When it comes to the M1911 platform, the classic name associated with the design is Colt, and the company is still producing match-grade guns today. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” Rifleman Review segment above to see the details on this classically styled Colt Gold Cup National Match M1911, which pays homage …

Among the many interesting facets of handgun development history are those examples that could be called the transitional models. These include older guns modified to make them compatible with emergent technologies, or newer models with features intended to suit the tastes of old-fashioned shooters. A good example of the latter …

These articles appeared originally in the March and April 1957 issues of The American Rifleman. To subscribe to the monthly magazine, visit NRA’s membership page. In the fall of 1897, when I was just a young National Guard sergeant shooting on my company rifle team, my old coach, Captain William DeV. Foulke, …

U.S. competitive shooter McKenna Geer, who recently qualified for the U.S. team heading to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in August, had her account restricted on Instagram by Meta last week for what the company described as sharing content that “impedes our ability to foster safer communities.” U.S. Paralympic shooter …

Now that President Joe Biden (D) has bowed out of the 2024 election, gun-control groups are rapidly throwing their support behind Vice President Kamala Harris (D), whom Biden has also endorsed. “My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as …

Mesa Tactical designs and manufactures tactical accessories and equipment for law enforcement, military and civilian shooters. Now Mesa Tactical is rolling out a new line of RMR-pattern, reflex-sight mounts for Benelli M2 and Benelli M4 tactical shotguns. These new reflex-sight mounts are designed to co-witness with the shotgun’s factory ghost-ring sights. …

Now, notice the careful wording there: First “lever-action rifle.” Not “first lever-action”—that would go to the Volcanic, the lever-actuated handgun patented by Horace Smith in 1854 using the self-primed “Volcanic” cartridges that allowed firearms to move beyond loose blackpowder and into the world of self-contained ammunition. This technology would eventually …

Stag Arms used to be the company that sold $650 AR-15s. These guns functioned well—and sold like popcorn at the cinema—but they were basic mil-spec carbines without any bells and whistles. In 2016, however, after the company was sold and later moved its headquarters to Wyoming, Stag’s new management dreamed big. …

Walther has just launched a suppressor- and optics-ready version of the Walther WMP (Walther Magnum Pistol), the new Walther WMP SD. Just like the original WMP, it is chambered in .22 WMR, but this new model is equipped with a threaded barrel that uses the industry standard ½x28 tpi thread pattern …

The Leupold Mark AR scope mount series is Leupold’s go-to mounting solution for pairing riflescopes and LPVOs to AR-15 and AR-10 pattern rifles. These general-purpose magnified optics mounts are machined from a single piece of aluminum, fit every popular riflescope main tube diameter, and sit at 1.5 inches tall (the universal standard …