The difference between 9mm and 9mm Luger ammunition is either nothing or the latter is part of the former. Depending on how you define it. Huh? Most of the time, when a person says “9mm” when talking about ammunition, they mean 9x19mm, which is the most commonly used handgun round. This is what you feed […]
By Rob Aught Sticker shock. Anyone who has ever shopped for a car knows what it is. I was somewhat surprised to find out it can apply to firearm purchases as well. Fortunately, when I went to buy my first firearm someone was kind enough to warn me that just buying a gun isn’t the […]
If you have a semi-automatic pistol, you’ve experienced a stoppage. If you just bought your first, give it time. It will happen. It may be a failure to fire, a failure to feed, a double feed, a failure to eject, a magazine that’s not fully seated…whatever. If it can go wrong, it will and […]
This range security video, from LiveLeak, originated from the central Israel city of Ramla. But it might as well have been from any shooting range here in the US of A. This looks like some kind of basic training or qualifying session. Note the range safety officer or instructor walking behind the shooters on the […]
Some thirty years ago the American gun-buying public began to see semi-automatic pistols as reliable firearms. Once semi-autos cleared that hurdle, their superior capacity and quick reloadability ruled the day. When cops switched to semis, that convinced a lot of average gun buyers that it was safe to do the same. And yet revolver sales […]
I’ve been asked by three different people in the last month how to clean their new gun. Two were semi-automatic pistols and one was a shotgun. There are a lot of new, first-time gun owners out there who have no earthly idea how to disassemble or maintain their new gun and need help. Fortunately, […]
This is the second of two posts on the basics of reloading ammunition. See part one here. If there’s one thing I like more than shooting it’s being a cheap bastard saving money. It’s the main reason I got into reloading: more shooting for less bucks. Eco-warrior that I am, reloading spent brass also gives […]
Besides being mechanically inept, I don’t have a particularly green thumb. In my 23 years of military service, tending to the greenery was a work detail, or, more often, a punishment (oops, I mean “additional training). So we have a strict separation of duties in our house: I mow and water, and the wife tends […]
In recent weeks, Americans voted with their wallets — again — and have stripped gun retailers’ shelves bare of most guns and ammo. Between the Chinese flu and widespread civil unrest, these buyers included over two million first-time firearm owners. Increasingly, Americans are realizing that they can’t count on the beleaguered police or soft-on-crime politicians […]
Reader Rebecca Platt writes . . . I was seven years old when I had my first experience with a gun. My father was target shooting with some friends and asked me if I wanted to try. His stable hands enveloped mine as I tried to grip the handle of a Colt Trooper .357. Ear […]
Want to improve your handgun shooting? Well, there’s no substitute for good training and a metric crap-ton of trigger time, both live and dry fire. Skill at anything just comes down to getting in the reps. But there are some things that can make a handgun easier to shoot well for the individual who’s shooting […]
By Kevin Wabiszewski You’re ready to throw that new glass on your rifle and see what damage you can do from afar. First, you’ll have to zero that scope. If you’ve never done that before, it’s important to learn exactly how to perform and replicate the process so that you can swap out future scopes […]