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As politicians intensify demands to ban or restrict civilian access to AR-15-style rifles, the public is pivoting to the venerable lever-action rifle. Driving the shift, manufacturers are modernizing a platform [...]

Customizing factory handguns to increase their performance potential is incredibly common these days. It seems that, no matter what brand of pistol, there is a company out there willing to [...]

The Smith & Wesson M&P9 series of striker-fired semiauto pistols emerged in 2005, and since that time Smith & Wesson has stayed at the forefront of semiauto carry/ duty pistol [...]

SPRINGFIELD ARMORY'S 1911 pistols continue to evolve as a testament to the genius of John M. Browning and the company's ability to adapt the fundamental characteristics of the design with [...]

Not long after I received a sample of the Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 2.0 last year, I was reading an article in a gun-industry trade publication discussing prevailing handgun sales [...]

The folks at Springfield Armory are good at a lot of things. Resting on their laurels is not one of them. In the space of about two years, the company [...]

Ever since Gaston Glock introduced his polymer-frame striker-fired pistol to the United States in the mid-1980s, handgun designs have progressively moved away from double-action/single-action semiauto pistols. Today, the vast majority [...]

I was at Smith & Wesson when they showed a room full of gun writers the first M&P pistols. That was in December of 2005. If you had told me [...]

Yet, being online is also more than just posting a website with directions and store hours. This is true of retailers who aren't offering online sales. Simply being online today [...]

IF YOU'D FORGOTTEN that Smith & Wesson made a .380 ACP Bodyguard pistol, you're not alone. When it introduced the original single-stack version in 2010, interest seemed to die off [...]

SMITH & WESSON'S M&P 'Military & Police' pistols are engineered to be tough enough for law enforcement use. The full list of features resulted in a Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price [...]

RUGER'S AMERICAN RIFLE has been with us since 2011. It has been extremely successful, particularly with hunters and new riflemen. It has earned a reputation for being accurate lightweight and [...]

The stated mission of the starship Enterprise was 'to boldly go where no man has gone before,' but the boldest move a new firearms manufacturer can make is to offer [...]

In 2005 Smith & Wesson introduced the M&P series of polymer-frame, striker-fired pistols. Nineteen years may not seem that long to those of us who can still remember when Reagan [...]

In gun shop parlance, there are 'safe queens' and 'floor queens.' This is the story of a unique floor queen. It sat there in the floor rack for weeks, untouched [...]

You're considering hiring a gunsmith to perform an increasing number of service requests, but is a gunsmith really a worthwhile investment for your business? Any new hire is a value [...]

The 7mm might be the ideal caliber. But which one? In the beginning it was the 7x57mm Mauser and it was good. After we faced it in Cuba--and the Brits [...]

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has created a new role to increase firearm safety on-set. The union appointed industry veterans Larry Zanoff and Brook Yeaton Thursday as the [...]

By Richard Mann Bergara’s Premier MgLite has a magnesium chassis with integral fore-end, weighs under 7 pounds and is a solid double-duty gun. (COURTESY OF SABASTIAN “BAT” MANN) Manufacturers build [...]

By Richard Mann Bergara’s Premier MgLite has a magnesium chassis with integral fore-end, weighs under 7 pounds and is a solid double-duty gun. (COURTESY OF SABASTIAN “BAT” MANN) Manufacturers build [...]

FN Browning Group, whose subsidiaries include FN Herstal and Browning, announces that it has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire the French group Sofisport world leader in the manufacture of [...]

By Richard Mann The Model 2020 Boundary is equipped with an AG Composites Sportsman carbon-fiber stock. (COURTESY OF SPRINGFIELD ARMORY) It was a shock to most of the shooting world [...]

By Richard Mann The Model 2020 Boundary is equipped with an AG Composites Sportsman carbon-fiber stock. It was a shock to most of the shooting world when Springfield Armory introduced [...]

I was thinking that the FPC (Folding Pistol Carbine), introduced in 2023 and reviewed in Firearms News, was Smith & Wesson's first pistol caliber carbine (PCC), but a bit of [...]

Long-range target shooting is booming, and the market teems with products to help riflemen improve accuracy. Rifles are high-performance machines, and shooters are hitting targets and ringing steel from 500 [...]

RESPECTED FOR ITS MANUFACTURING capability and ROTATING SELECTION OF GUN PARIS--INCLUDING, AND ESPECIALLY, IIS AR BUILD KITS--AERD PRECISION HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN LOATH TO DON THE LAURELS OF A FULL-FLEDGED GUNMAKER. [...]

WHEN MOSSBERG RELEASED THE 940 PRO WATERFOWL SHOTGUN A FEW YEARS AGO, PETERSEN'S HUNTING WAS ONE OF THE FIRST OUTLETS TO GIVE A TRUE IN-THE-FIELD REVIEW. Contributor Sam Forbes put [...]

As we begin the new year, manufacturers did not disappoint. with a smorgasbord of impressive new firearms announced for 202-h Many of the new guns build upon proven track records [...]

CURRENTLY, the Tactical Response Pistol (TRP) is Springfield Armory's most elite line of production 1911s. The TRP sprung from the Professional Model the Custom Shop built up for the FBI's [...]

FIREARM DEVELOPMENT rarely has a single 'Aha!' moment that defines an entire operating system. Successful designs tend to be built upon the shoulders of the less-than-successful designs before them. When [...]

SHOT Show 2024 is over, and it was the coolest ever. I know, I know, I say this every year. I met new friends and got to visit old friends [...]

Whether you need protection from the cold or criminals, Angie Russell has you covered. The former U.S. Air Force spouse owns a trifecta of hometown stores catering to almost anyone [...]

Though recently relegated to the nostalgia bin, lever-action rifles are generating fresh enthusiasm for old, time-tested technology. Gunmakers are investing heavily to update designs, metallurgy, hardware and chamberings in rifle [...]

Males have been warned for millennia about the dangers of chasing the female of the species to the exclusion of other things. It doesn't matter if the pursuit is on [...]

IN 2023, Guns & Ammo awarded Smith & Wesson the title 'Innovator of the Year' for recent introductions including the Folding Pistol Carbine (FPC) as well as the versatile Response [...]

BENELLI LAUNCHED its first bolt-action hunting rifle, the Lupo, in Guns & Ammo's March 2020 issue. The stylish gun was an immediate success and demonstrated that Benelli--a regarded shotgun manufacturer--could [...]

Most shooters are familiar with the 10mm's early failings, which very nearly resulted in this superb cartridge being relegated to a footnote in firearms history. There were issues with the [...]

Brugger & Thomet started out in 1991 in Thun, Switzerland as a sound suppressor manufacturer. In 2004, they started producing firearms. For a modestly sized company, well under a hundred [...]

S&W MODEL #3 AMERICAN --Beginning in 1857, Smith & Wesson produced .22 and .32 Rimfire pocket pistols. In order to offer a larger caliber in a more convenient form, Smith [...]

BY JOSEPH VON BENEDIKT Joseph says that if you can hold consistently enough with the iron sights, the M1A National Match will shoot fantastic groups. SPRINGFIELD’S M1A WAS INTRODUCED AS [...]

REGARDING TERRY WIELAND’S RECENT “GUNSMOKE” COLUMN TITLED “NEW GLASS Reflections,” it’s amazing the new stuff they have out now. I don’t use much of any of it. Pop was a [...]

By Richard Mann Suppressors offer reduced noise, muzzle blast and recoil. More hunters are using them, and rifle manufacturers are making it easier to do so. (COURTESY OF BLANE EVERETT) [...]

By Richard Mann Suppressors offer reduced noise, muzzle blast and recoil. More hunters are using them, and rifle manufacturers are making it easier to do so. (COURTESY OF BLANE EVERETT) [...]

BRC Inc. reported the release date for its second quarter 2024 results on Wednesday, August 7, after market close, with a conference call to follow on Thursday, August 8, at [...]

By Richard Mann Even with a scope and a suppressor, the author’s Wilson Combat NULA Model 20 in.358 Win. still weighed well under 7 pounds. (COURTESY OF SABASTIAN “BAT” MANN) [...]

By Richard Mann Even with a scope and a suppressor, the author’s Wilson Combat NULA Model 20 in.358 Win. still weighed well under 7 pounds. (COURTESY OF SABASTIAN “BAT” MANN [...]

BY JOEL J. HUTCHCROFT PHOTOS BY MICHAEL ANSCHUETZ TAURUS HAS A NEW REVOLVER, AND THIS ONE is a classic-styled single-action sixgun. I don’t have to tell longtime readers that when [...]