Firearm: Smith & Wesson CSX (MSRP: $609) With the recent spate of micro-9 mm, double-stack pistols, one can be forgiven for lumping Smith & Wesson’s new CSX pistol into that group. Alternately, one might be tempted to think the CSX is Smith & Wesson’s take on the micro-9 mm 1911, like …

American Tactical Imports (ATI) is no stranger to the AR-15 market, particularly when it comes to creating affordable, reliable platforms in the category. Despite the affordable cost of the company’s offerings, ATI continues to keep up with current trends in the market, and the Alpha-15 is one of the latest iterations. Introduced …

Q. Enclosed are two photos of a U.S. M1917 Enfield with receiver markings unlike any of the four M1917 Enfields that I have owned in the past and present. The rifle is obviously a very early Winchester because of the four-digit serial number and the “W” stamped on the receiver, as opposed to …

Connecticut’s Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont doesn’t have the celebrity status of some of his gun control governor colleagues like New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, New Jersey’s Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy or California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. His recent gun control proposal arguably outdoes them all, though. Connecticut’s governor ripped …

If you’ve shot suppressed AR-style rifles at all, you’ve most likely experienced the unpleasant effect of excess gas blowing back into your face as a result of the sound suppressor. It comes with the territory, right? One of those things you have to live with in order to protect your …

The total volume of firearm sales that resulted in an FBI NICs check last month came in at slightly more than 1.3 million, a 42.6-percent decline compared to January 2021 figures according to estimates by Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF). The drop, although dramatic, placed the month at nearly …

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 …