It’s a funny word, “moderate.” We throw it around habitually, as a positive and aggrandizing description, but we rarely stop to ask the crucial, prerequisite question: “Relative to what?” In some circumstances—when drinking, for example—moderation can indeed be a virtue. In others, it is among the worst of vices. Justice …

The Canadians fitted .303 British Ross Mk III rifles with American-made 5.2X Warner & Swasey Model of 1913 Telescopic Musket Sights for use by snipers. This example is in the collection of the Canadian War Museum.  Of all the Allied countries fighting Germany in 1914-1916, only one, Canada, included modern …

This article, “Deep Behind Enemy Lines: Weapons of Vietnam’s Covert Warriors,” appeared originally in the April 2015 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as your member magazine. It’s unlikely that any other U.S. military unit ever fielded such an array of …

The last few years have been particularly kind to Beretta 92 fans. Beretta launched the M9A3 and 92X platforms. Wilson Combat and Langdon Tactical Technology each collaborated for well-received special-edition pistols that thrilled fans and introduced the platform to many new shooters. However, 92 fans collectively took a look at the …

The Springfield Armory Hellcat revolutionized the subcompact 9 mm market. Offering the highest standard capacity magazine in its class, along with a compact size and a model that could mount a red dot sight, it rewrote the rule book when it came to small, compact 9 mm pistols and became an extremely …

Photo credit: Credit: Photo by Gage Skidmore courtesy of Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 Let’s give credit where it is due: Joe Biden has consistently argued that American citizens don’t have a right to buy and use semi-automatic AR-15 and AR-10 rifles. He’s also made it extremely clear that if …

This article, “Winchester’s First Self-Loading Rifles,” appeared originally in the May 2003 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as your member magazine. Realizing that American sportsmen would eventually recognize the intrinsic merits of self-loading hunting rifles and shotguns, the Winchester …

Smith & Wesson has launched a new multi-media marketing campaign—Smith & Wesson Gunsmarts—tailored to welcome new gun owners into the firearms community and highlight the key resources available to those who have just purchased their first pistol, rifle or revolver. The outreach effort comes at a time when many retailers are …

We had stalked the eland herd for hours, until they left the security of the thicker portion of the concession for the open plain. We’d then leopard-crawled from termite mound to termite mound, keeping the bull with the wonderfully long horns and dark ruff in sight. “We’re out of cover. …

Last week we discussed how being involved in a criminal attack can have a negative effect on our ability to hear things going on around us.  And that is just one of the physical changes that can occur when we are confronted with what is called the Fight or Flight Syndrome. There …