Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 72, Issue 6 i Firearms News

I’ve always found it interesting how the firearms market is constantly evolving and changing. One type of firearm is hot for a while and then it’s not, and something else takes its place. It is a constant cycle, with industry trying to stay on top of the next trend. Currently, take-down guns and pistol-caliber carbines are both steadily growing in popularity. Noting this trend, Ruger developed and introduced for 2018, a new model called the Pistol Caliber (PC) carbine. Not only is it chambered for the ever-popular 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge, but it is also easily taken down, without tools, to allow easy stowage in a bag or pack. I had a case of déjà vu when I first handled Ruger’s new 9mm PC carbine. An attractive piece with a handy…

For years, the Bersa Thunder has enjoyed a reputation for excellent reliability within the shooting community—a trait valued by every type of shooter, but especially coveted by self-defense shooters like me. I’m not a competition shooter, nor am I an every-weekend-rain-or-shine type. I’m more of an “air conditioned baby” kind of shooter. I enjoy it, but I only hit the outdoor range on nice, warm, sunny days. In cold weather, I’ve been known to frequent an indoor range, but this is rare. Since my goal is to stay sharp in self-defense situations, I practice on targets at seven to 15 yards and can manage a tight, respectable group firing either my .380, my 38 Special, or my .32. Being left-handed and right-eyed can be a handicap when shooting handguns. I…

Also brand new from Ruger is its Security-9 pistol. This is a Glock G19-sized self-loading 9mm intended for concealed carry and personal protection. It feeds from steel 15-round magazines and has large easy-to-see high visibility sights. Built on a polymer frame, it sports Ruger’s Secure Action. This is a hammer-fired system based upon the proven LCP fire control system. Ruger says it has, “the smooth trigger pull of the LCP with the short, crisp feel and positive reset of a single action.” The frame features a rigid one-piece precision-machined aluminum chassis with full-length guide rails. Riding on the rails is a blued, through-hardened alloy steel slide. Operation is via a traditional tilting barrel. Barrel length is four inches, and beneath this is a captured recoil spring. The pistol weighs in…

Last year, I wrote an article for Firearms News titled “Miscellaneous Greatness,” covering excellent products that might be of interest to gun guys and girls… but that weren’t actually guns. Gun owners do not live in a vacuum, and we are interested in a lot of things in our day-to-day lives, only some of which go bang or attach to things that go bang. But gun owners—at least the kind who regularly read gun magazines—tend to have common interests. Here are a few more product recommendations for those of you living the well-armed American dream. Black Rifle Coffee Company Gun guys tend to be car guys, knife guys, and coffee guys. I don’t drink tea, as I am neither British nor genderfluid, and neither should you. It was the fuel…

In Part I of this report, we examined the development of the Browning-designed FN Pistolet Automatique Browning Modéle 1905, and its 6,35mm cartridge (better known in the United States as the .25 ACP). As had been FN’s earlier 7,65mm Modéle 1900 pistol, despite its unimpressive ballistics, the Modéle 1905 was an instant success on the world market. European police, army officers and armed civilians felt that 6,35mm pistols were perfectly adequate for personal protection, which led to a plethora of European gunmakers producing them. On the other (proper?) side of the Atlantic, Colt was first off the mark with its .25-caliber Model 1908 Vest Pocket Pistol—a copy of the FN Modéle 1905—which found a ready market as a personal protection pistol by civilians (it was often advertised as the perfect…