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Last week, Senator Todd Johnson (R-35) introduced Senate Bill 43 to expand the ability of citizens to defend themselves and their loved ones while attending religious worship. Last year, a similar bill, the Second Amendment Preservation Act, passed both chambers with bipartisan majorities after stalling the year before. It moved through the …

“Electronic hearing protection works on ‘clipping’ the top of the loud sounds to make them less damaging,” explained Weston Harris, founder and CEO of AXIL Hearing Performance, who speaks with authority on the subject. His company has produced cutting-edge models for the past 26 years and, along the way, he’s …

Magazines for the AR-15 come in all shapes and sizes. From five-round capacity magazines designed to maintain compliance with various hunting regulations to 10-round magazines that are compliant with state laws, to the standard 20- and 30-round capacity magazines we all know and love, there is an AR-15 magazine for …

Those who stay involved in the efforts to defend the Second Amendment have always known President Joe Biden is, to put it lightly, no friend to gun owners. During his campaign for the White House last year, the legacy media did everything they could to conceal that fact. The Las Vegas …

Last week, the Free Thought Project reported on HR 127, the most tyrannical gun bill ever proposed. The bill would target the poor by forcing citizens to pay $800 per year to possess firearms that they are required to register. It also bans multiple legal guns and ammo types, turning tens of …

Dear New Mexico NRA Member: On Tuesday, February 9, the House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee will meet at 1:30pm (or upon final adjournment from the House floor) to hear two gun control bills and take testimony from the public virtually on the measures.  You can access the committee’s Zoom meeting …

New for 2021, the Winchester Wildcat 22 SR is a suppressor/silencer-ready carbine that provides shooters with a proven, blowback-operated semi-automatic that is chambered for the diminutive, and ubiquitous .22 Long Rifle cartridge. The suppressor-ready Wildcat 22 SR will come packed with features that made the first iteration of the Wildcat successful, such …

This article, “Bonding With Your Bullet”, appeared originally in the February 2004 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as your member magazine. Throughout history, our great technological advances came not with quantum leaps, but baby steps. We didn’t go directly from the wheel to the …

American troops went to war in Korea carrying many of the same weapons that served the U.S. military during World War II. They soon found themselves in combat against North Korean troops carrying their own World War II-vintage small arms. The North Koreans used Soviet-made small arms, the same types …

Just days until the opening of the New York deer season opener, I was getting multiple calls every day with friends and acquaintances looking for ammunition, as they had been to the gun shops and sporting goods stores searching for various different cartridges, most with little or no luck. Weatherby cartridges, Winchester Short …