Gun Review: Ruger LCR .357 Revolver

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September 8, 2011

A wise old man once told me that real pistols only came in one configuration: blued steel and walnut grips. The very same man bandied about phrases like “nickel plated sissy pistol” and believed that the .45 ACP was the alpha and omega. When “combat tupperware” started to become en vogue he thought it was a sign of the apocalypse. When Ruger released their polymer framed LCR revolver, he let loose a string of epithets that would have even made Howard Stern blush. Revolvers were made from metal, end of story. While I always took what he said with a grain of salt, I tended to agree with him on this point. Sorry. I should have said “agreed” . . .

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Safety First! Amtrak Buys 100 Bushmaster ARs

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Robert Farago

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September 8, 2011

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Press release:

Madison, NC – Bushmaster Firearms International (BFI) was recently awarded a contract to supply the Amtrak Police Department with 100 best-selling, Bushmaster M4-Type Patrolman’s Carbine rifles. These lightweight, gas-operated custom rifles feature a Magpul^®collapsible stock, A.R.M.S.^® flip-up front and rear sights, 16-inch barrel with flash suppressor and a tough Parkerized finish. “We are extremely proud to be providing rifles to a national agency like Amtrak, with their critical mission to provide safety to our country’s railroad passengers,” stated Rick Johnson, Director of Law Enforcement Sales for Bushmaster. “We continue to produce high-quality rifles for the law enforcement community and look forward to more opportunities in the future.” The contract is being awarded through Markl Supply Company of Pennsylvania.

Tip ‘O The Hat: Henry Repeating Arms Customer Service

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September 8, 2011

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When a gun sucks so hard it blows, TTAG tells you so, straight up. When a gun exceeds expectations and impresses us as a thing of beauty, precision and craftsmanship, we sing its praises. To wit: we adored the Henry Big Boy .44 Magnum rifle. But I did experience one small problem: the rear sight ramp kept sliding loose under the rifle’s surprisingly stout recoil. I emailed Henry Repeating Arms Co. on August 25th to ask about a repair, using the ‘Contact Us‘ page on Henry’s website, and I told them what was wrong with the rifle . . .

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Glock Recalls Recoil Spring Assemblies on Gen4 Guns

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September 7, 2011

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SMYRNA, GA – September 7, 2011 – GLOCK Inc. announces that it is voluntarily exchanging the recoil spring assembly (RSA) on its new Gen4 pistols shipped since August, 2009, to ensure each pistol’s performance meets the company’s demanding standards. With several variations of the RSA in the market today, GLOCK’s goal with this voluntary exchange is to standardize the RSA to gain the best possible performance in each pistol . . .

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Gun Review: American Tactical Imports VK-22

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September 7, 2011

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It seems like every major gunmaker–and several dozen lesser ones– is now selling a .22lr version of their AR-15. The American Tactical Imports VK-22 gives you an M4-styled flattop .22lr upper mated to a fully equipped mil-spec AR lower at a list price ($480) that’s about the same as the Ruger SR-22 or the Smith & Wesson MP-22. Street prices, of course, are well below MSRP, and my example was part of a “No Rain Checks” promotion at $299. Did I get a great deal, or what? Keep the latter option in mind . . .

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C Products Leaves Connecticut for Florida – Trickle or Deluge?

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September 7, 2011

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We’ve reported that proactive pro-gun states have put on the full court press to entice gun makers and related firms to relocate from the chilly (as in business climate) northeast to friendlier pro-gun states. Now C Products Defense has decided that doing business in a state that’s openly hostile to your products – Connecticut in this case – no longer makes sense. The manufacturer of stainless steel AR mags is baling out of Newington for sunny Manatee county where, to qualify for a $100,000 incentive payment, they’ll add 100 jobs to the local economy in the the next five years. They’ll also be living and working in a place that actually welcomes them and what they do. The only question left: is this just a one-off or the beginning of an flood of similar companies who’ve decided they’d much rather be elsewhere?

ATF Death Watch 75: ATF-Enabled Indiana Guns Went to Chicago Gangs

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September 7, 2011

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I just got off the blower with Brent R. Weil [above] 0f Kightlinger and Gray, LLP. The Evansville, Indiana lawyer represents the [as yet unnamed] gun store that sold firearms to ATF-enabled straw purchasers. “The ATF told my client to let the sales go through,” Mr. Weil told TTAG. “He later told me that the guns went to Chicago gangs.” In one case, a straw purchaser failed to pass the FBI’s NICS [National Instant Check System] background check . . .

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Feds Fail to Grasp the Bear Necessities of Life

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September 7, 2011

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaUohmke_l8

What’s more dangerous: a charging grizzly bear or the U.S. Secretary of the Interior? For an Idaho man, Ken Salazar might be a bigger threat. Jeremy M. Hill of Boundary County, Idaho, has been arraigned on federal charges for unlawfully killing a grizzly bear in his yard. Hill’s home is in northern Idaho near the Canadian border and is between two federal grizzly bear recovery zones – the Selkirk zone to the west and Cabinet-Yaak zone to the east. Hill’s problems began last May . . .

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Guns in the Home Offer More Risk than Benefit. Or Not.

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September 7, 2011

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[This guest post is written by Swordsmanus, printed here with the author’s permission. If you’re on Reddit, go give him an upvote or two.]

The conclusions of the study Risks and Benefit of a Gun in the House are held up as fact by anti-gun advocates. It is published by Harvard, after all. But there are several problems with how it goes about coming to those conclusions. I read the study and noted its citations wherever things did not add up. I then looked up the citations and cross referenced them with readily available information. My analysis is broken down by section within Dr. Hemenway’s study, so you can go back and forth between the two if you’d like.

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Gun Tweet of the Day: Gun Control Advocates ARE Out of Ideas Edition

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September 7, 2011

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The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence isn’t very good at social media. They blog once a month, and do so days after a gun-related headline hits the net. Their Facebook page is equally desultory and brooks no opposition: “Note: This page is to discuss resources useful for improving America’s gun laws in order to prevent gun violence. Posts from people who feel the need to repeat specious gun lobby rhetoric will be deleted, and you will be banned from Facebook.” Brady Tweets are late-to-the-party and often consist of re-Tweets from knee-jerk gun control advocates. To wit this, from a composer named HectorGaines [above]: “No good comes from guns…Carson City, what can I say?” It’s an excellent question . . .

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ATF Death Watch 74: The Smoking Gun

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September 7, 2011

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You gotta love a good paper trail. And you can forget all that “conquer the Minotaur crap” you learned in high school, using the ball o’ twine to mark the way out of the maze. Today’s smart shoppers use an email trail to navigate the treacherous waters of an exposé. And this particular email trail is a humdinger.

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Gun Preview – Cabot Guns Jones and Rangemaster 1911s

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September 7, 2011

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TTAG ran into a new American gun company at the NRA show: Cabot Guns. [Caution: link triggers autoplay audio] You may remember our exclusive April piece on Cabot’s $4,300 GI 1911. In the months that followed, TTAG secured extended trigger time with test models to verify Cabot’s claim that each pistol produced will ship with specs that “exceed national match standards.” We visited Cabot’s factory to see how the company makes [what they say is] the finest tolerance 1911 in the world . . .

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