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The .22 bolt-action rifle is, for most people, a mainstay of any firearm collection. Just for fun, Payton Miller and I decided to test three such rifles head to head. [...]

By at least one reckoning, if Bill Ruger and his engineers had developed the Mini 14 in the decade prior to when they first began to tinker with it in [...]

The year 1972 was a pretty fair one on the trap line for Dad and me. When we sold the last of our furs at the end of the season [...]

NSSF's Heritage Fund Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is. Hunters are a diverse lot, and that has always hurt us when it comes to winning political battles. We're deer [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TAKING A PAGE FROM THE SUCCESS OF NSSF'S SCHOLASTIC Clay Target Program, the Steel Challenge Shooting Association bas developed a new effort to attract young people to competitive [...]

In all the hubbub surrounding the introduction of exciting, high-end ammo over the past couple of years, it's easy to forget that sometimes-well, more than sometimes--you just want to run [...]

It's not that the .17 Mach 2 was born under a bad sign or anything, but unlike its older, more popular brother--the .17 HMR--the Mach 2 didn't take off at, [...]

Shooters and outdoor-range owners searching for a practical all-terrain vehicle to suit their specialized requirements need look no further than the new Traxter from Bombardier--makers of such venerable machines as [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new compact .45 ACP from Kahr sports a matte-black stainless slide with a super-hard, micro-thin coating used by knife makers to protect metal from corrosion and scratching. [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since these days everybody has a cell phone or Blackberry attached to their hips, this new holster is a great way to disguise a small concealed-carry pistol. The [...]

Crimson Trace is teaming up with leading holster makers to produce a line of holsters made especially for pistols equipped with the company's laser sights, specifically those that install on [...]

NEW JERSEY RECENTLY ADOPTED A LAW prohibiting its residents from purchasing more than one handgun a month. The legislation, which passed the state senate by the narrowest of margins, was [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Max Michel, who was profiled in our 'Hot Shots' series in the August/September 2009 issue, took top overall honors at the Steel Challenge held last August in Piru, [...]

According to NSSF, Taurus USA is being wooed by the state of Georgia to move its headquarters to the Peach State. The report cites a Miami Herald article that outlines [...]

The boom in gun sales continued in the first hall of the year for Ruger. Gun sales jumped 94 percent in the second quarter compared to the same quarter last [...]

$60 MILLION Cost to build the new Clark County Shooting Park near Las Vegas, billed as the largest range in the [...]

Touted as Taurus' tightest pistol ever, the 738 TCP series weighs in at just 8.5 ounces for titanium slide, 10.2 ounces for blue A and stainless (shown) slides. The eight-shot [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TWO COMPANIES HAVE RECENTLY COME UP WITH PRODUCTS to help fight breast cancer. Smith & Wesson (SMITH-WESSON.COM) designed the M&P9 JG in collaboration with professional shooter Julie Goloski [...]

Average retail price of the Springfield XD in .40 S&W, the top-selling pistol in February, according to [...]

Sig Sauer is going back to shipping two magazines with each pistol it sells. As we reported last issue, the company was forced to furnish just one mag with each [...]

Ruger's LCR and LCR-LG (this month's cover gun) is now on California's list of approved handguns. In other Ruger news, at press time the company was set to join the [...]

NRA has changed the rules for its tactical police competitions to allow the use of 5.7x28 caliber guns, which means shooters who use FN Five-Seven pistols (as well as the [...]

Otis Technology has come up with a nifty kit specially made for cleaning handguns from 9mm through .45 caliber. The Professional Pistol Cleaning System comes with three Memory-Flex cleaning rods, [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kahr Arms is well-known for building quality concealable handguns, and I've fired a number of them and found them to be reliable, good-shooting pieces. What I didn't realize [...]

The National Association of Shooting Ranges has announced a grant program aimed at boosting shooter recruitment and is committing $25,000 to the effort. Public and private ranges, clubs and educational [...]

Smith & Wesson, which imports Walther guns, is recalling some PPK and PPK/S pistols because under certain conditions the guns can fire without the trigger being pulled. Smith & Wesson [...]

Noted handgun writer Hal Swiggett recently passed away at the age of 87. A one-time winner and 10-time nominee for the Outstanding American Handgunner Award, Swiggett was a dedicated handgun [...]

Ammo isn't the only thing in short supply these days. Sig Sauer recently announced that all commercial pistols which formerly shipped with two magazines will now come with only one. [...]

The federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld an Oklahoma law allowing workers to store their legally owned firearms in their locked cars on company [...]

Sig Sauer has come out with a limited-edition P226USPSA in conjunction with the U.S. Practical Shooting Association. The gun will have collectible serial numbers; only 250 will be made. A [...]

Ruger's SR9 striker-fired semiauto has been approved for sale in both California and Massachusetts. The approval is for only catalog number KSR9-10-L, a version with a black polymer frame and [...]

The frame-mounted thumb safety initially offered on Smith & Wesson's M&P45 is now available as an option on M&P pistols chambered in 9mm, .40 S&W and .357 Sig. The passive [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OUR FRIEND AND RESIDENT DINOSAUR Payton Miller over at Guns & Amino is a revolver nut, and he bestowed on Smith & Wesson's Model 58 a great honor--calling [...]

I RECENTLY TESTED Howard Leight's Impact Sport electronic ear muffs at a four-day shooting event where I fired handguns up to a ported, monstrously loud .460 S&W. Through it all, [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN HIS CAREER AS A PROFESSIONAL shooter, Matt Burkett has won more than 150 state, national and world titles, including an IDPA National Championship and five MGM Iron [...]

Louder Than Words, a nonprofit group comprised of custom gunsmiths, has once again built and is raffling off a custom pistol--the proceeds benefiting AmericanSnipers.org, which helps get needed supplies to [...]

Winchester Ammunition has signed on as a sponsor for the 2008 Smith & Wesson Limited, Production and Revolver USPSA Championships as well as the Open and Limited-10 USPSA national [...]

Our friends at Uberti are celebrating the announcement that True West magazine has once again selected them as best gun manufacturer in the magazine's annual Best of the West awards. [...]

Blackhawk Products, makers of the SERPA holster and a host of other products for handgunners, has pledged $100,000 to NRA's law Enforcement Training endowment. The endowment provides funding for NRA [...]

Reminder to Ruger SR9 owners: If your gun is affected by the recall announced earlier this year, be sure to return your pistol to the company for a free retrofit [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HOT ON THE HEELS OF THE SUPREME Court's landmark Heller decision that overturned the District of Columbia's gun ban, the National Shooting Sports Foundation seized on a chance [...]

IF YOU LIVE IN THE UPPER MIDWEST or happen to be in the vicinity of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in late summer, do yourself a favor and drop by the Great Outdoors [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN RESPONSE TO CALIFORNIA'S RECENTLY passed microstamping law, which requires all pistols sold in the state to make a unique imprint on each cartridge case fired, STI International [...]

Ruger is upgrading its testing range. Savage Range Systems has installed a Model 810 Wet Snail Trap on the new range--a 30-foot, 50-yard range that required about 50 tons of [...]

Winchester secured a $54 million contract with the FBI to provide .40 S&W service, training, reduced-lead training and frangible ammo. The service amino, which was subjected to the bureau's testing [...]

65 MILLION ESTIMATED HUMBER OF PRIVATELY OWNED HANDGUNS IN THE UNITED STATES Source: National Shooting Sports [...]

Brownells has released the second edition of its 1911 catalog, the 1911 Wishbook. The free catalog has 64 pages of parts and accessories and includes a full-color section of 'dream [...]

Longtime readers of this magazine probably noticed over the past few issues that Handguns has been undergoing somewhat of a transformation. We changed the regular column lineup, making room for [...]

PX4 Storm (the .40 caliber version) was just selected as the official patrol pistol for the Wheeling, WV, Ohio County sheriff's department. The 27-person department picked the Storm after an [...]

There's a new gun on the way from KAHR. The TP45 autoloader, chambered in .45 ACP, is reported to weigh less than 21 ounces. It's supposed to be just an [...]