Winchester has long been a familiar name in the bolt-action rifle market, and its Model 70 continues to be one of the most celebrated of all. While the company offers many different versions of the Model 70 design today, the most elegant offered is the Super Grade line. Last year, American Rifleman staff tested the newest addition …

There’s an old Monty Python sketch in which a theatrical radio narrator desperately tries to make an exceedingly boring story sound suspenseful and melodramatic. “June the 4th, 1973,” the voice says, “was much like any other summer’s day in Peterborough, and Ralph Mellish, a file clerk at an insurance company, …

The 1,000th MRAD (Multi-Role Adaptive Design) Mark 22 MOD 0 (MK22) rifle destined for use in the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Advanced Sniper Rifle and United States Army Precision Sniper Rifle programs rolled out of Barrett Firearms Manufacturing in November. In a period when raw material procurement and shipping challenges …

Rifle of the Year: Benelli USA Lupo Of the myriad rifles introduced and tested by your American Rifleman, Benelli USA and its Lupo rifle earn the top honor for 2021 as Rifle of the Year. The announcement came in 2020 that the Italian shotgun maker planned to distribute a platform on the American market …

A long time ago, I was privileged to handle an original Colt Paterson revolver. As you may recall, this was the first American revolver—a legendary arm that saw wide use in frontier conflict. The Paterson principle of multiple chambers rotating into alignment with the barrel proved itself over and over again. The …

Reese Witherspoon’s not a lawyer. But she’s played one on television. Witherspoon’s credits during her Tinseltown tenure include roles involving firearms and the legal profession. In real life, her gun control comments following the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wis., show she knows little about either. She demonstrated Hollywood’s …

When White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the Biden administration’s desire for speech restrictions from Big Tech “our asks” last July, tremors shook the foundation of the First Amendment so hard they reverberated all the way to the Second. Gun owners are already acutely aware that Facebook, Twitter and …

For several years now I have partnered with Mossberg’s Linda Powell to sponsor a team tactics class at Gunsite. The focus of this particular class has been for armed citizens and their partners as opposed to special police or military units. While our students have come with all sorts of backgrounds, …

Threaded-barreled, “tactical” lever guns are experiencing a boom in popularity right now, and Ranger Point Precision (RPP) has a line of screw-on Comet muzzle brakes to accommodate many of the most popular models from Henry, Marlin and Rossi. The Comet muzzle brake is made from 4140 steel an machined to …

The American Civil War was the first conflict in our nation’s history in which telescopic-sighted rifles were employed in combat to any appreciable extent. These muzzleloading, percussion rifles were fabricated by a number of civilian gunsmiths and gunsmithing firms, primarily for benchrest shooting matches. Such rifles normally weighed from 25 to 35 …