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Executive Order? You Can Do Something
If you’re like me, your in-box, social-media feed and voicemails are overflowing with updates and opinions on President Obama’s Executive Order announcement last week.
The Armed Citizen® Jan. 11, 2016
Florida’s “stand your ground” law likely protected a Palm Beach resident who shot two intruders who had broken into his home.
Tested: Kel-Tec CMR-30 .22 Magnum Rifle
This handy follow-up to the Kel-Tec PMR-30 pistol is worth the wait.
Springfield Armory 1911 Range Officer Now in Brushed Stainless
The Springfield Armory 1911 Range Officer models, originally offered in a Parkerized finish, are now available in a brushed stainless steel.
Springfield Armory Announces XD Mod.2 Subcompact Pistols in FDE
The Springfield Armory XD Mod.2 Subcompact line is now offered in a Flat Dark Earth (FDE) finish.
NRA Gun of the Week: Weatherby Orion Shotgun
Learn more about the Weatherby Orion, NRA's Gun of the Week, in the video hosted by American Rifleman Editor-in-Chief Mark Keefe.
Day G. Turner and the Battle of Am Astert
The sheer size and scale of the Battle of the Bulge gave rise to so many feats of arms that examples of individual heroism have tended to get swallowed by the big picture.
Colt’s Continuing Soap Opera
Majority stakeholder Sciens Capital Management didn’t produce $15 million by the Dec. 28, court-approved deadline for the famed gunmaker’s exit from bankruptcy protection.
Swift High Grade: Famed Bullet Maker Unveils Proprietary Factory Ammunition
Big-game hunters seeking Swift Bullets in factory-loaded cartridges got a boost today with the formal unveiling of Swift High Grade Ammunition.
New From Colt
For the last few years, we have heard more from Colt about what they no longer make than we have about new products.
Springfield Armory: 1950 New Product Launch Starts Today
Springfield Armory is announcing 19 new guns for 2016—and giving away 50 of them. Learn how to win one here.
The Armed Citizen® Jan. 8, 2016
When a California homeless man witnessed a young woman being beaten by a man near a Fresno, Calif., liquor store late one night, he didn’t hesitate to help. Paul DeLeon came across the fighting couple and used pepper spray on the male, who was later identified as the woman’s ex-boyfriend.
Springfield Expands XD-S Pistol to Include .40 Cal.
Springfield Armory has expanded its XD-S series of carry pistols to include a .40-cal. model.
Elvis Presley Tribute Lever-Action Shotgun
Jan. 8, 2016, would have been the American icon's 81st birthday, and America Remembers has announced a limited-edition Elvis Presley Tribute Lever-Action Shotgun—a detailed recreation of the 1887 lever-action shotgun once produced by Winchester.
NEW! Defensive Revolver Ammo from SIG Sauer
The The SIG V-Crown jacketed hollow point (JHP) round of Elite Performance Ammunition is offered in .38 Spl., .44 S&W Spl. and .45 Colt calibers.
Tonight on American Rifleman TV: Hornady American Gunner; Weatherby Orion
American Rifleman's Joseph Kurtenbach spent time with the Hornady engineers at their Nebraska manufacturing facility to get a closer look at its new American Gunner line.
Keefe Report: Executive Order Not So Smart for Police and Soldiers
Among his other anti-gun, politically motivated executive orders, under “Shaping the Future of Gun Safe Technology” Barack Obama has imposed an imperial dictum to “Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and Department of Homeland Security to take two important steps to promote smart-gun technology.
How Many is 3 Million? December NICS Checks, to Start
More than 3 million NICS checks conducted in December helped elevate 2015 to an all-new gun sales record. Those numbers are lofty, so to put things in perspective for your watercooler conversations today, here are some other things that amount to roughly 3 million.
SIG Ammo for Pistols and … Rifles
These days, it seems there is no shortage of quality defensive ammunition offerings from a few well-known—and many lesser-known—manufacturers.
The Truth About Gun Shows
Attacks on American gun shows are not about law enforcement of punishing the guilty, they are about exploiting a lack of knowledge on the part of the general public and paving the way for universal firearm registration ... and, if history is anything to go by, confiscation.