Trailblazing with a .22LR

By Eric R. Poole

Over the years, Guns & Ammo has presented stories on folding guns. One that comes to mind is Les Apaches (The Apaches), a revolver developed and manufactured by Louis Dolne of Liege, Belgium, from 1869 until 1900. The Apaches offered three weapons in one: a knife, a handgun and brass knuckles.

Folding guns, like The Apaches, have often been developed as a discreet way of concealing a tool for self-defense, but not this time. Aaron Voigt is the founder of Trailblazer Firearms and has launched the new Lifecard .22LR. It wasn’t developed as a self-defense gun as many people first think. Rather, it is the result of Voigt’s brilliant mind who had the idea pop in his head after watching a TV show spotlighting an impractical folding machine gun that would never be brought to market. He then set out in earnest on a design challenge for himself.

Voigt thought to himself, “What’s the opposite of that machine gun, has value and never burdens the user? The answer for Voigt was something much smaller.

“I saw it as a gun that could be part of someone’s survival …Read the Rest

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