Here’s Why the Maximum-Point-Blank-Range Aiming System Is Flawed This decades old method for shooting at longer distances is preached as gospel — but it’s not very reliable Before laser rangefinders and FFP MRAD-turreted riflescopes maximum-point-blank-range, or MPBR, was the best way that you could set up for success while shooting at longer distances. It’s…
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AK Corner: 7.62x39mm Gel Test – 7 Loads Put to the Test
7.62x39mm Gel Test – 7 Loads Put to the Test This article originally appeared in Firearms News August 2020 Issue 16. Pick up a copy to read more articles like this one. While the AR-15 is undeniably America’s darling, there are now more AKs in circulation in this country than ever before, and most…
Armed Citizen Corner: Jim Cirillo, Modern Day Gunfighter, Master Class (12 Part Video Series)
Jim Cirillo: Modern-Day Gunfighter In his book, “Guns, Bullets, and Gunfights”, NYPD veteran Jim Cirillo revealed the hard-won knowledge he gained in more than a dozen gunfights with some of New York City’s most vicious criminals. Now he brings his words to life in this 12-part video series. In his own unique style, Cirillo gives…
Know Your Ammo: 9mm Luger vs 9×19 vs Parabellum – What’s the Difference?
9mm Luger vs 9×19 vs Parabellum: What’s the Difference? Even if you know very little about guns, perhaps just what you’ve picked up from watching TV and movies, you’ve probably gathered there’s a round called 9mm. As you learn more, you probably discover it’s a pistol round, but you’ll soon hear other terms like…
The Guns of Faction: Part One
The Guns of Faction: Part One My 2019 novel, Faction, was recognized by many readers as having weapons which seemed at first glance exotic, but were, in fact, rather straightforward, off-the-shelf weapons with slight modifications to make them more useful in urban operations. Let’s examine them in this series, one by one. The criteria for…
When the Law Failed, Citizens Turned to Colts for Frontier Justice
When the Law Failed, Citizens Turned to Colts for Frontier Justice Minnesota lay many saddle hours away, so Frank and Jesse James, with the Younger boys and three others, traveled from Missouri by rail. They bought horses for the final leg – fine animals, new to Northfield on September 7, 1876. The men’s dusters…
Armed Citizen Corner: Shooting at Moving Vehicles
Shooting at moving vehicles To shoot or not to shoot is the decades-old question when confronted with the decision to shoot the driver of a vehicle you perceive as intending to run you over. Some departments strictly forbid their officers from shooting at moving vehicles. As with any use of force, there are many…
The Armed Citizen Corner: Criminal Mindset – Make Yourself Harder to Kill
Criminal Mindset – Make Yourself Harder to Kill It might be cheesy to open an article up with a quote from Sun Tzu’s Art of War, but it applies so well; if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Today we are going to talk about…
AK Corner: More WASR Nightmare Stories
This was a pretty common fault when CAI WASR’s were flooding the market many moons ago but not talked about a lot. Speaking of many moons ago, I had a Franken-Fish CAI build that had the Quad-Fecta of Quality Control Fails: Wrong Headspacing, Auto Safety, Keyholing and Canted Front Sight (ie front sight is…
Help Solve a Real-Life Mystery: $50,000 Reward Offered to Find Col. Lutz’s Lost 1911
Help Solve a Real-Life Mystery: $50,000 Reward Offered to Find Col. Lutz’s Lost 1911 Palmetto State Armory is calling on patriots, collectors, and history buffs alike to help solve a powerful mystery—and there’s a $50,000 reward on the table for the person who finds the missing piece. This isn’t fiction. This is about Col. Lutz, a Vietnam…