Lancaster County deputies have arrested 29-year-old Alexander Savarese after a loaded .380-caliber pistol and a knife were discovered in a 5-year-old’s backpack at Harrisburg Elementary School. Savarese admitted to using the child's backpack for a hiking trip and forgetting to remove the firear...
Maximizing accuracy and performance seems to be a white whale we all chase. We want the shortest package with a minimal footprint to reach out to 500 and beyond with ease. But we still want to run the rifle fast at closer targets. For this scenario, the low power variable optic (LPVO) h...
During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato was feared due to its immense size and power. She was the most heavily armed battleship ever built, with nine 18.1-inch (460mm) main guns, the largest ever mounted on a warship. Each shell weighed nearly 1.5 tons and had a range i...
Dayton James Webber, a 27-year-old quadruple amputee and professional cornhole champion, is facing first-degree murder charges following the fatal shooting of Bradrick Michael Wells in La Plata, Maryland. Authorities allege Webber shot Wells during an argument inside his vehicle before fleeing to...
The VSS Vintorez emerged during the late Cold War as part of a highly specialized Soviet effort to develop a quiet, compact rifle capable of delivering accurate fire without revealing the shooter’s position. Designed in the 1980s at the Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering (T...
Today’s Photo of the Day highlights a rare, matched-number commemorative set from Smith & Wesson that pairs the Model 1854 lever-action rifle with the Model 29 revolver, both chambered in .44 Magnum. Limited to just 100 sets, this example is number 059 and stands out with engraving acce...
ROTC students at Old Dominion University (ODU) successfully neutralized an ISIS-linked terrorist who opened fire inside Constant Hall on Thursday morning. The suspect, identified as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, was a former National Guard member previously convicted of supporting the Islamic State; he ...
A recent post by Kalashnikov.ru shed light on the work of a young engineering student on a proposed light machine gun design. It was an interesting design recently submitted at the M. T. Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU), where the annual exchange between academic traini...
Hunting rifles have evolved drastically over the years, with modern precision machining and materials such as carbon fiber introduced into both the stock and the barrel, and an off-the-shelf rifle can now outperform custom-built actions from a decade ago. Many people with older rifles seek ways t...
Arlington police have cleared a woman of any wrongdoing after she stabbed her 33-year-old boyfriend, identified as Keith Green, in self-defense during a violent domestic assault early Friday morning. Green, who allegedly attempted to choke the woman, now faces multiple felony charges including As...