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This week, we’re taking a closer look at the Browning A5 Wicked Wing Sweet Sixteen. Resurrecting the much-beloved but oft-ignored 16-gauge, the shotgun is pointed particularly at the 16-gauge’s primary devotees: hunters. With its Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Habitat camo, Burnt Bronze Cerakote finish, oversized bolt release and extended Invector-DS Goose …

Many of the people who’ve encountered me leading a hunt or teaching at Gunsite have wondered about how I got into shooting. I’ve heard variations of the question over the years, and I understand why—as a small Asian woman, I don’t fit in with an inaccurate and outdated, but lingering, stereotype. To …

A recent Gallup poll asked Americans about their level of trust in various institutions. Of the 16 options, the one respondents identified as LEAST trustworthy – with only 7% expressing a “Great deal” or “Quite a lot” of confidence in it – was Congress. This was just below television news (at 11%) …

Designed for rifle actions with internal box magazines, Modular Driven Technology’s MambaMag is a direct-fit, 10-round magazine designed to replace the factory bottom metal. For owners of Remington 700 and Howa 1500 rifles, the MambaMag requires the addition of replacement bottom metal, allowing the magazine to function as a detachable …

Springfield Armory announced the launch of a new series of slide kits and assembly conversions for its XD line of handguns, with the XD OSP conversion systems. Meant for the original lines of full-size XDs, the XD OSP (Optical Sight Pistol) Slide Kit and Assembly options allow owners of original XD pistols to convert their …

Last week, more than 250,000 patriots like yourself signed the Official Petition OPPOSING H.R. 1808, Nancy Pelosi’s “Assault Weapons Ban”! Congress is back in DC again this week, and we need to flood the place with another 250,000, cranking the grassroots heat up even hotter! This bill bans more than …

We do not know how the midterm elections this Nov. 8 will turn out, but there are plenty of signs that the anti-Second Amendment fervor from the Biden administration, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is grounding out on a massive …

firearms ownership, one has to step back in time and consider the historic developments. In Europe, to own or carry a weapon—namely a gun—was seldom a right. Sometimes it could become a duty, such as when called up for the defense of the realm. For a select minority, the ruling …

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled 6-3 in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. This decision recognizes that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Bill of Rights means it when it says “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” “This is a ruling that will reverberate …

Some years ago, there was an essay by writer, revolversmith and instructor Grant Cunningham in which he decried the obsession you can find in some corners of the defensive-firearms world with what he memorably called “meaningless increments of precision.” In his essay, Cunningham was referring to the tiny slices of …