The satin-nickel-finished, steel-frame Combat Commander shown above serves as a testament to the many changes the 1911-based pistol has endured over the last 110 years. We are now well into the second century of the 1911 service pistol and its legendary cartridge. Few firearms enjoy such a long period of …

This week we’re taking a closer look at the Browning X-Bolt Pro McMillan Long Range. A long-range rifle on the lighter side of the scale, the X-Bolt Pro McMillan Long Range is constructed around a carbon-fiber McMillan Game Scout Stock to cut down on weight. The fluting on the 26-inch, steel, heavy-sporter contour barrel further lessens the …

Wilson Combat’s new SFX9 models take the company’s X9 pistol lineup into new territory, thanks to the innovative construction of its new frame and features that fans came to love on the EDCX9 lineup of pistols. The Wilson Combat SFX9 features the company’s all-new Solid Frame, a lightened grip frame machined …

This article by John M. Taylor appeared originally in the September 2004 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as your member magazine. Most of us stoke our shotgun with whatever ammunition seems right for the game we’re hunting or the clay targets …

The popularity of small-caliber pocket pistols chambered in .25 ACP and .32 ACP has waned considerably in recent years due to an ever-growing selection of sub-compact models chambered for larger cartridges, including 9 mm Luger and .380 ACP—a transition that occurred, in part, due to the 2008 release of Ruger’s …

I have spent the last year switching back and forth between two optics on my primary teaching and training carbines, a Nightforce NX8 1-8X 24 mm first focal plane (FFP) and a Vortex Razor HD Gen II-E 1-6X 24 mm second focal plane (SFP). Both are leading choices in the Low-Power Variable Optic (LPVO) …

Ride the pine. Relegated to the minors. Missed the cut. All of the above. Former sportscaster turned failed progressive political mouthpiece Keith Olbermann took a swing at what the Second Amendment says and means and whiffed so badly he created a wind advisory. Before last week’s Major League Baseball All-Star game, police …

Did you know that the U.S. has averaged more than one and a half mass shootings a day so far this year?  I know that sounds crazy, but it is true.  Monday will be the 200th day of the year, and according to Wikipedia there have been 327 mass shootings up to …

For those of us who know a thing or two when it comes to working our way around a firearm, it is something of an amusing spectator sport to pick up the endless inconsistencies and impossibilities brought to life on the small and silver screens. Still, now and then, a …

The days of blue steel and walnut as the defining style of firearms are long behind us. One company leading that charge was Kel-Tec. Its embrace of polymer and black-oxidized steel with almost industrial looks is the new baseline for firearms. And, the latest in its line of “why didn’t …