In late April, Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), made a bizarre announcement during a congressional hearing that DHS was forming what it called a “Mis- and Disinformation Governance Board.” The statement came in response to a question about how DHS was responding to supposed Russian interference in …

As we look at the new guns being introduced this year, some trends seem to be emerging. While micro 9 mm carry guns are still being introduced, some established manufacturers of such pistols are making versions just a little longer for improved ergonomics. “Optic-ready” or “optic-equipped” pistols continue to increase …

As our Handguns Editor Tamara Keel is fond of saying, safety is not a binary condition. Often, we tend to view it like the selector on a firearm: Safe or [Not Safe], when in reality, there’s a wide range in which one can be safe or, well, less safe. One …

As NRA-ILA recently pointed out, gun control researchers and their establishment press lapdogs propagate misleading “science” to advance their political agenda. Sometimes this involves sophisticated statistical modeling, other times it involves the crude mischaracterization of data. The anti-gun advocates’ longest-running version of the latter involves conflating firearm-related deaths among children and those among juveniles …

In a recent op-ed, Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell claimed that Biden doesn’t want “to take away your guns” and “there is no such thing as a gun registry,” all while the Biden Administration enacts a ban on up to  40,000,000   pistols and is supercharging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ …

The large format pistol continues to be a red-hot portion of the American gun market. New pistols are now available chambered in pistol calibers, as well as others chambered in rifle calibers that can reach out to 500 yards and beyond. The large format pistol, with or without a brace, …

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. -Second Amendment to the US Constitution. The Second Amendment is one of the clearest sentences in the entire US Constitution. Yet, state and …

Oliver Winchester established the company bearing his name on May 22, 1866, in New Haven, Conn., the same year he introduced the Model 1866. The long gun most often credited with winning the west—the Model 1873—appeared seven years later. It was innovative in another way, bringing with it the new .44-40 …

California is pulling off a vanishing act right before everyone’s eyes. The list of semiautomatic handguns available for sale there is rapidly dwindling, thanks to the state’s “Not Unsafe Handgun Roster.” It won’t be too long before all semiautomatic handguns will be banned from sale in California – a step closer …

2022 is a good year to be a handgun owner. Your choices for a new handgun are almost endless, from small pistols that are ideal for self-defense to the latest and greatest race guns designed for competition to large format handguns based on the AR-15 and other platforms. The guns …