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With the U.S. Olympic shooting team recently wrapping up its most successful Olympics in more-than a half century, one unmeasurable effect of the team’s performance could be a strengthening of the Second Amendment. “We had one of the best performances since 1964,” Matt Suggs, CEO of USA Shooting, the national …

The three micro red-dots shown (clockwise from upper l.)—the Crimson Trace CTS-1250, Leupold DeltaPoint Pro and Trijicon RMR Type 2—are each built around a different mounting footprint than the others, but a system of adapter plates allows Springfield’s XD-M OSP pistols to mount any of the three. Tubeless, reflex-style sights …

The Yugoslav Republic carved out a unique niche in Eastern Europe from its formation following World War I until its demise at the conclusion of the Cold War. The country’s independence streak extended to their arms industry. They proved themselves willing to take the best foreign designs, from the FN …

Lying there on the gun shop’s counter is a used .30-’06 Sprg. bolt-action mounted with what is supposed to be a pretty good used scope. You’re going with your buddies on a deer hunt out West and didn’t want to mortgage the house to buy a new rifle and a …

April may be the cruelest month, but August isn’t looking so great for David Chipman, President Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Your NRA-ILA recently published an alert on Chipman’s work promoting ShotSpotter, Inc., a surveillance tool for local governments that critics call “useless, expensive, racist technology.” …

Anyone tempted to think the gun control lobby couldn’t sink any further into disreputable tactics should sit down before reading any further. Last week, Brady – one of the older, gun prohibition advocacy groups in the U.S. – teamed up with the government of Mexico to launch an assault against …

One of laws championed by the gun-grabbing crowd is the so-called universal background check, in which private sales of firearms are subjected to a criminal background check, fees, and paperwork. What gun control advocates fail to make clear, though, is that their concept of “sale” extends to firearm “transfers,” being gifts, loans …

Ten years ago, it was a feat to find an average-priced rifle that was capable of sub-MOA accuracy. Today, that simply is not the case. Making a rifle that can produce three- and even five-shot groups that measure less than an inch at 100 yards is more or less the …

Colt kicked off the 9 mm Luger-chambered AR-15/M16 market when it introduced the Colt SMG in 1982. The SMG made use of a straight blowback action that fired from a closed bolt rather than the M16’s direct-impingement, gas-operated, rotating-bolt system. Three years later, Colt introduced a 16″-barreled semi-automatic model for civilians. …

The count of .24-cal. rifles that remain in our home and others that stayed for a while then headed on down the road is rather high. My wife’s 6 mm Rem. has now been her constant companion for hunting deer and antelope for more than 40 years. A couple of …