The American 105 mm howitzer was perhaps the most significant piece of mid-20th century (and beyond) field artillery. It ended up being used on both sides of many conflicts. One hundred five millimeters converts to just a dab more than 4 inches for Yankee rulin’, but the dimension has enormous …

On June 27, a nine-month pregnant woman took down a would be armed robber when he tried to control her at a Houston gas station. In the clip below, the woman can be seen talking to the man who gets out of his car and steps up on the inside …

Anything that .22 LR can do, .22 WMR can do better, in a bolt gun, at least. While the magnum rimfire shines in manually operated actions, getting it to run reliably in a semi-auto is a rather large ask. The problem lies in the cartridge’s power factor, as it is …

“A year ago today, the Supreme Court ruled to strip away the rights of a governor to protect her people from concealed carry weapons. We refused to go backwards,” tweeted New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on June 23. This tweet—and other statements from Gov. Hochul—is an admission she is obstructing a …

In 1996, I was about two years into my informal but avid study of defensive handguns. This was the same year that Smith & Wesson decided to spice up the company’s double-action revolver line-up with the release of the Model 686 Plus chambered for .357 Mag. The “Plus” in the …

Just after the U.S. Supreme Court decided New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022), it sent several cases on its docket back to the lower courts, which had upheld gun restrictions, to be re-decided in accordance with the Bruen ruling. That’s Court-speak for “you got it wrong; now go back and …

Among the first commercially successful repeating handguns sold in the U.S. were Colt’s Pocket Models. As can be surmised from their name, these late-1840s percussion revolvers, throwing .320-inch-diameter lead balls, were small enough to conceal in a pocket. In 1861, when Smith & Wesson added a second model to their …

President Joe Biden (D), once again, put on display his penchant for telling falsehoods about the Second Amendment, firearms and more at a recent fundraising event. “There’s a lot of things we can change, because the American people by and large agree you don’t need a weapon of war. I’m a Second …

As policies from the Biden administration have opened the southern border of the United States of America to more illegal immigration, much of the national debate about immigration has necessarily focused on border security. But that important issue is for other publications and news services to report on and investigate. …

I recently did two things that I always swore I would never do: spend beaucoup bucks on a bespoke, custom-made firearm and purchase an M1911. Regarding the former, it’s just because I’m an inveterate frugal person who owns exactly one pair of jeans at any given time, cuts his own hair, eats …