The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) recently revealed it has collected and maintained 920,664,765 firearm sales records to date that include American gun buyers' personal information. Nearly 95% percent of them are ...
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Good Excuses to Buy a New Bow This Year
Well, it’s a new year, and for most of us, the recent calendar flip means new plans, hopes, dreams, and commitments. Perhaps “buy a new bow” is penciled in somewhere on your 2022 to-do list. I say “penciled” just in case your mind isn’t made up. If ...
The Most Expensive Rifles Ever Sold at a Gun Auction
Recently, we published a story about the most expensive firearms ever sold at a gun auction. With a staggering total price of more than $14 million, the guns on that list are incredible, but they all had one thing in common: They were all handguns. ...
GOEX Plant to be Revived: American Black Powder Is Back in Business
It turns out the 220-year history of GOEX making black powder in the United States has not ended; it is merely suffering a temporary production gap. After a hiatus, the GOEX plant will begin production again this year after operations were shut down ...
Rash of LA Train Robberies Continues: 82 Firearms Stolen, Possibly More
For months, Union Pacific Railroad cars passing through Los Angeles have been repeatedly robbed by thieves who have made off with millions of dollars in merchandise, including TVs, appliances, and clothing. After local officials have, apparently, ...
These Brits Debunk the Deadly M1 Garand ‘Ping’ Myth
The beloved M1 Garand Rifle carried the deadly end of American foreign policy from U.S. shores into Europe and the Pacific in World War II and into the forests of Korea the following decade. But the iconic rifle is typically discussed ...
Gun Owners Required to Buy Liability Insurance Under New San José Law
Gun control advocates have been talking about it for years, and now it looks like one city will become the first in the United States to require its gun-owning residents to buy liability insurance to exercise their Second Amendment rights legally. If ...
Gun Sales 2021: 5.4 Million Americans Bought a Firearm for the First Time
The results of the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF's) annual surveys of gun retailers are in and, as it turns out, Americans bought a helluva lotta guns in 2021 — and a large percentage of them did so for the very first ...
Supreme Court Gun Cases 2022: Concealed Carry in the Spotlight
The US Supreme Court has not ruled on a major gun case since handing down its landmark District of Columbia v. Heller decision more than a decade ago. In what is regarded as the most important of all Supreme Court gun cases, the majority (5-4) ...
Minimum Age for Wisconsin Concealed Carry May Be Lowered to 18
Four bills have cleared the state Assembly that would significantly loosen restrictions on concealed carry in Wisconsin; one would lower the minimum age requirement for a CCW permit in the state from 21 to 18. Another bill in the package would allow ...
This Is What a Silencer for Howitzers Looks Like
For those moments when you absolutely, positively have to train your artillery but you don’t want to wake the local population, accept no substitutes. Yes, artillery silencers are a thing. These photos were taken at an artillery range in ...
Lincoln Shot a Spencer Rifle With the Gun’s Designer on the National Mall
When Christopher Miner Spencer died in January 1922 after 88 years of life, he’d accomplished quite a lot. The inventor had filed multiple patents over his long career for a number of firearms, among other things. He even produced some of the ...
Browning Hi-Power Reborn: How 3 New, Updated Versions Stack Up
Time is a flat circle, and what is old will invariably be new again, especially if it didn’t suck the first time. It seems the wheel has come around for the Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistol. Born from a John M. Browning pistol design created not long ...
CO Rejects Blaze Orange for Bowhunters Proposal Spurred by Shooting
Colorado bowhunters will not have to remember to stuff an orange vest and hat into their packs this hunting season. State wildlife officials recently rejected a proposal that would have forced bowhunters to wear blaze orange during the period when ...
Cabot Guns Paves the Way for Firearm NFT Sales With its Moonshot 1911
Cabot Guns is about doing things that are different. You won’t catch them following any trends in the gun world, and their recent announcement that they have become the first firearms manufacturer to offer a digital firearm collection via NFTs ...
How the Winchester Model 70 Nearly Made Lever-Actions Obsolete
The Winchester Model 70 is a legendary rifle. Tough as nails, extremely accurate, and just plain sexy, it kicked off a monumental shift in American hunting culture. As the Model 70 garnered accolades from similarly legendary gunwriters of the day ...
Chris Bee Q&A: How Archery Competition Improves Bowhunting Accuracy
If you pay attention to social media, perhaps you’ve noticed that some of the deadliest bowhunters are also competitive archers. Folks like Levi Morgan, John Dudley, Brady Ellison, and Chris Bee shoot tons of arrows all year round. They constantly ...
Raylan Givens to Return in ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Reboot
In an era when most people would have said an old-fashioned gunslinger with a badge had no place on TV, Justified came along and proved there was still an appetite for a different kind of cop show with a quick-drawing protagonist who usually put bad ...
How a Pennsylvania Whitetail Hunter Arrowed a Public Land Booner
As a Pennsylvania whitetail hunter, you just don’t expect to shoot a Boone and Crockett deer. Pennsylvania is far from both Iowa and Wisconsin, but since the state implemented an antler point restriction in 2002, it feels like that distance has ...
The Unceremonious Death of Samuel Colt
On Jan. 10, 1862, Samuel Colt passed away at his home in Hartford, Connecticut. He was one of the wealthiest men in America, with an estimated worth of $15 million ($413 million today). Death cares little about money, though. Colt died at the ...
Missouri Lawmaker Sets Sights on Archery for Official State Sport
Missouri may be home to some of the biggest whitetail bucks in the country, but it’s also home to one of the most important innovations in all of archery history: the invention of the compound bow. In a display of genuine Show-Me-State pride, state ...
Rifle Accuracy: 5 Things to Check When Your Rifle Shoots Like Shit
Countless things go into achieving rifle accuracy, and just as many things can make a rifle shoot poorly and erode accuracy. So where do you look when your trusty rifle isn’t grouping like it used to, or when that new barrel burner isn’t shooting up ...
Reader’s Choice: The 10 Biggest Free Range American Stories of 2021
This was a good year for Free Range American. We grew by hundreds of percentage points in every conceivable metric and covered a wide range of topics (and controversies) other outdoor media sites were afraid to touch. We broke the news on an ...
Get in Bow Shape: A 21-Day Archery Lesson Plan
Are you hitting high, low, or burying carbon in the dirt? Yup, I’ve been there. Shaking so bad that you struggle to bring your pin down on a patch of brown hair, and when you do, you jab the release like a prizefighter? I was president of that camp ...
Shotgun Shells: The Most Important Changes in the Past 10 Years
You would immediately recognize shotgun shells from the 1860s as shotgun shells. They would have brass cases, but you could put one in your modern shotgun and fire it, as long as you didn’t mind cleaning the corrosive black powder and primer residue ...
Peters Paper Shotshells are Back! Remington Reintroduces the Legend
The legend returns! Remington has re-introduced the Peters Paper line of shotshells. As part of Remington’s revitalization under Vista Outdoors, the legendary line of shotgun shells is making its return. What Makes these Shells ...
Ohio Constitutional Carry Bill Passes Senate, Competes With House Bill
Last week, the Ohio State Senate passed “constitutional carry,” aka permitless carry, legislation by a solid margin. The measure would allow law-abiding Ohioans who are 21 or older and legally allowed to possess a firearm to carry a concealed handgun ...
The Glock 17 in Movies: Most Badass Moments
The Glock 17 is getting old. The Austrian import first made its way to the US market in 1988, and as ridiculous as it sounds, that was 33 years ago. The original Glock pistol’s use of modern polymers and its large ammo capacity and robust ...
Chuck Adams, Archery Legend, and His New World Record Sitka Buck
The history of archery hunting has a short but highly venerated list of practitioners. Names like Howard Hill, Fred Bear, Saxton Pope, Art Young, Ishi, and “Chief” Compton populate it, and Chuck Adams is definitely included among them. He’s the last ...
Most Expensive Guns: The 6 Priciest Firearms Ever Sold at Auction
Most of us don’t buy guns to save or make money — it’s usually quite the opposite. However, if you have the financial means, firearms can be a really great investment, and that's been true for quite some time. For most of the 20th century, Colt ...
