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The Colt 901 "Modular Carbine" made it under everyone's radar this year because I don't think a lot of people have understood its significance. Looking back at 2012 it will far outweigh both the KSG and the XD-S in overall importance to the history of firearms by several times. The old debate about the effectiveness of the .223/5.56 vs. .308/7.62 will rage on, but the Colt 901 changes the whole game. You have to check this out.
Another big development this week was that Google dropped guns from Google Shopping, to comply with their anti-gun Adwords policy that has been in effect since the advent of Google itself. This clearly anti-American, anti-2nd Amendment move is downright criminal, but it is good news for the backbone of our industry, the stocking gun dealers. Check out our take on this issue.
Brian Jensen also has an interesting article on Glocks from a female perspective, and he interviews 17 year old Team Glock member Tori Nonaka. Plus we have some HK pistols for a review, nice guns.
If you didn't see the big graphic on the homepage, you have only a few days left to bid on the Hornady Zombie Max Ammo Plant. It is a charity auction for HAVA, Honoring American Veterans Afield. There are only two of these currently in existence. The first was auctioned for the US Olympic Team and this is #2 of 2. Check out the Auction here:
Colt 901 Modular .308/.223 Carbine – New Gun Review – LE901-16S
Never underestimate a legend, and that legend is Colt. At first glance you would think that the Colt 901 is just a .308 Win./7.62 NATO version of a standard AR-15, much like any other .308 AR out there, but it is a lot more than that. The Colt LE901-16S is a "Modular Carbine", which means it can be adapted to any AR-15 platform upper. This isn't a new concept, because there are of course a whole bunch of different caliber uppers for ARs. The difference is in all the other ones, they have adapted a standard size AR magazine to boutique calibers and cartridge designs. The Colt 901 is different. It can be adapted from .308/7.62, using standard P-Mags, to .223/5.56, using standard AR mags, and back again, in literally seconds. The design uses one proprietary part, and you have to swap out the recoil system. It is that simple, and it works fantastic. (Click Here to Read More)
Google Bans Guns in Shopping – Good News for Stocking Gun Dealers
This week Google announced a major change in the way it runs Google Shopping, which is the "Shopping" tab on the left when you search. Guns and gun stuff will no longer be allowed. Google Shopping will now comply with the rules for Google Adwords, which has not allowed advertising for guns for several years now. Google is an anti-2nd Amendment company. They always have been, and if you listen to the host of InfoWars, Alex Jones, they are actually a spying shill for the CIA and NSA. This is not a new angle for Google. Like all of the Silicon Valley dogooders without a clue, Google is clueless. At this point, who cares? As we explained in our Monday Memo that goes out to our stocking gun dealers here, this past week the Supreme Court said it was ok for the government to force you to buy something you don't need or want. We aren't going to cure America's ills here at GunsAmerica, and 2nd Amendment freedom isn't the worst of our freedom that the government has co-opted in the last several years. But we can explain what losing Google Shopping means for the gun industry, and for our 2nd Amendment freedom as it stands today, and for tomorrow. ( Click Here to Read More )
Glocks for Girls – Tori Nonaka Team Glock
As a Range Instructor for a medium sized department, I soon learned that shooters come in various shapes, sizes, experiences, and abilities. One aspect we found, was that many of our smaller stature officers, who happened to be female, struggled to use the department issue gun, a Glock 22 or 23 in .40 S&W. These days we have the Gen 4 Glocks with interchangeable backstraps, and 17 year old Team Glock member Tori Nonaka is shooting double stack Glocks in competition. This is a bit of an overview, and a short interview with Tori. (Click Here to Read More)
Heckler & Koch Pistol Shootout P30 vs. HK45
Sometimes you are browsing in a gun shop and two pistols look very much the same, yet you really wish you knew the differences. That is the case with the HK45 and the HK P30. Both pistols look pretty much the same, except one is .45ACP and the other is a slightly smaller 9mm. When HK sent us these guns for general review, we thought, as you might, that they are exactly the same, but they are not. If you find yourself standing in a gun shop deciding to impulse buy a brand new HK pistol, this is a bit of an overview as to what is the same in the two guns and what is very different. The HK P30 and HK45 are the new era of Heckler and Koch pistols. HK took the strengths of the ubiquitous USP and added some of what have become standard features on modern polymer pistols, and these two guns were result, along with a few other models that are also very similar. Both are great guns, and caliber considerations aside, the differences in the guns are mostly semantic. Several of the features on the P30 and HK45 are exactly the same and either would be a good choice in a duty, security, or personal defense pistol. ( Click Here to Read More )
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