Patrick Sweeney

1 week ago | gundigest.com | Patrick Sweeney

Glocks don’t have much flair … and a whole lot of them don’t have any. Despite being functionally perfect, it took quite a while for there to be any flair, and there still isn’t much. What really caught my attention recently was the comment “Gen 5 Glocks have a magwell flare, not much of one, but there are 24 million Gen 1 through Gen 4 Glocks that have none at all.”The Glock magwell flaring device, the Flarewell, does exactly that.

3 weeks ago | gundigest.com | Patrick Sweeney

The boss asked me, “How about a musing on the most popular firearms of all time? Or the past century?”OK, I’m game … but we have to have some rules here. I mean, if we’re going to go simply by the number made, then the 1898 Mauser and the AK-47 are the tops of the top. But they were made in such volume because governments bought them. Popular had little to do with it.

3 weeks ago | gundigest.com | Patrick Sweeney

Knives are hazardous … and dull knives are particularly hazardous because you have to use more force to cut, and that means any error can lead to gashes. The solution? DMT, the maker of diamond-sharpening tools, has a pocket-sized sharpener so compact that you might lose it in your gear bag or toolbag: the Glide-Pro. It has four angled pull-through sharpeners, a carbide and ceramic 20-degree, and a carbide and ceramic 30-degree sharpener.

1 month ago | firearmsnews.com | Patrick Sweeney

Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. There was a time when you could ask any question about suppressors, well almost any, and the answer would be “Doc Dater.” Or “Ask Doc Dater.” Well, the chance to ask has passed, as Philip Dater passed away while we were all hiking the aisles of the SHOT show.

1 month ago | gundigest.com | Patrick Sweeney

Owning and shooting an AR-15 pistol, or SBR, is fun. Well, it starts out fun, but the muzzle blast gets to be a bit much after a short while. Indoors, it’s even worse. And, if you happen to be working in a team environment … well, others will grow to hate you. Quickly. I’ve even heard of SWAT team members being retired with medical disability due to the muzzle blast of an SBR too close to them. What do you do? The “easy” answer is to put a suppressor on it. But that isn’t always an option.