New Jersey gun owners received a bit of good news recently when the Legislature sent the budget to Gov. Phil Murphy, and it did not contain the revenues from massive hikes the executive had earlier proposed on firearm permitting fees. Murphy had unsuccessfully proposed these Draconian fees before.  Unrelenting, his …

Secrets learned are nothing more than information the dedicated have uncovered with time. I’m going to give you the secret to shooting a handgun accurately. And I’m going to give it away in the very first paragraph of this article. Next to firearm safety, the single most important skill you must …

With the hotly contested 2020 presidential election just weeks away, and featuring two candidates who could not be further from one another when it comes to their views of the Second Amendment, the final call could come down to a handful of votes in a handful of “swing states.” What …

Earlier this year, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a sweeping ban and confiscation plan on over 1,500 commonly used firearms. The good news is that Canadian citizens are fighting back. As Fox News reported, a Parliamentary e-petition to reverse the gun ban (petition number “e-2574”) has closed and been certified with 230,905 signatures, making …

Suppressors protect our ears from the dangerous high-frequency sound waves that are an unfortunate natural byproduct of firearm use. They’re the most effective flash hiders on the market. They make a shot far less likely to spook a hunter’s quarry. They cut felt recoil considerably. They can often even make your gun more …

Thanks to your phone calls and emails in opposition to Ordinance O-19-82 (mandating locked storage requirements for any firearms outside your immediate possession or control) and Ordinance O-19-83 (banning firearms at any building owned or leased by the city for conducting business with the public), the Albuquerque City Council defeated both measures on a 6-3 vote …

We all know how important it is to invest in a quality self-defense gun, but it’s also important to invest in quality personal-defense ammunition, too. There are many companies producing high-quality self-defense ammunition today, but two industry giants are producing some of the best defensive loads on the market: Federal Premium and Speer …

The City Council recently voted down Resolution R-20-68 that would have urged the New Mexico Legislature to rip the state firearms preemption language from the New Mexico Constitution.  That important language, found in Article II Section 6, provides that “No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to …

During the closing weeks of World War II, Free French and British SAS troops carried out an operation in the Netherlands code-named Operation Amherst. The mission had the objective of attacking and capturing a series of airfields, bridges and canals in an area 80 miles northeast of Amsterdam. The men who participated …

More SUBSCRIBE This article, “Civil War Remingtons,” appeared originally in the November 2003 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as your member magazine. When one thinks of percussion revolvers in U.S. military service, Colt’s percussion revolvers tend to be the …