Springfield Armory has announced that the St. Louis County Police Department has adopted the Echelon 4.5F 9mm pistol as its new duty sidearm. The Echelon series was developed as a modern, striker-fired platform with a focus on modularity, ergonomics and durability. At the core of the design...
If you had asked me 30 years ago to recommend an inside-the-waistband (IWB) holster for a double-stack 1911 9mm, I would have thought you were completely out of your mind. Fitting that much gun into a low-profile holster seemed like a truly impossible task. Back in the early to mid-1990s, the dou...
OL's former shooting editor revisits the good times and bad of two legendary gunmakers who shaped the frontier and beyond: Remington and Winchester The post The Near-Death Moments That Nearly Finished Two Iconic American Gunmakers appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a W.H. Kleft telescope and flintlock cane gun manufactured in the early 19th century. In 1814, Kleft was granted British patent 3837 for a walking staff containing pistol, powder, ball, screw telescope, pen, ink, paper, pencil, knife, and draw...
In 2019, the Russian news agency RG.RU released a photo of several new products from Kalashnikov Concern. The weapons were displayed during a visit by Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, where the diversification and reduction of the military-indu...
For today’s Photo Of The Day, we have pictures of the new XM8 Carbine used by the members of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit. The XM8 is designed to improve maneuverability, especially in confined environments, while retaining the same 6.8×51mm ammunition and core operating system as ...
Welcome back to Bank Fishing Blueprint, the weekly AllOutdoor series focused on helping anglers find and catch more fish from the bank. Last week, we covered a simple way to locate hidden ponds in the woods by scanning the treetop canopy for openings that reveal hard-to-find ponds. If you missed ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a sequential pair of engraved Dreyse needle fire self-cocking revolvers, serials 11054 and 11055, manufactured 1864-1872. The Dreyse needle fire system ranks among the first practical cartridge-based small arms, bridging paper percussion cartr...
If you shoot USPSA, you already know that adding a match to your calendar means opening it up, typing in the match name, figuring out the date, hunting down the address, and doing it all manually. Every single time. I got tired of that about five minutes in, so I built Match2Cal instead. I built ...
ANNAPOLIS, MD – Maryland lawmakers have passed Senate Bill 334, legislation that will ban the manufacture, sale, purchase, and transfer of so-called “machine gun convertible pistols” in the state beginning January 1, 2027. The House gave final approval on April 8, 2026, passing the ...