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A Marlin 336 chambered in 219 Zipper, Manufactured in 1957

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The CZ Micro Scorpion: Little Gun, Lot of Sting by TRAVIS PIKE

The CZ Scorpion went from being a single sub-gun and large format pistol to an entire series made up of rifles, pistols, and even a bullpup. One of the latest models is the CZ Scorpion EVO 3 S2, aka the Micro Scorpion. The Micro Scorpion took the standard Scorpion and shrunk it a fair bit. They sell it with a folding brace, a collapsing brace, and a brace-free variant. This little (but big) pistol gives you something PDW-sized for home defense and for a ton of fun at the range.

I’m a PCC/subgun fan, and out of the three Scorpions I have, the Micro Scorpion is my very favorite. The Micro Scorpion is just plain cool. I’ve always had an affinity for the so-called K model submachine guns. Guns like the Micro Scorpion represent the closest I’ll ever get to a real K-model anything. The Micro Scorpion keeps things short but fairly stout.

The Micro Scorpion and its collapsible brace makes for a small big pistol.

The barrel is 4.12 inches long but covered with a SilencerCo No Octane faux suppressor. Once removed, the Micro Scorpion is the perfect host for a suppressor. Plus, in 9mm, the weapon just wants to be suppressed, and it keeps things super quiet with 147-grain subsonic rounds. The overall length of the firearm is 16.35 inches with the brace collapsed and 23.35 inches with the brace extended.

The Micro Scorpion weighs 5.5 pounds and is 9.4 inches tall. The Micro Scorpion has an MSRP of $1,349 dollars and appears to retail for around $1,000. It’s a tall order for a 9mm subgun, but for fans like me, it’s the cost of entry.

Inside the Micro Scorpion

The Micro Scorpion utilizes a very simple straight blowback system that’s been trusted by the world of submachine guns since the very beginning. It’s not refined or fancy, but it works. Part of the downside with such a system is the requirement of a big heavy bolt and some stiff recoil springs. That translates to the 5.5-pound overall weight and the rather stiff action when the shooter charges the weapon.

Over the top, we get a full-length optic rail and CZ’s impressive set of Scorpion iron sights. The front sight features an AR-like front post, and the rear sight is where the magic happens. The rear sight has a rotating system of rear sights of varying width peep sights. They go from fully opened to tight and narrow for varying degrees of precision and speed.

The Micro Scorpion features a Metal MLOK handguard

Around the barrel sits a very short M-LOK rail system that’s the right size for small lights and the basics. I added a QD slot for a front sling post, and that’s really it. The rail itself is all metal and quite robust. Previous Scorpion rail systems utilized a polymer rail system, so it’s nice to see an upgrade in design.

The brace is rather nice. It’s mostly metal, including the arms. It can spring into action with just a single pull. It lacks at one setting, so hopefully, your forearm is fairly long. Collapsing the brace requires a quick hit of a button mounted to the top of the brace. Press it, collapse it, and call it done.

The Ergonomics Of the Micro Scorpion

CZ did ergonomics right…mostly. My main complaint came from the safety. It’s ambidextrous, which is great but also digs into your hand every time you pull the trigger. CZ has yet to fix this, and you can do so with a Dremel or with any of the numerous safety deletes. I used the strike industries safety delete to make it a right-handed only design.

The pistol grip is perfectly acceptable, but I wanted to swap it for a more American grip with a sharper angle and went with the Strike Industries model as well. It’s a little thinner and short as well, so it fits the theme of the Micro Scorpion.

The Ergonomics are absolutely brilliant.

Other than that, the Magpul Scorpion is fantastically ergonomic. The safety throw is short and sweet. It’s tactile and moves without argument. The magazine release is AK-like and allows you to drop mags easily and reload on the fly. Magazines do drop-free, so it’s a nice touch.

The charging handle can be swapped from one side to the other, and it’s very easy to do so. The bolt release is positively massive and L-shaped. Push it down a bit, and the bolt slams home. For lefties, the charging handle also works easily enough to drop the bolt and send it home. HK fanboys will be happy to know that the charging handle is locked upwards, and a slap sends it home.

It’s short and maneuverable.

Overall the Micro Scorpion is a well-balanced weapon that’s easy and fun to use. It’s my wife’s favorite gun, and she’s become quite proficient with it. Executing reloads, clearing malfunctions, and blasting through boxes of 9mm is lots of fun.

On the Range

Speaking of blasting through 9mm, I’ve been lucky enough to own this firearm for years. As such, the Micro Scorpion and I are close friends. The cold hammer-forged barrel squeezes out a fair amount of accuracy from the short 4.12-inch barrel. If the trigger was better, it would be a card splitter. Even with the long, heavy, and spongy trigger, the Micro Scorpion can produce tight 1 inch groups at 50 yards and easily ding steel targets of various sizes.

With good trigger control, you can back out to 100 yards and let the lead fly. I can go ten for ten with a good holdover. On a man-sized target, it’s as simple as aligning the sights and letting the rounds fly even at 100 yards.

Did I mention Magpul makes a 50 round drum?

Recoil isn’t bad per se, but blowback actions create more recoil than necessary. It’s plenty controllable with very minimal muzzle rise. I’d put it in the same vein as an AR pistol in 5.56. It’s mild, but recoil is present. Since it’s 9mm, the muzzle flash and concussion are almost non-existent.

The Micro Scorpion excels at being maneuverable due to its short size and well-balanced design. Moving rapidly from target to target takes just a slight spin of the body. With all the weight near your body, it moves very naturally, and you won’t ‘overshoot’ your target’s vitals with your sights. Even small targets like clay pigeons on the berm are easy to acquire and destroy.

Why wouldn’t you want a gun this small?

From a reliability standpoint, the Micro Scorpion eats it all. The blowback system has been around so long and used so much because it works. That’s readily apparent here as this thing chews through 9mm ammunition without complaint. Even really crappy steel-cased stuff operates the feeds, fires, and ejects.

The Really Big Pistol

The Micro Scorpion puts some sting into the really big pistol world. As far as really big pistols go, it’s quite light and fairly maneuverable. The little gun always goes bang, and with a few upgrades, it’s one of the most ergonomic platforms on the market. It’s a niche product for sure and does have a high price point, but if you want a K model subgun, this might be the most common and affordable option.

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Revising American History for the Sake of “Gun Control” by Miguel A. Faria, MD

Like it or not — and many on the leftward side of the political spectrum don’t — firearms and civilian gun ownership have been part of our history and culture since before the nation’s founding and have become as American as mom and apple pie. May it ever remain so for lawful citizens. Not that my assertion based on historical reality would be accepted by many undaunted public health researchers and others dedicated to civilian disarmament.

The foes of civilian firearm ownership have a long and sordid record of revising history to fit their anti-gun narratives.

One researcher, an Emory University professor and Bancroft Prize winner, Michael A. Bellesiles, faked historical data to “prove” in his now discredited book Arming America: The Origins of a Natural Gun Culture that widespread gun ownership in early America was really a fiction.

Bellesiles contended that guns were, in fact, uncommon in the civilian population during the colonial and early periods of the Republic. Consequently, most Americans weren’t proficient with guns.

Bellesiles argued, citing non-existent probate court records, that widespread firearm use by the civilian population occurred only after the Civil War and that was only because the mass production of firearms had lowered to cost in owning one.

Only one of Bellesiles’ contentions was correct; that mass production decreased the cost of firearms while increasing their quality and accuracy. The rest of his argument was fabricated mendacity. His conclusions were wishful thinking, tailor-made for the liberal intelligentsia who opposed civilian gun ownership and received his book with great fanfare, and enthusiastically supported the great revelation he produced.

Yet Bellesiles’ conclusions, which contradicted well-known facts of American history, were preposterous for anyone with even a modicum of historical knowledge. How could early Americans survive the wilderness without possessing firearms and not be proficient in their use? How could colonists on the frontier, subject to Indian raids, protect their families? How could the colonial militia be ready at a moment’s notice not only to repel Indian raids but also to join with the British army in fighting in the French and Indian War (1756-1763), as Colonel George Washington and his militia did?

Most astounding of all, how could the celebrated event in American history we now refer to as Patriot’s Day (April 19, 1775) have taken place without the availability and familiarity with firearms? How could the minutemen, summoned by Paul Revere in his famous ride, assemble so quickly and with their muskets to fire “the shot heard around the world”? Why would American patriots prevent the British army’s attempt to disarm them and seize the arm depots at Concord, while passing by Lexington in the colony of Massachusetts? How could they have harassed the Redcoats all the way back to Boston if they were unarmed?

Bellesiles’ preposterous attempt at historical revisionism was truly audacious. Only an anti-gun “scholar” with a supreme capacity for arrogance and hubris would have even attempted this kind of fraud, but such dishonesty was only an illogical extension of the politicized “research“ that we have been exposing all along.

So, it didn’t take long for scholars to prove that Bellesiles’ “reseach” was fraudulent and his conclusions fabricated. His book a bag of lies conceived to reach the preordained conclusions that the American gun culture was actually a relatively new phenomenon, the result of a tragic civil war and an overabundance of cheap mass-produced weapons.

Bellesiles’ mendacity cost him his reputation, his coveted Bancroft Prize, and his position at Emory University, which is sadly also the alma mater for my post-doctoral neurosurgical training.

Foes of firearm ownership and the right to keep and bear arms lie often when the topic is guns. What they don’t know, they make up, whether in the media, popular culture, or academia. That’s how far the common denominator has fallen — in academics, entertainment, and in politics.

Written by Dr. Miguel Faria

Miguel A. Faria, Jr, MD is a retired professor of Neurosurgery and  Medical History at Mercer University School of Medicine. He founded Hacienda Publishing and is Associate Editor in Chief in Neuropsychiatry and World Affairs of Surgical Neurology International. He served on the CDC’s Injury Research Grant Review Committee. This article is excerpted, updated, and edited from his book, America, Guns, and Freedom: A Journey Into Politics and the Public Health & Gun Control Movements (2019).

This article was also published on TheTruthAboutGuns.com on February 20, 2022 with the title of “The Anti-Gun Left Never Lets History Get in the Way of Its Narrative.

This article may be cited as: Faria MA. Revising American History for the Sake of “Gun Control.” HaciendaPublishing.com, February 20, 2022. Available from: https://haciendapublishing.com/revising-american-history-for-the-sake-of-gun-control-by-miguel-a-faria-md/.

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Father Of Parkland Victim Encourages Gun Owners to Head to Their Local Range by NEWS WIRE

The SIG Freedom Day event held May 6-8, 2022. (Photo: Matt Kartozian/GunsAmerica)

By Matt Manda

There’s a growing chorus for strict gun control following the tragic murders in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, where deranged individuals took the lives of innocent Americans.

Ryan Petty isn’t among them, though some might expect him to be. Petty’s 14-year-old daughter Alaina was murdered in the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy. Instead of blaming gun owners that follow the law, he’s inviting them and others with a call-to-action of his own: Go to the range, practice and show your support for the Second Amendment.

His efforts are gaining momentum.

#ResponsibleGunOwnersDay

Petty is also a federally-licensed gun store owner. He’s calling on all law-abiding Americans and gun owners to head to their local practice shooting range on Saturday, June, 11, for a national Responsible Gun Owners Day. NSSF is supporting Petty’s efforts to practice and teach others about responsible gun ownership. He joined Bearing Arms’ Cam Edwards – who was guest hosting the nationally-syndicated Erick Erickson radio show – to talk about his efforts.

“With anti-gun activists and politicians once again calling for gun control measures that will only punish responsible gun owners for the evil acts of criminals, activists have called for June 11th, 2022, to be a day of marches and protests against our Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms,” Petty told Edwards. “I say enough! It’s time for responsible gun owners to stand up and take action. So, I am calling all responsible gun owners to a national day at your local gun range on June 11th, 2022.”

Petty added, “Being a gun owner demands responsibility; becoming and maintaining proficiency with firearms is part of that responsibility. Your neighborhood gun range is the best resource for training and education on firearms proficiency, safety, handling and storage.”

Interested gun owners can participate in #ResponsibleGunOwnersDay anywhere in the country at their local, neighborhood shooting range. Find a range near you at NSSF’s website wheretoshoot.org.

Gaining Steam

Petty announced his #ResponsibleGunOwnersDay idea, in partnership with NSSF, over social media and the feedback was immediate and positive.

“This is a cause worth supporting!” tweeted Fox News contributor and retired Marine (ret.) Johnny “Joey” Jones. Jones visited SHOT Show 2022 and spoke about the importance of firearms and what safe ownership and practice meant to him. “The face of the Second Amendment is the face of any American,” Jones said at the time. “This Constitution – the Bill of Rights that we have – they’re for all of us.”

In his social media post announcing #ResponsibleGunOwnersDay, Petty told his followers it’s easy to find your nearest community practice range to participate. “Need help finding a range for #ResponsibleGunOwnersDay at the Range? Find it here –> www.WhereToShoot.org #LetsGoShoot.”

Second Amendment-supporting Americans gave Petty some immediate feedback. “I’ll BE OUT THERE SIR!,” said one woman. “#ResponsibleGunOwnersDay sounds AWESOME – see you at the range!” another exclaimed. Second Amendment advocate and veteran Virginia Kruta added, “This is a really good idea. #ResponsibleGunOwnersDay.”

Advocate Dan Roth expanded the call and invited his followers to join him too. “I’ll be heading to a local range on this day. If you are interested in joining me, let me know and we’ll see what we can do. It could be a great opportunity to learn about safe and responsible gun ownership,” he tweeted.

Saturday, June, 11, is coming up fast and all signs show that #RespsonibleGunOwnersDay could be a boon to demonstrate America’s law-abiding gun owners are responsible and looking for more education, training and safety. They’re showing that the answer isn’t more gun control on those who obey the law, but enforcement of the laws to hold criminals responsible.

The Landscape

 More than 40 million Americans purchased a firearm between 2020 and 2022. To date, there have been 34 months of at least 1 million firearms sold per month and it’s still going. That number includes roughly 14 million new first-time gun owners. The gun-owning community is now the most diverse it’s ever been – with women and African-American and minority buyers leading the new wave.

President Joe Biden and some in Congress are clamoring to pass more restrictions on law-abiding Americans looking to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Not all lawmakers agree with the proposed bans. U.S. senators are cautiously working on a legislative proposal that would be focused on solving problems instead of pushing political agendas.

While gun control groups stage their rallies and garner the attention of major media networks and talking head TV pundits lauding their “courage,” Petty is urging Americans in communities across the country to head to their local shooting range and demonstrate a different kind of courage – the courage to lawfully own a firearm, stand up for Constitutional rights and to refuse to be a victim.

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COURAGE, DETERMINATION & REVOLVERS

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Courage, Determination & Revolvers

 

This gun came to me recently, both its owner and creator having passed on. The creator, “RP,” had taken a Smith & Wesson Model 1917 and cut the barrel down to 2 inches, added a front sight, bobbed the hammer and Parkerized the firearm. It was also cut for moon clips but can be used with Auto Rim. The refinish had removed any markings with the exception of the serial number, which shows the same number on the butt, cylinder and barrel. The trigger pull is not for the faint of heart, but it is smooth.

Originally a full-size N-frame Pachmayer with Smith & Wesson stamped on it, I added the grip adaptor and modified it to follow a pattern shown to me by Ken Hackathorn that suits my smaller hands perfectly. The M1917 was given to “EJ,” who will figure largely in the story of this revolver.

RP was an entrepreneur, particularly in the local gun world. He was also a keen shot and competitor. RP decided to open a gun store and took EJ in with him to be the face of the business. He could not have made a better choice, as EJ was one of the first IPSC shooters in the area, was a keen competitor in multiple disciplines and an enthusiastic and successful hunter. His firearms knowledge was encyclopedic, and he had authored articles for various gun magazines. He was one of the nicest people I have ever met and was a man of courage and determination.

In 1983, EJ was working in the gun store when an individual came in armed with a 1911 and the intention of carrying out a robbery. He confronted EJ and demanded he hand over the displayed handguns. Being under the gun, EJ complied with the demand, and then, with no apparent reason, the individual opened fire and shot EJ in the lower stomach. Despite being grievously wounded, EJ grabbed his M1917 and chased after him, out of the store and down the sidewalk of one of our main thoroughfares.

Upon reaching his vehicle the man was unable to gain immediate access allowing EJ to catch up with him. He then made a very bad decision and pointed the gun at EJ who immediately opened fire with his M1917 from a very short range. The robbery was over; the S&W had done its job and protected its owner. The police arrived and EJ was transported for urgent medical attention, where thanks to skilled doctors and modern medicine, EJ recovered. The suspect did not. There was a Coroner’s inquest but no other legal ramifications resulting from the shooting.

It took EJ years to recover the revolver from the police evidence locker, but when it was finally his again, he spent time working on loads for it using the Auto Rim cartridge. He kept it until his passing when it was then given to me.

I prefer moon clips but will continue to use the M1917. Before being disrupted by the pandemic, my plans had been to use it in IDPA matches. I still plan on doing that in the future.

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Filling A Need

 

Guns were always a part of my life — imaginary guns, toy guns and real ones, too. Blame my grandfather, who gave me three .22 rifles to take to New Mexico with us, as we passed through North Carolina from a U.S. Air Force base in Germany to Roswell, New Mexico.

One of those .22 rifles was a Winchester pump with an octagonal barrel and exposed hammer — a boy’s dream. Another was a single shot bolt-action, but the third is lost in my memory as we gave my rifles away when my father retired in 1961. I took them to a friend’s house the day we departed and left them on his front porch with a note explaining their provenance.

My father loved cowboys, the myth of the West and horses and cattle. Sixty-plus years later I can remember two toy pistols he gave me: a 1911 in a GI holster that fired caps loaded sideways when the grip slid out and the other a replica Colt with faux ivory grips. This revolver, in its own way, was better quality than many handguns I have owned down the years. When it came to gifts for his son, he bought me the best.

When I started to work part-time in high school, my father’s advice was to save half of my earnings, then I could spend the rest on whatever I liked. I had bought a Russian Moisin-Nagant Model 1891 (7.62x59R) for $9.95 at Sears, but I wanted— no, needed — a handgun; something that spoke of the West, cowboys, history and my life in New Mexico.

Only one revolver could fill that need, a Colt. And not just any Colt, but a Colt Single Action Army in .45 Long Colt. The 7.5” barrel was too long and the 5.5” barrel not esthetically pleasing, so I chose the 4.75” barrel and decided to pay $5 extra to have the walnut grips instead of the standard black rubber with the Rampant Colt design. My father drove me to Southside Hardware where we special ordered my Colt. I paid for the handgun, took my receipt and we headed home. While waiting for the Colt factory to ship my revolver, I needed to choose a belt and holster to go with it.

Flipping through catalogs, I finally decided on a brown cartridge belt with 30 loops and the Garcia model holster with a suede lining to protect the revolver’s case-hardened finish. It was brown leather, single Mexican loop style, and I had them add a safety strap for security. In 1967, just $36 got me a high-quality cartridge belt and the finest western holster money could buy to go with what I thought was the best revolver around.

Phillip Jones