The Sig Sauer M17 was a controversial win but a massive one for the arms giant.
They’ve been pulling out win after win with contracts, recently acquiring two optic contracts for US Army DMR’s and a SOCOM LPVO.
But the M17 is the new sidearm for ‘New Army’ and its expanding theory around using and carrying a sidearm. It’s integrating modularity, optics compatibility, and all hours operative considerations.
GarandThumb Mike is taking a look and since I want one, so am I.
As the newly Democrat-controlled House of Representatives begins its session, we begin to hear the constant cries about the terrible ‘assault weapon’. More inaccurate definitions of ‘assault weapons’ and cries of how many lives these guns have taken. The irony here is that the modern sporting rifle (MSR) is used to take very few lives.
So few, that if it were a disease it would be a rare disease, known only by specialists and those who have or known someone with the disease. Or maybe as something not commonly known to cause death, like falling out of bed. Yes, falling out of bed kills more than 450 people yearly, beating the 2017 FBI number of 403 for deaths using any rifle. Which is still an unfair comparison because the rifles used in those deaths were not all MSR’s. They include everyday hunting rifles, and some of them are considered ‘assault weapons’ in one state but not another, because the definitions vary.
The worst part of irresponsible legislators focusing on a minuscule part of a problem is that the media is quick to pick up the lies and broadcast them and call it Truth. This goes far beyond the usual mainstream media news outlets where “if it bleeds it leads”. It extends to many TV shows and movies.
For example, I used to enjoy a medical drama because of the frequent appearance of rare disease diagnosis (despite the very dysfunctional doctor who was the main character). True to form, one plot labelled guns (rarely associated with any pathology) as part of a patient’s symptomatology.
The patient, a lawyer, was found to have a stash of guns and ammunition in his house that his family did not know about. He had created a hidden room during a remodel and placed a number of guns, ammunition and other survival equipment in this room without anyone in the family knowing. The “arsenal”, as they called it, consisted of 20 guns. 10 appeared to be MSR types (all appeared exactly the same) and the other 10 appeared to be shotguns, nearly all the same with a few having a different grip styles.
This shows the media’s bias in a number of ways.
First, they label a collection of 20 guns as an arsenal. Anyone who enjoys guns knows that you can easily own 20 different guns, each with a specific reason to be in the collection. For example, there are over 45 different .30 caliber rifle cartridges alone. Yet they showed a collection of 20 long guns in just 3 variations. No gun owner I know would call that a collection.
Second, the characters argue throughout the episode whether or not having this stash of guns is paranoid and a symptom of his illness or just a normal part of his life.
Third, they show the great lengths he went through to hide his guns from the very people in his life he had the guns to protect. I don’t know any gun owners who hide the fact that they own guns from the important people in their lives. I do know a few people who have hidden a few gun purchases from their loved ones, because the budget didn’t really accommodate the purchase–but that’s a different issue altogether.
Finally, they showed two physicians who were not against guns, both females. That at least was positive. One of them didn’t own any guns because she thought she “might shoot one of my family when they make me mad”. That kind of poor impulse control in a physician would be worrisome.
The second gun owner owned guns not for self defense but only for “fun”. The gun is portrayed as having no real value to the gun owner except for sport. These portrayals avoid the central reason to won firearms, to exercise a constitutionally protected right to protect yourself, your family, your community, and maybe even our country.
We have to wonder how much the show’s medical consultants had to do with the way guns were portrayed, since mainstream medicine is so anti-Second Amendment. Although one of them came out of the infamous Harvard School of Public Health and another also writes for the New York Times, I could not find that they had spoken out about firearms.
All this only seeks to influence American minds and to make us think that guns are irrelevant to the average citizen. We need to always call out the subtle bias that is built into TV, radio and movies and not allow lies to be told as truth to anyone who will listen.
With all the political pressure to “do something” and the Democrat-led U.S. House pushing all the gun control they can think of, we will have our hands full trying to shut down anti-Second Amendment bills in the that body. We can wish that the Republican majority in the Senate could be counted on to block bad bills coming from the House, but we cannot be naïve and must stay vigilant.
We have two U.S. Senators from Iowa who are very pro-Second Amendment. I always write them when an issue comes up so they remember their constituents support the Second Amendment in every way. I also write my U.S. Representative, who is a Democrat and not supportive of the Second Amendment. He needs to hear that many of his constituents still respect our constitution.
At the state level we have very pro-gun rights representatives and even a pro-rights physician senator. I keep in contact with them, too.
We are constantly bombarded by our opponents. We must never let up our vigilance in protecting our rights, for they will never stop trying to take them away.
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— Dr. Sean Brodale is a family practitioner in Iowa. He is pursuing the right to carry in hospitals for eligible medical personnel. At DRGO he is involved in membership and public engagement projects.
All DRGO articles by Sean Brodale, DO
(from nyagv.org)Short answer: No.
But you wouldn’t know that from the breathless media coverage of a recent study from the Boston University and Harvard’s T.C. Chan’s Schools of Public Health. “Household Gun Ownership and Youth Suicide Rates at the State Level, 2005–2015” was published online by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine January 17.
Suicide is a complex problem. There are bound to be more firearms suicides in households that don’t lock up their guns, or have none at all. But this does not mean firearms cause suicide any more than vehicles cause single-car crashes (a category that probably includes significant numbers of unprovable suicides). And there are more drowning deaths in unmonitored bodies of water than when lifeguards are present.
However—and this is the big one—there is no evidence yet that controlling the availability of firearms is at all associated with changes in overall suicide rates. This is the most important finding about firearms and suicides. It suggests that, despite individual cases of preventable shooting deaths, on a population basis as many people will commit suicide by other means when one becomes less accessible. International suicide studies confirm that the presence or absence of firearms among civilians is unrelated to the rate of suicide in various countries, which appears primarily to be culturally determined.
There are a couple of things that make one presumptively question this study’s findings. While correlating household firearm ownership with adolescent firearm suicide, the authors found no correlation with substance or alcohol abuse. This is a serious, well documented risk factor in all suicides, although it may be less so in the earlier ages of their chosen cohort.
They also found no difference in households whether guns were known to be locked up or not. They point themselves to previous work that documents that this makes a difference, as of course it would.
Two things particularly make this study deceptive and therefore a red herring for the question posed.
First, the ages of “Youth” chosen range from 10-19 years old. These ages cannot fairly be considered the same kind of “youth” because they do not reflect the same sorts of risks. The average 10 year old can be far less responsible for his safety than the average 19 year old. A 10 year old still requires day-to-day monitoring that should be unnecessary and would be inappropriate for the 19 y/o, who is legally and essentially an adult. Most locked storage will prevent a 10 year old’s access. Most would not forestall a determined 19 year old.
The big problem with firearms used in suicide is when they are grabbed on impulse or at the final, determined moment—then there is usually no rescue possible (unlike with some, not all, other modes of self-harm). The 10 year old is more impulsive, likely with poorer understanding of the finality of his action. The 19 year old should understand what death means and is more likely to seek it intentionally, following a set plan.
Second, the authors counted gun ownership only as of 2004, while looking at suicide rates from 2005 through 2015, and basically averaging them. Obviously, changes in gun ownership rates from 2004 through 2015 should be accounted for in examining the relationship of these chronologically concurrent factors.
The mainstream media perspective on gun ownership, which one suspects would be part of such research’s DNA, says that gun ownership by household has declined from about 43% in 2004 to about 40% in 2015. Another survey suggests that household gun ownership rates have been roughly stable from 2004-2015.
But what can they make of firearm suicide rates increasing, while the number of households with guns decreases or doesn’t change? Perhaps issues about safe storage and poor judgment could be implicated, but with the increasing focus on these subjects in both pro- and anti-gun circles, it’s hard to believe these factors are generally worsening.
Of course, that “mainstream” perspective is nonsense. Gun ownership nationwide is increasing dramatically every year. Federal databases say that the number of guns per American (while the population simultaneously grows) increased from about 1.2 per person in 2004 to about 1.4 in 2015. That’s an increase of 17%, if that were the whole picture.
But we know that many gun owners now decline to reveal gun ownership to anonymous surveyors. And that millions of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey residents have refused to turn themselves in for retaining firearms and accessories that those states have made illegal in recent years. Gun owners are going to ground in order to preserve their right to these tools of liberty.
Some portion of the many millions of background checks every year (covering 85% or more of all firearm purchases) are for new gun owners purchasing firearms. We can more directly judge individual handgun ownership by noting the enormous increase in concealed carry permits from 2007 (4.6 million) to 2018 (17.25 million)—even with the increasing prevalence of constitutional carry in states that do not require permits. While that is not 2004 to 2015, it establishes a rate of increase in individual handgun ownership of more than 25% per year!
According to the CDC, overall suicides for ages 10-19 years (mostly with handguns) increased from about 5/100,000 in 2004 to about 6/100,000 in 2015, about 20%. The firearms suicide rate for these ages increased from about 2.1/100,000 to about 2.4/100,000, or about 14%. During this time, suffocation (including hanging) became the leading method for this age group’s suicide; it used to be only half the number of suicides using firearms.
So, how can these enormous increases in household (or individual, for that matter) gun ownership be responsible for such relatively tiny increase in the rate of any suicides? And how, if firearms suicide is the worry, can it be rising slower than suicide by all methods?
We know a lot that’s true about the relationship of legal gun ownership and crime, violence, suicide, etc. We know that more guns equals less crime, or at least does not increase it. We know that universal background checks do not change rates of violence or suicide. We know that reducing restrictive concealed carry legislation does not increase homicide or other violent crime rates. We know that far more violence, death and injuries are prevented by civilian gun use than actually occur. We know that American gun ownership does not affect overall suicide rates.
Now we know that it is not a significant factor in shifting firearm suicide rates. In fact, if you looked at the charts mentioned above, you’ll see there was a dip in adolescent firearm suicides (and their suicides overall) during the mid-2000’s while gun ownership was consistently growing. The only correlation to be found is that firearm suicides generally parallel suicides by all methods.
Are we responsible for what happens with our guns? Of course—and that means keeping them out of the hands of youth until we are sure they are properly trained and demonstrate maturity and competence. We will stop preventable firearm suicides by our adolescent children and their visitors that way.
Could any public policy legislation prevent or reduce firearm suicides on the whole in this age group? Of course not.
Will this kind of research continue to be published, despite its meaninglessness? Certainly, because it keeps fanning the fires of hoplophobia. It’s for the kids, after all, and if we save just one . . .
Be sure to check our list of all the ways that researchers prejudice their findings according to their agendas: “Reading ‘Gun Violence’ Research Critically”. Maybe you can pick out the several ways the Boston public health cabal did so here. And for fun and personal profit, read Dr. Przebinda’s Spuriouser and Spuriouser and look at Spurious Correlations.
Correlation does not equal causation. Certainly not when conflating America’s civilian gun ownership boom with adolescent firearm suicides.
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— DRGO Editor Robert B. Young, MD is a psychiatrist practicing in Pittsford, NY, an associate clinical professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
All DRGO articles by Robert B. Young, MD
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Ryan Cleckner has one of the strongest resumés in the shooting world. He served two tours of duty as a special ops Ranger sniper, team leader and trainer in Afghanistan. Following his return, he completed college and law school, founded the educational Veteran’s Advocacy Group and the New Battlefront Group to aid in transition from military to civilian life.
He appeared on The History Channel’s Top Shot show, demonstrating a one-shot hit at 1,000 yards from a standing position. Of course, he wrote the book on long-range shooting, The Long Range Shooting Handbook. He’s worked for the National Shooting Sports Federation and at Remington Outdoors.
And then he found time to write another book!
It’s no surprise that it should be one teaching gun safety, which is intrinsic to his work from Afghanistan to Tennessee and Alabama, where he teaches Constitutional Law. It’s interesting that it should be for young children; my guess is that he now has one himself, judging by the dedication.
DRGO is always keen on teaching real gun safety (that is, being safe with guns, not making them more illegal and unavailable). We’ve reviewed other books: Golob’s Toys, Tots, Guns and Rules; Remer’s Safety On and The ABC’s of Guns; Brown’s Brownie Bear Teaches Gun Safety; Luciano’s Guns the Right Way. There’s Only One of You fits right in.
Reckner begins with a number of examples of kids making ordinary kid mistakes and being reassured by Moms, Dads and siblings. “Accidents happen, I know it is true, But nothing’s more special than my love for you.”
But then Jake visits Gramps and finds his gun leaning on the house outside. Fortunately, Gramps is right there to tell him: “Stop . . . Stay away, tell a grown-up when you see a gun!” Gramps locks it up and explains how dangerous an accident could be with a gun. Jake and Alice close the book reviewing the lesson themselves: “. . . a gun can really hurt one of us, And WE just can’t be replaced.”
This is a short book (17 pages) to read to very young kids or for early readers to read along themselves. It’s repetitive, which can help sink the lesson into little minds. Most of the repetition occurs in the initial two-thirds of the book giving examples of common accidents , which seems misplaced since that leaves only the last third for the single experience of gun safety itself. Fewer introductory scenarios could have sufficed in the interest of emphasizing the primary firearm lesson.
Cleckner also mislays his initially tight versifying in the later pages. The rhythm often gets obscured (for example, in the quotes from Gramps above). Cutting a few words or changing the order of others could have solved some of the awkwardness. This doesn’t just matter to pretentious reviewers. An adult reading can keep the meter clear by emphasizing the right syllables. But young readers may find it harder to focus on the meaning within the tangled rhythms.
The illustrations by Ansel Medina are darling, a word seldom used in the corpus of DRGO writing. They suit a juvenile audience perfectly in style, while gently supporting the message.
Cleckner adds an afterword to parents that reminds us of the most important element in teaching children to put safety first: how adults model for them. If we aren’t safe, ain’t no child safe. He properly concludes with Jeff Cooper’s classic “Four Rules of Firearm Safety”, which should be engrained in every gun user’s heart.
This is a lovely little book to introduce your youngest children to the principles of firearm safety from a perspective and in words they can easily understand. There’s Only One of You is directed right at the child. It is a good accompaniment to Golob’s book for parents and children, and slots in just below the ages that Remer and Brown have written for. Together, these authors have your children’s introduction to firearms well covered.
Recommended!
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— DRGO Editor Robert B. Young, MD is a psychiatrist practicing in Pittsford, NY, an associate clinical professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
All DRGO articles by Robert B. Young, MD
Image: Magpul D-50, super extra ultra scary for New York
The New York State Assembly and Senate, not to be outdone by the West Coast, have passed 8 new measures designed to keep New Yorker’s “SAFE”.
Some are calling it the SAFE Act 2.0 or the SAFE Act Reloaded, because giving it a catchy title will absolutely offset the infringement and ineffectual design… It SOUNDS good so it must be amazing.
Lets breakdown the package that is set to finally save the universe and deliver justice for all, shall we?
“Stronger” being a term that seems to be replacing the more accurate “longer”. The new proposal doesn’t do anything to improve NICS or assure that the database is delivering more accurate and timely results. No, now a “Delay” result from NICS will result in an up to 30 day wait to purchase instead of the 3 under the Federal standards.
I’m certain this will drastically alter homicide rates. We wouldn’t want to do something ridiculous and follow up on more NICS “Deny” results… that might put criminals behind bars who attempt to purchase guns. Making people wait 10 times as long for a background check to clear (maybe, not all delay and deny results are accurate by a long stretch) is the logical choice.
Greater reliance on a system only as good as its data and just making the citizen wait a month in the hope that somehow stops a nefarious criminal act. Brilliant.
We are LOVING red flag laws across this great nation right now.
NY is giving teachers, school admins, judges, LEO’s, and family members authority to bar a persons second amendment rights for up to a year. At the end of the year a panel of some variety will renew it if they see fit.
The stated goal is to take care of “extreme risk” individuals who may hurt themselves or others with their otherwise legally owned firearms. These people are not criminal convicts, someone just stated they “might” be a risk due to ‘Exhibit A’.
‘Exhibit A’ might be a Facebook post, a conversation, a T-shirt they wore. The orders will be issued and carried out pre-due process and the bureaucratic nightmare that will ensue to restore someone’s rights and property… well, using my own experience recovering a single stolen firearm… lengthy.
Let me posit an idea. As a man of The Internet my opinion is clearly expert level, correct? No? It worked for vaccines… wait that was a celebrity, too.
Anyway. My thought…
AUSTIN TX – A Girl & A Gun Women’s Shooting League (AG & AG) is proud to launch the all-new 2019 Shooting Journal. Marksmen have long used shooting journals to analyze range performance and log their practice sessions. With this Shooting Journal, AG & AG offers a revolutionary program to help the female marksman organize her plans, goals, time, and training.
“The secret to advanced shooting is mastering the fundamentals,” says Tatiana Whitlock, Director of Training for AG & AG. “The Shooting Journal includes 12 months of discussions, drills, targets, and articles to help any shooter closely examine and refine her shooting techniques.” To ensure that training is meaningful and effective, all dry-fire drills are paired with reinforcing live-fire drills that validate the dry-fire practice.
In addition, themed worksheets inspire the woman shooter to learn more about herself, her strengths, and motivations. The Shooting Journal gives her greater insight to the big picture of firearms safety, necessary gear, and physical and mental strength. It also serves to document her training, reinforce learning, and give her clarity to achieve her shooting and personal goals.
The 206-page journal is available to all AG & AG members as a free download on AGirlandAGun.org. Not a member? Join today!
About A Girl & A Gun
A Girl & A Gun (AG & AG) is a membership organization whose events have been successful stepping stones for thousands of women into the shooting community and fostered their love of shooting with caring and qualified instructors to coach them. AG & AG breaks barriers for women and girls in the area of self-defense and in pistol, rifle, and shotgun shooting sports by welcoming beginners to learn the basics of safe and accurate shooting and providing experienced shooters with advanced-level opportunities. The club has more than 5,500 members in 48 states and hosts recurring Girl’s Nights Out at more than 180 ranges throughout the nation. Learn more at AGirlandAGun.org.
SOURCE ARTICLE: https://www.agirlandagun.org/new-shooting-journal-for-women/
[You may also be interested in Michael Graham’s column in the Boston Herald and my interview with Dana Loesch.]
In a bizarre announcement last Thursday, the City of Boston has decided that physicians should now be required to ask all patients about their gun ownership. Mayor Martin J. Walsh wants the state of Massachusetts to legislate this in the 2019 session. Boston Police Commissioner William Gross said “This is a great way for the medical field to help identify any red-flag issues. . . It’s to put another tool in the physician’s belt to help out the victims.”
The claim is that this would “help identify ways to save lives”, according to Gross. No — as has been abundantly proven, guns in America save lives overall.
The purpose would be to identify people at risk of suicide, domestic violence, or “child access” although the information would not be intended to help solve crime. The act would not require doctors to note gun ownership in patient records.
Let’s parse this, because there is literally nothing right about it:
Physicians are already generally, and inappropriately, encouraged by their professional associations to ask patients about gun ownership. Then they are to use that as a springboard to advise owners they would be safer without guns, or at least to lock up firearms in one room and all ammunition separately in another part of the house.
The Germans are considered a very strong ally both to the US and to Europe as a whole when it comes to backing the continent in conflicts. Reports like this may shift that perception back towards France and the UK taking lions’ shares back in the division of European defense.
German soldiers sometimes have to rely on civilian helicopters to transport them around in Afghanistan, while vital equipment such as body armor has to be borrowed, according to the new parliamentary Bundeswehr report presented on Tuesday. – DW.com
The biggest problem that Bundeswehr soldiers complained about was the lack of equipment, despite repeated government promises, dating back to a 2014 NATO summit, of a change in direction.
This same time last year the German’s were citing a lack of equipment, even as the began to take over the European eastern readiness front. Officials claimed the Bundeswehr would be ready to meet their obligations and all necessary equipment would be procured… but at this point is it just a song and dance?
And what does that mean for us here in the US? Simple, as NATO’s serious force projection element any conflict the German’s cannot shoulder will very likely become our problem. Unless a European ally can bolster and cover Bundeswehr forces enough to solve it on a smaller scale it will be US Calvary once again riding across a hill.
First, my apologies that YouTube still doesn’t love live format videos in the modern era.
Second though, Zenith is continuing to earn their stripes in the roller delayed space and the man behind in front of the camera, James, is a large part of that.
Coming this year is turn key access to MP5 training with Zenith and the roller delayed guru crew. If you do not have an MP5, don’t worry. Just show up with eye protection and ear protection and the rest is in a box brought to the training location.
A gun to train with?
On site upon your arrival.
Magazines?
Yep, loaded.
Optics and lights?
You got it.
Ammo?
If you need it they bring it.
Assuming you’re talking about the Z3 roller delayed 7.62×51 and the other products that have been scarce. They’re coming. Zenith assures me and I assure you they’re coming.
Roller delayed aficionados and fans will not be denied much longer the sweet G3 and and G33… or rather Z3 and Z33 goodness that we crave.
So for 2019!
Here…
We….
Go!
Most of our best efforts at firearm security are passive.
Even legally speaking.
Every state and many municipalities have a published version of “safe storage” requirements. These can be as broadly stated as “the firearm must be stored in a manner to prevent unauthorized access” or as specific as a firearm being stored unloaded, disassembled, locked in a safe, ammunition separately locked, and so on.
Gun safes, cabinets, trigger locks, or a dead bolted door all have a shared characteristic though, they are passive security measures.
Simtek changes that.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is an entirely outmoded document! Useful at one time, It’s now an excuse for malcontents and fools to obtain weapons they invariably misuse. That, at least, is what a large segment of our political establishment would have you believe. Are they right?
Into the debate comes the report of one Javier Vanegas. Mr. Vanegas, age 28, is a Venezuelan refugee living in Ecuador. He relates how his country of Venezuela was destroyed in “six short years”. It began, he tells us, when then President Hugo Chavez, taking a cue from Castro’s Cuba, decided to confiscate all civilian guns in 2012. An amnesty was declared, after which anyone caught with a firearm could spend up to twenty years behind bars. Despite this threat, only thirty seven guns were turned in. Nearly 12,500 had to be seized by force. When Chavez died, the policy of firearm confiscation was continued by his successor, President Nicolas Maduro. When members of the pro-democracy movement publicly protested the gun grab, over 200 of them were killed. When the police opened fire, all they could do was to throw stones. Predictably, Venezuela morphed into a complete dictatorship forcing over three million of its citizens to flee the country.
How did such a tragedy come about? Mr. Vanegas tells us the gun confiscation bill was originally sold to the Venezuelan National Assembly
as a crime prevention bill. Hmmm, why does that sound familiar?
Once the law was enacted, the murder rate really went down in Venezuela, right? No, wrong! In 2015 the number of murders in Venezuela reached 28,000, the worlds highest. For 2018, the homicide rate was 56.33 per 100,000. Again, a record setter, far exceeding the world’s average of 6.02 per 100,000. According to Mr. Vanegas, the only people who have guns in Venezuela now, besides the police, are street gangs preying on the disarmed citizenry. Why am I not surprised?
SHOT Show 2019 has come and gone. SHOT always moves like a hurricane through the life of this industry. It brings with it a massive amount of stress, fun, and a mix of both awesome and WTF when it comes to guns and gear. It’s been a few days since the show and I’m now coughing up SHOT Show crud and thinking a bit about the show this year.
I found it to be low energy in a lot of ways. There seemed to be less people overall, and there wasn’t the fire I had seen in the show in years prior. This was my third show and something seemed different. I wasn’t the only one, having dinner with the GAT crew on Thursday turned the conversation to the show and everyone pretty much said the same. The show this year was different.
Walking the floor was a different experience. It was one where people seemed to be excited about the Show or their new products. I understand this show is for selling product and media isn’t the biggest reason to be at the Show. However, in past years most of the booths and vendors seemed to be excited for media to stop by and ask questions and take photos. This year there was less time for press and less enthusiasm for coverage.
Dr. LateBloomer, a writer at GAT Daily, had some interesting experiences with camo manufactuerers that sum up most of SHOT Show 2019. That’s not to say everyone was rude, but there was a sense of indifference with a lot of manufacturers. Some companies were great and more than willing to show off include Troy, Nighthawk, Aero Precision, Franklin Armory, Agency Arms, and a few others had that classic SHOT Show energy.
AUSTIN, TX — A Girl & A Gun Women’s Shooting League (AG & AG) is pleased to offer its members an exciting pricing program on firearms ranging from personal defense, to competition, to recreation in every style and budget. Members receive access to a number of benefits that can only be provided by an organization with the scale and reach of AG & AG.
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About A Girl & A Gun
A Girl & A Gun (AG & AG) is a membership organization whose events have been successful stepping stones for thousands of women into the shooting community and fostered their love of shooting with caring and qualified instructors to coach them. AG & AG breaks barriers for women and girls in the area of self-defense and in pistol, rifle, and shotgun shooting sports by welcoming beginners to learn the basics of safe and accurate shooting and providing experienced shooters with advanced-level opportunities. The club has more than 5,500 members in 48 states and hosts recurring Girl’s Nights Out at more than 180 ranges throughout the nation. Learn more at AGirlandAGun.org.
SOURCE ARTICLE: https://www.agirlandagun.org/gun-buy-program/
It’s Sunday after SHOT Show, but I have one more cool thing to talk about.
This is a bolt action upper by Uintah Precision that you can swap onto your AR Platform lower!
This is a stroke of genius in my opinion. If you live in a totally permissive state for AR15’s or AR10’s for hunting, count your blessings. Although the state I live in permits semi-autos for deer, the state the family property is in does NOT.
It has been a long-standing complaint of mine that I can adjust my AR to suit me for length of pull, trigger weight and whatever gee-gaws I want during the rest of the year AND shoot proficiently with it – but all of that proficiency goes out the window when it comes time for deer rifle season on family property. That’s when I have to drag out the wooden stock lever gun 30-30 that doesn’t fit me well. How much sense does it make that I have to hunt deer with a gun that I shoot five rounds a year out of and THAT just to make sure it’s still sighted in?
But here comes Uintah Precision which fits a bolt action upper to my existing AR lower, allowing me to keep my stock length adjustments and my safety lever and mag release button where I’m used to them. This sounds like it should be the best thing ever.
If I’ve already expended the effort to put a nice new trigger and stock on my existing AR, then I don’t see the point in having to trick out a whole new gun and get it to where it fits me, when I could use my “fun” lower with a different upper for hunting to keep the game warden happy.
The Uintah Precision bolt action upper would give me the multi-use flexibility I like AND the increased precision that bolt action offers, all while being state compliant.
I am planning to build a .308 from Aero Precision components this year (because I don’t have anything in the AR10 platform yet) so the next logical step after the build would be to try putting a Uintah Precision bolt action upper on it so I CAN use it in PA.
Uintah offers a variety of calibers and barrel lengths. They also offer custom builds if you are looking for a fluted barrel, etc. They are also currently working on a left-handed receiver for the southpaws out there.
Check out their web page and videos for more details. I’m certainly going to.
