We certainly don’t choose the cream of the crop when looking for candidates for this column, but every now and then you find something interesting for the right price and people will inquire about carrying it as a woods or backup gun. So, on a visit to the local Cabela’s gun library, a trade came in that wasn’t exactly on our wish list: a single-action M1895 Nagant revolver made in 1902 in Imperial Russia. With a finish in about 80 percent condition and with no pitting, it looked quite a few steps up from the later Commie revolvers made after…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The landscape of federal firearm restrictions has been profoundly reshaped by the nation’s highest court. Delivering the opinion for a unanimous bench, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch struck down a critical provision of the Gun Control Act of 1968, marking a monumental victory for cannabis consumers and the broader Second Amendment community. The ruling represents a stinging defeat for the federal government’s attempt to maintain categorical restrictions on a demographic that now encompasses tens of millions of Americans living in states where cannabis has been fully integrated into local commerce. “Whatever one thinks of these developments, the…
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Charred lodgepoles scratching a gunmetal sky reflected my mood. This morning the elk had won. No plan in mind, I climbed beyond where they’d scattered. Probing the slope’s crest from the sit with my binocular, I saw it. Among ranks of black boles with low-arcing limbs, a branch curved up. The lenses of my 7×35 Bausch & Lomb resolved it. Antler! A 4 o’clock tangle became the bull’s hump — all but hidden by the bead on my .32 Special. After the carbine spoke I scaled the scarp and found blood on hoof-gashed snow. The elk lay 50 yards on.…
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For many shooters I know (including myself), customization isn’t a question of if, but when. By their nature, firearms are intensely personal tools. They’re also personal statements. It’s the appeal of taking that personal tool and adapting it to your own preferences and needs that drives these efforts. These can be functional adaptations, aesthetic ones, or both. The Shepard Arms customized Echelon 4.5F 9mm combines a solidly engineering foundation with a sound selection of classy tweaks and modifications. From the moment Springfield Armory introduced the 9mm Echelon, it was evident that modularity and customization were in its DNA. Its modular…
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The M1A has an impressive lineage. Based on a design dating back to the 1930s and born from the prodigious mind of John C. Garand, the M1A has many of the hallmarks of his M1 Garand rifle. However, it is even more closely tied to the M14, the rifle developed as the successor to Garand’s classic military rifle. And while the M14’s reign as the U.S. military service rifle may have technically been short, its influence and capabilities have carried on well beyond its official role as a front-line military rifle. In fact, the spirit of this select-fire combat rifle carried on in the semi-automatic-only…
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The Brief: On May 13, 2026, a fatal shooting occurred in Austintown, Ohio, following a high-speed vehicle pursuit. Zachary Fisher chased his ex-girlfriend’s car, crashed his truck, and then attacked her vehicle with a handgun. A passenger shot Fisher in self-defense while two children were inside the targeted car. Austintown police confirmed that surveillance footage supports a claim of justified self-defense. No charges are pending against the passenger, who provided medical aid to Fisher after the shooting. The case remains under review by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation to finalize the forensic evidence and investigation. AUSTINTOWN, OH — What…
