Rifles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQPfClI7S4o Armalite has news for aspiring owners of the Ar-50A1 rifle: the price of the weapon is . . . staying the same. Credit (or blame depending on your perspective) that whole supply and demand...

"I would like to see if Erin Andrews can dance her way through a hail of gunfire." This unveiled threat and lame-ass pun from yet another "fan" obsessed with the ESPN anchor and...

Unlike most of the mainstream media goldfish, the montrealgazette.com has a long memory. Or excellent archives. Or a writer who can Google. The paper notes that the Ottowa RCMP's decision to deploy Heckler &...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezxBYCw8uGs Don't tell my kids, but I toured Europe on a BMW K100RT motorcycle. The "flying brick" was utterly reliably and Germanically comfortable (tough yet firm). When I returned to base, I looked for something...

“Questions that the strengthening of the defensive capacity of small states may be a threat to someone, I think, are inaccurate,” Putin said in Caracas. “If the United States doesn’t want...

In each of the Dirty Harry movies, star Clint Eastwood got to utter a pithy catchphrase unique to that movie. The first one, of course, was “Do you feel lucky, punk?” (Well do ya?) For...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wU8M-_kokE Hopefully, Part I of this series successfully dispatched the common-but-wrong notion that the AR-15 is merely an “assault rifle” with few practical applications for the non-government shooter. With the civilian-use merits of the AR...

I don't know how, but this has turned into AR-15 week at TTAG. Right after I'm done here, I'm posting the follow-up to Don Gammill Jr.'s first installment of How I Learned to Stop...

Although RGR's revenue growth may have grown nicely over the last two years, its stock price maxed-out on July 27, 2007. Obama triggered a sales surge immediately prior to his election in November 2008. As has been widely reported, rifles--both traditional and "assault" accounted for most of the growth area Ruger rode the wave. According to Ruger's 2009 10-k SEC filing, rifles racked up some $102.2 million, $69.4 million, and $64.9 million worth of sales in 2009, 2008 and 2007 respectively. And no wonder. Ruger makes some lovely "tactical" weapons: the M77 Hawkeye and the Mini-14 spring to mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL1eAakHP_U

"We're currently working with the ATF to make sure the gun doesn't fall afoul of the laws against producing a 'destructive device.'" Isn't that always the way? You build something that does what it's...

Last fall, I found myself nine-to-fiving in the corporate communications department of one of our nation’s top health insurers. I witnessed the fright that gripped everyone in the industry regarding the looming H1N1 “swine...