Mossberg has just announced a special edition Bliksem version of the Mossberg 590 pump-action firearm.The 590 Shockwave just got cooler, as Mossberg has announced the special edition Bliksem version of the 12-gauge pump-action firearm. It’s made in collaboration with Christian Craighead and his brand, Ministry of Defence (MOD). If you don’t know Craighead, he’s the SAS bloke who saved hundreds of hostages in Nairobi after single-handedly storming the hotel to engage their terrorist captors back in 2019. If that wasn’t enough, he looked really damn cool while doing it.Speaking of cool-looking, the new Mossberg 590 Bliksem. Basically a 590 Shockwave…
A 16-year-old boy is dead after a 27-year-old man shot him during an attempted armed robbery in Chicago’s West Pullman neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon. Chicago police report the teenager drew a firearm first, prompting the resident to return fire in self-defense; two handguns were recovered at the scene. CHICAGO, IL — The broad daylight of a Wednesday afternoon was shattered by gunfire in Chicago’s West Pullman neighborhood. At approximately 3:36 p.m. on March 18, 2026, Chicago Police Department (CPD) officers were dispatched to the 11700 block of South Normal Avenue following reports of a person shot. According to investigators, a…
Here are a few things you should consider when choosing or building home defense guns.When things go bump in the night, there are of course some things to consider before you start bumping back. The gun community has been a mixed bag of sorts lately with products and technology coming out at a blistering rate thanks to changes in legislature and the expansion of the broader consumer base. There are more gun owners on a much wider spectrum of diversity than ever before, and this has inadvertently led to less tribal knowledge, less general understanding of technology and a “too…
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HK MP5SD, Welrod pistol, De Lisle carbine, VSS Vintorez, High Standard HDM. These are some especially iconic firearms from years past. What do they all have in common? Yep, you got it — they’re all integrally suppressed guns that were designed with built-in suppressors. Standalone suppressors are much more common. They’re designed and rated for certain calibers, and you attach them to your firearm by threading them on to the end of your barrel or attaching them to a compatible muzzle device. There are several advantages to a standalone can. You can use it on multiple hosts, and many suppressors…
In an active shooter situation, waiting gets people killed. Here we discuss the importance of acting in the first 30 seconds.There’s a dangerous lie baked into how Americans talk about mass violence.We’re told that if there is an active shooter in a school, church, or grocery store, the solution will arrive in flashing lights and sirens. We are told to hide, lock doors, wait quietly and trust the system.We are told that help is coming.What we are not told—what many people desperately want to avoid confronting—is that the outcome of an active shooter attack is usually decided long before help…
ZeroTech Optics has just expanded its 3-12x, second-focal-plane riflescope product line, with new reticle options that include the following new reticles: ZeroTech R3 ZeroTech’s R3 reticle is built all around using MOA as its angular units. The R3 reticle provides a clean sight picture with precise references. There are 1-MOA subtensions, hash marks every 4 MOA, and a floating center dot that easily draws the eye. The ZeroTech R3 reticle teams perfectly with the Vengeance’s compact design, delivering confident wind holds in real-world conditions. ZeroTech PHR 4 The PHR 4 reticle uses a classic approach to a second-focal-plane hunting riflescope.…
Being a Boomer, I grew up at a time when damn near every able-bodied dad in the neighborhood had served in World War II, and a lot of the younger ones had just come back from the Korean conflict. Souvenirs abounded. Japanese flags, German helmets, assorted edged weapons … and guns, guns, guns. Pfc. Nicholas Timmens (left) shows a U.S. Coastguardsman the flag and Type 14 Nambu pistol he took during the Battle of Makin in the Gilbert Islands campaign. Image: NARA It turns out that it wasn’t just our side that appreciated those souvenirs, either. In 1984, Pantheon Books published…
Modern bullets like the Hammer (left) and the ELD-X (right) are much better than the old Core-Lokt bullet (center) for modern, fast-twisted rifle cartridges that are so popular today.A closer look at some of the latest developments in ammunition technology.I know folks snort and complain every time a new bullet or cartridge is invented and offered for sale. Thank goodness this was not the trend in 1926 with the .270 Winchester, in 1948 when John Nosler created the Nosler Partition … or in the mid-1980s when Walt Berger pioneered the VLD bullet. All the new cartridges and bullets we’ve seen…
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A study released on Dec. 8 by the Crime Prevention Research Center reports that close to half of all U.S. citizens live in the 29 states that now recognize constitutional carry. Louisiana was the last to join the growing group that allows permit-free carry. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that many there, and in other areas, have decided to forego the government fee rather than renewing. A drop in permit applications does not equate in fewer people carrying, simply that fewer need to pay a fee to the state in order to do so. Those who travel to states…
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18 USC 929(R) is another of the many unconstitutional bullsh!t laws foisted on the American citizen by politicians who knew f@ck all about the subject they were pontificating upon, and cared less about the Second Amendment. Under it, foreign-made semi- auto shotguns, which appear particularly scary-looking to the ignorant may not be imported. Mag holds more than five rounds? Scary. Folding or collapsible stock? Scary. Or in the words of the statute, “not being particularly suitable … for sporting purposes.” U.S.-made shotguns aren’t subject to this idiocy, so it seems that Remington’s lobbyists at the time this got passed were…
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Having worked as a men’s clothier for the better part of 40 years, my father bemoaned a type of customer he termed “the designer.” This was the kind of guy that would run his hand over a jacket and announce he’d buy it, but only if it were a slightly different color, made of a totally different material, or if it had a pocket in one spot instead of another. “Unfortunately, I can only sell you what we have in the store,” he’d wearily reply. The Vertx Siege 25L Tactical Backpack was tested for comfort, weight distribution and ease of…
