Authorities say no charges will be filed against an Uber driver who shot and wounded a gunman who opened fire on a crowd of people in Logan Square over the weekend.

The driver had a concealed-carry permit and acted in the defense of himself and others, Assistant State’s Attorney Barry Quinn said in court Sunday.

Read More via Uber driver, licensed to carry gun, shoots gunman in Logan Square – Chicago Tribune.

You know, I seem to remember more than a few anti-gun zealots screaming that this kind of thing NEVER happens. That there is NEVER a good guy with a gun other than a cop. That no private citizen has EVER stopped a mass shooting. Low and behold, in that most anti-gun of states, Rahm Emanuel’s back yard, and President Obama’s adopted home town, an as yet unidentified and law-abiding private citizen stepped up to the plate to act long before anyone with the local PD could act and prevented anyone else from getting hurt.

-GM

Nick Leghorn over at The Truth About Guns drops some knowledge that those in the know have been saying for years. The G36 ain’t all that. Sorry HK fanboys, not all that is HK is perfect or without compromise.

-GM

In a report released Friday by the German Army’s technical team, the ongoing accuracy issues with the H&K G36 rifle (the main battle rifle of the German armed forces) have been officially confirmed. The report states that not only do the accuracy issues crop up after sustained periods of rapid fire, but even the ambient temperature and humidity can negatively impact the rifle’s accuracy such that it no longer functions within the required parameters . . .

Read more at German Report: G36 Accuracy Issues, Entire Platform Flawed – The Truth About Guns.

The Texas House of Representatives on Friday voted 96-35 to allow residents with concealed-handgun licenses to openly carry their guns in public in holsters. A similar open-carry measure passed the Texas Senate last month; the two open-carry bills must be squared before being sent to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has indicated support for the idea

Read more via Texas set to approve open carry of handguns, seen as win for gun-rights activists | Fox News.

This isn’t the last step. The Senate version of this bill includes amendments requiring training for retention. These two bills must be squared with each other and be approve by the Legislature before moving on to the Governor’s desk.

-GM

Edited to add…I really meant to tell you guys I thought this had to be a joke and yet, given the fact it’s California, it’s believable. Sorry for letting my fingers get ahead of my brain.
-GM

“…The time to make clear cut changes surrounding our current gun laws is here. The ban on this unnecessary ammunition is a major step towards a safer society for our children. There are no obvious or justifiable reasons for one to own or use semi-automatic handgun ammunition of that caliber, if 9mm and .40 S&W rounds are sufficient for our police force to protect us with, they are sufficient for any private citizen’s personal protection.” -Joshua Lancaster, spokesperson for the office of Governor Jerry Brown.

Read more via California Implements Statewide Ban On All .45 ACP Ammunition – NYTimes.

OK we screwed up.

After initial release of the Glock 17 PMag (GL9) a few days ago we started seeing random issues of failure to feed with the new magazine in other Glock models primarily the Glock 19 and 26. Of all the challenges of building a Glock magazine with single new composite, issues like drop free, impact strength and feed lip retention were foremost on our mind. The failure to feed came as a bit of a surprise to us and we immediately headed out to the range to investigate.

In short order found the problem. Without getting into technical details, some small, but critical geometry changes did not make it into the initial production molds. We should have caught this but no failures showed up on our factory guns during live fire testing and flaws in our internal processes of checks/balances did not flag the oversight as it should.

So as I said before, we screwed up and here is what we are going to do about it.

Molds are being updated with the correct geometry as we speak and a replacement magazine body with the correct geomentry should be available by May 4th 2015. These will be date coded 5/15 and later and will replace any magazine bodies in service of earlier manufacture. Just use your existing spring, follower, and floor plate with the new body.

-If you purchased your magazines direct from Magpul, Brownells or Midway, you do not need to do anything, replacement magazine bodies for the magazines (1 for 1) ordered will be shipped to you automatically.

-If your purchased your magazines from a gun store, replacements will be sent out to the store in question for you to pick up.

-If neither of the above works for you then Magpul customer service will handle the replacement directly.

In short, we are updating ALL of the affected magazines released as quick as we possibly can.

Richard Fitzpatrick
President/CEO -Magpul Industries Corp