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Last week we posted this review of an airsoft PEQ-15 clone: Brass Facts’ bottom line was that the Somogear isn’t quite as robust as the real deal — but…
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A system component that fails open will, in the event of a loss of power or control, default to allowing all traffic to pass through. A fail-closed…
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Last Tuesday, Measure 114 was approved by a simple majority of Oregon voters. The ballot measure specifies that: To buy a gun in Oregon, you will first…
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Two stories this week about answering the door. In this one from Menifee, California, a man narrowly dodges some bullets that police fired at him after…
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There’s a subreddit called /r/JSOCarchive. It alternates between posting JSOC gear porn and teasing itself for posting JSOC gear porn. Last week someone…
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This story came out of Miami on Wednesday: The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent killed at a West Miami-Dade gun range on Wednesday was…
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The latest episode of the Live Q or Die podcast featured an interview with the CEO of EOTech and a product manager at the company. A few hours in, they…
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Judge Glenn Suddaby of the Northern District of New York issued a temporary restraining order this week blocking enforcement of much of the Concealed…
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Reason posted a video on Friday about the modern history of guns-as-public-health-question: This is a popular subject around here. E.g. in “OSD 153: The…
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This weekend OSD put on a pistol course for 20 students in San Jose, California. A couple students had never shot a pistol before. On the other end of…
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On September 9, the International Organization for Standardization voted to create an MCC (merchant category code, the four-digit number that…
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In 2005, a few years before he died, Edward Lorenz wrote this definition of what chaos theory is all about: “Chaos: When the present determines the…
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