Rock Island Armory (RIA) is unveiling the Rock Island Armory 5.0 series, the successor to the full size RIA 5.0 pistol. The latest RIA 5.0 pistol, known as the RIA5.0E, for “Enhanced,” offers some tweaks over the original model, which initially made its debut in early 2023 at the annual SHOT Show …

At SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada, this past January, I had some downtime between meetings and wandered into the Savior Equipment booth because I saw the company’s display of a rifle in a guitar case, which are two things that I like. Along with boasting plenty of storage …

In 2010, Aaron Voigt, the founder of Trailblazer Firearms, was watching television in a hotel room when he saw a program that featured a .380 ACP submachine gun. It was unusual in that it could be folded up to roughly the size and shape of a briefcase. Although the gun was …

Each year in January, the shooting industry gathers in Las Vegas for the Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show, better known as SHOT Show. Many new products are released there each year, but the January 2014 show sticks in my mind for a couple of reasons: first, it was the …

A recent incident in Las Vegas proved once again that armed citizens save lives—and sometimes many, many lives. On June 23, a man wearing a helmet and armed with a rifle and other firearms charged into the Turnberry Towers luxury condominiums in Las Vegas and began firing shots in the …

When horrible events happen, people want to know why. Why was a random group of people targeted to have their innocent day destroyed by violence and terror? Why did the culprit choose that group of victims, that day on the calendar, that specific location? And who? Who was the mastermind behind the event? …

Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, announced in January that she would retire from her antigun group sometime this year. Don’t expect a quiet exit as she’s now talking about restricting free speech. Watts, whose gun control group is controlled by billionaire and former failed gun control presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, took …

PrairieFire, located on the grounds that were once home to shooting-and-training facility Front Sight in Nevada, has scheduled its grand opening for Sept. 23. Company CEO Bill Wilson (not the same person of Wilson Combat fame) told the Pahrump Valley Times after acquiring the facility in bankruptcy proceedings late last year, “The PrairieFire …

AGM Global Vision has recently released the new Neith 4MP Digital Night Vision Scope, which was originally announced at the recent 2023 SHOT Show held in Las Vegas, NV. “This is the first digital night vision optics by AGM, and more products in this family will likely follow,” said Chase Stephens, …

In the movie Casablanca (1942), when Rick (Humphrey Bogart) shoots Maj. Strasser to stop him from preventing Victor and Ilsa’s airplane from taking off, Capt. Louis Renault gave officers arriving on the scene their marching orders when he delivered the now-famous line: “Round up the usual suspects.”  While rounding up …