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For reasons that I’m not quite certain of, pink guns are really popular. Here is a look at five pink guns for sale on GunsAmerica.

Saturday Night Live takes a jab at American gun culture in sketch featuring comedian Amy Schumer.

After investigating the matter, officials in Zimbabwe have decided not to press charges against Walter Palmer, the U.S. dentist and sportsman who hunted and killed Cecil the lion, reports the BBC.

If you are a regular reader of this column you know that my subjects here of late have been extremely thick, and expensive. I try to be aware of just how much I am loading on, so I decided that this week is a good time to devolve into a bit of prepping theory again. I went to two movies this week, The Martian, and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Between the two, it was as if Hollywood put on a clinic for what survival post-collapse is all about.

Walther is best known for a gun they designed in the middle of the last century. But the new polymer pistols are geared for the American market. Walther’s making guns for daily carry, for competition, and concealed carry. We had the rare opportunity to shoot all of them recently and are here with a retrospective.

Serious about Cowboy Action Shooting? Check out AGI’s armorer’s course. Get serious about your single actions and fine tune those short strokes.

Lead free ammunition isn’t really news. But bullets made of polymer? Polycase has been leading the charge, and now they’ve paired up with Ruger to bring the radical design to a much wider audience. So how about it? Would you carry polymer based bullets in you self defense gun? Ruger thinks so, and I do too.

The Century PAP M92 might be the most AK you can buy for the money. The over-sized pistol is formidable right out of the box. But with a few modifications, this gun becomes a serious tool for close quarters work. Check out what we’ve done to the M92.

Will gripping the magazine well cause a stoppage? Will resting the mag on the ground while shooting prone cause a failure?