Category: General Opinion

Note: While some might question the timing of this article given the recent combat death of a SEAL in Yemen, I think this is exactly the time to publish such a piece. While members of the military, including SEALs, are fighting and dying, people in no danger whatsoever are capitalizing on their efforts - and their deaths - for financial gain. A while back I was having a discussion with the owner of Faxon about why I didn't like his ARAK upper. It took four minutes and thirty-two seconds for… Read More

"Hillary wants to abolish -- essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know. But I tell you what, that will be a horrible day, if Hillary gets to put her judges in, right now we're tied." - Donald Trump, August 9, 2016 This is bad. Yes, it was a joke. That's why it's bad. Not just because it was a bad joke (it… Read More

This morning, United States District Court Judge James C. Cacheris issued an order dismissing Fireclean v. Tuohy on jurisdictional grounds. This means that Fireclean could appeal this ruling or attempt to refile the case in Arizona (and, presumably, a separate filing against Everett Baker in New Hampshire) before the statute of limitations expires. However, this is the third loss in a row for Fireclean relating to this case - denial of their motion for jurisdictional discovery, denial of their appeal of that denial, and the dismissal of the case - with… Read More

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

A few days ago, 49 people were killed at a gay club. They were targeted for no other reason than they were gay or they chose to hang out with the gays. I regularly associate with gays, consider them among my closest friends, and do not believe homosexuality is a sin, much less one punishable by death. While hanging out with them in years past, I have seen homophobic individuals make specific threats against their lives for no other reason than they were, by appearance or inference, homosexual - and because I was hanging out… Read More

Froglube, the minty green gun lube/toothpaste some people love and others love to hate, has been rumored to be the same as Tracklube Plus, a blue roller coaster track lubricant paste. Seal1, an orange gun paste, has also been rumored to be the same as Froglube. If all the rumors are true, that means Froglube, Tracklube+ and Seal1 are all the same product. But when are all the rumors true? Rumors are never true. All the rumors? Come on. Well, they are in this case. Initial Laboratory Analysis, October 2015… 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

In the last week I have noticed allegations made by the maker of a gun oil that FireClean is a) nothing more than Crisco vegetable oil, and b) will cause the action of a weapon to "gum up" if left on the weapon for more than six to twelve months. While I am investigating both claims, I happened to have a Spike's Tactical AR15 in 5.45x39 which had last been fired and lubricated with FireClean in September of 2013 and, to be clear, not been cleaned, fired, or lubricated in any… 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

I have continued to work on the muzzle device test, and am looking to include some highly scientific analysis of a certain factor relating to muzzle flash which will make this second round of testing significantly better than the first. This necessitates a delay in publication, but I think it will be worth the wait. Also, several months ago, I wrote an article analyzing fatal accident rates of the Cessna 170 over the past several decades. It was recently published in the The 170 News, the quarterly newsletter of The International… Read More