Silencerco / SWR Launches Their New Online Store SuperiorSilence.com
July Sales of “Silencers are Legal Shoot” Creators to Benefit Veteran Support Network
West Valley, UT Silencerco / SWR, Leading manufacturer of firearm sound suppressors has announced the launch of their new online store, http://www.superiorsilence.com. This new online store will allow dealers and customers to research Silencerco and SWR accessories and ensure the correct fit of pistons, thread adapters and flash hiders. In honor of Independence Day, Ten percent of proceeds from online sales during the month of July will be donated to the veteran support network Gallant Few.
Founder and CEO Joshua Waldron, says “We pride ourselves on having the best customer service in the industry and providing a streamlined system for our customers to purchase our products online is the next step in creating a positive customer experience ”. Continue reading
Hot New Book Shows How To Create Working Firearm Replicas From LEGOs
GunLink recently got our hands on a copy of a brand new book by 17 year old British LEGO-whiz Jack Streat. Why am I talking about toy bricks on a firearms website? Because the book is LEGO® Heavy Weapons: Build Working Replicas of Four of the World’s Most Impressive Guns, an instruction manual on how to create realistic model firearms from a popular children’s toy.
If you like guns and you were ever a child with building blocks, chances are good that you may have fashioned those blocks into crude L-shaped “guns” to battle make-believe bank robbers or other bad guys. Rest assured that Jack’s creations are NOT those crude L-shaped chunks of plastic!
You may have already seen some of Streat’s creations on the internet; he posted his first LEGO gun online several years ago at the age of 13 and has kept it up ever since, sharing pictures, instructions, tips and videos which have been a big hit with LEGO enthusiasts and gun-geeks alike. His YouTube channel boast nearly 17 million views, including his working LEGO AK-47 with over 3.3 million views alone.
As if it weren’t plain enough just from looking at the pictures of Jack’s creations, the book’s introduction drives home the point that he clearly possesses a sharp, creative mind and sound engineering principles. Along with some of his personal background, the author describes his methods, extolling the benefits of modular design and detailing his use of CAD (computer aided design) software throughout the process.
In the book, Streat provides complete Continue reading
Texas Event Draws Attention to Suppressor Legality
First Annual Silencers are Legal Shoot to be held at Elm Fork Shooting Range in Dallas, TX, April 28th 2012
Joshua Waldron, CEO of SilencerCo, recently announced that the company would play host to The Silencers are Legal Shoot this spring. The event, which will take place April 28, 2012 at the Elm Fork Shooting Range in Dallas, TX, is part of a larger Silencers are Legal campaign. The campaign, begun in 2011, seeks to raise awareness about what SilencerCo calls “a booming, yet marginalized US industry that is battling for its constitutional rights.”
In the United States, suppressors (often referred to as “silencers”) are regulated largely by the 1934 National Firearms Act. Although they are generally legal for individual ownership (following the required application and taxation process), some states such as California, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont do not allow Continue reading
Top Hunting and Shooting Equipment Brands for 2012
Southwick Associates has announced the brands hunters and shooters purchased most frequently in 2012. This list has been compiled from the 35,081 internet-based surveys completed by hunters and target shooters who volunteered to participate last year in HunterSurvey.com and ShooterSurvey.com polls. In 2012, top brands included:
- Top rifle brand: Remington, Ruger (each11.5% of all purchases)
- Top shotgun brand: Remington (19.7% of all purchases)
- Top muzzleloader brand: CVA (31.0% of all purchases)
- Top handgun brand: Sturm, Ruger (17.7% of all purchases)
- Top crossbow brand: Barnett (21.7% of all purchases)
- Top air rifle brand: Crosman (29.6% of all purchases)
- Top rifle ammunition brand: Remington (21.4% of all purchases)
- Top shotgun ammunition brand: Winchester (32.1% of all purchases)
- Top handgun ammunition brand: Winchester (17.9% of all purchases)
- Top blackpowder brand: Pyrodex (41.6% of all purchases)
- Top balls, bullets, or shot brand: Hornady (33.0% of all purchases)
- Top bow brand: Hoyt (15.0% of all purchases)Top arrow brand: Carbon Express (30.1% of all purchases)
- Top arrow brand: Carbon Express (30.1% of all purchases)
- Top fletching brand: Blazer (24.4% of all purchases)
- Top broad head brand: Rage (21.1% of all purchases)
- Top release/tab brand: Tru-Fire (33.0% of all purchases)
- Top archery target brand: The Block (11.9% of all purchases)
- Top bow case brand: Plano (35.5% of all purchases)
- Top archery sight brand: TruGlo (27.8% of all purchases)
- Top decoy brand: Mojo (10.8% of all purchases)
- Top game call brand: Primos (26.2% of all purchases)
- Top reloading press brand: Lee Precision (37.9% of all purchases)
- Top reloading die brand: Lee Precision (38.3% of all purchases)
- Top reloading bullet brand: Hornady (34.0% of all purchases)
- Top reloading primer brand: CCI (40.3% of all purchases)
- Top reloading powder brand: Hodgdon (40.7% of all purchases)
- Top shot brand: Lawrence (30.2% of all purchases)
- Top binocular brand: Bushnell (28.7% of all purchases)
- Top scope brand for firearms: Bushnell (14.5% of all purchases)
- Top spotting scope brand: Barska (10.5% of all purchases)
- Top range finder brand: Bushnell (36.3% of all purchases)
- Top optic sight brand: EOTech (8.7% of all purchases)
- Top knife brand: Buck (13.4% of all purchases)
- Top cover scent brand: Wildlife Research Center (19.9% of all purchases)
- Top lure scent brand: Tinks (31.4% of all purchases)
- Top odor eliminator brand: Scent-A-Way (35.8% of all purchases)
- Top shooting target brand: Shoot-N-C (31.0% of all purchases)
- Top tree stand brand: Guide Gear (12.1% of all purchases)
- Top blind brand: Ameristep (33.9% of all purchases)
- Top clay brand: White Flyer (51.3% of all purchases)
- Top trail camera brand: Moultrie (25.4% of all purchases)
- Top holster brand: Blackhawk (15.0% of all purchases)
- Top gun sleeves brand: Allen (12.1% of all purchases)
- Top gun safe brand: Stack-on (25.7% of all purchases)
- Top magazine brand: ProMag (11.9% of all purchases)
The marketing data presented here is a summary of a 233-page report that details consumer behavior including what products and brands are purchased, where they are bought, how much customers spend, and demographics of hunters and shooters broken out by each product category. Current information about what gear and brands hunters and shooters prefer, how many days they spend afield and what type of hunting and shooting they enjoy most is vital to businesses trying to build their customer base.
You can stay abreast of consumer buying patterns and overall market trends by purchasing an annual subscription to Southwick Associates’ monthly HunterSurvey.com and ShooterSurvey.com reports. Reports are available for specific product categories including firearms, ammunition, blackpowder, bowhunting and archery equipment, decoys, game calls, apparel, crossbows and more. To purchase a report or subscription, contact John DePalma at jdepalma@brandintelligent.com.
About AnglerSurvey.com, HunterSurvey.com and ShooterSurvey.com: Launched in 2006, AnglerSurvey.com, HunterSurvey.com and ShooterSurvey.com help the outdoor equipment industry, government fisheries and wildlife officials and conservation organizations track consumer activities and expenditure trends. Conducted by Southwick Associates, survey results are scientifically analyzed to reflect the attitudes and habits of anglers and hunters across the United States. Follow them on Facebook at http://facebook.com/huntersurvey and http://facebook.com/anglersurvey or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/AnglerSurvey and https://twitter.com/#!/HunterSurvey.
Bill Akins’s Open Letter on BATFE Akins Accelerator Ruling
The Akins Accelerator is back! This time with no continually biased springs to rile up the BATFE. To commemorate its phoenix-like rise from the bureaucratic ashes, let’s take a look back at a part of the device’s history. What follows is an open letter from William Akins, inventor of the Akins Accelerator. This letter was originally published on now-defunct Blogspot blog Red’s Trading Post in December 2007.
My fellow Americans.
Let me draw your attention to a process known as bump firing which is exactly what my stock allows you to do except my stock stays stationary whereas in bump firing the entire firearm including the stock moves.
Bumpfiring uses no devices of any kind. It is a skill or knack as it were, that the shooter learns. Before I go into it, I would like to mention that if you read the illegal BATFE 2006-02 ruling that bans my accelerator device, that same ruling actually bans the process of bump firing and therefore any semi automatic capable of bump firing. Read the 2006-02 ruling at the BATFE website, then come back here and look at what I am about to show you.
To bump fire, you hold the weapon very loosely with your right hand and put your finger against the trigger without actually pulling it yet. Then you pull forward with your left hand concentrating on keeping forward tension on your left hand. By doing so you pull forward on the weapon and push the trigger against the right hands trigger finger which fires the gun, which recoils allowing your finger to actually stay in contact with the trigger but allows the trigger to come back forward and reset, but remember, you are keeping forward pressure with your left hand on the fore end of the stock again pushing the trigger into your trigger finger. Actually according to the BATFE ruling, the hellfire and tac trigger should be more illegal than my device since both those devices have your finger RIDING the trigger back and forth and never releasing from it, whereas my device causes your finger to completely disengage from the trigger for each shot. So why are two rapid fire devices that clearly fall within the new BATFE ruling allowed but mine is banned? Politics. Here’s a few links to videos showing bump firing without any kind of device at all.
This is the exact same thing my device does except the firearm does it within a stationary stock whereas in bump firing the whole firearm and stock assembly moves. However it is the same under Federal law as my device, and SHOULD be the same under the illegal BATFE ruling as my device, i.e. banned equally as my device has been banned. But the BATFE selectively enforces their new illegal ruling. Why? Because if they equally enforced their bogus ruling against the technique of bump firing, they would have to ban all semi automatic weapons, which is actually what their new 2006-02 ruling does. It bans my device, the hellfire device, the tac trigger and the process of bump firing with no device. Continue reading
Designers of New Police Gear for Women at SHOT Show
As anyone who has had to wear one probably already knows, uniforms aren’t always, well…uniform. Actually, a better way to put that would be to say that uniforms are too uniform for the diversity of bodies that need to be put inside them. “One size fits all” doesn’t always hold true and “unisex” gear often makes too many compromises on both sides to serve either one very well.
These issues can result in the wearer being uncomfortable, which can often be quite a nuisance. In the case of people who may be wearing their uniforms in life-or-death situations, having to deal with gear fit issues can be much worse than just a nuisance.
Cleveland Ohio business partners Denise Czack and Tanya Sirl recognized this issue with uniforms for female police officers and decided to so something about it by creating the Her BlueWear Uniforms company. Her BlueWear Uniforms takes a big step in helping to provide the right gear for the right job to female officers. Continue reading
