In what many gun buyers have called the “year of the lever gun” Smith & Wesson leads the pack with its Model 1854. In 2024, the company best known for heirloom-quality double-action revolvers and cutting-edge polymer-frame semi-automatic pistols and ARs under the Military & Police (M&P) banner is now in the lever-gun …

While most Americans were still desperately trying to figure out how the failed assassination attempt on President Donald Trump (R) came so shockingly close to being successful, at least one rabidly anti-gun extremist in Congress saw an opportunity to try to exploit the situation to promote himself and his agenda …

The Ruger LCR is easily the most modern double-action revolver in production. The LCR features a combination of polymer and aluminum construction to offer a lightweight, but nice shooting, handgun. Short-barrel revolvers designed for concealed carry are a popular choice and do a good job keeping Americans safe. Sometimes called belly guns, these revolvers …

The Talmud—the primary source of Jewish interpretation of the Torah—states: “If someone comes to kill you, rise and kill him first.” This clear commandment to defend one’s life with lethal force if so threatened is central to Jewish belief, namely that life is the most-sacred thing God has given us, …

Armed Citizen® Today A man defended himself and two others, including a small child, from an aggressive armed assailant in Morgan City, La., on Wednesday, May 15. Police say the 32-year-old assault suspect approached the male victim that afternoon in what started as a verbal altercation. The suspect then struck …

Firearm: Walther PPK/S in .32 ACP (MSRP: $969) It’s genuinely hard to overstate the impact of the Walther PPK on the firearm world. The PPK designation comes from the abbreviation of the German Polizeipistole Kriminal, which translates approximately into police pistol, detective. At the time of its introduction, it was groundbreaking—a small, …

The Treasury Department’s latest accusation against laws protecting Americans and American businesses against “woke” discrimination would be absurd if it wasn’t so serious. Treasury officials – the same ones that illegally spied-and-lied on law-abiding Americans purchasing firearms and ammunition – are warning that laws like Florida’s HB 3 are a threat to national …

These articles appeared originally in the March and April 1957 issues of The American Rifleman. To subscribe to the monthly magazine, visit NRA’s membership page. In the fall of 1897, when I was just a young National Guard sergeant shooting on my company rifle team, my old coach, Captain William DeV. Foulke, …

The Leupold Mark AR scope mount series is Leupold’s go-to mounting solution for pairing riflescopes and LPVOs to AR-15 and AR-10 pattern rifles. These general-purpose magnified optics mounts are machined from a single piece of aluminum, fit every popular riflescope main tube diameter, and sit at 1.5 inches tall (the universal standard …

Wrong Prescription: The Surgeon General’s Lame Old Propaganda and Policies On June 25, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a gun control advocacy document titled, “Firearm Violence: A Public Health Crisis in America.” Hailed by the regime press as some sort of gun control breakthrough, in truth Murthy’s report is …