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To readers of The Armory Life and many 1911 afficionados, Hilton Yam is going to be a familiar name. In the company of the many great gunsmiths and competitors who have built their professions around the construction or use of 1911 pistols, Yam offers a very unique perspective. Excepting, perhaps, a dwindling corps of old-guard military armorers, few have amassed more experience using, maintaining, and improving real-world, hard-use duty 1911’s than Hilton Yam. The Springfield Armory 10-8 Performance Master Class combines Hilton Yam’s decades of FBI duty experience with Springfield Armory’s 1911 manufacturing capabilities. Image: Carson McDaniel The late 1980s and early 1990s…
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How far should your concealed carry handgun be capable of shooting? If you’re running off of averages, the statistics say seven yards. And I would buy that, given all the things a normal street crime lethal-force encounter involves. Positive ID, clear and present danger, blah blah blah. But if you base your needs on raw averages, you could risk it and leave your gun at home. While a .380 might seem like a close-range-only option, a solidly accurate gun like the Hellcat in .380 ACP can give you some options in a pinch. I don’t live that way, and odds…
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The ProblemYou are an experienced shooter with multiple instructor certifications. You have been teaching classes successfully for the last several years and recently decided that it was time to seek an advanced concealed-carry certification. Recently, a colleague made you aware that a national training organization would be conducting a multi-day Advanced Concealed Carry Instructor class. The course description was somewhat minimal, but it did include the boiler plate objectives implying that these subjects would be taught at an advanced level. At the bottom of the advertisement, it stated that each student would be required to pass a practical and an…
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In January 1940, World War II was just four months old. Even so, the US Army Air Corps requested designs for a “Super-bomber”, a four-engine aircraft with a 20,000-pound bomb load and a 2,000-mile range. Boeing already had its B-17 “Flying Fortress” in production, introduced into Air Corps service in 1938. Boeing submitted the design for its “Model 345”, in competition with Consolidated Aircraft’s “Model 33”. The Consolidated aircraft would become the obscure B-32 Dominator. Meanwhile, the Boeing design was destined for fame as the B-29 Superfortress. B-29 bombers based in China begin to hit the Japanese Empire. On June 15,…
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Tippmann Arms, known for its .22 LR rimfire versions of the AR-15 carbine, is launching two new .22 LR integrally suppressed firearms to coincide with the the removal of the $200 NFA starting in January 2026. These new guns include the Tippmann Arms Elite ISS Rifle and Elite Bug Out Pistol. “Tippmann Arms has always built rugged, reliable equipment for shooters who demand performance,” said Dennis Tippmann Jr. President of Tippmann Arms “With the expansion of suppressor freedom in the United States and the removal of unnecessary federal taxation, we’re excited to introduce purpose-built integrally suppressed firearms that deliver unmatched…
