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This year, RECOIL as a team committed to pushing outside the usual safe audience of middle-aged white guys in order to reach people in the gun community not typically served by firearms publications. This is the very antithesis of the woke culture cu

CMR-301 RAIL MASTER PRO MSRP: $315 URL: crimsontrace.com No one will blame you if the first thing you do to your newly built AR-15 is to get a light and a laser for it. We all love new toys, after all. But you can save some forend space and some mone

An unassuming plot of desert on the largely industrialized southeast side of Tucson, Pima Air & Space Museum (named for Pima County, Arizona, wherein Tucson falls) is a diamond-in-the-rough treasure trove of both aviation and American history. To und

We’re not big on the idea of classic cars that just sit in a garage or get trailered everywhere because the owner is too afraid to drive it. That’s kinda like being married to a Playboy bunny and having separate beds. It’s not often RECOIL gets the o

Among devout AK fans, the phrase “mass-produced American AK-47” will usually result in more grimaces than a string of expletives in church. We specify mass-produced because there are plenty of reputable shops in the U.S. that build custom AKs — Lee A

Although they can obviously take many forms, when one thinks of a tactical folding knife it’s the tanto that predominantly comes to mind. Tanto literally means “short sword” and dates to the Heian period of Japan from 794 to 1185 A.D. Although a few

It wasn’t so long ago that 9mm ARs were little more than range toys — novelty items that were kinda fun when they ran, but not particularly reliable and somewhat crude. Even Colt’s version didn’t have a stellar reputation, despite being designed arou

Attaching a strap to aid in the carriage of an item is older than language; naturally when arms were invented, the sling was right there with it. The last two decades of conflict begat scores of materials, attachment points, features, and unintended

With little-to-no fanfare, the U.S. Army put out a solicitation in 2019 for a project they deemed NGSW: the Next Generation Squad Weapons program. The goal of the program isn’t exactly new: to “build a better mousetrap” than the M4/M16 for an individ

Precision rifle competitions have ascended past the point of uncertainty as a proper shooting sport. They’re here to stay. As with many shooting sports, many people are intrigued but have trouble finding a starting point. So PRS (precision rifle seri

To see what a ban on “assault weapons” could look like, American gun owners need only to look north to Canada. Canada’s ruling Liberals introduced Bill C-21 on February 16 of this year. The bill brings new firearms restrictions that include a buyback

Those familiar with the bitter cold of the Northern Midwest know the plight of staying sharp year-round, when merely freezing temperatures are considered balmy in mid-January. This tends to force even the most ardent shooters, instructors, and profes

In the spring of 2020, Alaina Hicks was going stir crazy in her Southern California home. Information about COVID-19 was slowly rolling in, and Hicks was adjusting to homeschooling her 5-year-old daughter. “I was going nuts,” recalls Hicks. “One day,

The effects of massed fire-power during World War I led to demands for even more firepower, especially in the hands of the average infantryman. While numerous inventive but unsuccessful designs for a semi-automatic infantry rifle appeared in France,

Brandon Allen has been a law enforcement officer for just over six years. Despite working in what’s arguably one of the least popular and most misunderstood careers in American pop culture today, he still loves what he does. Starting out on patrol, h

Low-Power Variable Optics have been the scope du jour for several years now, with magnification scales reaching new highs on a regular basis. We’ve seen 1-4x, 1-6x, 1-8x, and a limited number of 1-10x models, and now Atibal is releasing a 1-12x. The

Silencers are awesome, and assuming you live in one of the still-somewhat-free 42 states that allow them, you should own a few. Here, we take a look at the new Elimin8r 45 silencer from Lone Wolf Distributing. Lone Wolf has been in the Glock accessor

It was more than a half century ago when Yisrael Galili (birth last name, “Balashnikov,” no lie) and Yakov Lior put pen to paper to make what was ultimately seen as the “Israeli AK.” Galili didn’t start with a Soviet original, instead opting for Finl

The National African American Gun Association is a 2A organization open to people of all races, genders, religious backgrounds, sexual orientations, and political views that has 30,000 national members (60 percent of whom are women) across 75 chapter