Altitude Sickness: How to Prevent It and Treat It

Fitness will not save you from altitude sickness, and neither will drinking water. The single thing that causes acute mountain sickness is gaining altitude too fast without acclimatization, and the most reliable way to prevent it is to climb slowly enough that your body can adjust. This matters f...

By James Chen •

Ninth Circuit Flips Bruen’s Burden to Uphold Hawaii Gun-Purchase Restrictions

A divided Ninth Circuit reversed another Second Amendment victory, treating Hawaii’s handgun-permit deadline and police-inspection mandate as presumptively constitutional because they sit inside a “shall-issue” system. Five dissenting judges said the majority misread Bruen and improperly sh...

By Duncan Johnson Editor in Chief •

Five Drills for Beginners at the Range

Having a plan when you go to the range is how you succeed. With that in mind, we've got beginner drills perfect for your next range trip.

By Travis Pike •

The Rimfire Report: What's Different About CCI's Golden Boy Ammo?

Earlier this summer, CCI and Henry Repeating Arms teamed up to come out with a special limited-edition run of 36-grain .22 LR ammo said to be “optimized” for cycling within the Golden Boy rifle - which I happen to have handy, as I’m sure many of you out there also do. CCI is no ...

By Luke C. •

POTD: The Martz P.38 Carbine – The Gun Walther Never Built

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a gun Walther never built, made by a man who spent forty years building guns nobody built. John V. Martz served in the Navy during the war, put in twenty five years as an aircraft sheet metal man at McClellan Air Force Base, and started mes...

By Sam.S •

Buying Milsurp: Cosmoline Removal

Ever cleaned the cosmoline out of an military surplus firearm? In today’s article, we demonstrate a straightforward way of cosmoline removal using a Type 56 carbine to show the cleaning process. As a lover of guns, I aspire to collect pretty much all of them. But I remember a not-so-distant pas...

By GunSpot •

Silencer Saturday #450: 4473 vs. Form 4 Transfers

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturer of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . It has been more than a month since the first legal, non-stamp silencer transfer. More questions remain than answers, bu...

By Daniel Y •

Fudd Friday: Pump-Action Or Semi-Auto Shotgun For Hunting?

A few points at first. While you decide what works for you, let’s point out that whether we’re hunting upland birds (pheasants, grouse, woodcock) or waterfowl (geese and ducks, mostly), it doesn’t make much difference in what action you decide on. There are lots of great upland ...

By Zac K •

Why Suppressors Keep Getting Shorter, and When a K Can Is Too Short

Count the 5.56 suppressors under six inches at your local gun shop’s suppressor counter, then think back to what that same shelf looked like in 2019. Short cans went from a niche request to a default recommendation in about five years, following some similar trends in other parts of the ind...

By Luke Cuenco •
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