Survivors in the gun industry do not rest on their laurels. The entrepreneurs who powered the 50 caliber wave are already working on new designs. One of these new designs is the .408 Cheyenne Tactical, manufactured by Tactical High Energy…
Survivors in the gun industry do not rest on their laurels. The entrepreneurs who powered the 50 caliber wave are already working on new designs. One of these new designs is the .408 Cheyenne Tactical, manufactured by Tactical High Energy…
“Barrett is hoping to widen his lead with a helping hand from the State Department, which recently gave him the okay to sell rifles to civilians in Europe, a market that was off-limits under the Clinton Administration. He is also…
“Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky always.” —PIRA statement to British government after failed bombing attempt, 1984161 The preceding two sections showed the long reach and stunning power…
“It’s a fun toy, a nice collectible. This is not something a drug lord or a bank robber is going to want to use. It’s not easy to conceal.” —Ronnie G. Barrett, owner of Barrett Firearms Manufacturing72 Advocates for the…
“The advantages are obvious when you consider that many of the same targets of rocket and mortar fire can be neutralized with M33 ball, API M8 or Multipurpose ammunition.” —”Heavy Firepower for Light Infantry,” Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Inc. brochure advertising…
Data from U.S. Treasury Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade Division. Handguns accounted for 48 percent of all firearms available for sale on the civilian market in the…
John Lott’s book, More Guns, Less Crime, is often cited by pro-gun advocates as evidence supporting the right to carry concealed weapons for self-defense. More Guns, Less Crime is based on a study conducted by Lott and David Mustard entitled “Crime, Deterrence, and…
This study is built directly upon a close reading of the published writings of the nation’s top-ranked experts in the use of firearms for self-defense, and in the nature and consequence of deadly force encounters. The following are the principal…
The United States leads the industrialized world in firearms violence. Most of that violence involves handguns, which in America are uniquely easy to acquire. By what right do civilian handgun owners – a minority of one in six – think…
Is good marksmanship enough? Not if you’re scared to death, or, as self-defense expert Massad Ayoob says in his training course, “almost paralyzed with fear.”159 The human physiological and psychological response to mortal danger—the only situation in which one would…