It’s said that in life, one never gets a second chance to create a first impression. SDS Imports, the company that imports the Tisas firearms manufactured in Turkey, appears to have embraced that piece of wisdom, because I was extremely impressed from the moment I opened the box containing its new PX-9 …

While most of the attention from the end of the United States Supreme Court’s last term focused on several landmark cases, including a major win for gun owners in the NRA-supported case New York State Rifle and Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, SCOTUS also issued a decision that may substantially limit …

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] …