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Must-Haves for Gun Owners

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posted on September 8, 2025
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Must-Haves for Gun Owners
(Peter Fountain)

1. A Little Cleaner
Liberty Gun Lube has made a tiny cleaning kit worthy of your range bag. The Liberty-Tuff Minimalist Micro Gun Cleaning Kit includes a flexible cable, five millimeters of gun oil, a t-handle, 10 patches with a patch holder, a nylon brush and a bronze brush, all in a round (reusable) tin that protects the cleaning materials from being damaged—and your other equipment from the debris that cleaning tools invariably pick up. (libertygunlube.com; $16.99)

2. More Rounds for Your Glock’s Mag Well
It’s nice to have magazines with a larger capacity than those that come standard with the firearm, both for defensive purposes and just to decrease the number of times you must reload your mags at the range. Rattlesnake Tactical is now offering a 34-round 9 mm Glock-pattern double-stack polymer magazine with a subtle snaky pattern at Ammunition Depot. And, though I usually like to see metal feed lips on my polymer magazines, so far these have run without a hitch. (ammunitiondepot.com; $19.99)

3. Grab-and-Go Magazine Case
This MTM Case-Gard PMC5 Compact Handgun Mag Case stores five standard double-stack magazines. It’s a simple and safe way to store and transport them back and forth to the range, and the smoky transparent case material lets you see the status of your mags at a glance. Plus, at this price, there’s no reason not to have one for each gun’s set of magazines. (mtmcase-gard.com; $7.39)

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