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“Fast and Furious” Until a few months ago, those words may have been
best known as the title of a series of action movies featuring fast cars
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Fabrique Nationale
(FN) started producing its first handgun in January 1899. The compact
7.65 x 17 mm FN Browning Model 1899 was extremely reliable and became an
instant success. Within a few months, the Model 1899 was entered in
Belgian military trials, and, less than a year later, the Belgian
military adopted a modified version commonly known as the FN Browning
Model 1900. The Herstal company found itself producing two similar
pistol models. As this was inefficient, FN stopped production the Model
1899 within 18 months of introducing the Model 1900. |
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Light and easy to
manipulate, the .410-bore shotgun was -and still is- a gun most often
associated with beginning shotgunners. Sometimes a tool for advanced
competitive shooters, the skinny .410 shell drops a fair amount of light
game every year and powders its share of clay birds. In the scheme of
things, this is where the .410 shotgun comfortably and traditionally
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As a gunsmith, Les
Baer rightly deduced that he could produce guns with better reliability,
longer durability and greater accuracy potential if the major
components were made to tighter tolerances. By controlling the
manufacturing process from the beginning, Baer can build quality into
the rifle from the start rather than try to add it on later. |
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Even if you're not
interested in competition, but instead are just regular plinking at the
local range, it is easy to burn through a truckload of ammo before you
know it. To do this without selling a kidney or winning the lottery
requires handloading your ammunition. We're talking high-volume
handloading. High volume, however, doesn't mean low quality. The ammo
produced by modern presses, single stage or progressive, is usually more
inherently accurate than the shooters using it. |
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Firearms designers
have been obsessing over decreasing the size and increasing the magazine
capacity of handguns for, well, forever it seems. Kel-Tec's innovative
KSG represents a successful attempt to accomplish that goal in the area
of shotguns. Specifically, defensive-or tactical-smoothbores. |
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Lately, we’ve been
seeing some very tactical people start to pay attention to compact
red-dot sights on handguns. Pardon me while I enjoy a good chuckle. Step
into the Way-Back Machine with me, and travel to the 1995 USPSA 3-Gun
Nationals. Held on Long Island, of all places. |
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A lawmaker from Southern California reportedly is using the Fourth
of July holiday weekend to call for independence for 13 counties in the
southern and easternmost parts of the state.
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone wants his county, and a dozen others, to secede from the rest of California in protest of taxes and state raids on local funds, according to the Press-Enterprise.
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All of us at Funreviews would like to wish all of you a safe and happy 4th of July. Be safe out there, we don't want to lose any of our visitors!
This weekend has been very stressful for us at Funreviews. As some of you may have heard our Governor, Jerry Brown, signed several bills instituting a Nexus Tax in California. This affects websites like Funreviews that rely on affiliate-based commissions to maintain the expense of this website...
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For those who aren't
up to speed, here you go: The XDM is the latest of the polymer-frame,
striker-fired pistols, and it corrects some earlier designs, both
Springfield's and those of competitors. |
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