Facts About Guns

Gun owners in the United States continue to cite protection far more than other factors, including hunting and sport shooting, as a major reason they own a gun. And while a sizable majority of gun...

Some say a "pipe hitter" is member of a US military special ops branch. Think CAG, SEALS, Green Berets, Rangers and the like. Others use the term to describe anyone who's willing to go...

Vice President Kamala Harris believes gun control is a public health issue, giving Americans more reasons to be wary of gun control efforts. The problem is, crime isn’t a disease, as much as gun control...

By Rob Morse Suppose a criminal commits a crime a gun. Go a step further and suppose he does something truly awful and shoots several people in the process. If you’re an anti-gun politician, the...

Conventional wisdom dictates that semi-automatic pistols without fixed barrels (i.e. ones with some flavor of short recoil operated system) require a Nielsen device or "booster" to function with a silencer attached to the barrel....

To make stocks faster and more uniformly, Thomas Blanchard invented fourteen different machine tools. Each machine would be set up for one particular cut. As the stock was cut, it would be moved from machine to machine....

First there was 10mm Auto. The FBI chose a watered-down loading -- a 180 grain bullet at 975 fps instead of more like 1,300 fps -- and a large-frame Smith & Wesson pistol through...

From the NRA-ILA . . . Billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group, Everytown for Gun Safety, ranks the 50 states on how well they have comported their laws to the organization’s civilian disarmament agenda. In...

  https://youtu.be/MehVIhoOBCo From Student of the Gun . . . The Saigon Report video series from Student of the Gun has surpassed 3 million views and keeps growing. The video series takes a look back to firearms...

America's anti-gun governors have become some of the best gun salesmen in the country. Washington, Oregon, and Illinois were big reasons for a jump in gun sales in April. The NSSF's Mark Oliva tells...

  Col. Jeff Cooper furthered the cause of general gun safety by distilling and popularizing the four rules of safe gun handling. The purpose was to minimize accidents, otherwise known as negligent discharges (every accidental...

  By BJ Campbell, Handwaving Freakoutery Repeatedly in the press, we see “it’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns” as the explanation for homicide in the United States, but this rhetoric only serves to obscure...