1. A Range-Specific Medical Kit What do you really need in your medical kit? Well, that depends on its purpose. Many kits try to be everything to everybody, and that means they might not serve a specific need as well as possible. Rise Armament’s Range Med Kit, though, is focused on …

The Iowa legislature is entering the final weeks of the 2024 legislative session and pro-gun bills remain eligible for votes on the Senate floor. Contact your state senator today and urge them to support House File 2586, House File 2556, and House File 2464. These bills would implement important school security measures as …

What politicians, such as President Joe Biden (D), and many in the media won’t tell you is that freedom is winning in the arena of public opinion. Despite decades of mainstream-media narratives to the contrary, for example, a majority of people do not believe that guns in the home make …

The landscape of the combat handgun in America was very different at the dawn of the 1980s. For starters, the U.S. was still largely revolver country, but it’s the world of duty/service pistols that I’m looking at. Pistols hadn’t changed much over the preceding few decades since World War II, …

This article appeared originally in the March 1974 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the monthly magazine, visit NRA’s membership page. Disclosure of details of the M1 carbine development came as a technical “last testament” from Edwin Pugsley, an all-time figure in firearms development. He died Nov. 19, 1975, at 90, …

Galco Gunleather has just announced the release of its new Thunderclap leather holster which is part of Galco’s Masterbilt series. Masterbilt holsters are Galco’s premium quality, top of the line holsters, all of which are handcrafted in America. Thunderclap holsters are currently exclusively offered for single stack 1911-stlye pistols with four or …

After nearly two years, gun-ban advocates still haven’t been able to accept the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, which, among other things, affirmed the right of lawful Americans to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense. In fact, many would like to see concealed carry outlawed, despite the fact that doing …

Last month, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Police Chief Larry Scirotto announced major operational changes to police staffing in the city. Effective February 26, officers would no longer be responding to 911 calls that weren’t “in-progress emergencies.” Calls about crimes like criminal mischief, theft, and harassment would instead be rerouted to the telephone reporting unit …

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, applauds Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox for signing the NSSF-supported Second Amendment Privacy Acts in their respective states. The laws will bar the use of a firearm-retailer specific Merchant Category Code (MCC) for banks, credit card companies or …

The Henry Repeating Arms Co. has built a market around its ability to combine historic connections and traditional aesthetics with highly functional, American-made products. And the Big Boy revolvers built on its first “conventional” handgun platform—it already offered “mare’s leg” pistol versions of its rimfire and centerfire lever-action rifles—demonstrate this knack at blending heritage …