Last month, a thousand women from the Detroit metro area filed through local gun ranges to receive a free hands-on shooting lesson. It’s part of a weekend event promoted by engineer-turned-NRA-instructor Rick Ector, who felt motivated to focus on teaching women to protect themselves after reading another story of a murdered …

The other day I was talking about the need for a defensive shooter to get professional training. One fellow spoke up and said that, since so few citizens are actually involved in gunfights, getting training was really not all that important. I find that to be a rather simplistic response. …

We were sitting on a hot section of one of the incredibly vast prairie dog towns which make South Dakota’s Rosebud Reservation, taking turns with various rifle/cartridge combinations. Included in the mix were some great rimfires, such as the .22 Long Rifle and .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, the .17 Hornady …

Hiperfire has reduced the size and pricing of their first generation compensators, while simultaneously improving recoil reduction. To do so, the 5.56 NATO and 9mm Luger comps had to have the same form factor as the Mil Birdcage flash hider, while still exceeding previous recoil performance. Instead of finding this combination using …

I’ll admit it—I’m a rifle snob. I like accurate rifles, and vintage rifles and light mountain hunting rifles. Being said snob, I was excited to meet Browning’s new X-bolt Pro McMillan chambered in my favorite Western hunting cartridge; the .280 Ackley Improved. On paper, it’s a rifle built right; Browning’s legendary X-Bolt action, McMillan’s …

I hate to clean guns. In fact, I consider it slave labor forced on me as a debt that’s due for the pleasure of shooting, which I love to do. I not only shoot for a living, testing guns and writing about them, but on my rare days off I am …

Colt’s Manufacturing Company, LLC, has long been known for its 1911s over the past century, as it was the company that introduced the famous Browning design to the world stage. The Gold Cup Trophy is also a part of this long legacy, having been the standard for competition pistols for decades. …

FAIRFAX, Va. — The National Rifle Association today celebrates a major victory for our members and law-abiding gun owners as news reports indicate the nomination of David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will be withdrawn. “This critical win is thanks to NRA members who flooded …

“The White House will withdraw the nomination of David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives,” CNN is reporting. And so, with anonymous leaks to favored news outlets, the Biden administration is pulling back the nomination of Chipman, an anti-Second Amendment activist who worked as a senior adviser for …

The first week of September closed a chapter on small arms for the United States military. Beretta USA marked the occasion with a simple note on its Facebook page with little fanfare, no press release scheduled and characteristic modesty when asked for more details. “Last week marked an end of an era …