If you don’t offer pistols with flat dark earth finish, you’re behind the times — Springfield Armory knows this, and the company is expanding its XD-M line of striker-fired polymer pistols to include the XD-M Elite OSP 10mm in FDE. This new pistol ...
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Biden’s Gun Control Executive Order Is Mostly Hot Air
UPDATE March 15, 2023: Yesterday, March 14, 2023, President Joe Biden spoke at the Boys & Girls Club in Monterey Park, California, where he announced an executive order to increase federal gun control measures. While some mainstream ...
Credit Card Giants Back Away From Tracking Gun Purchases
The credit card industry has taken a huge step back from plans announced in September 2022 to use a new merchant category code (MCC) to track gun and ammunition purchases made with plastic in the United States. Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., American ...
Fiocchi Subsonic 5.7×28: New Food For your Suppressed 5.7
Fiocchi expanded its Range Dynamics ammo series with a subsonic 5.7x28mm load designed for suppressed shooting. With a 62-grain, full-metal-jacketed bullet, the new cartridge has a muzzle velocity of 1,050 fps. "But wait," you say. "Isn't the whole ...
Women’s Warrior Retreats: Pushing Female Bowhunters Further
March 8 is International Women’s Day, which gives Free Range American a rad excuse to celebrate one of the badass females who are totally killing it in the hunting and outdoors industry. Krys Cook, owner and founder of The Ranch in Julian, ...
Mauser 98 125th Anniversary Edition Museum-Quality Hunting Rifle
“Das Original” is releasing a small batch of Mauser 98 rifles to commemorate the model’s 125th anniversary. The manufacturer’s master gunsmiths built 25 rifles in the style of Mauser’s famous safari guns. Each uses wood-grade-8 walnut plus ...
The Over Under Shotgun Is Not As Old As You Think
The over under shotgun dominates the break-action category today. The majority of hunters and all but a very few target shooters prefer the narrow-sight picture of an O/U to the wider view down the barrels of a side-by-side. Over unders are ...
Top 5 Pistol Whipping Scenes From Movies – Ranked
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 ...
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 ...
Exclusive: PSE Archery Sold to New Heritage Outdoor Group
Heritage Outdoor Group just announced its purchase of Precision Shooting Equipment (PSE), one of the largest archery manufacturers in the United States. “We are thrilled to welcome PSE Archery to the Heritage Outdoor Group’s family of brands,” ...
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 — ...