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Colion Noir on the Memphis home invasion and the charge not filed
Colion Noir's video on a fatal Memphis home invasion argues the surviving intruder could still face a homicide charge. Tennessee felony murder law is narrower than that.
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Colion Noir on the Memphis home invasion and the charge not filed
Colion Noir's video on a fatal Memphis home invasion argues the surviving intruder could still face a homicide charge. Tennessee felony murder law is narrower than that.
L7A1 9mm proof-pressure ammo runs faster when cold, test finds
L7A1 high-pressure 9mm, the British submachine gun load ATF flagged in 1996, gained velocity after cold conditioning in a chronograph test rather than losing it.
Ruger Mini-14 build lands near 3 MOA in creator accuracy test
Ruger Mini-14 accuracy testing on a suppressed, optic-mounted build measured roughly 3 to 3.5 MOA with match ammunition, and traced a suppressed cycling fault to gas pressure.
Moroccan Unique Rr51 runs four backup gun match stages on nine rounds
Ian McCollum took a 1950s Moroccan police Unique Rr51 in .32 ACP through four stages of an Arizona backup gun match, where a 12-plate course of fire outran the pistol's nine-round magazine.
SilencerCo turns its .22 suppressor line into a competition series
SilencerCo's Rimfire Ruckus stages an eight-shooter .22 LR three-gun match at a private Wyoming range, with the Sparrow 22 and the modular Switchback 22 on the guns throughout.
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Trinidad State's gunsmithing school wins on hours, not insults
Trinidad State College's NRA summer gunsmithing program is the real thing. The Silly War Pirates video selling it would be stronger without the culture-war jab and the word fake.
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Kel-Tec's PLR-16 and the case for the cheap 5.56 pistol
The Kel-Tec PLR-16 turns 21 in the first year of the zero-dollar NFA stamp, and that timing turns a joke gun into the cleanest test of whether cheap and light is a real specification.
Weight retention is the wrong yardstick for 5.56 SBR ammo
Boondock Ballistician's rebuttal to the FBI's 64- and 75-grain SBR guidance is right about the grading criteria and wrong about the energy math, and the correction makes the case stronger.
Garand Thumb's drone pivot is gun media doing its job
Garand Thumb handed an episode to Powerus military FPV drones instead of rifles — and the pivot says more about where gun media is headed than any review this year.
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All coverage →Colion Noir on the Memphis home invasion and the charge not filed
Colion Noir's video on a fatal Memphis home invasion argues the surviving intruder could still face a homicide charge. Tennessee felony murder law is narrower than that.
L7A1 9mm proof-pressure ammo runs faster when cold, test finds
L7A1 high-pressure 9mm, the British submachine gun load ATF flagged in 1996, gained velocity after cold conditioning in a chronograph test rather than losing it.
Ruger Mini-14 build lands near 3 MOA in creator accuracy test
Ruger Mini-14 accuracy testing on a suppressed, optic-mounted build measured roughly 3 to 3.5 MOA with match ammunition, and traced a suppressed cycling fault to gas pressure.
Moroccan Unique Rr51 runs four backup gun match stages on nine rounds
Ian McCollum took a 1950s Moroccan police Unique Rr51 in .32 ACP through four stages of an Arizona backup gun match, where a 12-plate course of fire outran the pistol's nine-round magazine.
SilencerCo turns its .22 suppressor line into a competition series
SilencerCo's Rimfire Ruckus stages an eight-shooter .22 LR three-gun match at a private Wyoming range, with the Sparrow 22 and the modular Switchback 22 on the guns throughout.
Garand Thumb's nuclear strike video drills the first 72 hours
Garand Thumb's nuclear strike video runs a 24-minute scenario through EMP effects, fallout decontamination and a 72-hour basement shelter, and how it lines up with federal planning documents.
Trinidad State's gunsmithing school wins on hours, not insults
Trinidad State College's NRA summer gunsmithing program is the real thing. The Silly War Pirates video selling it would be stronger without the culture-war jab and the word fake.
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Colion Noir on the Memphis home invasion and the charge not filed
Colion Noir's video on a fatal Memphis home invasion argues the surviving intruder could still face a homicide charge. Tennessee felony murder law is narrower than that.
L7A1 9mm proof-pressure ammo runs faster when cold, test finds
Ruger Mini-14 build lands near 3 MOA in creator accuracy test
Moroccan Unique Rr51 runs four backup gun match stages on nine rounds
From the opinion desk
Trinidad State's gunsmithing school wins on hours, not insults
Trinidad State College's NRA summer gunsmithing program is the real thing. The Silly War Pirates video selling it would be stronger without the culture-war jab and the word fake.
Kel-Tec's PLR-16 and the case for the cheap 5.56 pistol
Weight retention is the wrong yardstick for 5.56 SBR ammo
Garand Thumb's drone pivot is gun media doing its job
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SilencerCo turns its .22 suppressor line into a competition series
SilencerCo's Rimfire Ruckus stages an eight-shooter .22 LR three-gun match at a private Wyoming range, with the Sparrow 22 and the modular Switchback 22 on the guns throughout.
Garand Thumb's nuclear strike video drills the first 72 hours
Lujan suppresses a WWII Mosin and hits steel at 500 yards
SACO M683 prototypes get a side-by-side teardown against the Uru
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