Michael Bane Gives His Thoughts
January 15, 2010 by Detonics Staff · Comments Off
It appears that the article from Shooting Illustrated has found its way over to Michael Bane’s blog. We always appreciate his thoughts on Detonics. Check out his site for his thoughts on the Combat Master Evolution.
http://michaelbane.blogspot.com/2010/01/1911-lust.html
Combat Master Evolution Reviewed at Shooting Illustrated
January 11, 2010 by Detonics Staff · Leave a Comment
Our latest iteration of the Combat Master, the Combat Master Evolution, was recently reviewed in Shooting Illustrated magazine. Below you will find a scan of the article. Enjoy.
Combat Master Evolution Review in Shooting Illustrated
More seek concealed weapons permits
August 4, 2009 by Detonics Staff · Leave a Comment
Via USA Today
Gun owners are packing heat in record numbers, fearful of stricter gun control under the Obama administration and higher crime in a sour economy.
They also say they fear gun control, he says. Last week, Boydston spoke with an elderly couple seeking a permit. “They are positive the president is on the verge of coming to our homes and taking our weapons,” he says.
Statewide, the Missouri State Highway Patrol has processed 18,878 background checks so far this year for the permits, the most since the agency began keeping statistics in 2005, Lt. John Hotz says. It processed 18,466 checks during all of last year.
In May, Obama signed a law that will allow guns in national parks. “The president respects and supports the Second Amendment and the tradition of gun ownership in this country,” White House spokesman Ben LaBolt says.
Interest groups on both sides agree that demand for permits is up because of economic uncertainty and concerns about a new president and a Democrat-controlled Congress.
Gun owners are packing heat in record numbers, fearful of stricter gun control under the Obama administration and higher crime in a sour economy.
They also say they fear gun control, he says. Last week, Boydston spoke with an elderly couple seeking a permit. “They are positive the president is on the verge of coming to our homes and taking our weapons,” he says.
Statewide, the Missouri State Highway Patrol has processed 18,878 background checks so far this year for the permits, the most since the agency began keeping statistics in 2005, Lt. John Hotz says. It processed 18,466 checks during all of last year.
In May, Obama signed a law that will allow guns in national parks. “The president respects and supports the Second Amendment and the tradition of gun ownership in this country,” White House spokesman Ben LaBolt says.
Interest groups on both sides agree that demand for permits is up because of economic uncertainty and concerns about a new president and a Democrat-controlled Congress.
Detonics Recently in the St. Louis Post Dispatch
June 2, 2009 by Detonics Staff · Leave a Comment
We had a great article ran on us a few weeks ago in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Take a look:
A small Illinois gunmaker is hoping to capitalize on its name, new technology and a strong demand for compact handguns to engineer a rebirth of sorts.
Nearly 18 months after being bought and moved to the area by a pair of area men, Detonics is set to make another push into an industry dominated by names such as Glock, Ruger, Smith & Wesson and Kimber.
And although that’s no easy task, the small firm, with five employees, does have a few things going for it, not the least of which is the fact that guns are in short supply these days.
“They have a real opportunity if they can get their guns on the market on time,” said Denis Dennis Jr., owner of Denny Dennis Sporting Goods in Fenton.
Indeed, many of the top gunmakers are hard-pressed to meet the surging demand that accompanied the start of President Barack Obama’s administration.
According to data from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, the FBI has been running nearly 250,000 additional checks each month since late last year. As a result, three- and four-month delays on popular models are not uncommon.
For Detonics, this could be a chance to break from a past marked by a series of starts and stops.
Since late 2007, the company has been based in Millstadt after being
purchased by Double Nickle LLC, owned by combat expert Bruce Siddle and sports internist Dr. Steven Stahle. They moved the defunct Detonics USA and its remaining inventory here from Pendergrass, Ga.
Throughout three-plus decades, the Detonics name has been associated with innovative higher-end guns. It actually started as little more than a sideline for Seattle-based Detonics, an explosives maker.
Conceal carry permits could set record
June 2, 2009 by Detonics Staff · Leave a Comment
From the St. Louis Post Dispatch
Missourians are rushing to arm themselves with concealed weapons at a record pace so far this year.
Criminologists and law enforcement officials say the increase may be driven by fear of increased crime due to the recession and the perception of potential loss of gun rights from a new Democratic president.
“People just don’t feel safe, whether it’s with the political structure or the economic situation,” said Noelle Fearn, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at St. Louis University.
In the St. Louis area, the surge is most marked in St. Charles, Warren, Lincoln and Jefferson counties, where applications for the first four months of 2009 are between 114 percent and 144 percent higher than for the same period last year, according to data provided by sheriff’s departments.
In St. Louis, applications are up 49 percent this year, and St. Louis County’s have risen 53 percent. Illinois does not allow concealed carry.
In Missouri, no central database exists for new permits, but the Highway Patrol tracks the mandatory criminal background checks it performs for new applicants.
Hard to find good reason to buy back guns
January 29, 2009 by Detonics Staff · Comments Off
Originally posted on July 23rd, 2008 at the Chicago Tribune Website
Here are six reasons I’m wary of gun buybacks, such as the one scheduled for Saturday in Chicago in which those who turn in firearms at any of 25 locations get a $100 prepaid credit card per gun, no questions asked:
- I can’t imagine criminals disarming themselves for a lousy $100. Sure, they might dump their excess, scrap or stolen piece for the bounty. But if having a gun is integral to their criminal activities, it’s absurd to think a buyback would inspire them to give up the tools of their trade.
- I don’t see the economic sense of offering law-abiding people a flat fee for their guns. If you own a firearm worth more than $100, as most firearms are, the only reason to take less for it is if you have no use for it. In that case, your gun is probably not contributing to the gun violence these programs are supposed to address.
- I worry about buyback programs subsidizing crime and weapons traffic. When an evildoer offers up a junky old firearm that’s worth less than $100, the money stands not only to help him purchase a better gun but also creates an incentive for him to hoard and steal cheap guns. A regular buyback program (Saturday will be Chicago’s fourth annual) “will actually raise gun holdings since it permanently lowers ownership costs,” according to a March 2001 analysis in the International Review of Law and Economics. They will “therefore have the opposite effect of what buyback proponents intend.”
- I can’t find much evidence that buybacks are effective. I went searching and found study after study concluding, as the U.S. Surgeon General concluded in a 2001 report on youth violence, that gun buyback programs are “a particularly expensive strategy [that has] consistently been shown to have no effect on gun violence, including firearm-related homicide and injury.” The report added, “There is some evidence that most of the guns turned in are not functional and that most persons turning in guns have other guns at home.” Was I somehow missing studies that showed the opposite? The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and the Chicago Police Department, backers of the program, had nothing. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence didn’t respond to a detailed query.
- I’m not convinced that buybacks get “problem” guns off the streets. Chicago Police Department spokeswoman Monique Bond didn’t have any kind of statistical breakdown of the roughly 6,050 firearms obtained in last year’s buyback. What percentage were actually functional? What sorts of crimes were they traced back to?
- I hear in Mayor Richard Daley’s arm-flapping jibber-jabber on this point an admission that the buyback is simply a feel-good program to make citizens believe the city is actually doing something to reduce gun violence. “If someone takes that gun and fires at you, are you willing to take that chance?” Daley demanded of a reporter Tuesday when asked about the guns’ quality. “Not many people are. Besides that, no one likes to have a gun placed in front of their face. So don’t ever think that the guns turned in don’t work.” He went on: “We’re going to go over [to your office] and find out whether they work. We don’t ask anyone to do that. They do work. These weapons are very significant. They do work.”