Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 76, Issue 5 i Firearms News

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has ruled that an order closing gun stores and shooting ranges in Los Angeles and Ventura counties during the early part of the Covid pandemic was unconstitutional. The lawsuit, McDougall v. Ventura County, was supported by several pro-gun organizations, including Gun Owners of America and the National Rifle Association, after the shutdown order was made back in 2020. At that time, a district court ruled that the forced closure of gun stores, ammunition shops and firing ranges didn’t violate the plaintiff’s constitutional rights. However, the 9th Circuit didn’t agree, instead finding that the closure did violate law-abiding citizens’ right to keep and bear arms since buyers can only buy guns by going in person to gun retailers.…

Federal’s new 30 Super Carry handgun cartridge has set the internet aflame since news of it leaked shortly before it was officially introduced. Many are interested in learning about this new handgun cartridge and to find out if it actually offers something of value to them. Firearms News was given a first look at the new 30 Super Carry by Federal Premium a few months back. I put Federal’s new cartridge to work in Smith & Wesson’s new 30 Super Carry Shield EZ pistol. As this is a rather important cartridge introduction I thought it would be interesting to share not only my thoughts but also those of James Tarr and Michelle Hamilton. You can read their thoughts on the 30 Super Carry cartridge following mine. So, let’s consider the…

By Mark Chesnut The San Jose, California, City Council’s recent move to tax lawful gun owners and require them to carry liability insurance has many self-defense advocates and pro-gun organizations crying foul. Split into two separate recommendations, the insurance requirement passed last week by a 10-to-1 margin, while the vote on the tax was 8-3 — both despite public comments on the proposal running overwhelmingly negative. If the proposals are passed in a final council vote next month, gun owners would be charged an annual $25 fee and would be required to obtain liability insurance that would cover damage caused by their firearm. While many on the anti-gun side reveled in the decision, others, including Houston-based U.S. Law Shield, were quick to voice their disapproval of the direct infringement on…

COVID-19 has engendered new gun shop customers searching for a firearm for uncertain times. I’ve suggested to a couple of such acquaintances to first evaluate their circumstances. I live in St. Louis, an urban area hit fairly hard by COVID-19; hence, many here fear civil unrest from unemployment and shortages, increase in street crime, home invasions, etc. For urbanites not already owning a firearm, I usually suggest a handgun, shotgun, or both. The handgun can be kept close at home or away since Missouri is a constitutional carry state. If they lack experience with handguns I usually recommend a revolver. For home defense, the shotgun combines intimidation with devastating striking power. For handiness, I like Mossberg’s 20-gauge Shockwave’s lower recoil. However, new shooters may still find the Shockwave hard to…

While those who watch so-called “mainstream media” on a regular basis get a steady diet of fawning stories about anti-freedom, anti-Second Amendment governors like California’s Gavin Newsom and New Jersey’s Phil Murphy, state leaders who are truly and quietly moving their states forward are often ignored. That’s the case with Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a successful businessman and 2A advocate who has not only turned his eye toward drawing more manufacturers to his state, but is zeroing in on firearm manufacturers and other companies in the industry. That fact that Stitt’s very first bill signing was the state’s constitutional carry law back in 2019 tells you just about all you need to know about his priorities. Yet his appreciation and promotion of all freedoms, not just the right to keep…

Sarsilmaz is one of the oldest, and largest, firearms manufacturers in Turkey. I made a trip to Sarsilmaz in Turkey in 2012 on behalf of this magazine. I’ve written about that trip several times over the years, referencing Sarsilmaz’s clean, huge, and modern manufacturing facility in the northern part of the country, near the Black Sea. What I’ve never talked about, at least until now, is the off-the-record discussion I and several other visiting gun writers had with the heads of various manufacturing departments at Sarsilmaz. They told us that they either were or were about to produce military long guns, including those based on the AR platform, and asked for our opinions. The 109T is one of those products they were referencing. Introduced in 2014 as a submachine gun…

The early 20th century was a time of political and social chaos for Spain. While once one of the world’s greatest colonial and military powers, corrupt governments, political and military coups had left Spanish society fragmented. Their embarrassing defeat in the Spanish-American War (1898) had cost them their colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands reducing their once expansive “empire” to a few small enclaves in North Africa. Spain’s economy was still based upon agriculture on large estates owned by nobility and worked by poverty-stricken peasants. In a few regions, it was based upon mining and modern industry was expanding in several urban areas. Social unrest was rife leading to ever worsening political instability. In 1902, sixteen-year-old Alfonso XIII is crowned king of Spain. The young king relished…