Many of our readers have thought about purchasing their first gun safe, and after exhaustive searches comparing everything from gun capacity to the number of locking bolts they have made their purchase. The problem is that once you pay for the safe and take it out of the store no one cares about it anymore. […]
How to Get the Most Out of Attending a Gun Show
Planning to attend a gun show? So you’ve seen the ads and your interest has peaked your curiosity. Gun shows allow local business owners and individuals to showcase their products and services to the general public. What does this mean for you, the consumer? It means you’re able to see a wide array of firearms […]
Trailblazer Lifecard 22 LR – First Look
I like the usual, the strange and the creative when it comes to firearms. There are only so many times you can shoot a polymer striker fired handgun and still find anything new with it. When something like TrailBlazer’s Lifecard 22 LR comes to be I take notice. I don’t mind guns being weird, odd, […]
AirForce TalonSS: The Quiet .22 Rifle for Backyard Pests
The TalonSS is a pre-charged pneumatic air rifle from AirForce Airguns. Unlike the spring piston guns of childhood, this is a serious hunting rifle suitable for small game. State-of-the-art airgun technology pushes a .22-caliber pellet up to 1,000 fps. The TalonSS is a highly accurate rifle which can entertain by punching small holes in paper […]
The Restoration of the Winchester 1873 Found in Great Basin National Park
Ashley Hlebinsky, the Robert W. Woodruff Curator at the Cody Firearms Museum, share’s a close up look at the recently famed “Great Basin Gun”–a Winchester Model 1873 found leaning mysteriously against a tree in the Great Basin National Park. Ashley and her team of curators at the Cody Firearms Museum were tasked with preserving the […]
Guns in Movies: Walther PPK
The Walther PPK first caught my attention thanks to one of my favorite heroes of the silver screen, James Bond. Let’s take a closer look at this famous firearm. History Walther released the PP in 1929, which was a big hit with German military and police as well as for civilians. It established a reputation […]
What Happens When You Shoot The PTR91?
Many people may buy these rifles and decide to turn them into designated marksman rifles or long range rifles. Me? I turned my PTR91 GI model into a fighting rifle. I had PTR replace the 18 standard GI barrel with a 16 inch bull barrel, replace the rubber charging handle with an all steel one, […]
The U.S. Army’s M-14: Somewhat Less than Legendary
We have a soft spot in our heart for the M14 rifle, even though we experienced it in the service primarily as the M21 sniper system, a fiddly, unstable platform with, “no user serviceable parts inside.” (Seriously. The operator was not permitted to field-strip the gun — that was strictly for the armorers who built the thing. You […]
Pistol vs. Active Shooter With A Rifle? Myths & Facts
I saw a quote today by a very well meaning pastor that made me upset. I have a lot of respect for the guy and what he’s overcome, so I’m not going to say his name and I’m not going to quote him directly. But he basically said that there’s no way for a church […]
2017 Ends With A Familiar Story in Gun News
Guns news in the last 12 months was interesting, 2017 wrapped up nicely and the firearms community had some good news and some bad news over the year, which was to be expected. When 2017 opened we were hoping to see a functional version of the pistol in our feature image, the Stryk B. As […]