After Mooting Cases by Allowing the Open Carrying of Non-Firearms, Hawaii Introduces Bill to Reinstate Ban
The bill prohibits any person from openly carrying a "deadly or dangerous weapon," explicitly including bladed weapons in that category.
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The Rimfire Report: Rimfire At SHOT 2026 - What Did We See?
Another SHOT Show is officially in the rear-view mirror, and, as is my custom every year in this series, today we’re going to go over some of the more interesting or intriguing rimfire releases from SHOT Show 2026. While covering rimfire topics specifically is a significant chunk of what I ...
JPMorgan Chase Shifts Policy to Include Firearm Industry Companies
JPMorgan Chase recently announced the banking giant’s policy of denying services to manufacturers of Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) is over.
[SHOT 2026] SDS Arms Inglis 2035 9mm – Modernized Hi-Power
SDS Arms is an importer of a hoard of popular firearms, spanning rifles, shotguns, and handguns through their brands of Tisas, Tokarev USA, Spandau Arms, Military Armament Corporation (MAC), and Inglis. The last brand is the one we want to discuss because they have announced a new, modernized Hi-...
[SHOT 2026] TriStar Expands Color Options, Debuts Thumbhole O/U
TriStar Arms brought color expansions for existing products to SHOT Show 2026 alongside one unusual addition: a thumbhole stock over/under shotgun born from a raffle experiment. The company also added ODG/Black and FDE/Black options to their KR.22 rimfire rifle .
Springfield’s 10-8 Performance Master Class 1911
To readers of The Armory Life and many 1911 afficionados, Hilton Yam is going to be a familiar name. In the company of the many great gunsmiths and competitors who have built their professions around the construction or use of 1911 pistols, Yam offers a very unique perspective...
Alex Pretti Shooting Proved the Left Is Lawless — and the Right Is Getting Weak on the Second Amendment
In the rush to condemn unrest — rightly so — too many politicians and commentators are now blurring constitutional lines that should never be crossed.
A Baer of a Drill
Would you like to make your pistol or rifle skill improvements fun? There are a multitude of drills and targets we can all use on the range for practice, but for me and many people I have instructed over the years, a little bit of fun in the training really makes the process take off. Read More T...
HB 2763 and How Public Shooting Ranges Quietly Disappear
Public shooting ranges almost never die in dramatic fashion. There are no midnight votes. No sweeping bans. No bold headlines announcing “Shooting Declared Illegal.” Instead, ranges vanish the way old trails do—first with a sign, then a study, then a temporary closure that quietly becomes p...
Skallywag Tactical Riptide Review
Editor’s Note: In this Skallywag Tactical Riptide review, author Eugene Nielsen takes a stab at evaluating an intriguing new knife. The tanto version of the knife was provided to the author by the company for this review. The author states, “All opinions are my own and are based on my persona...