The Shooters Hangout

A May 7th solicitation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeks “the commercial acquisition of submachine guns [in] .40 Cal. S&W.” According to the solicitation, the Dept. of Agriculture wants the guns to have an “ambidextrous safety, semiautomatic or 2 round [bursts] trigger group, Tritium night sights front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight […]

Ever since the 1980s, new machine guns have been forbidden from being transferred to anyone except licensed dealers with special permission from the local constabulary. It’s a de facto machine gun ban, since the existing civilian-legal machine guns have become so expensive to own that only the very rich can afford them. With the recent […]

A pair of Detroit thugs obviously had no idea who they were messing with when they targeted Paris Ainsworth, a 51-year-old grandma who carries a .45 caliber handgun. There’s a reason her siblings now jokingly refer to her as “Rambo.” Ainsworth had just arrived home after working a grueling double shift on Saturday night when […]

VISTA — A new gun store in downtown Vista is sporting a firearms simulator like the kind police use for weapons training, but this one is open to anyone — not just law enforcement. Empowered Firearms owner LeAnne Farmer says her store, which opened Tuesday, has the only such simulator in the county available for […]

This shows why simply owning a gun for home defense is not enough. You MUST get formalized training from professional instructors! And practice! The Shooters Hangout A Houston homeowner died Monday night in a shootout with two men forced their way into his home while he was with his girlfriend. The Houston Chronicle reported that […]

Jonathan Haith says he was sleeping in his Henderson, North Carolina, home on Monday morning when heard a light knock on his backdoor. He ignored the noise at first — but a second louder noise coming from the “laundry room area” got his attention in a hurry. (Source: AFP/Getty Images) The loud bang was the […]

Staking out a position to the left of other potential Democratic opponents in 2016, Hillary Clinton said a culture where “anybody can have a gun” will lead to a country with “no rule of law and no self-control.” Hillary Clinton says gun ownership shouldn’t be universal Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton answers a […]

A Dallas woman might have been killed if she wasn’t carrying her firearm last week. Police say Angela Martin, 44, shot and killed a man who began stabbing her during an altercation on Friday. Martin, who is the assistant manager at the Dallas apartment complex where the incident occurred, was arguing with an unidentified female […]

Congressman Chris Stewart (R-Utah) has called to cut funding for excessive “paramilitary units” used by agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management in the wake of the standoff between Cliven Bundy and the BLM. Stewart is worried about the heavily armed forces at the helm of the BLM, and he is also concerned about […]

Daniel Defense has been using Magpul’s furniture on their firearms for years, but starting at SHOT Show this year they’ve begun using their own design for the stock and handguards. The stock design is pretty nifty, with added rubber pads for comfort and grip. The pistol grip… meh. It has the same rubber grippy panels, […]