If you’ve ever built a low end AR-15, you’ve no doubt heard of both PTAC and Palmetto State Armory. I’ve always liked the PSA stuff. It’s inexpensive and is usually of good quality. PTAC is a bit of a step down, but I’m hoping that they get even better with...
Great article from the NY Times and BreitBart.com. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/14/NYT-Assault-Weapons-A-Myth-Democrats-Created-In-1990s On September 13, the 20th anniversary of the signing of the federal assault weapons ban, The New York Times ran a column explaining that the very term “assault weapon” is one the “Democrats created” in the 1990s in order to ban...
Any fan of firearms and movies ultimately finds themselves looking for easter eggs in the form of identifying firearms used in movies. I’m totally the nerd who looks for unusual guns such as the Chiappa Rhino or the CX4 Storm in films and in television and point them out with...
I’ve never been much of a revolver fan, with the exception of the finally crafted (and very heavy and hard hitting) Colt Python. I had a Python when I was younger and never really appreciated it for what it was, and now that the prices have gone up and the...
If you’ve ever been a collector of C&R guns, and really, why wouldn’t you want to be considering the convenience of having a C&R license, you undoubtedly have had your fingers and clothes covered in a viscous, sticky, disgusting layer of cosmoline, or a similar preservative. It’s obvious why this...
After buying so many Mosin Nagant rifles over the years, I’ve grown a fondness for their no-nonsense approach. Bolt action, simple wood stocks, nothing really to go wrong. They fire the powerful and cheap 7.62X54R round and the rifles themselves are commonly found in the $100-150 range. As a C&R...
Probably the most powerful fear based tool I’ve seen used in the media (and thus out of the mouths of friends and associates who don’t know any better) is the insistence that there are millions of people in America with these incredibly powerful, fully automatic and ready-for-war military-grade assault weapons...
If you’re a collector of guns, you undoubtedly appreciate them for more than just the ability to go “bang”, or defend you or whatever singular reason you originally were interested in firearms. Collectors, which is very much what I am, learn to love the history behind the firearms they run...
If you’ve spent any amount of time around guys who have been collecting firearms for a while, or range instructors, or military armorers, chances are good that you’ve seen them cringe when someone calls a magazine a clip. I blame it on the proliferation of half-informed media and popular culture....
So, you want to build an AR-15 but you want to do so one the cheap, without a lot of trouble? This is your step by step guide. This guide makes a few assumptions. Firstly, it makes the assumption that you are looking for a very basic AR-15 for hunting,...
