After violent unrest and looting in 2020 that Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot admitted had “spread like wildfire” throughout parts of Chicago, the mayor nonetheless “urged Chicagoans not to take matters into their own hands in this concealed carry state. ‘Do not pick up arms and try to be police. If there’s a …

Before we dive headfirst into the morass that is the 30 Super Carry debate, let’s start with something (slightly) less controversial: Smith & Wesson’s Shield Plus is a supremely good pistol. Building on the success of the standard Shield and updated M2.0 versions, the Shield Plus kept critical dimensions similar to allow …

America’s enduring Model 1911 .45-cal., semi-automatic pistol remains a landmark sidearm more than a century later. Yet how it was introduced to service and typically carried by soldiers, sailors and marines before World War I remains lesser known. Self-loading handguns became possible with the French invention of smokeless powder in …

Firearm: Glock G44 (MSRP: $379) Like pretty much everybody else in this business, when the Glock G44 was first introduced a few years ago, I thought “Oh great, a .22LR pistol that will make a great training gun for people who own a Glock G19.” I didn’t own a Glock G19 at …

Dear friend, Recently, in the middle of the night, the anti-gunners in House of Representatives made under the table deals to sell you out. These anti-gunners have made clear that you should not be able to purchase the tools of self-defense like commonly-owned rifles and shotguns. Buy All-American! Bring health …

It was probably some 37 years ago that I made an impulse buy at the old and now defunct Herb Bauer Sporting Goods store in Fresno, California. I had some cash burning a hole in my pocket as I perused the used gun rack. A Marlin rimfire lever-action rifle caught my eye. …

2 MASSIVE gun control bills have passed through Congress in as many months! The first bill made it all the way through the Senate and was signed by Joe Biden giving $750,000,000 in bribe money to the states to pass ‘Red Flag Gun Confiscation laws.’ The second is Pelosi’s “Assault …

The time has come for President Joe Biden and the rest of the gun control politicians to pack up the worn-out line that “no one needs an AR-15 to hunt deer.” Turns out, recreational target shooters and hunters do want Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs). That’s the family of AR-platform [semiautomatic] …

Every so often, something that happens on a range serves to remind me that rather than dying or fading away, good lessons just keep chugging along. That these events usually involve high-stress competition or shooting instruction is evidence that well-executed training can expose the best (and worst) of our equipment …

While so-called “mainstream” media outlets routinely have wall-to-wall coverage of atrocious murders by troubled young men seeking attention, the national media seldom report the episodes of armed self-defense. The NRA, of course, uses “The Armed Citizen” column to highlight a few of these stories each month. Meanwhile, many national media …