Red dots - and green ones, too - have been the future of many firearm platforms in recent years; especially handguns. One of the most clever innovations that I have witnessed from an optics company in recent years is the shotgun dot. The Vortex Optics Viper Shotgun Enclosed Dot has such a clever ...
A Georgia family did the right things, then a man returned in body armor with a rifle. Here's what their defensive gun use teaches about protecting yours.
There's a pretty common misconception floating around gun circles that Samuel Colt had some hand in the Single Action Army. Maybe he designed it, maybe he approved it, maybe he at least lived to see it. The reality is that Colt died in January 1862, more than a decade before the SAA ever exi...
If you’ve shot a suppressed AR-15 for more than a magazine or two, you already know the tradeoff. The can makes your rifle quiet, but it also sends a chunk of that gas right back at you. Eyes, lungs, bolt carrier group, all of it. That backpressure problem, combined with a new and, in my .....
MEDFORD, ORE. — A homeowner opened fire on a man trying to break into his house Sunday night while his family was still inside, and the suspect ended up in custody with a gunshot wound. As reported by KOBI5 (NBC5), the Medford Police Department responded to a reported burglary in progress on th...
A highly chaotic and violent incident left a 34-year-old driver dead and two residents hospitalized on Wednesday evening, June 24, 2026, in San Tan Valley, Arizona. The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) confirmed that after the driver intentionally or recklessly plowed an SUV directly into a...
A residential burglary took a violent and critical turn on Tuesday afternoon at the Greenbrook at Shelby Farms apartment complex in Northeast Memphis. A tenant returned home to find a masked stranger dismantling his entertainment system, leading to a dynamic shooting that spilled out the back doo...
We spent a week pulling triggers at Staccato Vegas to determine which PCCs are worthwhile, and which to avoid The post The Best Pistol Caliber Carbines: We Put the Top 18 PCCs to the Test appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Welcome back, folks! Last time around we kicked off a four-part look at the Colt 1862 Police revolver, covering the design philosophy that produced it, the Civil War timing that hampered its sales, the factory fire that made things worse, and the conversion craze that ate up the majority of survi...
The American gun industry continues to move out of New England and into the southern U.S., with Ruger quietly moving its headquarters out of Connecticut earlier this year.