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When it comes to well-known Italian firearms manufacturers, Benelli is a comparatively young name in the industry. The Benelli Family had established a motorcycle company in 1911, but the name wouldn’t be associated with the firearm market until 1967. The Benelli family was vested in sports shooting and hunting, and started with …

The U.S. military recognized early on that pilots forced down in relatively uninhabited regions of the world needed a compact survival rifle if they went down. Enemy combatants weren’t the primary concern in remote, flyover regions. It was the need for food during a prolonged stay and fending off four-legged …

After 15 Republican TRAITORS voted with Nancy Pelosi to ram through the biggest gun control bill in 30 years, the gun-grabbers are plotting their next move. Pelosi’s “assault weapons ban” bill, H.R. 1808, has 210 co-sponsors.  It takes 218 votes to pass a bill in the House. Pelosi has 220 …

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen did more than strike New York’s “may issue” subjective concealed carry permitting scheme. The ruling also told lower courts that attempting to balance the individual’s Constitutional right to keep and bear arms against the government’s interest in …

Philip Schreier (above), director of NRA Museums, is shown here in the vault for the National Firearms Museum located in Fairfax, Va. The museum has reopended to the public and still features one of the most-comprehensive collections of guns in the world. When Congress passed, and then-President Bill Clinton (D) …

Anti-gun politicians in Trenton will have their opportunity this week to lash out against New Jersey gun owners who secured a major victory last week in the United States Supreme Court.  Concealed carry, which for decades has been denied to Garden State gun owners, was reaffirmed as the “law of …

New Jersey’s acting Attorney General, Matthew J. Platkin, issued a directive “clarifying requirements for carrying firearms in public” a day after the historic ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc. v. Bruen on June 23. That ruling struck down as unconstitutional the handgun permitting regime in neighboring …

On the heels of CZ’s introduction of the 457 Varmint Precision Trainer MTR comes the 457 Varmint Precision Chassis MTR in 22 Long Rifle. While CZ is known for their tight chamber tolerances, they first debuted an even tighter ‘Match’ chamber in the popular 457 Varmint MTR. This wood-stocked plinker became a …

For me, one of the many bonuses of this gunwriter business has been the opportunity to meet and become friends with a number of the firearm enthusiasts of an earlier generation; legendary figures such as Frank Hamer Jr., Bill Jordan, Bill Toney, Col. Walter Walsh and the subject of this …

Just when it seems the firearm industry has exhausted itself by way of striving to keep up with demand for existing models, it’s a pleasant surprise to learn that, behind the scenes, engineers and marketing folks have been working on new offerings that have either been created from whole cloth, …