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Detachable magazines with a capacity exceeding 10 rounds are the overwhelming standard for firearm owners in the United States. This new Detachable Magazine Report (1990-2021), which surveyed 30-plus years of detachable magazine production and distribution, demonstrated that of the conservatively estimated 963,772,000 detachable magazines supplied from a firearm manufacturer and in the aftermarket, at least 717,900,000 have a capacity exceeding 10 rounds, the limit some states place for lawful magazine possession. With nearly 1 billion detachable magazines in circulation, for both rifles and pistols, they are unquestionably commonly-owned and commonly-used for lawful firearm use, including recreational target shooting, hunting and self-defense. They are “arms” within the meaning of the Second Amendment. Detachable magazines are integral to the design of, and necessary for the proper functioning of, today’s modern semi-automatic firearms. https://lnkd.in/g99bDdQi #MSR #StandardCapacityMagazines #detachablemagazine #gunowners #SHOTBusiness

Detachable magazines with a capacity exceeding 10 rounds are the overwhelming standard for firearm owners in the United States. This new Detachable Magazine Report (1990-2021), which surveyed 30-plus years of detachable magazine production and distribution, demonstrated that of the conservatively estimated 963,772,000 detachable magazines supplied from a firearm manufacturer and in the aftermarket, at least 717,900,000 have a capacity exceeding 10 rounds, the limit some states place for lawful magazine possession. With nearly 1 billion detachable magazines in circulation, for both rifles and pistols, they are unquestionably commonly-owned and commonly-used for lawful firearm use, including recreational target shooting, hunting and self-defense. They are “arms” within the meaning of the Second Amendment. Detachable magazines are integral to the design of, and necessary for the proper functioning of, today’s modern semi-automatic firearms. https://lnkd.in/g99bDdQi #MSR #StandardCapacityMagazines #detachablemagazine #gunowners #SHOTBusiness

Since I'm a #Government #Compliance dork with Ordnance & Energetics Consulting LLC, I'm always interested in how other country's implement their #GunControl. Many 'Muricans are surprised that in #Germany, the land where fun is generally verboten, you can own an AR-15. But the specifics & features of what you can own are dependent upon what type of license you have. There's 2 general types of #Firearms licenses here: #Hunting & #Sport #Shooting. Getting a hunting license here isn't a matter of going to Walmart, forking over a handful of #Euros & being on your way like it is in #Texas. You have to do a bunch of #Training & pass tests. But once you've done that, you can own pretty much anything that's not prohibited, though you can only own a limited number of pistols. The AR-15 circled in green, is a hunting rifle. If you're a sport shooter, you have to join a shooting club & shoot regularly. Any #Weapons you want to have, have to be suitable for the type of shooting. If Olympic bullseye shooting is your cup of tea, you're not getting an AR-15. Yet if you can justify a pistol based on the discipline you're shooting, you can own as many as you can get permission for. But if you shoot a sport that requires an AR, it generally can't have certain features such as a flash-suppressor or holes in the handguard. But a manufacturer can get an exception from Bundeskriminalamt for certain things. That's why the weapon circled in red has a flash-suppressor, but no holes in the handguard. In general, here it's harder to get authorization to possess a firearm. But once you get authorization, there's minimal restrictions on barrel-length or similar like with NFA weapons controlled by ATF. You can slap a stock on a GLOCK GmbH pistol you had to jump through hoops to get, without any issues. But you have to continue to have a justification for possessing the weapons. While in the US, it's easy to get firearms. As long as they aren't NFA, there's really no controls. But if you want to slap a stock on the Glock you walked into a store & bought the same day, then you have to jump through the #ATF's hoops.

I have liked shotgun slugs for a long time. They were commonly used by deer hunters when I grew up in Indiana. Slugs, both rifled and saboted, are capable of killing any animal that roams North America. Unfortunately, most shotguns have a reputation for being inaccurate when shooting rifled slugs past 50 yards. SAAMI published standards for bore and groove sizes for shotgun barrels. They also published standards for the maximum diameters of rifled and saboted slugs. When comparing the barrel and slug sizes and looking at how much clearance there is between the two, you can quickly determine why most rifled slugs will not shoot accurately. 12-gauge rifled slugs are the only rifled slugs that are constricted by the bores. All other rifled slugs have varying amounts of clearance. https://lnkd.in/gf-zP64H

Shooting suppressed is as normalized among the shooting and hunting community as TikTok is with Gen Z. What was a rarity as recently as a decade ago, it is now a normal occurrence to find a suppressor-equipped firearm at a local range or hunting camp. Firearm legislation is always going to divide people and face gridlock in Washington, D.C., and in state capitals across the country. No matter how logical it would be to streamline the process of purchasing a firearm suppressor or better allocate the tax stamp revenue, getting Congress to act will be a Herculean effort. As it has with gun ownership more broadly, the tide has turned on suppressor ownership, too. https://lnkd.in/grW-q7hz #HR152 #hunting #Suppressors

Shooting and Gun Accessories Market Recent Trends and Growth 2024-2031 The shooting and gun accessories market encompasses a wide range of products designed to enhance the functionality, performance, and safety of firearms. This market includes accessories for various types of #firearms, including #handguns, #rifles, #shotguns, and #specialized firearms used in law enforcement, #military, #hunting, and recreational shooting activities.  Optics and Sights: Optics such as scopes, red dot sights, #holographicsights, and #magnifiers are essential accessories for improving accuracy and target acquisition. These accessories are popular among hunters, competitive shooters, and tactical operators. Firearm Parts and Components: This category includes aftermarket parts and upgrades such as #triggers, #barrels, #handguards, #stocks, #grips, and #muzzledevices. These components can enhance #performance, #ergonomics, and #customization options for firearms. 𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐃𝐅: https://lnkd.in/dWhgxF8U Product Type Segmentation Includes Air Rifle� Air Pistol Application Segmentation Includes Hunting� Competitive Sports Companies Includes Crosman Corp.� UMAREX� GAMO .� Feinwerkbau GmbH� Shanghai Air Gun� Daisy � Baikal� Fujian Qingliu� Anschuetz GmbH� Weihrauch� Webley & Scott Limited DAYSTATE LIMITED� HATSAN LTD� Evanix� BSA Guns #𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒛𝒆 #𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 #𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕 #𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒔, #firearms, #handguns, #rifles, #shotguns, #specialized , #military, #hunting,#triggers, #barrels, #handguards, #stocks, #grips, #muzzledevices. #performance, #ergonomics, #customization .

Shooting suppressed is as normalized among the shooting and hunting community as TikTok is with Gen Z. What was a rarity as recently as a decade ago, it is now a normal occurrence to find a suppressor-equipped firearm at a local range or hunting camp. Firearm legislation is always going to divide people and face gridlock in Washington, D.C., and in state capitals across the country. No matter how logical it would be to streamline the process of purchasing a firearm suppressor or better allocate the tax stamp revenue, getting Congress to act will be a Herculean effort. As it has with gun ownership more broadly, the tide has turned on suppressor ownership, too. https://lnkd.in/grW-q7hz #HR152 #hunting #Suppressors

January 4, 1847 - Samuel Colt Sells First Revolvers to the Government Samuel Colt rescues the future of his faltering gun company by winning a contract to provide the U.S. government with 1,000 of his .44 caliber revolvers. Before Colt began mass-producing his popular revolvers in 1847, handguns had not played a significant role in the history of either the American West or the nation as a whole. Expensive and inaccurate, short-barreled handguns were impractical for the majority of Americans, though a handful of elite still insisted on using dueling pistols to solve disputes in highly formalized combat. When choosing a practical weapon for self-defense and close-quarter fighting, most Americans preferred knives, and western pioneers especially favored the deadly and versatile Bowie knife. That began to change when Samuel Colt patented his percussion-repeating revolver in 1836. The heart of Colt’s invention was a mechanism that combined a single rifled barrel with a revolving chamber that held five or six shots. When the weapon was cocked for firing, the chamber revolved automatically to bring the next shot into line with the barrel. Though still far less accurate than a well-made hunting rifle, the Colt revolver could be aimed with reasonable precision at a short distance (30 to 40 yards in the hands of an expert), because the interior bore was “rifled”—cut with a series of grooves spiraling down its length. The spiral grooves caused the slug to spin rapidly as it left the barrel, giving it gyroscopic stability. The five or six-shoot capacity also made accuracy less important, since a missed shot could quickly be followed with others. Yet most cowboys, gamblers and gunslingers could never have afforded such a revolver if not for the de facto subsidy the federal government provided to Colt by purchasing his revolvers in such great quantities. After the first batch of revolvers proved popular with soldiers, the federal government became one of Colt’s biggest customers, providing him with the much-needed capital to improve his production facilities. With the help of Eli Whitney and other inventors, Colt developed a system of mass production and interchangeable parts for his pistols that greatly lowered their cost. Though never cheap, by the early 1850s, Colt revolvers were inexpensive enough to be a favorite with Americans headed westward during the California Gold Rush. Between 1850 and 1860, Colt sold 170,000 of his “pocket” revolvers and 98,000 “belt” revolvers, mostly to civilians looking for a powerful and effective means of self-defense in the Wild West.

To paraphrase Bob Slydell’s love of Michael Bolton; I'll be honest with you, I love the 10mm. I do. I'm a 10mm fanboi. For my money, I don't know if handguns get any better than full-power 10mm out of a GLOCK GmbH autoloader. That being said, just because a 10mm works for me, doesn’t mean it’s great for everyone. The older I get, the more I think that instead of worrying about what’s “best”, we should focus on what’s least worst. Navigating the messiness of reality, requires a perpetual series of compromises. Virtually any handgun is a compromise of giving up sToPpInG pOwEr  & range, for portability. If you’re adamant about serious #Firepower, you should ditch the pistol & get a rifle or a belt-fed machine-gun. If you aren’t willing to lug around a rifle or machine-gun, it’s clear that firepower is not your top priority. Full-power 10mm loads off-set the intrinsically anemic performance of handguns relative to rifles a wee bit, but do so at the cost of heavy recoil & cost. While the Glock 20 I carry doesn’t have an unmanageable level of recoil, it’s not for beginners with #Guns. I can much more easily & rapidly put rounds on target with a 9mm, than a 10mm. For my particular situation of often being on a ranch doing Ordnance Lab & Texas Machine-Gun & Ordnance things, I’m fairly likely to need to shoot large wild pigs with a pistol. So full-power 10mm FMJs make a good deal of sense. In the rather remote, yet still possible situation I unfortunately would have to use deadly force to protect myself against human threats, there’s a good chance it would be at longer-than normal distances for handguns. So carrying full-power 10mm JHPs also makes sense. I also don’t need to worry about over-penetration on the ranch. But when I’m here in #Austin doing Ordnance & Energetics Consulting LLC things, those full-power 10mm loads would be a terrible choice, as they’re very likely to over-penetrate, which is very bad in an urban area. If I were to carry a 10mm in a city, I’d probably carry a watered down 10mm load to avoid overpenetration. Carrying watered down 10mm would mean that I’m basically carrying a very expensive & large .40 S&W. Which begs the question of why not just carry a 9mm? So this #FirearmsFriday is dedicated to ignoring idiot #Influencers, fanboi hype & other nonsense; and instead bothering to use your mind to think for yourself when it comes to #Firearms & get what works best for you.

TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE CREATOR OF PERHAPS THE BEST AND MOST FAMOUS SMALL WEAPONS ON THE PLANET, MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV 105 years ago, in the village of Kurya, Altai province, the seventeenth child, named Mikhail, was born in the family of the peasant Timofey Kalashnikov. Several decades later, the whole world will recognize him as the creator of perhaps the best and most famous small arms on the planet. The surname "Kalashnikov" has become one of the most famous Russian surnames in the world. However, many do not even realize that Kalashnikov is not only a machine gun, but also a person. Mikhail Timofeevich designed machine guns, hunting rifles and other small arms, but his main brainchild is, of course, the Kalashnikov assault rifle, which, along with aspirin and the hydrogen bomb, is recognized as the invention of the century. For his machine gun, Mikhail Timofeevich was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Stalin Prize, in the amount of 150,000 rubles. The amount for 1947 is cosmic. According to experts, by the beginning of 1996, about 100 million machines of this type were produced in the world. The Kalashnikov assault rifle is used in 55 countries around the world. It is depicted on the banners and coats of arms of some countries. In 2006, one of the most widely read newspapers in the world, the Washington Post, recognized the AK-47 as a “weapon of mass destruction” and stated that the Russian assault rifle has no equal in the world and that the Kalashnikov is the most famous small gun on the planet. Follow Info Defense