William English estimates that Americans own 461 million firearms. A separate calculation using more than a century of federal production records produces nearly identical handgun, rifle, and shotgun ratios.
We take an in-depth look at exactly what recoil-reducing devices can do to make your magnum hunting rifle more shootable The post Muzzle Brakes vs. Suppressors: What’s Best for Taming Recoil of Your Magnum Rifle? appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Adjusted firearm-related NICS checks reached 1.115 million in August 2026, up 2.2% from last year, while NFA checks more than tripled.
The ballistic math never made sense, but that didn't stop American hunters from buying new big-bore rifles The post Here’s Why Big-Bore Rifles Got So Popular in the Late 90s appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is a suppressor review, and the topic is the Dead Air Sandman X, a short, full-auto-rated .30 caliber can I ran on two very different host rifles and watched do something I did not expect. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers , who...
As the War in Ukraine shifts once again, Russia has moved to a defensive approach to the growing threat posed by unmanned aerial systems (UAS), particularly as drone attacks have increasingly reached targets inside Russian territory. This expanding threat has created a clear need for systems that...
CMMG adds a super-interesting model to their Zeroed Banshee lineup with a factory-suppressed pistol, built around a Glock-pattern lower. The pistol runs CMMG's Fixed Ejector Radial Delayed Blowback operating system, paired with a ZEROED 36 suppressor mounted on a 9x19mm barrel with a 1:10 tw...
Nothing stirs more of an emotional divide in the 2A community than the bullpup. While there are factual arguments for the practical use of the platform design, the emotional responses are rarely middle ground. The bullpup is a rifle that end users either love or hate; rarely is it undecided.
Photo Of The Day, and we go to Russia to see what’s going on at Lobaev Arms. I could be wrong, but their approach to the AR-10 platform reads like applied study notes from the HK417. Rather than using the AR's direct impingement system, Lobaev engineered an improved gas piston des...
We pitted modern rifles against wood-stocked classics The post The Truth About Traditional Hunting Rifles (and New Ones) appeared first on Outdoor Life.