By the thinnest of margins, on November 8, Oregon voters appear to have passed an initiative that will require a permit to purchase any firearm, along with completing safety training. The license will be good for five years. Ballot Measure 114 also bans “large capacity magazines.” At this point, you are asking, “Didn’t the Bruen decision prohibit such laws?” The …

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, filed suits against the attorneys general of Delaware and New Jersey, challenging recently-enacted “public nuisance” laws in both states that are “specifically designed to evade the judgment of Congress – and the Constitution.” Both Delaware and New Jersey enacted public nuisance laws allowing the state and private parties to …

Patriot Ordnance Factory, (also known as POF), based in Phoenix, Arizona is now unveiling two new 6mm Creedmoor chambering options for its Prescott and Revolution AR-10 pattern precision rifles. The 6mm Prescott and Revolution rifles are built around freefloating 22-inch barrels that are intended to provide accuracy for hunters, precision …

Fiocchi, a leader in defensive, target and hunting ammunition, announced this week it has selected a 281-acre site in the Port of Little Rock, AR, for a new ammunition primer manufacturing facility. The move—which creates a sixth primer manufacturing operation in the United States—represents a $41.5 million investment, 120-person workforce …

Browning introduced its AB3 bolt-action rifle line at the 2014 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show. Initial chamberings were 7 mm Rem. Mag, .270 Win., 30-’06 Sprg. and .300 Win. Mag. Despite the show’s annual buzz around modern sporting rifles and carry handguns, a budget-conscious offering that carried one of the …

There are few things that I enjoy more than handloading ammunition. What started as a simple economic measure blossomed into a passion for accuracy and a quest to fire some of the most hard-to-find ammunition. While I can handload nearly anything that was once fired, I learned first to question whether or …

Maryland’s most anti-gun county has continued its tantrum, lashing out against lawful carry in the only way it thinks it can. Yesterday, the Montgomery County Council voted unanimously to pass Bill 21-22E, to remove the exemption for Wear & Carry (W&C) permit holders from the county’s ban on possessing firearms “in …

Since 2005, Silencer Central has been creating innovative suppressors for American gun owners. Now Silencer Central has just released the newest member in the Banish suppressor line, the new Banish Backcountry suppressor. Extremely lightweight at 7.8 ounces and using a 100-percent titanium fully welded construction, this new suppressor was designed to be …

Designed for the XM5 and XM250 (above), the multi-component 6.8×51 mm round may prove to be the “next big thing” in rifle ammunition. Most progress within the firearm industry is measured in small increments and spread over years or even decades. Since the early 20th century, advances in materials and …

Even in today’s age of striker-fired, polymer-frame pistols, there’s still a place in every armory for a single-action-only semi-automatic handgun. There was a time in America when one didn’t have to use the descriptor “single-action” or “SAO” (Single-Action Only) in reference to semi-automatic pistols of the fightin’ persuasion. For the …