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The First Rule of a Gunfight: Get a Gun

It is a time-honored tradition within the firearms industry; a decades-old trend hobbling on, despite evidence contrary to its practices: A woman entering a gun store, walking onto a range or participating in an event inevitably hears some variation of the words, “That’s an awfully big gun for such a little lady!”

Breaking Products And Deadlines

Confessions of a product test junkie

Guns Open Doors Of Opportunity

A Shooting Competition In Russia Emphasizes The Importance Of Freethinking And How It Opens The Door For Women Shooters.

The Ruger 10 Mil

Just as everyone is down-chambering 1911s to 9mm, the sr1911 goes 10mm ... For when follow-up shots aren’t an option. 

S&W's Superb 6.5

SMITH & WESSON’S M&P10 RIFLE GETS THE PERFORMANCE CENTER TREATMENT AND EMERGES, CHAMBERED IN 6.5 CREEDMOOR, READY TO GO THE DISTANCE.

The Renaissance Rifle

THE HENRY BIG BOY ALL-WEATHER OFFERS UP TRUE VERSATILITY LIKE NO OTHER RIFLE.

Ammo Of A Higher Caliber

CHOOSING THE BEST CALIBER AND BULLET TYPE FOR DEFENSIVE AMMO CAN BE A CONFUSING PROSPECT.

Arsenal RPK - 3R

The Soviet/Combloc Light Machine Gun Comes To America—as A Civilian-legal Semiauto. 

Single-Shot Hunter

Uberti has updated the old winchester 1885 high wall design into a modern carbine with old west flair.

Best Bullet

The .44-40 WCF Is a Leading Candidate for the Best All-around Cartridge of the Old West Era.

The Hunter's Spring Checklist

If You're Serious about hunting, The Season never ends. Here are nine things you need to do as soon as the weather turns warm.

Don't Be A Victim

Maintaining Situational Awareness Doesn’t Mean Living Your Life in Fear; It Means Living Your Life Prepared.

Big Bang For The Buck

Four Budget-Pirced 9MM Carry Pistols Pass Punishing Field Tests with High Marks.

By The Numbers

The Rise of Women in The Gun Industry

No Shot In The Dark

Flashlights Are Smaller and Brighter Than Ever Before, So There’s No Problem Finding a Good One to Carry. 

Lever Guns

AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE AND BASEBALL

MGM Targets: Banging Steel

Paper targets are great, but that can get boring after a while, even for the most dedicated shooter. Nothing is as fun as hitting steel targets, and few things are more satisfying as squeezing the trigger, the gun firing, then … wait for it …. wait for it … that sound of lead hitting steel. That’s music to the ears—like the sound of the Liberty Bell.

30-Something

Why Your Search For The Perfect Big Rifle Can Start—and End—with The .30.

Return Of The Snake

COLT HAS REINTRODUCED THE COBRA, AND THIS SNUBNOSE MIGHT BE THE COMPANY’S BEST ONE YET.

Potent Leverage

Taylor’s & Co. Offers a Handy Bootleg Version of the Winchester Model 1887 Lever-action Shotgun.

honor defense: honor guard 9mm

this pistol offers good sights, excellent human engineering, a good trigger action and reliability.

FN M249S

This Civilian-ready, Semiauto, Belt-fed Rifle Follows in the Same Path as the Military M249.

Are You Ready for a Wilderness Hunt?

When morning broke over the mountains of southern New Mexico, we could see elk, but we couldn’t tell if they were bulls or cows.

Exit Pupil

Drinking Out Of A Fire House.

Train. Train More. Repeat.

When Things Quickly Go South, You Will React In The Same Way You Have Trained. How Are You Training? 

Free Meat!

Meat. It is the desire of mankind and womankind to eat meat. Restaurant menus are based upon meat. No one orders a vegetable medley with a side of ribeye. Meals are about the meat. In Tennessee, “barbeque” is not a verb; it is a noun, and it means “meat” in various stages of charred goodness.

Battle Blades

In the Close Quarters Fighting of World War I, Trench Knives Often Made the Difference.

Military .32S

These Small Pistols Saw Wide Service Among Officers, Spies and Those in Support Positions.

Potent Pump

Inland Manufacturing Has Recreated the M37 Trench Shotgun, and It’s Every Bit as Devastating as the Original.

Not For Sporting Purposes? Wrong!

Bustin’ Big Bucks With the Ar and Drt Ammo.