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Guest post by:
Iron Fist

These are interesting times for those of us who support the Second Amendment and related rights in the United States. The odious so-called “Assault Rifle” ban expired in 2004, opening up a market that had been severely limited for a decade. This brought with it a wave of new firearms that had developed during the years of oppression that had followed the Democrat’s ill-advised abridgement of the civil rights of all Americans. Some of these weapons were simply American made variants of existing weapons (George H.W. Bush’s disastrous Executive Order banning the import of certain weapons is still in force), but some were weapons that were new to the market.

The weapon pictured above is one of these. It is a Sig 556 pistol. It has a short barrel, but no shoulder stock. The Democrats made it illegal to put a shoulder stock on a pistol in 1933, and during the intervening years no Republican has had the guts to try and remove such an asinine law. Perhaps in the future…

For now, one has to choose one or the other. The Sig, IMHO, is the best of these out there. It is a high quality, reliable weapon at a relatively reasonable price. It is what I’d term an “investment” weapon in that if the Democrats were to re-authorize the AWB it would be one of the weapons that dramatically increased in value, much as the H&K SP 89 (a semi auto variant of their excellent MP-5K) increased in price, nearly tripling in value overnight. It is also an investment in fun. It is light, and in a mild but effective caliber (5.56 NATO), compatible with many after-market M-4/AR-15 accessories. Life is short. You know you want one…