The Shooters Hangout

Jeremy L “It’s been a rough week at work, you’ve been working your butt off on something only to have your boss tear you a new one. Trust me, we’ve all been there and it’s not a good feeling. But today’s your lucky day, you’ve got plans to hit the range tonight, the gun range […]

Aug. 19, 2014 7:30pm Oliver Darcy “A video posted online to a popular YouTube channel shows a bullet pierce a series of four watermelons in super-slow motion. Produced by the “Slow Mo Guys,” the footage — titled “Catching a Bullet With a Watermelon” — shows an individual fire a .308 rifle trained at several watermelons […]

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The Second Amendment right to bear arms is one of the most critical rights guaranteed in the Constitution, as it enables citizens to protect themselves from an oppressive government. This is why the federal government tries so hard to pass strict gun control laws to make it difficult, almost impossible, in some places to own […]

We have all attended a course of instruction at some point during our lives and found ourselves wondering “when does the class end?” or “how long is this supposed to last?” I know it’s happened to me multiple times. Once, during an advanced weapons course at Marine Combat Training School, I found myself snapping awake […]

Local (Southern California) shooters and wanna be shooters, My long time friends Chad and LeAnne Farmer have realized their dream of opening their own gun store and training center. Most of you know him as “The” Chad. Gun store and accessories. Live action simulator. Soon to come-firearms training and hand to hand self defense classes. […]

President Obama just can’t seem to help himself. Over and over again, he makes exaggerated or false claims about guns and crime. Last year Obama kept asserting the bogus numbers such as “40 percent of all gun purchases take place without a background check.” Besides the study being based on a tiny survey it was […]

  We’ll be talking about AR15s, zeros, trajectories, and gravity. Fortunately we will not be talking about shooting in zero gravity as bullets would fly forever, or at least until they crash into the drifting hulk of the Discovery One. Fortunately, it’s not as complicated as deciphering the true meaning of White House press briefings, […]

By DOUG J. SWANSON Staff Writer NORTH RICHLAND HILLS — About 150 people, many of them bearing strong opinions and semi-automatic rifles, assembled on a busy street corner Saturday to make their case for a change in Texas gun laws. The heavily armed contingent came from the Tarrant County offshoot of Open Carry Texas, an […]

A new Google Glass app currently in its testing phase is arguably one of the coolest gun accessories in decades. The app is called ShotView, and it will apparently give users the ability to shoot accurately around corners, from unsupported positions, behind the back and over barricades when paired with the right firearm. The potential […]