I had little interest in double stack 1911 designs. I always chalked up the concept to some desire to have your cake and eat it too by converting something meant for competition to lifesaving gear. As a fan of the traditional single stack 1911, I didn’t get the appeal of making it fatter an...
A Minnesota carry case asks the Supreme Court whether Americans need a permit from every state and whether Bruen requires reciprocity. Read the original story: One Permit or Fifty? Minnesota Gun Owner Asks Supreme Court Whether Americans Need a License From Every State to Carry
We’re still waiting to see how all the fallout lands after the Supreme Court ended the National Firearms Act’s registration and approval requirements for short-barreled rifles and suppressors. However, some hunters are going to be very keen to take advantage of what appears to be a ma...
Twenty-seven states are urging the Supreme Court to strike down Illinois’ and Connecticut’s AR-15 bans, arguing that commonly owned rifles cannot be prohibited under the Second Amendment.
TENET has been making noise, pun intended, in the suppressor world since the Limited series dropped, and now the company is going after hunters specifically with something called the VESPER. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because TENET has spent the last few months quietly letting a prot...
A new Supreme Court brief argues that Cook County and Connecticut have the Second Amendment backward: The AR-15’s militia utility strengthens its constitutional protection rather than justifying a ban.
Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is a suppressor review, and the topic is the Dead Air Sandman X, a short, full-auto-rated .30 caliber can I ran on two very different host rifles and watched do something I did not expect. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers , who...
Aero Precision, Ballistic Advantage, Stag Arms, and VG6 are leaving private-equity ownership. Their new owners say manufacturing is ramping up, supply chains are being restored, and backorders will be addressed.
When I was 10 years old, I read Jeff Cooper’s articles in Guns & Ammo magazine in which he extolled the 1911 “.45 automatic” as the ultimate gunfighting/self-defense handgun. What he wrote made a great deal of sense to me. All these years later, it still does. Slim and flat, among ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Winchester’s attempt to build a better Garand. It failed, and in failing it handed us the M1 Carbine, so I would call that a fair trade. Winchester bought Ed Browning’s self-loading patents before he died in 1939. By 1938 the com...