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Article first appeared in NRAMedia.com  NRAMedia – Recently, I ran into someone I hadn’t seen since my high school days—I’ll call him “Danny.” We talked about mutual friends, families, careers and personal interests and when he learned of my occupation, it became apparent that he belongs to what I call the …

Article first appeared in NRAMedia.com  NRAMedia –  American Rifleman Editor-In-Chief Mark Keefe never thought he’d see the day that Rugerwould introduce a suppressor. Luckily, for all of us, that day has come. The company known for rugged, reliable and affordable firearms is playing to its strengths with the Ruger Silent-SR: …

Is President Obama "All Talk" about gun control? Instead of creating unconstitutional executive action on guns, why doesn't his administration enforce existing federal gun laws? Ben Swann breaks down the numbers in a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else. President Barack Obama has announced a series of executive actions …

“With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants, I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.” William Lloyd Garrison, Abolitionist Here we go again.  Barack Hussein Obama has issued another illegal executive order, which stands in direct …

A recent Gallup poll featured “Guns and gun control” as 19th on a list of most important problems in the eyes of the American people. “Government” was the first on the same list. Thus, it should say something to the American people when “guns and gun control” is so overwhelmingly important …

During President Obama’s recent and ridiculous speech on how he would soon be attempting to destroy our liberty, he dropped what may go down as the most ridiculous lie of 2016. (Not that we should be forgetting how President Obama won biggest lie of the year in 2013 – “If …

Whacking targets at stupidly long ranges has become the cool thing to do. Indeed, it’s gratifying to get behind a rifle, fire a single shot and hit a target the size of a guitar five football fields away. For many, this mastery of ballistics and pulling triggers seems as complicated …

Over the past few years our ammo editor, Richard Mann, has been compiling data yielded from shooting blocks of ordnance gelatin. We’re not sure why. Anyway, we found ourselves the beneficiaries of a vast amount of data we weren’t sure what to do with. I mean, what do you do …

The subject is confusing because humans relate things to known standards. We cannot measure stuff without reference to something we know and understand, like inches. You’ll ask your buddy, “How big was that smallmouth bass?” He’ll say, “Oh, about 19 inches.” And, you’ll know exactly how long that fish was, …

Angry and frustrated gun prohibitionists across America seem to be boiling over these days. The social activist Florida doctors who believe their medical degrees give them the right to attack the Second Amendment have just been dealt the latest in a series of humiliating defeats in federal court. With a …