Walther Arms Kicks of Summer with Special Rimfire Promotion
Walther Arms is kicking off summer with the Shoot Safe and Look Good Promotion, an opportunity for enthusiasts to shoot safely and look good doing it. Beginning June 30, 2023, and running through July 31, any law-abiding consumer who purchases a new Walther rimfire handgun will receive a free pair of ANSI-rated Leupold Payload performance …
Rifleman Q&A: Colt Serial No. 1 Single Action Army Mystery Solved
Q: I thoroughly enjoyed Rick Hacker’s recent article on the Colt SAA and its 150-year history, but I am confused by the fact that the photos of Serial No. 1 on the cover of American Rifleman differ from those found in some other articles and websites. Can you please clarify this matter? A: Yours …
Handloads: A .380 ACP Pocket Pistol Practice Load
As modern ammunition manufacturing has drastically improved during the past 50 years, the .380 ACP is finally receiving the respect it deserves as a defensive cartridge. While handy to carry, pistols chambered for the cartridge tend to be harder to shoot well and thus require more practice to master. Here is my …
FN Herstal Announces Expansions, U.S.-Made Optics Forthcoming
Production capacity at Noptel—an FN Herstal-owned optics company in Finland—has increased with additional technical staff and an expanded plant size. The growth began in November 2022 and was completed in March of this year. The firm invested more than 1,150,000 euros in construction and hiring. The area dedicated to manufacturing increased from …
Adventures in the Gun Control Multiverse
Gun control legislators often appear to inhabit an alternative universe, one with its own laws of time, science, logic, and common sense. Take, for example, the dogged and delusional adherence to the “science” of firearm microstamping. The idea behind microstamping is that it would combat crime by providing identifying information …
Hunter Biden Plea Deal Exemplifies America’s Gun Control Regime
Just in case anyone needed further evidence that gun control laws are about exercising political control and suppressing constitutional rights, rather than protecting the public from criminals, Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has provided them with unmistakable proof. On June 20, the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the District of …
Biden’s Unconstitutional Pistol Brace Rule Fine With All Senate Democrats
On June 22, the U.S. Senate voted on House Joint Resolution 44, which sought to disapprove the Biden Administration’s pistol brace rule. While the House passed H.J. Res. 44 on a bipartisan basis, the Senate’s vote stuck straight to party lines, with the provision failing 49-50. Clearly, Senate Democrat Leadership stood firm in its defense of …
More Preposterous Claims from President Biden
President Joe Biden (D), once again, put on display his penchant for telling falsehoods about the Second Amendment, firearms and more at a recent fundraising event. “There’s a lot of things we can change, because the American people by and large agree you don’t need a weapon of war. I’m a Second …
Stop the Presses! NRA and CNN Agree: Joe Biden Lies on Guns
It’s not often that NRA finds itself in agreement with CNN’s reporting about firearms, but the outlet’s fact-check of Joe Biden’s Connecticut gun control speech last week proved the cable news channel is capable of accurately reporting on guns … when it wants to. The piece noted that Biden “made at least …
TIME TO HOLD ANTI-GUN SENATORS ACCOUNTABLE
The Senate just voted to BETRAY millions of law-abiding gun owners. H.J. Res. 44 – the bill to OVERTURN Biden’s pistol ban – fell excruciatingly short of passing the Senate on Thursday in a 49-50 party line vote. Remember: The House proved an important point to the courts by passing …