Author: Gunner Quinn

Silence is golden. That aphorism may well be the motto of suppressor  makers and dealers right now. A streamlining of the process for purchasing the NFA devices had already made them hot sellers. Then your NRA worked to have them struck from the NFA entirely. Though we came up short (for now), we got the next best thing: The $200 tax stamp was reduced to zero. Sales soared, and now it seems everyone is getting into the suppressor business. What follows is by no means a comprehensive list of available suppressors now for sale. It merely brings to your attention…

00:00:09 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cal’s Week in Review with Ryan Cal Callahan, presented by First Light. Here’s Cal. Florida finished its annual Python Challenge in July, and one fellow went absolutely berserk. Tom Rahill won this year’s challenge with a record-breaking 96 pythons. For those of you who are uninitiated in the ways of the Sunshine State’s invasive species management tactics, the Python Challenge is an annual 10-day event that provides incentives for both novices and professionals to find and remove as many invasive pythons from the Florida Everglades as possible.…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places, and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both. Big shout out to Onyx Hunt for their support of this podcast. I’m your host, Lake Pickle. And when we last talked, we were roughly 50 years into a story that started over 100 years ago, back in the early 1900s in the state of Mississippi. And that is the incredible story of the whitetail deer recovery after almost being wiped out due to habitat loss, market hunting, and a lot of other factors.…

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Every gun owner runs into the problem eventually. They buy a safe, thinking it’ll give them all the room they’ll ever need for their gun collection. Then, one day, after they find that one rifle they just can’t live without, now the safe door just doesn’t quite want to close. Before rushing out and taking up floor space with another gun safe, here are five products that will help you buy a bit more room in your existing safe. 1. You might customize your safe door’s storage, only to decide you’d like it a different way. To that end, Wilde Custom…

With the world tightening its belt, affordable firearms are in high demand. Aside from the initial cost of purchasing a gun, it’s always helpful to hedge that expense by starting out with, or adding, one that is cheap to feed. Always seeking to provide its customers with a means to stay on the range, TriStar Arms released its first rifle, chambered in .22 LR. Manufactured by Kral Arms in Turkey, this lightweight semi-automatic promises everything you need to get started or to perfect what you’ve learned over the years. Dubbed the KR.22, it operates on the straight-blowback principle. As .22…

Armed Citizen® Today A stolen vehicle was identified in Orange Park, Fla., around 3 p.m. on Aug. 24, and police responded to apprehend the driver. However, the man and a woman allegedly fled in the stolen vehicle, striking multiple vehicles in the chase, and then suddenly stopped the car and attempted to flee on foot. The woman was immediately arrested, but the man reportedly ran into a nearby house, where a couple was home. The husband responded to the sudden threat by shooting the intruder in the leg. The suspect was treated for non-life-threatening injuries and already had outstanding warrants…

Honest historical research and analysis still matter. The Bruen test, a legal standard the U.S. Supreme Court established in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen (2022) for evaluating whether a firearm regulation complies with the Second Amendment, has put an exclamation mark on this point; but then, the high court’s Second Amendment decisions leading up to Bruen would not have been possible without the historic research done by the NRA and others before the Heller (2008) decision. In a recent example, a paper titled “The American Tradition of Self-Made Arms” was cited by a court in an important ruling on…

Earlier this year, I took a weeklong long-distance precision rifle shooting course at the famous FTW Ranch in Barksdale, Texas. This property is nestled in the state’s mountainous region and situated west of San Antonio. It’s a destination for shooters and hunters alike. The acreage holds scores of steel target arrays set out to distance while also taking advantage of the natural environment. This creates realistic shooting scenarios that cause the shooter or hunter to carefully take the wind and other environmental factors into consideration. I specifically attended the FTW SAAM/Impact Precision Advanced Course, which leans heavily into helping students…

The 2011 market of hybrid-framed, double-stack, 1911-pattern handguns has grown immensely over the past five years, with the design moving from high-end and pricey competition guns to affordable models that are at home in a duty holster or in a nightstand. In this crowded sphere, manufacturers are adding their own innovations to the design in an attempt to stand out from what has become a rather large crowd. European American Armory (EAA) Corp. introduced its first 2011 design with the company’s Witness2311 in 2023. Last year, the company brought out the CMX, a handgun that took the 2011 design a…