The Bartow County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an early-morning shooting at a Cartersville residence that is currently believed to be an act of self-defense. A man was hospitalized after deputies responded to a domestic incident at 26 Kingston Highway on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, but no ch...
My very first handgun was a Springfield Armory XD in 9mm. It was around 2007, I was shopping for a home-defense solution and I’d read positive reviews about the XD line in American Rifleman and Guns & Ammo magazines. At decision time, it wasn’t much of a competiti...
More than a century after the debut of John Browning’s most celebrated handgun design, the year 2020 marked the beginning of Springfield Armory’s most recent 1911 makeover. Long known as a premium purveyor of the .45-caliber, two-time World War champ, Springfield’s catalog of 1911s had grow...
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The AK family of weapons is notorious, but the platform’s infamous partner is the 7.62×39 cartridge. Like Bonnie and Clyde, the AK’s reputation is inseparable from its chambering. That the cartridge is historically simple, robust, and effective is the key variable that makes the...
HULL, GA – A Georgia man shot a road rage attacker who had seized his revolver and tried to use it against him, only to be fired upon seconds later by an off-duty GBI agent who arrived on scene without knowing what had led to the confrontation. The incident happened around noon on April 4, [...
HARRIS COUNTY, TX – A confrontation between two strangers in a residential neighborhood ended in a fatal shooting Wednesday afternoon, with the woman’s two young children witnessing the incident from inside her vehicle. The Harris County Medical Examiner identified the woman as 32-year-ol...
Element Optics has introduced the ETX Red Dot , a compact reflex sight designed for use across pistols, shotguns, and carbines. Built around the widely used RMR footprint, the ETX is positioned as a multi-purpose optic aimed at shooters looking for a single solution across multiple platform...
Springfield Armory has officially announced the launch of their Aimpoint COA equipped handguns for the Echelon series of pistols. All three sizes that are currently available – the Echelon 4.0C, Echelon 4.0FC, and Echelon 4.5F – can now be purchased with a factory-equipped Aimpoint CO...
You see it every time a story breaks about a theft or burglary: someone posts, “I’d walk outside and handle it.” Or, “Not on my property.” I understand that feeling. Nobody likes the idea of watching a criminal take what you worked hard for, and the instinct to prote...