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While it seems everyone is raving about the striker-fired Heckler & Koch VP9, don’t forget that for decades H&K has been making hammer-fired guns. In this week’s American Rifleman TV web-exclusive video, American Rifleman's Joe Kurtenbach leaves Heckler & Koch’s Grey Room and heads back to the range with HK USA Marketing Director Bill Dermody to shoot the H&K P30, the German firm’s most modern hammer-fired gun. This version is the P30 with the LEM trigger, which has a mainspring that is fully cocked, but the hammer is down—giving a double-action length of pull but a single-action pull weight. Watch this web-exclusive previewand be sure to see this week's ARTV episode on H&K's Grey Room, Part 2 on theOutdoor Channel.
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The Imperial Japanese army learned important lessons during the fighting in Manchuria, and these contributed to the development of its Type 97 machine gun, chambered for a heavier, harder-hitting cartridge.
The Event Horizon drill is designed to pull attention away from consequence and return it to process by removing the shooter’s ability to visually reward or punish themselves shot-to-shot.
If you've ever struggled to reassemble a Ruger Standard Model pistol, Hammer Strut Support offered an easy, patented solution for decades, but the company recently announced it would be closing its doors.