Don’t give up if a replacement firing pin is unavailable from your catalog suppliers. Instead, use these tips to solve the problem.

One of the things some gun owners—engineers or fairly well-educated hobbyists who have a good grasp of mechanical things—ask about is how to handle the different kinds of pins in their guns. Particularly, they often want to know if their punches are the right ones, or if they can use a slightly different one without damaging their pins.

“Shouldn't an army base be the last place where a terrorist should be able to shoot at people uninterrupted for 10 minutes? After all, an army base is filled with soldiers who carry guns, right? Unfortunately, that is not the case. Beginning in March 1993, under the Clinton administration, the army forbids military personnel from carrying their own personal firearms and mandates that 'a credible and specific threat against [Department of the Army] personnel [exist] in that region' before military personnel 'may be authorized to carry firearms for personal protection.'

From MonroeRising.com: Recently, a friend and I were lamenting the steady dissolution of our Constitution. It seemed to us that the further our politicians have strayed from the spirit, meaning and intent of the Constitution, the more enervated, disunited and dispirited our nation and its people have become. Discussing how best to remedy the nation’s decline and to restore Constitutional governance, we briefly alluded to the discredited doctrine of nullification about which neither of us knew very much at all. So, I decided to briefly revisit the subject to see what I could learn. In a nutshell, this is it. I hope it will be of some interest to you.

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Smith & Wesson Offers 5 Free Magazines with New Rifles

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--Consumers who buy a new M&P15 Rifle in 5.56mm can get five free magazines under a new promotion that runs through through Dec. 31, 2009.

The magazines are the 30-Round Black PMAG or 10-Round Aluminum Magazines, depending on state and local regulations.

The offer is for "new, complete M&P15 Rifles chambered in 5.56mm only, excludes upper or lower receivers. M&P15-22 Rifles are not eligible for this promotion."

It's a mail-in rebate, so consumers must complete the rebate coupon, which you can find below.

Click here to download the rebate coupon.

Reader Comments

Must be 5.56 chambered rifle sales are slumping quite a bit. Most likely due to the poor performance feedback from our soldiers abroad. .308 / 7.62 is a more effective round. However, I must admit that firing a .444 round from a Marlin sure was pleasurable.

Comment by: Jeff W | October 22, 2009