On Thursday, July 25th, Governor Maura Healey (D) signed one of the most extreme gun control bills in the country, H. 4885, “an act modernizing firearm laws,” into law. The 116-page radical gun control package implements sweeping gun bans, magazine restrictions, mandatory registration of all firearms, extreme training requirements, and more. For a complete analysis of …

Armed Citizen® Today A man defended himself and two others, including a small child, from an aggressive armed assailant in Morgan City, La., on Wednesday, May 15. Police say the 32-year-old assault suspect approached the male victim that afternoon in what started as a verbal altercation. The suspect then struck …

Two southern Utah residents have been sentenced for leading “canned” mountain lion hunts. For those more reputable folks completely unfamiliar with the term, a “canned” hunt refers to a hunt in which the target animals is kept in a target area through various means. This could be a cage or a chain, …

Our love of the “do it all” kind of tool is the reason why Swiss Army knives and multi-tools are so popular. It’s great to have one thing with you that solves a myriad of problems. And so it is with the LPVO, or low power variable optic. These scopes …

Welcome to another American Rifleman Gun Of The Week video, and in this episode, we’re running a new version of Beretta’s famous 92 on the range. This is the Beretta 92XI Squalo, and it’s a version that brings some long-awaited updates to this popular handgun. Watch the video above to see the 92XI …

Firearm: Walther PPK/S in .32 ACP (MSRP: $969) It’s genuinely hard to overstate the impact of the Walther PPK on the firearm world. The PPK designation comes from the abbreviation of the German Polizeipistole Kriminal, which translates approximately into police pistol, detective. At the time of its introduction, it was groundbreaking—a small, …

Hunting the hunter… Is there a greater challenge? I’ll agree that hunting dangerous game such as Cape buffalo, elephant, rhino, and hippo takes your hunting to a new level. However, predators are skilled hunters and just as skilled at not becoming prey, which puts them at the top of many hunters’ …

Every new or inexperienced female shooter I take to the gun range, even before picking up a firearm asks, “How badly is it going to kick?” As soon as they ask, I know there is a high probability that hitting where they aim is going to be problematic. If you have prematurely …

Wyoming has long been thought of as a promised land for hunters and sportsmen, with the town of Cody as its Mecca. Situated in a quintessentially Western environment squarely between vast yellow planes and jagged green country, and home to such renowned gunmakers as Best of the West and Gunwerks, Cody is about …

The NRA recently filed a lawsuit challenging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) overreach in redefining who is “engaged in the business” of selling firearms. The case, titled Butler v. Garland, was filed on behalf of two individual members—Don Butler and David Glidewell—in the U.S. District Court for the Northern …