Ammo

As some of you may have noticed, I am not any sort of expert on guns. In the late 1970s, I shot a rifle, probably a .22, for about an hour at a strictly-monitored...

Because of the constant need to one-up the competition and develop better-performing guns, I don't think there's ever a chance we'll see real standards emerge in ammunition. As long as there's a demand from consumers for bigger/faster/better, the gun industry will continue to say, "Standards? Standards!? We don' need no steenkin' standards!"

I don't know about you, but I sleep better at night knowing that I have a great deal of ammunition in-house. Zombie attacks, natural disaster-related social disintegration, post-apocalyptic hunt-for-your-food scenarios---bring it on. I have...

I just got back from a little trip to civilization (Dallas). On my way back, I felt the urge to check out a store with a HUGE selection of guns. The billboards weren't lyin.'...

German ammunition manufacturer Scheiße AG has announced the availability of a "revolutionary" cartridge designed to wound - but not fatally injure - a human target. Designated the Scheiße Ich Lüge, the bullet itself is designed to break the skin, but not penetrate through muscle tissue, organs, or bone, dissipating the kinetic energy throughout the body to render the target unconscious.

So, that's that. Walmart is NOT banning ammo. Now I just wish the country-wide ammo shortage would ease so I could find some .38 special practice loads...

Belgium makes some first-class firearms. The City of Liege has been at it since 1350ish. Thanks to Europe's pervasive anti-gun culture (just sayin'), the country's firearms industry is a shadow of its former self....

I'm not an alarmist. If it's conspiracy theories you want, talk to Oliver Stone. I'm NOT your guy. I prefer to dig for facts and work patiently and carefully towards an operational theory. Then...

TTAG's Brad Kozak recently reported on defense contractor and ammo demilitarizer ATK (Why Is Ammo So Expensive? Ask Uncle Sam). In a nutshell, the company stands accused of doing an end-run around a Congressional...

To be fair, the 5.56mm ball ammunition purchased by the New Zealand military isn't inherently defective. After all, "The bullets had worked well in the past," stuff.co.nz reports, helpfully. "But when manufacturer FN Herstal...

In a recent article on this blog, Brad Kozak claimed that, in an effort to discourage gun ownership, President Obama directed the Department of Defense (DOD) to stop the sale of spent military casings...

You'd think at a time of 10 percent unemployment, rising taxes, out-of-control government spending, and deficit spending out the wazoo, you'd think that Uncle Sam would jump at the chance to save a buck...