A politician in Brooklyn New York thinks he has come up with a brilliant solution to the crime wave currently sweeping through the Big Apple: Criminalize the sale and manufacture of firearms. New York City (among other urban areas controlled by anti-gun politicians) is facing a return to the bad …

Back in 2013-14, failed presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg was joined by other billionaires –Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, and Nick Hanauer–in pouring millions of dollars into the campaign to pass Initiative 594, a so-called “universal background check” law, in Washington State. Proponents of the initiative promised that the law …

Michael Bloomberg failed to win much Democratic support in his expensive quest (spending an estimated $1 billion of his personal fortune) to secure the 2020 nomination for president, but the former New York City mayor is continuing to push his unrelenting gun-control agenda with lots of money. He has plenty …

It’s a funny word, “moderate.” We throw it around habitually, as a positive and aggrandizing description, but we rarely stop to ask the crucial, prerequisite question: “Relative to what?” In some circumstances—when drinking, for example—moderation can indeed be a virtue. In others, it is among the worst of vices. Justice …

The Canadians fitted .303 British Ross Mk III rifles with American-made 5.2X Warner & Swasey Model of 1913 Telescopic Musket Sights for use by snipers. This example is in the collection of the Canadian War Museum.  Of all the Allied countries fighting Germany in 1914-1916, only one, Canada, included modern …

This article, “Deep Behind Enemy Lines: Weapons of Vietnam’s Covert Warriors,” appeared originally in the April 2015 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as your member magazine. It’s unlikely that any other U.S. military unit ever fielded such an array of …

The last few years have been particularly kind to Beretta 92 fans. Beretta launched the M9A3 and 92X platforms. Wilson Combat and Langdon Tactical Technology each collaborated for well-received special-edition pistols that thrilled fans and introduced the platform to many new shooters. However, 92 fans collectively took a look at the …

The Springfield Armory Hellcat revolutionized the subcompact 9 mm market. Offering the highest standard capacity magazine in its class, along with a compact size and a model that could mount a red dot sight, it rewrote the rule book when it came to small, compact 9 mm pistols and became an extremely …

Photo credit: Credit: Photo by Gage Skidmore courtesy of Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 Let’s give credit where it is due: Joe Biden has consistently argued that American citizens don’t have a right to buy and use semi-automatic AR-15 and AR-10 rifles. He’s also made it extremely clear that if …

This article, “Winchester’s First Self-Loading Rifles,” appeared originally in the May 2003 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as your member magazine. Realizing that American sportsmen would eventually recognize the intrinsic merits of self-loading hunting rifles and shotguns, the Winchester …