There is a comfortable lie sold by war movies and video games that a tank survives incoming fire simply by being an absurdly thick wall of solid steel. You take a hit, the hull rings like a church bell, sparks fly into the dirt, and the crew rolls forward without spilling their coffee. Anyone who...
Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is a gear week, and the topic is K9 patrol equipment: the gear that keeps both the handler and the dog alive and working across a career, not a demo. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers , whose support keeps this column going ever...
A legally armed citizen fought back against an armed criminal at a Baltimore youth football game. The accused attacker had been released from prison just eight days earlier, and a new indictment reveals how the lawful gun owner defended himself as a 12-year-old girl was killed.
Prosecutors cleared a 20-year-old in a fatal Cincinnati lounge shooting as self-defense, but she still faces a concealed weapon charge. Read the original story: 20-Year-Old Woman Who Shot Employee During ‘Vicious Assault’ at Downtown Cincinnati Lounge Cleared of Homicide, Still Faces Conceale...
If you have never shot .22 LR suppressed, you have missed one of the best experiences in shooting. A subsonic rimfire behind a can is genuinely quiet, the whole thing costs very little per round, and new shooters who flinch at a centerfire rifle will happily shoot a suppressed .22 all afternoon. ...
West Plains police say a neighbor fired in self-defense after a man from a domestic disturbance confronted them. A 29-year-old man died. Read the original story: Missouri Neighbor Fires in Self-Defense After Man From Domestic Disturbance Confronts Them on Their Own Property, Police Say
A little while back, Vortex Optics sent over their AMG UH-1 Gen II holographic sight, and it spent its time with me riding on a MAC IX and a Rossi R95 Triple Black lever action. Somewhere between those two guns, a question got stuck in my head. Holographic sights are built for larpers, close-quar...
Taurus has added a Flat Dark Earth finish to the TX9, and it covers all three sizes at once: full-size, compact and sub-compact. Both the slide and frame are FDE, with a matte black barrel peeking out through the ejection port. Taurus marketing GM Caleb Giddings put it simply when he said that in...
Cook County asks the Supreme Court to toss Viramontes as moot after the lead AR-15 plaintiff sought to exit. SAF says it should go on. Read the original story: He Wanted a Smith and Wesson AR-15. Now He Wants Out of the Case, and Cook County Wants the Whole Thing Dismissed.
Editor’s Note: In this article, Dr. Will Dabbs evaluates the Speed-Tac AR Bolt Carrier in his Springfield Armory SAINT rifle. Designed for .223/5.56 and 300 BLK chambered AR-15 rifles, this bolt carrier is specially designed to improve the seating of a full magazine on a closed bolt. The bo...