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Hornady podcast details dual-purpose 25 Creedmoor on Kelbly's action
25 Creedmoor on a Kelbly's Atlas Tactical action: Matt Ritchie walks through a suppressed, folding-stock rifle built for NRL Hunter, deer and coyotes on The Hornady Podcast.
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Hornady podcast details dual-purpose 25 Creedmoor on Kelbly's action
25 Creedmoor on a Kelbly's Atlas Tactical action: Matt Ritchie walks through a suppressed, folding-stock rifle built for NRL Hunter, deer and coyotes on The Hornady Podcast.
Pistol brace lawsuit: DOJ calls it moot, Texas and GOA disagree
In Texas v. ATF, the last pending pistol brace lawsuit, DOJ asks Judge Drew Tipton to dismiss it as moot while Texas and GOA say the ATF's SBR theory keeps claims alive.
Concealed carry for beginners: Classic Firearms' five-part checklist
Concealed carry for beginners: Classic Firearms covers carry laws and reciprocity, choosing a pistol, holsters and belts, dry-fire training and defensive ammo.
Garand Thumb FN 5.7x28 gel test: five loads compared with 9mm
FN 5.7x28mm blue tip, black tip, SS192, Hornady Critical Defense and an R&R subsonic go into clear gel on a Phantom camera, measured against 9mm Gold Dot.
Geissele HICAR for SOCOM: bolt, barrel and gas choices broken down
Geissele's HICAR, the only public entry in SOCOM's 82,000 psi 5.56 carbine program, gets a component-by-component read from Boondock Ballistician.
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Permit-to-purchase is the real fight, and Viramontes won't end it
Permit-to-purchase licensing is the next threat to gun ownership, says Rocky Mountain Gun Owners' Viramontes amicus brief. The diagnosis is right; the remedy isn't coming from this case.
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Trinidad State's gunsmithing school wins on hours, not insults
Trinidad State College's NRA summer gunsmithing program is the real thing. The Silly War Pirates video selling it would be stronger without the culture-war jab and the word fake.
Kel-Tec's PLR-16 and the case for the cheap 5.56 pistol
The Kel-Tec PLR-16 turns 21 in the first year of the zero-dollar NFA stamp, and that timing turns a joke gun into the cleanest test of whether cheap and light is a real specification.
Weight retention is the wrong yardstick for 5.56 SBR ammo
Boondock Ballistician's rebuttal to the FBI's 64- and 75-grain SBR guidance is right about the grading criteria and wrong about the energy math, and the correction makes the case stronger.
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All coverage →Hornady podcast details dual-purpose 25 Creedmoor on Kelbly's action
25 Creedmoor on a Kelbly's Atlas Tactical action: Matt Ritchie walks through a suppressed, folding-stock rifle built for NRL Hunter, deer and coyotes on The Hornady Podcast.
Pistol brace lawsuit: DOJ calls it moot, Texas and GOA disagree
In Texas v. ATF, the last pending pistol brace lawsuit, DOJ asks Judge Drew Tipton to dismiss it as moot while Texas and GOA say the ATF's SBR theory keeps claims alive.
Concealed carry for beginners: Classic Firearms' five-part checklist
Concealed carry for beginners: Classic Firearms covers carry laws and reciprocity, choosing a pistol, holsters and belts, dry-fire training and defensive ammo.
Garand Thumb FN 5.7x28 gel test: five loads compared with 9mm
FN 5.7x28mm blue tip, black tip, SS192, Hornady Critical Defense and an R&R subsonic go into clear gel on a Phantom camera, measured against 9mm Gold Dot.
Geissele HICAR for SOCOM: bolt, barrel and gas choices broken down
Geissele's HICAR, the only public entry in SOCOM's 82,000 psi 5.56 carbine program, gets a component-by-component read from Boondock Ballistician.
Flux Redux Glock chassis: Dirty Civilian tests suppressors and an FRT
Flux Defense's Redux chassis brings its PDW concept back to Glock pistols. Dirty Civilian ran Gen 5 Glocks through it suppressed and with a forced reset trigger.
Colion Noir answers 'is your gun just for protecting your gun?'
Colion Noir answers an Instagram creator who asked if gun owners' talk of liberty just means keeping their guns, arguing the Second Amendment guards life and every other right.
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Hornady podcast details dual-purpose 25 Creedmoor on Kelbly's action
25 Creedmoor on a Kelbly's Atlas Tactical action: Matt Ritchie walks through a suppressed, folding-stock rifle built for NRL Hunter, deer and coyotes on The Hornady Podcast.
Pistol brace lawsuit: DOJ calls it moot, Texas and GOA disagree
Concealed carry for beginners: Classic Firearms' five-part checklist
Garand Thumb FN 5.7x28 gel test: five loads compared with 9mm
From the opinion desk
Permit-to-purchase is the real fight, and Viramontes won't end it
Permit-to-purchase licensing is the next threat to gun ownership, says Rocky Mountain Gun Owners' Viramontes amicus brief. The diagnosis is right; the remedy isn't coming from this case.
Trinidad State's gunsmithing school wins on hours, not insults
Kel-Tec's PLR-16 and the case for the cheap 5.56 pistol
Weight retention is the wrong yardstick for 5.56 SBR ammo
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Geissele HICAR for SOCOM: bolt, barrel and gas choices broken down
Geissele's HICAR, the only public entry in SOCOM's 82,000 psi 5.56 carbine program, gets a component-by-component read from Boondock Ballistician.
Flux Redux Glock chassis: Dirty Civilian tests suppressors and an FRT
Colion Noir answers 'is your gun just for protecting your gun?'
FAST Idaho review: Brass Facts on six-minute stages, spinner targets
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