When John Mahlon Marlin decided to compete with Winchester by entering the lever-action market, his first effort, introduced in 1881 as the top-ejecting Marlin Repeating Rifle (it was not catalogued as the Model 1881 until the appearance of Marlin’s second lever-action in 1888), was a muscular-looking firearm. But then it had to …

Howa has introduced new caliber options in the Mini Action line as well as the Carbon Stalker, HS Precision and Hogue lines. In the Mini Action line, Howa has added 6.5 Grendel and 6mm ARC to the 20-inch Carbon Fiber Mini Action rifles. The addition of these calibers lets shooters use …

European American Armory Corp. (EAA) used the recent National Sporting Good Wholesalers (NASGW) expo to unveil an expanded line-up of handguns from Turkish manufacturer Girsan, unabashedly declaring that the new models would “disrupt” the industry with their combination of features, quality and affordable price. The flagship of EAA’s power play is …

President Joe Biden’s campaign is waking from its slumber and vowing he will “finish the job” on gun control as a central pillar of his pitch to stay in The White House for another four years. The Biden-Harris reelection campaign is circulating memos and reaching out to friendly media to …

Gun ownership throughout America is continuing to grow. Now 52% of American voters say that they or someone in their home owns a firearm, according to a recent NBC News national poll. The figure builds upon data from 2013 and 2019, where similar polls found that 42% and 46% of Americans …

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, revealed that the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) completed 680,671 background checks related to firearms for the week leading up to, and including, “Black Friday,” one of the busiest shopping days of the year. That figure is down …

Dear friend, Last week, anti-gun Democrats in the Old Dominion introduced HB 2 and SB 2; bills to ban so-called “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines. Notably, these bills will prohibit the “import, sell, manufacture, purchase, possess[ion], transport, or transfer” of practically all semi-automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns. Buy All-American! Bring health and …

Arguably one of the most important skills in performance shooting is the ability to press the trigger on an aiming point, achieve accurate round placement on that point and have the muzzle return to that same point before firing the next round. Such discipline demonstrates good muzzle control. Our drill …

I recently had to revisit my spare-magazine storage arrangement. For a long time, I’d kept the various pistol and rifle magazines that were not in daily rotation in a variety of plastic bags, cardboard boxes, plastic food-storage containers and, well, pretty much whatever else was laying around the house within …

The term “inside out” can be taken literally or applied as a phrase to describe the thoroughness with which an idea is understood. In this month’s issue, we hope to illustrate that the latter especially is used as a guiding principle to keep the American firearm industry at the top …