Out of all the military and firearms training I’ve gone through, not one instructor has taught pistol whipping as a defensive tactic. Sure, in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, or MCMAP, they taught “one mind, any weapon,” but it’s not the same ...
Guns
Rep. Andrew Clyde on How He Wants to Chip Away at the NFA
When the new ATF pistol brace rule was published on Jan. 31, effectively changing the classification of braced pistols to highly regulated short-barreled rifles, Georgia Congressman Andrew Clyde introduced the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today ...
Smith & Wesson M&P FPC: The New Folding 9mm PCC
Smith & Wesson is getting into the pistol-caliber carbine (PCC) game with the M&P FPC. It’s chambered for 9mm, uses a carbine-length barrel, and checks in with an MSRP of $659. At first glance, this looks like more than a fun range toy. But ...
What Ever Happened to the Remington ACR Rifle?
In the early days of the Global War on Terror, all was not well in the world of U.S. military small arms. The sand in Iraq and Afghanistan was wreaking havoc on the internal components of M16 rifles and M4 carbines. As was the case in Vietnam, ...
357 SIG: Is the Semi-Auto .357 Magnum Dead?
If you look up lists of the most popular pistol calibers, the 357 SIG doesn’t make the top five, and it doesn’t make the top 10, either. If you don’t have any experience with this cartridge, you’re part of the vast majority of shooters these days. ...
Best Selling Guns of 2022 on GunBroker: Numbers Are In!
Gun sales are a nebulous thing — they’re hard to keep track of, and that’s a good thing from a 2A perspective. Usually, we use the number of background checks run through the NICS system in a given time period to get a general idea of how many guns ...
327 Federal Magnum: The Little Loved Alternative to the .357
The .357 Magnum is a celebrity in the world of revolver cartridges. Like Jessica Simpson in the early 2000s, it gets showered with love and attention, and we’re all convinced it can do no wrong. Most people just ignore the little sister — no, not ...
SIG P320 and P320 Spectre Comp: Breakdown and History
The market for striker-fired polymer pistols is a busy place, but the SIG P320 has carved out one helluva piece. SIG Sauer builds 25 different pistols (and a standalone fire control unit we’ll get into later) in the P320 series, resulting in a ...
The Bruen Test: Gun Prohibitions Nixed in Weed, Domestic Cases
This month, two federal appellate courts cited last summer’s landmark Supreme Court decision in the NYSRPA v. Bruen case when they ruled that laws prohibiting certain criminal classes from possessing firearms were unconstitutional. The ruling also ...
The DP-12 Shotgun: A Wild Design That Works
Remember when you were a kid, and you used to draw all kinds of zany inventions that could never work in real life? Every so often, somebody’s bizarre contraption makes it into the real world. In the world of firearms, there might be no better ...
Vet-Owned Apex Ammo Drops New TSS Turkey Shells for Spring
Apex Ammunition is offering Mossy Oak Greenleaf Turkey TSS Blend, a new line of shotgun shells, just in time for spring turkey season. This new ammunition is available in 12-gauge 2 1/4-ounce and 20-gauge 1 5/8-ounce loads; both are 3-inch shells. ...
26 States Join Gun Groups to Block ATF’s Pistol Brace Ban
This week, 26 states teamed with gun groups to stop the federal government from enforcing a new rule that allows the ATF to regulate braced pistols as short-barreled rifles. In two separate lawsuits, the groups argue the decision exceeded ...
405 Winchester: T.R.’s Famous Medicine Gun for Lions
The 405 Winchester was a beast of a cartridge in its time, suited for the absolute most dangerous, tear-your-guts-out big game on the planet. Mere months after leaving the White House and Washington politics behind him (for the time being) in 1909, ...
The Valentine’s Day Massacre Tommy Guns and Birth of the NFA
A shocking burst of full-auto gangland payback in 1929 that left seven bloody, bullet-ridden bodies on a garage floor was the Parkland Shooting of its day. The now infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre was a horrendous display of violence that the ...
ATF Investigating Dumpster Filled with Guns
What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever seen in a dumpster? Bag of money? A baby? How about a shitton of defective bullpup shotguns? Federal agents recently launched an investigation into an Oklahoma gun store owner after authorities discovered a ...
Silencer Central’s Brandon Maddox Joins CSF Board
This post contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission if you buy through these links. This week, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation welcomed Silencer Central’s Brandon Maddox and two other corporate executives working in the hunting ...
Mauser M18 Rifle Now Available in 2 Old-School Camo Patterns
Blaser Group recently announced the release of the super-popular Mauser M18 bolt-action rifle in two sweet retro camo patterns — a classic U.S. Marine Corps Camo and the Fred Bear Old School Camo pattern. Retro camo patterns from the 1970s and ...
Bushnell RXC-200 and RXU-200 Red Dots: 100-Round Test
Bushnell is expanding its red dot lineup with two reflex sights for the subcompact and micro pistols that are gaining popularity as carry guns. The compact Bushnell RXC-200 and ultracompact RXU-200 use the common RMS and RMSc pattern found on popular ...
Why People Love or Hate the 1911 Pistol
In the early 1900s, the greatest firearms designer in history, John M. Browning, set out to solve a problem. The U.S. government and military needed a more powerful sidearm. The gun riding in American holsters was the Colt M1892 revolver in an Army ...
Assault Weapon Ban of 2023: Biden Fully Supports Proposed Law
The notoriously anti-gun Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduces an assault weapon ban practically every year, like clockwork. For nearly 20 years, they've gone nowhere. This year may be different. Feinstein’s new Assault Weapons Ban of ...
The 500 Nitro Express: Definitely Not for the Faint of Heart
For the average gun enthusiast, shooting a 500 Nitro Express might be one of the most impractical experiences you could have with a firearm. It’s a huge round that delivers extremely punishing recoil. And it’s expensive. God, is it expensive! An ...
Hottest New Guns and Ammo from the 2023 SHOT Show!
It’s that magical time of year. The hordes descend upon the city in the sand that has no earthly right to exist: an oasis of light and sin in the middle of the desert that plays host to the hunting and shooting world — and all the coolest new guns — ...
PSA STG 44 Repro Is First in Palmetto’s New ‘Battlefield’ Gun Line
If you love historic military guns and have spent embarrassing amounts of cash just to fire a couple of magazines through some rare WWII-era hardware, then you’re going to want to keep an eye on Palmetto State Armory’s website this year and its ...
Magpul DAKA Grid: What Your Gun Cases Always Wanted
Wyoming-based Magpul impressed fans at the 2023 SHOT Show with the official unveiling of the Magpul DAKA Grid Organizer system for Pelican gun cases. It is being billed as a superior and endlessly reconfigurable replacement for pluck-and-pull foam ...
JK Armament 105 CCX 9 1.5-Inch Carry-Ready Suppressor
First red dots made their way to the concealed carry world, and now, it’s time for suppressors to do the same. While it was announced a few months ago, the new JK 105 CCX 9 suppressor from JK Armament is making a big noise at SHOT because of how ...
New Glock Performance Trigger, G20, Gunsite Glock Service Pistol
In typical Glock fashion, the Austrian gunmaker didn’t introduce anything brand new, exactly, at the 2023 SHOT Show, but the company did drop an upgraded Glock Performance Trigger and released a formerly law-enforcement-only pistol to the public, the ...
New Taurus Revolvers: TORO Wheelguns Come Red-Dot Ready
At the 2023 SHOT Show, Taurus USA followed its annual tradition of introducing a bunch of new guns all at once, but this year, the gunmaker pulled out all the stops with five new Taurus revolvers. The gunmaker introduced the first-ever ...
Uintah Precision Introduces Cool New AR-15 Muzzleloader
Uintah Precision has turned heads at the 2023 SHOT Show with its unique Modern Sporting Muzzleloader. The uncommon rifle is a Frankenstein-like mashup that combines an AR-15 lower receiver with a muzzleloader upper — and it totally works. At ...
Bob Hodgdon of Hodgdon Powder Company Dies at 84
Bob Hodgdon, a cofounder of Hodgdon Powder Company, died Jan.13, 2023; he was 84. Hodgdon was a businessman, hunting and shooting enthusiast, and active leader in his community. Hodgdon’s parents created the Hodgdon Powder Company in 1947. After ...
Barrett Firearms Acquired by Australian Group
At the start of the 2023 SHOT Show, Tennessee-based gunmaker Barrett Firearms announced it has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by the global munitions company NIOA Group. NIOA has locations around the world and is primarily based in Australia. ...