Category: Firearms

Who thinks the next US infantry rifle needs to be heavy, complicated, incredibly expensive, based on unproven technology, and reminiscent of much-maligned acquisition programs like the Littoral Combat Ship and F35 Joint Strike Fighter? A retired two-star general named Bob Scales, that’s who. If that name sounds familiar and you weren’t previously under his command or in the Army between the years of 1966 and 2000, it’s probably because Scales has been railing against the M4/M16 for many years. Scales has, in many other areas, put forth a number of… Read More

I shot the Hudson H9 at media day and here are my thoughts.

In the last week, a lot of people have been asking "Why do you need an assault rifle?" or "Why does anyone need an AR15?" or more plainly saying "No one needs a semi auto rifle that is just designed to kill people." The firearm industry responds with "they're not assault rifles, they're modern sporting rifles!" I have previously stated that I don't really care what they're called but also that the whole "modern sporting rifle" thing is stupid. Perhaps I'm biased on the whole sporting thing. I don't hunt. I… Read More

Several years ago - okay, seven or eight - my friend Greg Fallon invited me to the informal 600 yard matches he sets up at a local range. They're monthly, early in the morning, and the range is an hour away from me, so I've been an infrequent competitor -especially the last few years, with regular trips up to Utah for the Sniper Country range, which offers shooting to a mile and beyond. Most of the time, I just went to mess around and have fun - I'd take my 5.45… Read More

The other day, I thought to myself that it might be fun to talk about guns with friends, record the conversation, and release it to anyone who might want to listen. If this is successful, we will do it again, with more guests/co-hosts. In this first episode of "Vuurwapen Blog Radio," we discuss the proposed changes to ITAR, different BCG coatings and platings, flash performance while using a silencer on an AR15, and Battle Rifle Company. These topics come from questions that have been emailed to me by blog readers over… Read More

News of the open letter from Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, a polite request for gun owners to not bring guns to Starbucks, has set the gun world on fire - or at least my Facebook feed. A condensed version of events: Starbucks has in years past not taken a stance on firearms in their stores. They've said that local, state, and federal laws are enough. Some gun owners took that as a version of support for open carry in their stores, and went so far as to walk into such… Read More

...but there's no way to weed them out without wrongly violating the rights of those who should. I understand that this statement may be offensive to some. In the firearm world, some fully invest themselves in an absolute interpretation of the Second Amendment: that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. I, too, believe that the Second Amendment is important and affords an individual right to own firearms...albeit with a few asterisks. Most notably, I think some people should not have access to firearms. It is relatively easy… Read More

And by "well done," I mean "burned to a crisp." I was introduced to Mario of Piece of History Firearms by a mutual friend recently, and we'll occasionally head to the range to shoot cool stuff like MG42s, RPKs, PKMs, select fire Glocks, and so on. We started talking about spare parts and projects and so on, and it turned out that I had a spare AK74 receiver and he had what was left of a select fire Bulgarian AK74 which was destroyed in a house fire (for more info… Read More

I decided to take some detailed photos of my Enfields; here are the results, along with some comments about the rifles. Thanks for reading. As mentioned previously, I wish that new production Enfield pattern rifles in various calibers were available.

Julie Goloski-Golob is a kind and gentle mother of two. She posts photos of delicious homemade food on Facebook and shoots for Smith & Wesson in competition, having won three Bianchi Cups (and a lot of other stuff) along the way. She is one of America's finest shooters, male or female. In one of the finest examples of how bad my memory is, I started talking to her about a year ago regarding her book SHOOT. I read the book when it came out and found it to be an… Read More