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New for 2020: Lipsey's Glock Pistole P80

New for 2020: Lipsey's Glock Pistole P80

Glock and Lipsey's Firearm Distributors partnered in a unique venture to bring back the famous Glock pistol first seen in the 1980s. The Glock Pistole P80 as sold by Lipsey's is a faithful reproduction of the original first-generation Glock P80 produced by Gaston Glock and offered to the Austrian army. Read More

Gallery Of Guns Great Gun Giveaway

Gallery Of Guns Great Gun Giveaway

Each week Gallery of Guns offers the Great Gun Giveaway. A free weekly contest you can enter for a chance to win a gun. Each week it is a new contest and a new chance to win, pistols, rifles, or shotguns. No Purchase is necessary to enter. Gallery of Guns: Search our website, Find your gun, and Buy it from your local dealer. Read More

Shaw Barrels Is Now Offering In Stock Match Grade AR Platform Barrels

Shaw Barrels Is Now Offering In Stock Match Grade AR Platform Barrels

Shaw Barrels is proud to introduce match grade stainless AR platform barrels. In stock calibers include 223 Wylde, 6mm ARC, 350 Legend, 6.5 Grendel, 308 Winchester, and the popular 6.5 Creedmoor. Every barrel is 100% made in the USA and backed by our limited lifetime warranty. Read More

The Legendary MRO® now with a Reticle: The Trijicon MRO® HD

The Legendary MRO® Now With A Reticle: The Trijicon MRO® HD

The Trijicon MRO® HD comes with a reengineered objective lens to produce a refined 2.0 MOA center dot surrounded by a 68 MOA segmented circle reticle—just as indestructible as the original MRO. Also available with an optional 3X magnifier. The king of CQB is now ready to reach out. Upgrade Your Optic

Top 10 Infantry Rifles of All Time

Top 10 Infantry Rifles of All Time

Because soldiers in general and infantrymen in particular operate as part of a combined-arms army, where armor, artillery and aircraft contribute so much to the outcome of a battle, it would be hyperbole to say that a rifle won a war or changed the outcome of a battle. Read More

Review: Ruger Super GP100 Competition 9mm Revolver

Review: Ruger Super GP100 Competition 9mm Revolver

Last year, Ruger's Custom Shop released the Super GP100 revolver chambered in .357 Mag. and .38 Spl. Double-action .38-cal. wheel guns that hold eight rounds have become a popular option for a variety of shooting competitions of late, including USPSA, ICORE and Steel Challenge events. Read More.

U.S. Army Ordnance vs. NRA: The Battle Over the M1 Garand

U.S. Army Ordnance vs. NRA: The Battle Over the M1 Garand

At one time, the National Rifle Association really didn't like the M1 Garand. Shocking, right? This is certainly no longer the case, and I'll give you a little proof. Read More

Geissele Donates 250,000 Masks for 2021 SHOT Show

Geissele Donates 250,000 Masks for 2021 SHOT Show

Geissele Automatics had donated a quarter million face masks for use by industry professionals attending the 2021 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show scheduled Jan. 19 to 21 in Las Vegas, NV. Read More

The .22 LR: History & Performance

The .22 LR: History & Performance

The notion of a self-contained cartridge in a firearm is more than two centuries old. A Swiss gun maker, Jean Samuel Pauly, developed the first self-contained cartridge for a shotgun. It consisted of a metal base that had a slot similar to what you would see in a modern screw. Read More

Origins of Pistolcraft: The Development of the 'Modern Technique'

Origins of Pistolcraft: The Development of the 'Modern Technique'

Over the time that I worked as a police officer and then as a gunwriter, I have informally tried to determine where, when and by whom fighting pistolcraft began. In the course of that search, I have come up with a great deal of disconnected information on the subject, but it was only in fairly recent times that any linear progression of data could be derived. Read More

This Old Gun: Ruger Mini Thirty

This Old Gun: Ruger Mini Thirty

One of the most successful commercial semi-automatic rifles introduced in the latter half of the 20th century is the Mini-14 family, made by Sturm, Ruger & Co. First introduced in 1973, the Ruger Mini-14 utilizes a Garand style rotating bolt design coupled with a self-cleaning fixed-piston gas system. Read More

New for 2020: Beretta 687 Silver Pigeon III

New for 2020: Beretta 687 Silver Pigeon III

Beretta unveils the newest addition to its 687 over-and-under shotgun series with the Silver Pigeon III. Based off the design of the reliable 680 platform, the Beretta 687 Silver Pigeon III design is an evolution of the 686 Silver Pigeon I series over-and-under shotgun. Read More

The .22 Magnum: Good for Self-Defense?

The .22 Magnum: Good for Self-Defense?

A practical personal protection plan should include a handgun, but that handgun should, without question, be one you're comfortable with. As you become more experienced you'll have the opportunity to further evaluate the situation and trade-up as your comfort and skill levels increase. Read More

'Over There:' Stalemate, Fighting & Firearms on the Western Front

'Over There:' Stalemate, Fighting & Firearms on the Western Front

Before the United States entered World War I in April, 1917, the war on the Western Front had been raging for two years. When war broke out between the Allied and Central powers in July, 1914, the technology of warfare had exceeded traditional military doctrine and practice. Read More

Kel-Tec KSG: A Top-Selling Pump-Action Shotgun

Kel-Tec KSG: A Top-Selling Pump-Action Shotgun

Kel-Tec changed the way we think of pump-action shotguns when it introduced its KSG in 2011. The bullpup design makes it shorter than most in the category, and that improved nimbleness is a decided advantage in home and self-defense. Read More

The Shooter's Guide To The Browning Hi Power, Revised Edition

The Shooter's Guide To The Browning Hi Power, Revised Edition

Originally developed by Fabrique Nationale—and based on a design by American John Browning that was completed by his Belgian protégé, Dieudonné Saive, in 1935—the High Power pistol eventually gained wide recognition and respect around the world and enjoyed a production run at FN of more than 80 years. Read More

Handloads: .25-35 Winchester

Handloads: .25-35 Winchester

Most every used-gun rack contains at least several Winchester Model 94s. Most are chambered in .30-30 Win., but a surprising number are chambered in .25-35 Win. Actually, quite a few rifles have been made to fire .25-35. Every so often a Savage 1899 or Winchester Model 1885 pops up. Read More

Firearm Industry Goes Virtual During COVID-19

Firearm Industry Goes Virtual During COVID-19

Covid-19's social-distancing requirements, limits on gathering size and travel considerations have seen at least two major players in the firearm industry launch virtual sales shows or on-line educational platforms for retailers. Read More

The Armed Citizen

The Armed Citizen®

Read these amazing stories which highlight accounts of law-abiding gun owners in America using their Second Amendment rights for self-defense. Read More