By most accounts, 1933 started off as a wretched year. The Great Depression was at its apex, the stock market at its lowest and unemployment at its highest. “King Kong” terrorized at the box office and Adolph Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and all that happened in just the first …

This year’s elk meat is safely in the freezer, the mule-deer season is just a good memory, and even the whitetail rut in your favorite deer woods is over. You still hunger to spend time outdoors, and what better way than hunting predators across the wide expanses of the Desert Southwest? You’ll have an …

Feb. 22, 2022, marked George Washington’s 290th birthday, and nearly three centuries on, there are still many surviving artifacts that give us some insight into his life and character. From extant accounts and records, it’s not much of a stretch to say that Washington, apart from being our nation’s first …

Savage made headlines when it released its Impulse straight-pull bolt-action hunting rifle earlier this year. While designs like the Impulse represent the pinnacle of contemporary rifle technology, straight-pull bolt-action rifles are nearly as old as self-contained cartridge firing guns themselves, and their story provides interesting insights into the development of the modern …

The U.S. Army has awarded FN America with a firm-fixed-price contract, valued up to $49,973,579, to supply M240L medium machine guns and titanium receivers. The M240L, which is roughly 18-percent lighter than the M240B, was officially adopted in 2010 after a joint effort by FN and the U.S. Army to reduce overall …

An angled foregrip is a popular way to ensure a secure and consistent grip on your firearm. The grip gives you a known, repeatable location to place your hands, but it takes up real estate on the stock of your gun which could be used for other purposes, such as …

Last year, I attended a long-range shooting course conducted by Outdoors Solution. This course taught me and another dozen or so students intermediate and advanced fundamentals of landing shots out to 1,000 yards. The course was situated on a beautiful trophy deer hunting range with terrific views of both landscape …

Maryland State Police have released the state crime statistics from 2021, and unsurprisingly, homicides and shootings have continued to follow an upward trend since 2013. This is despite former Governor, and brief presidential candidate, Martin O’Malley’s so-called “Firearm Safety Act” (FSA), which passed and was signed into law in 2013, …

Yesterday, the San Jose City Council adopted File 22-138 in a final vote, to require gun owners to pay an annual tax and purchase liability insurance. It will go into effect in August. File 22-138, the amended ordinance, requires gun owners to pay an annual fee and have liability insurance coverage …

Birchwood Casey, long known for its targets and range-support equipment, is now offering an economical firearm transportation solution as well. With a main compartment measuring 35″x13″, the new Single Gun Case 36″ is a padded soft case large enough to accommodate most tactical carbines, bullpups and large-format pistols, and internal …