Every gunsmith needs a good vise, but not everyone has the money to buy one. Here are two you can build yourself, with updated dimensions for components.
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Archive for May 31, 2012
Gun Vises for Almost Nothing, with Complete Dimensions
Crimson Trace Releases Pink Molded Laser Sights For S&W J-Frame and Ruger LCP
Crimson Trace will produce a limited run of Lasergrips and Laserguard products in pink variations for Smith & Wesson J-frame and Ruger LCP handguns.
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Colt Adds Two New California Compliant Rifles
Colt Defense LLC is adding two additional models to its current list of five rifles that are compliant with California’s bullet button laws. The new carbines available to shooters in California are the CR6720CA and CR6724CA.
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Are Gun Voters Demented Political Junkies?
Jeff Knox at www.FirearmsCoalition.org wrote recently, ‘[Less than] 200 days away from what will undoubtedly be one of the most important elections in US history, and most of the country still isn’t even paying attention yet. Of course, those of you reading this have been paying attention for years, even decades, but that’s because you’re all freaks and oddballs like me. At least that’s what the majority thinks of us.’
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Just-Signed Law Prohibits OK Officials From Confiscating Guns During Emergencies
Oklahoma’s governor and other state officials would be prohibited from banning or confiscating firearms during a state of emergency under a bill recently signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin.
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BLM Backs Down on Shooting Ban
On May 11, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it was abandoning the effort to ban recreational shooting on the Sonoran Desert National Monument in Arizona.
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Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Stops
Greg Ellifritz, a full-time firearms and defensive tactics training officer for a central Ohio police department and the president of Active Response Training, recently posted an extensive self-study of cartridge and shotshell stops in the Shooter’s Log at CheaperThanDirt.com.
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Fast and Furious: Why Eric Holder Will Lose The Legal Fight
Federal courts could soon decide a fight between Congress and Attorney General Eric Holder on the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running scandal, writes Breitbart.com legal contributor Ken Klukowski, a member of the faculty at Liberty University School of Law.
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Working with Pins and Punches
One of the things some gun owners—engineers or fairly well-educated hobbyists who have a good grasp of mechanical things—ask about is how to handle the different kinds of pins in their guns. Particularly, they often want to know if their punches are the right ones, or if they can use a slightly different one without damaging their pins.
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Colt Anaconda .44 Rem. Magnum
The shooter who wants a lot of power without too much barrel length doesn’t have a lot of choices among revolvers. Most of today’s bigger-bore revolvers are more commonly outfitted with barrels measuring 5 inches or longer. Instead, Gun Tests magazine wanted to find a gun with a good old fashioned “duty length” 4-inch barrel for easier carry, but that was chambered for rounds that will do everything from self-protection in the urban wilderness to self-protection in the traditional wilderness.
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