Category: Firearm News

In 2023, Heritage Manufacturing produced 178,743 revolvers at its facility in Bainbridge, Georgia. That is not a typo. A single company made roughly one in every five revolvers manufactured in the United States last year, and virtually every one of them was a .22 rimfire Rough Rider — a single-action, cowboy-style plinker that retails for… Continue reading The Revolver Renaissance Is a Plinker Boom in Disguise

In February 2013, then Vice President Joe Biden gave what is probably the most widely circulated home defense recommendation in American political history. Standing in front of a crowd in Danbury, Connecticut, he explained that he’d told his wife Jill that if something went bump in the night, she should walk out on the balcony… Continue reading “Get A Shotgun” Is The Wrong Answer to The Right Question

Walk into any gun store and ask the guy behind the counter what you should carry for self-defense. He’ll hand you a Glock 43X, a SIG P365XL, or a Springfield Hellcat Pro — something in the $550-$700 range, often higher when you get into the optics-ready variants. Ask about the Taurus G3c at the end… Continue reading The Best Self-Defense Gun Costs Under $400

Georgia’s Daniel Defense built its name on precision AR-15s and SBRs that serious shooters trusted long before the civilian market caught on fully. Pistol caliber carbines, though, have historically been someone else’s fight. The CZ Scorpion crowd had the value end locked up, and SIG Sauer had the premium shelf largely to themselves with the… Continue reading Daniel Defense PCC: Built for the SIG Lane

Sometime around 2011, depending on who you ask, the phrase “CCW insurance” entered the carry conversation as shorthand for a new product category. The permit system had expanded fast enough after Heller that the legal exposure of a lawful defensive use had become a real market, and companies were moving to fill it. The reasoning… Continue reading CCW Insurance Doesn’t Cover What You Think It Covers

April 11, 1986. Pinecrest, Florida. Two bank robbers — William Platt and Michael Matix — are stopped by eight FBI agents in a residential neighborhood, and what follows is four minutes and eighteen seconds that will reshape American handgun culture for the next three decades. Platt and Matix are killed in the firefight. So are… Continue reading The Caliber Wars Were Always Marketing

As we do every January, we spent the past week running around Las Vegas at SHOT Show 2026 to sniff out and lay hands on the 20 best new guns. Here’s our rundown. 

In the past couple of weeks, two big Utah-based suppressor companies– SilencerCo and HUXWRX Safety Co. (formerly OSS Suppressors) — have announced seven-figure deals to supply the Feds with cans. HUXWRX says their $4.9 million contract, to outfit the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, is for their new 3D-printed FLOW 556k suppressor, which they say, “finished… Continue reading FBI is buying a lot of suppressors

No, it’s not a new line of power tools available at your local big box home improvement store, the Dicken Drill is now the most popular handgun drill in the country. In an ode to 22-year-old armed bystander Elisjsha Dicken who, clad in shorts and a T-shirt, earlier this month engaged and stopped an Indiana… Continue reading The Dicken Drill Emerges