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The Toil and Trials of Building Your Own Custom 1911 – Part 2: Range...

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Click here to read Part 1 of this two-part post.  In the first part of this post, I detailed the hours of effort and frustration that went into assembling a custom 1911. When last I...

Book Review: The AR-15 Complete Assembly Guide (Vol. 2)

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I didn't realize how much I missed instructional books until last month when a copy of The AR-15 Complete Assembly Guide (Vol.2)  by Walt Kuleck and Clint McKee arrived at my doorstep with the inaugural...
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GFEN Announces the First Shooting Competition for DIY Gun Builders

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There are thousands of shooting competitions held across the country every year for competitors shooting a huge range of calibers -- .22 up to .50 -- and firearms. Everything from PRS to Cowboy Action...

What to Look For in a Custom Rifle – Chambers and Throats

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In his next article on what to look for in a custom rifle, John Stewart of Kiote Corp explains the right way and the wrong ways to cut a chamber and throat for a rifle... The...
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Federal Ban Bill Would Take Home Gun Manufacturing Back To The Stone Age

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Back in May, one of the Senate's most dedicated anti-gun members, Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal introduced S.3743, the Untraceable Firearms Act of 2020. The target, of course, is those scary objects of gun-grabbers nightmares...ghost guns....

Gear Review: The Device MK 1 Mod 0 Upper Receiver Fixture (M16/AR-15)

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Just about a year ago now I was in the back shop at C.a.r. Firearms, just south of Seattle, when a robust, blocky, yet sleek-looking item caught my eye. It consisted of two parts...
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State Attorneys General Defeated, Small Arms Export Control Reforms Now in Effect

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By Larry Keane NSSF’s Intervention on Behalf of Industry Is Successful – Court Allows Export Rules to Take Effect After a decade long push by the NSSF, the final rules for the USML to CCL transition...
The truth about rifle barrel crowns

What to Look for in a Custom Rifle – The Barrel Crown

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As part of an ongoing series on what to look for in a custom rifle, gunsmith John Stewart tells us all a little more about the barrel crown. John Stewart of Kiote Corp writes: Everyone knows...
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Are 80% Frames, 3D Printing, and the Ghost Gunner Now Obsolete?

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The Bakersfield Police Department is reporting that they arrested a felony parolee who was "in possession of an airsoft gun that had been converted to fire .357-caliber ammunition and had six live rounds of...

Ghost Gunner 3 CNC Mill Now Supports AK-47 and AK-74 80% Receivers

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When Defense Distributed launched their faster, larger, more powerful Ghost Gunner 3 mill they noted it is powerful enough to cut steel. At that point it was only a matter of time before AK-47...

Gear Review: Warne TW1 25 in/lbs. T-15 Torque Wrench

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For many shooters the simple mention of "T-15" brings fond recollections of self-installed scopes successfully on their favorite tack driver they've used out in the field or at the range. To others, the thought...
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SHOT Show: All the Stippling Tips You Could Want

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If you love the smell of burning plastic (in a properly ventilated room, of course), then the OTDefense line of stippling products will be as familiar as creatively shaped polymer. Tyler Kee used an OTDefense...