Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Ramon Ramirez wades into the striker-fired vs. hammer-fired pistol debate. In the article, he uses two pistols to demonstrate the different systems: the Springfield Armory Echelon and the Springfield Armory 1911 DS Prodigy. Both guns were provided on loan to the author for use in this article. A different firearm crosses my bench just about ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared a statewide disaster Monday over diesel prices. In the same stretch, at least 16 trucking companies landed in bankruptcy court, Iowa farmers started saying out loud that they might lose family farms, and on Tuesday the Conference Board reported that Americans’ confidence in the economy fell to its lowest level since 2014. Any one of ...

For most of this year the AI companies have been telling everyone their technology is dangerous. We covered every step of it. The agents that broke out of testing and hit Hugging Face, the CEOs who suddenly all agreed the industry needed to slow down, and the request for Washington to step in and oversee the whole thing. On September ...

When I plucked the September-October issue of Smithsonian magazine out of my P.O. Box, the first article I turned to was “The Secret Life of Cormac McCarthy” by Richard Grant. As I skimmed it, a pull-quote leaped out at me: “He never left the house without a book. He never left the house without a gun. Both were equally unthinkable.” ...

On September 22, AAA recorded the highest U.S. diesel average ever, $6.53 a gallon, and on Friday it was still sitting around $6.50. A year ago Americans were paying $3.69. Ten days ago, in Are We Headed for a Global Recession, , we wrote that this had stopped being a crude oil story and that the real problem was refined ...

Editor’s Note: The author was provided the product for this article by Vortex Optics and Silencer Central, and creates content for both companies. The rifle was provided by Springfield Armory. As a professional photographer in the hunting and shooting industry, I spend over 100 days a year in the field — either behind a rifle or behind a lens. That ...

The Brief: An Elbert County property owner shot an unauthorized intruder after being physically assaulted inside a vacant home in Bowman, Georgia. The wounded suspect fled the scene on foot but was quickly apprehended nearby by law enforcement deputies. After receiving medical treatment for non-life-threatening injuries, the suspect was booked into the Elbert County Detention Center on pending burglary and ...

In 1937, the Curtiss SBC Helldiver entered service, but even at that point, the carrier-based two-seat scout/dive bomber was on the verge of being obsolete. Interestingly, it was also the second aircraft produced by Curtiss-Wright to earn the designation “Helldiver” after the United States Marine Corps’ version of the Curtiss Falcon, operated by the U.S. Navy as the F8C Falcon. ...

There are reasons why the full-size 1911 pistol is often described as “iconic,” and the gun’s long and successful history on battlefields, in the streets and at pistol championships isn’t the only reason. It’s slim for its power level, an important dimension for both comfort and concealment. When properly built, it’s also remarkably accurate, and its trigger system and grip ...

In this article, Greg Frebourg reviews the Springfield Ronin EMP 9mm pistol. The handgun was loaned to the author by the company for this article. If it quacks like a duck, floats, walks and looks like a duck, well, it is a duck. That common sense saying might be full of wisdom, but it falls short as soon as anyone ...