In 2020, as concerns over COVID-19 and violent unrest gripped the nation, Americans demonstrated unprecedented support for their right to keep and bear arms. The FBI conducted a record-setting 39.6 million National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks in 2020. The 2020 number bested the previous record year (2019) …

Last year when Caldwell introduced its line of AR500 steel targets, they quickly began flying off store shelves which made them difficult to find. With the stock replenished this year, I managed to snag three IPSC steel target sizes the company makes (full size, 66 percent and 33 percent) and spend …

Walther Arms has been putting out some very good pistols for a very long time. Nonetheless, despite consistently producing the best trigger among mass-produced, striker-fired guns, Walther pistols seemed to get lost in the crowd. One company leapt to the forefront of the polymer-frame, striker-fired pack and has refused to give …

The Idaho Second Amendment Alliance is warning that the buzz is that Nancy Pelosi and others will introduce legislation that will not only continue the infringements upon your liberty to purchase weapons by going through worthless background checks but also require a lawless national gun registry.  Remember, background checks are …

We were sitting on a huge prairie dog town near Elk Mountain, Wyo., shooting furiously all morning, but the action started to slow down after lunch. American Rifleman’s Christopher Olsen and I were having some fun working out a graduated reticle in the scope we were using, and had a pretty good …

Throughout history, several firearms have become inexorably linked to a single cartridge. Colt’s 1911 will always be associated with the .45 ACP. When you think of lever-actions, you think of the .30-30 Win. And, the AR-15 is forever tethered to the .223 Rem./5.56 NATO. Of course, that isn’t exactly correct, …

Though larger in size, this blowback-operated Walther PPK (left) generates more felt recoil due to its significant slide mass. In locked-breech pistols like the Kel-Tec P3AT (right), the barrel and slide move together for a longer period, which imparts less felt recoil. Although a little late to the defensive-pistol arena, …

Riflemen always want accurate rifles, but the definition of “accurate” has evolved over the years so that almost every bolt-action, regardless of its price, is expected to shoot 1-inch groups. Custom target-style rifles—or any hunting rifles that are expensive—are expected to exceed that standard. But one fact we occasionally forget is …

According to a recent Fox News report, Bank of America secretly turned over hundreds of its customers’ personal data to the federal government following the unrest at the Capitol on January 6. The targeted customers included those who made purchases at “weapons-related merchants” in early January. The report suggested that the nation’s …

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was voted to be removed from her committee duties by spineless, weak, and pathetic snowflakes in Congress because she didn’t buy into the narratives the mainstream, corporate-owned, CIA-controlled media peddled, along with calling certain criminal members of Congress the Squad.  However, she isn’t letting that stop …