Happy Thanksgiving From Shooting News Weekly
Whether you ventured out in the field and got your Thanksgiving bird with a load of No. 5 shot or you lifted it into the shopping cart in your local…
Two WV Nat’l Guard Troops Shot and Killed in Washington DC Two Blocks From the White House
Two West Virginia National Guard members shot Wednesday near the White House have died, the state’s governor said.
Modern Classic: The IWI Tavor SAR Bullpup Rifle
As far as bullpup rifles in general are concerned, they tend to be rather polarizing. Folks either love them or they seem to have an irrational hatred for them.
DOJ Establishes a New Division Focusing on the Protection of Gun Rights
The office, called the Second Amendment Rights Section, expects to open on December 4 and will be dedicated to investigating local laws or policies limiting gun rights.
Go Figure: Gang Violence Has More to Do With Emotion Than Economics
Academics and other “experts” assume a rational weighing of possible benefit and loss by gang members, while accounts of actual shootings show something very different.
HAVA Brings 150 Vets and Their Families Together for 16th Annual Range Day
More than 150 veterans and their families enjoyed some trigger time as a way for the firearm industry and San Antonio Police Department to offer a collective “thank you” to…
Optics 101: Executing the Objective
A common myth about riflescopes is that the larger the objective bell in the front, the more light a scope gathers. That’s not really true.
Patriot Arsenal: 3 Guns Every American Should Own – The Shotgun
While there are those who might view the shotgun as a distance tool because it is a long gun, just as we considered with the rifle for home defense, the…
SCANDAL: NSSF Helping Its Members Sell More Products Using (OMG!) eCommerce Tools
In May 2024, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry’s trade group, hosted a webinar featuring the presentation for the thousands of gun sellers who belong to the NSSF….
Preemption Laws Make Lawful Carry Easier…That’ Why They’re Under Attack by the Gun Control Industry
Even while acknowledging these efforts as unconstitutional due to the state’s preemption law, the Saint Paul City Council unanimously passed the ordinance and became the first city among a coalition of 17…
Black Collar Arms’ New Texas Typewriter .22LR Semi-Auto Rifle Platform
The Black Collar Arms traditional Ruger 10/22 receiver and rifle stock have been replaced with a single ultra-rigid receiver. The forend and stock mount directly to the receiver, resulting in…
Chicago’s Weekend Violence at Loop Tree Lighting and on an MTA Train Leave the City Reeling
The weekend’s body count doesn’t include an innocent 26-year-old woman set on fire on a CTA train by a mope who’d been arrested 72 times since his 18th birthday.
FLUX Defense Announces the New P365 Ultra-Light Chassis System
This system delivers double the rounds of a standard pistol, increased accuracy, control, and velocity, all within a package that is 3 inches shorter and 85 percent lighter than an…
Worst Case Scenarios: How the Untested Can Survive in a Crisis
When you find yourself in the gravest extreme, you won’t magically rise to the occasion, but you will react with the level of training that you’ve mastered. What that level…
Taking the Temperature of the Hard Left Gun Culture at a Brutality Shooting Match
I’ve been getting the tea about how Brutality matches are a kink-friendly space from Deviant Ollam, a 48-year-old hacker and guntuber with an “arm trans women” patch above his right…
Wooly Bully: Point6 Merino Wool Socks
Thinking ‘socks is socks’ is an outdated way to look at today’s performance socks. Who knew socks had features beyond thick or thin, and high or low? I’m still wrestling…
The Thing About Turkish Shotguns
You’re shopping and spot a 12-gauge bullpup magazine-fed shotgun. It’s only for $400 dollars! What a bargain! Yeah, probably not. What you’re looking at is a Turkish shotgun.
The Ass-End of What Academics Get Wrong About Guns
The dominant scholarly approach to studying guns, gun owners, and gun culture reminds me of the parable of the blind men and the elephant.
Why Not Both?
Trump Redirecting BSCA Grant Money Away From ‘Gun Violence’ NGOs to Fund Deportation of Illegals
The administration is now prioritizing local governments and giving special preference to applicants that “directly support law enforcement,” including “immigration law enforcement operations.”
Beretta’s New AX800 Supreme Waterfowl Shotgun
The Beretta AX800 Suprema combines breakthrough gas-system technology, championship barrel engineering, and industry-leading recoil mitigation to deliver more effective shots, faster follow-ups, and less maintenance between hunts.
NYC Sentences 67-Year-Old Victim to 4 Years in Prison for Defending Himself With an Unlicensed Gun
Prosecutors in the Queens District Attorney’s Office have put a 67-year-old citizen behind bars for defending himself against a recidivist criminal with an unlicensed handgun.
Gun Control Advocacy 101: When the Numbers Don’t Support Your Narrative, Manipulate Reframe the Data
If you’re honestly trying to understand what’s killing people, the data point squarely to mental health, social isolation, substance abuse and access to care – not to some uniquely dangerous…
Gear Review: LaCrosse Footwear Ursa MS GTX Hunting Boots
With all the miles and conditions I’ve put these boots through on hunts in North America and Africa, they’re worth every penny.
Everytown Can’t Figure Out Why the Gun Industry Isn’t Doing Something About 3D Printed Guns
FGC-9 components (By JStark1809 / Deterrence Dispensed, CC BY 4.0, Link) Another one of Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun agitprop sites, The Smoking Gun, which is operated by…
Custom Build: The N23 HVY PDW Build in .400 Legend
The main thing is, it amuses me. When I Form 1’d it, I put in the reason block “Personal defense against robots, cyborgs, rhinos, and genetically re-created dinosaurs and all…
Can We Still Say That Gun Rights are Winning and Nobody Has Realized It?
In 2025, can we still say that gun rights are winning and nobody has realized it? Well, we can say the first half.
The Gun Control Industry Is Appalled That The DOJ is Finally Treating Gun Rights as Actual Civil Rights
The agency clearly wants to be seen as crusading for gun rights. And Willinger expects the DOJ to ally with gun rights groups in cases in which “it can most…
Patriot Arsenal: 3 Guns Every American Should Own – The Pistol
Americans love handguns for many reasons which we don’t have time to enumerate here. The reality is that proficiency with a handgun is more difficult to come by and achieve…
Delaware Residents Now Need a Government Permission Slip to Exercise Their Gun Rights
While the law may be in effect for now, under the U.S. Constitution and Delaware’s own, it remains wholly unconstitutional, unethical and fundamentally unworkable.