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Tactical Revolver: Smith & Wesson’s Model 327 M&P

byTodd Burgreen
May 20, 2007
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I like to think of myself as a progressive, forward-thinking individual when it comes to firearm design and trends. I take pride in quickly perceiving the advantages of polymer construction and the new safe-action triggers heralded by Glock.

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Long Guns: Sabre Defence XR15A3-M4 Tactical

It seems that every time I pick up Shotgun News or one of the gun magazines, another company…

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Against All Odds: Signaling & Self-Rescue

byJeff Randall
April 20, 2007
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Maybe it’s just the media giving more airtime to stories about human tragedy, but this past year seems to have had more than its fair share of people getting lost and dying in the wilds. While some of these events had heroic efforts at self-rescue, others showed signs of the victim just giving up and dying without a fight.

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Terrorist Snipers: What Are They Really Capable Of?

Watching TV footage from Iraq and Afghanistan, you are led to believe that “Haji the terrorist” has an…

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Sabre Defence Massad Ayoob Elite Rifle: Ready For Duty

byMike Detty
March 22, 2007
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The name Massad Ayoob should be familiar to readers of gun magazines and law enforcement journals. Ayoob has spent his professional life analyzing, studying and disseminating the dynamics of police work.

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Build Your Own FAL Rifle!

byTony Albaceli
March 20, 2007
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The FAL earned the moniker “Right Arm of the Free World” because it was adopted in over 90 countries all over the globe and was manufactured in ten different countries. It saw action in every kind of extreme climate.

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To Sight or Not to Sight: The Case For Point Firing

byMatt Berger
March 20, 2007
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If one finds himself in a situation in which he has time to use the sights, then, by all means, use the sights. However, if the conflict begins at less than ten feet, in the dark, and very rapidly, as it is statistically likely to, point firing is the way to survive.

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Sub Caliber Machineguns: Are They Still Practical?

byPatrick A Rogers
March 20, 2007
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Certainly the “entertainment media” will place an SMG in the hands of the hero, anti-hero or villain. Anyone worth paying attention to in film genres such as war, gangster, action and others, will use a submachine gun of one type or another.

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Combat Focus: Instinctive Shooting For The Real World

byFlint Hansen
February 22, 2007
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Within just a few short years, Valhalla Training Center has gone from relative obscurity to being one of the country’s top training centers. This is in no small part due to the Combat Focus™ course developed by Rob Pincus—Valhalla’s Director of Operations.

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Gun Mavens: How the Experts Train

byBob Pilgrim
February 22, 2007
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I have had a gun of one type or other in my hand for the better part of 40 years and consider myself, if you will, a “Gun Maven.” Others might say, perhaps more accurately, that I am just another old “Gun Crank,” but I take firearms ownership and skill maintenance very seriously, and it is my responsibility to honor the Second Amendment...