The Fire in Thun: When One Plant Owns Your Backorder

One fire at a single Swiss plant is now a line item on dealer backorder reports. The work that follows is deposits, allocation status and honest lead times — not guessing at dates.

By Claire Eason •

Dot Torture – Beyond the Norm

If you start doing any research into drills, you run across something called Dot Torture. DT isn’t a single drill; it’s a 50-round workout. It has several different drills, and each drill is associated with a 2-inch dot or two. The drill builds valuable skills and, best of all, can be useful ...

By Travis Pike •

Why People Love The SIG Sauer P226 Handguns

Welcome back to another deep dive into why people love a popular handgun on the market. Last time, I took a look at why people love the Smith & Wesson 5906 line of handguns and what made them so popular in the 1990s, with a call to bring them back with modern machining processes. If you happe...

By Matt E •

Beretta APX Falco: A One-Off with the Red Dot Machined into the Slide

Beretta has spent its 500th anniversary year building one-offs, and TFB has already looked at one of them, the   92FS Diamond . The APX Falco is a different kind of special. There is gold on it, and a lot of hand engraving, but the most interesting thing about this pistol is a piece of engin...

By Eric B •

2A Display: Gun, Magazine and Blade Mounts

A safe full of rifles leaning against each other could be a waste of a collection and a waste of space. For those who live where it’s legal, 2A Display 's answer is a line of wall and safe mounts that hold firearms, magazines and blades in the open, and the company sums up its aim simp...

By Eric B •

The Social Utility of Firearms, Revisited

The social utility of firearms extends far beyond self-defense. From preventing violent crime and protecting innocent lives to preserving individual liberty, lawful gun ownership provides benefits that deserve recognition in the debate over firearms and the Second Amendment.

By Chuck Michel •

5 Smart Tips for DIY Prairie Pothole Duck Hunting

Freelancing the Prairie Pothole Region isn’t the open-door operation it used to be. Farmers now get a steady run of fall requests from people they’ve never met, located through mapping and permission apps and asking for access by phone rather than face to face, and the resulting frict...

By James Chen •

Structured Data for FFL Dealers: What Google Still Reads

Your shop's schema markup is probably inert. Here are the two fields Google actually requires, the three markup habits that stopped earning anything in 2026, and how to make your site, profile, and listing agree.

By Sara Owens •
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