On Friday, July 3rd, 2026, an incredibly intense storm front hit Walworth County, Wisconsin. We were coming into town around noon, and the sky to the west looked nearly black. The front was moving fast, and the rain started maybe five or ten minutes later. It quickly reached monsoon stage, with v...
In a market dominated by striker-fired pistols, you are always hearing about Glock, Smith & Wesson, but rarely Beretta. At times it feels like the Beretta APX series doesn’t get the same limelight as other pistols in the same category, and I can't figure out why. When many American...
Weatherby Inc. has a long, long history of building high-end hunting rifles, but all those rifles have something in common. They’re chambered for the modern cartridges of their era because Weatherby was built to innovate from its founding. That’s changing now, kind of; Weatherby has a...
When EAA announced they’d acquired the production facility, they didn’t mince words. They very much plan to establish manufacturing operations in the U.S. As their PR puts it:
The first thing that stood out when I got the KAER safe into position wasn’t any single feature—it was the balance of it. I like it. It’s not too heavy nor too big. It feels weighty in position and secure in place. It’s not something you want to move casually about the house. You pour Rea...
As weighted walking continues to gain traction, GORUCK is expanding its performance lineup with the launch of the Achilles Vest, a streamlined, grab-and-go training vest engineered specifically for men who want the stability of a vest without the bulk of traditional tactical gear. More GORUCK ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a high-grade trap gun from a company that built its name on giving the working man more gun than he paid for. This is an Ithaca New Ithaca Double, the NID, in Grade 5. Ithaca got started in 1880 in a water-powered shop on a […] The pos...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a .22 silencer wearing a disguise. This is the ARA Mag-2C, built by Applied Research Associates around an aluminum tube that’s basically a Maglite flashlight body. The name gives it away: “Mag” for Maglite, “2C”...
If there was ever a company with street cred in the concealed carry game, it is Charter Arms. Their Bulldog revolver of the late 1970s, chambered in .44 Special, was a hard-hitting, no-nonsense hideaway piece that had the lines of a classic European hand cannon of the late 1800s (think: Webley&rs...
Back in the 1990s, it was widely predicted that laser sights might very well be the next “big thing” in handguns utilized for personal defense. The first successful laser sight was invented by Dr. John Matthews — founder of famed SureFire — some years before, but it wasn’t quite ready f...