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Yesterday, the City Council of Conway passed Ordinance #2021-12-06 (C) to ban open carry in city buildings and during city-permitted events. It goes into effect immediately. The police chief previously said that limiting open carry is to “curtail the potential for gun violence,” but he made no mention of how, or if, he intended to prevent …

Savage Arms is adding a 6.5 PRC option to its 110 Precision rifle lineup in both right- and left-hand configurations. A magnum version of the 6.5 mm Creedmoor, the 6.5 PRC cartridge is great for hunting and target shooting applications. With 6.5 mm bullets already known for their exceptional ballistic …

How much do you know about rimfire ammo? Take our 10-question quiz to find out. The answers will be at the end of the quiz, but don’t peek ahead—we’ll know! True or false? Rimfire cartridge cases are the oldest self-contained cartridge in existence.   In terms of the sheer number …

Tactical Solutions (TacSol) has introduced the Winter 2021/2022 Edition of X-Ring VR rifles with GRS Hunter Light Stocks. Teaming up with GRS Stocks of Norway, TacSol is able to offer a lightweight adjustable stock, in three distinct colors. This .22 LR-chambered precision shooter comes fully equipped with our world-class X-Ring Barrel and X-Ring …

The FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) processed 687,788 background checks during the week leading up to and including Black Friday. The day after Thanksgiving accounted for 187,585 of the transactions, putting it in tenth place on the list of highest volume 24-hour periods since the system began …

Handgun Of The Year: Ruger-57 Of the myriad handguns introduced and tested by your American Rifleman, Sturm, Ruger & Co. and its Ruger-57 earned the top honor for 2021 as Handgun of the Year. The announcement came in late 2019 that Ruger had a new handgun for the upcoming year that was …

“December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan,” as said by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Congress on Dec. 8, 1941. The suprise attack on Pearl Harbor, one of …

Returning home after a trip to the store, you see a strange vehicle in your driveway. As you get closer, you notice the front door is open. And then you hear your spouse scream for help. You wisely call 911, only to be told the response time will be delayed. …

Last week, the Sixth Circuit failed to achieve the majority necessary to correct the ATF’s shifting classifications of bump stocks as “machine guns.” NRA-ILA’s amicus brief opposed the ATF’s legal authority to arbitrarily criminalize legal firearms. Because the judges split 8-8, the flawed bump stock rule is being reinstated. This is …

Anti-gun New Jersey politicians have never been bashful about slapping restrictions on Second Amendment rights in the Garden State.  However, this latest, brazen campaign inches the state even closer to an outright ban on the Second Amendment.  In a state that basically doesn’t observe right-to-carry at all, the state Senate …