​The Scavenger 6 & why haters and guttersnipes are not patriots

​This morning i received the Guns America weekly blog list which provides news of the latest innovations and happenings in the gun world. I really enjoy reading them and as I mentioned in an earlier post, nothing is quite as exciting and fast-moving as the firearms field largely because of the flourishing market but also because of the strict ATF regulations that necessitate domestic manufacture, making guns one of the great American industries. I’m particularly interested in what veterans muster up: having given several years of their precious youth and risked life and limb for the freedoms the rest of us enjoy, they usually have experiential insights into new firearm configurations or what to improve in existing ones. This mornings treat was the Scavenger 6, a multi-caliber (18 in all) revolver carbine primarily intended for survival situations. It’s been designed by USAF veteran Tim Ralston and been two years in R&D. Due to launch at the 2017 Shot Show it’ll come with three rifled cylinders each with six chambers, a detachable buttstock and a nine inch barrel. Something like this is long overdue, especially considering the shortage of good American made survival weapons (we’ll discuss the questionable Italian/Chiappa offerings at another time). Personally I think the idea is brilliant and will have an ever growing appeal, but it also exemplifies American innovation and for that alone should be celebrated and supported! So when I scrolled down to the comments section and immediately saw several haters crapping on the idea, I got irritated. By all means offer an intelligent argument on why you’d have no personal use for it, but to spew dismissive remarks demonstrates ignorance, lack of imagination and a dangerous deficit of patriotism. Online hate from trolls hiding behind anonymity has no place in the American firearm world, we struggle as a community everyday to keep watch over our Second Amendment and should thusly unite in encouragement and support of EVERY effort by others to bring us new product and safeguard our hard won privileges. And if you can’t be nice, then go exercise your vitriol elsewhere, you’re not welcome in these parts!

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