Gun Reviews

Last week, the U.S. Senate defeated an amendment to a larger bill that would have established a national concealed carry law.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted to approve Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. The National Rifle Association switched its position on Sotomayor, from neutral to opposed. Even so, many Republicans are expected to vote in approval of Sotomayor despite her clear anti-gun views.

Gun collecting is easy, rewarding, educational and relaxing - and if you go about it right, it needn't be expensive.

Rock Island Auction reported strong sales at their June regional sale, with a 100% sell-through rate and $2.1 million in sales. Over 2100 lots were offered that contained over 4200 firearms.

In June, firearms parts and accessory supplier Brownells delivered 60,000 M4/M16 magazines to the U.S. Military, part of a larger 1.4 million-magazine contract the company was awarded in March 2009 by the Pentagon.

TNW has developed a gas piston operating system for AR15/M16 rifles. The system addresses the issues of fouling, heat and reliability in harsh environments.

Can you believe it? An AR-15 that will fire 100,000 rounds without a cleaning? The Patriot Ordnance P415 is passing unthinkable tests.

Dave Morelli takes a look at the Armalite Super S.A.S.S. - an AR-10-style semi-auto sniper system that rocks, and is super accurate.

While not a collector's dream, the author's customized Savage 99 is truly a rifleman's dream.

Gun sales in Wisconsin are booming and local dealers attribute the increase to concerns about possible future firearms restrictions and the continued economic strife.

If today's headline surprised you, then you might be missing one salient fact: The armed citizen who shot three men who allegedly attacked him and his companion with a baseball bat and a pistol was a Markham police officer.

The gun lobby suffered a rare defeat on Capitol Hill as the Senate on Wednesday narrowly rejected a measure to allow gun owners to carry concealed firearms across state lines.

Laudable though Thune's goal of national concealed carry may be, understand that the entire exercise was nothing but a sham in which (surprise, surprise) the amendment failed by a vote of 58 - 39. So before gun rights supporters contact the 39 ever-so-brave US Senators (including 20 Democrats) to thank them for supporting the measure, all should understand that its failure was preordained by Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and quite probably sanctioned by the NRA.

A retired teacher whose murder conviction was overturned walked out of prison Tuesday to hugs from his family after serving three years of a 10-year sentence. Fish's case rippled through the Arizona legal and political arena and drew national attention from gun-rights and concealed carry advocates. After Fish was charged, legislators rewrote Arizona's self-defense laws.

Little guns pack a wallop in the August 3, 2009 issue of Gun Digest the Magazine.

The Obama administration is raising the stakes in a fight over states' rights and firearm ownership by arguing that new pro-gun laws in Montana and Tennessee are invalid.