The Shooters Hangout

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. […]

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 […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 24, 2014 (Sacramento, CA) – Following a landmark Ninth Circuit decision correctly holding that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental right to bear arms for self-defense outside of our homes, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (R-Twin Peaks) has introduced the most sweeping reform of California’s handgun carry license laws since their establishment in […]

Around noon on Saturday, the ATF escalated what had to that point been a war of words with Oceanside, California-based Ares Armor.That’s when ATF agents raided Ares’ Oceanside location and seized what we’ve been told was as many as 6,000 of the Ares/EP Armory lowers that are at the heart of the matter. No Ares […]

The owner of a California gun parts store says he plans to take legal action after federal agents raided his business, confiscating computers, customer lists and 80 percent lower receivers as part of an investigation into alleged federal firearms violations. Dimitrios Karras, owner of Ares Armor in National City, told Fox5SanDiego.com the raid by Bureau […]

At the moment, we still have no idea what exactly the ATF is investigating Ares Armor for. Speculation is rampant, and the two main competing theories are that it either has something to do with the EP Armory polymer 80% lower receivers, or a suspicion that Ares Armor is “helping” people manufacture complete firearms without […]

OCEANSIDE, Calif. – The owner of an Oceanside store that sells various gun parts to build a rifle from scratch refused to turn over his customer list when he was raided by federal agents Wednesday. Dimitrios Karras, owner of Ares Armor, said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents were investigating their business, […]