America’s quest for greater firepower isn’t a new phenomenon. In fact, the desire for increased firepower can be traced to the earliest days of the United States and the repeating flintlock designs of Joseph G. Chambers. Multi-shot weapons were not unheard of in the late 18th century, but the...
Reload speed is often a geometry problem as much as it's a training/repition one, and XTech Tactical thinks it's found a cleaner solution than the billet flare kits that have dominated the category. The new X-Flare 556 and X-Flare Digital are glass-filled nylon magwells built spec...
A licensed concealed carrier reportedly stopped a knife-wielding man who charged through a crowded Cerritos restaurant. The defensive gun use exposes the dangerous failure of California’s unconstitutional SB2 “sensitive place” restrictions.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the rifle that started Remington’s whole bolt-action hunting empire, and it began life as war surplus. This is the Remington Model 30 Express, and its roots run straight back to World War I. When America couldn’t build enough 190...
Carl Gustaf doesn't make firearms anymore. What it makes now is time, and the lineage matters more than the product category suggests. The watch brand has rooted itself in the legacy of one of Scandinavia's most storied rifle manufacturers, using that historical pedigree not as marketin...
The market for weapon lights and optics has become flooded with domestic and foreign products. When a manufacturer is organic to the United States, it is always well received, but when the products are engineered and manufactured domestically with some overseas manufacturing, it is a noteworthy a...
Photo Of The Day: Czech gun manufacturing brings a particular pragmatism to carbine design. PERUN Arms, building on the Czech Republic's 150-year weapons production heritage, has spent the last decade refining their Perun platform. The result of that thinking is the Perun 9 , a straightforwa...
I like to actually use my guns, and I typically don’t try to “baby” them. While most of the time I don’t go out of my way to outright mistreat them, they’re tools after all; I am far from the type to have any safe queens, let alone firearms that don’t get rotat...
NEW ORLEANS, LA — The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to rehear United States v. Squire en banc, vacating a June panel opinion and setting up what could become the most consequential challenge to federal gun law in decades. Here’s the surprising part. The case is no longe...
Wilson Combat's America 250th Limited Edition 1911 series arrives at exactly the kind of inflection point where sentimental value and mechanical integrity happen to overlap. This isn't a rushed commemorative gun built around an anniversary date; it's a company with 49 years of 1911...