The United States military adopted its first rifle grenade in 1911. Designed by U.S. Army Ordnance Officer Col. E.B. Babbitt, the grenade had a long metal stem that was inserted into the barrel of the M1903 rifle and launched by means of a special blank cartridge. The “Babbitt” rifle grenade …

KelTec’s original 12-ga. KSG helped normalize the concept of a bullpup shotgun, and, as a result, not only is the industry now replete with such designs, but it remains one of the company’s best-selling products. New for 2023, KelTec has scaled-down the KSG to instead chamber and fire .410-bore shells, …

The .22 Long Rifle is one of the most used cartridges on the planet. Billions of .22 LR rounds are produced every year, and Remington Ammunition in Lonoke, Ark., produces a significant chunk of the rimfire ammunition used by shooters around the world. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” feature segment …

In late April, a U.S. resident was arrested in Sydney, Australia, after flying in from Los Angeles, by the Australian Border Force (ABF) for a violation of that nation’s Custom’s Act 1901, section 233BAB(5). If found guilty of the charges—failure to have a permit to import or possess a gun—the 28-year-old woman …

Chicago residents have faced a rough few years. Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot refused to take crime seriously and lost reelection as a consequence. The county state’s attorney refused to hold violent criminals accountable even when their crimes were caught on camera. It’s so bad, one veteran city prosecutor is calling …

“Clearly, the state disagrees with Bruen, but it cannot disobey the Supreme Court by declaring most of New Jersey off limits for law-abiding citizens who have the constitutional right to armed self-defense,” wrote U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb in a 230-page opinion that blocks much of New Jersey’s new gun-control law. This …

It takes the same amount of discipline and conditioning to be a top-level competitive shooter as it does to be a top-level golfer, NASCAR driver, or a third-degree Brazilian Ju-Jitsu black belt, like my teacher, Joe Cunningham. Joe and Brazilian Ju-Jitsu bring us to the focus of this article—conditioning. Having …

New from Riton Optics is the 5 Tactix 1-10×24, a first focal plane low variable power riflescope. Riton said the new 5 Tactix 1-10×24 “has superior clarity, red dot capabilities with 1x power, and precision on 10x power for those long-distance shots.” Buy All-American! Bring health and vitality back to …

Nightforce Optics is introducing a new feature-rich Minute of Angle (MOA) based reticle that mirrors its popular milliradian-based MIL-XT reticle. Mil-based reticles have ballooned in popularity due to factors such as their practicality in military use and the surge in popularity of PRS rifle shooting competitions. This has also led to …

All test documents, and accompanying photographs, are located in the National Archives and were digitized as part of Archival Research Group’s quest to preserve these fragile documents for posterity. Following the post-World War I draw-down, the U.S. Army, perhaps realizing it was no longer destined to be simply a frontier …