The idea of pairing a handgun and a rifle around a common cartridge is an American tradition. Some of the earliest, self-contained-cartridge, repeating firearms, such as the Henry rifle, used a pistol-size chambering. The short overall length of these cartridges allowed plenty of rounds to be stacked within a tubular …

In February of 2018, Browning announced it was discontinuing its Hi Power line of pistols. The move took shooting enthusiasts, gun historians and many within the firearm industry by surprise, especially considering the Hi Power’s more than 80 years of production and the many entities that used it since its …

Controlling the transition point from proactive to active measures, what are the priorities to safely stepping off that fateful “X”? How can you avoid being too slow in trying to regain the initiative in a real world violent physical altercation? Lights, Camera, Action The term “get off that ‘X’” hails …

Fix It Sticks has introduced a new product for handgun shooters called the Compact Pistol Kit. Designed to work with a wide variety of handguns, the new kit includes tools, wrenches, hex bits and even a variable torque driver. Slightly larger than a box of ammunition, Fix It Sticks says …

One of the more common tactics of anti-gun extremists is to make some dramatic statement comparing our nation’s gun laws with some other aspect of everyday life. Every time—not usually or often, but every time—the comparison is wildly inaccurate. One of the more outrageous claims was made in 2016 by …

By now, many careful observers of Second Amendment issues are aware of the supposedly “groundbreaking” gun control laws the media is celebrating as having been “enacted” in San Jose, CA. As usual, however, the news reports have been both inaccurate and incomplete. The situation in San Jose is complex, and …

It is an established pattern. Every year, a new group of shooters comes along with an interest in firearms. Sometimes, the interest may be a function of the many shooting sports that have grown up in recent years. For other folks, the interest stems from being just plain worried about …

Cosaint Arms, an American pistol manufacturer headquartered in Flat Rock, NC, announced it will offer a double-stack, Commander-size variant of John Browning’s M1911 pistol chambered for 9 mm Luger. The new COS21 from Cosaint Arms is a hybrid 1911 that features the company’s modular system. The synthetic material used to …

For more than 80 years, the company Jack O’Connor called “the Holland & Holland of the United States” has been at the center of custom riflemaking as an innovator, trend-setter and inventor. Griffin & Howe (G&H) is the father of the style now known as the “American classic” rifle stock, but that …

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) declared a state of “disaster emergency” Tuesday to combat “gun violence” in New York. In doing so, Cuomo will now have nearly $140 million in funding to pursue his gun-control agenda, which listed seven “key areas” that his plan seeks to address. Since he declared this …