WORLD RECORD Winchester 1894! video by Rock Island Auction Company.
Summary:
It is now the highest amount achieved for one of America's most popular and produced rifles!
This John Ulrich masterpiece Model 1894 includes the Master Engraver's No. 2 factory pattern engraving and gold inlay, along with a bevy of deluxe special order features.
Auction took place in December 2025.
Cassandra McBride, "How Old Do You Have to be to Buy a Gun: A State Guide 2026"
How old do you have to be to buy a gun?
That is a question that pops up all the time, especially by those who are in the 18 to 21 age range.
Ammo.com posted a state guide that answers that question.
They begin with:
Report Highlights: Federal law states that eligible citizens must be over 21 to purchase a handgun and over 18 to purchase a long gun; however, state laws vary regarding private purchases.
For more details state-by-state, go here.
Winchester Model 94 .30-30 Woods Walk by Hickok45.
Summary:
The classic Winchester Model 94 is even effective for protection in the woods!
Watch out for those dangerous water jugs!
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| Above, the rifle in question. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
I opened it up and found a bold-action rifle. It appeared to be Japanese as it had a symbol next to the serial that indicated the rifle came from the Nagoya Arsenal, which was in operation from 1923 to 1945.
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| Above, the Nagoya Arsenal symbol. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
There is nothing indicating who the manufacturer was.
The bolt on the rifle looks like stainless steel and may not be original to the gun. It also does not close all the way. The rifle does not indicate what caliber it is. I suspect that it is an Arisaka rifle and that is what members of Gun Owners of New Mexico also said it is, but sporterized.
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| Above, the rifle's other side. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Probably my best bet in correctly identifying the rifle's manufacturing company, model number and caliber is to take it to a gun shop (maybe Loeffler's Guns Etc. in Grants or Ron Peterson Firearms in Albuquerque).
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| Above, my grandfather's Winchester 62A pump action rifle. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Before I bought my Ruger 10/22 rifle, I primarily did target-shooting with my maternal grandfather's Winchester 62A .22 pump action rifle in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The 62A is known as a gallery gun that took .22 short, .22 long and .22 long rifle cartridges. When I shot with it, I used .22 long rifle cartridges.
Based on the rifle's serial number, it was made in 1947.
It is a good firing gun. The video below will show how easy and quick one can shoot with it. The next time we go shooting (most likely in the spring), I will bring it along.
It was inevitable. The Democrats who control the legislature in Santa Fe, New Mexico have made their move.
From Rep. Stefani Lord at 'X':
🚨They. Are. Coming. For. Your. Guns.🚨
@GovMLG is frothing at the mouth to pass this bill that bans ALL semi-auto rifles, leaving you with only bolt action, lever action, single shot, muzzleloaders, .22 caliber, and mandatory 10-round permanently fixed (cannot be removed without a tool) magazines.
To keep track of this insanity, they WILL need a gun registry!
Here's the bill:
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| Above, the Remington Model 870 Express 12 gauge shotgun. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
We (Mitch Geriminsky and I) were looking at 12 gauge shotguns. We stopped at a gun store owned by a Mason friend of Mitch's. He had some Remington Model 870 Express pump action 12 gauge shotguns. It was priced at $599. However, we got a good price for the gun. So I took it.
So, whenever I am in Lake Havaau on a Saturday, I can join Mitch and his group for skeet shooting with it.
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California, that state that is under total control by left-wing Democrats, has been trying to chip away at citizens' Second Amendment rights. This includes the right to assemble at gun shows.
A federal lawsuit has been filed against a senate bill banning gun shows in public property.
AmmoLand reported:
BELLEVUE, WA – -(AmmoLand.com)-The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit challenging California’s Senate Bill 264, a ban on gun shows held on public property that was passed and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Joining SAF are the California Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. B&L Productions, Inc., d/b/a Crossroads of the West; Gerald Clark; Eric Johnson; Chad Littrell; Jan Steven Merson; Inc; Asian Pacific American Gun Owners Association; and the Second Amendment Law Center, Inc. The case is known as B&L Productions v. Newsom.
SAF is represented by noted civil rights attorney Donald Kilmer, who successfully represented SAF in overturning the ban on gun shows at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego County, where the defendants were ordered to pay plaintiffs close to half-million dollars in combined damages and attorney fees
Named as defendants in this case are California Gov. Gavin Newsom in his official capacity as Governor of the State of California, Attorney General Robert Bonta in his official capacity as Attorney General of the State of California, Karen Ross, in her official capacity as Secretary of California Department of Food & Agriculture, and Todd Spitzer, in his personal and official capacity as District Attorney of Orange County. The 55-page federal complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
To read the full article, go here.
All the gun grabbers conveniently like to forget who’s on the other end of the trigger of all this “gun violence.” - James Woods.
On a party-line vote, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives Judiciary Committee passed a horrible gun control bill. It is heading to house vote as early as this week.
This bill must be defeated.
According to the NRA-ILA:
Late last week, the House Judiciary Committee rammed through an extreme package of gun control measures on a party-line vote. If this terrible legislation becomes law, tens of millions of law-abiding gun owners would be turned into felons and their lawfully-acquired property would be subject to confiscation by federal agents. Nancy Pelosi plans to bring this to the U.S. House floor for a vote this week.
The bill, H.R. 7910, which was introduced and heard in committee in a matter of only three days, is a conglomeration of numerous other gun control bills.
The article goes through a litany of provisions.
To read more, go here.
Last week, His Fraudulency Joe Biden said this:
A .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out, may be able to get it, and save the life. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.
This explains the following meme:
When His Fraudulency Joe Biden claims he doesn't want to confiscate your weapons, you can be pretty certain that he's lying through his teeth.
The NRA-ILA points out his stance in a new article (June 2).
It starts off with:
If anyone was still questioning the Biden-Harris administration’s devotion to banning and confiscating law-abiding Americans’ firearms, all doubt was erased this weekend.
On May 31, President Joe Biden once again stated that he wants to ban 9mm firearms. Speaking with reporters outside the White House about a purported encounter with a “trauma doctor,” Biden stated,
They said a .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out — may be able to get it and save the life. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.
So, the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection, hunting. Remember, the Constitution was never absolute. You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weaponry.
Biden went on to say,
I can’t dictate this stuff. I can do the things that I’ve done. And any executive action I can take, I’ll continue to take. But I can’t outlaw a weapon.The implication of Biden’s statement is clear to anyone other than a “fact checker” more interested in defending the president than checking any facts. Biden wants to outlaw 9mm firearms – the vast majority of which are the common 9mm handgun. It should also be noted that the president’s statement about the legality of cannons is an utter lie that even the left-wing press won’t defend.
Observers can be certain that Biden wants to ban 9mm pistols because the president has touted this policy twice before.
To read more, go here.
Personal safety is not something that I am overly concerned about while traveling. For one thing, I keep everything locked when I am not around and at night.
Also, I keep my 9mm pistol within easy reach and I've had gun training. My grandfather and father kept a "hogleg" with them while camping. I don't travel full-time. With gasoline now at $4.199 at the local Flying J, traveling is a bit cost-prohibitive even for short duration trips.
RV Travel has posted an article on full-time RVer safety.
They begin with:
Some contemplating a full-time life on the road are a bit concerned about safety. They read about crimes and wonder—how subject to the criminal element are folks in RVs? If you sit around the campfire, sooner or later there’s some sort of RV “crime story” bound to come up. But if you push your source for specifics, often things seem to get vague. Yes, we have heard of actual incidents where travelers have run into trouble—but in reality, it’s a very RARE situation.
RVs are pretty hard to break into, compared to the common home. After all, in the dark of night, a big old house presents a lot of places to sneak in. Your little old RV is so small if somebody breaks a window, it’s sure to wake you up. Burglars don’t want to let you know they’re coming.
Too, robberies most often involve planning: the neighborhood mini-mart, the bank, the liquor store, somebody’s home known to have valuables or lots of dough. By our transient nature, as RVers, we’re a whole lot harder to work into a well-planned robbery effort. Also, for some reason, there’s a prevailing view of RVers that we all carry sawed-off shotguns around, begging for the chance to “make my day.”
To read more, go here.
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| Above, Cabela's Albuquerque ammo shelves on January 24. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
How is the supply of ammunition these days?
That is a question gun owners are likely to be wondering about.
1945 (19fortyfive.com) discusses the current state of the ammo shortage.
They begin it with:
The Great Ammo Shortage of 2022 just won’t go away. You might struggle to find ammunition for your pistol, rifle, or shotgun this year. Reasons for the shortage range wide, from supply bottlenecks to a copper shortage and the war in Ukraine. The best solution might be to make your own bullets.
People are buying more guns, and there are a lot of new gun owners. In 2020, 20 percent of American gun purchasers had never before bought a firearm. Thirty-nine percent of people recently polled in the United States own at least one pistol, rifle, or shotgun, according to the General Social Survey, and FBI background checks tracked a 41 percent increase in gun ownership from 2019 to 2020. That adds up to 8.4 million new owners. These gun owners need ammunition. So, the demand side of the equation is easy to see.
Supply of ammunition is also a concern. People stocked up on rounds during the Covid-19 pandemic amid panic about the dwindling supply. Imports of ammunition fell 34 percent during the worst days of quarantine in 2020. There were periods during the pandemic when gun and ammo production stopped. Gun owners sensed these shortages and snapped up firearms and ammunition.
There was also a lull in supply when ammunition-maker Remington went bankrupt. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2018, and again in 2020. It was hard for Remington to produce enough bullets to keep up with demand until it got its affairs in order and sold itself to Vista Outdoors.
To read more, go here.
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| Above, a tour bus view of the Hawaii State Capitol. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The state of Hawaii thinks that the constitution doesn't apply to them. They have passed laws that are blatant infringements of their citizens' Second Amendment rights. Need I mention that the Democrat Party controls the state government?
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is looking into their laws (the case is Yukutake v. Shikada) and the NRA-ILA is involved. Given the history of the "Ninth Circus", I would not be surprised if this case eventually winds up in the U.S. Supreme Court.
From the NRA-ILA:
On Monday, NRA-ILA filed an amicus curiae (or friend of the court) brief in a case challenging Hawaii’s draconian permit-to-purchase and firearm-registration laws in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Aloha State does not make it easy for an individual to exercise their Second Amendment Rights. State law imposes many repetitive steps on tight deadlines. First, one needs to apply for a permit to purchase a handgun, which requires providing the Chief of Police with the handgun’s make, model, serial number, etc. If the permit is approved, the individual then has 10 days to complete the purchase. Then upon completion of the purchase, the seller inputs the handgun’s make, model, serial number etc., signs the permit, and has 48 hours to get it back to the Chief of Police. But that’s not the end of the process. The purchaser then has five days to bring the handgun into the police station for it to be inspected and registered, which is the third time that the handgun’s make, model, serial number, etc., get recorded.
These burdensome laws “were passed solely to ‘control’ how people exercise their Second Amendment rights,” the brief argues.
To read more, go here.
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It was inevitable that the city of San Jose, California would be sued over their sweeping new gun bill, but sued they were.
Yahoo News reported:
A gun rights group has filed a lawsuit against the City of San Jose, California, after the city passed a gun bill it argues will reduce firearms-related incidents.
"The City of San Jose has taken the unprecedented step of requiring virtually all gun owners within its city limits to pay unspecified sums of money to private insurance companies and an unspecified fee to an unidentified government-chosen non-profit simply to exercise their constitutional right to own a gun," reads a lawsuit filed by the National Association for Gun Rights Tuesday.
At issue is bill passed Tuesday by the City of San Jose that will require gun owners to purchase liability insurance and pay "use fees" that the city plans to invest in "evidence-based initiatives to reduce gun harm."
To read more, go here.
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