There’s no proving ground like an African plains-game camp to take the measure of a new hunting cartridge, and with seven hunters pursuing four or five animals apiece, ours was a fast-track to meaningful observation. From Day One to the final afternoon, game rolled into our old-style tent camp at …

Hoppe’s, the industry’s oldest gun-cleaning-supply brand—and still one of the top choices among enthusiasts—is celebrating its 120th anniversary this year. It was 1903 when Philadelphia native Frank August Hoppe combined nine chemicals in just the right mix to create the famous Hoppe’s No. 9 gun cleaning solution. His invention was …

California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom’s policy instincts match his hair gel. Both are applied liberally. Take his latest notion. He is proposing a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He’s not proposing to protect rights granted by our Creator, rather he’s looking to turn those rights into government-approved privileges. His proposal for the 28th Amendment …

Late into the night on 9 June, 2023 the United Nation’s Open-Ended Working Group on Conventional Ammunition (OEWG) concluded its development of a new global framework to address existing gaps in through-life conventional ammunition management despite the dissociation of the Russian Federation and their bedfellows Belarus. Created through General Assembly …

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is presiding over a state in decline, with violent crime rising in the state and once renowned cities like San Francisco now cautionary tales of urban squalor. Residents and businesses are fleeing locales that have all but abandoned the idea of law enforcement, if not fleeing the state altogether. But nothing succeeds in Newsom’s brand …

Up until 2018, deep blue Vermont was a model for sensible gun laws – meaning they had few and politicians on both sides of the aisle understood the tranquil state didn’t need any. Vermont was the original Constitutional Carry state, as the Right-to-Carry without a permit was affirmed in a …

Armed Citizen® Today Fiction turned into fact for a Mobile, Ala., man who shot and killed an intruder breaking into his home early on the morning of April 19, 2023. At 3:30 a.m., the man and his wife were watching a Netflix show about a burglary in progress when they …

When it comes to precisely calibrated, reliable and accurate scopes, one of first names that comes to most people’s minds is Leupold, and for good reason. Leupold has consistently provided top-notch optics for serious marksmen, whether short-range, medium-range or “how far was that shot?” shooters. Leupold is, first and foremost, an optics company, producing …

Sturm, Ruger And Company, Inc is releasing a new large-format pistol chambered for the 5.7x28mm cartridge with an action and pattern based on the Ruger LC Carbine. The new Ruger LC Charger 5.7mm pistol also accepts the same magazine as the Ruger-5.7 pistol. The LC Charger also uses the same fire …

Unusual actions occasionally seen in carry guns include (left to right) blowback (Walther PPK), delayed blowback (H&K P7) and rotary (Colt All-American 2000). There’s a large slice of the shooting demographic that just loves something a little novel, a little different. Internet phenomenon Ian McCollum has basically made a career …