregon – feeling like I had one foot on bronchial pneumonia and the other on a banana peel. Thanks to some powerful antibiotics, Lenie Duffy’s...

SHOT SHOW PART 2: MEDIA DAY

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It has become a tradition that on the day before the SHOT Show officially opens, media can live fire with newly introduced guns and at noon, the range is opened so attending dealers can...