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MTM never fails to come up with some clever plastic product I probably would not have thought of and now can’t live without. This year it’s the Cast Bullet Box and Gun Cleaning Patch Catcher. I’m an avid bullet caster and have always kept my supplies of sized and lubed bullets in cardboard boxes. The problem with that is dust always seems to find its way into the boxes and onto the bullets. Granted, the dust is only a minor annoyance, but it’s still an annoyance. Al Minneman who heads MTM, is also a cast bullet shooter. Every year I try to visit him and his fellow competitors at the N-SSA National Skirmishes. They’re good folks, I get to hear about what new things they’re working on at MTM, and we talk shooting.

Stag Arms had two new products at SHOT that are going to take a lot of the guesswork out of self-defense and 3-Gun competition for shooters who want “turn-key” solutions. The 2012 Executive Survivor’s Kit (ESK) is a special project done in partnership with Stag distributor LAN World and specifically marketed toward affluent people who have themselves, their family, and assets to protect during a “survival” situation. The kit is not set up for surviving a zombie apocalypse or an end of the world scenario, but instead for the more plausible scenario of being displaced for a few days by some disaster. I’ll be the first to admit that the whole “Katrina” thing has been done to death, but there never fails to be some new natural or domestic threat to make you realize that you need a gun. With social movements such as “occupiers” who think they’re somehow entitled to “their fair share” of what YOU own, I don’t blame people for being concerned about their safety.

This is an explanation of how a transaction evolves and is reported in the GunsAmerica 6.1 interface using Classified Ads. The main change is that “Ask Seller a Question” and “Buy It” are now combined in My Classifieds so that you may seamlessly contact a buyer or report a sale from either one.
The images below are clickable to see a bigger one. We are using a smaller image to make the page more navigable. There are examples below of all of the admin screens in My Classifieds, and samples of the emails that go to both buyer and seller on a “Buy It” or “Ask Seller a Question.”

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I can pretty much promise you that you will not see another review of the Auto Ordnance “Thompson” TA-5 Pistol that suggests you buy one to use as your main tactical carbine, but that is the way I see this gun. If you want an effective close quarters combat carbine in a pistol caliber that hits harder than 9mm, I have not encountered a cleaner and more effective candidate than this in the sub-$2,000 category. At an MSRP of $1,377 and street price substantially less, the TA-5 is a lean, mean fighting machine that eats everything you put through it and shoots into a ragged hole at 25 yards. What else do you need?
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Changing the way you think about polymer pistols is not an easy task, but this is exactly the goal of the new Springfield Armory XD(M) 5.25.  They have taken the world class XD(M) design and matched it with new features designed specifically for competition shooters. Designed by the Springfield Armory team and world champion shooter Rob Leatham, the XD(M) 5.25 is everything you could want in a competition pistol out of the box. At some point they will release a tactical version, but this first 5.25 was made to be on the cutting edge of what you expect from a target and competition pistol. It is made to change your view of what a polymer pistol can be. Read More…

Hi Everyone,

We try not to blast you with too many emails but since this is NRA Show weekend this is a story that is too good to not let you know about. In fact you have already missed a couple days of the giveway, but fortunately they only gave away tshirts this weekend. Register now and start voting! A total of 8 guns are being given away in addition to a whole bunch of other stuff.

Springfield Armory, no introduction required of course, is running a crazy cool “shootout” promotion between the two new guns we told you about at SHOT Show this year. They are the XD(M) Compact and the 1911 Range Officer. Go to https://springfieldduel.com/contenders to learn about and leave your own comments about the “competitors.”

The contest has prizes every day between April 29 (this past friday) and May 28th.

The promotion is simple. You register on the special contest website (yes don’t worry it’s free) and you can vote up to once an hour for your preference in this “duel” between the two pistols.

The prizes are the thing here. They range from Springfield hats, mugs and tshirts to six (yes 6) guns over the course of the month, then the grand prize winner gets one each of the two guns. To win all you do is vote by clicking.

This weekend is the NRA Show in Pittsburg and in celebration of the show and the new Hornady Facebook page, they are giving away two free cases of ammo every day exclusively to the Hornady Facebook fans.

To have a chance at your free case of Hornady ammunition, all you have to do is “Like” Hornady on Facebook. This will add Hornady to your news feed on Facebook, and you’ll be able to keep up with all of the new product announcements and goings on with Hornady. The Facebook page is at:
https://www.facebook.com/hornady

On every day of the NRA Show – Friday, Saturday, and Sunday – Hornady will post a “code” to their Facebook page. This will be something like “IloveHornadyAmmo” (but not that specifically). The code will show up in your news feed from Hornady on your Facebook homepage. When you receive it, instantly email [email protected] with the code.

The 100th email will win a case of ammo.
The 500th email will also win a case of ammo.

Every day a new code, and two free cases of ammo.
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Old vs. New in the classic battle for which pocket pistol is right for you. Join Brian Jensen in this head to head comparison of the classic Walther PPK and the new Ruger LCP. Read it now…