What they have done is disguised reprisal and retaliation as something else to fire him…ATF has done everything within their power to break this agent. They have been proactive in the destruction of his reputation, killed his career, ruined his personal finances and have had emmense negative influence on his personal relationships and family members. Why? Because he didn't go along to get along. He didn't shut his mouth when ordered to. He didn't sit back like a coward when he saw things being done wrong, unethically and illegally. Now they are proposing to take the last thing they still have control over but, have yet to act on, his job.
I will say this from personal experience; Vince will stand in the path of a bullet for any good person and do so knowing the personal consequence could be grave but, at the same time being true to his character which is to stand up for people who can't or won't stand up for themselves. I have seen him do it on more than one occasion. And, when I say “bullet” I mean a projectile, AND, all the other various means and methods of attack that could be characterized as a bullet.
The Smith & Wesson Governor debuts at SHOT Show 2011.
Designed as a defensive handgun, the Smith & Wesson Governor is a handy little small game getter, too. You can load it with .410 shotshells or .45 Colt cartridges.
WE WILL BEGIN by admitting that the purist grouse and rabbit hunters are going to hate me for this, and somebody at Smith & Wesson may think I’ve lost whatever marbles I had left, but their new Governor revolver chambered for .410 shotshells and the .45 Colt cartridge may have a second life even before fulfilling its first one.
Enter the Governor, undoubtedly S&W’s answer to the incredibly popular Judge series of revolvers from Taurus. This new Smith holds six shots to the Judge’s five, it is pleasant to shoot, and when I tried it out during a writers’ shoot at the 2011 SHOT Show in Las Vegas a few months ago, I was impressed.
With a 2¾-inch barrel, fixed rear sight groove and dovetailed tritium front sight, synthetic or Crimson Trace Lasergrip and smooth double action, the Governor is one big popgun! The cylinder will handle 2½-inch .410-bore shotshells, .45 Colt and .45 ACP cartridges, the latter held in with half-moon clips. I tried this gun in both single- and double-action, and at 10 yards, managed to pattern a Birchwood Casey Shoot-N-C Bullseye target impressively.
Workman was happy with the pattern from two rounds of No. 6. Is he grinning about this gun’s fight-stopping potential, or planning to go hunting?
Let’s be honest; this big-bore sixgun was designed for personal protection, at fairly close range when loaded with shotshells, and a little farther out when loaded with .45-caliber cartridges. Up close and personal, even if loaded with nothing more than No. 6 birdshot, you are definitely going to put the hurt on some two-legged varmint. Charge this handgun up with .45 ammunition and you have a handful of fight-stopping authority that seems to produce enough muzzle flash to charbroil a steak! At least, it sure looked like that on an indoor range. Even in the unlikely event that you should miss, the muzzle flash and blast alone is enough to scare the beejeezus out of people.
What will quickly appeal to weight-conscious handgunners is that the Governor has a rugged lightweight Scandium frame and stainless steel PVD cylinder, finished in matte black. Overall length is 8½ inches, and the gun is 5½ inches high. It weighs 29.6 ounces empty, and when you wrap your gun hand around that palm-filling grip, it feels comfortable and business-like, about the same as my N-frame Model 57 chambered in .41 Magnum when I had synthetic grips installed.
With the added ammo capacity, this is definitely not a handgun to be facing from the business end. Thanks to the development of .410 personal defense ammunition in the past 18 months, a shooter has the opportunity to mix and match loads, with alternate shotshells and .45-caliber cartridges. Recoil is impressive but manageable, and there are already holsters available for this revolver and no doubt more to come.
Most people think of personal defense against two-legged predators, but to be honest, the Governor seems a sensible choice for backpackers who might just run into something on the trail that wants to take a bite out of them. What about people who live in rural areas and want to take a walk around the neighborhood, and encounter a coyote or somebody’s abandoned feral dog? Where I live out in the Pacific Northwest, feral dogs can be a real problem, and aggressive dogs that are allowed to run loose by their idiot owners are just as dangerous under the right (or wrong) circumstances. Honestly, if such an animal ever confronted me, I would shoot it without hesitation. For someone less skilled with a handgun, the Governor would handle that chore quite nicely.
But on the subject of hiking, the Governor can fill another role, and one for which this revolver was probably not intended. Considering the patterns I produced on the target, this is a revolver that can be used to put meat in the pot for those spending their autumns on the trail.
In my part of the country, blue grouse are a common sight along the trail, and they can be dumber than dirt. I have walked right up to fool hens as they stood on a log or stump, or in the middle of the road (I saw one last fall trying to walk up the middle of Interstate 90 on Snoqualmie Pass in fairly heavy traffic!) before they decided it was probably not healthy to be in my proximity. Often, by the time they figured that out, I was stuffing them in the pouch.
Stoke the Governor with some No. 6s and there will not be a blue grouse, snowshoe hare or cottontail rabbit that is safe during the fall hunting season.
Yeah, sluicing a grouse on the ground sounds like blasphemy to the gentleman upland hunters. Well, sorry guys, but your sensitivities take a distant second place to my need to fill my empty stomach. This is the Pacific Northwest, and we do things differently here, especially off the pavement.
At the same time, one still has a potent defensive handgun in the event a bad-tempered bear or mountain lion should decide that you’re on the menu. A couple of years back, I wrote somewhere about black bear encounters and got one of the nastiest messages from some guy who evidently did more magazine reading than backwoods hunting or hiking, claiming that I couldn’t stop a bear with a .45 Colt or one of my favorite .41 Magnum sixguns.
Allow me to politely suggest that people who have never seen black bears in the woods, but only read about it or watched it on television, ought to refrain from sending e-mails to those of us who have. I’ve known more than one fellow who killed a black bear with a .45-caliber pistol or revolver, one guy did it with a .357 Magnum and a few years ago I did a story about a guy who killed a brown bear at the mouth of the Russian River on the Kenai Peninsula with a 9mm pistol.
The Governor loaded with .410 slugs or .45 Colt cartridges levels the playing field, and it is not so heavy or cumbersome that a hiker will feel loaded down packing it for a few miles on the trail. Long story short: This Governor gets my vote!
ATF Director Kenneth Melson, who was heavily involved in Operation Fast and Furious, doesn't look like he's willing to fall on his sword for Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama just yet. In fact, Melson is ready to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee where Rep. Darrell Issa will ask him who above him ordered the operation within the Justice Department. Eric Holder should be very, very worried.
Rumors have been swirling around Washington all week that Melson would resign, yet it is now Friday and no resignation has been made.
The acting director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is strongly resisting pressure to step down because of growing controversy over the agency's surveillance program that allowed U.S. guns to flow unchecked into Mexico, according to several federal sources in Washington.
Kenneth E. Melson, who has run the bureau for two years, is reportedly eager to testify to Congress about the extent of his and other officials' involvement in the operation, code-named Fast and Furious.
Melson does not want to be “the fall guy” for the program, under which ATF agents allowed straw purchasers to acquire more than 1,700 AK-47s and other high-powered rifles from Arizona gun dealers, the sources said. Read more
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has warned firearms retailers about a survey they may receive in the mail, from anti-gun activist Dr. Garen Wintemute of the University of California at Davis. A letter accompanying the survey, and signed by Wintemute, claimed that the purpose of this research is to better understand “the unique perspective of firearms licensees on important social issues and the firearms business itself.”
NSSF urged retailers to exercise “extreme caution” should they decide to fill out the survey. Wintemute, NSSF noted, has a long history of compiling anti-gun “research,” aimed at promoting more gun control.
As NSSF explained, “Dr. Wintemute, who serves as the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis, is perhaps best known for authoring the anti-gun report Ring of Fire: The Handgun Makers of Southern California. More recently, Dr. Wintemute and his team conducted ‘undercover operations’ of gunshows for their report, Inside Gun Shows: What Goes on When Everyone Thinks Nobody is Watching.”
“Given Dr. Wintemute’s history, it is clear that this firearms retailer survey will be used as a tool to justify and support legislation to curb the lawful commerce of firearms and the individual rights of law-abiding Americans.”
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Photo U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The family of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry has retained former Arizona U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton to determine if there is any legal action to take in connection with his slaying.
Charlton, Arizona U.S. Attorney from 2001 to 2007, said the Terry family asked him to review the facts surrounding the events that led to Brian Terry being killed on Dec. 14 in a shootout with suspected border bandits near Rio Rico.
Two Romanian-made assault rifles were recovered at the scene that are believed to have been sold to straw buyers in Phoenix and tracked into Mexico under a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Mexican gun-smuggling investigation, according to U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., have led an inquiry into the ATF operation, called “Fast and Furious,” leading to a June 15 hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Read more
Wisconsin will soon be the 49th state to allow residents to carry concealed weapons, but there are places where carrying a weapon still won't be allowed. Business owners will now have to post signs indicating they do not allow weapons in their buildings.
The debate over concealed carry moved from Madison to Main St. Almost every business owner in the state must soon decide whether they will allow concealed weapons on their property, some having already done it.
The law has a provision that allows business owners to post a sign at the entrance of their business prohibiting concealed guns.
Starship Tattoos in Greenfield has decided to allow concealed carry in their shop. Owner James Purvis says, “This [permit] is good in 30 states.”
Pervis says concealed weapons will be allowed in his shop once the bill is signed. “I will not post a sign. I feels it's everybody's right to carry a gun where ever they need to carry a gun.” Read more
Jan and Rascal, best friends, take a break in his shop.
Jan-Steven Merson is a successful example of an individual with a passion for firearms wanting to make a change. After retiring from a career in Law Enforcement with the Department of Corrections, Jan wanted to do something that he enjoyed and still make money. With an interest in firearms and firearms safety, he began the searching online to find a gunsmith program. What he found was that most Gunsmithing schools required a large commitment of time and expense. They also extensively relied on textbooks as their teaching method. Jan preferred to learn by doing and didn’t want to travel to classes or spend the time reading volumes of information. Then he discovered the American Gunsmith Institute. The step-by-step DVD courses they offered were just the answer for his style of learning.
The American Gunsmithing Institute (AGI) is the World’s Premier Gunsmithing School and through its exclusive systematic method of video instruction has educated more Working Gunsmiths than all other Gunsmithing Schools combined. Instruction is provided in the comfort of the students own home, on their own time schedule and at a greatly reduced cost from traditional classroom settings. AGI has been transforming people and their careers for over 17 years.
Within three months, Jan had set up his business, American Firearms & Gunsmith in Fullerton, California and began to offer a variety of gunsmith services. Word got out and now, four years later, Jan is a very, very busy gunsmith. He credits the AGI gunsmith program for his competitive edge. He can reference the DVD’s again and again while in his shop and he believes that the up-to-date information provided in the AGI DVD’s give him the knowledge and skill set customers demand today. It keeps them coming back for more and more services from his shop. Because the firearms industry is ever changing, Jan continues to invest in his Gunsmithing education by investing in new AGI courses as they become available featuring new guns.
Jan may still be doing business in his garage, but with the addition of his website, word-of-mouth, and a talent for gun repair, he is now earning over $100,000.00 annually and is thinking it’s time to expand the business to a storefront.
Jan summed up his American Gunsmithing Institute experience by saying, “Do it. You may say I really don’t have the money to lay out. Well, look at it as a short investment. You can make money almost instantly while taking the course and start paying yourself back. Think of it like this; if you put your money away in a CD, you have to wait for a year in order to get it back – with little interest! With AGI, you can start getting it back almost instantly. So, you can wait a year to make a profit or start now with AGI!”
Unlike most trade schools, the AGI program allows you to complete the program in as little as three months, studying from home, through video instruction which is packed with current information on the design, function and repair of firearms. With over 108 hours of video instruction in pistols and revolvers, rifles, shotguns, .22’s and more.
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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has announced the release of the Ruger 77/357, a lightweight, bolt-action rifle chambered in the venerable .357 Magnum and fed via a rotary magazine.
The bolt-action 77/357 features a five-round rotary magazine and is offered in the Ruger All-Weather configuration, which includes a durable, weather-resistant stainless steel barrel and receiver and a rugged, black composite stock. Although it is fitted with fully adjustable iron sights, the 77/357 also ships with patented Ruger scope rings, allowing a variety of sighting options for this lightweight (5-1/2 pounds), quick-handling rifle.
“The 77/357 is an effective tool for hunting medium-sized game – especially in heavy cover,” said Bruce Rozum, Chief Rifle Engineer at Ruger. “Bullet velocities of .357 Magnum ammunition increase significantly when fired out of the 77/357's 18 1/2″ cold hammer-forged barrel. In testing, Hornady 140 grain FTX loads were clocked at over 1820 feet per second. Furthermore, the flush-fit, five-shot rotary magazine does not protrude at the rifle's balance point and, unlike tube-fed rifles, the Ruger 77/357 can be readily loaded and unloaded,” he concluded. Learn more
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Rich makes his squared triggerguards with a much sharper square to them than previous-era ‘smiths made.
Rich Dettlehauser runs Canyon Creek, which works on 1911s and a couple of other very interesting pistols. Rich is a USPSA Grand Master, and that is something uncommon in shooting and gunsmithing circles.
Rich Dettlehauser
Rich runs Canyon Creek, his shop that works on 1911s and a couple of other very interesting pistols. Rich is a USPSA Grand Master, and that is something uncommon in shooting and gunsmithing circles. Yes, many gunsmiths can shoot, some quite well indeed. And some top shooters can be good at working on guns, but to combine the two is rare. In the 1911 arena, Rich mostly does competition and combat-ready single stacks, with some hi-caps suitable for Limited thrown in.
He does checkering, serrations, non-slip scales and slide and frame sculpting, with an eye toward pushing the boundaries. One detail he is particularly fond and proud of is the squared trigger guard. However, Rich squares the guard to a sharper degree and appearance than the old-style Swenson look.
He has also perfected a look I experimented with when I was working on custom 1911s: the low-profile mag well. In most instances the mag well as it is fabricated is as wide as or wider than the grips. As a result, you end up with a frame that has a ring of steel at the bottom, instead of ending in the wooden grips. Rich sculpts the mag well funnel so its sides are less than that of the grips, and then relieves the grip to ride over the mag well sides. The result is a frame and grips that look proportionate and correct.
As a Grand Master, Rich knows what details matter, and you can count on them being tended to. The frontstrap is lifted and the grip safety has a tight, no-bind grip and clears the trigger early enough that a somewhat sloppy grip won’t preclude a shot. And of course they are utterly reliable and accurate. You don’t make it to GM status running unreliable or inaccurate guns, and having made it, you don’t do that to your customers.
The other guns Rich works on are the EAA and its clones, and the Springfield XD and XDm. The EAA, basically a CZ-75, still has a following. Much more so overseas, but the grip shape is very nice, and the feel of the grip is enough to lure Limited and some Production shooters away from the 1911 hi-caps and Glocks. The Springfield XD is chosen by some Limited shooters (in .40) and the XDm is poised to be the new big kid on the block in Production. (Due to a puzzling rules interpretation, the XD and XDm are precluded from international Production, so if you plan on going to a World Shoot, you’ll have to pick something else to take.)
Rich can tune up an old or new CZ/EAA, and he can make your XDm a real Production-winning machine. You could, if you wanted, have half your USPSA/IPSC competition battery built by Rich, and on Springfields at that: he could build a Single Stack on a Springfield Armory 1911A1, A Limited/Limited 10 gun on a Springfield hi-cap, and your production gun could be an XDm. If you found an old Springfield P9, you could even have him build it up as an Open gun in 9X21. The only thing left out would be Revolver, and that might be asking too much. (After all, Springfield doesn’t make revolvers.)
As good as the old-time gunsmiths were, if a time machine ever allowed it, and you dropped one of the above guns down on their bench, they would be green with envy. Which brings us to the question: what is custom? Closely followed by another question: what does custom cost?
Custom is as custom does. If you have a gunsmith install a set of adjustable sights and put some checkering on the frontstrap, that’s a custom gun. As long as he was at least competent, and everything on it is straight and level, you have no need to be hesitant about showing off your custom gun. I think I’d have to draw the line at something so simple as slapping a pair of new grips on your 1911. That just doesn’t rise to the level of “custom gun” even if they are Esmerelda grips or VZ grips.
What can it cost? When you think of custom work, you really have to get your mind into the pattern of “$100 increments.” Checkering? That’ll be at least a couple of hundred, add another hundred if you want a non-standard spacing. Installing sights? Another hundred or two. Frenched borders? There’s another Franklin or two added to the invoice.
Replacement parts add up, as does basic mechanical work like fitting slides and frames and installing barrels. The end result is easily over a grand for a light-custom job, and the limit is met only after all the details have been attended to, which happens at about the $4,000 – $5,000 figure. Of course, for that you have an object of art, a thing of beauty, and a subject of some envy and/or appreciation.
Of course, having done that, you can then completely blow the doors off the downpayment for a house by handing the almost-finished pistol over to an engraver. It doesn’t take much to add our previous maximum again, in getting the perfect finish all “scratched up.”
Oh, and forward cocking serrations? That is like arguing religion. Some like them, some love them, some hate them, and some don’t care and don’t want to get sucked into yet another argument over them. But for god’s sake, if you do have to have them, at least get them matching the rear serrations, in pitch, angle, shape and depth. Nothing looks cheesier than straight up and down fronts and angled rears.
This article is an excerpt from 1911: The First 100 Years.
With so many of our shooting ranges facing lawsuits to shut them down and many just struggling to survive financially, it’s always nice to see when a new range actually opens its doors. That was the case in Arkansas, earlier this month, when Arkansas shooters got a new range near Batesville.
According to the Log Cabin Democrat, “The Independence County Firing Range near Pfeiffer will be known as the Paul H. ‘Rocky’ Willmuth Sport Shooting Complex. The complex was named after Willmuth, who was instrumental in securing funds to build the facility at 3600 North St. Louis St., a few miles north of Batesville.
“The facility is a three-field combination skeet/trap range with a static archery range,” the Democrat noted. “The complex is fully supervised and open to the public. It will be the site of Arkansas Youth Shooting Sports Program events, as well as club trap and skeet competitions.”
The shooting complex was developed through a cooperative agreement between by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Independence County, Arkansas, and the City of Batesville, at a cost of about $203,000.
The Justice Department is expected to oust the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to people familiar with the matter, amid a troubled federal antitrafficking operation that has grown into the agency's biggest scandal in nearly two decades.
Moves toward the replacement of Kenneth Melson, acting ATF director since April 2009, could begin next week, although the precise sequence of events remains to be decided, these people said.
The shakeup shows the extent of the political damage caused by the gun-trafficking operation called Fast and Furious, which used tactics that allowed suspected smugglers to buy large numbers of firearms. Growing controversy over the program has paralyzed a long-beleaguered agency buffeted by partisan battles. The ATF has been without a Senate-confirmed director since 2006, with both the Bush and Obama administrations unable to overcome opposition from gun-rights groups to win approval of nominees.
In November, President Barack Obama nominated Andrew Traver, the head of the ATF's Chicago office, as permanent ATF director. The nomination stalled in the Senate after the National Rifle Association said Mr. Traver had a “demonstrated hostility” to the rights of gun owners. Read more
“As the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform focuses on alleged failures of the U.S. Justice Department’s program to stop gun trafficking to Mexico, a new study by the Violence Policy Center (VPC) identifies the major force driving the criminal cross-border gun traffic: the gun industry’s cynical militarization of the U.S. civilian gun market,” a new Violence Policy Center press release claims.
“Alleged.” Disgusting. Josh Sugarmann should tell that to the survivors of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. As should Elijah Cummings, whose deliberate indifference two years ago to complaints by ATF agents of bureau corruption and abuse ago makes him culpable for the results—which is why he’s fighting so hard to derail the proceedings.
The gun “controllers” don’t really care about the issue except to exploit it to advance their citizen disarmament agenda.
So rather than demand the truth in allegations with supporting documentation by Bureau whistleblowers that the government allowed guns to “walk” into the hands of the Mexican cartels, VPC tells us “U.S. Civilian Gun Market Has Become a Militarized Bazaar.” Even though plenty of evidence suggest true military armaments come from approved U.S. exports to the Mexican government, as well as via smuggling operations though Central America. Read more
Early first year production Colt Model 1860 Army Conversion Revolver with low three digit serial number.
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – Rock Island Auction Company set a record for their February regional firearms auctions with more than $3.2 million sales. These regional sales can feature more than 2,000 lots of affordable antiques, beginning collector's items, usable sporting arms and many non-firearm lots. The firm is anticipating to continue its success July 16-17 when more than 2,100 lots will cross the block. The auction features more than 5,000 firearms. In addition to the excellent items in the auction, this will be the first Regional Auction at the new 86,000 square foot facility.
In addition to firearms, more than 4,400 items are classified as antique or curio and relic. True to its name, the sale offers collectors at least 700 sporting arms to include more than 200 Lugers, 500 Colts, 400 Winchesters and more than 700 military items.
Some of the featured items will include a deluxe first model 1873 documented copy of the iconic Winchester 1 of 1000; an early first year production Colt Model 1860 Army conversion revolver with low three digit serial number; a New Haven Arms Co. marked copy of a Henry lever action carbine; and a scarce Richmond Armory percussion carbine with rare and original sling.
Firearms from Smith & Wesson, Ruger, Remington, Browning, Marlin, Mauser, Savage, Stevens, Walther, Sharps, Parker Bros., Ithaca, Beretta, Springfield Armory and many more will be included. Additionally this auction will feature a significant assortment of edged weapons, ammunition, books, holsters, meerschaum pipes, firearms parts, gambling items and more.
Being less than a four hour drive from Minneapolis, Omaha, Des Moines, Kansas City, Topeka, Indianapolis, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, RIAC makes a great central location for almost all major cities in the Midwest. The entire catalog is available online.
Monday’s opening session in what will likely become a series of hearings on Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform demonstrated that Chairman Darrell Issa is laying a strategy to hold people accountable for an operation that sent thousands of guns illegally to Mexico.
During his initial questioning of witnesses before his committee, Issa noted his desire to not provide immunity to anyone who may be responsible for what appears to be a horribly botched gun sting mounted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“We must avoid providing immunity to somebody we believe is guilty of a crime,” Issa observed. “The worst thing to do is get the kingpin and then let them off.”
The panel, consisting of legal experts who uniformly concurred that Congress does have the authority to investigate controversial issues even if the Department of Justice is conducting its own criminal investigation, “was great,” according to one Capitol Hill source. Appearing were Prof. Charles Tiefer with the Commission on Wartime Contracting and a former chief litigator for the House of Representatives; Morton Rosenberg, Former Specialist in American Public Law with the American Law Division of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Todd Tatelman, Legislative Attorney, Congressional Research Service's American Law Division, and Louis Fisher, a specialist in the separation of powers and formerly with the Library of Congress. They essentially laid the foundation for Issa's expected demand for full cooperation and disclosure by the Justice Department and ATF on the Fast and Furious scandal.
Especially interesting were the repeated references to the Watergate scandal that erupted in 1972 and led to Richard Nixon’s resignation as president. Prof. Tiefer told the committee that the Justice Department should provide important documents. Read more
Looking to go armed, but are stuck in the weeds as to what to arm yourself with? Here are 20 of the best concealed carry gun options that will keep you on the defensive.
