CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH — A 41-year-old Cleveland Heights mother armed herself and confronted a group of teens in her driveway on April 13 after seeing her juvenile son being physically grabbed next to an SUV. As reported by Cleavland.com, the woman called police shortly after 11:20 a.m. followin...
HOUSTON, TX — A Houston homeowner shot a suspected home invader early Sunday morning after the intruder crashed a vehicle nearby, jumped a fence, and broke into the residence, according to the Houston Police Department. The incident took place on Truman Street near the intersection of W Crossti...
My very first handgun was a Springfield Armory XD in 9mm. It was around 2007, I was shopping for a home-defense solution and I’d read positive reviews about the XD line in American Rifleman and Guns & Ammo magazines. At decision time, it wasn’t much of a competiti...
We recently covered the Canadian military's adoption of a new carbine, the CMAR . That announcement was shortly followed by word that a Colt scope would round out the package: the CMAR 1-6 . Colt's new line of civilian optics has now been released, so we can take a look at what th...
Athlon Optics is adding the Ares HLR to their lineup, and the pitch is simple: a precision riflescope built for hunters who move a lot and count ounces. The lighter of the two available configurations comes in at 18.9 ounces, which puts it firmly in backcountry-viable territory without asking you...
FN America is changing things up in the pistol dot world at NRAAM 2026 with the new FN Pureview, the first holographic pistol dot to hit the market. This is a fully enclosed holographic dot that uses FN’s proprietary ImageGuide technology to create the holographic projection on a single fla...
Handgun-mounted red dot sights have been around for a long time. I was first exposed to them in the late ’90s mounted on USPSA Open guns. These flat-shooting, compensated, red dot-adorned pistols ran fast when they were running, and Open shooters were most often at the top of the list at the en...
ST. PETERSBURG, FL — A homeowner shot and killed a 46-year-old man who tried to force his way into the house early Saturday morning while three adults and a child were inside, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department. Officers responded to reports of gunfire in the 3000 block of 2nd Av...
@BallisticAviation is at NRAAM 2026 in Houston, catching up with the sharp-dressed Dave Kiwacka of Hi-Point for the debut of the Hush-Point 30Ti, a DMLS-manufactured low back pressure suppressor with 3 distinct sizes (.22, 9/45 & .30. The Hush-Point line uses gas-venting cores that ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) has formally joined a growing congressional effort to force the ATF to answer questions about an internal database that critics say functions as a backdoor national gun registry. Cornyn sent his follow-up letter on March 9, 2026, to ATF Deputy Direc...