Ballistic April/May 2022

If you’re plugged into mainstream TV news outlets and the censorship tyrants of social media (for your general health and wellbeing, we do not recommend this), then you know the world’s pretty much FUBAR on all fronts. My favorite T-shirt (and morale patch)—one that always invokes thumbs-up comments from passersby around town—is from the patriots over at standstrongart.com. Said swag seem to say it best: “They Are Lying To You.” Point is, if you want to get facts, not propaganda and narratives fed (and paid for) by statists and the global elites, then you ought to start plugging into independent media programming (as well as everything you read on ballisticmag.com). Currently, both Rumble and Bitchute have yet to be infiltrated by the highly sinister and divisive overlords. GETTR seems to be…

WOULD YOU RATHER… The best defense is a good offense…or is it the other way around? Would you rather be 100-percent bulletproof or be 100-percent accurate (never miss what you are aiming at)? I thought this installment’s question was really a test of aggressiveness vs. risk aversion. But I was wrong. The majority picked Bulletproof. Cuz’ if you’re bulletproof, you can get real close and take your time killing them. Makes sense. Best quotes: “Can’t hit the 10 ring if your smoked.”—Andrew Bowen“I absolutely would rather be a dead shot. I prefer to be on the trigger side of a gun, not the barrel end. Being bulletproof seems very narrow focused, a chicken bone could still kill me. I could hear them now, ’He was bulletproof but never saw that chicken wing…

AXIL GS EXTREME 2.0 About 20 years ago, I discovered noise cancelling headphones for the range and jumped in with both feet. Today, all my ear pro is noise cancelling as well as Blue-toothed to my phone for calls and music. I like them so much I use them when running. GS Extreme 2.0’s $199 tethered buds are the next generation. Features include digital instead of analog for 2.5x better audio, automatic gain control hearing protection, faster hearing protection shutting off at 85db, Bluetooth audio runtime doubled to eight to nine hours and a ton of different size foam and silicone ear inserts to guarantee all-day comfort. (goaxil.com) CERBERUS DISRUPTOR LIGHT Civilian Warfighter just released the Cerberus (yeah, the three-headed dog in Hades) light. The waves of light cause visual disruption and are…

James Cameron’s Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) had a huge impact on me growing up, and I credit the film franchise with first instilling me with a fascination for firearms, future-tech and filmmaking. These movies expanded my mind when it came to considering the realms of possibility, both creatively on-screen and regarding what the future of technology may hold for mankind. Thankfully we haven’t found ourselves being hunted down by muscle clad cybernetic organisms with Austrian accents in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Los Angeles 2029. But now, in an era were AI drives our cars, runs most of our infrastructure, guides much of our military hardware, and autonomous robots are doing parkour all over Boston Dynamics laboratories, I have to wonder if the machines haven’t already taken…

“After giving the tool just a few minutes to heat up, I confirmed that was indeed the case, and only light pecking was required to get a professional-looking stippling job.” OT DEFENSE If there is any justice in the world, Garand Thumb would open at least one video with “if you’ve ever put a soldering iron through a Glock frame….” That quote ought to hit home with a few of you that have ever tried to stipple a polymer-framed pistol for yourself. This new-age trend of melting divots into the grip area can indeed be beneficial but only if you don’t destroy the pistol in the process. OT Defense’s StippleTec stippling kits are precisely what you need to get the job done right. Formed in 2015 by purple-heart recipient Micah Huyett, OT Defense…

The Laugo Alien Pistol is anything but ho-hum, yada-yada, same old, same old. I think the two-year wait to get my hands on the Alien definitely added to my excitement when I found out I was finally going to get one. I was like a kid on Christmas morning when I opened it. All the wait and anticipation were definitely worth it when I saw the out-of-this-world pistol, which I can really only describe as the Bugatti of guns sitting in the case in my office. The excitement grew as I uncased it and got to finally handle it. SCORPION LINEAGE The Alien is like nothing else we have seen in a pistol. It is a gas piston blowback pistol. It features a 4.8-inch fixed barrel with the lowest bore axis on…