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TrackingPoint is looking for new faces at their Austin, Tex. campus. They want to hire people across the board, including rifle testers. Interested?

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Guns.com chats with Paul Barrett, author of the best selling book "GLOCK: The Rise of America's Gun", at the 2013 SHOT Show. We discussed a number of important topics: Obama's gun control agenda, defensive gun use, universal background checks, and what it's like working for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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We spent a good time at SHOT Show this year shooting the new Glocks, too. Actually, just thinking about Media Day makes me feel cold, you can see how frozen our hands were in our video. So most of what Glock is doing is flushing out their Gen 4 series, adding updated versions of existing […]

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As the dust settled on the 2013 SHOT Show, I was back home sifting through hundreds of images and hours of video. Now, three weeks later, I'm beginning to see some of the more subtle trends. My favorite is the growing emphasis on threaded barrels. A silencer is a logical tool, and threaded barrels this year should mean more silencers to come.

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Para USA is eagerly expanding their pistols to include a handful of neat new 1911s that run the gamut from concealed-carry to hunting and target shooting.

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It’s probably better that I didn’t see this at this year’s SHOT Show. I might have thought I broke a part of my brain, and Vegas isn’t the sort of place where you want to lose your mind.

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I'm not sure who to believe. Heizer and DoubleTap seemed like such a good couple. But they split up. And if that wasn't awkward enough, they both showed up at The SHOT Show this year with very similar .45 ACP derringers. Keeping all of this straight is getting to be difficult. But Heizer brought something else, a Pocket Shotgun.

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I'd never seen a Konus rifle scope in person. But at this year's SHOT Show, I was able to visit with Konus and check out their whole line. Konus is branching out form their traditional hunting scopes and entering the tactical market. And the scopes look great and are a great value.

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We’re starting to really dig Richard Ryan’s work, aka RatedRR. A while back we reviewed Kriss’ .45 ACP carbine, and had mixed feelings about it. Sure it’s interesting and low-recoil due to the gun’s unique recoil system, but it’s really… big. The SIG MPX might not be available in .45 (yet?) but it’s sorta taken […]

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Guns.com takes a look at the Springfield XDs-9 at SHOT Show 2013. The XDs-9 is the newest pistol by Springfield. It’s identical to the XDs-45, which was released in 2012, except for having a different caliber.

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Just to be clear: the carbine has a permanently-attached “muzzle break” that’s actually a baffle stack. You can buy the MPX, file your NFA paperwork, pay your stamp, and when it clears in a few months, you just drop on the silencer shell, screw it in tight with the endcap, and now your MPX is […]

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This was my first SHOT Show. I'm still a bit stunned. As a review writer, I know a lot about the industry. But now I know that I have a lot to learn. I could have spent all five days just studying ARs, or 1911s. There is too much for one person to see, so I thought I'd throw up a few of my favorites.

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