Like so many hunting calibers of the 20th century, particularly in the sub-30 caliber segment, the .243 Winchester is a descendant of wildcatter experimentation. As early as the 1940s, Warren Page was experimenting with .243-caliber rounds, and when the Winchester .308 was released in the early 1...
LTT CEO Ernest Langdon says the ATD caught the team's attention because Steyr approached the DA/SA platform with a fresh perspective instead of simply updating an existing pistol. It gives LTT the chance to apply decades of experience with these systems to a platform built for where shooters...
Maxwell G. Atchisson's 22 LR conversion assembly of October 2nd, 1979 was the foundation for virtually all the conversion kits we use today.
Editor’s Note: For this Check-Mate UHC 9mm magazine review, the author received samples for testing from the company. The handgun used was a 1911 DS Prodigy that was loaned to the author by Springfield Armory. The 1911 is clearly a solid design — it would have to be to still be kicking he...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a pistol that tries really hard to be two guns from two different companies at the same time. This is a Chinese “dimpled slide” pistol from the Warlord-Era, chambered in 7.65mm (32 ACP), and this exact gun is photographed on page...
DOJ formally let the suppressor ruling stand and ATF told dealers in Dallas it will not cite 4473 transfers of cans. Plus Connecticut's Glock ban blocked, California's roster counter-move, and why 1.41 billion trace records matter to your paperwork.
The 1100 and its big brother, the 11-87, were the best semiauto shotguns that Remington ever produced The post The Remington 1100 Was the Greatest Gas-Operated Semiauto of Its Time. And It’s Still an Excellent Shotgun Today appeared first on Outdoor Life.
The War Department announced an increase in hostile fire pay and imminent danger pay today for the first time since 2002. A memorandum released by Tim Dill, assistant secretary of war for manpower and reserve affairs, states hostile fire pay will be issued at a full monthly rate of $450, which do...
As the introduction of the SIG M250 potentially opens a new chapter in the U.S. Army's squad automatic weapon story, or more accurately, the GPMG role, it is worth looking back at the excitement around the M249 when it was adopted. The U.S. Army type-classified the M249 on February 1, 1982, ...
Everyone recognizes GSG 9. Fewer people have heard of the BFE+, the specialized unit that exists precisely to fill the gap between Germany's standard federal riot police and its famous counterterrorism unit. Officers don't arrive at the BFE+ directly. They first serve in a standard evid...