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HANDGUNS

Critical Defense

Hornady's got a new ammo line for the discerning CCW holder.

The FBI would consider this to be merely marginal or borderline performance. Yeah, who are they kidding anyway?

Back in 1986, when I was a hard-working gunsmith who was trying to muscle his way up the standings in the IPSC circuit, the FBI was going through a crisis. It had had three vehicles full of agents tangle with two armed robbers, and if not for the courage of one agent the results would have been worse than they ended up on that day in April. (Of the eight agents involved, two died, five were wounded.) One of the armed robbers (they robbed armored cars at store pickups and would start the ...

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