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SIG Sauer P365-MACH3D Adds a 3D-Printed Compensator To The P365
3D printing has now reached production handguns, and up to 30% less muzzle rise is the headline promise behind the P365-MACH3D. This is a micro-compact 9mm that SIG Sauer pitches with the line "Peak Performance. Everyday Carry."
What Is a Citizen First Responder?
Editor’s Note: This article describing the citizen first responder is presented for discussion purposes. Know and follow your jurisdiction’s laws regarding self-defense, and ensure that anyone rendering aid is qualified to do so. Seek competent training from qualified instructors. A commo...
POTD: Mauser Model 1914 Humpback – Long Barrel, Short Run
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have an early Mauser pocket pistol that collectors love to hunt for. This is a Mauser Model 1914 “humpback” in 7.65mm (32 ACP), and it’s even rarer since it still wears the original long barrel. Mauser built this 7.65mm pistol w...
How to Build a Shooting Barricade for Under $50
A great way to improve your range experience is to include barricades that can introduce movement and alternate positions to challenge your marksmanship abilities. Barricades can take many forms and the step-type barricade is probably the most versatile given the multiple shooting positions that ...
Where Big Bass Actually Go When Fall Arrives
The oldest advice in bass fishing tells you to run to the backs of creeks when the leaves turn. A tracking study from Texas Parks and Wildlife biologists dismantled that idea. They followed bass at Lake Fork and Toledo Bend Reservoir, and none of the tracked fish moved into the back of a creek on...
Why Everyone Wants Montana — And Why Montanans Are Fed Up
Ask a lifelong Montanan how they feel about the steady stream of newcomers, and you may get pointed to a sign hanging in a Bozeman bar. It reads that you should welcome yourself to Montana while remembering you are a refugee, not a missionary. The message is blunt, but it captures a tension that ...
Polite Society Industries Launches Six 3D-Printed Silencers
A new suppressor company launching with six models and a $250 rimfire can gets attention on price alone. Polite Society Industries came out of Tampa with a lineup spanning rimfire through .36 caliber, every model printed by laser powder bed fusion as one continuous piece rather than a tube stuffe...
Blast from the Past: M1A-A1 Bush Rifle
Editor’s Note: This piece was crafting as a special retro-style “mini-magazine” within the Winter 2026 print issue of The Armory Life. We styled it to look as though it had been published back when the author was a young teenager poring over his collection of Springfield Armory catalogs. Yo...
October 7 Is the Date: Massachusetts’ Highest Court Will Hear the Holyoke Man Denied a Carry License Over Decade-Old Charges That Never Led to a Conviction
The Massachusetts SJC hears Pratt v. Westbrook on October 7, a test of whether police chiefs can deny a carry license as ‘unsuitable.’ Read the original story: October 7 Is the Date: Massachusetts’ Highest Court Will Hear the Holyoke Man Denied a Carry License Over Decade-Old Charges That N...