Personal Self Defense Gun Tune Ups

By Mike Searson

Story and photos by Mike Searson
Your personal self defense gun might be good out of the box, but why not make it better with these easy tweaks and accessories.

Grinnell, Iowa – -(Ammoland.com)- As apprentice gunsmiths many years ago, we used to look forward to the big Brownells book (now multiple books) showing up in the mail every spring.

To us, that was the Sears catalog of gun parts. We would ogle the new 1911 components and dream up custom Wildcats for different rifles to see if we could find the perfect barrel at Brownells. If we were restoring an old rifle we picked up on the cheap, we knew we could find replacement parts at Brownells.

Over the years we saw more accessories make their way into the big book (and now the website). Not surprisingly there has been a lot of crossover from competitive shooting sphere to the tactical and defensive sides, too.

Personal Self Defense Gun

For a personal protection firearm, we generally tend toward leaving our firearms fairly close to the way they came from the factory if only for a legality standpoint. Chances are, if you should happen to use …Read the Rest

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