Gun Reviews

The world of gun writing is fluid and unpredictable. But Editor Kevin Michalowski is not complaining.

FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS I wore a sixgun as regularly as I did my trousers. Without it I did not feel fully dressed. It was a tool, and a mighty useful one at that. I still like to have a good gun in easy reach at all times.

The Keith 235-grain 44 Special hollow point, backed by 18.5 grains of 2400, is even worse in its destruction of living tissue. It's certain death on either elk or deer if placed in the lungs broadside at close range, but it will not penetrate quite as well as the 250-grain solid in bone or when meaty portions of an animal are struck.

One fall, when in need of his winter's meat, Charley ran onto a bull moose standing broadside. Holding his gun with both hands, he aimed for the heart and shot once. The bull lurched away but went only one hundred yards and lay down and was soon ready for the knife. The flat-point Keith bullet went through the middle of the heart and bled him out nicely.

Quality, proper break-in and care are important factors for squeezing performance from your precision rifle.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said that a criminal defendant may not be allowed to present a Second Amendment defense to a federal jury in Utah. The excuse: Alleged domestic violence.

Sometimes they shoot, and sometimes they kill. Thanks to Stand your ground law that says citizens can shoot if faced with a violent attacker.

Last week, United States and Mexican government officials signed an agreement concerning cross-border drug crimes, an agreement with implications for gun dealers along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Download a PDF with pricing, value and reference information for Walther firearms, courtesy of the Standard Catalog of Firearms.

Download a PDF with pricing, value and reference information for Weatherby firearms, courtesy of the Standard Catalog of Firearms.

Download a PDF with pricing, value and reference information for Dan Wesson firearms, courtesy of the Standard Catalog of Firearms.

Download a PDF with pricing, value and reference information for Whiteney Arms, courtesy of the Standard Catalog of Firearms.

Download a PDF with pricing, value and reference information for Winchester Arms, courtesy of the Standard Catalog of Firearms.

Frightening is how Dr. Nancy Snyderman described it when MSNBC spotted a man openly carrying a holstered handgun near a New Hampshire town hall meeting where President Obama was scheduled to speak.

Three months after officers with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raided a mobile home on Hosford Bridge Road and seized 14 guns, the home's owner still has many questions.

A gun store clerk is shot to death in a robbery/homicide, but because the clerk was able to shoot back, at least one of the robbers was apprehended and brought to justice after being forced to check himself into a hospital for treatment.