Recoil

The firearms industry is currently going through one of its periodic slumps, which unless you’ve just turned 18, we’ve all seen before. This time it’s a little different. Buoyed by three straight record-breaking years of sales, this market pullback r

The National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum is located on North Hutchinson Island in Fort Pierce, Florida, and is the only museum dedicated solely to preserving the history of the U.S. Navy SEALs and their predecessors. It resides on the site of the original t

Mil-spec is a term that’s often used by marketing copy writers to imply extreme toughness, but those who served in the military understand there’s another side to that term. While it’s true that Mil-spec products are thoroughly tested and held to pre

In November of 2022, we debuted CANCON — perhaps the premier open-to-the-public range day in the country. In April of 2023, we brought the event to Arizona. As you read this, we’re preparing for our return to Richmond Hill, Georgia. So, we decided to

Many times, we make long and difficult choices about a particular knife for EDC. Usually, a specific type of blade is chosen, and the decision comes down to which manufacturer to buy from, or to add serrations or not, etc. Yet, if an EDC blade is to

The AR-15 platform is renowned for its modularity and ease of assembly — if you have a modicum of mechanical aptitude, you can select your desired components and build a custom rifle in your garage, tailored to your exact needs. It’s the open-source

We might as well get this out of the way. The original Strasser RS14 straight pull is our favorite hunting rifle due to its versatility, accuracy, and overall build quality. But it’s not without drawbacks, notably its cost and lack of aftermarket sup

This wasn’t the murder I was expecting. With sunset past and dusk falling on the South Texas mesquite, this day’s hunt for whitetail deer was ending. The too-young bucks hanging around the feeder startled and scattered. I got into my glass just in ti

Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq fell 20 years ago, and over the years, many secrets of his reign were uncovered. But we still don’t really know much about the small arms industry of Saddam’s era. Engineers and managers of Iraq’s military factories va

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 the actual homicide problem. I don’t believe Black Americans are more inheren

This summer, Netflix debuted Extraction 2, the sequel to their blockbuster action film Extraction from 2020. It features mega-star and Greek god Chris Hemsworth as Tyler Rake, an Australian special forces operator turned gun-for-hire. The film picks

For decades, if you were an AR shooter who wanted to run a rimfire version of your rifle for training, you had multiple options, ranging from drop-in bolt conversions to dedicated rifles or upper receivers made for .22LR. AK-47 shooters, on the other

We never had much interest in the scout rifle concept, stemming as it did from Jeff Cooper’s Reagan-era, bush war LARPing fantasies and his disdain for the AR-15. It’s a testament to the conservative nature of the gun world that once a concept recrui

The very first booth we laid eyes on at SHOT Show 2023 was Foxtrot Mike. They had a rifle we found so outrageous as to be compelling: the Mike-102. It has a mix of features of both the AR and AK, but not in the ways you’d think. Folding stock but sti

Amongst the special operations elite, USAF Pararescuemen, known as PJs, are a special breed of selfless. They’re responsible for full-spectrum personnel recovery, including combat search and rescue operations. They straddle the medical and tactical f

During the 1920s and 1930s, the Soviet Union underwent extensive industrial and military expansion and modernization. Although no expert in the fields in question, Stalin understood that one of Russia’s most persistent problems, technological and ind

Nick Cioffi enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve as a supply specialist at age 17, with the idea of going to community college. Like many, he found out quickly that traditional academia just wasn’t suited for him. So, he pursued his military duty on