Walk into any gun store these days, and you’ll see row upon row of double-stack, polymer-frame, striker-fired 9mm pistols. From Glock to SIG Sauer to Smith & Wesson, practically every company out there makes something that has a 4-inch barrel, is striker-fired and holds about 15 rounds of ammunition. These …

Norma Precision Inc, the Scandinavian ammunition company based out of Sweden, is unveiling a new match-grade .22 LR rimfire cartridge best suited for longer-distance, precision-rimfire shooting. Norma Precision’s new long-distance rimfire cartridge incorporates a 43-grain lead boattail bullet. Due to the design and constraints of rimfire ammunition, incorporating boattails in …

Henry Repeating Arms has released the Homesteader 9mm, a semi-automatic 9mm carbine cloaked in the gunmaker’s heritage design. The gun boasts premium materials and an adaptable feature set to provide versatility for various roles, including home defense or protecting livestock from predators. To provide compatibility for the most-common magazine patterns, the Homesteader …

It’s called presbyopia, and if you are past 40 you probably have it. It’s the loss of the eye’s ability to focus on close objects. Most of us deal with its progression until our arms grow too short, and then we get glasses. It’s left me with an inability to …

When Beretta’s U22 Neos officially launched in 2002, its racy looks were different, unexpected and a breath of fresh air in a market dominated by clones and lookalikes. The single-action, blowback-operated, semi-auto pistol was chambered in .22 LR, a cartridge first introduced in 1887. Some traditionalists immediately labeled the pistol’s looks as …

The U.S. military has awarded a $9 million manufacturing study contract to Winchester Ammunition for the purpose of exploring tracer-ammunition production for the Army’s new 6.8 mm Common Cartridge outlined in the Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) program. The results of the study will take what is currently prototype tracer technology and …

Smith & Wesson introduced its M&P12 bullpup, pump-action shotgun design in August 2021, validating a concept that, until that point, had really only been explored by smaller companies with limited production capability, such as KelTec with its KSG. S&W’s introduction of the M&P12 brings 12-ga. firepower in a compact platform that dramatically …

Mexico must believe that its lawsuits against firearm manufacturers and firearm retailers are on legal life support. The country is now turning to the United Nations’ Ninth Conference of States Parties (CSP9) to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to spread outrageous and false allegations about the American firearm industry. Francisca …

Following his State of the Union (SOTU) speech earlier this month, in which President Joe Biden yelled, “Band [sic] ‘assault weapons’ now!”, the president predictably included the same demand last week in remarks at the National Association of Counties legislative conference. “I’m gonna say something that’s always controversial but there is …

Recently, plans have come to light for certain school districts in Rhode Island, a state that bans firearm registries by statute, to require parents to make declarations about privately-owned firearms when registering their children for school. Besides its tension with existing law and obvious irrelevance to the schools’ educational mission, this move risks stigmatizing …