Important Facts About Ballistic Fingerprinting

1. CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE’S OWN RESEARCH STUDIES, AS VALIDATED BY INDEPENDENT EXPERTS, CONFIRM THAT BALLISTIC FINGERPRINT PROGRAMS DO NOT WORK. In announcing the results of CAL DOJ’s studies, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer stated “Our analysis concludes that today’s technology is not yet adequate to handle the volume [of data] associated with adding all … Read more

The Points Systems of GCA ’68

Factoring Criteria for Weapons Note: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms reserves the rightto preclude importation of any revolver or pistol which achieves anapparent qualifying score but does not adhere to the provisions ofsection 925(d)(3) of Amended Chapter 44, Title 18, USC. PISTOL Prerequisites 1. The pistol must have a positive manually operated safety … Read more

A Few Notes Regarding Cast Bullet Alloys

I do not understand why a lead cast bullet can only contain a few percent (2 to 3) parts of tin to be classed as hard. If an alloy of 70% lead and 30% tin was used it will still be “softer” than copper. What gives? Historically, bullet lead is hardened, principally, by addition of … Read more

Police Survival Shooting: How Close is Too Close?

This is a videotape of one of Ayoob’s Lethal Force Institute (LFI) classes for police instructors. It is not of professional production quality, and the audio quality is sometimes rather poor. However, it contains some valuable information for those who own, and perhaps carry, firearms for defensive purposes. The first half of the tape is … Read more

High End Gun Safes

How to get into your safe? For most people, who’s gun collection is a smaller fraction of their net worth than say, their car, the standard gun safes that are commonly available are quite sufficient to the task of keeping children, irresponsible adults, and the street criminal out of their guns. The standard gun safes … Read more