One look at the show floor in Las Vegas, Nev. at SHOT Show last month and it was abundantly clear that suppressors were one of the hottest properties around. New suppressor companies like EchoCore abounded, while other companies like Hi-Point and Lyman announced new suppressor product lines. With this increase in interest in sound suppression, more focus has been placed on the entire suppressed shooting experience. With this in mind, CCI Ammunition announced its all-new Blazer Brass Clean-Fire Suppressor, a new line of ammunition specifically engineered to deliver optimal performance through suppressed handguns and carbines. The three subsonic loads feature…

Founded in 1958, Bersa is an Argentinean gunmaker that is best known among American shooting sports enthusiasts for its affordably priced defensive pistols. Among the most popular options has been the Thunder .380 ACP, which is based on the Walther PPK. In more recent years, the company’s catalog has expanded to include AR-pattern rifles and pistols; polymer-frame, striker-fired pistols; and a selection of 1911s. This pistol ships in a handy MFT TCP range bag. In October 2022, the company established its Bersa USA division with 45,500-square-foot manufacturing facilities located in Kennesaw and Cartersville, Ga. By 2025, the U.S. team was…

On February 5, 1736 British Methodist ministers John Wesley (pictured) and Charles Wesley arrived in Savannah, Georgia. — Today is the birthday of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916). He was an American-British inventor best known as the creator of the first truly automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. Maxim also held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps. Maxim claimed to invented the lightbulb. He was the father of Hiram Percy Maxim, who founded the ARRL. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round…

A concerning bill is moving through the Florida legislature that would make it legally and financially jeopardizing to publicly criticize agricultural products and practices. While it may seem, on the surface, like an attempt to protect farmers from defamation, this provision could serve more as a tool to silence the public from speaking out about environmental concerns.Hunters, anglers, and conservationists have relied on raising their unified voices for years to protect public lands, wildlife, and waterways. This legislation threatens our ability to do so.Libel LegalityBuried deep inside a farm bill omnibus package in SB 290/HB 433 is a provision that…

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The Franklin Armory story is a familiar one in the firearms industry: A small company that started out making innovative components grew and expanded into making complete firearms. In Franklin Armory’s case, it began with binary trigger systems and grew into boundary-pushing guns, like the Reformation. That pattern continues with the Prevail, an innovative bolt-action design that introduces the company’s Total Round Control system. The Franklin Armory Prevail is a new and innovative bolt-action rifle from a company that is known for thinking outside the box. “Total Round Control” means that the Prevail combines the elements of both a push-feed…

00:00:14 Speaker 1: My name is Clay Nukleman. 00:00:16 Speaker 2: This is a production of the Bear Grease podcast called The Bear Grease Render, where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes of the actual Bear Grease podcast presented by f h F Gear American Maid, purpose built hunting and fishing gear that’s designed to be as rugged as the place as we explore. So I’m holding in my hand my right hand, the femur bone of an American black bear, a big one. This is the black bear bone of the of the bear that…

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