The Armed Citizen® November 19

The Girsan MCP35 PI Ops High Power clone imported by European American Armory Corp. is one of the most feature-packed handguns we've seen in recent years.

The ATN X-Sight 5 is a digital riflescope that can be used in any lighting conditions. It operates via a quad-core sensor that captures the image transmitted through the objective lens and then processes and displays it on the 1280x960 DPI screen that is viewed through the ocular lens.

According to a recent NSSF report, NICS checks performed during this year's Black Friday sales event indicate nearly a 10 percent drop compared to the previous year. November held strong, however, being the 64th month in a row with more than 1 million firearms purchased across the nation.

Volquartsen Firearms specializes in rimfire precision and performance, offering both its own complete firearms and enhanced components that customers can use to soup-up other companies’ designs, and the Competition Bolt for Ruger’s Mark IV pistol is a prime example of the latter.

It took no fewer than 152 separate machining operations to produce a single M1 Garand rifle receiver, and this page from the Spring 1954 issue of International Harvester Today illustrates just how these cuts were made.